Chapter 175: Opening the Fishing Festival
Recently, Huo's boycott by small and medium-sized enterprises caused a stir in T City, and finally ended after Huo's Group reached a cooperation agreement with three of them.
Seeing that Huo's development is getting better and better, Cen Man is happy in her heart, she got off work on time today, and was busy in the kitchen with Mother Sun, preparing to cook for Huo Li herself.
Just after the family of three finally happily had dinner together, Huo Li asked Mother Sun to take Xiao Huo Mo away, and he had something to say to Cen Man.
"Today I received a call from Tomoko Maeda, saying that Ms. Kimura Mei had died of a heart attack." Huo Li's tone revealed a hint of regret.
"Manman, pack your bags and accompany me to Japan again, we can help grandpa send her off for the last time." He hugged Cen Man and sighed.
Although Cen Man only has a relationship with this kind old man, after listening to the love story between her and Old Man Huo, she has always been deeply moved by the relationship between the two.
After arriving in Japan, Cen Man saw Tomoko Maeda, who was very grateful for the arrival of the two and solemnly saluted the two.
Cen Man and Huo Li were immediately led to the mourning hall of Ms. Kimura Mei, and they also saluted the old man sadly, but just after sending off Kimura Mei on her last journey, Huo Li was about to take Cen Man away, but was kept by Maeda.
"Lisang, there is one thing I want to ask you husband and wife." Maeda opened his mouth with some embarrassment.
"My grandmother has been thinking about that pearl before she died, which was the one that Grandpa Huo had salvaged at the risk of death to save the Kimura family, and it appeared in Otaru City, and I want to trouble you to help get it back."
"Since Tomoko knows the whereabouts of that pearl, you can just buy it, not to mention that the Maeda Group is one of the top companies in Sapporo and even in the whole of Hokkaido, so your Maeda family should not lack this money." Huo Li said directly without scruples.
"The problem is that it's not about money now, and the pearl was given by the Otaru City Hall as a prize for this year's fishing festival. And after my grandmother married my grandfather, even my father's name was changed to Maeda, but she did not change her husband's surname like other women, but kept Kimura's Japanese surname like Grandpa Huo until her death. ”
"In a sense, my grandmother probably doesn't want to use the Maeda family to meddle in this matter, and if it is appropriate to ask Sancoln to help, it can be regarded as helping her grandfather get things back." Maeda didn't mind Huo Li's attitude, but patiently persuaded him again and again.
"I can't help you, so let's go by yourself." After listening, Huo Li still only had one refusal.
"I can't help my grandmother with this, the Otaru fishing festival has always been attended by husband and wife, and I'm single." Maeda finally said the key, and his face flushed with embarrassment.
"Lisang, do you feel ashamed to participate in these activities as the president of the Huo Group? In Japan, festivals are held based solely on the vision of the participants, not about status. Maeda saw that Huo Li was always indifferent to the gentle persuasion, so he used the agitation method.
"If you are willing to help, I will announce on behalf of the Maeda Group as the chairman that Huo's will be our only agent in China, your country's manufacturing industry has been sluggish recently, don't you want to develop in foreign countries for a long time?" Maeda smiled and showed off his last killer feature.
The Japanese woman in front of her cleverly grasped Huo's lifeline, and Huo Li and Cen Man agreed.
Tomoko Maeda introduced them to Otaru's fishing festival, which as the name suggests, is a blessing event that takes place before the port of Otaru opens to fishing in September, praying for the safety of fishermen at sea and a good harvest in this season, which has gradually evolved into a traditional culture in this small city.
The participating couples first dance and pray for blessings, and then the monks will choose the couples with the best understanding as the representatives of the fishing festival and receive gifts and blessings.
The festival has begun, and the square in the center of the city is crowded with tourists who have come to watch, and with the help of Tomoko Maeda, Cen Man has changed into a traditional dress, and she looks even more gentle and touching with her hair coiled.
She was surrounded by the crowd and came to the center of the square, surrounded by large and small colorful prayer flags, Cen Man came to Huo Li's side and followed the crowd to dance the blessing dance.
At the beginning, Cen Man was always a little restrained, but seeing that the people next to her, regardless of gender, were dancing so happily and without scruples, she also blended in, and such a sacred and cheerful dance was infecting her.
Even Huo Li, who had always been serious, became happy and relaxed.
After everyone danced enthusiastically, the monks announced the rules of the contest at the largest temple in Otaru City, in which copper coins were hidden in various places in the temple, and the husband and wife would be divided into different places in the temple to find them, and as long as they found one each, they could go to the monks to get the address of the last meeting, and whichever couple found each other first won the competition.
The name of this competition is Search, and only the most tacit couples can find each other in the fastest time.
After a while, she saw that someone next to her was looking for copper coins in the flower buds or in the lucky bag one after another, Cen Man avoided the crowded place, came to the courtyard of the temple, and finally found a copper coin sandwiched in a tangled ancient vine tree.
She carefully took it out, and happily motioned to the monk in the temple, but the monk did not tell her the address, but handed her a small bag.
Cen Man bowed and thanked the monk, and when she opened the bag, there was only a small note inside, and she saw that it was written: tearful eyes are scattered and repentant, and after being robbed, she gained divine power. Cen Man couldn't help but sigh his luck, the address was actually hidden in the riddle of Chinese characters, no wonder he saw a group of Japanese people who got copper coins but stood at the door of the temple with a sad face and did not set off, it turned out that they were all knocked down by Chinese characters.
Cen Man was also a little embarrassed after reading it twice, thinking that the anagram made by the Japanese was really unprofessional, and even Ping Qian didn't pay attention to it, he didn't have Huo Li's kind of IQ, how could he guess this.
Cen Man, who didn't give up easily, looked at the note again, and she suddenly realized that the first word and the last word of these two sentences just formed a word, tears and regret are not the sea, and the answer is on the seaside.
Cen Man prayed that Huo Li and himself would have a good heart, and ran towards the sea. Otaru is a port city not far from the sea, but Cen Man gets lost in the similar Japanese-style buildings.
She calmed down and didn't let herself be anxious, and was about to take out her mobile phone to ask the Japanese on the side, when she glanced at the anagram just now, and she was stunned.
"No, Japanese people know a lot of Chinese characters, but only a few can write, and this kind of anagram in a mass activity should be guessed by the meaning of the word, not the glyph, which is too difficult for the Japanese." Cen Man suddenly reacted that he should not guess with the thinking of Chinese.
Tearful eyes and repentance, after being robbed, he gained divine power, where is this? Cen Man, who was a little annoyed, was already sweating slightly, and she spread out the note again, which was already full of creases.
The meaning of these two words is: crying, repentance, calamity and strength, and there is only one place that is associated with these four words, and that is the temple!
There was no time to hesitate, Cen Man hurriedly ran to the temple, she returned to the temple and saw that there was still a group of people at the door who were still in trouble.
Cen Man ignored the puzzled gazes of the others, and insisted on returning the copper coin to the monk at the entrance of the hall, and the monk smiled at her this time, bowed and stretched out his hand to lead her into the hall.
There was a kind of apprehension in her heart like when she was a child waiting for the teacher to read out the results, Cen Man walked into the hall and raised her head, and saw the face she loved, it was Huo Li.
Huo Li, who had already guessed the answer to the riddle, saw Cen Man holding her hand, and said to her with a smile: "You are not stupid, we are the first." ”
After the monk presented the two of them with a blessing, he carefully handed over a small ebony wooden box and spoke a piece of Japanese.
He said that in fact, there is no such thing as the right place, as long as the heart is the same, and two people can meet anywhere, it is a good match. Huo Li's translation is extremely literary, so literary that Cen Man watched him fall unconsciously, even if he had been married for several years.
After the end of the fishing festival, Cen Man and Huo Li handed the ebony wooden box to Maeda, and the moment she opened the box, she finally saw the brilliant pearl.
Tomoko Maeda couldn't help but sigh that her grandmother had a lot of more luxurious jewelry after that, but only this one was the most precious thing that her grandmother would never forget for a long time.
"Thank you, I hope to let this thing accompany grandma to the funeral, but she has no regret of seeing Grandpa Huo again." Maeda looked at the two of them, his eyes flushed slightly, and he bowed deeply again.
After Cen Man and Huo Li successfully completed this matter, they flew to T City with the contract of Maeda Group.
After returning to the Huo Group, Cen Man was told that a man who claimed to be the principal of the school for the deaf and dumb in T City wanted to see her. Cen Man hurriedly went to greet her, she felt a little guilty, because she hadn't had time to thank Qin Qi for helping Zhang Linlin for herself last time.
Qin Qi said that it was a gesture of effort, and he heard that Cen Man's special education company had a project with schools in other cities, so he came to visit and wanted to learn.
Cen Man looked at Qin Qi, who was humbly asking for advice, and introduced herself seriously, but when she finished speaking, Qin Qi said with a look of hesitation and speech: "I want to ask by the way, is that friend of yours last time okay now?" ”
That friend? Is Qin Qi referring to Zhang Linlin? Cen Manhu looked at him suspiciously.
"Don't get me wrong, Cen Man, I'm a teacher, because the special nature of our school has also helped many vulnerable women and children, and she felt very dangerous that time." Qin Qi explained with a little blush.
"Please tell her that you can come to us if you need help." Qin Qi still said gentlemanly when he learned that Zhang Linlin was safe.