I don't know what the "important things" Qin Youqing said are, but it should be related to the old loach, so I hurried out when I thought of this.

I took a taxi to Hongqiao, and according to the content of the text message of kraft candy, I searched for a long time before I found this restaurant in a very inconspicuous small alley behind a business building.

The façade of the restaurant is very small, there are no advertising signs or flags, only a wooden sign is nailed to the wall at the door, which reads "Kagawa Izakaya", it is estimated that the owner may be from the Kagawa area of Japan, or the surname Kagawa or something, anyway, there are hundreds of thousands of Japanese surnames, and it is not surprising that the surname is nothing.

Entering the gate, inside is the dim light of a traditional izakaya, there is a girl in a pink kimono while greeting me in Japanese while leading me to the door, there are many customers in the store, because the area is not large, I glanced at them and did not see kraft candy them, I asked if there was a gentleman named Niu Bi Tang booked a private room, the waiter bowed very respectfully, did not speak, hunched all the way to lead the way, I followed the back to the passage.

It turns out that the outside part is just an ordinary dining lobby, after entering the inside, there is a wooden staircase, go up the stairs, and see that the decoration is completely different from the simple style of the civilians outside, the wall paintings along the stairs are very beautiful Gongbi light color, the content should be painted in the Heian period of Japan, the pavilions and pavilions are vivid, and the characters are also dressed very luxuriously, which reminds me of the scene in "The Tale of Genji".

There was only one private room on each side of the corridor on the second floor, and I saw that there were several pairs of shoes off the door of one of them, so I thought they should be here. The waiter walked to the door, said something in Japanese, knelt down, pushed the sliding door open, and bowed to signal me to sit down on the edge of the door, which meant that he wanted to help me take off my shoes. I waved my hand and said I was coming, and hurriedly stepped on my shoes and entered the house, and she smiled and closed the door again.

Kraft candy They were already sitting on the tatami mats, and when they saw me, they asked Ah Qing if he had also called me, and then he found that Qin Youqing, who was most anxious to urge us, had not arrived at this time, and the rest of the people had already arrived.

Since everyone had not arrived, Kraft Candy said that he was not in a hurry to serve the food first, and he had already greeted the boss in advance anyway. Let's drink saliva first.

At this time, Da Hong asked kraft candy: "Why did you kid say that he made a fortune yesterday, why did you let us come to this kind of small broken shop for dinner today, and the driver didn't find it after a few rounds." I estimate that this guy Aqing has a stiff brain, and eighty percent is lost now. ”

"Little broken shop!? Is there any culture? Kraft Candy glanced at Da Hong with disdain, and said slowly: "When I was receiving Japanese tour groups at the travel agency, several times the big people on the other side of the party said by name that they came to Shanghai and brought them here to eat. ”

Da Hong snorted: "Come on, it's such a small broken shop, and the director, if you hadn't said it, I wouldn't have noticed that there was a restaurant here after walking in front of the door 100 times." ”

Kraft Candy shook his head and smiled: "A rough man is a rough man, is this called a low-key understand?" I sue you, the owner of this shop, Mr. Tomokazu Abe, was a doctor of the Great Diet a thousand years ago, do you know what a doctor of the Great Diet is? It is the imperial chef who specializes in serving the Japanese emperor to dinner! Don't believe it, Japan's most famous Kagawa sushi is said to have been invented by the owner's great-great-great-grandfather. ”

Hearing this, the valve core was interested, so he asked: "It's really fake, if it's true, the food section of our magazine will dedicate a special report to it next time." ”

"Don't worry about it~" Kraft Candy turned his head and said: "It is said that this boss is low-key, people are not bad for money or bad reputation, the shops are opened in this kind of small place, originally to cook quietly, if you want to be famous, there are already a large number of consortiums in Japan to invest in him to open a hotel, people are just annoyed, so they hid in this foreign country, only a small range of people know, I also listened to a Japanese antique collector to know the background of this store."

The business in the lobby downstairs is all made casually by the chef who was invited, and the taste is already very good. Only the two rooms on the upper floor are cooked by Mr. Abe himself, if I hadn't come here often with those big people, this box would not have been reserved for outsiders, whether it was true or not, you will know after eating. ”

Caught by his exaggerated boasting, I looked around the box again. The whole is a square, unified Japanese-style tatami mat, even the wall and sliding door are the most formal Japanese style, there is a picture of ink and bamboo hanging on the wall, and several corners of the azure glazed porcelain vase are also inserted in a few green bamboo branches, and then look at the tableware on the table: the primary color of brown bamboo chopsticks, the bamboo tube-shaped dark blue glazed terracotta teacup, the bone china dishes of hand-painted bamboo leaves, the brushstrokes are refined, quite with everyone's style.

I know that there is an unwritten rule in the traditional Japanese tea ceremony, that is, the decoration of the entire tea room should be appropriate to the occasion, such as hanging the plum blossom picture of the winter season in winter, and the matching tableware, flower arrangement, potted plants, etc. should also be consistent with the plum blossom style; In the spring, cherry blossoms or the like are replaced, or even more elaborate, according to the 24 solar terms or the theme of the tea party of the day. It is now the summer time, and the owner has arranged this as the theme of bamboo, and it is expected that it is also adhering to this cultural custom, and he secretly admires it in his heart.

In terms of cultural inheritance and development, the Japanese are indeed very detailed, and it is worth learning. And I sometimes feel that this kind of process is too cumbersome and rigid for the sake of pleasure, and that the promotion of culture should be more casual, but in hindsight, I still feel that this is just an excuse for my carelessness and laziness.

At this time, there was the sound of footsteps on the stairs again, Qin Youqing finally stepped in sweating, and before the waiter closed the door, he first clicked the sliding door by himself. The waiter whispered something outside the door, and the kraft candy replied, "It's time to serve!" ”

So the waiter said "hi" and walked away softly.

Qin Youqing didn't wait for us to ask, so he drank all the water in his cup in one go. Then he said, "This place can be found to kill me, and the more I hurry, the more I can't find it." After saying that, he opened his handbag, took out an IBM laptop inside, put it on the table and began to connect the power mouse.

As soon as TJ saw him look like a wolf, he said, "Aqing, I said you don't have to work so hard, just use your mobile phone to send emails in the bar yesterday, and you're going to start working here today?" ”

Ah Qing lowered his head and didn't answer until the boot was completed, he took a deep breath and asked, "Do you know where I just came from?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, and Da Hong said, "Where else can you come from, look like you, you just came over from work." ”

Aqing waved his hand and said: "I went home in the early morning and slept until noon, and I didn't enter the company at all in the afternoon, because I suddenly thought of something, so I asked for leave in the afternoon to verify." ”

We told him to stop selling it and show us something.

So he sat a few of us in a row, turned the computer screen to us, clicked the video player, and said, "This is it, you see." ”

The video in the computer is very blurry, and the angle of the shot is from top to bottom, as if it is the quality of a surveillance camera, and there is no sound. There was a dimly lit interior scene where I could see a lot of people walking around, some people drinking or standing and writhing and dancing at the bar, and I thought to myself, isn't this the same bar we went to yesterday?

After this playback, Qin Youqing showed another video, the scene became a public sink area between the men's and women's toilets, there were not many people, at this time I saw me coming out of the toilet, washing my hands in front of the mirror, and then turned around as if talking to someone outside the shooting area, while several other people washing their hands next to me looked at me with very strange eyes, and ran away.

The two videos add up to only about 5 minutes, and after the playback, Qin Youqing raised his head and said: "When I woke up, I thought that Zang Daguan said yesterday that the old loach had come to the bar, but the old loach was obviously dead at that time." So I thought, is it because the big officials are delusional after drinking too much? So I went straight to Fuxing Park in the afternoon, found the security manager of the bar, and asked him to call up the surveillance video at 11 o'clock last night, which are the two you saw. ”

Since I had already talked to my dad on the phone before, I had already understood that the old loach I met was just his bardo body, but this kind of thing was very complicated to explain, so I didn't talk to him.

Da Hong said blankly at the screen: "What's in this first video, I can't see it at all." ”

Everyone else nodded in agreement.

"No, you didn't look closely. I'll put it again. ”

This time, Ah Qing began to explain while playing in slow motion, pointing to a person in a dark passage in the first video and saying, "Look, this is the big official, he is walking towards the toilet in the middle of the crowd, you see, he suddenly stopped and looked back...... You see, he's talking...... There were no old loaches beside him. ”

"It's so dark, it's all crowded with people, and I saw a head overhead, the old loach is not tall, maybe it was blocked and didn't shoot it." Although Kraft Candy was reluctantly explaining, he was already a little nervous when he heard his tone.

"Then look at this paragraph again...... Don't look in the direction in which the big officials are talking, look here. Qin Youqing tapped the sink behind me with his finger.

"I'm cāo! I'm cāo! He's the only one! Hell he's here! With TJ's exclamation, everyone almost stood up.

In the video, although the camera does not capture the direction in which I am speaking, it does capture the mirror in front of the sink behind me, in which I turn my back and talk, except for a few people washing their hands next to me, and an empty wall across from me.

In other words, I was talking to myself against an empty wall, and it was no wonder that the people next to me looked at me with that strange look and ran away.

There was silence in the dining room, no one spoke, everyone sat on the floor, their eyes still stunned at the looping images on the computer.

I didn't say anything, because I didn't know how to explain my family lineage or bardo body to them, and I thought the best thing to do was to make them think that I had met a ghost, which would be the easiest way to do it.

At this time, a strange tone came from outside the door: "Excuse me, can I come in?" ”