At eight o'clock in the evening, when the lights of the shopping street were dim, the owner of the Chinese restaurant looked at the clock hanging on the wall, turned off the sign light and prepared to close.

"Boss, would you like to sit down and talk?"

The familiar language made the boss pause, and a look of helplessness appeared on his somewhat vicious face. He turned on the sign light again, then turned to look at the man behind him.

"You're really good at picking time."

Takushi Aramura didn't see anything out of sight, walked into the store by himself, took down two 330ml bottles of liquor from the counter, and then looked at the boss who was staring at him, "What are you doing stunned?" Let's get some side dishes. ”

"You bastard, are you really Japanese? He can actually do it every time he comes to me for dinner, doesn't give me money, and calls me in a natural tone. The boss argued in an exaggerated tone, but walked in the direction of the back kitchen.

Takuya Aramura looked at this small restaurant, which is different from the Japanese Chinese restaurant on the rotten street, and the decoration style here is all full of Chinese design, and the overall color is dark, which forms a just right coordination with the dark tables and chairs, and elements such as landscape paintings, porcelain, and window grilles also add a lot of color to this small shop, and even the name of the store has achieved a very Chinese flavor, called "Nagano Inn".

It's just that the Nagano Inn is only open for less than two months, and in another two months, this small shop will be closed and will become a place where Takushi Aramura can't eat overlord meals.

The boss was cooking, and Takuya Aramura didn't feel bored alone, he took out a copy of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" from the bookshelf on the counter, and then sat aside and read it quietly.

I don't know how many times passed, maybe five minutes, maybe fifty minutes, and the boss held a tray in both hands, on which were three or five bowls, all kinds of home-cooked dishes, as well as peanuts and pickles in plates.

"I don't know, I thought you were the boss, I was a part-time worker. I actually took my book to read here. ”

Putting the five bowls on the table, the boss found two cups, poured the liquor into them, and drank them in one gulp, with a satisfied expression on his face.

"I've been in Japan for more than ten years, but I just can't get used to drinking your wine, it smells weird, and the liquor is strong enough!"

Takuya Aramura also picked up the cup and took a shallow sip, giving the boss a thumbs up to show his agreement.

"By the way, I haven't asked you yet, why do you speak Mandarin so well? Ever been to Huaguo? ”

"That's not true, it's just that I have a sense of belonging to China that can't be described in words, and with this kind of thing, learning Chinese will naturally be faster."

The boss took another sip of wine, sighed, and then said with a hippie smile: "How can you say this in the words of you Japanese, the national character is suspicious, hahaha." ”

"Let's just think so." Takuya Aramura also laughed.

"This small shop that has been open for more than ten years is about to close down, and then I will take my wife and son back to China, and sure enough, I still don't like this country at all, and you kid will never be able to eat overlord meals again." The boss sandwiched a chopstick dish.

In fact, the business of this small shop is not bad, and it has also earned him a lot of money over the years, but as a native of Northeast China, he has been very uncomfortable in this small island country for more than ten years.

"Seventeen years ago, I went to Tokyo to go to university, and after graduating from university, I didn't return to China, so I stayed in Nagano and opened this small shop, married my daughter-in-law here, and had children." The boss took out a group photo from his wallet, "Look, this is my wife, how about it?" Pretty, right? This is my son, cute, right? ”

Takuya Aramura nodded, although the woman in the photo is not too beautiful, but the overall temperament is very gentle, and the child is also very cute, this family of three must be very happy.

"I'm going to Tokyo tomorrow." Takuya Aramura ate peanuts from a small plate with a glass of wine, which made him squint his eyes comfortably.

"Oh? I don't really like that place in Tokyo, but the Japanese people are a little angry, but the people of Tokyo show real indifference. It was clear from the boss's disgusted tone that he didn't have a good impression of the metropolis of Tokyo.

"Didn't you go to university in Tokyo, so you have some feelings, right?"

"They didn't care about right and wrong, and when I was in college, I had a few classmates who were not from very good backgrounds, and they were often ridiculed for changing clothes, and they took it for granted, and after that, I made up my mind that I would never go back to Tokyo after graduating from university." The boss pouted.

"yes, it looks like I can't stay in that place for long, so I'll... Just spend a week or two in Tokyo and leave, then head out for Hokkaido. Takuya Deserted Village, who was a southerner in his previous life, had never been north of the Yellow River in his life, and he had some yearning for that snow-capped scene.

The boss shook his head disdainfully, "What's so fun in Hokkaido, this place is better than the place where Tottori doesn't, if you want to experience the scenery of the north, you have to have our great northeast, the land is rich, and the people are also hospitable." ”

…

After three rounds of drinking, Takuya Aramura chatted with his boss, whose name he never knew, and drank until eleven o'clock, during which several waves of social animals who wanted to drink came and left after being told that the store was closed.

The two bottles of liquor have bottomed out, and the boss, who boasts that he can keep drinking, is leaning against the wall and saying something incomprehensible.

Takuya Aramura drank the little liquor left in the cup, and the cold liquor ** body entered his stomach through his throat, and then made his stomach warm as if it were roasted, and this feeling slowly hit his whole body, which is a unique experience of drinking liquor, and it is also the main reason why Takuya Aramura loves to drink.

He took off the silver-rimmed glasses in front of him, and leaned against the wall like the boss, his fingers on the table, tapping rhythmically. Squinting his eyes and singing softly to a tune that is unknown in Japan, he sings softly to the sound of the tabletop.

"The setting sun on the horizon is reflected in my face again

Again reflected my restless heart

This is where the place is still so desolate

The endless journey was so long

…”

At eleven forty-eight o'clock, the boss woke up to Takuya Aramura's singing, he rubbed his eyes, and didn't care about Takuya Aramura, who was still squinting and singing, and got up to clean up the tableware on the table.

"Boss, I'll go first, I'll put the money for the meal on the table these days." Takuya Aramura didn't know much about the prices in Japan, so he took out ten 10,000 yen bills from his wallet and put them on the table.

The boss walked out of the back kitchen, counted the money, and then took out 30,000 yen from it and put it in his pocket, and handed the rest to Takuya Aramura, "You kid finally gave the money, 30,000 is enough, I invite you today, I haven't had anyone who can talk for a long time." ”

Takuya Aramura nodded and put the 70,000 yen back in his wallet.

"When are you going to go to Huaguo?"

"I don't know, but I should have gone after a year and a half of doing odd jobs while traveling all over Japan."

"That's right, that's okay, I'll give you my email address, and the phone number here in Japan will be changed when I go back, and I'll use the mailbox to send you the new phone number and address when the time comes." The boss took a post-it note from the counter, and Mari had to write down the mailbox and hand it to Takuya Aramura.

Takuya Aramura put the post-it notes away and put them in his wallet.

"If you come to China, you must come to me, our Great Northeast is fun, I don't know how many times better than Hokkaido."

"Okay, after all, I still want to eat a few overlord meals, and I guess others won't be so easy to meet my request."

"Hahaha, you kid."

Leaving the Nagano Inn, Takuya Aramura stretched his waist for a long time.

The journey of rebirth is about to begin.