In Tanaka's house, on the second floor or attic where dried fish are dried.

Tanaka Kaitai's wife, Matsuko, is holding a passbook and is attacking Tanaka Kaitai.

Tanaka Matsuko is quite stout, and when he was young, he was a "ama".

In Japan, the mention of the word "ama" always triggers some romantic reverie.

"Ama Ama" is a special occupational community in Japan. Their job is to dive into the ocean to collect sea treasures. The ama are freehand divers who only apply sunscreen and insulating oil to their faces before entering the water, and after praying to the gods, they dive to the bottom of the sea and use a special knife to pry off pearl oysters and abalone from the stones on the bottom of the sea and bring them back to the surface.

Why do women do such dangerous and hard work? It is said that because of the cold in the northern seas of Japan (hence the delicious sea treasures), male divers who work in low temperatures for long periods of time can cause infertility, while women have more subcutaneous fat and stay in the water longer than men, so they are more suitable for this job.

In the writings of Japanese writers, ama are innocent, beautiful women full of natural beauty, and romantic plots are interpreted in various stories.

The reason for this, in addition to the romantic profession of the ama itself, I am afraid that there are some special reasons:

First, the work of the ama in the waves often makes the literary young poets who go to collect the wind flourish, comparing them to the "mermaids" in the sea. The legend of the mermaid is always full of mysterious temptations for people on land;

Second, the ama live in a simple and natural environment, so they are rarely wary of men. They have two types of work attire – a full-body white gauze shirt (which floats in the water, like a poisonous jellyfish that scares sharks and other marine predators), or simply topless and wearing only a crotch cloth. This oriental "celestial body" naturally makes some people who have never seen ama think about it.

Although the artists' depictions of ama are vivid and beautiful, in order to resist the cold water temperatures, ama must have the same body as a seal, otherwise it will be difficult to work underwater for long periods of time!

Therefore, the real ama, like Tanaka Matsuko, can only be described by the word "stout", which is usually used to describe men.

In fact, when Tanaka Keiyasu and Matsuko got married, Matsuko was still very popular.

This can only be blamed on the deformity of Japan's aesthetics during the war years.

In the early days of the war, Japan had a strong aesthetic.

Matsuko's marriage to Tanaka Kaitai belongs to "next marriage", coupled with her physical condition, so her voice at home has always been much louder than Tanaka Kaitai.

In contrast, although Tanaka Keiyasu looks like Admiral Yellow Ape Polusalino (ボルサリーノ), but without the ability of the shining fruit, his thin body, where is Tanaka Matsuko's opponent?

Matsuko Tanaka scolded: "Where did all the money go in the family? You say, where did you spend all your money? ”

Tanaka Matsuko took a bamboo basket to dry the fish and hit Tanaka Keiyasu on the head.

Tanaka Keiyasu shouted while holding his head: "Stop! ”

Tanaka Matsuko brushed aside everything that prevented her from capturing Tanaka Kaitai, pounced over, and continued to throw everything in Tanaka Kaitai's hand at him, shouting: "Tell me, tell me quickly!" Where does the money go? ”

Tanaka Kaitai rolled up the stairs to the first floor, holding the handrail of the stairs with both hands, and said, "You are so annoying, you still dare to scold me?" ”

Seeing that Tanaka Matsuko was about to pounce down from the second floor, Tanaka Kaitai turned around and fled, begging for mercy: "Okay, okay, I won't hide it from you." ”

Matsuko Tanaka scolded as she rolled down the stairs, "You give me back the money!" ”

Tanaka Keiyasu said as he fled, "Are you finished? ”

Tanaka Matsuko scolded: "I'm not done with you!" ”

At this time, Mika Tanaka, a teenage daughter who rushed to hear the sound, dissuaded: "Mom, don't fight." ”

Fuyuko Yamaoka, who came to persuade her, also persuaded: "Okay, okay. ”

Seeing that someone was persuading him, Tanaka Keiyasu also stopped running away and said, "Don't you feel ashamed in front of Mika? ”

Tanaka Matsuko held the passbook and said, "The person who feels ashamed should be you, you see, if Mika can't get into high school, it's all your fault." ”

Fuyuko Yamaoka also said to the crowd watching outside the door: "Okay, okay, don't watch the excitement." ”

Tanaka Matsuko saw that Tanaka Kaitai was not running, so he took the opportunity to pick up a fishing net and cover Tanaka Kaitai in the fishing net.

Keiyasu Tanaka still wants to continue to escape, but his body is bound by fishing nets, where can he escape?

Tanaka Matsuko picked up a broom and hit Tanaka Kaitai headless and facelessly. While beating, she scolded heartbreakingly: "You don't look at how old you are, and you are still mixed with that slut...... I used all the money in my family...... You old bastard......"

After Tanaka Matsuko let out a vicious breath, he was still pulled out of the house by everyone.

Tanaka Matsuko held up the passbook, showed it to Yamaoka Fuyuko, and cried and said, "Fuyuko, look at it, there is not a penny on it." It's all money for Mika's schooling. ”

The so-called "money for Mika to go to school" is actually money for Mika to go to a private school.

From a global perspective, the proportion of private schools in Japan's education system is quite high, and it is the world's two largest private education (private education) countries along with the United States.

It is the common wish of Japanese parents to send their children to middle and high school private schools.

Soon after the end of World War II, Japan completed the construction of a six-year primary school + three-year junior high school compulsory education system, and the government invested a lot of money and manpower to develop primary education, so Japan's public primary schools originally had a relatively high level of teaching, and the gap between schools was not large, and the government's control over primary education was relatively strict, and the tuition and miscellaneous fees of private schools were much more expensive than public schools, so it was not necessary to study in private schools at the primary school level.

However, it is different in the middle and high school stage, because the academic performance at this stage is directly related to whether you can be admitted to a good university. In a society like Japan, where "the beginning is the end", getting into a good university is the only way for ordinary families to achieve class leapfrogging. Compared with public schools that implement "happy education", private schools are more reliable.

One of the main reasons why private schools are attractive to parents is that many private schools are co-educational.

In fact, before World War II, all schools in Japan were co-educational branches, and branch schools were the tradition of Japan, but at that time, girls' schools were the product of male superiority and inferiority, and the content of learning in boys' schools and girls' schools was very different, and the main purpose of girls' schools was to cultivate "good wives and good mothers".

After the end of World War II, under the intervention of the United States, Japan implemented the "school reform" in 1947 and rebuilt the public education system.

Male and female branch schools are not only not the product of "gender discrimination", but the product of the pursuit of "gender equality".

The social status of women in Japan has always been low, and schools are often a microcosm of society. In co-educational schools, boys and girls also unconsciously "divide labor" according to gender, for example, the organizers of activities are often boys, and girls only play some supporting work; Men naturally delegate the task of cleaning to girls, while girls give manual work to boys, and so on.

In girls' schools, there is no such invisible "division of labor according to gender", and the female students themselves have to take care of everything. As a result, female students have more opportunities to develop their organizational and management skills by organizing student activities, and it is easier for them to build a sense of self-identity, and they will not be afraid to take on heavy responsibilities and give them to men because they are women. This is a very valuable experience in junior high and high school, which is the most important way to build values, and this unique environment of girls' schools to "foster girls' independence" is why girls' schools are so attractive in Japan to this day. Most Japanese men don't want their daughters to be submissive, even if they don't treat their wives as human beings at home.

The husband secretly spent the family's reserve for sending his daughter to a private school, which is not a trivial matter.

Including her husband, she can already see the end at a glance in her life, and the older son has already gone to Tokyo with his bags to be a "Tokyo drifter", and the only one who can change his fate is his daughter Meixiang. Now, this only little hope has been shattered by her husband's own hands.

The desperation of life made Tanaka Matsuko shed sad tears, and she couldn't help but be hysterical.

After sitting on the ground and crying for a while, Tanaka Matsuko slapped away the tears on his face and said fiercely, "I'll go find that vixen now." Dongzi, go together. ”

Fuyuko had no choice but to follow in the footsteps of Matsuko Tanaka.

Tanaka Matsuko beat Tanaka Kaitai and said that if Hotaru was beaten, Hotaru could call the police and let Tanaka Matsuko eat the lawsuit and eat old rice.

……

In the Firefly Bar.

Tanaka Matsuko pointed at Hotaruko's nose and scolded: "You shameless woman, specializing in seducing honest men." I said, why are you so cheap? Always pretending to come to us to make waves. …… Our fishing village was originally very peaceful, and our husbands were originally very honest, and they were all you vixens. Where are you from? Hurry up and head back to your Tokyo capital! …… You shameless one, don't you have a man yourself? Why do you want to seduce our man? ”

Hotaruko has been doing things, trying to avoid Matsuko Tanaka's scolding, but she just can't dodge.

Fuyuko Yamaoka also advised: "Don't make any noise. ”

Tanaka Matsuko pushed Yamaoka Fuyuko away and said, "You go away!" ”

Hotaru had no choice but to say, "I'm not such a person, so I don't mind what you say." ”

Matsuko Tanaka said, "That's a good answer. When you were in Tokyo, did you often get scolded like this? Why are you so tall? ”

Hotaru said unhappily: "People like you, if you are unreasonable, you will shout loudly, and men will be scared away when they see you." ”

Tanaka Matsuko was told by Hotaru that it hurt and fell to the ground in pain, crying hoarsely in her throat.

A long-tongued woman who watched the excitement scolded her: "You are really good, the woman who has seen the world is really powerful, I will never let my husband come here in the future." Why are you so shameless? ”