In Tokyo, I just want salted fish

Chapter 298 Friends
Easy breathing, fresh air.

It is a kind of enjoyment to persevere and run in the morning against the morning sun.

The oncoming wind made Uesugi Kai’s clothes bulge and flutter, and on the path between cities, the light beam passing through the ring Yakumo illuminated the green grass on the roadside, like a lighthouse on the sea, leading him forward take a step.

"Okay!"

Kai Uesugi, who was sweating profusely, heard the voice, turned around, and found that it was an old lady who came out to buy vegetables early in the morning.

Her hair is gray, her body is still strong, maybe because of her old age, her voice is weird.

"Du San Granny."

"Here, this is for you and that child Huahuo." Granny Dusan took out two large bottles of fresh milk from the hand-woven rattan basket and motioned for him to take it down, "It's sunny today, didn't she come out for a run with you?"

"No, she was tired last night, so I'll let her sleep a little longer today."

Grandma Du said with a smile: "Yes, men should be more sympathetic to women. It's not good to force them to come out for a run after all the tossing."

Uesugi Kai didn't realize that her mother-in-law started the car for a while.

"Hey, there are not many young people nowadays who are willing to take care of their bodies like you. They rely on their youth and never listen to warnings. They only think about exercising when they get sick and go to the hospital."

After finishing speaking, he shook his head and left slowly, Kai Uesugi had no chance to decline the milk even if he wanted to.

The old man is a resident who lives nearby. Ever since he and Huahuo moved here and started running in the morning every day, they would meet by chance.

The elderly will come up to talk, and after getting acquainted, they will give some things when they meet.

Kai Uesugi looked at the two bottles of milk in his left and right hands, turned around and walked towards home.

"I am back."

Uesugi Kai said lazily, then turned and closed the door.

pat pat
Footsteps came from the back room.

"Your Majesty, welcome home."

"Oh."

"What's wrong?" Hanamaru Hanabi stood at the entrance and looked at him suspiciously.

Uesugi Kai handed her two bottles of fresh milk, and then said with a smile: "I thought I would see a big white pig on the bed when I got home, but I didn't expect it to be a cute girl."

Hanamaru Hanabi was holding two bottles of milk with both hands, showing a fierce look at him.

"Little milk cat." Uesugi Kai smiled and reached out to grab her face.

Hanamaru Hanabi shook her head to avoid his movement while taking a step back.

"It's not a big white pig!"

Uesugi Kai put his left foot on his right foot, changed into slippers at the entrance, and then looked up at her: "Okay, it's not a big white pig, it's a little milk cat."

"Did Kai-kun buy milk?" Hanamaru Hanabi wanted to refute him, but after thinking about the cuteness of the kitten, she gave up, "I bought it at Kodo a few kilometers away."

"No, Grandma Du San gave it to us."

"Oh~"

Hanamaru Hanabi looked at the two feeding bottles in her hand and nodded, "What would Kai-kun want to eat this morning?"

"Whatever, as long as it's what you do."

"OK then."

In the morning, I took the train to the University of Tokyo. As soon as I got out of the station, I ran into a classmate of Katsura Totsuka.

"Hey, Uesugi-san, what a coincidence?"

"Well, it's such a coincidence." Uesugi Kai responded to his slightly exaggerated way of greeting.

Katsura Totsuka approached him with his computer bag on his back, and they walked towards the school together.

"Don't you always take taxis? Why have you changed to trams in recent days?"

Kai Uesugi looked at the flow of people at the station ahead, and said in a normal tone:
"Conscience is determined by people's knowledge and life style. Sitting in a taxi for a long time will turn me into a disgusting capitalist."

"Haha, what you said is interesting, how can you change it?" Totsuka Katsura couldn't help laughing.

"Frugal to extravagant, taxis let me experience the convenience and comfort, and feel the congestion and trouble of trams, but the price is to spend more money.

"But you must know that desires will expand. Maybe one day I will think that taxis are meaningless and change to self-driving cars. Later, I feel that self-driving cars are not as comfortable as hiring a driver. Then I find that there are already drivers, so I don't want to get one. A luxury car is very shameless. Until it is changed to the world's top luxury limited edition supercar.

"During this period, the money I paid continued to increase and became endlessly inflated. In the end, a means of transportation changed from a tram to a supercar, which was an extreme waste.

"In order to curb my desire, I chose to take the tram."

Totsuka Katsuragi gave him a thumbs up, praising him for being able to speak such a lengthy speech on a tram.

The two walked out of Hongo Sanchome Station together.

"Uesugi, I read the light novel you gave me."

"Any ideas?"

"Yeah." Totsuka Katsura put his right hand against his chin, "How should I put it, I have some skills. But for me, it still tastes like a light novel, which is a bit too strong. Do you understand what I mean?"

"I know that."

Katsura Totsuka turned around and took out another book from his schoolbag, "On the contrary, I prefer his debut book "Chasing the Stars". It feels like I first read Sherlock Holmes when I was a child."

"Well, it's a pity that this book doesn't fit the light novel market, so the current second book is making changes to cater to the market." Kai Uesugi looked at the brand new book in his hand.

"So of course it became an unpopular book, and I bought this book after several turns." Totsuka Katsura said, "It's like now that everyone in the world knows Akutagawa Ryunosuke, but they can only rely on his reputation and read it with a book. I read a few of his works to show off myself, but I don't understand his thoughts."

Kai Uesugi said: "People are different, even a little impression can subtly change a person's cognition, but what people see and hear will not be exactly the same, why ask everyone to be the same as yourself? Unpopular is also unpopular, at least Qing Zuo also likes this book? You must know that meeting such a close friend is much better than letting the public on the Internet understand what is true and correct."

"Yes, so I came to the University of Tokyo, where there are few people, and I also want to see if there are any friends who can share things with me." Katsuki Totsuka looked up at the bright red Akamon, "Uesugi, what is your purpose for coming to University of Tokyo? Don’t tell me that it creates value for human beings, literature has very few opportunities to be valuable to human beings.”

"I want to be the kind of person who can make money while lying down." Kai Uesugi looked at the emerald green ginkgo trees in front of him, and now he has passed the red gate of Dongda University and stepped into the necessary ginkgo tree road.

Totsuka Katsura smiled, "Then you should go to the Ministry of Economic Affairs."

Uesugi Kai shook his head, "I still have some pursuits, I want to find some sustenance for my spirit that can't be rested in my spare time, just looking at the pairs of ups and downs, the economic laws summarized one by one, Effect, my head may explode at any time."

"I know, I understand this."

Katsura Totsuka smiled, and handed the original document that Kaoru Uesugi gave him yesterday from his school bag, "About this new novel, my suggestion is to speed up the pace of the story, quickly give the reasons why the audience likes the protagonist, and then let When the protagonist pursues a certain goal, danger or unfair treatment occurs, which heightens the sense of expectation, so that people can quickly immerse themselves in it. The most important thing in light novels is the sense of substitution, and the audience expects to see different changes."

Kai Uesugi held the white document, and after hearing these words, he was convinced that Katsura Totsuka was really helping him with all his heart, "Thank you."

"Small things, if this novel sells well, just treat me to a kaiseki meal!"

Kai Uesugi also smiled and said, "Kaiseki cuisine is not cheap."

"Haha, then I don't care."

This light novel is very popular, Uesugi Kai is not the direct beneficiary, Hanamaru Hanabi is, but it is logical to help his wife.

After that, it was another day of daily lectures.

Kiyosa Takejun and Umezu Nana also gave suggestions for the light novel to Uesugi Kai.

He glanced at it roughly, and there were indeed detailed analyzes and comments.

This shows that Uesugi's classmates from Tokyo University are extremely reliable, and they will help if they are really helpful.

"Thank you, next time you need anything, just call me."

"It's okay, senior."

"Uesugi-san, that's what you said!"

After eating at noon, Kai Uesugi sorted out the suggestions given by the three in the library, and then sent them to Shinmoto Yasuhiro, the author of "Miss Miko is a Fox Demon".

Kai Uesugi: {This is a suggestion I asked some friends from the Department of Liberal Arts, University of Tokyo to sort out. You can extract some of what you need and modify the details as appropriate. }
His current identity is Hanamaru Hanabi's assistant, and it is only logical that he can contact this light novel author.

After seeing that the chat box had indeed sent the file, Kai Uesugi got up and went to the coffee area to order a cup of coffee. Passing by the librarian, he also saw a working fax machine.

To be honest, fax machines are still used in many places in Japan.

It is obvious that some companies pay so much attention to efficiency, but they are unwilling to change, which is really old-fashioned.

Kaoru Uesugi has heard complaints from his father more than once, saying that foreign architectures have been iterated for many years, and they are still using things for more than ten years.

Ask the company, the reason given by the company is: customers don't like new technologies.

Science and technology are changing with each passing day, but literature is quaint. If you take out literary works thousands of years ago, you can read them with gusto.

Ten minutes later, Kai Uesugi took a cup of hot coffee at the bar, sat back where he was just now, glanced at the computer screen, and found that the other party had replied to him.

Shinmoto Yasuhiro: {Mr. Uesugi, thank you very much!This document pointed out many of my deficiencies, and also analyzed various shortcomings from a more professional perspective. As expected, I am a student of the University of Tokyo. It mentions the points that even the editor Chuanhe did not mention. This must be engaged in literary research. Only people can see it, thank you very much! }
Kaoru Uesugi put down the steaming coffee in his hand, and tapped the keyboard with both hands to reply: {It’s nothing, I wish you keep up the good work, Mr. Hanamaru’s drawings should be shown to you within a few days. }
Shinmoto Yasuhiro: {Thank you very much, Mr. Hanamaru, I will look forward to it. }
After reading the last word of Yasuhiro Shinmoto's reply, Kai Uesugi picked up the coffee cup next to the computer and took a sip.

Slightly bitter, slightly sour.

The reason why the coffee beans are not roasted well.

Although it is very complacent to say so, Uesugi still feels that this is far worse than what he made himself, and it is even more incomparable than Mr. Bryce who is far away in London, England. He should be a newly appointed barista.

Sitting at the long table by the window of the library in the afternoon, under the soft sunlight, occasionally looking out the window, the dense ginkgo leaves reflect a translucent and moist luster after the rain.

The University of Tokyo has always liked to plant ginkgo trees, and even the school emblem is two overlapping yellow and blue ginkgo leaves.

However, I have heard many seniors say that you must wear a mask when you come to school in November, because the ginkgo trees planted all over the school will ripen and drop their fruits, which will make the campus smelly.

What does ginkgo taste like?

Uesugi Kai really didn't know.

In the afternoon there was a session of biology. After touching fish in the library, Uesugi just walked to the door of the classroom where the class was held.

"Uesugi! Uesugi!"

"What's the matter, you're in a panic." At the door of the classroom, Kai Uesugi glanced at Katsura Totsuka, who was anxiously talking to him.

"Professor Banli said that this class will require a school exam."

Professor Ban Li is their teacher of basic biology.

Uesugi Kai glanced up and down at the classmate in front of him: "Are you panicking?"

"It's been all about playing for the past few months."

"Failed the exam?"

"I passed the exam."

"Then why are you panicking?"

"I'm talking about you. You missed most of your biology classes, and you probably haven't reviewed any of them." Totsuka Katsura turned his head to the inside of the classroom to see if the professor was there.

The relationship "all these months have been playing" is referring to him Uesugi Kai.

Kaoru Uesugi paused for a few seconds and said, "Don't worry, there's nothing difficult about basic biology, it's nothing more than writing about proteins."

The truth is exactly what he said.

After the exam, Professor Ban Li glanced at his paper and let him leave the classroom.

"Senior. Is it a temporary review?"

"not at all."

Totsuka Katsura: "I thought you would definitely be detained by the professor today."

Professor Ban Li is an old-fashioned old man, who skipped his classes, and only once failed the quiz he gave, and all of them failed at the end of the semester.

It's okay to fail a subject, but it will be embarrassing to make up the exam.

At the end of the semester, all the students would grimly say that they are all set, but when it comes to make-up exams, the invigilator can only stare at one person in the empty classroom.

A bunch of dishonest people.

"Is there anyone making up the final exam?"

"Of course there are, but those who need to take the make-up exam are all talented people. They are either doing business or traveling around the world. Last semester, there was a senior who didn't take the make-up exam because it was his duty day at the convenience store."

"How about Travel World?"

"Classes are suspended. I heard that I just arrived in Malmö."

Malmö is Sweden's third largest city.

"The one at the convenience store?"

"It's being rebuilt. He is writing a book and wants to win the Akutagawa Award."

"Are you studying Sayaka Murata?"

Sayaka Murata is a convenience store clerk who won the Akutagawa Award, and Kai Uesugi has read her "Convenience Store in the World".

"I don't know about that, I'm not familiar with that senior." Totsuka Katsura shrugged.

Kaoru Uesugi has figured it out, there are many wonderful things in the university.

(End of this chapter)