In Tokyo, I just want salted fish

Chapter 303 A Classmate's Request

When get out of class was over, Kai Uesugi took out his phone and glanced at the newly received message.

It was the line from Qian Aiyi, she sent a photo of Aiyi changing into new clothes, and attached a thank you to sister Huahuo and brother.

Aiyi is also smiling in the photo.

He was thinking, isn't Aiyi smiling pretty?
Even though she is only a very ordinary age, she can say some strange things to get other people's attention.

"Your sister?"

"Probably." Uesugi Kai replied a message and put away the phone.

Totsuka Katsura didn't intend to ask further questions, "The second foreign language will also be assessed recently, can you tell me how you learned Chinese?"

"This should be practiced from an early age."

"No tricks?"

"No."

Totsuka Katsura immediately turned to him, "Then how about listening to my pronunciation?"

"Well, let's try." Uesugi Kai listened attentively.

Totsuka Katsura coughed twice: "Ahem, Nihao—"

"Stop." Kai Uesugi stopped him directly, "Thank you, Xiaolongbao, right? Don't say whether the professor will give you one, I won't give you any favors."

"what is it now?"

"There are not many international students in the school, you can find them to be friends."

"International students, I have no connections, and it's hard for me to take the initiative to talk to my seniors."

Most of the international students are graduate students.

In undergraduate colleges, for example, most of their classes are locals from Tokyo.

"Where is your hometown, Totsuka?"

"Um, Hokkaido."

"Are there bears over there?"

"Everyone in Tokyo will ask that," Katsura Totsuka spread his hands helplessly, "Yes, but I haven't seen it."

"The snow over there is very thick." Uesugi Kai recalled his impression of Hokkaido.

"It's very thick, the kind that can block the door of the house and can't get out." Totsuka Katsura was also caught in the memories of his hometown, and suddenly realized, "Wait, we're not talking about the second foreign language assessment. ?"

"There is nothing to say about this. My suggestion is to communicate more with international students. They are happy to make friends."

"Uesugi, your Chinese is so good, how about you communicating with me in Chinese every day? Then I don't have to bother others."

"Okay, I'm fine."

This sentence is spoken in Chinese with a correct accent.

".?"

Totsuka Katsura was stunned, "What does this mean?"

Kai Uesugi: "OK."

Totsuka Katsura: "Is Chinese so troublesome? It feels like you said a lot."

Kai Uesugi explained: "No trouble, it's just that I simplified the meaning a little bit. The 'ok' just now can be translated as 'OK' or 'can'."

Umezu Nana, who likes to sit in the last row, has already collected the learning materials in class. She found that the two people in front were still chatting, and asked suspiciously:

"Not going to lunch?"

Katsura Totsuka asked Kai Uesugi: "How do you answer this in Chinese?"

"The colloquial answer can be 'eat', and the more formal answer is 'I'm going to eat', and the subject and predicate are omitted in the colloquial language."

Then Umezu Nana saw Katsura Totsuka turning his head and said lamely to herself:

"eat."

She couldn't help laughing: "If you want to eat, hurry up. Later, there will be too many people and it will be too crowded. Qingzuo will help us stand first."

Totsuka Katsura looked up at her: "Do you understand?"

Nana Meizu showed a smile on her face: "Look down on me? Hello, thank you Xiaolongbao, I will say it all."

In fact, the second foreign language of several of them is Chinese.

I have attended all the classes, more or less.

This guy Totsuka Katsuragi was just learning how Uesugi Kai fished, and only thought of cramming when he was about to die.

"eat first."

After packing up the computer, the three of them walked out of the teaching building together and went to the central cafeteria on the ground floor of the Yasuda Lecture Hall.

The canteen has two floors, with a coffee shop on the top and a central canteen decorated like a library below.

As soon as you walk into the ground from the entrance, you can hear the noise of the crowd.

"There are still so many people. Every year in the new semester, the number of people in the cafeteria will double. It's really troublesome." Katsura Totsuka sighed helplessly when he saw that he had to queue up again.

Umezu Nana glanced at him: "We are freshmen."

"Where's Kiyosuke?" Uesugi Kai asked.

"Over there." Umezu Nana pointed to a four-person position in the right corner.

"Well," Kai Uesugi saw the literary boy Kiyosa Takeshi who was wearing glasses, "Totsuka, you go to line up, we'll wait for you to come over."

"Ok?"

Totsuka Katsuragi glanced at the long line, there were not only students but also outsiders outside the school.

In short, many people have to wait for a long time.

"Why? Why am I the only one in line?"

"Qing Zuo helped us order food."

"Then why don't you order one for me! There are so many people."

Umezu Nana: "You don't usually eat at school."

"Okay." He could only walk decadently to line up.

After that, Uesugi Kai sat down and went to eat.

Beige chairs, goose yellow floor, white ceiling pillars, Dongda Canteen is commendable for its size, and the entire basement is decorated brightly and transparently.

For the light source on the first floor, the second floor is not fully utilized.

To go to the coffee shop on the second floor, you have to go through a very narrow corridor.

The passage is completely white, and the height is very close to the ceiling. Walking on it has the feeling of meeting the male and female protagonists on the bridge in an idol drama.

"Uesugi-kun, what happened to the light novel?"

"Miss Witch Is a Fox Demon"?"

"Correct."

"It is still in preparation, and it is expected to be published in early July." Uesugi Kaimoto thought that Umezu Nana would not read light novels.

"Won't it be serialized on the Internet first?" Meizu Nana had read the author's previous work, and it was indeed good, but it was unpopular.

"No, this time it seems that the first volume is going to be published. The library company and the publishing house seem to be very optimistic about the author's second volume. Speaking of which, I would like to thank you for your help. How about I invite you to Matsukawa Cuisine? That place needs to be reserved three months in advance, but I have a way to make the reservation a little earlier."

"No, no, no, it's just a matter of little effort." Umezu Nana waved her hand to refuse, but her expression seemed hesitant to speak, and she still had something to say.

"What to eat?" Totsuka Katsura, who had just finished eating, put the plate on the table and pulled away the chair beside Uesugi Kai.

"Matsukawa Cuisine." Uesugi Kai picked up the small tomato with chopsticks and put it in his mouth.

"Matsukawa? That high-end restaurant in the port area?"

Totsuka Katsura took out the chopsticks, immediately smiled and said to him, "Uesugi, do you really want to invite me to kaiseki cuisine? It's not cheap, but the place needs to be reserved three months in advance, so I can't afford to wait."

"It's okay, as long as you want to eat, you can go there anytime, I have connections." Kai Uesugi picked up another small tomato. He ordered a vegetable salad set meal, and recently he likes to eat something lighter.

"Uesugi—" Totsuka Katsura dragged the ending for a long time, and leaned over to see his plain expression, "Could you be some kind of aristocratic son?"

Uesugi Kai turned his head and smiled slightly, "Do you think I am?"

"Like, very similar, but it doesn't have the vulgar taste of money and power at all." Totsuka Katsura touched his chin and commented, "Speaking of this, although I don't want to talk nonsense, but ah."

Totsuka Katsura lowered his voice, "Some professors in the law school have that kind of smell."

Umezu Nana took a look at Kiyosa Takejun: "Is Kiyosa-kun planning to follow Professor Kawamura into politics?"

Uesugi remembered that he had attended a cabinet secretary's salon a while ago.

Salon meeting is a good way to say it, but to put it bluntly, it is a talent gathering meeting.

Family background and so on will be clearly understood.

Uesugi Kai didn't go, because Professor Okuno, who has a good relationship with him, reminded him not to get involved before his business trip.

Looks like the professor is coming back soon.

Kiyosa Takejun said: "No, it's not sure yet."

Although many seniors of the University of Tokyo have entered Kasumigaseki, it is better to touch this kind of topic lightly.

If you don't talk too much, don't ask too much.

The University of Tokyo is a network of connections. If there are seniors in the place where they will work in the future, they will help the juniors who are also from Tokyo University be promoted quickly.

Because after entering the system, there will be a mark of Dongda, and they will basically be the same faction in the future.

Uesugi: "How is it? Do you want me to treat you?"

"Matsukawa cuisine?" Totsuka Katsura tried to ask.

"Ah."

"Of course that's good!"

"It's better not to make Uesugi-kun spend money like this." Umezu Nana said.

"It's just rough tea and light food." Uesugi Kai turned to look at Kiyosa Takejun, "Is Kiyosa-kun free?"

"Yes, but I always feel that it is troublesome for seniors."

Matsukawa Cuisine is a completely introduction-based restaurant, with an average of 3 yen per person, and 12 yen for four people.

The salary of the convenience store clerk is nearly one month.

Although the restaurant is less than a hundred years old, it is also very famous.

A good restaurant never needs any historical precipitation, but the craftsmanship of the master.

"It's no trouble, if there is anyone who wants to bring it, you can bring it with you." Uesugi Kai said holding the food with chopsticks.

"Really?" Totsuka Katsuragi didn't expect him to be so generous.

"random."

Uesugi Kai felt that Hanabi couldn't be forgotten after eating these good foods, and planned to take her there too.

Seeing that everyone agreed to come down, Uesugi Kai continued: "Then I will ask which day is available recently, and I will send you a message when the time comes."

"OK! (Chinese)"

Umezu Nana smiled and said, "Why is your Chinese so funny?"

"I have no problem listening to the accent."

Kai Uesugi: "Your English is standard Japanese English."

Things like eating are human favors no matter where they are, and Uesugi Kai will thank them for their help.

He continued to eat the lunch in the cafeteria. The vegetable salad was very refreshing, but he always felt that it was dry and tasteless.

Coming out of the central cafeteria, Kaoru Uesugi planned to go to the library for a dip again, trying to finish his studies this semester.

"Uesugi-kun."

Under the ginkgo tree, Uesugi Kai turned around, the sunlight sneaking out from between the leaves illuminated the gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, and his elegant side face was also set off to be knowledgeable and handsome.

"Is there anything else? If I have any academic questions, I will try to answer them if I can."

Umezu Nana smiled embarrassedly, "Haha, actually, I don't know if I should talk to you about this."

"Ah."

"If Uesugi-kun has something to do, then I won't bother you."

"It's okay, let's talk."

Umezu Nana hesitated again and again, but still said to him: "I am the boss at home, that is, the eldest sister, and I have two younger brothers, strict father and loving mother, and the family is very harmonious. My father is a company executive and is very busy on weekdays. Because of my personality, he often has a lot of demands on me, I am almost 20 years old, and the urging has been getting tighter and tighter recently."

"."

Kaoru Uesugi has guessed what she said, "Do you want me to pretend to be your boyfriend?"

"That's what I mean, haha." Umezu Nana smiled awkwardly, folded her hands together, "I'm sorry, sorry, I didn't mean to offend you on purpose, even among my group of friends, only Uesugi-kun is the most suitable."

"Where are Kiyosa and Totsuka?"

"Kyosuke-kun can't, my father doesn't like his personality, Totsuka-kun I also asked him, his girlfriend disagrees."

Uesugi Kai pondered for a moment, "Sorry, I can't give you an answer for now."

"It's okay, I can understand, this kind of thing is a bit embarrassing, haha, just now, didn't Uesugi-kun say to go to Matsukawa Restaurant? If there, I wonder if I can take this opportunity and let my father be a little more careful about my situation. Take it easy."

Uesugi Kai thought about it carefully, and it should be more convenient to meet when he goes to Matsukawa Restaurant.

Umezu Nana helped her before, and she also promised that if the other party needed anything, she would do her best.

This is a promise that has been made, it is not easy for Uesugi Kai to deny his own words.

"Well, I'll go back and ask my fiancée, as long as she agrees, I can do it too."

He will also bring fireworks when he goes to eat Matsukawa cuisine, and his wife will check it, so nothing will happen.

Of course, the premise is that Huahuo agrees to him pretending to be someone else's boyfriend.

"Really? Thank you, Uesugi-kun, and it won't take up too much of your time. You just need to deal with my father a little bit. My mother is very talkative."

"It's okay," Uesugi Kai smiled, "Every family has difficult scriptures to recite, and as a classmate, I will try my best to help if I can help."

After Umezu Nana thanked him politely a few more times, she went to take elective courses first.

Pretending to be someone else's boyfriend?

Uesugi Kai reckoned that Hanabi would be jealous, and it was hard to say whether he would agree.

But it's just a meeting outside for half an hour, so it shouldn't be a problem.

He walked to the general library.

After entering the University of Tokyo, you can understand how rich a prestigious school is.

In the library, you can borrow books that are difficult to buy outside, and you can see the works of many predecessors and the study notes of many Nobel Prize winners.

Documents, papers, and cutting-edge knowledge can all be read and studied.

When I really stepped into the library of a famous school, I saw many books on nouns that I had never known before, and I realized how small I was in knowledge, and even the portraits of great men on the wall would become elusive.

People have been thinking about things for a lifetime, and they can learn them in a year after a little longer. Isn't that not happy enough?

Human energy is limited, and Kaoru Uesugi did not plan to learn all of this knowledge.

The essence of lifelong knowledge of thousands of human beings is more difficult to study and learn than imagined.

(End of this chapter)