spooky love

Chapter 4

Saying "Then please" feels at ease from the bottom of my heart, but I hate the self who feels at ease.

Satake has a rude and bad personality... Ryoichiro heard such voices coming from the other side of the assistant classroom door.He stood in front of the door, furrowing his nose in displeasure.

"I don't know how to respect my seniors, and I'm totally ungrateful. That guy thinks he's an urbanite when he wears foreign clothes. He puts on a lot of airs. No matter how foreign he is dressed, the rustic flavor of the country can't be removed from it."

The voice came from Fukushima, who was also an assistant professor of botany.Furious, Ryoichiro opened the door of the assistant room and made a loud noise.Fukushima was inside with a student surnamed Hara who was helping him, and the two of them who were startled were looking back.

He stepped on the ground deliberately with his feet and walked into the room.Seeing his appearance, Fukushima immediately shut up and stopped gossiping, pretended to be nonchalant, fumbled around, rolled up "Ben Cao Tu Shuo" and flipped through it.Ryoichiro walked up to Fukushima, picked up the book in his hand and threw it on the ground.

"Instead of talking boring things to the students in broad daylight, how about sorting out the specimens of wax leaves from Mt. Quantang last month? The piles on the table are nothing but withered grass and garbage. To save trouble, I Call the garbage collector for you?"

He knew that Fukushima had not processed the collected plants at all under the pretext of "suppressing", so he satirized him in his speech.The other party's face was flushed, his mouth was pursed into a line, his hands were clenched tightly, and his whole body was trembling.Ryoichiro turned his back on him, and put the textbook on the desk assigned to him.

"You, don't you know how to write the word 'polite'? I am ahead of you to help Professor Minekura's laboratory, so I am your senior!"

Even if the opponent roared, Ryoichiro turned a deaf ear.He approached the shelf, rolled up the old newspapers, picked off the corner of the leaf sandwiched in the middle of the newspaper, and squeezed it with his fingertips...it was almost dry.

"And what you sorted out were all poor low-level plants."

Ryoichiro turned his head and smiled contemptuously as if looking down on the other party.

"What does it matter if you are high-level or low-level? I only do it because no one else is doing it. I would like to add that if the other party is worthy of being treated with courtesy, I will treat each other with courtesy, because I pay attention to taking appropriate measures when dealing with the other party." Attitude."

He felt the front of his chest being grabbed, and the next moment, there was a huge impact sound next to his cheek.When Ryoichiro felt the pain, his back hit the whitewashed wall.

"Teacher, teacher, please stop!"

Hara grabbed Fukushima's arm, as if intending to stop him.I don't know if he punched the opponent and couldn't calm down, Fukushima's breathing was as fast as a cow.Ryoichiro, who was originally irritable and often angrier than others, saw that the other party was annoyed first, and his anger cooled down inconceivably.

"You, you country bumpkin, get out!"

This room was assigned to three assistants including Ryoichiro, he had no reason to go out, but seeing Hara's pleading eyes, if the two of them continued to stalemate, Hara would always feel inexplicably pitiful, so Ryoichiro walked out of the room automatically, Walk down the hallway with wood floors and down the stairs.On the platform around the corner, he saw Shinosuke Minekura, the professor of botany, coming up.Mine Cang is about 55 or [-] years old. He is a majestic and temperamental man with a handsome mustache under his nose.Although Ryoichiro doesn't like kimonos, he thinks it's very suitable for Minekura to wear them.After he nodded to Minokura, he was about to pass by, but he heard Minokura shouting "Satake-kun, Satake-kun" to stop him.

"Didn't there be a rare aquatic plant in the channel when I went to collect it a few days ago? Have you found out what kind it is?"

"No, not yet, but I think it might be the sundew family (Note 13)."

Minekura kept nodding in agreement, his chin seemed to be scooping up and down, and then he smiled at Ryoichiro:

"Although the details have not yet been decided, this classroom will publish a book this time. This book is a collection of plants from all over Japan, so it should be called "Japanese Botanical Encyclopedia". I will be the supervisor, and I must ask for your cooperation. "

Hearing the illustrated book of plants, a smile appeared on Ryoichiro's face naturally.

"So, it's time to start, right?"

Minakura nodded in agreement.Currently, Japan does not have an illustrated book covering plants from all over the country, and taxonomy has to rely on books written by foreign scholars. Under such a situation, Professor Minekura often hangs up the saying that "the illustrated book covering all Japanese plants is made by Japanese hands." On the lips, Ryoichiro is also one of the people who strongly agrees with Minekura's idea.

"If the professor doesn't dislike it, please let me help. This book will definitely become the cornerstone of Japanese botany."

Hearing Ryoichiro's forceful answer, Minekura nodded in satisfaction.To make a botanical illustrated book, it is necessary to collect and classify on a larger scale than at present. Ryoichiro immediately forgot all the disputes with Fukushima, and while thinking about what this book will become, he entered A small greenhouse built in the backyard of the school building.In the glass-built greenhouse, there are rare plants brought back from abroad by Fengcang; although the tropical plants are hard to control due to the temperature and humidity, almost all of them cannot grow, but several kinds have taken root.

Ryoichiro, the youngest of the teaching assistants, is in charge of managing the greenhouse.He comes to the university early in the morning to observe the state of the plants and water them; if there is still time before class, he will observe or sketch carefully.

Ryoichiro liked the dense air of the greenhouse, the sweating humidity reminding him of the swampy mountains of his hometown.

Ryoichiro's biological mother disappeared when he suffered from the serious illness when he was six years old.She walked out of the house and never came back, nor did she return to her mother's house. Although her father sent someone to look for her, she was never found.

Someone said: "That lady is very beautiful, she was kidnapped, right?" Another said: "That woman left her sick child and ran away, it is really wicked." The last person who saw her was a traveling merchant. Seeing her walking in the direction of Mount Kabushi, the young Ryoichiro took Tokuma to the mountain and searched for it countless times.

When I was bedridden with a serious illness, my nanny's child Dema also lost his voice due to a throat illness.This kid De Ma is incredible, no matter how casually he enters the mountains, he will definitely find his way home in the end.As if he had a compass in his head, he led Ryoichiro with both feet without hesitation.

In the mountains, Ryoichiro repeatedly called his mother's name.He believes that his mother must be somewhere in the mountains, and he is convinced of this... This can be said to be the sincerity of the child. He just believes that "mother is still there" and "mother will definitely come back" without any basis.Although he has completely given up now, in a certain sense, the time when he still believed in the past may be happier than the present.

Once, when Ryoichiro went into the mountains, he saw small flowers growing in clusters near the swamp. The tips of the petals of the flowers blooming on the branches were peach-colored, very beautiful, and he thought it was the color of his mother's nails.The fair-skinned mother's slender fingers and fingertips like cherry clams (Note 14) were deeply imprinted in his mind for some reason.He took the flowers back home and planted them in the garden, but the flowers withered immediately.Ryoichiro wailed, so Dema brought back the same flowers from the mountain for him early the next morning, but the flowers withered again immediately, so Dema went to fetch flowers again and planted them all over the garden.Although most of the flowers died, those planted by the pool took root and bloomed in about a month.

Since then, Ryoichiro has gone to the mountains almost every day, bringing back various flowers to plant.Due to too many and dense flowers, the garden was full of field flowers for a while, and there was no place to stand.

The next year, Ryoichiro went to a private school, but he was not only very shy of strangers, but also uncomfortable with the teacher, so he would play willful and make a fuss about not going to school the next day.His father was keen on education, and believed that even children from rural breweries still had to receive education, even if it was necessary to drag the children to private schools.But Ryoichiro is very stubborn, and once he speaks out, there is no room for change. The troubled father has nothing to do, so he has to resort to the last trump card, "I asked Dema to serve others." Ma left the side, so he threatened him with this, Ryoichiro reluctantly agreed "I will go if Tokuma is with me", and went to school obediently.

Ryoichiro went to private schools and middle schools with Dema.Although Dema is the son of a servant and can't speak, he can read English and Russian, and he even knows Chinese characters.

Because Dema and Ryoichiro went to school together, everyone criticized Dema behind his back for "he is a servant, but he looks like a young master", "he can't speak, and he doesn't work, so it's useless", which caused his mother Tomie to suffer. Don't roll your eyes.Even though Tomie pleaded: "Please, young master, please let our son go." Ryoichiro still held Toma's kimono sleeve, not letting him leave.

However, Ryoichiro was ridiculed a lot because of his extreme obsession with a servant.It's just that he feels that those who laugh at him just don't understand the meaning of the word "lost"—it's neither alive nor dead, it's cruel to just leave others expecting and disappear.Thinking of the days when he was longing for, clinging to his mother, and wandering in the mountains crying, it still makes Ryoichiro's chest so painful that his chest will be broken.

Dema tolerated all his despair at that time, he was a substitute for his mother and someone who understood him.No one can replace Dama, let alone replace him.

When he heard a "click", he turned his head and saw Dema standing at the entrance of the greenhouse. He couldn't help being startled.

"What's wrong?"

Dema is very familiar with the university environment.collection

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