that touch of blue

Chapter 1

In Shanghai International Airport, people coming and going are like crucian carp crossing the river, parting and welcoming, joy and sorrow are staged scene by scene.

"Lanlan, remember to call your mother when you get there. Be careful when you go out alone. My mother told my former university senior that he and his wife will pick you up at Tokyo Airport. Be polite and don't be rude. It’s done. After finishing what your mother told you, you will come back after playing in Japan for a few days. Anyway, it’s summer vacation, so you can just come back before school starts.” A nagging mother told her daughter before leaving.There were no signs of aging on her face, and she looked almost as old as her daughter's older sister.Slightly curly hair, bright black eyes, but there is always a touch of sadness in the eyes.

Zhan Lan nodded, put down the small travel bag in her hand, and hugged her mother tightly in her arms. Her mother's breath was always so sweet and fresh. What she loved most was the faint smell of tobacco on her father's body and the smell of bathing on her mother's body. The fragrance of dew.The daughter's face is biased towards the mother, but the blue eyes are exactly the same as the father's blue eyes, 1.6 meters five, and a slender body.The mother smiled and looked at her daughter. The 14-year-old daughter is about to embark on a journey to a foreign country. She is not afraid of her daughter being disadvantaged. The daughter is now a taekwondo hacker. She has an outstanding mind and an outstanding appearance. It will be her and her husband's child.It's just that "a child travels thousands of miles and a mother worries", in the eyes of parents, an outstanding child is always a child, a child who will not grow up.

"Flight k324c to Tokyo, Japan, is about to board. Passengers and friends, please get ready for boarding." The sweet voice of the announcer sounded on the radio.

"Mom, I'm leaving." Zhan Lan lifted the luggage on the ground and said to her mother.

"Well. Be careful on the road." Zhan Ran looked at her daughter's immature face and nodded with tears in her eyes.

"Mom, I'll be back soon." Zhanlan made a promise to her mother, turned around resolutely, and walked towards the boarding gate.

Zhan Ran watched her daughter gradually disappearing into the crowd, tears flowed down her face, she took out a small photo folder from her pocket, and inside it was a photo of a middle-aged man. The man also had a pair of blue eyes, which were familiar to her. She has been watching her smile for more than ten years, but she is not tired at all. It is her most beloved husband, who has helped her in the same boat, shared her misfortunes and blessings, and welcomed the birth of her daughter with her husband.Zhanran closed her eyes: "Chengyi, now my daughter is going to fulfill your wish. May your spirit in heaven bless her so that she can complete this matter smoothly, then I will have nothing to regret."

Sitting in the cabin, Zhanlan took out the laptop from the backpack and began to write in her diary: Today, I left Shanghai and went to Tokyo. I heard from my father that it was his hometown, the hometown of Sakura.When I was young, I asked my father, are the cherry blossoms in Tokyo as beautiful as the plum blossoms in Beijing?Dad always rubbed my face with his unshaven chin, and said, yes, my parents met, knew each other, fell in love with each other under the cherry blossom tree, and then gave birth to Lanlan, the beautiful baby of my parents.However, the year before last, when I was in the second year of junior high school, when I was only 13 years old, my father came home from work, but my mother and I waited at home for three hours, but received a call from the hospital. I collided with a drunk driving car. When my mother and I rushed to the hospital, we saw my father lying on the hospital bed with his face covered in blood. Only the slow beating curve on the machine showed that my father was still alive. My mother was stunned. He dragged me to my father's hospital bed, my father opened his eyes slightly, looked at my mother, twitched the corners of his mouth, and said intermittently in a voice so low that it was hard to hear: "Of course... sorry... I can't realize my love." You... the promise you made, bring... bring Lanlan up, let her go to Japan, I... I want to see... see my father, and... and my brother.My father spoke intermittently, and only my mother could understand what he meant. My tears fell one by one on the floor of the ward. My mother nodded with tears streaming down her face. My father fixed his eyes on me and said in Japanese: Lanlan , Dad... I didn't force you... what, I hope you call me in the language of Dad... Dad's hometown.I wriggled my lips, biting my lips with my teeth, and my mother stroked my head with her hand, encouraging me, looking at my father's expectant eyes, I knelt down in front of my father's bed: Dad, dad, don't Leave me and mom, don't leave.Dad smiled. Facing the god of death, he smiled so happily, as happy as dating his mother under the cherry tree.The calling of my mother and I did not save the call of death to my father, and my father still left me and my mother on that rainy night.The death of my father hit my mother the hardest. My grandparents died early. In this world, my mother's relatives are only my father and me. But now my father's departure has made her world collapse in half. Every night, I can hear The sound of sobbing came from Mom and Dad's bedroom, and I saw Mom holding Dad's photo through the crack of the door, her shoulders shaking.I gently opened the door and hugged my mother. My mother turned her head in surprise. She wondered why I was not sleeping at this time. Only our mother and daughter, Lanlan will support this family, and let our father in heaven watch us live happily.That time, my mother shed tears again, but I knew it was tears of happiness.The next day, when I woke up, there was the smell of breakfast at home, which was the breakfast my mother made.Dad, did you see that?We live happily ever after, along with your share.

Zhanlan saved the manuscript, closed the notebook, her eyes were sore, Zhanlan closed her eyes, and swallowed the pain in her heart.The man sitting next to her glanced at her, didn't speak, and continued to look at the magazine in his hand.Zhanlan will open her eyes again and cast her eyes out of the window. The plane has already entered the sky above the clouds, and what she sees is white clouds passing by the side of the fuselage. Be that unique cloud.

Tokyo Hyotei Gakuen

"Yushi, do you want to go home?" A boy with purple-gray hair asked. He has always seldom returned to his hometown in Osaka. Ask for leave to go back?He touched the tear mole under his eyes not very satisfied.

"Yes." The blue-haired boy lifted his oval glasses and said with a smile: "Father said that there is a guest coming at home today, so let me go home."

During their conversation, the female animals surrounding the tennis club made deafening noises.

"Ah, Shinobu-sama has such a charming smile, I can't see it enough times."

"Don't you think the way Atobe-sama twirls his hair is so nosebleed?"

"It's so seductive and beautiful."

"Where did you get such a non-flashy guest, right, Huadi?" Atobe was still dissatisfied with Shinozu's explanation.

"Yes." The two-meter-tall man standing aside replied blankly.

The conversation between the two of them attracted all the main candidates from the tennis club.

"Hey, Shinobu is going back to Osaka?" the red-haired younger sister said with a nod.

"When will senior come back?" the very gentle white-haired boy asked.

"Tch, maybe it's a blind date in disguise." The boy adjusted the hat on his head.

"Senior, let's go up." The boy who didn't have the slightest smile on his face said, holding a racket in his hand.

"Huh, who wants a blind date?" The boy who looked like I was still awake turned over, said something, and fell asleep again.

"It's the daughter of my father's college student. I entrust my father to take care of it. My father and mother will pick up the plane today and tell me to go back." Renzu further explained, picked up the tennis bag at the side, put it on his shoulder, and walked towards the school gate Go, "Ah, Atobe, let me borrow your car." Renzu turned his head handsomely, causing a group of nympho girls to shout again regardless of their appearance.

"Huadi, give it to him." Atobe said to the man behind him.

"Yes." The man took out the car key from his pocket and handed it to Ninzuzu.

"I'll be back tomorrow morning." Renzu smiled and walked towards Atobe's latest Mercedes-Benz sports car parked on campus.Only the sound of the motor was heard, and a rapid red light flashed in front of everyone's eyes, and the car quickly disappeared from people's sight.

Atobe took out the mobile phone in his trouser pocket and made a call. After a while, a stretched Cadillac appeared in front of everyone. "Get in the car, training camp tomorrow." After finishing speaking, Atobe bent down and got in the car, and the other main candidates also got in the car one by one.The black Cadillac once again disappeared from the eyes of the non-selected players and the support team.

At the airport, Renzu's father and his wife were anxiously waiting for the flight k324c from Shanghai to Tokyo to arrive. Their every move can be described by two Chinese idioms, that is, hope to see through and hope to wear through autumn water.

"Why haven't you arrived yet? According to the time calculation, it should arrive at Tokyo International Airport at this time?" Papa Ninzu muttered.

"Ana, don't worry, maybe the plane will be delayed." Mrs. Renzu comforted her.

"Flight k324c from Shanghai, China to Tokyo International Airport, Japan arrived at the airport." The sweet Japanese sounded on the radio, and the Ninzu couple's spirits were shaken, and the big stone in their hearts fell to the ground, and they both heaved a sigh of relief.

Zhan Lan looked at the scenery outside the window, this is her father's hometown, where she will live for the next two months.She slowly removed the luggage from the luggage rack, and moved slowly towards the exit with the flow of people. The MP3 was still hanging in her ear, and the melodious singing came from inside.Looking at the crowded hall and listening to the familiar language, Zhanlan took a deep breath, picked up her luggage and looked around, hoping to quickly find out what her mother said about her university senior and his wife.

Ren Zu and his wife were also looking for the little girl in the vast sea of ​​people. Suddenly Mrs. Ren Zu seemed to have discovered something: "Ana, look, is it her?" The little girl looked around, her long black hair tied up high, her eyes as blue as sea water, she nodded in agreement: "That's right, it should be her."

The couple stepped forward and patted the little girl's shoulder lightly. When the little girl turned her head, her blue eyes rolled and she immediately understood: "Hi, I'm Zhanlan."

"It really is her." Mrs. Renzu looked at her husband with a smile, and the husband also smiled.

"Has Zhanlan been waiting for a long time? I'm your mother's university senior. You can call me Uncle Renzu. This is my wife. Let's call her Aunt Renzu. We are all alumni of your mother's college days." Renzu was doing. Self introduction.

"I just got off the plane too. Hi Uncle Ninzu, Aunt Ninzu, I am sorry to cause you trouble." Zhan Lan imitated the etiquette that Japanese girls should have, and bent her waist 45 degrees.

"Zhanlan speaks Japanese really well. I was afraid that I would be unable to understand the language?" Mrs. Ninzu looked at the 14-year-old girl, with a resolute expression on her immature face.

"I learned from my father." Zhan Lan smiled slightly.

"Then let's go too. Now that we've picked you up, we'll go home." Reluctantly wanting to take the luggage from Zhanlan's hand, Zhanlan easily dodged it.

"Uncle Renzu, I'll just take it myself." Zhan Lan politely and politely rejected Renzu's proposal.

The Shinozu couple didn't say anything, and the three walked towards the car parked in the parking lot.

"Zhanlan, do you want to see Tokyo?" Mrs. Ninzu asked.

"Yeah." Zhan Lan glanced at the scenery outside the window, then turned around and replied, "I want to see the cherry blossoms that my father often mentioned."

"The blue came at the wrong time. The best season for cherry blossoms is in March, and now it's almost July, and there are no cherry blossoms to be seen." Mrs. Ninzu said with a little regret.

"Oh." Zhan Lan nodded, but did not speak.

"Uncle's family has an older brother who is studying in Tokyo. Zhan Lan will meet him tonight. There is a chance for him to take you around Tokyo." Shinozu sat in the driver's seat and said.

"Hmm." Zhan Lan was attracted by the scenery outside the window that she had never seen before.This is Tokyo where mom and dad met, knew each other, and fell in love with each other, an international metropolis with a completely different style from Shanghai.If Shanghai is the homely jade, then Tokyo is the lady of the family.

"Are Lanlan's parents okay?" Madam Renzu asked, since the last time 16 years ago, they haven't seen each other for 16 years.

"My father passed away a year ago, but my mother is fine." Zhan Lan lowered her head and said softly.

Suddenly there was no sound in the car, and Ren Zu and his wife didn't expect that it would be the last meeting of the four of them.The three of them calmed down, Zhanlan played with her fingers, Mrs. Renzu gently grasped Zhanlan's hand, and Renzu watched quietly ahead.