that touch of blue

Chapter 3

In the early morning, Zhanlan faintly heard the sound of the car starting, but ignored it, turned over and fell asleep again, until the melodious erhu sound from the mobile phone woke her up from sleep.Zhanlan sat up, rubbed her hazy eyes, and realized after a while that she was now in Osaka, Japan, not in Shanghai, China, and at Uncle Ninzuzu’s house in Osaka, not at her parents’ house in Shanghai.

Zhanlan scratched her hair, walked into the bathroom, and started her first day in Japan.

"Morning, Lan Lan, you got up so early, why don't you sleep more?" Mrs. Renzu sat on the sofa in the hall, drinking milk tea.

"Ah, good morning, aunt." Zhanlan was wondering why she could only see Mrs. Renzu at home alone.

"Why, are you looking for your elder brother Yushi?" Mrs. Ninzu teased.

"Ah?" Zhanlan didn't know why Aunt Renzu mentioned her son inexplicably early in the morning.

"Didn't Auntie tell you that your elder brother is going to participate in a tennis match, and your uncle has gone to the hospital, so, today, you will be accompanied by elder brother Qianye, ah, after all, he should be here soon, hurry up Let's have breakfast." Mrs. Renzu talked to herself and justified herself, and she was still muttering in her heart, son, you haven't worked hard enough, such a good daughter-in-law can't let her escape.Come on, son.

Zhan Lan didn't say anything else, she sat at the dining table, picked up a bottle of milk in her left hand, and a piece of cheesecake in her right hand.

"Ma'am, Master Kenya is here." The old housekeeper led a young man in, and Zhan Lan looked up, and his face was very similar to that of Ninzu Yushi.

"Auntie." The young man saluted humbly.

"Okay, okay, Qianye, you came just now when my aunt mentioned you to Lanlan. Sit down, and when Lanlan finishes her breakfast, you can take her around. It doesn't matter if she doesn't come back for dinner, but Be sure to send her home." Mrs. Ren Zu started to play her nagging skills again.

Shinobu Ken also looked at the girl sitting at the dining table, who was carefully wiping the corners of her mouth with a napkin, got up and left her seat, and Qian was a little stunned by her elegant movements.It wasn't until Zhan Lan walked in front of her and nodded slightly that she came back to her senses.

"Hi, I'm Zhanlan, I'm counting on you today." Zhanlan said with a smile.

"Ah, no problem, today I will take my little sister Zhanlan to travel around Osaka." Qian also replied very politely.

"Let's go, Qianye, protect Lanlan, don't let her be bullied by bad people, if Lanlan loses a hair, I will settle the score with you." Mrs. Renzu urged behind them.

"Anla, Anla, Auntie, you have nothing to worry about with me here." Renzuqian also said to Mrs. Renzu with a playful smile.

At the door, Zhanlan looked at the silver-gray motorcycle, then looked at its owner, the young man beside him, with a sense of humility.

"Beautiful lady, do I have the honor to invite you to my car?" Kenya and Yushi have the same movements and expressions.

Zhanlan smiled, tidied up her backpack, stepped on the motorcycle naturally, and looked at Qianye in front of her with Zhanlan eyes.

"Sister Lanlan, you'd better wrap your hands around my waist." The boy handed the helmet on the car to the girl behind him, put on the helmet himself, and put the sunglasses on his face.

Zhanlan held onto Qianye's clothes stiffly with her hands, Qianye smiled, started the motorcycle, lightly stepped on the accelerator, and galloped on the outing road.

"Where does Sister Lanlan want to go? Do you want me to introduce some interesting places?" Ren Zuqian also stared ahead, but he did not forget that there was a cute girl behind him. If he just ignored the girl like this, he would be hated. How could he do such a shameful thing?

"I'm not very familiar with this." Zhanlan looked at the trees gliding past on both sides, and said without any panic.

"Is Lanlan sister coming to Osaka for the first time?" Qian also took it for granted.

"This is my first time in Japan." Zhanlan replied.

"Ah? Where is Sister Lan Lan from? Aren't you Japanese?" Qian also asked in surprise.

"Shanghai, China."

"My God, your Japanese is really good, you can't tell that you are not Japanese at all?" In his impression, there are very few Chinese who can speak Japanese so fluently, except for those born in Japan.

"Learned from my father."

"Your father?" Shouldn't her father be Chinese?How can I ask her to speak Japanese?

"Yes. My father is Japanese, my mother is Chinese, and I am of Chinese-Japanese mixed race." This is the longest sentence Zhanlan and Qianye have ever said since they met.

"You grew up in China?" Qianye was even more surprised, how could the Japanese go to China?But there is no surname Zhan in Japanese surnames?

"Yeah. My father settled in China with my mother." Zhan Lan said, explaining to Qian Qian.

"Does Sister Lan Lan play tennis?" Qian also knew that this was a family matter, so it was better for him not to ask.

"No." Zhanlan said honestly.

"Youshi and I are both candidates for the school's tennis club, and we wanted to play with Lan Lanmei." Qian also said.

"Oh." Zhan Lan's tone was still so flat.

"Sister Lanlan, if you come in spring, you will be able to see the cherry blossoms all over the city, decorating Osaka Castle in an extraordinarily enchanting way. Now is not the time." Qian also fulfilled his responsibility as a tour guide, "like this Well, let me take you to see our landmark building in Osaka... the castle tower. It was built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi at the end of the [-]th century, and it can be said to be a national treasure of Japan."

The castle tower of Osaka Castle was originally built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the 12th century.In order to build Osaka Castle, he ordered the princes of the whole country to participate in the construction project.Many moats and stones of the city walls were also donated by princes from all over the country, and hundreds of thousands of laborers were used to build them with their hard work and sweat within three years.The entire 50-kilometer-long stone wall outside Osaka City is estimated to have used about 36 stones.The architectural structure of the entire Osaka Castle is divided into the inner city, the middle city and the outer city. Although the war has gone through, the two inner and outer moats and two tall stone walls are still well preserved. Only from the remaining scorched stone walls can we still recall the days of Tokugawa and Tokugawa. The tragic situation during the battle of Toyotomi.Others such as the Otemon Gate and the Domon Archery Tower are designated as important cultural properties, which are worth viewing. In addition, there is a stone about [-] tatami mats in the part of the Sakura Gate, which makes the viewers wonder. It took a lot of effort and blood and sweat to be able to stand on the stone wall with the clamps.

The Tianshou Pavilion refers to the main building body in Osaka Castle, and the current Tianshou Pavilion was built in 1931 to imitate the appearance of the Tianshou Pavilion in the Toyotomi era.On the 13-meter-high Tianshoutai stands the 39.8-meter-high Tianshou Pavilion. On the eighth floor, you can overlook the city of Osaka. The other floors display various weapons and wooden statues of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. , book slips, and battle maps showing the battles of the year with models, etc., and the life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi is depicted in the form of TV and projection. In addition, the model of Osaka Castle after restoration is also presented.In the data hall on the 2nd to 7th floors, you will be able to see the short Toyotomi Hideyoshi from a commoner to an invincible hero. His brilliant but regretful life, so the castle tower is equivalent to understanding this hero of the Japanese Warring States Period Best location.

Coming out of the castle tower, Zhanlan said: "Mr. Qianye, let's take a picture here as a souvenir."

Qian also looked at the dv in Zhanlan's hand, since she entered, her dv has not missed every scene inside, Qian also smiled and nodded: "Okay, it's my honor to take pictures with the beautiful Lanlan sister. However, Sister Lanlan shouldn't call me Qianye-jun, it should be Brother Qianye."

Zhanlan pretended not to hear this sentence, continued to play with the dv in his hand, handed it to a passerby, and said a few words to him, then pulled Qianye's clothes, and pointed to the camera in the passerby's hand.

Qian also shrugged his shoulders, and with the castle tower behind them as the background, the two left bright smiles under the bright sunlight.

"Where are we going next?" After Zhanlan thanked the passers-by, he turned around and asked Kenzu Renya who was in the engine car.

"Get in the car, I'll take you to Minami." Qian also stepped on the motorcycle and said to Zhanlan who was standing beside him.

"Minami?"

"Yeah." Qian Ye smiled so brightly that even the little girl on the side of the road said to her companion: "Wow, this boy is so sunny, it's really happy to be his girlfriend."

Her female companion said: "Keep your voice down, didn't you see his girlfriend next to him? They are a good match. The man is so handsome, and the woman is so beautiful."

Qian also heard such a conversation, and his smile was even brighter, and he could pick chrysanthemums from his face one after another.Zhan Lan sat behind him indifferently, and poked Qian Ye's back: "Why don't you leave?"

"Ah, okay, okay, let's go now, hold on tight." Qian also stepped on the accelerator, and the locomotive rushed out like an arrow off the string, kicking up a thin layer of dust.

Minami, a regional name, is a collective name for the area around Nihonbashi Subway Station in the Chuo District of Osaka City. "Minami" is an important area for city sightseeing in Osaka. There are many distinctive shops here, which are the highlights of attracting tourists.It concentrates countless restaurants, entertainment facilities, and various theaters (kabuki, bunraku, modern drama, performing arts, movies), etc. It is a representative entertainment district in Osaka.

"This is a very prosperous area. You can find a lot of delicious food and drinks here. There are also many restaurants opened by Chinese, which can compete with Yokohama Chinatown in Tokyo." Qian also parked the locomotive At a parking spot on the side of the street, I walked towards the lively area of ​​Minami with Zhanlan.

"Well, it's very busy." Zhan Lan followed Qian Ye after taking a few photos.

"Is Lanlan sister hungry?" They spent nearly two hours in the castle tower and another hour's drive, and even he was a little hungry.

"A little bit." Zhanlan also felt her stomach protesting to her.

"Then I'll take you to dinner. Sister Lanlan is from Shanghai, so she must want to eat Shanghai cuisine. Let's go to the city that never sleeps." Qian also thought about where the most famous Shanghai cuisine is in Minami.

"Okay." Zhan Lan didn't have any objections, since she was not familiar with it anyway.As long as you don't lose her, it doesn't matter what you eat, Zhan Lan threw a fruit candy into her mouth, put her hand in front of Qian Ye, let go of her fist, and there was a big white rabbit toffee lying impressively.