Old things in the south

Chapter 19 Eiko vs. Eiko——Notes from a small residence in Tokyo

On July 7 last year, Japanese Chinese professors Eisaburo Fujii, Kobayashi Yasunori, and Sugino Motoko accompanied me to Kobe for a visit, and then went straight to Tokyo by Shinkansen.Fujii and Kobayashi live in Kobe and Osaka. They shook hands with me and bid farewell to each other. I also thank them for their hard work in accompanying me for a few days.We hit it off, with a good sense of humor and fun.When I arrived in Tokyo, I was accompanied by Ms. Motoko Sugino. She is a professor at the Faculty of Letters of Keio University in Tokyo.

After a few days in Kansai, and my sketchy speech on "My Beijing Taste", now I will start anew and talk about my trip to Tokyo.

When I arrived in Tokyo, I had nothing to do, so I made an appointment early to meet Shen Jie, a little Yingzi who called me "Grandma Lin".However, in order to arrive in Tokyo, Professor Tokiko Nakayama asked me to add another "Lin Haiyin Talks about Beijing Taste" in Tokyo on the 26th, for the members of the "Lao She Research Association" who are in Tokyo and can't make it to Osaka in time.Professor Zhongshan said that after my lecture in Osaka, many members called her and said that they appreciated it very much. Since it is popular, let’s give another lecture. Fortunately, it is an old phrase, so you are familiar with it!
When I arrived in Tokyo, I stayed at the Koraku Hotel in the Japan-China Friendship Hall in the Bunkyo District, which was also run by a Chinese. When I arrived, Professor Zhongshan was already waiting at the door.Shen Jie went to Shanghai and hasn't come back yet, I hope she can come back in time.I first went to the room on the sixth floor to put down my luggage, and then Zhongshan invited us to have dinner in the Yu Garden downstairs.Worried about whether Shen Jie would return to Japan or not, her call came. It turned out that she was in a hurry to return to Shanghai because there was a Sino-Japanese cooperation program she was going to do, and she rushed to negotiate.When she asked for the address, she said she would come right away.Sure enough, it came within half an hour. Our "grandfather and grandson Yingzi" met and hugged each other, and I introduced to her two senior Chinese professors, Zhongshan and Shanye.We also called Mr. Dong Bingyue, a researcher at the Beijing Museum of Modern Literature, who was studying in Japan. It turned out that Sugino knew him, so we told him how to get to Yu Garden on the phone.It was nearly an hour before he came.In this way, everything that should come has come.Everyone chatted while eating, very happy.It was past nine o'clock after the meal, and everyone quit. They agreed on tomorrow's program. I'm going to wash my hair tomorrow, and Shen Jie will have her last exam at school tomorrow, so she asked Dong Bingyue to accompany me.Zhongshan and Sugino will come to the venue on the 26th the day after tomorrow, which will be held at Ochanomizu Women's University.After everything was settled, Shen Jie and I went back to our room to rest.I had booked an extra room for Shen Jie, so she wouldn't have to go back to her dormitory in Shinjuku.

Our grandparents and grandchildren met alone and were very happy to talk about the situation after the farewell.I met her in Shanghai in 1991, and two or three years have passed in the blink of an eye, and she is making progress in coming to Japan to study and work.The eight-year-old child star Shen Jie who became famous as Xiao Yingzi in "Old Things in the South of the City" is now 22 years old and a student of the law department of Toyo University in Japan.When I first met her in Shanghai, she was already studying Japanese and was preparing to study in Japan.It turned out that she graduated from Shanghai Fuxing Middle School (a well-known key middle school) in 1990 and was engaged in filming TV dramas. In March 1992, she went through the formalities of studying abroad to study in Japan. The host of the conversation took the test four times in total: interview, reading aloud, performance, and in front of the camera. Only after passing all of them can he officially enter.It's not easy, NHK is a well-known big TV station in Japan, once you enter, you will have a great chance of success.The show is held once a week. Shen Jie is already very beautiful on camera, but now she is even a slim girl.At this time, she applied for university entrance exams again, and ended up being admitted to the Faculty of Law at Toyo University.

I was curious, so I asked her, "Is the law department what you want to study? Doesn't Toyo University have an art department? Acting or program host is your profession!"

Xiaoyingzi smiled and said, "Grandma Lin, I voluntarily applied for the law department! You don't know, I'm the only foreign student to take the exam, and I officially became a first-year law student."

"Why do you want to study law, and why are you interested in law?"

"I'm a girl, and I'm doing film work when I'm away from home. I think I really should have legal knowledge. Self-protection is necessary, so I applied for the exam."

"So you changed your career?" I asked again.

"No, I'm still interested in movies, and I want to do some work in producing programs in the future. So I recently traveled to Shanghai, and I want to cooperate with Shanghai TV stations to plan and introduce Japan and Southeast Asia. Let's see how it goes. I have some opinions."

"Drink! Xiaoyingzi, you are really amazing. Although I, old Yingzi, come from the journalism industry, I'm quite an amateur to tell you the truth about what you're planning!"

The international student who just entered school at the age of 22 has already shown her independence in every way.And she told me that a Chinese textbook will be published at the end of the year, which is co-edited with a teacher, accompanied by audio tapes, and read in Chinese and Japanese.

Xiaoyingzi Shen Jie is from Shanghai. She started filming at the age of five. She first acted in Shanghai opera. When she was eight or nine years old, she went to apply for an actor. It happened that director Wu Yigong was looking for an actor for Yingzi for "Old Things in the South of the City". Among the young actors in the play, I found this little girl with beautiful features, neat white teeth, and a full smile, so I pulled her out to audition, but I didn't expect to win the test. In fact, Shen Jie was going to apply for other four plays that time, and all Passed the exam!Look at this little girl's tricks!In this way, her future was determined, and she became famous in one fell swoop!
Our grandparent and grandson "Yingzi" talked too late. After washing and grooming, we went back to bed so that we could get up early tomorrow.

The next day was the 25th, and it was agreed that Dong Bingyue would come to accompany me. After I finished shampooing and doing my hair in a nearby beauty salon, I would sit and wait for Dong Bingyue and Xiaoyingzi to accompany me.But there was no sign of Bingyue after waiting, so Xiaoyingzi and I watched a bald male customer being put on a wig by the barber. Xiaoyingzi and I kept covering our mouths and laughing, almost bursting out of laughter!Fortunately, Bingyue had arrived at this time, and he was still like yesterday, taking countless detours from the dormitory to arrive.At this time, Shen Jie hurried to the school to take the exam, and Bingyue went back to the hotel with me. They were still downstairs in the Yu Garden and chatted in the room after eating.We talked very happily, because when I was in Beijing, I was not familiar with the group of young scholars in the Museum of Modern Literature, so we seldom talked like this.He is the one who selects Zheng Qingwen's works and gives them a high evaluation. Because the review is too long, it was not published in two issues of "Little Lion Literature and Art" until recently.

After six o'clock, Shen Jie came back from the exam. She went back to her dormitory to change clothes, and then brought some biscuits, fruits and other snacks for "Grandma Lin".This kid really misses me!The three of us went to a small restaurant nearby to eat sushi, and then went to a small noodle shop opposite to eat noodle soup, both of which were good.During the chat at dinner, Shen Jie asked Bingyue what she does every day?Where have they been, Bingyue replied, I just study in the house every day.Who would have thought that Shen Jie would criticize him, saying that if you want to study, you can also study in Beijing, so why come to Japan to study?The small mouth is really powerful, Bingyue didn't expect Shen Jie to be so chatty at such a young age, and she can speak clearly and clearly, with a promising future, Bingyue can only sigh to herself.We chatted while eating, and it was already late after eating, so everyone agreed to meet at the meeting tomorrow.

The lecture venue on the 26th was held at the Sakurain Hall of Ochanomizu Women's University.It was supposed to start at 12:30 p.m., but Professor Zhongshan was impatient and sent her student Sugino to pick it up at [-]:[-].Shen Jie also made an appointment with her good friend, a Japanese student from Beijing, to go with her.Like Wang Xin from Taiwan, Yu has been studying photography in Japan for five years. Bingyue has dated three girls who also teach Chinese. They help move tables and chairs and set up snacks.

At 30 o'clock, there were about 30 people present, and Ms. Hiramatsu, a researcher in Osaka, also came and served as the moderator.Originally, Professor Sun Yat-sen thought that there would be only a dozen people, but he did not expect that there were more than [-] people present with the addition of tables and chairs.At the beginning, Nakayama Tokiko still introduced me, always complimenting my clothes first.I know that she also likes Chinese clothes very much. I have seen her several times, no matter in Taiwan or Japan, she always dresses in authentic Chinese style, very graceful and magnanimous.I also introduced Shen Jie and Yu Qian. Shen Jie got up to speak very well, and everyone appreciated it.In the front, he held the camera to take pictures.

Well, I started posting maps, setting up props, and still talking about my "Lin Haiyin talks about Beijing flavor", which is very familiar, and it is much easier to say.I mainly finished talking for more than an hour, then I talked casually and asked each other questions, and it ended after four o'clock.The prosperity of Zhongshan is still unfinished, and more than 20 people were invited to the coffee shop next door for a discussion, and everyone became more familiar with talking about freedom.It was after six o'clock that everyone reluctantly said goodbye, and Zhongshan also agreed that I would like to come to Japan to talk about it next time I have the opportunity.I said yes, and when it comes to Beijing, I still have something to talk about, don't talk about Sanzongbao, courtyard houses, and snacks.

Shen Jie and I were a little tired when we returned to the hostel, so we took a short nap until 07:30 before going downstairs to eat something, and then went upstairs to change clothes before going to sleep.At around nine o'clock, Professor Zhongshan called again. She said that she had some appointments with some people tomorrow, and she would come and pick up sushi at six o'clock. Sushi is my favorite, and Zhongshan is really good to me.It's a pity that Shen Jie can't go because she has an appointment with a friend to discuss going to mainland China to film and produce films. She is really strong and her future is limitless.The two of us made an appointment with Yu Qian’s younger sister again and went to the Mitsukoshi Department Store in Shinjuku to buy some things to bring back to Taiwan before dinner. I haven’t bought Japanese products for many years. It’s nothing more than parasols, handkerchiefs, socks, etc., but they are the same. Chen Zhifan suggested that I buy something when it arrived—a writing brush.I found it too, and bought dozens of them.Then the three of us went to the restaurant to eat unagi rice.I have eaten unagi many times in Japan, and every time I would say in my heart: "This is a product of our Taiwan!" Very proud.I also asked her to buy me a top-notch, latest miniature point-and-shoot camera, and she really bought me a Ricoh brand, which can be held in the palm and thrown into a small purse. It's cheap, and it's worth it.

The next day, I was invited by myself to reserve a seat at a Japanese restaurant named "Fukusuke" in Zhongshan, and there were many people waiting in line!After we ate, we took a group photo in front of the door of "Fuzhu", and then parted happily and unwillingly.Zhongshan still sent me back to the hotel.

Tomorrow will return!
So far, Japan has come to an end.The next day, Shen Jie and Yu Qian sent me to the airport.When I boarded the plane, the sky was still so clear, and the wind sent me to Taipei.Although the temperature in Taipei is the same, when you leave the Chiang Kai-shek Airport, something is wrong with the air—it’s just dirty, but fortunately I’m used to it.Long time no see, I still miss it!
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