The Pentium Era - South to North

It was almost ten o'clock when Zhang Xiangbei and Lao Qiao woke up. They went to the restaurant to have breakfast. They didn't see their sister. Only Lao Qiao's mother was there. Zhang Xiangbei looked around and Lao Qiao said to his mother. After saying a few words, he turned around and said to Zhang Xiangbei:

"There was an emergency at my sister's company and I asked her to go back. My sister said if you have any questions, just call her."

Zhang Xiangbei nodded and said yes, feeling relieved for a long time. Fortunately, his sister had left. Otherwise, he would be a little embarrassed to face her again today.

For some reason, Zhang Xiangbei felt a little empty in his heart when his sister left. He knew that his sister definitely didn't leave in such a hurry because of something happening in the company.

While thinking this way, Zhang Xiangbei's sister's gentle smiling face appeared in his mind again.

After breakfast, Lao Qiao led Zhang Xiangbei around, and then went to the homes of two other cattle farmers. Their cattle sheds were roughly the same as those of Lao Qiao’s house. As my sister said, raising cattle There is a very strict process and rules.

When he got home, it was almost one o'clock. After a brief lunch, Zhang Xiangbei began to read the report written by Lao Qiao. Lao Qiao said that his brain was empty and he needed a rest, so he fell down and fell asleep.

Laoqiao's report was written in Japanese. Zhang Xiangbei didn't understand Japanese, so he used translation software to translate it into English with one click. The translation was full of grammatical loopholes. Zhang Xiangbei struggled to read it. It was hard to finish it and his eyes were dazzled. I fell down on the tatami and slept for a while. When I fell asleep, my sister's shadow was all in my dreams, and I even dreamed that I and my sister were having an affair.

Zhang Xiangbei was frightened and woke up in a cold sweat. However, he felt a little unwilling to wake up. He scolded himself as a beast and then a gangster. His mouth was dry and he picked up a bottle of water. He drank it in a gulp.

Zhang Xiangbei looked at his watch. It was already three o'clock, and Lao Qiao was still sleeping like a pig. Zhang Xiangbei kicked Lao Qiao awake and said to him:

"Aren't you leaving today? It's already three o'clock, why aren't you leaving yet?"

Lao Qiao muttered "It's still early", turned over, and fell asleep again. Zhang Xiangbei also fell down. He wanted to sleep but didn't dare to sleep. He wanted to continue dreaming about his sister but was afraid of dreaming. He opened his eyes and watched. He didn't know how he finally fell asleep while leaning against the ceiling.

When Zhang Xiangbei woke up again, he was woken up by Lao Qiao. He didn't have any dreams this time. Zhang Xiangbei was feeling lucky in his heart. Lao Qiao said:

"You're so noisy when you're asleep."

"What's wrong with me?" Zhang Xiangbei asked.

"You are calling someone." Lao Qiao said.

Zhang Xiangbei suddenly became nervous. He was afraid that he was calling his sister in his dream, so he quickly asked Lao Qiao: "What is my name?"

Lao Qiao smiled and said: "You called it in Chinese, how do I know?"

Zhang Xiangbei sighed secretly.

Lao Qiao and Zhang Xiangbei said, "Let's go, it's almost time."

Zhang Xiangbei looked at the time. It was already past four o'clock and asked, "Where should we go at this time?"

"Good place." Lao Qiao smiled mysteriously at Zhang Xiangbei.

This time they took a different path than when they came here. Zhang Xiangbei judged from the railroad tracks and the sea that flashed out from time to time on the roadside that they should have been walking along the seaside. The blue sea that flashed out from time to time, It should be the Sea of ​​Japan.

The car drove for more than half an hour, and the shadow of a small town appeared in front. Lao Qiao and Zhang Xiangbei said, we have arrived and we will stay here for the night.

"Where is this?" Zhang Xiangbei asked.

"Jorosaki." Old Hashi said, "It's a famous hot spring place in Japan."

"It doesn't seem to be far from your home?"

"Yes, it is in the north of Toyooka City, and our home is in the south, only more than ten kilometers apart in the middle." Laoqiao said.

Lao Qiao parked the car outside the town, and the two of them walked in with backpacks on their backs. As soon as they entered the town, Zhang Xiangbei fell in love with it. There was a river in the middle of the town. Lao Qiao and Zhang Xiangbei said, This river is called Daxichuan.

Weeping willows are planted on both sides of the Daxi River. There are bridges across the river, including stone, wooden, and cement bridges. There are lanterns standing on the stone and wooden bridge ends. There are lanterns installed on the pillars of the railings by the river. A square street lamp with Ukiyo-e style paintings painted on it, depicting the scenery of Kinosaki.

When Zhang Xiangbei saw the scenery here, he immediately felt that it was very similar to the Mishi riverside.

However, there are streets on both sides of the river here, and the streets are lined with restaurants, shops and public hot spring baths.

What surprised Zhang Xiangbei the most was that the men, women, and children on the street were all wearing clogs and various styles of yukata, and were holding small bags in their hands, which contained a change of clothes and toiletries. It was obvious at a glance that this place was. It is a hot spring town, or a bathing town. People walking on the street seem to be leisurely at home.

"The main entrance is the station, the living room is the hotel, and the corridor is the main road. The hot spring street as a whole serves the tourists who come for hot spring recuperation. The spirit of coexistence and common prosperity has always been carried forward here," said Lao Qiao and Zhang Xiangbei.

"There are a total of seven unique public bathhouses in Kinosaki. For tourists here, a tour of the public bathhouses is an essential item, that is, soaking in all seven public bathhouses. The people you see , they are all on a foreign soup parade." Laoqiao added.

They walked to a two-story house in the middle of the street. Lao Qiao led Zhang Xiangbei in. This house was very similar to a B\u0026B in China. There was a small front hall at the entrance. Entering the front hall, on the right hand side Next to it is a wooden shelf, with pairs of wooden clogs placed on the shelf for guests to choose.

The front hall is small but very exquisite. Lao Qiao must be an acquaintance here, a woman who looks like a boss lady. She smiled and bowed to them when she saw them coming in.

The two of them got a card from the landlady. Lao Qiao and Zhang Xiangbei said that with this card, they could go to all the soup restaurants on the street to enter for free. Zhang Xiangbei nodded, which understood why he said a The town is just one store.

The landlady also gave Zhang Xiangbei a tour guide map, which showed the introduction of seven foreign restaurants. Lao Qiao and Zhang Xiangbei said that each foreign restaurant has a commemorative medal, and tourists take this to go to a restaurant. Put a commemorative medal on it.

Behind the front hall is a garden, and there is a hot spring bath in the garden. Lao Qiao and Zhang Xiangbei said that each hotel has its own bath, but everyone still likes to go to the outer hot spring, and cruising the outer hot spring is the most interesting.

They went upstairs from the stairs next to the garden. Zhang Xiangbei and Laoqiao were two adjacent rooms. The room was not luxurious, but it was clean and tidy. There was a window facing the street outside. Zhang Xiangbei walked to the window. In front of him, he saw weeping willows, Daxichuan and the streets on both sides. Zhang Xiangbei fell in love with this room instantly.

The two people put down their luggage, put on the yukata and clogs prepared by the hotel for them, and went out to go on a tour. As they walked, Lao Qiao introduced Zhang Xiangbei:

"Josaki has been very famous since the Heian period. It has a history of more than 1,300 years. It was called 'Tajima hot spring' in ancient times. In the Edo period, Kinosaki hot spring was rated as 'the best spring in the sea', which is also the No. 1 hot spring in Japan." A spring.

"Due to geographical reasons, aristocrats and literati from Osaka and Kyoto like to come here to recuperate. However, it was the representative writer of the Shirakaba School in modern Japan, Shiga Naoya, who made this place known throughout Japan when he was recovering here in 1917. Based on his own understanding of life, he wrote the famous article "In Kinosaki", which made Kinosaki famous far and wide."

Lao Qiao said, remembering, he said let's go, I will take you to the first outdoor soup.

Zhang Xiangbei followed Lao Qiao and walked forward on the street with clogs clattering. The girls passing by them all smelled very good, the fresh breath after just taking a bath. Watching them The figure walking in front, the girl puts on clogs and walks with a very enchanting posture.

Lao Qiao took Zhang Xiangbei to a bathhouse not far from where they lived. The building of this bathhouse was very inconspicuous. It was a low house, huddled between the two houses on the side. They squeezed in, and there was a willow tree as thick as an arm at the door.

Lao Qiao pointed to the willow tree and said, "Brother, look at this willow tree."

Zhang Xiangbei looked up and down the willow tree, but didn't see anything special. Zhang Xiangbei asked:

"What's so special about it?"

"It was moved from other places. Do you know where it was moved from?" Lao Qiao asked.

Zhang Xiangbei shook his head and said, "How could I know? Don't lie."

"West Lake, your West Lake in Hangzhou was moved here. It is said that the hot spring water here flows from under this willow tree. Did you see that this outdoor hot spring restaurant is called 'Liu Tang'?"

"I'll go, I'm still a fellow countryman!" Zhang Xiangbei looked at the willow tree again and asked, "Should I hold it and cry bitterly?"

"It should be." Lao Qiao said seriously with a straight face.

The two of them swiped their cards to enter. Liutang has outdoor and indoor pools. Along the way, Zhang Xiangbei was still worried whether the public bathrooms here were for men and women. If so, they would still feel awkward. After arriving here, they found out that there were "men's" pools. Soup” and “Female Soup”.

Zhang Xiangbei breathed a sigh of relief and asked Lao Qiao, is there no pool where men and women can bathe together?

"Do you like men and women bathing together?" Lao Qiao asked, "Then when you go back in the evening, I will ask the landlady to call it for you. It can be done in the hotel's hot spring room. There are no public bathrooms for men and women to bathe together now."

Zhang Xiangbei said quickly: "No, no, I just heard you say it before and I'm just curious."

"I don't know when it will slowly disappear." Laoqiao said, "When we were in junior high school, it was common for men and women to bathe together. Now, like me in Tokyo, there are still such soup houses, but you have to look for them specially. ."

You must soak naked in the soup pool here. Before entering the pool, there is a vat and ladle at the entrance. Two people need to take the ladle and bathe themselves before entering the pool.

The pool was filled with mist, and Zhang Xiangbei was still half-lying there. As soon as he closed his eyes, everything about last night was vividly in his mind. Zhang Xiangbei felt a little sad as he recalled the gentle sobs.

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