214. New Years in Iwate Prefecture: Going to the Seaside 11(1/2)
December 28th was the day we agreed to go see the sea.
At nine o'clock in the morning, the trio, plus primary school student Xiaolian, took an old tram with only one car and left the basin where Mizawa Village is located.
When they reached the nearest town, they changed to a bus that could reach the beach.
It was blue and cloudless, and the bus was driving under such a sky.
"Archer, Archer, a big car drove by just now!" Xiaolian tugged on Toru Watanabe's sleeve.
"Where where?"
"there!"
"Ah, I can't see it anymore. Xiaolian, please remind me earlier!"
"It doesn't matter, there will definitely be more after a while. We will call Archer then."
"Then please."
"Yes!" Xiaolian nodded firmly, like a policeman who had received an undercover mission.
She let go of Toru Watanabe and pressed against the bus window again.
Behind him, Miki Kujo looked at the two of them like she was a fool.
"Watanabe-san, have you ever considered letting Xiaolian go to Tokyo to study?" Rin Kiyono, who was also sitting behind the two of them, asked.
Watanabe Toru looked at his sister beside him. She didn't hear what Kiyono Rin said and was staring out the window intently.
Her small body was carrying yesterday's oversized kettle, which contained hot water that her mother had filled for her.
"Her parents won't go to Tokyo. I'm only a freshman in high school now, and they don't trust me. I plan to bring her to Tokyo in two years when I go to college and Xiaolian is in fourth grade." Toru Watanabe said.
"You can go to Shenghua Girls' School." Qingye Rin suggested.
Toru Watanabe only studied high schools in Tokyo for a period of time when he was in high school, and he still found the ones with the highest deviation values, let alone elementary schools that had nothing to do with him.
"How is that school?" he asked.
Rin Kiyono did not talk about the educational philosophy, introduced the history of the school, or said how advanced the facilities were. He only said lightly:
"Kujo and I went to elementary school in Shenghua."
"That's it."
Watanabe Toru could imagine that the lecture hall of this school must be very spacious, and must be made of wood, with a scary high-end style.
"By the way," he thought of something, "will Xiaolian be bullied if she goes in?"
Before Kiyono Rin could speak, Kujo Miki sneered and said:
"Your sister is my sister. Who dares to bully my sister? If you dare to touch her, I will make it impossible for her whole family to stay in Tokyo."
"Archer, look! It's a taxi. This is the first time we've seen a taxi!"
Xiaolian and Kujo Miki spoke at the same time, but Toru Watanabe didn't pay attention to Xiaolian's words.
After the taxi passed by, he looked out the window.
"Taxi? Is it a four-leaf clover taxi? Where is it?"
Xiaolian puffed up her cheeks in dissatisfaction and said loudly: "Arche, if you stay in a daze all day, you will be eaten by wild boars!"
"Sorry, sorry, Xiaolian will definitely give me another chance? I don't want to be eaten by a wild boar."
"There's really nothing we can do against you." Xiaolian sighed as if she were an adult, "Next time, you must watch it right away. Do you understand?"
"Yeah, definitely."
Xiaolian continued to open the window again, paying attention to every passing car.
After a while, no bus or taxi was seen, and the sea appeared.
Xiaolian opened her mouth and pressed her face against the car window, staring at the sea in the distance with her twinkling eyes.
"This is our first time seeing the sea." After a while, she said this.
"When summer comes, I will take you to surf on the beach in Okinawa." Toru Watanabe said.
"Surfing?!" Xiaolian looked at him in surprise, "We have seen it on TV, can we stand up on the sea too?"
"Of course, Xiaolian is the strongest first-year primary school student in the entire island country."
Xiaolian held her face in her hands and said with great admiration: "The strongest first-grade primary school student in the entire island country, he is really amazing."
"Not only surfing, I will also take you to Disneyland to see castles, Snow White, Winnie the Pooh, go rafting, and watch smoke at night..."
"I know!" Xiaolian suddenly spoke loudly.
"Huh?" Toru Watanabe asked doubtfully, "What does Xiaolian know?"
"Disneyland! Tokyo Disney is in Chiba Prefecture, just like the platypus family with only the platypus!"
"...I don't understand the connection between the two, but you must never say that Disney is from Tokyo in front of people in Chiba Prefecture, okay?"
"Why?"
"Because Chiba Prefecture hates Tokyo and wants to be Tokyo."
"Why?" Why twice, there is no change in volume or tone.
"That's a good question." Toru Watanabe nodded appreciatively, "When you figure this out, you can become the strongest elementary school student, not just in the first grade."
"Really?!" Xiaolian excitedly grabbed Toru Watanabe's clothes, the water bottle on his body was shaking, and he lay down on the seat.
"of course……"
"Fake." Rin Kiyono interrupted Toru Watanabe.
"R-san, Kiyono-san," Toru Watanabe turned around and looked at the two eldest ladies who had been listening to him and Xiaolian talking, "I am mobilizing Xiaolian's enthusiasm for learning."
Qingye Rin ignored him and said to Xiaolian:
"If you want to become the number one primary school student in the island country, you must study hard. You can't do it by stepping on your brother's ass."
"Really?" Xiaolian was frightened as if hearing it for the first time.
"Really." Qingye Rin answered without any hesitation.
This guy, if he has children in the future, will definitely tell them that Santa Claus is a fake mother.
When the bus stopped, an old woman got on. She looked at the four of them and sat at the front without interest.
The old lady sat down, and the driver wearing white gloves stepped on the accelerator of the bus.
"Only by constantly studying hard can you become the best first-grade elementary school student." After a pause, Qingye Rin continued, "Xiaolian, do you know the four largest fishing grounds in the world?"
Xiaolian shook her head: "I don't know."
"They are the Hokkaido fisheries in the island country, the North Sea fisheries in the UK, the Newfoundland fisheries in Canada, and the Peruvian fisheries in Peru." Qingye Rin asked in a persuasive way, "Have you remembered Xiaolian?"
"The island country's Hokkaido fishery, the British..." Xiaolian stretched out her little hand, pressing down a finger every time she said something.
He repeated it without any pause.
"Xiao Lian, you are a little more powerful than you were just now. You understand a little more knowledge and are closer to the strongest primary school student."
Xiaolian's eyes shone: "Really? I've upgraded?"
"Of course, you didn't know about the four major fishing grounds just now, but now you know. Most primary school students don't know this knowledge."
"We also feel that we have become stronger and our experience points have increased a lot." Xiaolian held her face in her hands and fell into narcissism.
Rin Kiyono glanced at Toru Watanabe.
'This is the correct way to encourage. By lying and deceiving, it may seem like you are educating, but in fact you are damaging your children.'
'That's what you said.'
Qingye Rin looked away with satisfaction and said to the intoxicated Xiaolian: "Xiaolian, do you know why I asked you about the four major fishing grounds?"
"Why?" Xiaolian asked.
"because……"
"That's enough." Kujo Miki, who was holding her arms, interrupted impatiently, "We are here to see the sea, not to listen to your lectures."
"Do you have any opinions?" Qingye Rin put away her pleasant expression and said with a cold face.
"When it's time to study, study hard for me. Don't spoil my fun when you're playing." Kujo Miki also had a cold face.
After speaking, she asked Xiaolian: "Xiaolian, are you serious when you study?"
"Seriously." Xiaolian is not afraid or is not old enough to care about Kujo Miki's cold face.
"If you study hard when you study, shouldn't you also relax when you play?"
"yes."
Qingye Rin was not happy and said dissatisfiedly: "When you study, you must study seriously, but you can't slack off when you play. It's like reading a book to relax. You can't finish reading without remembering anything."
"Then it's really hard for you to live." Kujo Miki sneered.
"This is also the reason why my grades are better than yours." Qingye Rin said calmly.
To be continued...