Yamei, this is actually a Japanese name, which Yamei took after she arrived in Japan. As for her original name, it doesn't matter anymore. If you mention the original name again, people won't associate it with real people. However, Yamei always remembers clearly in her heart that her name is Huang Sitang, and even if others forget it, this name will always be remembered in her heart.

It has been sixteen years since Yami came to Japan. In the sixth year, she met her current husband, Yasushi Sagong, and got married in less than a year. Yasui is a native of Tokyo and has several old houses in Chiyu. After the marriage, Yasui said that Yamei should not go out to work again, and Yamei became a full-time wife. The relationship between the two is not hot, because neither of them wants to have children, so Yamei is idle most of the time.

Get up early to make lunch for Anjing, then clean up the house, go to the neighbor's house to chat, or read some books at home, and then wait for Anjing to come back. This is the arrangement of Yamei's day.

Later, Laijing was promoted to the deputy general manager of the branch, so he stopped taking lunch, became busy with his work, and had more entertainment. He often came back late, and Yamei was already asleep when he came back. Yamei doesn't need to make lunch for Anjing any more, and she doesn't need to wait for Anjing to come back.

Sometimes, when Yasui feels alienated from Yamei, she will accompany Yamei to the shopping mall on weekends to buy something for Yamei and express her apologies. Speaking of which, there are several pieces of clothes that Yasushi bought for Yamei, and he has never seen Yamei wear them, because he is so busy that he only has time to see his wife on weekends.

sometimes, when Yasushi is busy at work even on weekends, overtime is added to his home. On weekends, Anjing spent two days facing the computer, holding remote meetings, processing documents and materials, and sending and receiving emails. At this time, Yamei will stay at home, not going anywhere, just quietly making coffee for Anjing. When Anjing is working, drinking coffee is like drinking water, and it always feels insufficient.

Yamei thinks it is a pleasure to make coffee for Anjing. Every time, she will cool the coffee to the right temperature, draw all kinds of favorite pictures, and then give it to Anjing. At this time, Anjing's coffee cup just bottomed out. However, Yasushi rarely sees what Yami painted, and even if he did, he would instantly forget it.

Yamei's house is in Muzhi Street, which is just an alley. The houses in the alley were all handed down from the past, and they were preserved because of their traditional colors. There are many old trees in the alley, and flowers often bloom. Yamei saw it, so she asked someone to make a small fence at her door, and then planted some flowers and plants she liked in it. So, when spring comes in this alley, you can see that plum blossoms bloom first, then peach blossoms and cherry blossoms. When the cherry blossoms are in full bloom and the branches are sprouting green buds, the wisteria flowers are fragrant again. After a while, the azaleas will report for duty, and then in the rainy season, calamus will bloom, hydrangea will bloom, and then cherries and peaches will take turns to play, and so will the four seasons.

when Mrs takeda next door saw her, she also asked someone to make a fence. Yami also took care of her fence, and later connected the two fences into one. In this alley, Mrs. Takeda and Yami are the closest. Mrs. Takeda looks completely different from Yamei. They stand together, one thin and one fat, one tall and one short, one white and one black, one beautiful and one ugly. Actually, Mrs. Takeda is not ugly, but she is a bit like a sumo wrestler. She always looks angry and arrogant on her face, and naturally feels a little fierce. But one thing is the same, that is, neither of them has children.

People who like to eat may not be fat, but fat people generally like to eat, and Mrs. Takeda is no exception, but Mrs. Takeda can't cook. Mrs. Takeda has a generous personality and has always held a contemptuous attitude towards the rules of traditional Japanese women. When she was young, Mrs. Takeda did some cooking, but she never did it again because it tasted bad. Both husband and wife ate out.

at the corner of muzhi street, there is an old Guandong cooking shop, which has been going on for forty years. When Mrs. Takeda was a child, she often came here to eat, and later married here (it is not known whether she married here to eat this Guandong cooking). She is a frequent visitor, and often uses Guandong cooking instead of three meals a day.

Guandong cooking is packed in a big pot, which is always steaming. It is a good place to go in cold days. There are no seats in the shop, but often before the sun goes down, there are people standing here at the door of the shop, eating a bite of Guandong and drinking a little wine. Takeda often stood at the gate of the old Guandong cooking shop with Yami, chatting while eating Guandong cooking. Mrs. Takeda is an "old man" in Muzhi Street. In this old Guandong cooking shop, there are many stories that Mrs. Takeda knows clearly in her heart. When it's not cold, Mrs. Takeda and Yami come over in the evening. Mrs. Takeda's story goes from alley to alley, and the story of coming together from elementary school to eat Guandong cooking goes to graduation from middle school and university, and Yami quietly listens to these stories until the last two of them help the clerk collect the stalls together. And then go home separately.

"Maybe you can learn tea ceremony. You should learn. After all, the tea ceremony originated in China. " Mrs Takeda suddenly said this to Yami one day. But isn't the tea ceremony an old traditional craft?

Yamei really can't understand why she always "brushes" the tea in the tea bowl until it bubbles, and then takes it up and drinks it. What's the difference between frothing like coffee and painting on it? Isn't coffee better?

But Yami decided to learn the tea ceremony, because Mrs. Takeda said that there were many things related to Chinese culture in the tea ceremony. It's never wrong to learn something related to Chinese culture.

One day, at the gate of the old Guandong cooking shop, Mrs. Takeda asked Yamei, "Is the tea ceremony fun? How did you learn? "

"I thought it might be like that before I went, but I felt completely different after I went. There are too many rules in the tea ceremony, and the learning methods are different from the current school teaching methods. It's a bit like a private school in ancient China. It just teaches you to do it blindly, and then you can naturally experience your own experience after doing more. "

"in this way, you should also have some experience."

"I just went there now, and it's not much experience. We study and have tea ceremony in the teahouse. There is a niche where some calligraphy and painting will be hung, and it will change every time. I am interested in this because these calligraphy and paintings are written in Chinese characters. "

"What Chinese characters are there?"

"Some of these paintings have only one Chinese character, and some have more, from one character to fourteen. I have been there several times, and I have seen Chinese characters' dream',' have tea',' every day is a good day' and' no one has a bright moon and a cool breeze'. "

"What's the point?"

"These are some Zen sayings, some of which I don't quite understand. Like this' every day is a good day', that is to say, every day is a fresh day and should be treated with heart. And' whose home has no bright moon and cool breeze' is the eyebrow criticism of' every day is a fine day', which is used to explain this sentence. There is also a similar saying called' whose kitchen is smokeless'. The teacher's explanation is very profound and I can't understand it. But I just feel that these words are appropriate to life, the triviality of life, and the pressure of life is everyone's. There is an old saying in China that' every family has its own difficulties', which means that ordinary life should be spent with a normal heart. "

"that's quite reasonable."

"By the way, there is another one called' Nothing in my heart is wider than a bed'. The teacher said that when we are in prosperity, we should not be greedy, demanding too much, and when we are in adversity, we should not be resentful and angry because life is not satisfactory. What the teacher said is very reasonable, and every time the teacher teaches us the tea ceremony, he integrates the truth here instead of deliberately explaining it, so I understand it much easier and see through life a lot. "

"It seems that the tea ceremony has many benefits. When you mention it, I remember one thing. Do you know that the Jinggu family has moved to a new woman named Xing Zi? "

"I don't know. Is there a problem?"

"This is what Igawa told me. Xing Zi is a distant relative of hers. I have been married for ten years, and I have given birth to five children. The eldest is almost ten years old, and several children are at school. The youngest is only over two years old. Xing Zi: Her husband was laid off recently, and they had a little argument because of financial difficulties at home. I don't know, with his five children, drove into the lake together and committed suicide. It's pathetic that six lives were lost in such an instant. Before he threw himself into the lake, he sent a message to Xing Zi, saying that he was sorry for her and asked her to remarry. You said that there is no obstacle in this world. If you bite your teeth, you will get through it. Why do you have to escape in this way? If he had studied the tea ceremony and understood what you just said,' nothing is wide in his heart,' he would certainly not have done such a stupid thing. "

"What a poor man, but why take the children to commit suicide?"

"He didn't want to keep the children to drag Xing Zi down. It is also a seed of infatuation, but this infatuation is too heavy. After this happened, Xing Zi also wanted to go with her husband, but fortunately she was persuaded. Now that I have moved to Jinggu's home, it can be regarded as healing. "

"I'm really sorry. She should also learn tea ceremony, which can make people's hearts soft and strong. "

It's hard to understand the world, but life keeps flowing at the same time, and people can't help sighing. In winter, the weather is very cold. Mrs. Takeda, pulling Yamei to talk at the door of the warm Guandong old shop, showing the recently collected talk, and asking Yamei about her tea ceremony first is naturally indispensable.

"Tea ceremony can actually be regarded as a way of practice for non-religious people. There is a saying in China that' martial arts should be practiced first, while calligraphy should be practiced first'. This tea ceremony is not only a matter of cultivating morality, but also mind. Tea ceremony cultivates people's sentiments, and it is born from the heart and can also be reflected in appearance and manners. "

In fact, Yamei doesn't want to talk too much. Learning tea ceremony makes Yamei's mood gradually happy. It is a sense of beauty in life, but at the same time, I gradually lose interest in such things as small talk.

Yami is happy to share the spirit of tea ceremony with Mrs. Takeda, but Mrs. Takeda didn't realize that Yami was absent-minded when she was gossiping.

there are more than a dozen people at the entrance of the old Guandong cooking shop. They are old customers. The whole family immigrated to the United States, and this time they came back to Japan to eat this long-cherished Guandong cooking. The smell of Guandong cooking is constantly fluttering in the air. Mrs. Takeda thinks this is the taste of food, and Yamei feels a bit like home. In the eyes of that family, this is the taste that cannot be dispersed in the heart.

The adults in that family said, "It's really delicious, but it's a pity to eat it once less."

The child said, "Then we learn how to cook Guandong, and then go back to the United States to cook the same delicious Guandong. Can we eat it often soon?"

The adults replied in a wise voice, "You are too young to understand these things."

In order to make room for this family, the chat between Mrs. Takeda and Yami ended in a hurry. Mrs Takeda went home, and Yami wandered down the street.

aimless footsteps, like cherry blossoms swaying in the wind, are stepping here at this moment, but they don't know which direction they will go next. Yamei is still thinking about the happy smile of the family and humming her favorite hometown nursery rhyme when she was a child.

At this moment, a familiar melody came from my ear. It was Yamei's favorite song as a teenager, beyond's Broad Sky. I am very familiar with it, but on the street of this foreign land, it is not the voice of my hometown because it is sung in Japanese.

Yamei can also sing "Broad Sky" in Japanese, but Yamei thinks she should sing it in Cantonese at this time. Yamei looked at the street singer at the intersection, stopped in front of him and sang along in Cantonese.

After singing the main song in Japanese, the vagrant artists, like Yamei, also sang the chorus in Cantonese. Yami feels that she may have an illusion, but it won't be an illusion. This is the voice of my hometown, and this is the taste of my hometown that Yamei can't drift away from her heart.

that familiar melody, like a warm spring breeze, blew into Yamei's heart in this cold winter, melting the glacier in Yamei's heart and making Yamei's eyes like a flood that burst its banks.

In this colorful Japanese street, Yamei's voice choked up and her tears surged. I don't know if it is an illusion. Through tears, the lights of the city are gradually blurred. Yamei seems to see a distant hometown, and the familiar melody echoes in her ears.

Forgive me for my unrestrained love and freedom in my life

I will also be afraid that I will fall down one day

I will be abandoned. Anyone can

That will be afraid that one day it will be just you * * * me

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