Who can help me find Higuchi Ichiyo's childhood friend?

The sunlight shining on the treetops is very different from that in winter. The sky is so clear and bright, as if there is a blue sea stretching in the courtyard. Unconsciously, it is already spring, the kind of "spring that seems to bring happiness". However, this spring is just the opposite, which makes people feel that it will take happiness away at once tomorrow ... Naomi moved her chair to the plum blossom tree, as if to avoid the noise at home, and just sat there blankly. My sister's marriage was decided at the end of last year. After that, Naomi suddenly hated her sister. Sister comforted Naomi in every way, feeling guilty and sad. But the more my sister does that, the more Naomi feels insincere, and the more angry she is. Today is Naomi's most feared sister's wedding day-but this day has finally arrived. Having a new brother is not a bad thing, but this happiness is far less than the pain of losing my sister who no longer belongs to me. Most of the plum blossoms have already bloomed. Maybe it's because it's in the sunny area in the east corner of the yard, where plum blossoms always bloom on the eve of People's Day. ——————————— ① The seventh day of the first lunar month is one of the five major festivals. "straight, straight." Eiko came out wearing high-toothed clogs. She craned her neck stiffly, just like cherishing a precious fragile item, carefully protecting a hairstyle named Jinwen Gao Teru Shimada (1) that was combed on her head. -Japanese women's hair style, high bun, commonly used at weddings. "Why are you so confused?" "I see ..." "Really? That's good ... hey, it's time to make up. Mr. Yamai is waiting for you. " "... it's not like I'm getting married, so I don't have to dress up so beautifully. ""well, look at you, still angry with you. " "You know, sister, you ..." The sadness and little resentment that have been suppressed in my heart have burst its banks at the moment, making her forget her dignity, burying her face in Eiko's sleeve and crying loudly. Eiko quietly hugged her shoulder and said, "I'm sorry, let's make up so that you can happily send me to get married." I have been the sister of a straight girl all my life, and I can't be the sister of others. ""you lie, lie! " "This time, after I became a member of the other family, I also had a sister who called me my sister, but that was only in name. Only Archie and I grew up drinking the milk of the same mother. We are flesh and blood sisters that no one in the world can replace, right? Do you think I can be indifferent when I see Azhi's sadness? " "Well, wouldn't it be best if you didn't get married?" "So I said, Azhi is still confused." "If I were my sister, I would never marry someone else at this time." Eiko stared at Naomi, as if embarrassed, and said, "However, after I leave, a new mother will come to our house soon. Didn't I tell you a lot? "It is said that she is a very good mother ..." "I don't want a new mother ..." "Although you say so now, it won't be long before you will like her and even forget me ..." "Sister is here, why can't the new mother come?" Eiko lowered her head, wore a thick high Teru Shimada hairstyle, and just smiled without a word. The smell of hair oil goes straight to the nostrils. She just wore heavy makeup at the wedding and white powder around her neck. If you let such a beautiful, gentle and considerate girl go to someone else's house, you will inevitably feel a big loss. However, under the comfort of her sister, Naomi finally burst into tears and jokingly said, "Sister, give me the highest salute!" " "Is it a tribute to Azhi?" "Well" "So, you will forgive me?" "Don't. Anyway, I have to bow and salute all day today, just as exercise. As for whether it is done well, I will judge. " Thinking that this childish game can only end today, Eiko felt reluctant and said, "All right." "The highest salute!" Naomi shouted very seriously, imitating the way the director of the academic affairs office gave orders when the school held a ceremony. Eiko bowed her hair and made a solemn ceremony, as if her bowed body suddenly became two and a half. The silver flat hairpin engraved with the family emblem sparkled in the sun. "Look ahead!" Naomi shouted in high spirits, but she trembled slightly at the end of the speech. I don't know why, she always thinks that her sister is so lovable, but she is so sad ... Eiko raises her red face in some pain. "Hey, it's so heavy that I can't even lift my head." "That's right. I figured it would be like that, so I deliberately screwed my sister. " "You are so bad." "Who told my sister to be so arrogant that she thought she was getting married and acted like a stranger?" "Young lady, what's wrong with you two? People who help with makeup have been waiting. " Asun was too busy to help shouting. The two sisters looked at each other and entered the room snickering. There is a mirror in the back porch, where the people in the beauty salon hang towels. Gorgeous clothes are brightly hung on folding hangers in the room, underwear, socks, thin belts and narrow belts are placed in shallow baskets, as well as belts on small sleeves and pads in kimono belts, from head to toe. There is a beautiful carved bun in the box in front of the dresser. Only this item is a relic used by the sisters' late mother when she was young. "My mother wore it in her hair when she got married, and this time I wore it again ..." On the wedding day, the memory of her mother stirred in Eiko's heart, which made her feel mixed feelings and infinite regret ... She left her family to live in another new home and constantly changed and honed herself. For this fate as a woman, it is better to regard it as a brave feat and praise it. This is a situation that men don't have to face-perhaps it can be said that it is both a great joy and a great sorrow for a woman to have a second birth in her life. "Hey, let's do the little sister's hair first." Mr. Yamai, wearing a white overalls, sat Naomi in front of the mirror and waited for his assistant to sharpen the razor. Eiko sat back and looked at her sister in the mirror with relish. "Oh, what thick black hair! ..... It won't be long before you become a beautiful bride like your sister. Just perm the hair on the side? Or perm the back hair together? " Hill looked back at eiko again and asked in a half-tone of discussion. "Yes, what does Archie think?" "Anything will do. Just look good. " "Look, you love beauty so much, but you just said I'm not getting married. You don't have to dress up against me. " Yamai, who has been traveling between families all the year round, has long been used to this kind of scene, so he said tactfully: "The other day, in a certain family, my sister said this: If you blindly compete with my sister's Japanese sentiment, you will definitely lose. Just adopt a modern style." As a result, I permed my hair and put on a topless skirt, which made people sit up and take notice ... It is said that it was at my sister's wedding table that my sister's marriage was settled. Indeed, the god of happiness is always waiting for young girls in an unexpected place ... it is important that you pay attention to your appearance at ordinary times. "He skillfully and quickly clamped the curling irons on his straight hair while doing publicity that was not without benefit to beauticians." Look, right below this is a lot of popularity. If you put on a long-sleeved kimono again, you will look taller and slimmer. ""then I'll marry instead of my sister. " "If it can be replaced, it would be great ..." "Although you say so, every time" people from Mitsukoshi Department Store come to promote sales, my sister is so excited that she puts the cloth on her shoulder for a while, then unfolds her belt and looks at it with great joy. " Eiko's face suddenly turned red and said, "Because it's a woman. Beautiful clothes will make people happy whenever they are seen. " "But I tried to pick out my sister's old clothes and wear them, and my heart was very suffocating." "Hey, you bully people again." While skillfully cutting off the straight neck hair, Yamai said, "If the sisters are going to quarrel, let's mix it up. I can't get along for a long time. Hearing this, Naomi couldn't help thinking of the days after her sister left, and suddenly felt dejected. The two sisters met in the mirror, but neither of them smiled with a long face. Bathed in the purple light in the early spring afternoon, the car went straight to the wedding venue. In the leading car, Eiko was surrounded by media people, showing off her white-collar workers and beautiful hair. Naomi, her father, and her uncle and aunt who came to help, sat in the back carriage together, tracking the beautiful image of her sister with their eyes, unable to get rid of the sad feeling of "losing her sister". Just now, my father said to my sister who had put on a bride's dress, "Eiko, you can say goodbye to your mother." From now on, you can never come back to this home. You must remember that you have no home except Thermo. "After listening to my father, my sister couldn't help crying. Seeing this, my father silently handed the towel to my sister. ..... Sister also said nothing, covered her face with a towel and stood in front of the shrine for a long time to pay homage to her mother's portrait. Naomi replayed the scene that never disappeared from her eyes over and over again on the memory screen, letting the car gallop in the street. That night-and the second and third days after that, my sister didn't come back. Maybe she will never come back, go back to the room where they have been together for many years, quarrel and make up, and make up and quarrel again. For days, Naomi stayed alone in the suddenly spacious and empty room and couldn't help crying. The most embarrassing thing for her is the school homework first. Today, she brought back her most difficult English composition topic, so that she was always nervous on the way home. After taking off her school uniform and putting on her jacket, Naomi sat helplessly at the table. Just then, someone shouted from the gate: "Naomi, Naomi-""Hello-who is it?" Betty stood up and walked past, "oh, it turned out to be a long time. Please come in, just to help me. "The happy girl with a smile is the girl next door. Her name is Kyurikiko. She is a little taller than Naomi and looks one year older, but in fact, they are the same age. Naomi went to a public girls' school, while Qing Zi went to a private girls' school. Although the schools are different, they are all good friends with the same temperament. In April, they will enter the long-awaited second grade. " After my sister left, the most headache for me was foreign language class and tailor class. ""well, it's really pitiful. You used to rely too much on your sister as if you had a tutor. Now this is a punishment. You can only work harder. " Qing Zi seriously taunted Betty. She put her foot on the edge of the sunny corridor, pointed to the bonsai discarded at random in front of the stepping stone at the door, and suddenly asked, "Oh, what is that? Is that something as lush as carrot leaves ... ""Don't you know? In the new year, they have also been taken care of in all aspects, but now they are over ... ""So, it really blooms? ""Yes, once you see these beautiful flowers, no one will take care of them anymore, so my father has always left them there. Asun pretends not to know that she cleans the dust there every morning ... If my sister were still here, these flowers and plants wouldn't suffer so much. " "Eiko is really a good man." Kiko said, as if remembering Eiko's voice and smile, "Even in our school, she is famous. Your sister, she works as a clerk at the class reunion, right? Therefore, she often goes to the teachers to discuss things. Our junior students often wander around the reception room with nothing to do, just to have a look at her beautiful predecessor and see how popular she is. " "My sister only sent me a short postcard from the place where I traveled ... and the signature was not Eiko Sen, but the name Eiko Nenben written publicly. I am very angry ... ""What a nuisance, changing my surname or something. Her name is Eiko Semoto, right? This is not a bad surname. Very lucky. If I marry Xiong Zejia or Xue Shanjia, I will resolutely protest on behalf of my alma mater. "While they were chatting, the clock struck three." Hello, please go in and have a look at my English composition. "Naomi grabbed Kiko's hand and walked into the study room." What's the problem? ""This is a free proposition. Just now, I dared to think that I wanted to write a poem with spring characteristics for the richest man. " "Poetry? Write in English? " Qing son ate a surprised way, "isn't that more difficult? ..... If you just write things like flowers, birds and flowers, and rivers flowing, it will be boring. " "No matter how much my English is worse than that of the students in the church school, it is not so pitiful." Qing Zi was amused and laughed, then sang English songs loudly. Naomi opened her notebook, suddenly wrote something on it, and then tried to erase it with an eraser. After a while, she asked kiko, "how ... is there any mistake?" "Naomi's composition is that the afternoon when the cherry shell was washed to the seaside in early spring made me feel the approach of spring more than singing flowers and birds. Spring is everywhere. But-if I create a mind that can feel spring from time to time, spring will be nowhere to be found. To translate this poem into English, it is not easy for Naomi, who has just entered the second grade, to rely on Japanese-English dictionaries anyway. " Hey, you write well. "Qing Zi was taken aback. As she read aloud, she said, "Is this also influenced by your sister?" Naomi said seriously, "Kiko ... I'm sorry, this is a passage from my sister's diary. Kiko rolled her big eyes round and round and said, "I wonder how unique this poem is." "-Eiko's diary must be very good?" "After the exam, I want to study hard during the holiday and let you watch it together." "But is it appropriate to read other people's diaries casually?" "You know, my sister gave it to me and let me see it." "I also like diaries. Nowadays, diaries of great men are often printed and published in large quantities. I saw a lot of advertisements. " "My sister said that she liked Higuchi Ichiyo's diary." —— ① Higuchi Ichiyo (1872- 1896), a famous Japanese female novelist. His main works are Childhood Friends, etc. "However, compared with the leaves, eiko is closer to us. Diary, or someone you know well, is more interesting. It's really interesting to see what she thinks and does. " "Then please wait. I will sort it out in April. " "Don't you want to bind it into a beautiful book with ribbons?" "Yes-but don't remind me of some good books. Try to handle tomorrow's English composition first. " Then two people sat opposite each other at the desk, thinking, and began to write a spring composition. The leafy marigold was abandoned in the yard where the sun was getting thinner and thinner, sighing in vain about the spring. As the saying goes, "After the scar, you forget the pain". The hard work of the exam at the end of the school year has just passed, and all that remains is the preparation for graduation ceremony and promotion. As a result, the campus began to be filled with quiet flowers ... Some anxious senior three students with "dry sisters" have already got the textbooks for the next school year and are browsing the second-grade Mandarin textbooks with smiles. It is this kind of people who, after entering the new semester, not only fail to reflect the effect of previewing textbooks, but lose their inner sense of urgency, leading to a decline in their academic performance. Zhimei school is different from missionary girls' school, because it is public, so it is difficult to take Mandarin as the main subject. This kind of public school has strict discipline and simple school spirit, and its purpose is diligence. Therefore, compared with missionary schools, the so-called "godsisters" and "same-sex close friends" are not so attractive. Even the communication on campus is completely confidential. For "Yu Sisters", although everyone pretends to be innocent, it is actually quite popular. Therefore, the school is shrouded in a rigid atmosphere. Although talented women come forth in large numbers, they lack the bright romantic color of church schools. Contrary to my married sister's lyrical character, Naomi belongs to another brave, competitive and rational character. Choosing a public school is also because of Naomi's own hobbies. If I had chosen my sister Eiko's alma mater, she could have easily entered the school, but she deliberately accepted the selection examination with a competition ratio of 7 to 1 and entered the school with a score of 1 1, which shows that she is also a talented woman. Moreover, she also chooses her friends carefully, so her close partners are almost all top students. Before the calligraphy class, An Zi handed Naomi five and a half pieces of paper and said,-Half piece of paper: Japanese calligraphy and letter writing paper, about 24 cm long and 34 cm wide. "Sen, this is the half piece of paper for you. I went to Tang Wenjin to have a look. There is no such half piece of paper as you lent me not long ago. Please make do with this so-called improved half paper. " (1) An improved half paper. Whiter and thinner than the first half of the paper. Naomi lent An Zi her own paper because she forgot to bring it not long ago. "Hey, it doesn't matter." "However, maybe I will borrow it from you. Where did you buy such a good half piece of paper? " "I have a lot of this paper at home. It may be that my sister hoarded at home to practice calligraphy. " "That kind of paper is very easy to write, so that the ink can be dipped in the paper properly. On the other hand, the color of the paper is a bit yellow, even if the handwriting is a bit lame, it can cover up the ugliness, so I am glad that you can lend it to me. " "Are you? Since you like it so much, I'll give you mine. " "Really? Then I will count the papers I need for writing. " "I ah, just have a design to use improved half paper to write. If you use this half piece of paper, the paper is too thick to extend clearly. " When he spoke, the two men exchanged five and a half pieces of paper. There was a ring at the bell Mr. Ishida, with a moustache and a slightly fat figure, came in with a big brush in his hand. People prefer to write texts. With a red pen in his hand, the teacher walked among the students' desks for a week, and then everything was normal-the rest of the time, he just stood in front of the desk on the podium and opened an old textbook to read attentively. As long as the students don't chatter, the teacher won't raise his head and scold the students. Therefore, this is a quiet and happy time. For quite some time, I could only hear students learning ink from all directions. Students who hate learning Chinese calligraphy spend a whole hour grinding ink for their friends, but they don't write a word. There are also a bunch of people pretending to be elegant copying cursive chorus of my font that is not on the copybook. "Kaoru Yosano zi (1) lady's poem with slender beautiful text annotation, I like it very much. -Xie Yehuizi (1878- 1942), a famous Japanese female singer. The representative works are "Random Hair" and "Spring Mud Collection". " Hey, do you have that poem? ""It's not mine, but it hangs on the wall of my mother's room. This song is very short. "White cloth dyed thousands of birds, the girl dare to wear pajamas in public. The student only clumsily imitated Kaoru Yosano's slender handwriting, but after writing it, it was spread to two or three other people's desks to show off. " Hey, Naomi, how big is your brush? ""number three. " "Can you write in small font?" "yes. However, I prefer to use a thick and big brush rather than a thin pen. I always feel that writing big characters is enough ... ""The teacher often says that I should write with a thick pen, but when I use a thick pen, I can't write normally. "They exchanged brushes and tried to write. At this time, they watched teacher Ishida come down from the podium to inspect the classroom. " Oh, I have to write something quickly ... "The students scrambled to knead the paper with the chorus on it, and then began to practice the words on the copybook. The teacher went to Naomi who was writing carefully and stopped. "It's not well written here. Don't write when the money arrives. Stop writing and don't let go "The teacher explained and corrected it with a red pen. After the teacher went to find another classmate, Naomi carefully practiced the words corrected by the teacher many times. " Learning Chinese characters is a kind of spiritual accomplishment. "This is a mantra that teachers often talk about. Indeed, when a person devotes himself to practicing calligraphy, he will feel that the whole mind becomes clear. " Sam, will you go to Itowa Stationery Store when you get home today? I want to buy some gauze paper (1)-"Really? If it only takes an hour, I can play with you. I want to buy something, too. " In the class, Naomi and An Zi are particularly outstanding. They agreed to go shopping together. Buy a notebook with a beautiful cover and write a beautiful diary like your sister as a memory of your girlhood-if you write your thoughts in the notebook without disguise, your heart will be full of warm sunshine. At this time, as if to break Naomi's inner reverie, the teacher's voice rang out in the classroom: "Now I will return your previous calligraphy homework to you. Kawai, Mori Miki, please help distribute! " These three students who are good at writing often follow the teacher's instructions and play the role of assigning calligraphy homework. Naomi handed it out in turn from one side. When learning Chinese characters, there is always a temple atmosphere in the classroom. I don't know who brought daffodils. You see, the white petals that are too bright have begun to wither. Naomi walked past the pillar with a vase, handing out homework to her classmates and thinking, "Yes, there will be her favorite history class tomorrow. I want to bring a bunch of beautiful flowers to my teacher. "