Chapter 232

The Japanese girls in kimono became the most attractive sight in the festival, and even though they were hiding and tucked away in the corners, the students around them had no trouble seeing them.

Still in their midst were Ms. Yang and Ms. Sakai, whom she was dragging along with her.

Ms. Sakai was sitting in the room, listening to the music of the festival in the distance and looking at the light over there. Although this was a foreign country and the music was different from that of her home, she would like to imagine it as a festival of her home.

At that moment, Ms. Yang came knocking on the door with a group of schoolgirls in tow. They had come to borrow the yukata they had made in class, and were ready to change before they went to play in the festival.

Ms. Sakai graciously lent the yukata, and helped them re-brush their hair and put on their Tomodachi.

“Have fun, youth only comes once.” Ms. Sakai said with a sigh.

Yang Yuyan felt that only a few schoolgirls were not enough, the more insurance the better, so she went up to Ms. Sakai and urged her to come along. The other Japanese female students also felt that one more teacher is better than none, so they came up to persuade Ms. Sakai to go with them, and with three or two persuasions, they pulled Ms. Sakai on board.

Ms. Sakai changed her clothes and combed her hair before returning to the festival with them.

It was getting late, and some of the nearby villagers with children had gone back, leaving the rest to be energetic students.

Dancing ignited their enthusiasm, and the dance floor became more and more crowded.

Yang Yuyan pushed the Japanese schoolgirls to join her on the dance floor: “Don’t be shy, you’re only young once.”

Ms. Sakai took the lead, she was the first one to go down to dance, and although she had no partner, she danced to the music by herself and had a good time.

Seeing this, the other Japanese female students in kimono also followed down to the dance floor, like chicks following their mother hen, neatly lined up behind Ms. Sakai, dancing with her.

Yang Yuyan looked at them for a while before realizing that what they were dancing seemed to be a Japanese folk dance.

The Japanese male students also noticed what was going on over here and all gathered around, one after another. The line of dancers grew longer and longer.

But the best dancer was of course Ms. Sakai, who led the dance at the front, not to mention that she was so old and wearing a kimono that was not very convenient for her to move around in, but she lifted her hands and twirled her hands in a crisp, clean, and beautiful movement.

Yang Yuyan ran over and handed her a fan, saying with a smile, “Ms. Sakai, take the fan and dance!”

Although the fan was just an extremely cheap white doughnut fan that could not be used for fanning, in Ms. Sakai’s hands it became something that added to her charm, as she twirled this doughnut fan around her face, covering half of her face, her whole person looked different, and her wrinkled, aging face exuded charisma as if it were a supreme beauty.

The western social dance and the eastern Japanese dance were both exotic dances to the students, everyone was originally curious about foreign ones and were happy to learn foreign things, otherwise they wouldn’t have entered the university.

So the surrounding students didn’t have any slights against these dancing Japanese, instead they moved the place aside and let them continue to dance.

The band playing the music also changed their tunes, leaving only the two who were manipulating the strings and beating the drums still playing.

Yang Yuyan found Su Chunjun and walked over to him, saying, “How’s it going?”

Su Chunjun bent down and whispered in her ear, “Don’t turn around, Yamamoto and the others are right behind you at nine o’clock.”

Yang Yuyan took his arm, like he was pampering her, and whispered, “When did he come?”

Su Chunjun: “After you came back, just in time.”

Yang Yuyan breathed a sigh of relief.

Su Chunjun: “However, I didn’t see the principal.”

In this situation, it was impossible for Principal Tang not to come, so it could only be that he was tripped up.

The Japanese couldn’t afford to be negligent, and without Principal Tang to help underwrite the situation, they could only come on their own.

Yang Yuyan clenched her teeth, took a white fan and ran in as well, following at the end of the group and dancing the Japanese dance together.

Among the group of Japanese students, she was not the first Chinese student to enter the dance floor, there had long been quite a few male and female students who had a good feeling towards their Japanese classmates, or not so much bad feelings towards them, went in and danced with them.

Art has no borders, although people are not much interested in Japanese dance in class, but in the current atmosphere, the attraction of dancing together is too strong, the more people dance, the more people will come in to dance with them.

Yang Yuyan dancing along with her was like a signal that at least the students of the Charity Foundation were willing to share the pain and suffering of Yang’s adulterer – in the meantime, they had developed the conditioned reflex to follow without asking why, and to do it first.

Dancing Chinese students more and more, soon the number of students exceeded the Japanese students, Ms. Sakai dance to the end of some tired, want to stop, a turn around to see the long queue behind them, startled.

Ms. Kobayashi, who was jumping right behind her, reminded her in a low voice, “Ms. Sakai, you can’t stop, this is a great opportunity for us to prove ourselves to Mr. Yamamoto! Come on, keep jumping!”

Ms. Sakai had no choice but to keep jumping, while asking in a low voice, “Is Mr. Yamamoto coming?”

Ms. Kobayashi: “Yes, he’s here, and Principal Tang specifically asked someone to let us know. I went to look for you, but there was no one in the room, so I guessed you had already come over.”

Ms. Sakai held on for another half hour, unable to dance anymore before she retreated.

Seeing this, Yang Yuyan immediately rushed to the front of the group, bravely standing and bouncing at the front regardless of whether she could dance or not. But it doesn’t matter, most of the dancers are Chinese students, they can’t tell if they are good or bad, the remaining Japanese students can dance this kind of dance is not much, surprisingly, there are still some people who learn from Yang Yuyan, dancing in a strange way.

Ms. Sakai was watching from below and kept frowning, “This student Yang, she really should be trained properly.”

Ms. Kobayashi was already very fond of Yang Yuyan, even though student Yang was a prick, perhaps taming this prick wouldn’t be a higher sense of accomplishment? And having watched with his own eyes as her favor towards Japan grew day by day, this time even taking the initiative to hold a festival to comfort her Japanese classmates, he felt that this Chinese schoolgirl had already fallen head over heels for Japan.

At that moment, a man came to inform them that Mr. Yamamoto was invited.

Ms. Sakai and Mr. Kobayashi both hurriedly stood up and followed.

Mr. Yamamoto was standing on a high ground behind the crowd and had a clear view of the dancing crowd in front of him.

Ms. Sakai and Ms. Kobayashi approached him and greeted him respectfully, “Mr. Yamamoto, greetings from a long time ago.”

Yamamoto was holding a bamboo skewer with three potato balls skewered on it, which were boiled and had a briny flavor.

He took a bite and asked Ms. Sakai, “This kind of Hanami gnocchi, is that what you teach the Chinese students here?”

Ms. Kobayashi looked at it and answered quickly, “Reporting to Mr. Yamamoto, it is not something we taught to the Chinese students. There was a Chinese student, Ms. Yang Yuyan, who said that it was called ninja gnocchi, a ninja’s food.”

Yamamoto: “Oh? You guys didn’t correct her?”

Kobayashi-sensei, with another layer of sweat on her forehead, carefully said, “We felt …… that we had to keep her favor and interest in Japan and not discourage her.”

Yamamoto: “Is this Chinese schoolgirl the one who is going to run this festival, from what you have reported?”

Kobayashi’s back stayed bowed as he said cautiously, “I heard from a couple of students that it seems so. This Chinese schoolgirl has always been curious about Japanese culture.”

Yamamoto looked toward the dance floor, “Is that the female student who is leading the dance? Have her come over to see me later.”

Kobayashi immediately replied, “Yes.”

Yang Yuyan took out the perseverance of going to the gym for gymnastics and dutifully danced for an hour, not stopping until she heard the bell of the school’s bell tower ringing in the distance. Once she stopped on her side, the people dancing behind her couldn’t wait to scatter in all directions, all exhausted.

Everyone shouted that they were thirsty and hungry, and surrounded towards the food stalls.

Fellow student Yang was not exempt from this, and even more so, she grabbed a portion of the night market’s famous roasted steamed buns on the strength of the fact that she was a bigwig of the charity foundation, and was eating sweetly on the fried peppers handmade by fellow student Shi Wuwei, when Teacher Xiao Lin came over to invite her.

“Okay.” With a wipe of her mouth, Yang student swallowed the last bite of the roasted steamed buns, drank the ice soda served by Mr. Su in one go, and was about to go with Mr. Xiao Lin.

Unexpectedly, Principal Tang, Mr. Su, Professor Dai, Ms. Zhu, Classmate Shi, and Yang Yucan all followed.

Principal Tang laughed, “Go with me, go with me.”

Mr. Su smiled and didn’t say anything, but he was the fiancé, and by all rights was the one who should be there the most, he said politely, “Mayor Feng sent me to greet Mr. Yamamoto.” Saying that, he also held out a gift.

Mr. Kobayashi thought for a moment, and ultimately only let Principal Tang and Mr. Su follow him there. For one thing, Principal Tang was the current administrator, so Mr. Kobayashi still had to give some face; for another, Mr. Su was the fiancé and Mayor Feng’s subordinate, so Mr. Kobayashi didn’t quite have the courage to refuse the officials around the Chinese mayor.

The rest of the people were not too good even if they were their own mothers and sisters.

When the people left, Zhu Yanshu was so angry that she clenched her teeth, “I’m her real mom, I can’t even follow her, what kind of heavenly justice is this!”

Professor Dai advised, “This is all the prejudice of a male-dominated society, I personally am very much in favor of you accompanying Yan Yan. However, with Su Chunjun by your side, you can generally rest assured that Yan Yan has also grown a lot, and we can give the child a bit of confidence.”

Zhu Yanshu, even though she was worried, there was nothing she could do, she held Prof. Dai’s hand tightly and said softly, “Old Dai, let me go back and discuss something with you.”

Prof. Dai also agreed softly, “Good. We’ll discuss whatever it is together.”

Yamamoto occupied a place and sat on a chair, next to him was all the food for this festival that his subordinates had bought for him.

Yang Yuyan’s knowledge of Japan all came from manga, but since resources were not abundant now, she had to replace most of the ingredients with potatoes and sweet potatoes.

Thus, the octopus dumplings on the table became potato dumplings, and instead of wrapping squid chunks inside, they were just solid potato balls, with slices of shiba fish that should have been sprinkled on top, but were now sprinkled with shrimp skins.

The ninja gnocchi, which went from glutinous rice to potato balls and sweet potato balls, went from pouring sauce to marinara.

Kanto Boiled is the simplest, with radish and bean skin, fried tofu, boiled egg and ham sausage, it’s the shredded konjac that’s become sweet potato vermicelli.

Ramen – is it any different from Chinese noodles? Pork bone soup with noodles, without meat you can add egg.

Osakayaki – replace the shredded carrots in the shredded carrot pancake with shredded cabbage, it doesn’t matter if you don’t have cabbage now, shredded bok choy will work just as well.

Snapper yaki – make a mold, make red bean buns, stuff them in like a mooncake, snap them out and then fry them.

Causeway yaki – omelette with red bean filling in the center.

Grilled okonomiyaki – small carp instead? It doesn’t matter if it has a lot of thorns, char it a bit.

Yang Yuyan, with her knowledge of Netflix food, probably reproduced about 60% of all of them. However, even if it was only 60%, it was enough for the Japanese to recognize what it was all about.

Yamamoto felt curious, had this Chinese girl traveled to every city in the entire country of Japan? If she had a teacher, then her teacher must have traveled to quite a few Japanese cities and had considerable knowledge of those cities.

All of these foods were obviously from their hometowns all over Japan, and although they all looked a little off, the Japanese must have recognized the foods from their hometowns.

He finally had a concrete impression of what the teachers called “Yang Yuyan, a Chinese female student who loves Japanese culture”.

No wonder the teachers liked her, the students seemed to like her, and she didn’t seem uncomfortable among the Japanese students. Although she is a Chinese, she does have a great affection for Japan.

If she hadn’t, she wouldn’t have been able to learn so much about Japanese food.

This was a Chinese student who could be fought over. Even if she was Chinese, she could be made Japanese.

With his mind made up, Yamamoto was polite to Yang Yuyan, who approached him, and only asked her a few questions about Japan before realizing that her knowledge of Japan was indeed strange.

She knew about Hachimangu Shrine, Adachi Shogun’s Residence, and Asakusa Temple, but she didn’t know how many aristocrats there were in Japan, she didn’t know the surnames of the great Japanese clans, and she assumed that everyone in Japan ate sushi and ramen, and that sushi and ramen were a staple of the Japanese diet. She also knew about Nara and said that there were lots of deer in Nara, only to have Mr. Kobayashi, who was next to her, laugh and say, “Where are the deer in Nara? The deer are all in the woods.”

Yamamoto glanced meaningfully at Ms. Kobayashi and said affirmatively, “The deer in Nara are cute, just as cute as you are. Mr. Yang, I am very glad that in this school, there are people like you helping the Japanese; your friendship is beyond precious, and the Japanese will remember your friendliness and will repay you.”

Even the Japanese may not have ever traveled the whole country of Japan; if they had not, they themselves would not have known what was in the next prefecture. A Chinese person, however, knows so well, Chinese people are really unfathomable.

Yamamoto said, “Mr. Yang, have you ever considered going to school in Japan? There are women’s universities in Japan, and even Japanese princesses go to school there to study women’s studies.”

Su Chunjun hadn’t had a chance to interject since just now, and when he handed over the gift, it was only one of the people around Yamamoto who came to pick it up. Hearing Yamamoto’s words, he instantly became nervous.

Yamamoto wanted to send Yang Yuyan to Japan.

Since the Qing Dynasty, Japan has always been very welcoming to Chinese students, they will give Chinese students subsidies, will be assigned to the people’s family hospitality Chinese students to stay, all food and drink do not have to pay for the Chinese students themselves, all by the Japanese government to pay for the bill.

Japan is aware of the lack of talents in their own country, and has always envied the young talents in China. They long for such a large land and population in China to become their own.

They hoped that all these Chinese students would eventually stay in Japan, become Japanese and serve the Japanese Emperor.

There were many Chinese students who fell into Japan’s trap and eventually abandoned their motherland and stayed in Japan.

Su Chunjun never doubted the brainwashing power of the Japanese. He was not worried that Yang Yuyan would abandon her motherland, but he was afraid that she would be victimized.

He was worried that she could not rebuff it well.

Su Chunjun took a tentative step forward, wanting to answer Yang Yuyan instead.

Yamamoto glared at him sharply, and the Japanese soldiers behind him even pulled out their guns.

Yang Yuyan didn’t notice what was happening behind her back, and she answered the question easily, “I’m actually not interested in studying, and I dislike classes a lot. I came to school because I’m engaged to be married, and I have to come to expand my social circle so that I can serve my husband after marriage, and after I get married, I won’t be going to school anymore. So, I’m sorry, I don’t really want to go to school to continue my studies, it’s too tiring and I just can’t stand the hard work.”

-Not going to school doesn’t mean that you won’t continue to participate in the affairs of the charity foundation.

Yamamoto didn’t get suspicious when he heard this answer, it’s normal, most of the women in Japan and China are like this, everything they do is for the sake of their husbands.

Yamamoto: “It’s right to honor your husband, you are a steadfast woman, you deserve to be learned by all women.”

He let Yang Yuyan and the others leave.

After they left, he said to Mr. Kobayashi and Ms. Sakai, “Find a way to make her one of us. Make her a Japanese, make her revere the Emperor and Japan from the bottom of her heart, and make her work for us. You have done well before; it is not a difficult task to continue, and you must accomplish it.”