"Tsk tsk tsk, young lady, judging from your palm, your career will definitely experience many ups and downs..."
"Well...but your marriage line is very strong. You will definitely meet a man who loves you in this life. You will have three children with him, two boys and one girl."
Entering the library gate on the basement floor, Kidd took the female college student's smooth and tender hand and rubbed her seriously.
To be honest, this kind of trick to pick up girls is something that others have used, and it's nothing new. But you can't resist Kidd's good chatter and handsome appearance, and he can make the other person very happy and their eyes are full of little hearts.
Some things are innate.
"I have something else to do here. Let me add your contact information first and we can talk later."
After successfully getting the phone number, Kidd turned around contentedly, flipped his hand, and the girl's student ID card appeared at his fingertips. He slid the access card across casually, and with a "beep" sound, the door opened.
The process of entering was much smoother than that of Sakaki Makoto and the other two.
"I'm asking you, do you have any bottom line? Stealing someone's student ID?"
Sakaki glared at Kid:
"Hurry up and give it back to them!"
"Oh, don't worry, just put it at the door after you use it."
Waving his student ID, Kidd said disapprovingly:
"You called me here, you must have discovered something, right?"
"The third underground floor contains archives from the early days of Gunma University, but the gate can only be opened with the administrator's access card. I asked you to come here to unlock it."
"Electronic lock?"
Kidd was stunned for a moment:
"If it's an electronic lock, wouldn't it be faster to find Hongshu?"
"......"
yes!
Hongshu can control Noah's Ark and open the electronic lock in one second... no! Half a second is enough!
"Look at how regretful you all are. Don't worry, I've got it all figured out."
With a sigh, Kidd took out a handful of ID cards from behind him. A rough count showed that there were at least a dozen of them, most of which belonged to female students, but there was also a black card in it.
Administrator's access card!
"On the way here just now, I had nothing to do, so I just stole it."
Kidd said proudly:
"So, do you regret it now? I'm much better than that kid Hongshu!"
"You are really good at being jealous of a 12-year-old kid..."
Miss Miyano was speechless.
Since they already had the access card, there was no need for Sakaki Makoto and his companions to continue lingering in the corridor. They went down the stairs to the third underground floor.
Unlike the brightly lit, clean and tidy library on the ground floor, the third underground floor is more like a large basement. It is extremely dark and deserted, with only the humming sound of the central air-conditioning motor in the corner.
"It seems that people don't come here often..."
Akai Mary looked around and felt a sinking feeling in her heart:
"If the storage environment inside is also like this, I'm afraid the paper files will be almost damaged..."
drop!
Kidd opened the door, but he didn't think too much about it. Since he was already here, why not go in and take a look?
As soon as the door was opened, a smell somewhere between the scent of ink and mildew wafted out from inside. The air was quite dry, indicating that the people who stored these paper documents were not complete novices. However, they obviously did not value these documents very much. They just put them in wooden boxes, sealed them with seals and left them there.
Miss Miyano sniffed, sneezed, and estimated a rough number:
"The humidity isn't too high, and the temperature is suitable for storing documents, but there's too much dust..."
Dust is a carrier of bacteria and mold, and can also cause wear and corrosion to paper. Therefore, archives must be dusted and sterilized before being stored in the warehouse. However, as time goes by, a lot of dust has accumulated on the third underground floor, which is not often opened. We can only hope that the archives stored in the wooden boxes are fine.
In order to facilitate reading, these files have been systematically organized, with the storage time written on the seal and the file date marked next to the wooden shelf.
The Gunma Elementary School Teachers' Training Institute was officially established in 1873. It was not until 1949 that the Elementary School Teachers' Training Institute and the Agricultural Training Department were merged into the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Gunma University, becoming the Faculty of Education of Gunma University.
The third underground floor stores all the information left by the Faculty of Education between 1873 and 1949.
The time span is a full 76 years, and the archives are piled up like mountains, filling up dozens of bookshelves. It is extremely difficult to find the required information in this sea of books.
"Luckily there are four of us, let's get started."
Sakaki Makoto rubbed his brows, feeling a little anxious. Looking up information was the most frustrating thing, and he couldn't be careless, otherwise he might miss what he needed.
"We should start from the initial school establishment data."
Miss Miyano said:
"If Karasuma Ren'ye studied at Gunma University, then he should have become a student of Gunma University shortly after the school was founded. Otherwise, the information after 1900 may not be of much help to us. After all, Karasuma Ren'ye would have probably inherited the family business by then."
Following the date markings on the bookshelf, the four of them came to the innermost part of the house and found...
The information about 1873 is the most abundant, filling up two entire bookshelves.
"well...."
Seeing this, the four of them were silent. How long would it take to find out?
But they don’t have any better solutions. They must not be lazy when it is time to work hard.
Makoto Sakaki was the first to move. He brought a ladder from the side, climbed up, lifted the wooden box from the top of the bookshelf, brushed off the thick layer of dust on it, and looked at the blurred date on the seal: Showa 25 (1950), sealed by the Cultural Properties Protection Committee.
The Cultural Properties Protection Committee refers to one of the external bureaus of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology established in 1950. As the name suggests, its purpose is to protect so-called cultural relics, but many things related to culture are under their jurisdiction.
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology was established in 1871 and is responsible for coordinating education, science and technology, academics, culture and sports in Japan. The Gunma Elementary School Teachers' Training Institute was established in this context.
It is worth mentioning that the head of the Ministry of Education is called the Minister of Education, who is a member of the cabinet.
etc....
Cabinet minister?
Sakaki Makoto's eyes narrowed slightly, and he suddenly remembered a cabinet minister named Karasuma...
Could he have any connection with the Ministry of Education?
After tearing off the seal, Makoto Sakaki opened the half-rotten wooden box, drove away a few booklice, picked up a file bag, and gently pulled it, and the cotton thread at the seal broke.
Carefully pulling out the brittle and yellowed document, Sakaki Makoto breathed a sigh of relief. Although the ink had faded, he could still vaguely make out the contents. If he had come two years later, the handwriting would probably have been completely unreadable.
"Regarding the site selection report for the Gunma Elementary School Teacher Training Center, the person in charge is...Kazukichi Karasuma?!"
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