Chapter 154 Junior School Girl
Day 11 of the road survival game!
Most of the other Japanese diners around her also ordered Mapo Tofu, which puzzled her. It's just Mapo Tofu, and there are so many delicious dishes in China, so why do the Japanese prefer such a common, home-style dish, and even change the taste to something mediocre?
Despite feeling overwhelmed with frustration and incomprehension during the entire process of ordering and eating, Kazehoshi's considerate nature also made her realize the thoughtfulness and caring nature behind Hagiwara and Matsuda's suggestion to choose this restaurant.
If Japanese people were treating them to dinner, they would definitely choose a Japanese restaurant, right? The fact that they chose Chinese food today is probably because they are Chinese and they are catering to their own tastes?
Hagiwara and Matsuda could almost guess what Fuusei was thinking just by looking at her changing expressions. She was very good at hiding her true thoughts from women around her, whether they were her age, younger or older. On the surface, they were all polite and gentle Japanese women.
Her frankness, her lack of pretense, and her complete disregard for her large appetite and her willingness to eat and drink heartily in front of them, were particularly interesting, or rather, amusing, to the other two.
After finishing their meal, the college students, who shouldn't have much in common with the junior high school students, started chatting with her over tea. Although they didn't talk about their families and friends in depth because they were new acquaintances and because of the Japanese social distance, they didn't.
However, they exchanged names, ages, school grades, etc., so the two learned that Feng Xingshou was 15 years old, in his third year of junior high school, and would be taking the high school entrance exam next year. At the same time, Feng Xingshou also learned that they were 20 years old and were juniors at Tokyo University.
While chatting about school, Feng Xingshou, being Chinese, was used to building relationships over meals. In just one meal, she became close to Hagiwara and Matsuda, and even acted a little silly, like a fool.
She complained to the two people she had only known for less than a day about her brother: "You have no idea how outrageous my brother is. He's like a Spartan parent. All I did was get a little bad grades on my final exams!"
He actually drove me to a pine forest in Russia to give me extra lessons. When I didn't learn something, he chased a bear out to chase me, making me have to accept a 20-minute race against the bear as punishment every time I failed..."
"Huh?" Even Hagiwara, with his quick wit, couldn't help but change his expression upon hearing this, asking incredulously, "Racing against a bear?"
"Still in the pine forest? The paths in the forest are rugged and uneven, it must be difficult to run, right?" Matsuda felt that if this were true, in a country like the United States, where there are laws that can revoke parental guardianship, her brother would definitely be stripped of his parental guardianship.
As for why they believe her brother is her parent and guardian? Although Feng Xingshou didn't say it explicitly, with their reasoning abilities, they had already noticed that she hadn't mentioned her parents in her words and actions, but had mentioned her brother many times. In addition, she had shown that she came to Japan to study abroad because of her brother.
It is speculated that her parents may have passed away, and her only immediate family member is her brother. As her only immediate family member, her brother must be an adult since he is able to work abroad, and naturally he would be her parent and guardian.
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“It wasn’t easy to run there at first, but my brother used to take me with him when he went there to train. Before I was 10, I often fell while running there, but after I turned 10, I didn’t fall as often. Last year was the first time I knew there were bears there.” Feng Xingshou almost got goosebumps when he thought of the memory of actually seeing a big bear charging at him.
She started training her to run in the woods before she was 10 years old. That shouldn't be considered mindlessly harming her younger sister, but rather a planned way to train her! Pfft... But it's still hard to imagine such a chubby and cute little girl being forced to race a bear for 20 minutes and being fine!
Hagiwara was a little disappointed that he hadn't been able to witness that scene, but he was very sociable in expressing his agreement with Kazesei's complaint: "Even if I had trained you before, it was a bit too much to make you race against a bear."
"I'd heard that students in China really value grades, but I never imagined it would be this extreme." Matsuda couldn't even imagine that his alcoholic and degenerate father would use his fists to force him to get good grades.
Although he was an excellent student in Japanese schools from childhood, whether in academics or sports, it seems that he didn't need such an extreme education method. Thinking about it this way, he seems to be a little proud!
"Hey... Thinking of this, he suddenly realized something and blurted out, "By the way, Feng Sang, you're not so bad at school that your brother is using such an extreme method to tutor you, are you?"
"Haha... We've already shared a meal together, isn't it a bit too polite to call me Feng Sang? Just call me by my name!" Upon hearing his question, Feng Xing Shou's expression changed, and he hurriedly said this in a rushed tone.
However, seeing her flushed cheeks and pointed ears, clearly indicating her intention to change the subject, Hagiwara knew that Matsuda had guessed correctly. Having been an excellent student since childhood, he found it hard to understand how bad her grades would be for her brother to send her to race with a bear to force her to study.
Although he was puzzled by this, his gentlemanly and considerate nature towards women prevented him from pointing it out. Instead, he cooperated and said, "Then I'll call you Feng-chan. You don't need to be so polite with us; just call us whatever you're used to!"
Although he knew that in China, peers and friends usually address each other by their first names, in Japan only close friends call each other by their first names, and good friends usually address each other by their surnames.
Feng Jiang didn't seem to understand this. After learning his and Xiao Jinping's full names, he kept calling them Hagiwara-nii and Matsuda-nii. They didn't think much of this when it was in Chinese, but once it was translated into Japanese...
Cough cough... Imagine such a cute little girl asking you to call her "Hagiwara Onii-chan" (older brother/brother). Hagiwara almost choked on his own cough. When she called him "Matsuda-nii-chan" (older brother/brother) in Chinese, Kojinpei automatically translated it into "Matsuda Onii-chan" in his mind and he got really angry...
So let's leave the matter of how to address him to Feng-chan! I have a feeling that no matter what he suggests, if Feng-chan, who doesn't understand Japanese, uses the Chinese form of his name and then translates it back into Japanese, it will shock them. -_-||
"Then I'll call you junior schoolmate. It just so happens that the middle school you're studying at now is the same junior high school that Hagi and I attended. So, in a way, we're your seniors!" Matsuda wasn't as shameless as Hagi, and he couldn't bring himself to use such an intimate term for a girl he had just met.
But since they've already said that, it wouldn't be good to continue using the previous form of address. However, he had just been shocked by the ambiguous way that Feng Xingshou called him "Matsuda-nii-chan" in Chinese, which translates to "Matsuda Onii-chan" in Japanese.
As a cat-like handsome guy who has received countless confessions and love letters from female classmates since junior high school, he is used to nipping any ambiguity in the bud. He is afraid that the younger girls in his junior high school might also have feelings for him like those female classmates, so he simply chooses to deal with it in this clever way.
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Feng Xingshou had no idea how much of a shock his casual, polite address had caused Hagiwara and Matsuda before the food was served. After all, in China, apart from peers, everyone else was considered a relative by seniority.
Those older than her are addressed as "brother" or "sister" after their surname. Those younger are addressed by their given name or by "little" before their surname. For example, if her surname is Feng, her neighbor who is not related to her would call her "Little Feng".
Due to their different lifestyles, she was completely unaware that she had already impressed both of them. Matsuda even cleverly chose the term "junior schoolgirl" to avoid any ambiguity.
Hearing their responses, she understood everything since Matsuda spoke in Chinese and had no questions. However, she noticed that Hagiwara had a habit of unconsciously adding cute accents to his speech to gain favor with others and reduce the difficulty of social interaction.
So, I didn't use Chinese in my previous speech. Instead, I felt that the Chinese word for "small" was cuter when expressed with the Japanese word "saucy," so I directly used the Japanese word "saucy" instead of "small" when I spoke.
He thought that even if Feng Xingshou's Japanese wasn't good, she should at least understand the pronunciation of such simple and common Japanese words. He never expected that Feng Xingshou's Japanese level was really like that of a newborn baby.
Hearing their responses, she looked at him with a clear, innocent gaze, puzzled: "Why do you call me Feng-chan? There's no 'chan' in my name!"
Hearing that address feels like he's telling me to go buy soy sauce. -_-||
"Ahem!" Her expression was so obvious that Hagiwara almost burst out laughing. He suppressed his laughter and explained, "In Japanese, 'chan' means 'little.' When I call you Kaze-chan, I'm calling you 'little Kaze'!"
"Oh!" Upon hearing this familiar address, Feng Xingshou immediately nodded in understanding, his face showing a look of sudden realization.
Seeing her knowing expression, Matsuda couldn't help but give his friend a half-moon-shaped glare, speechless. What does she know? She's been fooled by that shameless Hagi.
In Japan, adding "chan" after a surname is a grammatical term used only by very close, intimate friends or best buddies. It's just that Hagi has been able to get along with everyone since childhood.
They habitually add a cute "-chan" accent when addressing others, which is why they call people they've only known for less than a day that way. One of them calls the other "Hagiwara Onii-san," and the other calls the other "Fū-chan." Anyone who didn't know them would probably think they were already dating.
The thought of how this misunderstanding might cause others to overhear their nonsensical conversation made Matsuda's teeth ache, but he was always helpless with his childhood friend and didn't want to really pick a fight with him.
He subconsciously harbored a mischievous thought towards the innocent Feng Xing Shou: "Junior, you haven't told me how your grades are yet? If they're not too good, it just so happens that I'm not working this summer, so I have time to tutor you!"
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