Flying over the bubble era

Chapter 720
Put aside how to dispose of the dry goods that have not yet been received, and accept the reality that pre-delivery of dry goods failed.Yanqiao Shen changed his words and told her, "Then I'll bring you something else as a present....After all, it's considered a business trip."

"Gifts are fine..."

Akina Nakamori thought of the somewhat miraculous gift that Shinichi Iwahashi sent from Fukuoka, thought about it for a while, and couldn't help laughing on the phone, "This time, you don't mean to send me a round fan, do you?"

"Alright." Yanqiao Shinichi accepted the proposal humbly.

I was going to joke with him, but in the end he really agreed, but Akina Nakamori was bluffed and believed it was true, "You really gave me the fan?"

"I won't tell you now." Yanqiao Shinichi deliberately made her happy again, "It will add a little more fun to you when you receive a gift later."

"Ok."

Akina Nakamori seemed to close her eyes and make a wish on a birthday cake, waiting for a mysterious business trip gift later.

Just say something, and unconsciously, I feel relaxed.On the phone, she said to Iwahashi Shinichi, "Misora ​​Hibari-san passed away yesterday.... Shinichi, you must already know."

She talks to herself.

Shinichi Iwahashi agreed, "Yes. Today's concert in Osaka also includes a part of expressing condolences to Misora-san."

Nakamori Akina "Mmm, um" listened, and said something without beginning or end, "I feel a little lonely."

"lonely?"

Akina Nakamori, who has not yet passed her 24th birthday, spoke of her loneliness in a tone as if she had truly experienced the "end of the era".

Yanqiao Shinichi was surprised.

"When I was young, my mother taught me to sing "Apple Minor" while saying, 'Hinark-san sang on stage at the age of eight'....My mother and Misora-san are the same age." Akina Nakamori told him.

Chieko, who dreamed of her peers in Girls' Generation, and Akina Nakamori, who took over the dream from Chieko.

To Akina Nakamori, Hibari Misora ​​is like a symbol in her childhood memory.

Yanqiao Shenyi thought of her acting like a coquettish child just now, and seemed to understand her mood when she made this call.He half-guessed and asked, "Have you called Qianhui Zisang?"

Akina Nakamori smiled, and said to him, "...Mother doesn't seem to be at home."

The phone call to Chieko couldn't be reached, Nakamori Akina thought about it, and couldn't help but want to call Iwahashi Shinichi.But it is by no means because of the inertia brought about by playing phone booth games with him often, so that he will think of him when picking up a pay phone.

"Sigh." She sighed softly and muttered softly, "You have seen through everything."

Yanqiao Shen smiled, "That's because when I couldn't guess, I pretended to be stupid."

"is it?"

"Yeah." Iwahashi Shinichi continued to tease her, "Next time when I can't guess, I will ask you for help, 'Akina, please tell me why?', okay?"

"Haha!" Akina Nakamori told him to laugh.

While laughing, he took the opportunity to tease him, "Such an attitude is wrong. When you ask for something, you should be more sincere. For example, you should call it 'Baby Mingcai', so the probability of getting an answer will be higher."

"Setting too high a threshold and too many conditions for help-seekers will make them unable to open their mouths to ask questions." Yanqiao Shinichi put on a show.

Nakamori Akina couldn't say no to him, so she was about to flip the chessboard, "So, you just won't call me 'baby'?"

She talked more and more vigorously, and gradually forgot the topic of the conversation just now, and began to mutter around the "baby" that Yanqiao Shenyi couldn't say, "Stingy, shy."

This way, [-]% is intentional.

In my opinion, you are childish.

Yanqiao Shenyi poked in his heart, but he didn't add fuel to the fire, so he spoke out.

Anyway, after saying this, the loneliness in Nakamori Akina's heart dissipated, and she happily stuck to Iwahashi Shinichi, chatting with him.

After talking for a while, Iwahashi Shinichi told her that he was having dinner with the band.

"It's the band whose lead singer Jun's family runs a dry goods store."

"That's why you asked about dry goods again?"

"However, I didn't buy the dry goods this time. They were given by the lead singer's mother."

"Hey~ I'm really popular with the aunts in the shopping street." Akina Nakamori teased him.

Yanqiao Shenyi accepted the compliment, which I don't know if it was a compliment, and decided to try harder, and asked, "So, do you still want these dry goods?"

Akina Nakamori did not change her mind, "No more!"

Why does this guy bring dry goods for her every time he goes to Osaka?Absolutely not!

Ok.

Yanqiao Shenyi accepted the reality, "Then I will take it back to my home later." After thinking about it, he bargained with her, "Next time you go to my place, use that package of dry goods to cook and eat. How about it?"

The more I talked about it, the more I felt that this plan was feasible.

In order not to waste food and to digest the dry goods as soon as possible, we should eat together more and invite her to play at home more often.

Akina Nakamori suddenly realized that she had fallen into his trap.

"Why are you so cunning." She couldn't laugh or cry on the phone.

Yanqiao Shinichi tried his best to hold back his laughter—this was purely rushing.

Enough is enough, he told Nakamori Akina to go back, "If you continue to make calls, those in the band will think they are sneaking away to escape paying the bill."

Akina Nakamori urged him, "Go back, go!"

Put down the phone.

Akina Nakamori retrieved the withdrawn coin and held it in her hand with a light heart.

……

In the record store, Hibari Misora's works were placed in the most prominent place in the store, accompanied by commemorative posters handwritten by the clerk.Her last single was "The Stream Never Ends", and her last album was a compilation called "The Greatest Collection".

Because these two works were released recently, the goods are also the most complete.

Most of the people who walked into the store for Hibari Misora ​​picked up a selection book.Someone also picked up the piece of "The Stream Never Ends".

Chieko took one each of the best album and the new single, paid the bill, and got on the tram home.

She and Misora ​​Hibari are of the same age. In her girlhood, Misora ​​Hibari was already a big star known as "Miss".Chieko also loves to sing and thinks she is talented. She looks forward to the life of Hibari Misora, but at the same time she is very strong and hopes to become a big singer one day.

The hope was not fulfilled, and Chieko became a mother who had to raise six children and a wife who quarreled with her husband like a storm.

But the dream of standing on stage and singing was inherited by one of the daughters.

It is not appropriate to say that it is inheritance, but it is better to say that it is the seed of her dream that she placed on her daughter, and it has grown into a flower that belongs only to Mingcai herself.

Hibari Misora ​​passed away, and the longing for being competitive when she was a girl, and the expectation for her daughter after becoming a mother, all became a passing cloud.

Seeing the newspaper in the morning, Chieko felt complicated.

There is the loneliness as if an old friend who has been with me for many years is farewell to me, and I also feel the emptiness when the competitiveness of the girlhood has disappeared.In addition, it seems that he is still feeling his own weakness in this loneliness and emptiness.

She went out of the house, got on the tram alone, and wanted to go to the record store to buy a record of Hibari Misora.

When she got home, Chieko put the "Endless Stream" on the record player.

Hibari Misora's lungs were completely eroded when this single was recorded, but even so, when she opens her mouth to sing, her voice is still admirably steady.

"Before I knew it, I had walked this narrow and long road for so long."

"Looking back suddenly, my hometown is already far away. The rough road, without even a map, is like life."

When deciding to record this song, will Hibari Misora ​​know that this is the last single in her life?

Chieko listened to her repeatedly singing "The Stream Never Ends", as if seeing Hibari Misora ​​as if she was looking back on her own life, injecting her rough life with ups and downs into it.

Misora ​​Hibari, who repeatedly sang "The Stream Never Ends", doesn't seem to be proud of this life, and of course, she doesn't regret it either.

What is life?Misora ​​Hibari seems to be looking for the answer to this question in this song.Then, she gave the answer that she sang repeatedly.

Flowing like water, accepting everything like water.

Chieko listened to her favorite Hibari Misora's posthumous work, and felt calm like still water.Then, she seemed to hear the sound of water in her ears, and the water flowed through her heart.

Whether it's Misora ​​Hibari or her Chieko, life flows like water.Like water, accept everything encountered on the path along the way, whether it is expected or unknown.

It seems to hear Misora ​​Hibari saying, don't worry, don't need to be afraid.this is life.

Chieko seems to have received the encouragement left by Hibari Misora ​​at the end of her life.

At this time, outside the living room, the phone rang—as if in a momentary illusion, it was the sound of water flowing past her ears.When I came back to my senses, I realized it was a phone call.

Chieko went out and picked up the receiver. It was her daughter Akina calling.

"Mother!"

Qian Huizi smiled when she heard her energetic voice, "Ming Cai Jiang!"

"Is mother not at home just now? I called, but no one answered." She said childishly.

Chieko told her, "I went to the record store to buy Hibari-san's record."

"As expected of Skylark-san, at the end of his life, he left behind a masterpiece like "The Endless Stream"." Chieko was talking about her idol with her daughter.

Her tone sounded open and free.

Facing Chieko like this, Nakamori Akina's worries were also relieved.

"...It's a good song, Ming Cai Jiang." Chieko said.

Akina Nakamori listened with a "hmm, um".

After finishing the song, Chieko smiled and said to her, "I'm so happy that Akina-chan called me."

"Mother……"

"Afterwards, how about going to karaoke together and singing Apple's tune?" Qian Huizi discussed with her.

"Of course!"

Akina Nakamori responded enthusiastically, "My mother is the best at singing Miku-san's apple ditty, and I am willing to bow down."

Qian Huizi smiled, "When Ming Caijiang learned to sing the apple ditty when I was a child, I was taken aback by you. I didn't expect to learn so fast and sing so well."

The mother and daughter, after many years, chatted about Hibari Misora ​​and Apple Minor again.

However, the mood now is different from the past.Nakamori Akina no longer entrusts Chieko's dreams, but has her own life and ideals, just like a river that diverted from her mother and has its own trajectory.

As for Qian Huizi, her dream has always been in the river of her own life.

After chatting for a while, the topic turned to asking about each other's recent situation. Nakamori Akina and Chieko said that they would go back to see her next time they were on vacation.

"Is Iwahashi-kun okay?" Chieko also asked about Iwahashi Shinichi.

Akina Nakamori told her, "Very good....Iwahashi is on a business trip to Osaka."

"Really? Thank you for your hard work." Qian Huizi said, "Next time, Mr. Yanqiao is also welcome to come over for dinner."

"Yanqiao really likes your cooking skills..."

Qian Huizi smiled and said to her as if she wanted to tease her, "That's because Yanqiao-kun likes you."

Nakamori Akina was particularly embarrassed when these words came out of her mother's mouth.She was particularly embarrassed, but also very relieved.

"Next time I will take Iwahashi to eat your fried burger." Akina Nakamori said.

I used to miss frying burgers when I was in a bad mood, but now I look forward to frying burgers with joy.It is because of Shinichi Iwahashi, the meaning contained in fried hamburgers, which has been quietly replaced and changed.

……

Misora ​​Hibari herself serves as the president of her personal office, and now that she has passed away, the handover of the office must be done.The adopted son, Kato Kazuya, is not yet here, so it is useless at this time.

Columbia Records sent people to assist the people in the firm to make the handover.

Hibari Misora ​​has been unable to sell many years ago. Every time a new work is released, the number of shipments is quite conservative.This time she passed away suddenly, the public once again turned their attention to her, and Columbia Records also shipped additional shipments for her after a long absence.

Of course, the last single "Endless Flow" and the last collection "Special Collection" were also added.

Before Hibari Misora ​​passed away, these two records only sold [-] to [-] copies, but on the day the news was released, the order request from the record seller had already exceeded [-] copies.

While making additional record shipments to take advantage of this opportunity to make a lot of money, Columbia Records has to prepare for the upcoming funeral and memorial service, and deal with all kinds of troubles. time's big head.

However, there is one thing that has been agreed upon, and that is:
Whether it's the record company or the entire entertainment industry, they all hope that Hibari Misora's funeral will be as grand as possible.

……

The day after DREAMS COME TRUE Osaka ended, Iwahashi Shinichi returned to Tokyo.As soon as the headgear was taken off, he changed from the giraffe boy in the band back to the record company president Sang.

This seamless switching ability is also first-class.

In the evening, there was also a fat young man, Akimoto Yasushi, as a host.After work, Yanqiao Shinichi went to the appointment.

The chubby young man seemed very at ease, but after seeing him for a while, his face seemed to be getting fatter.His face, which was reminiscent of slickness, looked even more slick at the moment.

When they met, the two exchanged a few pleasantries.

"Misora ​​Hibari-san has passed away."

After drinking a cup, Qiu Yuankang took the initiative to talk about this matter.

(End of this chapter)