I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 85: Enjoy the tranquility of this moment. The days ahead will surely be sweeter. (10 points)

As evening approached, the sky was gradually covered by dark clouds and a drizzle of rain slowly fell, wetting the streets and blurring the vision.

Snapped--

The brand new leather shoes stepped into the shallow puddle, splashing a series of fine water droplets.

The top of the black umbrella instantly cut off the rain curtain, poked into the picture, and accurately blocked the beautiful girl's head.

"Hidejun~Why are you here?!" Amatsuma Yumeko, holding a small schoolbag in her arms, was overjoyed. Looking at Kitagawa Hide who suddenly appeared and held an umbrella for her, her face was full of happiness. She threw herself into his arms, not caring about the gazes of many strangers around her, and rubbed against his chest like a kitten.

"Didn't you say you would stay at home tonight? I thought I might as well come over and take the boss lady back to Peter Cat." Kitagawa Hide said as he took out a bunch of bright flowers from behind his back and rubbed his wife's head with a smile, "Surprise~"

"Eh? Is this for me, Madam Boss? 'Peter Cat'?" Agatsuma Yumeko's little brain froze instantly.

She took the bouquet of flowers with surprise and joy, and the fresh fragrance brought her back to the real world from her daze.

"Yes. From today on, you are the owner of the jazz cafe 'Peter Cat'!" Kitagawa Hide gently put his arms around my wife Yumeko's slender waist and let her huddle under the small umbrella with him.

My wife Yumeko was still confused, but when she looked down, she saw a bunch of new keys and a beautiful postcard lying quietly in the bouquet of flowers.

"いつもより一分（いっぷん）hay（はや）く駅（えき）に出（つ）く一分君のことtestえる. "

(Compared to the past, I arrived at the station one minute earlier. I will use this minute to miss you.)
My wife Yumeko carefully took out the postcard and softly recited the haiku on it.

The moment she finished reading, a feeling of ethereal and beautiful instantly invaded her whole body.

It still tastes the same.

It is exactly the same as the original "Thor's Short Song".

It seems that the old haiku has been extremely simplified in terms of rhythm and words, but when combined with the real situation and the lingering emotions contained therein, you can experience a kind of beauty of simplicity.

Xiujun once said that haiku can also embody the same beauty as prose.

Since reading "Thoriumin Tanka", she, as well as the members of the Haiku Research Group and the vast number of new haiku enthusiasts on the Internet, have tried to imitate Hideki's poems.

But until now, among the countless haiku that have emerged recently, none has reached even one-tenth of Hideki's level.

After reading this haiku, Agatsuma Yumeko finally understood why most people could not write such beautiful poems, but Hideki could.

Because he can always integrate the simplest images into his emotions and then present them with poetic beauty.

The past, the station, and longing are the most common dating scenes for couples. Xiujun can skillfully combine katakana with the rhythm of haiku. Not only is it easy to read, but it also clearly reflects the faint love of longing between lovers!
She could even imagine the scene where Xiujun arrived at the station outside the hospital in advance, holding a bouquet of flowers, thinking about herself, and then leaning against the station sign and silently writing this haiku.

So beautiful, so beautiful, so beautiful.

Animals, plants, humans, weather, architecture, time, space
It seems that anything that can be imagined in the mind can be written into haiku.

It turns out that the real haiku is to write beautiful poetry out of unpoetic images, and to discover the artistic conception contained in everything!
"Hidejun~" My wife Yumeko was so moved that she couldn't speak. She just leaned on him and walked into the subway station together.

"I'm glad you like it. I was worried that you would hate this old-fashioned thing." Kitagawa Hide breathed a sigh of relief. This haiku "Missing You" was written on his way here when he thought of the sadness he felt when he was separated from his young wife. Then, when he saw the clock at the ticket office at the station, he suddenly came up with the idea.

This haiku is from Tawara Machi's poetry collection "Sara Memorial Day" (サラダ京日). It is a rare short poem that combines the form of classical poetry with the flavor of modern poetry.

Tawara Machi likes to write about subtle little actions in life or small things that are often overlooked into haiku, and is very good at incorporating common katakana into the rhythm of the poems, making the poems sound beautiful when read.

The greatest contribution of "Salad Day" to the history of haiku is that it popularized haiku.

It turns out that this is a sacred realm high above that only poets can reach.

It pulls haiku down from such a pedestal, allowing everyone to create haiku love poems that suit their own or their loved ones' wishes.

This collection of poems expanded the audience of haiku.

And the most important thing is that "Salad Days" sold 250 million copies just six months after its release!

After confirming some time ago that he wanted to elevate the status of literature through haiku and use it to allow "Wenyi" to surpass "Gunzo", Kitagawa Hide immediately began to search for the current situation of contemporary haiku poets.

Unsurprisingly.

The gap is not only in the field of pure literature, but the field of haiku is even more of a mess.

Tawara Machi is also gone. Like Kawabata Yasunari, Natsume Soseki, and Murakami Haruki, they are all Japanese writers from another world. Anyway, they have nothing to do here.

The original copy of "Salad Days", which was published by Kawaide Shobo Shinsha in 1987, is also gone.

Thinking about how I accidentally cooperated with Kawaide Shobo, could this be part of God's will?

What belongs to you can't escape?
"How could it be! How can this be outdated? I like it very much!" Yumeko pouted her lips, which was rare for her, and she was getting angry. She hugged the bouquet and postcard tightly in her arms, treating them as treasures.

Seeing her reaction, Kitagawa Hide was even more satisfied.

The fact that it can successfully conquer the young wife means that "Salad Day" can also be a hit among the current young groups.

It seems I have to find some time to discuss this with Rena Saito.

"Wenyi" currently does not have a dedicated haiku section. Even if Shizuko Kawaide is on his side, it is impossible for her to help open up a new section just by saying something casually, right?
After all, it is one of the five major pure literature magazines. A magazine only has a few dozen pages, and the cost of each page is estimated to be tens of thousands of yen. If you want to open a new section, I'm afraid it will require coordination and planning by more than a dozen departments of the company.

Just like that, the two of them, one with his mind full of emotion and love, the other with his mind full of making money and haiku, unknowingly returned to their new home - the jazz cafe "Peter Cat".

When my wife Yumeko heard Kitagawa Hide say that he had a new home, she was a little dazed for a moment and found it difficult to accept this fact.

How come you haven't been home for a few days? Even your home has changed?

With all kinds of emotions such as anxiety, curiosity and anticipation, it was not until she saw with her own eyes the "Peter Cat" which had just opened today with a large number of wreaths placed at the door that my wife Yumeko finally realized that she really had a brand new home!

She vaguely recalled the days when they first started living together.

Fortunately, I arrived early that day, otherwise Xiujun would have become a cold corpse hanged on the beam.

Then they began to depend on each other.

In order to pay off her debts, she tightened her belt and cut back on food, lived frugally and saved money. She even worked three part-time jobs while studying.

Li was so angry that she didn't know what to say to herself.

She only knew that she was completely ruined from the moment she fell in love with Xiujun.

The total monthly income from the three part-time jobs is only 30 yen. If I continue to pay off the 1 million yen debt like this, I really don’t know when I will be able to pay it off.

But she was still willing to give everything for Xiujun.

It's like being possessed.

Then on these most difficult days.

She secretly told Xiujun her dream.

Together they opened a jazz cafe called "Peter Cat".

They can work here, drink coffee or beer together, listen to Xiujun's favorite jazz records, and watch clumsy Pete running around the store.

She didn't know when her dream would come true, but she kept it in her heart, thinking that as long as they worked hard together, one day,
Then this day, suddenly, a surprise fell upon her.

"Try to open the door with the keys in your hand, Mengzi-chan." Beichuan Xiu smiled and rubbed her head. "I told you. I will try my best to make money, at least I won't let my Mengzi-chan starve or freeze."

This was also the promise he made to Jabami Rei. Unfortunately, this guy had to stay in the hospital tonight to continue taking care of Takeuchi Osamu and could not come to visit their new home.

If nothing unexpected happens, "No Longer Human" may further enhance Kitagawa Hide's status in the literary world, but the fact that Kitagawa Hide is Kitagawa Hide will eventually become public knowledge.

It's better to let her come here and suffer a social failure than to let her suffer a social failure in a scenario that no one could have imagined, right?

Unfortunately, Jabami Rei missed this good opportunity.

"woooooo"

My wife Mengzi started crying, sobbing loudly and uncontrollably.

Kitagawa Hide was startled, and quickly hugged her and whispered a few words of comfort, then used a long and deep French kiss to completely calm down his emotionally out-of-control little wife.

This time, she did not dodge or refuse, but took the initiative to stick out her tongue and entangled with Kitagawa Hide in a trance.

Enjoy the tranquility and beauty of this moment with him.

After a deep kiss, my wife Yumeko carefully opened the door of the cafe.

A black figure flew into the arms of the host and hostess with a mournful "meow".

"You stupid cat." Kitagawa Hide pulled my wife Yumeko in. Before he could introduce the new home, he saw the messy hall made by Pete. He couldn't help but hold his forehead, thinking about how to prevent Pete from demolishing the house in the future.

"Oh, by the way, Hideki, this is for you!" Immersed in happiness, Yumeko Agatsuma suddenly remembered something and quickly took out the reply letter from Takeuchi Osamu from her bag, "This is the reply letter from Mr. Takeuchi!"

Kitagawa Hide immediately opened the letter and saw that the letterhead read, "If possible, I would like to meet you once. I sincerely invite you to come to the Faculty of Literature at the University of Tokyo to give a literature appreciation class to the students."

(End of this chapter)