Zongman: Unknowingly trapped in the hatchet

"Well, actually I came here today just to finish reading this book. You know, it's almost making people itch..."

Su Qing felt offended and tried to make up for his mistake.

However, it was this one sentence that completely broke through Yukinoshita's last fragile line of defense.

"Pfft." Yukinoshita couldn't help but chuckled, but quickly covered her mouth with her hands. However, Su Qing could clearly see that Yukinoshita's body was facing away from him.

?

Am I being laughed at by...

That’s right, it must be like this, right?

Although Su Qing didn't understand what was so funny, the mental blow he suffered was real.

Su Qing touched her face awkwardly. She seemed to have felt this awkward when Shiina fed her pudding for the first time.

Although Su Qing couldn't see Xuexia's face at this time, he could get a rough idea from her trembling body. So, he said with some depression.

"Well, is it so funny?"

"No, I'm not laughing."

Yukinoshita seemed to have adjusted her mood, and turned her body sideways again. Her beautiful eyes showed no emotion, as if the few chuckles just now came from [Ms. Yuuna of Yuiyosou].

Perfect acting. If the other person's mouth muscles hadn't been twitching, Su Qing would have doubted himself.

Yukinoshita, oh Yukinoshita, do you really think I'm a fool?

Su Qing hesitated for a moment, then put on an innocent look and said weakly.

"Um, my phone is out of battery and turned off. Do you have a charging cable?"

"No, no."

This time, the twitching of the mouth muscles was a little more obvious.

Su Qing didn't say anything else, but just stared at Xueshita with his big innocent eyes.

Finally, with a "puff", Yukinoshita could no longer hold back her laughter. She did not turn sideways again, but just used her hands to cover up the clear laughter like a silver bell.

Are all young ladies’ sense of humor so low?

Su Qing looked at Yukinoshita who had a switch poked, and sighed.

There really is something wrong with this service department!

Of course, Yukinoshita didn't laugh for long. After a while, Yukinoshita adjusted her mood and returned to her normal state.

During this period, Su Qing did not say anything more, for fear that some word or tone of voice would hit Xueshita's funny bone through the air again.

After a while, Su Qing thought about it and decided to leave. Just when Su Qing was about to leave, Yukinoshita suddenly spoke.

"Don't you need to go back and review?"

"There's no need to cram at the last minute." Su Qing answered without hesitation.

"how about you?"

"I have the same idea as you." Yukinoshita shook her head. As she has always been at the top of the list, she naturally would not pin her hopes on the exams these days.

"So you came to the club to read?" Su Qing glanced at the book in Yukinoshita's hand, and it turned out to be Mr. Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman".

"Yeah, I'm used to it." Yukinoshita said calmly. Then, she asked what she really wanted to ask.

"Have you finished reading "White Night Walk"?"

"Well, what?"

"What do you think of this book?"

Day Night Walk?

Su Qing glanced at the book on his seat out of the corner of his eye. He had indeed been reading "White Night Walk" these past few days.

Translation is an art that often unconsciously carries the translator's personal emotions.

In fact, in many cases, if you learn the language yourself, you will most likely have a different feeling when reading the original work.

Su Qing is in such a situation now.

"Very good. From both a literary and social perspective, its achievements and contributions can be described as excellent."

It's a very objective answer, but Yukinoshita obviously didn't want this kind of official template answer.

Even Yukinoshita herself didn't notice that there was a hint of anxiety in her tone, and even her speaking speed was a little faster than usual, but it was not easy to detect.

"It's mentioned in the book that there are two things in the world that you can't look directly at: the sun and the human heart. I want to hear your opinion on this."

Before, she wouldn't care at all even if she saw Su Qing watching "White Night Walk", but after experiencing Zaimokuza's last commission, she had become a little curious about Su Qing.

You know, the collision of ideas is the best way to break bottlenecks and improve yourself.

And now, after realizing that the other party has finished reading and is about to leave, I realize that now is the best time to ask questions.

Are you asking this? It seems like this is getting interesting...

"What do you think?"

Su Qing is not in a hurry to express his own understanding. Literary communication has always been a discussion, rather than a single answer.

“Well, the first thing that cannot be looked at directly is the sun, literally, because of its strong light that cannot be looked at directly with the naked eye.

“I think Mr. Higashino is using the sun to suggest the challenges and difficulties in life, which are too complex to face all at once.

But just as we can look directly at the sun with sunglasses, we can also solve those things that we cannot solve by taking the right measures.”

Very good, excellent.

Su Qing felt deeply moved.

Many people who have not read "White Night Walk" and only analyze this sentence alone often only care about the sentence "human heart".

However, if you have read "White Night Walk", you will be immersed in the "good" and "evil" of human nature described by Higashino, and will be more limited to the human heart than those who have not read it.

When seeing this sentence, many people only take the first sentence literally without analyzing it carefully.

However, if this were true, there would be no need for Mr. Higashino to mention the sun at all.

You know, the other party is known for his concise language. Wouldn't it be better to highlight and reflect the core of the sentence by simply writing "The only thing in the world that cannot be looked directly at is the human heart"?

"Keep talking."

Su Qing sat down and looked at Xueshita with a smile.

Yukinoshita Kiyoshi coughed, hesitated for a moment, and continued.

"Another thing that cannot be looked at directly is the human heart. In my opinion, the brilliance of the good side of human nature is as dazzling as the sun.

The evil side of human nature is bottomless darkness, full of filth, which makes people want to avoid it and cannot bear to look at it directly. "

"Then, will you choose to look directly at the so-called [evil] side?"

"nature."

"Even if it's so filthy that you can't bear to look at it?"

"Even if it's filthy and unbearable to look at."

The cold and lonely girl answered decisively and neatly, as if she had thought about it and performed it countless times.

"I've finished talking, it's your turn now?" Seeing that Su Qing had not responded for a long time, Yukinoshita felt that she was being taken advantage of, so she urged.

"You just compared the goodness of human nature to the sun, right? Do you think the sun is great?"

The great sun? It was the first time that Yukinoshita heard such a combination and was confused, but then she listened to Su Qing slowly speaking.

“Nature is great. Apart from those deep-sea creatures that have adapted to the dark environment, it provides energy and food for the entire biosphere and creates an environment suitable for the survival of organisms.

So, we yearn, yearn and desire. ”

It was very easy to understand biological knowledge, but Yukinoshita didn't understand what Su Qing wanted to express for a moment.

"Do you think the sun is lonely?"

"Lonely?"

“People cannot live without the sun, but if the sun is a little closer, we will be trapped in the hot summer, and if it is a little farther away, we will fall into the cold winter.

Therefore, the sun can only move in the appropriate orbit forever.

The more dazzling it is, the more I dare not look directly at it; the warmer it is, the more I dare not approach it. "

Su Qing continued to speak and Yukinoshita continued to listen.

“There is a saying in this world called ‘white moonlight’, but there is no such thing as ‘white daylight’, because people know they cannot embrace the sun.

The moon was gentle, giving them endless fantasies.

But when they find that they cannot embrace the "white moonlight", they will say "it turns out that the moon was shining on more than just me that night", and become sad.

But what they don’t understand is that the light cast by the moon is actually sunlight.”

Su Qing continued to whisper.

“The more outstanding you are, the lonelier you are. The more you can hold your loneliness back, the more outstanding you are.”

At this moment, Yukinoshita's heart was touched. She thought about her own experience and the things she was pursuing. She wanted to say something, but unexpectedly didn't know what to say.

"But you have to know that people are not the sun. People cannot embrace the sun, but people can embrace each other."

"But how can we shorten the distance between people's hearts when they embrace each other?"

Su Qing pondered.

“The distance between people’s hearts is the reason why they are close.

Like stars reflected in each other’s shadows, it is not because they are close, but because their light shines together.”

After hearing this, Yukinoshita felt her blood suddenly become hot. She bit her lips lightly, trying to calm herself down.

Seeing this, Su Qing stopped talking. In fact, he had said everything he needed to say.

"I'm done. I'm leaving now."

Su Qing said goodbye to Xuexia and was about to leave, but after taking a few steps, he heard an anxious voice behind him.

"and many more!"

Su Qing turned around and saw that the girl's hair had become a little messy.

"Any thing else?"

"without……"

"I'm leaving?"

Su Qing looked at Xueshita with a smile. Although she said she wanted to leave, her feet did not move.

[This guy really has a bad taste]

Yukinoshita thought angrily, but her messy hair and delicate face only made people want to "bully" her even more.

"Next time, can we do it like today?"

"Not next time."

Su Qing answered subconsciously without giving it much thought.

"?"

Yukinoshita was obviously stunned for a moment, as if she didn't expect Su Qing to refuse so decisively.

"Next time, I won't let you laugh at me because my phone is out of battery."

Su Qing pretended to sigh, but he was really depressed. The eldest lady's sense of humor was really a bit strange.

"Okay, then I won't laugh next time."

Yukinoshita said this, but she didn't try to hide the slight curve at the corner of her mouth.

"That……"

Su Qing knew what Yukinoshita wanted to say, he just chuckled and replied in a matter-of-fact tone.

"It's normal for friends to communicate like this. I'd rather like to hear your opinions."

【Friends? When? 】

Yukinoshita was confused, but Su Qing could no longer give an explanation as his back had disappeared from Yukinoshita's sight.

In the Service Club, Yukinoshita was the only one left. It was the same as before, yet also seemed different.

……

After Su Qing left, Yukinoshita stood by the window, independent of the world like a winter plum, gazing at the scenery below. She returned to her seat only after seeing Su Qing's figure.

[Really? So we are already friends? ]

[Friends, it seems like there are more of us without us noticing]