Mr. Hat who was forced to lose his memory

Before receiving the letter from Natsume Soseki, Honda Chrysanthemum had been staying in Shimo Uno Rei Village in Yamaguchi Prefecture.Although the place is poor and sparsely populated, the climate is warm and pleasant. This place is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and there are few typhoons and earthquakes. Honda Ju likes this place very much and has lived here for a while.

Recently, a new family moved in next to his house. Out of courtesy, Honda Ju once visited his new neighbor with a gift.The hostess is called Kashiwamura Fuku, and she is very enthusiastic. She was very pleasantly surprised when she received a gift from her neighbor, and immediately invited Honda Ju to sit at home for a while.

According to Kashiwamura Fuku, the head of the family, Kashiwamura Kensuke, used to be an army doctor stationed in Lushun. He was transferred to Hiroshima in Meiji 40, and the family moved to Hiroshima and Kanazawa for a period of time.It was not until Kensuke Kashiwamura was recently transferred to North Korea that they moved back to their hometown of Yamaguchi.Her father, Masatoshi Nakahara, is a doctor who runs a local Yutian Hospital and has practiced medicine for many years.

There are four children in their family. The oldest child is Kashiwamura Nakaya, who is seven years old this year and goes to Shimouno Lingfan Higher Primary School.His personality is very lively and active, talented and intelligent, and he is known as a child prodigy.Honda Ju likes this child very much, and has brought him many sweets and snacks in private.

In January, the second child of the Baicun family, Yalang Baicun, died of illness. As a mother, Fuku Baicun was naturally very sad, and shed tears all day long at home.Honda Ju could only pat her on the shoulder feebly, trying to comfort her.After the madam managed to calm down, she suddenly discovered that her oldest child was missing, and she didn't know where she went.

"Don't panic, ma'am. Zhong is an older child and knows how to tell right from wrong. I will go to him. You just need to rest at home." Honda Ju said warmly.

"I'm really sorry to cause you trouble..." Bai Cunfu wiped away his tears with a handkerchief, and whispered.

Honda Ju searched outside for nearly an hour, and finally found the missing Kashiwamura Nakaya by a river.

The boy sat on the soft ground on the shore, with his arms crossed and his knees curled up into a ball.Honda Ju took a closer look, only to find that the boy was crying silently with his head buried in his knees.

Bai Cunzhong is also seven years old, so he can vaguely know the meaning of "death".He also knew that when his younger brother Aro Kashiwamura was covered with a white cloth, he would never wake up.

In order not to make my mother more sad, did she run to the remote riverside alone and cry for her dead brother...

Thinking of this, Honda Ju felt sorry for the boy even more.So he sat next to Nakaya Kashiwamura, didn't say anything, just patted the boy on the back quietly, everything was kept silent.

The cold wind of the first month was very cold, and Honda Ju was worried that a little boy who ran out in very thin clothes would catch a cold, so he took off his kimono jacket and covered him.As the soul of the country, he will not be easily knocked down by this cold wind.

Ten minutes later, Kashiwamura finally stopped crying, and thanked Honda Ju with red eyes.

"Your brother went to a very beautiful place. Seeing you so sad, he will be very sad when he sees you in the sky." Honda Ju comforted him.

Kashiwa Village also nodded silently, looking at the sparkling water.Suddenly, he opened his mouth and recited a sentence softly.

Honda Ju looked at the boy with some surprise.It was a waka, although the words were immature, but it could be heard that the heart was poured into the brother's love and longing for the dead brother. ②

At this moment, he suddenly had an inexplicable intuition that this little boy may have an inseparable relationship with poetry in the future.

In October, the male host Kensuke Kashiwamura finished his work in North Korea and returned to Yamaguchi. At the same time, he officially entered into his natal family. The Kashiwamura family all changed their surnames to Kashiwamura Fuku's old surname—that is, Zhongyuan.

Two months later, Honda Ju received a letter from his good friend Natsume Soseki, saying that he had recently accepted a student who was very talented and wanted to introduce him to him.In addition, his boss wanted him to come back recently, so Honda Ju roughly packed his bags and prepared to leave. Before leaving the mountain pass, he did not forget to say goodbye to his neighbors.

"Thanks to your care recently, I'm going to leave here and go back to Tokyo." Honda Ju bowed solemnly. During the time he lived here, the family has taken good care of him, and he will not forget any delicious food. Asked the eldest son to send him there, which made Honda Ju very grateful.

Kashiwamura Nakaya—now called Zhongyuan Zhongya, he looked up at Honda Ju, although he didn't say anything, but the corners of his mouth turned up to reveal his reluctance at the moment.

So Honda called the eight-year-old boy out alone and gave him a book.

"What is this?" Zhongyuan Zhong also lowered his head, looked at the book that seemed to be old, and flipped through it a few times. He couldn't understand the language in it, and it seemed to be a foreign language.

"This is Mr. Rimbaud's collection of poems "Collection of Colored Paintings." Honda Juwen said, "At present, there are very few people who translate this work in China. When you grow up, you can come to Tokyo to study at a university and study French. Translate this The work of a poet."

Although I don't know whether Nakahara Chuya will really go that way in the end, but Honda Ju has given him a guide, and what to do in the future depends on Nakahara Nakaya himself.

By the time I returned to Tokyo, it was already the second year.And after that, Honda Chrysanthemum was still busy dealing with the affairs accumulated during his residence in Yamaguchi, and there were many social occasions that he could never finish attending. It's March.

Honda Chrysanthemum woke up very early, and went to visit his friend Natsume Soseki at the Soseki Sanbo in Minamicho, Waseda, and heard a vague conversation outside the door.

"Natsume-sensei, haven't you been ordered by your wife to ban desserts because you have diabetes? Is it really okay to eat chestnuts?"

The subject of the question laughed a few times: "My wife made this herself. She thinks that the so-called sweet things are only dim sum, and other things are fine, of course chestnuts are not included. Ryunosuke-kun, remember not to Tell my wife."

Honda Chrysanthemum pushed the door open and persuaded him helplessly, "It's not good for you to take advantage of the loopholes like this. Don't ruin your body just because of your gluttony, Kinnosuke-kun."

Natsume Soseki has suffered from neurasthenia for more than ten years, and has been suffering from it. In recent years, he has unfortunately suffered from diabetes. His wife ordered him to prohibit eating any unhealthy food, including desserts.For this reason, he also complained to Honda Chrysanthemum several times.

"Every time I can only watch Ryunosuke-kun taste the rice cake and red bean soup made by my wife, but I can't eat it. This is tantamount to torture for me!"

Honda Ju imagined what if he was banned from any desserts due to health problems... A nightmare, an absolute nightmare.But because he is the soul of the country, he doesn't have that trouble. If he really has health problems, it means that Japan is in danger.

A cat raised by Natsume's family came to his feet at some point, and was rubbing against his trouser legs and acting coquettishly.Honda Chrysanthemum bent down and hugged the three-colored cat, stroked its soft fur, and softened his expression.

Natsume Soseki is a cat lover.In Meiji 37, he became famous for serializing "I am a cat" in "Cuckoo" magazine. The story uses a cat raised by a poor teacher as the protagonist, and observes human psychology from its perspective.The prototype of the protagonist cat in this work is the cat raised by Natsume Soseki at that time. Now that cat has gone west, but the cat in the story has become an eternal classic.

Honda Chrysanthemum had received a sample magazine from Natsume Soseki, and would read it in his spare time.

The surface language of this work is relaxed and witty, and it is suitable for all ages to read.But in fact, the connotation is very deep. It exposes and criticizes Japan's self-proclaimed "civilized" society in the early Meiji period.Rao Honda Ju also has to admit that there is indeed an increasingly serious problem of class differentiation in today's society. Money has become the object of people's pursuit, while moral values ​​are constantly declining.

He always has a premonition that this society is gradually going bad, and one day it will be backlashed.However, whenever the emperor asked him if he had encountered something worrying, he would put on a safe expression and reply: "I have nothing to do, my lord is worrying too much."

In the final analysis, Honda Ju is just the soul of the country, without the power to directly manage the country's major affairs, and can only stand aside and watch the country's unknown future under the leadership of those people.

While stroking the cat, Honda Chrysanthemum criticized Natsume Soseki: "However, you can't just sit back and ignore your own health."

Soseki Natsume cleverly changed the subject: "Considering getting a cat, Mr. Honda?"

"I still can't. I'm afraid I don't have much energy to manage my personal affairs. Is that the Akutagawa-kun you mentioned?" Honda Ju looked at the young man sitting opposite Natsume Soseki. He looked a little nervous and his posture was correct. Be a little cautious.Seeing this, Honda Ju couldn't help saying: "Don't be nervous, I won't eat you."

Akutagawa Ryunosuke responded immediately: "It is I, who has admired your name for a long time. Natsume-sensei often tells me about you, saying that you are a great national soul that has survived for thousands of years."

Hearing this, Honda Ju immediately opened his eyes wide in surprise.Even though he often comes into contact with human beings, few people know his true identity. Only high-level figures such as the emperor and cabinet ministers know about the special existence of the national soul.

Even the personal guards sent by the emperor to protect him would not be informed of his true identity, and would only think that he was a distinguished nobleman.

Except for the royal family, only those human friends who have a close relationship with him know.

Those people will invariably keep this secret, and will not tell their relatives and friends until they die. This is their natural and integrated respect for the soul of the country.

In the 22nd year of Meiji, 23-year-old Natsume Soseki first met Honda Kiku at the University of Tokyo; in the 49th year of Taisho, he was 26 years old. Uncle, but Honda Chrysanthemum's appearance still maintains the appearance of [-] years ago, without any signs of aging.

It was as if this ruthless machine called time had passed him by.

It was only at this time that Natsume Soseki discovered the abnormality of this friend, so he asked out, and after getting the answer from the other party, he was not surprised, but had a sudden realization of "it really is".

Honda Ju knows Natsume Soseki's character, he is not a person who can talk nonsense.So Natsume Soseki will tell Akutagawa Ryunosuke about his identity, which means that he really thinks Akutagawa Ryunosuke is a friend worthy of association?

"Ah, that's right, Ryunosuke-kun is a very talented junior. These are some articles he has published, Mr. Honda can take them back and read."

Honda Ju took some books handed over by the other party, the top one was the first issue of "New Trends of Thought".

"The article "The Nose" is very good. I am very optimistic about Ryunosuke-kun's article. Although he is only a newcomer, let's see if he writes another twenty or thirty articles like this in the future. He will definitely become a rare writer in the literary world. ③."

Facing Natsume Soseki's compliment, Akutagawa Ryunosuke seemed a little at a loss, his ears even turned red: "Natsume-sensei..."

So Honda Kiku couldn't help feeling amused, and replied, "Ah, yes, I'll read Akutagawa-kun's works carefully, I'm really looking forward to it."

"It's just some clumsy works." Akutagawa Ryunosuke whispered.

It is said to be a clumsy work, but when Honda Chrysanthemum went back and read it carefully, he was surprised by the thought and literary talent of Akutagawa Ryunosuke. It is no wonder that Natsume Soseki would accept such a person as a disciple, and from time to time he would support this junior .

He suddenly began to look forward to what kind of height this junior would reach.

The author has something to say: ①: Chuya’s father, Kensuke, was a military doctor, and the principal of the military medical school he was attending at that time was Mori Ogai.Chuuya said that his name was given by Mori Ogai, but in fact the name "chuuya" was taken from the name of Nakamura Midoriya, a military doctor who took good care of his father. " and "also (ya)". (The training pronunciation of "中" in Japanese is naka, and the pronunciation is chuu)

②: Later, Zhong also said in the "Resume of Poetry" written in 1936, "One cold morning, the waka written for my younger brother who died in the first month of that year was the earliest beginning of my poetic life."

③: It is the original words of Mr. Natsume in reality.

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Mr. Natsume's "I Am a Cat" is really super good-looking, and I have read it several times without getting bored.