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Hualichun stood in front of a tombstone in a daze.On the tombstone, the name of the deceased is engraved in neat characters: Chiba Akira.

There is a black and white photo inlaid on the tombstone. The young man in the photo looks out of the photo, with a shy smile on his face.

"I really found it..." Hualichun subconsciously glanced at the literature and art news materials on her mobile phone, "Mr. Chiba Akira's tomb..."

"Such a young man committed suicide..."

Hualichun withdrew her gaze from looking at her mobile phone, and placed the bouquet in her hand in front of the grave.Then, she clasped her hands together, lowered her head slightly, and closed her eyes.

After the simple worship, Hualichun opened his eyes again, but from the corner of his eye, he suddenly caught a glimpse of something falling on the side of the road not far away.

"What is this?" She subconsciously walked over and picked up the notebook that had been left in the grass by the roadside.

The paper of the notebook has turned yellow, and the cover has also faded. It is obvious that it has been read many times.After hesitating for a while, with the idea of ​​finding the owner, Hualichun opened the notebook anyway.

Tomo Noguchi walked out of the cemetery and across the street.Before entering the subway station, he just wanted to take the bus pass from his bag, but when he touched the bag, he felt something was wrong.

Noguchi Satoshi subconsciously took off the bag on his back and took a look.

When his eyes fell on the zipper that he forgot to zip, his face suddenly changed, and his face that was originally red from alcohol suddenly turned white.

……

Where?Where did it fall?

Noguchi Satoshi held his bag tightly in his hand, and walked along the way he came.As he walked, he opened his bloodshot eyes wide and searched the ground for traces of the notebook.

It may fall out of sight, be picked up by someone, or be thrown away by management personnel as garbage...the possibility of getting it back is very slim.But Noguchi Satoshi didn't want to believe the fact that he had lost the notes, and just kept walking and searching in vain.

It doesn't matter if you lose your wallet, driver's license, keys, but that notebook...

Noguchi Satoshi walked all the way, but failed to find the notes.It wasn't until he came to Chiba Akira's tombstone again that he stopped abruptly.

In front of the tombstone he visited not long ago, stood a short-haired girl in a sailor suit.The girl turned her back to him, lowered her head, and was flipping through the notes he was looking for in her hands.

This is the first time after ten years, that notebook has been taken by someone other than myself.

"Ah," Satoshi Noguchi subconsciously took a few steps forward, "That's my notebook..."

Hearing the voice from behind, the girl suddenly came back to her senses.She raised her head, then turned her head to stare blankly.

The moment he saw the girl's face, Noguchi was stunned.

It was a face that had not yet been extracted from the words in the notes.The short purple hair was blown away by the wind. The girl opened her emerald green eyes and looked at him blankly, but there were two tears on her cheeks.

Did she... cry?

Just when Tomo Noguchi didn't know how to speak for a moment, the girl turned around and held the note in her hand.

"Is this... yours?" Hualichun asked, tears still streaming down her face.

"...Yeah." Noguchi Tomo nodded.

"This notebook says..."

Hualichun is still holding the notebook in her hand in a daze, and she has turned to the last page of the handwritten manuscript on the notebook: "It's so touching. This is a story about pursuing an ideal self by describing an ideal world like a fairy tale. "

"Ah, I'm sorry, I just read it on my own." She raised her hand and wiped her face, then carefully closed the note again, "Because I wanted to see if there was any clue of the owner in the note, so I did it without permission..."

"It might be offensive to say it now, but I still want to say it's great to see something like this."

Noguchi Satoshi didn't speak, but walked forward and took the note handed to him by Jun Huali.

Holding the yellowed notebook, he was silent for a few seconds, then looked at Hualichun.

"Right," Tomo Noguchi hugged the note tightly, and suddenly smiled, "It's an article, okay?"

At that moment, Huali Jun looked at Noguchi Tomo's smile and was stunned again.

It was a smile she hadn't seen a few times so far.That kind of smile, as if abandoning everything else, just purely happy for a certain thing, is a clumsy, sincere, and defenseless smile that is rarely seen on the faces of carefree children.

It seemed that because of Hualichun's words and the tears she was willing to shed, he was enough to surrender his soul.

But when Noguchi Tomo left with the notes, that smile disappeared with his turn.Only Hualijun stood in front of Chiba Akira's tombstone, watching his back gradually go away.

***

After visiting the Qingshan Cemetery during the lunch break, Hualichun finished the afternoon class in a daze, went home from school with the Zaomen brothers and sisters in a daze, dealt with letters from readers and inventory of the bookstore in a daze, and finished replying in a daze Mail, finished the dinner at Hoshinosha today in a daze.

"what 's the truth?"

After dinner, Hualichun sat in front of the TV in the leisure area, staring in a daze at the literary news program that still broadcast news about Satoshi Noguchi.

The news hosts on TV talked with eloquence, and in the expansion film broadcast on the program, the rumors on the Internet intensified, almost describing Satoshi Noguchi as a devil, and some people even thought that he would face criminal prosecution.

"No matter what, he won't let me write about the subjects I want to write about." The writer interviewed by the TV station had a thick mosaic on his face, and his voice was also changed. Things, professional writers must have this kind of awareness... they are simply tyrants."

"This person regards literature and writers as nothing, without any respect..."

"I have a lot of things that I want to write, but I have been rejected by Noguchi. Even if it is a subject that can pass the plan at the beginning, I can't make my own decisions. Noguchi said that we should modify what he said, and we writers must follow what he said. change."

"I really can't work with that guy. Why can he become the editor-in-chief? It's because the world only looks at money, right? People who can make money are promoted step by step. Even if they don't love literature at all, they can still become the editor of a literary magazine." Editor-in-Chief..."

The sound on the TV was still ringing, but Hualichun felt a little out of tune.

The person I met at the Aoyama Cemetery at noon was definitely Satoshi Noguchi.If he was really such an evil person, why would Noguchi have such a smile at that time?

She still remembered the notebook that Noguchi Satoshi claimed.Judging from the paper quality of the notes, it is a book that has been preserved for a long time, and even the handwriting on it is slightly worn; judging from the content, it is an unfinished work written in the notes, with only about [-] to [-] words. The following pages are all blank, and the last content was written a long time ago.

Before the notes were taken back, Hualichun found the author's name inside the notebook.

——Chiba Akira.

……

On the weekend, Xiang Kai took Huali Jun on the JR train to Saitama.The destination is Xiangkai's hometown - Chiba County.

Although the digitization of Bailang Club was earlier than that of Hoshino Club, it did not spend a lot of effort to put a mountain of old works online like Huali Jun."The Age of Literature and Art" ten years ago has not been included in the electronic version, so look for old books to read.

Xiang Kai started contributing articles more than ten years ago, and he must have paid attention to literature since then.With this in mind, Hualichun asked Xiang Kai by chance, and found that he had been buying well-known literary magazines every issue since middle school, including "Literary Times".It's just that the magazines from ten years ago are too old, and they are all stored in the warehouse of his hometown.

After arriving at his hometown in Saitama Prefecture, Xiang Kai rummaged through the boxes piled up in the warehouse for a long time, and finally found a few of them that were full of dust.

"In these few boxes are all the "Literary Times" I bought." He said to Hualichun.

After opening the box, the two picked up the magazines and quickly rummaged through them.

The one that was not completed in the notes was called "Traveler".It is about what a traveler sees and hears, and it depicts a fantasy land that hardly exists in any possible reality.

In Hualichun's view, this article seems to be about what travelers see and hear in a fantasy country. It seems almost unrealistic to the point of absurdity, just like the scenery in a fairy tale, but what it actually expresses is The author Chiba Akira's inner world.

The same scenery is different in everyone's eyes. What is described in "Traveler" is the world pursued by Chiba Akira's eyes, which belongs to Chiba Akira alone.

"When you see something like this, you will want to publish it no matter what..." Hualichun searched for "Traveler" in several consecutive issues of the magazine, "Which issue is it published in?"

However, no matter how hard they searched, Hualichun and Xiangkai could not find the traces published in "Traveler".

She understood: "Traveler" is Chiba Akira's unfinished and never published posthumous work.

***

Time passed gradually.It has been more than a week since Noguchi Satoshi fell into flames.

late April.

Since Oda Inu's "Couple Zenzai" was published in Hoshinosha's electronic archives, after completing the daily work of the publishing house, Jun Huali started to start a new job.

That is to count the data of old Hoshinosha works that have been online in the electronic archives so far, and sort out a batch of old works that are most popular with readers, and republish them after many years.

Since the establishment of the electronic archives, the number of old works that have been uploaded with the consent of writers has approached four digits.Among this batch of works, some were deeply loved when they were published, and still stand out from many works today; Works that have been found to shine.

This time, Hualichun is going to launch a collection of short stories composed of short stories by different writers.Among the short stories written by Koyama Kaya when he was still using the pseudonym "Yamada Fumiya", "The King at Seven O'Clock on Sunday Night" is also planned to be included in the anthology.

After sending an email to Koyama Kaya, Huali Jun received a reply soon.Xiao Shanjia also made an appointment with her in the letter to meet and discuss.

After more than half a year, Hualichun once again stepped into the villa of Xiaoshan Jiaye's family.