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Chapter 21 The Arrogance and Pursuit of the Japanese

Like Jiang Danfeng predicted, Du Qiu encountered trouble when he went to the Japanese Embassy to apply for a visa, but did not refuse the visa on the spot. Instead, under the leadership of a staff member, he went to another office not far from the visa office.

"Mr. Watanabe, Mr. Du is here."

"Hi, Mr. Du, please come in."

Du Qiu bowed slightly to the staff who led the way, and then walked into an office decorated with a distinct Japanese style. There were two people in professional suits in the office, one man and one woman. The man was about forty years old, with a short figure, wearing glasses, and a soft and messy hair. His image was a bit obscene, which reminded people of the Japanese translator in the black and white anti-Japanese war movie. The woman had a pretty face and exquisite makeup, and could not tell her age. At first glance, she looked like a girl in her 20s, but when she looked closely, she felt like a **** in her 30s.

"Mr. Du Qiu, please sit here." The woman greeted Du Qiu in fluent and standard Mandarin, and introduced while serving tea: "This is Mr. Ichiro Watanabe, the second-class secretary of our embassy. I am the translator Aiko Komatsu."

Du Qiu greeted the two of them in accordance with the Japanese etiquette, then sat down on the chair opposite Ichiro Watanabe through the coffee table, and asked directly in Japanese: "Mr. Watanabe, are there any problems with my visa application?"

"We have noticed that your country has recently reported on Mr. Du, which mentioned that you have lived in Japan, but there is no record of this in our embassy or in Japan. Mr. Du, can you explain it?"

"The things in the newspaper should not be taken seriously except for dates."

"Mr. Du said that these are all false reports?" Ichiro Watanabe picked up the folder in front of him, took out seven or eight clippings from it, spread them one by one on the coffee table, and said: "These are all authoritative media in your country. The reports include your relatives and neighbors as testimony. There are also this, the American Wired magazine, and the report content comes from your oral statement."

"Mr. Watanabe, I'll say it again. The media reports should not be taken seriously." Du Qiu's dead pig was not afraid of boiling water. He picked up the clipping of "Wire" and looked at it, then put it back in place, and said, "If the embassy rejected my visa application for such inexplicable reasons, I would be disappointed and say goodbye."

If you pass the visa, you can go to Japan alone to find out the environment in 1995, and you will not be afraid of missed things in the future...

If you don’t have a visa, you can justify not paying homage to your “adoptive father”. After a few years, the environment will change, and a sentence that things are right and wrong can be covered up...

In short, Du Qiu can attack and defend while retreating and not care whether he can get a visa. He is hard because he has no desire, so he simply stands up and is about to leave. The translator Aiko Komatsu hurriedly got up and stopped him, bowing and said, "I'm very sorry, Mr. Du, Mr. Watanabe doesn't mean that."

Ichiro Watanabe did not get up, but leaned on the sofa, with an arrogant expression on his face and said in an irresistible tone: "Mr. Du, we can approve your visa application, but when you arrive in Japan, you must act under the supervision of your own police officers."

Du Qiu sneered, too lazy to respond even when he responded, so he pulled his feet and left.

"Mr. Du, Mr. Du Qiu, please wait." Aiko Komatsu chased after him from behind and apologized again: "I'm very sorry, Mr. Watanabe is very rude and has caused you trouble."

Like his father Lin Dawei, Du Qiu is both a person who is soft but not hard. This woman did not offend him, so she said it was okay with her kindness, and then switched to Chinese and praised: "You speak very standard Mandarin."

"Mr. Du, your Japanese is also very standard." Aiko Komatsu also changed to Chinese and said with a smile: "I have been in Beijing for ten years and I watch TV and learn Mandarin every day. Where did Mr. Du learn Japanese?"

"Like you, you also learn to watch TV."

“Is there any Japanese TV program in China?”

Du Qiu stopped, looked at Aiko Komatsu and said, "What does Miss Aiko want to say?"

"Ano..." Aiko Komatsu had a rich expression. She looked at him with a mixed look of nervousness, admiration and expectation, then bent down and bowed 90 degrees, and asked in her mother tongue: "Mr. Du Qiu, can I watch the latest chapter of "White Night Walk"? I'm very sorry, thank you!"

Oh, it turns out to be a fan...

Du Qiu knew that with the increase of fame and wealth, his vague and ambiguous life experiences were difficult to satisfy some institutions or those who were interested. However, before traveling through time, he only worked as an exchange student in Osaka for half a year. He knew very little about the Japanese social environment in the 1980s and 1990s, and could not provide any details of life for textual research. In order to plug this loophole, he decided to make a specious circumstance evidence, and this circumstance evidence is the representative work of "White Night Walk" by the famous Japanese mystery novelist Keigo Higashino.

"White Night Walk" was serialized in a journal from 1997 to 1999. The content started with a murder case in Osaka in 1973. When the male and female protagonists were still children, they killed their parents for various reasons. They never intervened again and never even spoke, but they covered up their crimes for each other and wiped out all the people or things that were not conducive to the other party. After 19 years of investigation, an old policeman discovered the whereabouts of the male protagonist in 1992. The male protagonist jumped off the building to commit suicide. The female protagonist looked at his body, refused to admit that he had anything to do with him, and turned around and left as if nothing had happened.

This novel is one of the most famous works of Keigo Higashino. It has been translated into many languages ​​and has been adapted into TV series and movies one after another. However, the purpose of Du Qiu's plagiarism is not because it is wonderful, but because this novel contains many social details about the prosperity of the Japanese economy to the bursting of the bubble, such as Mario, Hanshin, Tigers, golf fever, etc. These details can only be understood by people who have lived in Japan for many years, otherwise they will not be written at all. Therefore, they can be used as evidence of their life in Japan.

Many people in the world like to introduce the author's experience, thinking, emotions and other things from the works. The male and female protagonists in "White Night Walk" cannot walk in the sun because they are guilty and can only cover up their whereabouts in the form of hiding, which is very consistent with Du Qiu's image of "smuggling tourists". The male protagonist in the book is proficient in electronic and mechanical technology, good at analysis and planning, and never repeats the same mistake. It is also exactly the same as Du Qiu's image of "high IQ" and "self-taught". It can almost be said that this novel was tailor-made for him.

In 1995, Japan had about 3 million netizens, which was the second largest Internet country after the United States. The number of websites was far more than that of China. Du Qiu had the original Japanese version of this novel on his smartphone, which was effortless to plagiarize. After he came back from Thailand, he posted "White Night Walk" in a Japanese news group dedicated to discussing mystery novels. The novel has a total of about 350,000 words, and now it has been published about 190,000 words. The character image and plot suspense have been laid out. It is the hottest topic in the news group and has attracted a lot of discussion and pursuit from netizens. Unexpectedly, this beautiful translator in the Japanese Embassy is also one of the fans.

"How do you know I wrote it?"

"Mr. Du Qiu's un2758 ​​is a very famous id on the Internet." Seeing that Du Qiu's expression was very peaceful, Aiko Komatsu didn't seem to object, so she bowed again and asked, "Can I?"

"Yes." (To be continued.)
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