Chapter 14 first quarter

It's getting cooler again. Thinking about it carefully, October has also entered the second half of the month, and yesterday I even took out the kotatsu and put it in the room.No, to be precise, it was covering the kotatsu that had been kept in the room with a futon.In this way, the lower body and the kotatsu can be integrated into one whole winter to live.The upper body is a human being, and the lower body is a warm table. This can be regarded as a "human warm table princess", right? The "Human Hot Table Princess" would lose her voice once she left the hot table, so she had no choice but to use Amazon to send the prince over. Amazon is awesome.

But the "Princess of the Hot Table" also has to become something that humans go out to deal with, such as eating, part-time jobs, and novel classrooms. The novel class with Miss Zi is the seventh class today. So far, most of them have been done on a weekly basis.To be honest, although the lectures have been going on for about two months, the content has not progressed much.Having said that, the length of each course in these two months is only about three hours, so the density is not very high.However, even leaving that aside, I still feel that the progress is a bit slow. Anyway, let me explain that I didn't deliberately slow down the progress because the salary of this part-time job is very good.

In short, this student is really special. First of all, she is very bad at being "casual". You can understand this by recalling the situation of the first class.In short, Miss Zi is very serious, sincere, and extremely stubborn. In addition, she is an unparalleled bookworm, not only novels, but she has read dozens of introductory books on novels, but she has never practiced the things written in the books.In other words, Miss Zi used several layers of theory to arm herself in a bad sense. It was hard work just to soften her hard head and get her to let go of extreme theories and find a point of compromise.It often happens that just teaching a unit written in the "Fiction Creation Tutorial" will take a whole class.So now that the seventh class is over, the course progress can only be said to be quite slow.

However, even if the progress is slow, I still have to speak for her. Miss Zi is definitely not a student with dull qualifications. It's really hard for her to take off the armor of theory, but as long as I successfully convey what I want to say once, she can quickly understand what I mean.Because Miss Zi has an unparalleled amount of reading, the moment she learns the method, she can use that powerful weapon at will. Learning is basically accumulating experience, even when writing novels, generally speaking, progress is made bit by bit.But Miss Zi's situation is different. She has already accumulated a lot of experience, but she doesn't know how to use the accumulated things.

So, when she understood the truth, she could suddenly do those things.The way Miss Zi learned how to write a novel was like learning how to ride a bicycle. In this way, she learned a new way of driving a vehicle today.Today's class topic is "Strategy" and "Motivation".Miss Zi didn't know how to use motives at first, and she was so obsessed with how to embellish strategies cleverly that smoke came out of her head.However, at the end of the class, she had a good understanding of the meaning of the small props appearing in the works of Heng Mizo's official history, as well as the strategies and effects chosen by Dan Brown.To be honest, I can't beat her at all in terms of knowledge. After all, Miss Zi has read almost all the works I haven't read.To put it bluntly, she must have a deeper understanding than I do about what I am currently instructing her on.

I closed the notebook and took a sip of coffee, while Miss Zi seriously re-read the notes she wrote today, such a serious student is not often seen even in cram school. I flipped through the "Novel Writing Tutorial", thinking about what to do next time.Although there is an arranged order in the textbook, it can still be adjusted according to the situation on the spot. "Miss Zi, do you know what a metaphor is?" Anyway, I asked first. "The rhetorical technique of replacing something with something else that has something in common, including simile, metaphor, allegory, allusion, simile, etc."

Miss Zi gave an answer like an explanation in a Mandarin dictionary.No matter what I ask, most of the answers I get are like this. "Then try to represent this thing with an appropriate simile." I put the ballpoint pen at hand in front of her, Miss Zi looked at the ballpoint pen very seriously and said: "A ballpoint pen like a crowbar." And just like that, almost every time she initially practiced it, she got sad results. "You can't compare it like that, Miss Zi. It's not like that at all." Miss Zi bit her lower lip with a rather unwilling expression, and then said in a low voice, "Because they are all slender...", it seemed that she couldn't accept it.

"Then let's choose metaphors for the next class..." "I see." Miss Zi nodded elegantly. At this time, the old store manager came to the table and spoke to us.He pointed to the ceiling fan and said that he wanted to stop it first so that the plumber could check it.The store manager finally found someone to fix it, which is a good thing.It just so happens that we have also talked about a paragraph, so today's novel classroom ends here. Because Miss Zi went to the dressing room, I walked out of the coffee shop early after paying the bill.The setting sun was gradually sinking into the western sky, and the sun was setting earlier and earlier.

So, every year at this time, it is said that "the sun is setting earlier and earlier".But if you think about it carefully, the sunshine time will be shorter every year, and it will also be longer.If we broaden the perspective and look at it from the perspective of the cycle, the time for the sun to set has neither become earlier nor later, and it can be expressed as "the same as in previous years".When I become an old man, my feelings should become "the sun goes down at the same time as in previous years".When I was thinking about such meaningless things, Miss Zi came to me unconsciously, and we walked to the station side by side.

I quietly glanced at Miss Zi who was walking beside me. Even if she didn't say polite words at all, she was more beautiful than any woman I had ever seen.Although there is a metaphor of "like a French doll", she is probably the only Japanese person who can be described by this metaphor.Although Miss Zi's face is Japanese at first glance, but in some places it feels like a half or a quarter foreign blood. In addition, she obviously lacks common sense in many ways, but she has very good taste in clothing.Even when Shimokitazawa is full of students who know how to adorn themselves with fashionable accessories such as ties and corsages, she doesn't give up.It's really a pleasure to walk with such a beautiful girl.

However, I deliberately sent a text message to Chashui and asked him to have dinner with him again. I didn't choose the option of "invite Miss Zi", because I have been invited three times so far, but she has simply rejected all of them.When the novel classroom is over, when you go to find tea and dinner, the conversations of "I went to invite Miss Zi" and "I was rejected" have almost become a fixed pattern.But this is a bad habit after all, and I would like to get rid of it if possible. We arrived at the south exit of Shimokitazawa station. Just as I was about to climb up the stairs of the station as usual, Miss Zi suddenly stopped me. "Mr. Reality." "What's up?" "This way, please." She was not referring to the stairs of the station, but to the road under the viaduct.And she walked over directly, so I had to follow in a panic. Miss Murasaki crossed the viaduct of the Inokashira Line and proceeded straight along the road. "where are you going?" "There is a convenience store in front." Just a supermarket, no big deal.If it is not stated at the beginning that you want to go to the supermarket for a while, readers may feel that some kind of event is about to happen, and you should pay attention to this.I'm going to remind her to pay more attention in my next fiction class. After a short walk, a mini stop appeared. "I'm going to the mini stop." Miss Zi said seriously and resolutely.Supermarkets shouldn’t be the kind of store you go into with this mentality, right? Through the automatic door, we entered the store together.However, the next second after entering the store—— "I see... this is a convenience store..." She said very horrible things. "Well, Miss Zi... Is this your first time in a supermarket?" "Yes, I walked in for the first time." She replied very seriously. Born in Japan in the 21st century, she didn't enter a supermarket for the first time until she was 20 years old... What kind of life did she lead in the past?Miss Zi is indeed the eldest lady of a rich family, right?But judging from the map, her hometown is not too big... No, is it a villa?The only people living in that house are their dogs? Miss Zi carefully observed walking around in the shop.When she came to the corner of the aisle, she looked up curiously at the loudspeaker used to play the in-store radio.This is a precious scene of a female college student visiting a supermarket for the first time. I hope RBC can record the video with a high-resolution camera. After Miss Zi wandered around the store, her eyes rested on the fast food menu above the cash register. "Well!" I was taken aback again, after all, it was the first time I met someone who could say "uh" in real life. "Mr. Wushi, Mr. Wushi, what is that?" "Isn't that ice cream? Miss Zi." "I know." "Then why ask?" She didn't answer my question, just stood in front of the cash register with a nervous face. "Give me ice cream, please." She bought it.Although it's really no big deal. "What would Mr. Wushi want?" "Ah, that, I want to..." Coffee... no, just had coffee. "Then... I want ice cream too." "I see." She added that she wanted to add another one, and it seemed that she was going to treat her.The clerk made two ice creams and handed them over, so I took them.Miss Zi took out her mobile phone from her bag and leaned towards the cash register. It seemed that she planned to pay with an electronic wallet. But unfortunately, a note was posted on the cashier sensor for the e-wallet saying: "Due to a machine failure, it is currently unavailable." Miss Zi froze for a while in the posture of handing out the phone, and then turned to me with her usual serious expression. "Please pay." "Don't you have any money with you?" "Sorry." With an elegant expression, she indicated that she did not bring cash. The assumption that "Zi Yidai is the eldest lady of the boudoir" is becoming more and more realistic, and the housekeeper is definitely responsible for the checkout.It turns out that I pay for it. The two of us walked into the corner of the interior seat with ice cream in one hand. Miss Zi looked at the white swirl of ice cream seriously. "Frozen ice cream refers to soft ice cream made with milk as the main raw material. Generally speaking, it is placed on a cone biscuit for human consumption. English is 'soft serve ice cream', 'ice cream' (softcream) this The words are Japanese English." Miss Zi who confides profound knowledge. "Aren't you going to eat?" Although she replied "I want to eat", her eyes were still fixed on the ice cream. "Tips about eating ice cream." "what is that?" "Basically, it can be divided into three ways of eating, directly biting with the mouth, licking with the tongue, and eating with tableware such as spoons. Although the method of biting can enjoy a lot of soft cream at one time, it also has the problem of not being elegant enough. This method of licking is what most women choose, because it looks cute and can also be used to attract men. The disadvantage is that it takes a lot of time. Using a spoon to eat is the most elegant way to eat, but once there is no spoon It can’t be practiced; because it will be affected by the store’s equipment, it can be said to be at a disadvantage in terms of versatility. No matter which method you choose in the end, the most important thing when eating ice cream is speed. The soft texture of ice cream makes melting The speed is fast, and if it takes too long, it will gradually become liquid. In order to enjoy the expected taste, eating it immediately after being squeezed out of the machine is the most ideal way to eat." Melted ice cream began to drip onto the table. We watched the scene in silence. "It is said that sorbet made from cow's milk was already used in Egypt 4,000 years ago." "Hurry up and eat!" "Now, I'm going to eat now! Mr. Wushi, please be quiet and watch from the side!" Miss Zi first looked around the ice cream and thought about how to eat it, then opened her mouth slightly to take a bite from the front, and then chewed exaggeratedly.Since she frowned, it didn't look like it was delicious. But after taking the first bite, she ate it without hesitation. "It's quick to eat at the beginning..." "So I'm not saying, it's easy for me to eat ice cream." "Are you fighting something..." Two minutes later, she finished eating the ice cream, which was the kind of way that gave her a headache.Miss Zi showed a proud smile. "Children..." Because of her "I won" expression on her face, I had no choice but to applaud her.Miss Zi snorted twice triumphantly. "So, what was it like eating ice cream for the first time?" "Who told you I was eating for the first time?" "Isn't it?" "That's right." After all, it is clear at a glance. "So, how does it feel?" After thinking with her usual serious expression, Miss Zi gave the answer "I think the atmosphere is quite interesting".

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