Mauya.
One of the stations of life (2).
Day 2 in Tokyo (Shopping, Fireworks Watching) Wednesday, July 31
In order to spend a few more days with us, my daughter changed the rest day of the previous days to today. Since I had just returned home from studying in Qingdao, I felt that I had not yet recovered and set out on the road to Shanghai the next day. After several days of running around, coupled with the excitement of last night and sleeping late, it was past 11 o'clock in the morning, and the sun had crept in through the curtains, and we slept until we woke up naturally. We opened our eyes and stretched our backs, and although we felt very tired, our mood was still in a state of happiness and excitement. Seeing my coquettish daughter lying in my arms, with a happy smile floating on her face, my eyes were moist, I really hope that such a rare time will not move forward, but the passing years are not transferred by human will, I still know how to cherish every minute and second of the moment.
My daughter and I worked as fast as we could, and after we finished dressing up, we were ready to go shopping at the nearby vegetable supermarket, because my daughter was looking forward to eating the food I cooked for her every day. My daughter came to Tokyo when she was in junior high school, where she attended high school, finished university, and took office in April this year, and has lived in Japan for almost 10 years, but she still loves Chinese food.
When my daughter was in high school in Tokyo, I left her and went back to Japan. Our daughter's independence, hard work, and strength are still very proud of her. My daughter is very good, and we didn't take care of her by our side, but through our own efforts, I was admitted to a well-known university in Tokyo. And after graduation, among the companies that more than 2,000 employed students applied for, they emerged and were far ahead, and were selected and hired by the company.
My daughter was also lucky enough to be able to live in an apartment in the center of Tokyo provided by the company, which is inseparable from her previous efforts.
My daughter was holding my arm, watching my daughter wearing a flowing long skirt, wearing a fashionable hat, a faint smile on her white face, and showing her snow-white teeth when she smiled, it was so elegant, sweet and lovely, I felt special happiness and pride from the bottom of my heart.
The weather in Tokyo in July is very hot, but the heat is accompanied by humid airflow. A breeze suddenly blew in, cooling our faces and hearts, feeling particularly comfortable and refreshing. Talking and laughing, we walked into the nearby supermarket, just in time for the supermarket's Wednesday sale day.
In order to repay customers, supermarkets always carry out some preferential activities, and many vegetables and cooked foods are much cheaper than usual. Eggs, in particular, are cheap and almost free, but are limited to one serving per person, and one serving is 12 eggs. I remember when I was studying abroad, due to the hardships of life, when encountering such activities, international students couldn't take care of anything, and they could save a few, and went back and forth to the supermarket several times for this almost free egg.
Everything in the supermarket is still so familiar and friendly, I have an indescribable complex for every item in the supermarket, and at the same time, my mood has also given birth to an indescribable sourness. I used to study abroad because I was not rich and helpless, and I was so entangled in everything, whether there was a discount or not, and whether I had to think about it. It seems that shopping at that time was not about us choosing things, but about things.
It's been six years, and everything in the supermarket is still the same, and it doesn't feel like anything has changed. My daughter and I bought a lot of things, and when I was queuing up to check out, I noticed that there was a slight change, the clerk scanned the goods one by one at the cash register (pos machine), but the money was paid according to the cash displayed on the multiple actuarial machines ** placed behind the cashier instructed by the clerk, and the money was entered by himself, and the change was automatically given, just like a bank's ATM.
The Japanese are very detail-oriented, and as the saying goes, "The devil is in the details." After such improvements, the efficiency of checkout has been improved, customers do not have to wait in long queues, and they are more assured to pay by themselves, which not only saves the labor cost of the supermarket but also increases the revenue of the supermarket.
When I got home with my daughter, I cooked a few dishes as fast as I could. The vegetables purchased from the supermarket, including meat, are semi-finished products, wash and cut everything slightly, and the vegetables can be cooked immediately, which can be said to be incisive and convenient.
Seeing my daughter eat so fragrantly, as if she had eaten the delicacies of the mountains and seas, and kept saying "so delicious, so delicious" in her mouth while eating, my heart was full of happiness and joy.
I heard from my daughter that a fireworks display will be held tonight in the Funabashi Port Water Park in Nara, and the purpose of the fireworks is to create a story of dream sparks based on the theme of the little match girl in Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale. Television reports say 100,000 people are expected to go to the fireworks display. (Subsequently).