Chapter 204

"And everyone was relatively conservative about love, not as direct and open as now."

"Plus the school strictly prohibited students from dating..."

"That girl used this point and thought of a 'ghost idea'."

"She started spreading rumors in the school every day, saying that previous graduates buried a 'pink card' under the school's cherry blossom tree."

"As long as you put this card into a love letter and give it to the person you like, and the confession is successful, the two will definitely grow old together."

"But she also said that the card seemed to have been dug up long ago and was now hidden in the broadcasting club."

"At that time, many students who had long had a crush on someone ran to the broadcasting club to look for it."

"That girl was very smart, saying the card was on her, but she would only give it to members randomly after they had been in the club for a full year."

"As a result, quite a few students really believed her 'evil' and joined the broadcasting club."

"Just like that, the broadcasting club's crisis of being dissolved was temporarily lifted."

"However... the rumor about 'confessing under the cherry blossom tree can lead to growing old together' spread from then on and never stopped."

"It even intensified."

"Every day, many students secretly ran to the cherry blossom tree to confess, seriously affecting the learning atmosphere at the time."

"The school therefore once wanted to cut down this hundred-year-old cherry blossom tree."

Classmate Tengyuan Kui covered her mouth and asked worriedly:

"Then... was the cherry blossom tree cut down later?"

Natsume Chikage looked at the huge cherry blossom tree in front of him, then looked at her, wanting to say something but stopping, and finally chose silence.

Dazhong Tuozhi smiled:

"Of course not."

"The students' resistance to the school's decision was very strong."

"So much so that every time the school tried to take action, there would always be students surrounding the cherry blossom tree to block it."

"Some students even didn't sleep at night, guarding there, for fear that the school would find someone to cut the tree at night."

Natsume Chikage pondered:

"This situation is a bit wrong."

"Just for a cherry blossom tree, students shouldn't have such strong motivation to do these things that might lead to police and school punishment."

Dazhong Tuozhi nodded approvingly.

"You're right."

"Actually, the real reason behind it is related to the background of that era."

"Thirty years ago, at the end of the Showa era, society was in a period of intense movement. Many students were dissatisfied with Japanese society and would go on the streets to protest."

"And the cherry blossom tree incident... was actually just an 'excuse' for students to confront the upper-level system."

Natsume Chikage understood.

"So that's how it is."

Classmate Tengyuan Kui pursued curiously:

"Then what happened later? How did the school and the students end up?"

Dazhong Tuozhi sighed:

"The confrontation between the school and the students at that time ended up being very big, and even brought in the police, making a big fuss."

"In the end, both sides reached a compromise: students could not be so blatant, must take into account their studies, and no longer conduct similar activities; while the school turned a blind eye to students who occasionally confessed under the cherry blossom tree."

Classmate Tengyuan Kui said happily:

"It's a good ending."

Natsume Chikage was somewhat confused.

"However, I heard Teacher Jiu Jing mention the hundred-year-old cherry blossom tree, she never mentioned this history to me?"

Dazhong Tuozhi smiled helplessly.

"Teacher Jiu Jing is very young, she has only been in the job for two years, it's normal not to know this history."

Classmate Tengyuan Kui was confused:

"But... it seems no one else in the school knows about this? I've never heard classmates mention it in the few days I've been here."

Dazhong Tuozhi explained:

"Because the school thinks this is not a glorious thing, the relevant records were deliberately erased."

"It can be said that except for those who experienced it personally back then, basically no one knows this history of the school."

"Even the school, in order to 'beautify' this matter, chose to let the rumors continue to spread."

"So the legend of 'confessing under the cherry blossom tree can lead to growing old together' that you hear now was born this way."

Classmate Tengyuan Kui suddenly realized.

"The origin is actually like this..."

Natsume Chikage was also somewhat surprised, but at this moment vaguely sensed a trace of something wrong.

Because such a big event always needs someone to come out and take responsibility.

But Dazhong Tuozhi didn't mention the follow-up of that broadcasting club girl at all in his narration.

He frowned and asked:

"The broadcasting club girl you mentioned at the beginning... what happened to her in the end?"

"Could it be that she was pushed out... to take the blame?" ===== CHAPTER 205 =====