Chapter 26 fourth quarter

After that, Miyo's life was like a bird in a cage. "It's scary, that girl. I don't know what trap she will set for Miyo." Ah Jing said this with extreme fear, not letting Miyo be alone for a moment.Keep Miyo out of his sight during the day, and let Miyo sleep beside him at night.The back room where Miyo lives is like a haunted room, which is always closed. Asheng was also frowning.The unlucky words that the girl dropped seemed to make her unshakable soul, which was hidden deep in her strong body, vibrate unpleasantly.Asheng always pays attention to Miyo's room, not to mention unreasonable, if that girl shows up again, she will definitely be taken to the office.

However, after this kind of life lasted for a few days, Miyo felt almost suffocated; she couldn't even go to the toilet alone, and Miyo felt very constrained. What's more, the girl never appeared again after that.Maybe it's not a big deal, it's just that a girl with a little mental disorder happened to appear in the yard. Miyo gradually felt that the matter was not serious. However, Ah Jing didn't seem to think so, and she didn't even listen to Changbingwei's persuasion. After that day, she went out early in the morning several times, saying that she wanted to find a fortune teller who was said to be very good.Every time she came back in the evening, it didn't mean that the mandarin duck wardrobe should be relocated, or that the Buddhist altar should be changed to a larger one.

Then, on the tenth day after Miyo and the others saw the suspicious girl, Chobei groaned in pain again in the middle of the night. Miyo, who was sleeping next to Ah Jing, was woken up by her voice calling for Ah Sheng. When Miyo saw her father, who was pale, with his hands on his neck, coughing badly every time he took a breath, he trembled from the bottom of his heart. . Ah Jing was also trembling, she poured a glass of water from the kettle next to her pillow, and served Changbingwei to drink it.Because Ah Jing's whole body was shaking violently, the water in the kettle was much less than what Miyo had seen before going to bed, while Chobei's pillow and the tatami were wet.

(Unfortunately, it must come.) The words the girl said rang in Miyo's ears. Ah Sheng thinks that the sleeping couch may not be placed in a good position, so Changbei and Ah Jing will sleep in other rooms from the next day.Although Ah Jing loudly insisted that Miyo sleep in the same room, Ah Sheng objected. "In this case, if the boss feels uncomfortable again, the lady will be frightened again." In this case, Miyo really wanted to go back to her room; she didn't feel terrible, after all, it was a room she was used to living in.She made this request to Asheng. "If that girl shows up again, you must immediately call out to the proprietress or me, you know?"

Only after Ah Sheng gave her instructions did she allow Miyo to go back to her room. Ah Jing seemed very disturbed. In order to reassure her stepmother, Miyo said good things and promised to follow Ah Sheng's instructions. "Besides, my mother has worked very hard just because of my father's affairs. It's best not to take things so seriously. I'm not afraid anymore. Besides, it's not the kind of ghost or ghost that will appear, it's just a woman." However, on the same night that she promised with a smile, when Miyo was about to close the wooden sliding door, she found the girl standing outside the fence again.

The girl said again: "Unfortunately, it must come." While Miyo yelled at her family, the girl outside the fence also ran away.As if a monster was chasing after her, the girl ran away quickly without looking back.Because of the suddenness of the incident, Miyo had no time to be afraid or to think, she jumped out of the yard with bare feet, and chased the girl over the fence. Miyo lost track when she chased after Kameido Tenjin in the forest. She stomped her feet angrily and scolded the girl: "Beast!" Because she yelled out loudly, as if she had vomited out her courage, Miyo suddenly felt a little uneasy.She dragged a pair of bare feet, shrunk in the cold, almost crying.

In the direction of Onoya, there were a few lanterns flickering brightly, and there were voices.Everyone was looking for that girl, and everyone was looking for Miyo.Ah, that's great, Miyo quickened his pace, but unexpectedly, a hand reached out from the bushes and grabbed Miyo. "Shh, don't make a sound," the man whispered.It was a man with a voice that sounded about the same age as Chobei. "Good boy, don't make a sound for now. Pay attention to your ears and listen carefully." The man covered Miyo's mouth with his hands so that she could not speak.Miyo blinked inexplicably.Soon, Miyo finally understood what the man meant when he said "listen carefully".

There are voices nearby. There were two; they were women, and one of them was— (It's Grandma.) Ah Jing's voice was low, a tone that Miyo had never heard before: "How much do you want?" Miyo couldn't believe that Ah Jing could speak so harshly.Could it be that Ah Sheng was pretending to be a mother in a joke? "How much did you bring?" It was the girl's voice that answered—although I wasn't sure. It is the voice that left behind the phrase "unfortunate, it must come". "Hurry up. The people in your shop are looking for you and the lady. If they find out, it will be bad for you?"

"But, isn't it you who used this attention-grabbing and dangerous method?" Ah Jing became more angry as she blamed her. "Should be more sneaky..." The girl said mockingly: "If you were called out secretly, it wouldn't be worth it if you were killed by that Yi three times. It would be safer to cause a commotion like this." Ah Jing seemed to be fumbling for something in her cuffs. "There are only these now..." Hearing the movement, the girl seemed to have snatched what Ah Jing handed over. "Only twenty taels? Forget it, it's better than nothing."

The girl said with a smile.Ah Jing gritted her teeth and said: "You really won't tell me about me?" "As long as you keep your word." "I will keep my word. I will give you whatever you want. Anyway, I don't plan to stay in Onoya for long." Not going to stay long?Miyo wondered if she had heard it wrong. "It won't be long before I can get as much money as I want, and then I won't have to live with that kind of life anymore." The girl lowered her voice and said: "When will you do it?" "In a few days." Ah Jing replied.

"Using what method? Is it the same method as the last time you killed the owner of Minoya?" "Yeah. It's very simple. Just stick wet paper on your face..." When Ah Jing replied, the man holding Miyo stood up, and the grass elsewhere rustled, and two men with sharp eyes stood up in the darkness. "Hey, Ah Jing, you let us hear something good." The man with Miyo in his arms said hoarsely.With a smile on his face, but his eyes burning, he went on: "Don't show that overwhelmed expression. I forgot to report my name first. I am Moshichi Huixiang. I am in charge of the Fukagawa area of ​​our office and work for the shogunate." Back to Shigeruin, Miyo had never heard of this name. "Hey, Ah Jing, don't be too greedy. You only pick a rich man with a big difference in age, marry him as a successor, kill him, and become a helpless widow. Yi three times, embezzled other people's property, and then disappeared. This kind of method, one time is too much. You have succeeded in Kawasaki's Daikoro House and Shinagawa's Mino House twice in a row. You are very lucky, why don't you just stop there? ?” In front of Miyo's eyes, Ah Jing's face gradually turned pale, as if she was stained by moonlight. "This Ah Xin," Mao Qi said, pointing at the girl. "When she was about to starve to death, the owner of Meinong House adopted her until today. The owner of Meinong House suddenly died like that. She couldn't believe it, and always suspected that you did it. Her mood can be said to have eyes, I saw it. She happened to come to Kameido across the bridge from Shinagawa to deliver goods. She heard that Onoya is a very famous small restaurant, so she checked in front of the shop and saw you in the shop, who will never forget even in her dreams With a beaming smile. This is probably the so-called poor god, Ah Jing." Ah Jing didn't answer, she didn't even seem to be breathing.Miyo yelled unbearably: "Mom!" Ah Jing turned her head slowly, her black eyes clearly saw that it was Miyo, and she said ferociously with her bloodless face: "I'm not your mother!" When Miyo slowly fell to the ground, Ah Jing also lay on her back as if someone was pulling a string behind her. "I'm sorry, I should have told the boss earlier, but there is no solid evidence." In the living room of Onoya, facing the pale Changbei and Miyo who is in the arms of Asheng, Moshichi explained to everyone . "That girl, when Ah Xin came to my place, I didn't immediately believe her words. Without careful investigation, there is no way to do anything. And it is also possible that Ah Xin is digging into a dead end." However, after sending people to Shinagawa and Kawasaki to investigate, the bosses of these two shops died suspiciously. This is the same. "If it's a big shop, if the boss dies inexplicably, it will cause a stir. However, for a shop of the size of Onoya, but the boss is actually very rich, it is the most appropriate way to take advantage of it. The size of Daheiya and Minoya are both large and small. almost." "I can't breathe when I sleep," Chobei moaned, rubbing his throat. "So it's because of the wet paper on his face." Mao Qi said with a distressed expression: "Yes. As long as you repeat it a few times, and finally press the wet paper until you die, no one will suspect that he killed him, right? Everyone will think, 'ah, the boss has been like this recently, probably because of a bad heart...' " probably.In fact, there are really people who, like Miyo's biological mother, died of a bad heart. "Every time she went out and said she was going to find a fortune teller, she probably met with Yi three times to discuss the details." Chobei, who couldn't even say the catchphrase "Be grateful", sighed.Maoqi scratched the back of her head and nodded, saying: "I heard that they even discussed how much land owned by Onoya to be embezzled." "Having said that, why did Ah Jing act... No, her real name should not be Ah Jing, what is her name?" "I don't want to hear it," Miyo said. The head of Shigeru Seven touched the tip of his nose in a bit of embarrassment, then put his hands in his cuffs, leaned out, looked at Miyo and said: "Oh, Miyo, some adults do this kind of thing occasionally. In fact, you can also keep you from knowing about A Jing, but this will make you feel even more uncomfortable, because you like A Jing very much." Salty tears rolled down Miyo's cheeks. "Ah Jing is a woman who has lied to you and your dad a lot, just forget about her. There are still many good people in the world. It was just a bad luck to meet Ah Jing." Miyo cried for a while, and finally said: "chief." "What's up?" "Ask my mother...Ask Ah Jing, just say that I really want to know, that dream...is that nightmare she had real?" A few days later, Hui Xiangyuan Maoqi brought Ah Jing's answer. "She said it was true." Chobei looked down absently at his hands resting on his lap, Miyo put his hand on his father's, and the chief said to them: "She said that she always felt that the bad memories of growing up in a hotel in Banqiao area when she was a child always chased her after her. Even if she didn't want to do this kind of thing again, she felt that the money was enough, but as long as she dreamed If you keep washing your dirty feet, you will want money very much, and you will be afraid that you will become poor again." wash - wash - wash - Loud menacing voices, and feet kicking through the ceiling. Ah Jing——Ah Mu, you are a poor person, Miyo thought to herself.However, you have trampled on the hearts of my father and me with your own dirty feet. Who will wash your dirty feet for you? "Forget about her." Mao Qi said again. From the kitchen came Ah Sheng's loud voice scolding the young maid.Miyo, who heard the voice, looked up and found that Chobei was also listening to Asheng's scolding—— "Hurry up, wash that radish!" Ash yelled.Chobei and Miyo hadn't looked at each other like this for a long time, and they secretly smiled at each other.