Chapter 10 Ten, autumn wind

In the afternoon, when Iori was about to leave the office, he found a rainbow hanging outside the window.It is not surprising that a rainbow appears after a light rain just now, but rainbows in autumn are really rare. But if you think about it carefully, rainbows may appear in the sky throughout the year, spring, summer, autumn and winter.The reason Iori was surprised was because he thought that rainbows only appeared after rain in summer.Now, a colorful rainbow hangs in the sky.Passers-by may have spotted it, stopped in their tracks, and looked up.However, the rainbow only appeared for a few minutes.When Iori packed up the documents, put the cigarette and lighter in his pocket and was about to leave the office, the rainbow had disappeared without a trace.Iori thought that autumn rainbows are really short-lived, and seeing a rainbow before meeting an important person is not a good sign.

He and his brother-in-law Murai Yasunari made an appointment to meet at the hotel at three o'clock this afternoon.Murai is an internist with a clinic in Shinagawa.He is two years older than Iori, and he is honest and honest. Among his wife's family, he gets along best with him.Yesterday, Murai suddenly called and said he wanted to meet him. Iori thought for a while and decided to meet him at a restaurant near the Aoyama Painting Museum.The reason why I chose to meet at the hotel was first of all because there were many employees in the company staring at me, so it was not suitable for meeting.And if we meet at the apartment, I worry that he will see the actual situation of his celibate life.

After separating from his wife, he always felt embarrassed and never saw each other.This time it was Murai who came forward to talk on purpose, and he had a premonition that the content of the talk must be of great importance.However, maybe he was trying to persuade them to reunite as a brother-in-law. However, Iori guessed wrong. They found a table by the window in the restaurant and sat down.After briefly saying a few innocuous words about the weather and their current situation, Murai quickly returned to the subject. "My sister has caused you a lot of trouble. It seems that this time she has finally made up her mind to divorce."

In an instant, Iori's hand holding the cigarette stopped in mid-air.Murai seemed to be nonchalant, drank his coffee slowly, and said again: "She was also hesitant..." The ginkgo biloba on both sides of the street has already begun to mature, and the leaves are full of sunshine. "She should have made up her mind earlier, but she is a woman after all, she just thinks about herself..." "No……" Iori shook his head lightly.The two have lived together for nearly twenty years, and it took more than a year to decide to divorce, which is supposed to not take long.In fact, even Iori himself, just now hearing that his wife has agreed to divorce, can hardly believe this is true.To be honest, when I ran away from home, although I said "I want to divorce you", I didn't really want to go my separate ways.At that time, I just wanted to live apart for a period of time, so that each of us could calmly think about it.

It now appears that during the period of separation, the wife has indeed seriously considered the issue of breaking up.Sometimes when Iori came home, the two never spoke in depth.It seems that the blow of separation to the wife is too great. "I'm really sorry, sometimes I do things sloppily, and sometimes I'm impatient, causing you trouble..." "Sorry……" "Actually, both sides are the same..." Although Murai is a brother-in-law, he does not favor his sister.Because of his simple, honest and calm personality, Iori deliberately obtained Murai's understanding when he ran away from home.

"I'm sorry, please forgive me for being too capricious..." Iori said only half a sentence, then bowed his head to express his apology. At this time, Murai said again: "Since you want to run away from home, that's the only way to go." Having said that, Murai naturally felt uneasy that it was his younger sister.However, he did not take deep blame.It is difficult for an honest official to decide on housework, and Murai has already shown his unwillingness to meddle in his own business in just a few words. However, in the silence, he seemed to see through everything.He only said this sentence: "The years are merciless", which expressed his inner feelings.The reason why Yizhi wants to separate from his wife is indeed the trouble of time.At the beginning, I really wanted to grow old with my wife, but I couldn't make it halfway.He wanted to love her too, but unconsciously he couldn't love her anymore.The rift between husband and wife, in the final analysis, is the reason of time.

This can be said to be willful or selfish, but it is indeed the passage of time that makes love dim.Just because they couldn't say any high-sounding reasons, there was such an insurmountable and irreparable gap between the two.Murai has already seen through this point. Iori once again felt that Murai sitting in front of him was very kind.Because he is his wife's family, there is a sense of closeness, and now that they are both men, there is a sense of security that can be understood. "Have you told the children about this?" "It seems that I told them two or three days ago, and the children cried when they heard about it. But since the mother has made up her mind, they have no choice but to admit the reality. Although the husband and wife are separated, the children are still children."

Iori nodded seriously.Although he and his wife parted ways, the two children are still their own. "I'm still in a hurry, but both parties have agreed, so I want to find a third party to help and entrust the court to handle it. What do you think?" "Can……" Iori has no objection to Murai's idea, but he is also a little puzzled that the situation has developed so quickly. Originally, he thought that it might take a while, but now it suddenly became a reality, and he was really at a loss. "No matter how you say it, my sister has never worked outside, she just stays at home..."

Iori nodded in agreement.He also felt that his wife did not have the ability to live independently.Now that he is divorced, he also intends to do his best to help her as much as possible.Needless to say, living expenses, he also felt that he could give her the house he was currently living in if necessary. "I understand what you mean..." "Sorry……" Murai bowed his head when he finished speaking.At the same time, the two smiled wryly at each other.Saying "I'm sorry" on both sides to apologize is always hilarious. "In this way, we can't be relatives. However, we belong to us, please take care of us in the future..."

"It's me who wants to ask you to take care of me!" Iori also felt that it was a pity to cut off contact with Murai because of this. "Have you been in Tokyo recently?" "I'm planning a trip to Europe next week." "The divorce procedure, as long as both parties agree, doesn't seem too complicated. Let's talk on the phone again! Are you going to Europe on business?" "Ah, let's balance work and travel..." In fact, I went on a trip with Kasumi, and Iori always felt that his actions violated morality and felt guilty.But he also thought that if he went on this kind of trip like this in the future, he might not be regarded as morally corrupt.

The two broke up after walking out of the hotel.Iori walked alone along Jingu Gaien towards the painting museum.Twilight is approaching, and the dazzling sunset slantly shines on the ginkgo leaves.A young man in sportswear ran under the tree. There was a long chair in his left hand, and an old man with a dog was sitting upright on it. The autumn wind blew from behind, and Yizhi muttered softly, "Divorce." The word used to make Iori feel a little bit sad and heavy, but at the same time there was a hint of sweetness.He has always felt that although things are troublesome, if the goal is achieved, he will feel relieved and feel good.However, once it became a reality, he suddenly felt lonely and bored.He used to look forward to being alone and being free, but now he feels like a balloon floating in the wind, helpless. A young man in sportswear came up behind him, panting heavily and ran over.A few ginkgo leaves fell behind the young man.In the supposedly colorless autumn wind, Iori seemed to see a color.Looking back, I don't know where a blank sheet of paper was blown, and it was floating on the road.The forest and avenues of the Jingu Shrine were shrouded in dusk, and Iori suddenly had an impulse at this moment, and really wanted to shout loudly: "I'm getting a divorce..." He wanted to yell, but he swallowed it back.He stopped and saw that several female students in school uniforms were walking towards him in a row. Probably something ridiculous, they held up the schoolbags in their hands, shaking them while laughing. They are about the same age as their eldest daughter.Iori recalled that Murai told him that the children cried when they heard their parents divorced, and the mood became heavy again. This kind of sin may never be cleared up in his life, and he and Xia are about to leave for Europe.Just when his wife and daughter are deeply pained and troubled, he wants to travel abroad with other women, which is irresponsible anyway.From this point of view, he is only a cold-blooded man. At the expense of everything, if you insist on divorcing your wife, what exactly do you want?Even if you get freedom because of this, can you really be happy?What exactly do you want to get a divorce?The divorce that I had been looking forward to and longing for a few years ago was about to become a reality, but I didn't feel comfortable, but rather at a loss.Iori was a little surprised and annoyed at his cowardice. It's late autumn, half of the ginkgo trees on both sides of the road turn yellow, and the other half is still green.The lifespan of the leaves probably varies from person to person, and some leaves have already begun to fall.Two elementary school students with schoolbags on their backs probably bent down to pick up fallen leaves after returning home from school, but at this time another dead leaf fell on his petite back. There was a telephone booth in the middle of the boulevard. After he saw it, he opened the glass door and walked in without hesitation. Initially, he didn't want to call anyone.When I saw the phone booth quietly standing there as if hiding from the sun, I just wanted to go in and take a look.But once faced with the phone, he took out a 10-yuan coin and put it in as if he had intended for a long time, and dialed the phone at his home in Jiyugaoka. "Hey, hello..." After the bell rang twice, it was the second daughter, Miko, who answered the phone.The eldest daughter began to speak with a certain tone, and the second daughter was still as cheerful and cheerful as she was when she was a child. Iori suddenly hesitated and was stunned for a while.He has nothing special to say to his daughter right now.He was just walking under the ginkgo tree, but he accidentally saw the phone booth and walked in in a daze. "Hey, hello..." The second daughter couldn't hear anyone answering, and said to herself in a strange way: "It's so strange..." Compared with the eldest daughter, the second daughter is a lively and lovely child.The scene when she tilted her head and said these words appeared in Iori's mind. "Who is it?" This time he pretended to be an adult again, and then the phone was hung up suddenly.She probably thought it was someone making a wrong call or playing a prank, but she didn't think it was Dad calling.She's probably telling her mother "it's a weird phone call," or she's forgotten all about the phone and is obsessed with something else. To make a phone call and not say a word is outrageous.But when Yizhi heard her daughter's voice, she felt a little relieved. Because Meizi is the youngest child in the family, she is top-notch in everything and does not let people down, but she has a weak personality and an easy-going temper. She does not put on airs and speaks casually.At least from the sound she heard just now, she no longer cried because her parents were divorcing. Although he didn't want to jump to conclusions based on just one unanswered phone call, at least from his daughter's voice, he could roughly guess that everything was normal at home. Go out of the phone booth and continue to walk forward. The avenue has come to an end, and there is a pool in front of it.In summer, this is a place for young people to join in the fun. Now the fountain no longer sprays water, and there are a few dry leaves floating on the surface of the turbid pool. In front of the round pool is the playground, and further forward is the domed painting museum.I heard that there are many art works from the Meiji period, but Iori has never been inside.The classical buildings decorated with red tiles are bathed in the setting sun, and the west-facing side glows red. Yizhi looked back at the ginkgo tree she had just passed by, smoked a cigarette, and raised her hand to stop an approaching taxi. "The distance is not far, drive to Omotesando." Iori planned to be more humble, but the taxi driver closed the door and left without saying a word.Judging from his expression, he didn't seem to be unhappy either, maybe he was just a serious person.But Iori doesn't care about it now, maybe it's better to be indifferent.He doesn't want to be disturbed now, he just wants to be alone for a while.If possible, he wanted to go straight back to his apartment and think carefully about what Murai said just now. However, no matter how one thinks now, there is probably no result.Now that we have decided to break up, we can only further ponder the specific approach in the future.Although he understood everything, he was still uneasy. If things go on like this, will I still be able to work in the future... However, a meeting has been scheduled for the staff at five o'clock to discuss the solution to the city square.He suddenly felt unfocused now, but he couldn't stop working because of personal matters.He wanted to think about it alone while riding in the car, but his mind was blank. As dusk approached, he looked at the bustling street, and the car had already arrived at the office. The fare was paid to the driver with a cold expression. As soon as he entered the house, Shengzi walked in impatiently. "Mr. Muraoka called while you were away, please call back. Also, this has arrived..." Shengzi put a brown envelope on the table and went out.Iori closed the door, and when he was the only one left in the room, he opened the envelope and saw that it contained the air tickets for him and Xia. When I went out just now, the rainbow outside the window had long since disappeared, and now it was replaced by patches of deep red clouds.Iori looked away, and picked up the ticket on the table. Since it was an international ticket, as soon as I turned the first page, I saw "Shoichiro Iori" and "Kasumi Takamura" written in Roman alphabet.Those who are familiar with international flight tickets will naturally know that the name is there. Could it be that Shengzi has seen the ticket... When she brought it into the house just now, the ticket was in an envelope, and the name of the ticket agency was written on the outside of the envelope. If he received the envelope from the delivery person of the air ticket agency and handed it to Iori intact, she would not have read the contents, and of course she would not know that it contained Kasumi's air ticket.But the envelope is not sealed, you can see it if you want to.Iori didn't know when the ticket was delivered, but she had been out for nearly two hours, and she had enough time to read the contents inside. Of course Shengzi also knew that Yizhi was going to travel to Europe next Wednesday.He had given her the schedule of the flight time and the hotel where he was staying, so the delivery of the ticket would not arouse her suspicion. But she didn't know to take Xia with her. When she told her that she was going to Europe, she asked, "Are you alone?" Iori replied, "Of course." If Shengzi believed it, she would not read the contents of the envelope. to see.Even if she didn't suspect it, she would casually open the letter when she received it.However, Shengzi is not the kind of woman who peeks at other people's documents and letters.In the letters sent to Iori, although one end of the envelope was sometimes cut off, she never read the contents.However, this restraint makes people feel incomprehensible.Occasionally, there is a letter from a woman, and she always puts it at the top of the mail, which fully shows that she cares about the other party. Whether you watched it or not, you could only face Shengzi and check his face.If it's cooler than usual, you may have seen it, if it's the same as usual, you may not have seen it. Thinking back to Shengzi's attitude just now, I always felt that I was being suspicious.She was curt, overly respectful, businesslike, and clearly unhappy, or at least seemed to be. It seems that she may have read it... The result of Yizhi's consideration is to test Shengzi's attitude again.He sat on the swivel chair and turned around, spread the documents on the table, and pressed the intercom. "When you said you would call Muraoka back, did you mean his home?" "yes." "No more calls?" "No." Just by phone, still can't figure it out.He didn't sound colder than usual. Iori hung up the phone, looked at his watch, there was still some time left.As Shengzi said, he started calling Muraoka. "Are you still that busy?" After Muraoka finished speaking, he asked Iori if he knew about the wedding of Professor Uto's daughter on Saturday afternoon. "It starts at two o'clock, right?" Iori read the notepad this morning, so he remembered. "Just now the matchmaker called and said he wanted to invite you to give a speech at the wedding." "Why do I?" "It is said that he was supposed to be Miss's piano teacher, but he suddenly fell ill and couldn't attend. In a hurry, I chose you." "But, I don't know this young lady..." "However, we have been to the teacher's house many times before, and we have known her since she was a child. Although Miss has a few friends and alumni, it seems that there is no suitable candidate for the first speech." "Wait a moment." Iori was once under the care of Professor Uto, so he will definitely attend the wedding of the professor's most beloved young daughter.But at the wedding, it is a bit heavy for him to be the first to speak as the representative of the bride. "Did the teacher ask me to do it?" "Of course it's the professor's order. Mr. Yutu ordered the general himself!" In all fairness, he is not fit for a wedding at all right now.It is inappropriate for a man who is about to divorce his wife to give a speech at the wedding. "I can't help it. It's something that I've considered and decided on. I think it's okay?" "But I'm really not suitable for this role." "You don't have to be too formal, it's just a wedding speech. Just say something about the bride's talent or something." Because Muraoka didn't know that he was divorcing his wife, he was in a good mood. Iori reluctantly agreed, and hung up the phone. It was already five o'clock. "Everyone is here, waiting for you." Shengzi came in to inform him of the meeting, and Iori stood up. "Sorry, I'm leaving first." Shengzi bowed his head in greeting.The working hours of the female staff of the firm are from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.After five o'clock, even if there is a meeting, they can get off work.However, when encountering such situations in the past, Shengzi always left a little later to help make tea and answer the phone. "tomorrow……" Iori stopped in the middle of speaking.Tomorrow is Saturday, Shengzi is off. "No, it's nothing." Yizhi shook his head, Shengzi immediately turned around and left. Still something was wrong.Maybe she was upset when she found out about her trip with Kasumi... Iori walked into the meeting room, where Mochizuki and others were already waiting.They were chatting happily, but when they saw Iori coming in, they immediately stopped chatting and sat around the conference table in the center of the room. Although it was a meeting, the atmosphere was not tense.During the meeting, some people drink tea, some smoke, some sit with their chins on their hands, and some even sit sideways.Iori doesn't pay attention to formalities in everything, and thinks it's best to just sit down and discuss freely.The key is to do things by brainstorming, not chasing form. After the meeting started, Mochizuki first reported on the design of the city square, Iori added, and then studied the future policy.Despite some disputes, the two sides finally decided to maintain the original plan.The question now is how much of the original design can be retained if the department store's opinion is adopted.In any case, the opinions raised by the other party must be resolved first, so everyone loses motivation.In short, it was finally decided to use more glass to create a spacious and bright pastoral style, and the plan was finalized. "Then according to this principle, Mochizuki is responsible for the implementation." He also felt irresponsible, but from the beginning he had decided to give them carte blanche to handle the design work. The next day was Saturday, and Iori left the apartment at one o'clock in the afternoon.Because I was going to give a speech at the wedding, I wanted to wear a dress, but I couldn't find it after searching for a long time.Ask Fuzi who does housework, she also said that she has never seen it.He thought that he had indeed worn it before, maybe he hadn't brought it out from the original home.When I left home a year ago, I was lucky to have all the necessary supplies packed, and the suit may have been sent for dry cleaning at the time. Yizhi thought about it carefully, he had never attended a wedding this year.When my uncle died this spring, he was on his way to New York and couldn't attend the funeral. Later, his friend's daughter got married and couldn't attend because of work.It seems that he has never had a chance to wear it, and has long forgotten about it.Although it is urgently needed now, it is not convenient to get it from the wife who has agreed to divorce, and it is difficult to ask. "It's bad this time..." While Tomiko was still talking to herself, Iori had decided to wear a black suit similar to a dress. Things that you forgot to bring when you ran away from home, once you need them urgently, you are really caught off guard.Iori thought to himself that when he and his wife formally divorced in the future, they would need to pack up the things they had forgotten at home.Thinking of this, he suddenly felt irritated and walked out of the apartment. He walked up the street and got into a taxi.When I came to the hotel where the wedding was held, I saw that this weekend might be another auspicious day, and there were many wedding guests gathered near the banquet hall.The sign at the reception said "Wedding of Yoshikawa and Uto".Iori went there and handed over the gift.At this moment, Muraoka walked towards him. "Thank you for your hard work. The professor is very happy that you accepted the speech task." As expected, Muraoka was wearing a neat dress.Iori was wearing an ordinary suit and thought it was inappropriate, but went straight to the lounge to congratulate the professor. "Congratulations, you are finally willing to marry your daughter." "If you want to marry, let her go!" Although the words were rude, the professor's eyes were smiling.Iori congratulated the bride again.I haven't seen her very much recently, but seeing her in her wedding dress today, she looks as beautiful as a different person. "Yesterday, Muraoka asked me to give a speech. Do you think I am suitable?" When asking for opinions from the bride and the professor's wife sitting next to her, the lady nodded with certainty and said: "There is nothing more gratifying than being able to invite such an outstanding figure as Iori to give a speech." "I'm not outstanding." Iori spoke the truth, but the wife and the bride seemed to think that he was being modest. The wedding started at two o'clock.First, the bride and groom enter to the wedding music.After the two sat down, the matchmaker began to speak.The groom seems to be an employee of a large trading company, and he likes music as much as the bride, so they form a couple.The matchmaker's words are still the same, saying that "the groom is a young man with a promising future..." However, knowing the school the groom graduated from and the company he worked for, it seems that this is indeed the case.He is only thirty years old, but he is already the person in charge who has entrusted him with a heavy responsibility.During school, I studied abroad for a year and traveled almost all over Southeast Asia. It seems that I am not just a scholar. After the matchmaker, the head of the groom's company stood up and spoke.Iori felt as if he had seen him somewhere.Listen, he recalled meeting him three years ago when he was in charge of the development of the Tama area.After the minister praised the groom for his excellence, he joked, "The groom can drink a lot, but I didn't expect him to be so good at finding a girlfriend." Immediately afterwards, Iori was named and delivered a speech.After Muraoka said it last night, he thought about it for a while, but he couldn't figure out a particularly beautiful language.He wanted to say that the bride was a talented woman, especially in playing the piano, but these seemed to be far from enough. As a result of thinking about it, he remembered a past event.When he went to the professor's house before, the button of his coat happened to fall off. The bride first found out about it and helped him to fix it.He said that the bride is a careful and cheerful girl, and this man is so happy to marry such a bride.He further congratulated them by using the analogy of buildings, saying that with only one pillar, the building is unstable, but with two pillars, it is unbreakable.Finally, he added a few more words: "Although the wedding is grand, there is no need to have a heavy mental burden all at once. Instead, you should breathe a sigh of relief, take it easy, and live happily!" After Iori finished speaking, another person from the groom's side spoke.After the guests' speeches, the bride and groom exchanged rings, cut the wedding cake and opened a glass of champagne. "The congratulatory speech is very good!" As soon as Iori drank a glass of champagne, Muraoka whispered to him. "Where? I'm the worst at this kind of errand. I'm not the kind of person who talks about life on this occasion." "It's really good what you said just now, take it easy and live happily." "Both parties still don't know the true face of Mount Lu, so I can't wish them forever." "Actually, there's no need to think about it in the long run. It's just a ceremony." The master of ceremonies stood up again, and the tables began to toast again.Unlike the congratulatory speech just now, it is much more casual now.In order to make the bride and groom happy, everyone told one joke after another, and the wedding burst into laughter again and again.Someone said that the groom fell in love with the bride and suddenly wanted to learn the piano, and someone also mentioned that he borrowed money from a friend to buy opera tickets.Halfway through the ceremony, singing began again, ending with a chorus of the groom's friends.The wedding ceremony is full of vigor and joy. Near the end of the banquet, both parents stood up, and the bride and groom each presented a bouquet of flowers to the other's parents.At this moment, all the lights in the venue suddenly went out, and the spotlight shone on the position where the parents were standing. The bride and groom holding flowers approached slowly to the sound of "Song of Mother", and a couple of newlyweds walked towards their parents. After presenting flowers, there was a burst of warm applause in the venue.Under the spotlight, Professor Yutu took the flowers angrily. "The professor has always said that he will never marry off his youngest daughter. The professor is holding back his tears!" Muraoka stretched his waist to watch, Iori didn't look at the professor, but just clapped along with everyone to the sound of the music. Muraoka wanted to say something, but Iori sat down first. After presenting the flowers, the whole venue was brightly lit again. Finally, the leader of the company where the bridegroom worked proposed that everyone cheer again, and then the banquet ended. At the exit of the banquet hall, the matchmaker, the groom, the bride and their parents stood in a row to thank the guests who left.Iori blessed the newlyweds, and once again said to the professor, "Congratulations." The professor thanked Iori repeatedly, and extended his hand over. After shaking hands, after reaching the corridor, Muraoka came up from behind and said: "The timing is a little off." I looked at my watch and realized it was half past four.It's a bit early to go drinking now, but it's not enjoyable to go home like this. "Let's sit in the bar of this hotel for a while!" So the two went to the bar on the twelfth floor and sat side by side in front of the round bar. "It's so ostentatious! No matter when, the wedding is the most beautiful." Muraoka seemed to be still in the midst of the wedding ceremony, but Iori ordered a bitter martini on the rocks without answering. Muraoka seemed to notice Iori's serious expression, and was a little worried. "You look listless, is there something uncomfortable?" "No. Anyway, I don't like weddings much." After Iori took a sip of the ice water, he took another sip of the martini.Slowly swallowing the bitter wine, I felt a little better in my heart. "Don't you want to see everyone congratulate a couple to start a new life?" "It's not disgusting, it's just a chill down my spine." "yes……" "Although everyone praises them as promising young people and talented women, I wish them a hundred years of reconciliation. But is it that simple!" "It's hard to say. However, everyone in the room hoped so." "Everyone naively thinks that they will be happy after the wedding, and wish them hard work and happiness. I hate this kind of irresponsible nonsense." "Then what should we do? You can't just wish them luck!" Hearing what Muraoka said, Iori was also speechless.However, today's wedding is too formal, it's like an assembly line.At an old-fashioned banquet, after a while of commotion and noise as usual, a couple of newlyweds leave. "Young people hate formality the most, but they stand on the assembly line, nodding and bowing, showing how satisfied they seem. In my opinion, they are too superficial." "It may be a happy mood for the parties who are dazed by everyone's hype, but for the audience, this kind of performance may not be pleasant." "However, this is the first time I've seen the professor so excited. Even I was very moved when I received the flowers." "Honestly, I don't really like that. There's music playing, it's pitch black, and there's a spotlight, and there's tears, or the appearance of tears, and it's just too much of a show." "But that's the climax of the wedding ceremony!" "In order to perform this play, it is completely unnecessary to invite so many audiences to watch it." "What happened to you today?" Muraoka took a sip of whiskey, put the glass on the table, and looked at Iori. "What happened?" Iori shook his head slowly, although he criticized the wedding ceremony just now, it had nothing to do with his wife's divorce.He felt that there was too much affectation and formalism in the ceremony just now.Of course, the fact is that deep down he has been thinking about divorcing his wife. "Nothing worth mentioning..." Although I only drank a little beer and whiskey on the rocks at the wedding, I always feel a little dizzy from drinking in broad daylight. In addition, after entering the bar and drinking a martini, Iori felt drunk.He ordered another martini, and suddenly said, "This time, I might want a divorce." Muraoka looked at Iori in surprise and said, "Really?" "My wife finally agreed." "What the hell is going on?" "Yesterday, my brother-in-law came to see me. The next step is to stamp the divorce papers. Once you make up your mind, it's so simple." The topic was too unexpected, and Muraoka was more nervous than himself.In the panic, he failed to light the lighter twice, and managed to light the cigarette the third time. "You agree to leave?" "It's nothing. Because the other party has already recognized it, that's all there is to it." "You act like it's none of your business." Hearing what he said, Yizhi also found that she didn't really feel the divorce yet. "So what about the kids and the house?" "It's not on the agenda yet. At the moment, it's just that both parties have agreed to a divorce." Probably just after attending the wedding, five women in kimonos walked in together and sat at the table by the window.They all seemed to have had some, and were all in high spirits.Iori looked at them blankly, and Muraoka said, "Aren't you going to reconsider?" Iori looked away, looking at the row of wine bottles on the bar. "It's not impossible. But the other party has already proposed to break up, so it seems that we have no choice but to do so." "At the beginning, you ran away from home and asked for a divorce. As long as you want to turn back, there will always be a way." "..." "Your wife doesn't want a divorce, does she! Because you proposed it, they reluctantly agreed to it!" "may be!" "I really don't understand you. Do you want a divorce or not?" Being asked so bluntly, Iori couldn't figure it out.At present, I really hope to get a divorce, but when I think about my celibate life in the future, I feel troubled and lonely. "I think you should try not to divorce, maintain the status quo, and live together. Of course, I don't want to force you not to divorce. It's hard for an upright official to break up family affairs. I don't mean to interfere with you." Iori stared at the cup in his hand and nodded.What Muraoka said was reasonable, and he also knew that he didn't want to meddle in other people's business.But the reason for the rift between husband and wife is indeed difficult to say clearly. "I just want to ask you one thing, do you have a new love?" Seeing Muraoka staring at him, Iori turned his face away. "Is it still the woman from the office..." Iori once introduced Shengzi to Muraoka, and even had dinner together.Although Iori didn't mention it explicitly, the upright Muraoka had already guessed that they were not ordinary colleagues. "Did you divorce to marry her?" "No, it's not." Iori shook the ice cubes in the glass and shook his head.In the past, maybe after divorcing his wife, he would have wanted to marry Shengzi immediately.At least that was the intention when I ran away from home a year ago.But now the divorce has nothing to do with marrying Shengzi. "You broke up with her already?" "Not yet..." In all fairness, he didn't want a divorce just because he had a goal.It was the feeling of purposelessness and lack of success that made the divorce so preoccupied with him. "You don't have any other women you like?" Iori was taken aback when he heard this, but he thought Muraoka would not get to the bottom of it.Hiding it made him worry, so he took the initiative to speak out. "I want to travel to Europe for a few days next week." "At a time like this? Do you have business to do?" "Go study and want to relax by the way." "That's right, maybe it's better this way." Muraoka seems to think that Iori is going to Europe for a while in order to seriously consider divorce.Of course he thought that Yizhi was going alone, and he never dreamed that he would go with Xia. "Leaving Japan for a while may change your mind." Muraoka seemed to hope for such a result, but Iori had no such intention at all.I brought it up by myself, and my wife agreed to it, and it is impossible to go back on my word. "If there is no goal of marrying someone, I don't think there is any need to insist on divorce." Yizhi listened to him talking, but thought of Xia in her heart.If you get rid of your wife and get married now, you will think of Xia first.Although I liked Shengzi so much before, I still didn't make up my mind to get married, probably because I still couldn't forget about her and Miyazu. But Xia is already a wife, with a husband and children.Even if she becomes single, it is difficult to combine with Xia.If Xia wants to divorce, she will definitely encounter greater difficulties than Yizhi. "I don't want to spoil your interest. However, it's not easy for people of our age to live alone. Although there are maids to help, there are always places that are not well taken care of." Honest Muraoka was really worried for him. "I have a painter friend who lost five kilograms after the divorce." “他多大年纪？” “四十六岁吧！有一个孩子。” 伊织虽然不知道那个男人和妻子之间发生了什么事，但他至少明白一点：离婚需要决心和毅力。它远比结婚更烦琐，而且更消耗精力。 “你去欧洲几天？” “十几天。打算到荷兰和维也纳转一圈。” “太好了，我也很想去呀！” 如果村冈稀里糊涂地提出来一起去，那可麻烦了。伊织没理他，只管喝马提尼。“下星期三动身。” 说了实话以后，伊织又突然不安起来。如果他知道霞也同一天出发，那就糟了。村冈大概不会给霞打电话，但也许只因为一点小事，就可能要泄露出二人一起旅行的蛛丝马迹。