Chapter 48 Continental

After get off work, Tadanobu Kurauchi went home first, and then drove straight to Jiawen Mukai's wife's residence.He had already found out where Mukai's wife Yasuko lived. During the day, Tadanobu Kurauchi met a former subordinate of his at the Small and Medium Enterprise Support Countermeasures Office in the cafe of the prefectural government building, and asked him about "Mukai Furniture Factory". After all, "Mukai Furniture Factory" could not continue to operate. After Mukai Jiawen died, he filed for bankruptcy. Kurauchi Tadanobu asked his former subordinates to find out the phone number of Mukai Kafumi's family that was written on the bankruptcy application, but they couldn't get through several times.Kurauchi Tadanobu inquired again through the local police station, and finally found out that Mukai Kafumi's wife, Yasuko, was now living at her sister's house.

According to the address provided by the police, Tadanobu Kurauchi turned left at a convenience store and entered a narrow street. Before coming here, Tadanobu Kurauchi had called Yasuko, but Yasuko's voice was slurred and he asked several times what Tadanobu Kurauchi's name was.Cangnei said that he was from the county government, and Jingzi let out a "ah", as if thinking of this person from Cangnei.On the phone, Cang Nei didn't say what he wanted to see Jingzi, but only said that he wanted to have an interview with Jingzi.Originally, he thought that Jingzi would refuse, but unexpectedly Jingzi vaguely agreed.

Yasuko's older sister's house lived behind a small park, and Tadanobu Kurauchi found it easily.It was a two-story building with a single courtyard, and the surroundings were dark.A middle-aged woman stood in front of the small building. The yard of Jingzi's sister's house is not big, and a hut built with prefabricated panels takes up most of the yard.Yasuko led Kurauchi Tadanobu into the small room.The hut may have been lived in by children before, and there are even posters of idol singers on the ceiling.In the eight-tatami-sized room, there are many cardboard boxes piled up, and there is a small space left, and there is a beautiful round table that does not match the room, probably a product of "Mukai Furniture Factory".

The smell of incense sticks can be smelled in the room, and on a small table in the corner, there is a spiritual tablet of Kawen Mukai, which is very simple. Kurauchi Tadanobu knelt in front of Mukai Yoshifumi's coffin, clasped his hands together.After praying, Jingzi pulled out a chair from under the round table and said to the cabin, "Please sit here." "Okay..." Kurauchi Tadanobu began to regret that he came here.Witnessing the conversation between Haruo Shikata, the old man during the "honeymoon" period, and Toshiichiro Katsuragi, Kurauchi was in a state of turmoil. In order to confirm whether Kafumi Mukai's family had criticized Tadanobu Kurauchi in the form of letters from the public, he rashly talked to Yasuko. Got in touch.On the phone, when he heard Jingzi's voice, Cangnei's intuition was: Jingzi never wrote a letter to the county magistrate.

After meeting Yasuko, Kurauchi Tadanobu's intuition turned into conviction.Yasuko, who was serving tea to Tadanobu in the warehouse, had no unnatural expression on his face. Perhaps Yoshifumi Mukai had never even told Yasuko about the matter in the warehouse.If this was the case, it would be impossible for Yasuko to have a letter from the public criticizing the loyalty in the warehouse. Of course, there is no need to suspect that Toshiichiro Katsuragi intentionally forwarded that letter to the old man. "Did it cause you a lot of trouble?" Jingzi asked with concern. "What?..." Kurauchi Tadanobu looked at Yasuko in surprise.

"Is that what you came for?" "What's the matter?" "Letters from the people. My husband's brother said he wrote a letter to the governor." Kurauchi Tadanobu froze immediately.Sudden mental blow, even speechless.Jingzi said with a dark expression, "You came here just to write a letter to the governor for his brother, right?" "You...husband's younger brother?" "Ah... yes..." "Is it... your husband's younger brother..." "Sure enough, I have caused you trouble." Jingzi said in a low voice.

"No, no, no... no... no..." Cangnei Zhongxin's tone of voice changed, and he wished he could slap himself a few times, "This...in the letter written by your husband's brother, it was mentioned Is it time to borrow money?" "Yes. I'm really sorry, his brother is too impulsive..." Jingzi lowered his head as he said. Jingzi told Cangnei Tadanobu everything that happened after Mukai Jiawen went to Cangnei's house to borrow money that night. After Mukai Yoshifumi returned home from Kurauchi Tadanobu, he told Yasuko and his younger brother about asking Kurauchi to borrow money.

200,000 yen, I can only borrow it next week... At that time, the younger brother who was the deputy factory manager of "Mukai Furniture Factory" was very angry: "Bastard, just lend 200,000 yuan? It will have to be next week? Isn't this playing us?" Mukai Jiawen scolded his younger brother and said: "You are too selfish to say this. You shouldn't hate the head of the warehouse. The head of the warehouse is a good person." However, Mukai's younger brother was not convinced, and shouted: "Didn't my brother say that he knew him very well? Didn't he say that he would definitely help us? How did it turn out?... I said I would have a thick skin and borrow money from my teacher." , you still don’t let me go, just wait for bankruptcy, this furniture factory is hopeless..."

"His younger brother is a person who only thinks about himself and does not consider others. The factory is not running well, and his wife divorced him, so he is in a bad mood..." Kurauchi Tadanobu listened to Yasuko's narration, what else could he do except nod his head? Jingzi sighed, and continued: "His younger brother has been blaming himself in his heart, and feels that he is responsible for his brother's death. In order to deceive himself and avoid responsibility, he regarded you as a bad person, so he wrote that letter... I am so sorry……" Kurauchi Tadanobu let out a breath slowly.

What happened must be like this: Yoshifumi Mukai’s younger brother wrote a letter scolding Tadanobu in Kurauchi and sent it to the Letters and Visits Office. Toshiichiro Katsuraki deliberately sent this letter to the Governor’s Office. After reading it, the old man Very angry, he told the driver Ushikubo in the car, "I saw the wrong person". Can I regain the old man's trust?It may be very difficult to regain the old man's trust.The letter written by Xiangjing Jiawen's brother was not made out of nothing. He did say that he would only lend him 200,000 yuan, and that he would only lend him next week, so Xiangjing...

Yoshiko Mukai's wife poured another cup of tea for Tadanobu Kurauchi and said to him, "My husband thanked you from the bottom of his heart. That night, after his brother came home, he told me several times that Mr. Kurauchi is Nice guy." To this sentence, Kurauchi Tadanobu did not nod. "Is this true?" Kurauchi Tadanobu couldn't help asking, "Doesn't your husband hate me?" "Don't hate, don't hate, how could he hate you? He said, you are very serious, and you listened to him talk about the plight of the furniture factory..." "Your husband wrote me a letter." Kurauchi Tadanobu didn't want to say this at first, but he felt uncomfortable if he didn't. "What? My husband gives you..." "Yes. There are only three words on the letter paper: Thank you." Jingzi was surprised when she heard that, but soon she calmed down and said seriously: "I think he just wanted to thank you, nothing else." "Really? How can I..." Cangauchi Tadanobu wanted to say: Why do I feel that he is mocking me?But after hesitating for a while, he didn't say it, because he felt that it was inappropriate to say this to Jingzi. "He often talks about you," Jingzi said again. "Ah?..." Kurauchi Tadanobu exclaimed in surprise. "He said that when he went to you to discuss financing, you were very enthusiastic about him and said that he had a drink with you. He took these things as his pride, not only often said to me, but also to his brother Say, even tell your employees. Mr. Kurauchi, you are very interested in fishing, aren't you?" "Ah... yes..." Kurauchi Tadanobu casually agreed. "My husband also likes fishing. He said that he has the same interests as you, and they had a good conversation. He even said that he has made an appointment to go fishing with you." Kurauchi Tadanobu doesn't remember, there is such a thing. "After the newspaper published the news that you were transferred to the head of the secretarial department, he was very happy, as if he himself became the head of the department; , It’s just unusual. I didn’t misread the person, I knew a long time ago that Mr. Cangnei would definitely be a high-ranking official..." Kurauchi Tadanobu had nothing to say. "Since you became the head of the class, he has been talking about you more often. During the factory meeting, he still praised you in front of all the employees. So, he..." Jingzi's lips trembled, "in front of his brother I told the staff that I have nowhere to go, so I can only go to you to raise money..." Kurauchi Tadanobu involuntarily avoided Yasuko's teary eyes. "He never thought that you would lend him money. After he came back from you, his expression was very calm. Before he went to your house, he thought that he would definitely be rejected." Mukai Jiawen's wife Yasuko sighed and looked into the warehouse. Zhongxin said in a low voice, "Think about it, he doesn't understand better than anyone else. He just bumped into you by chance, drank a few glasses of wine, and didn't have any deep acquaintance. But, you listened very seriously and patiently. After he finished speaking, he promised to lend him two hundred thousand... So, before he died, he didn't forget to say thank you to you!..." Kurauchi Tadanobu stared at the big characters written on the cardboard box with a marker pen, and did not speak for a long time.Those big characters are: Husband, summer clothes. The words became blurred, and finally nothing could be seen.In Kurauchi's mind, Mukai Yoshifumi's face appeared. At that time, when Kurauchi Tadanobu told Mukai Kafumi the amount of "200,000", Mukai laughed.It was a dreamy smile, a sad smile.but…… Jingzi seemed to be wiping away tears.After a while, Jingzi spoke again. "He has such a temper. He doesn't know how to say polite words and express gratitude to others. It's always such a simple three words." Kurauchi Tadanobu looked at Yasuko's eyes wet with tears.Jingzi smiled: "I think at that time, he just wanted to chat with a friend who was often together and went fishing, so he wrote those three words very casually——thank you." When Kurauchi Tadanobu was about to smile at Yasuko, the cell phone in his arms rang.The warehouse quickly took out the mobile phone and looked at it. The phone number of the secretarial department was displayed on the screen. "Ah, section chief, I'm Katsuragi." Toshiichiro Katsuragi's voice came from the phone. "Is there something urgent?" Kurauchi Tadanobu asked in a panic. "It's not really an emergency." "Then I'll call you later." Kurauchi Tadanobu hung up the phone and stood up.Jingzi looked at him reluctantly. Kurauchi Tadanobu once again knelt down in front of Mukai Yoshifumi's coffin, folded his hands, and prayed for the deceased to be safe in heaven.Afterwards, Cangnei turned to Yasuko and said, "I will come to see you again when I have a chance in the future, and I would like to hear something from you about Mr. Mukai."