Chapter 12 Chapter two

The mansion of Chairman Gohara stands at the top of the slope with the night sky as the background.The gate lights illuminate the white walls like an ancient city. This whiteness makes the midsummer heat disperse into the air at dusk.This mansion feels like a building where a toy king expresses his preferences. Junping carried the comatose criminal policeman on his back, and Shoko carried Miyoko on his back. The visit of the two brought a commotion to this quiet home. It was the Fukui detective who was in charge of the kidnapping that Gunpei fell. Since the prisoner's original target was Gohara's daughter, he suspected that someone who had a personal grudge with Gohara did it, so he came to visit Gohara on purpose.On the way home, he saw Miyoko playing alone, and was trying to persuade her to go home.

After the surgeon's treatment, Fukui's jaw was dislocated and one inner tooth was knocked out. He wrapped his crab-like face with layers of bandages, which looked like a strange white turban.Junping sat opposite him in the living room, and after talking with him, he realized that he was a two-stage judo player, so he couldn't help but retracted his exposed feet.At this time, Gang Yuan was severely scolding his wife for not being here at this time, and letting the child play outside alone.White Turban refused to admit defeat and said in an Osaka accent, "You hinder me from performing my duties! If I wasn't squatting, your short legs wouldn't be able to kick me!"

Junping and Xiangzi shielded each other and kept bowing their heads to apologize. "I'm so sorry. I'd like to give you artificial teeth for free." "No, it's my responsibility. Everything is my fault." "Okay, stop arguing! Forgive me for putting platinum teeth on me, and stop arguing." "It's really my fault—" "not me--" "It's so noisy, if you keep arguing, it will piss me off." The angry voice shouted too much, and Fukui's jaw seemed to be dislocated again. When they made the face of this criminal who looked like a criminal police officer turn blue with anger, suddenly a man rushed in violently.This thin and thin man, about thirty-five or six years old, who seemed poor, ignored all the eyes on him in the room, ran to the sofa where Gangyuan was sitting, and sat down limply on the ground. It's like kneeling at Ganghara's feet and saluting.

"He is the father of A Ling who was kidnapped." Xiangzi whispered secretly. Qu Mu was wearing a sweatshirt, which was exposed outside his trousers: "Chairman, please lend me 30 million. There is no one else to ask... If no money is raised by tomorrow noon, A Ling will Killed. Help me!" "Zhuang Zuo, how many times do you have to come here before you are willing? This is the fifth time since this morning. It's useless to beg me no matter how much you ask, go back quickly!" Ganghara was wearing a purple-based boxer robe with gorgeous silver embroidery. The robe covered a protruding abdomen that seemed to be piled up with money. The smoking pottery pipe in his hand always made people feel like a vegetable. The nouveau riche who came from a businessman looks like ginseng just dug out of the soil.Not minding that the ash layer from the pipe fell on his shield, the bent wood wrapped around Gohara's feet as if he was licking it.

"A Ling is your dry money stand-in. The prisoner also wants me to ask you if I can't get the money—and said that giving 30 million for the lives of other people's children will become a good talk and shock the press. Can it also become a publicity for Maruhachi? —— Please lend it to me, even if I want to be a cow and a horse for a lifetime, I will return it to you." "Can you believe your words? Last year, when you embezzled two million yuan, you also promised not to gamble on horses, but this time you embezzled five million public funds—Mr. Criminal Police, aren't you going to ask me if there is anyone who has a grudge against me? I think The people who hate me are probably this guy and Kakiuchi. Both this guy and Kakiuchi are members of a violent group. They were reborn because of my employment, but they conspired to embezzle 5 million yen of public funds last month. I have to do it as a last resort. I fired them, and after I fired them, I heard that they spread bad things about me everywhere, this kind of behavior is clearly the revenge method of the bad guys."

"Who is Kakinei?" "He's this guy's subordinate and serves as the deputy store manager. Hmm! I don't think this guy could have mistaken his daughter and kidnapped her, so the culprit might be Kakiuchi! That guy also hates me, and he's missing money!" "No, it's not Kakiuchi. Chairman, you haven't heard the prisoner's voice before, so you think so. - If it's Kakiuchi's Northeast dialect, I can tell it right away, but the prisoner's voice is younger - and, It was me who forced Kakiuchi, who was unwilling to embezzle, to embezzle, and everything is my responsibility."

Qumu began to sob.In fact, he probably also drank wine, and his cheeks were red.In this tanned leather sofa, golden decorations, shotguns, swords on the wall, and utensils used by rich people have been thrown into the general living room, showing the poor appearance of Qumu Zhuang.Xiangzi felt that Qumu, who was scraping the floor and pleading earnestly, had a fatherly heart, and couldn't help shedding tears of sympathy for him. This sad scene lasted for thirty minutes. Finally, Gohara, who became irritable, kicked Qumu like a dog and stood up. "No matter how much you beg, I will not lend you a penny. The child who was misidentified—no, it should be said to be your child. Her kidnapping is your responsibility and has nothing to do with me. There are lucky and unfortunate people in the world. I am lucky and you are unlucky, not just now. And you know your unhappiness is of your own making."

"But, A Ling, she—the prisoner will shoot twice on the phone. It seems that the child will really be killed if the money is not given." "Last month, I said: No matter what happens in the future, you and I are strangers who have nothing to do with each other. I don't care about your business, you can go to the police again." "Go home and wait for the situation to develop. Besides, the police are doing their best to track down the whereabouts of the criminal." The white turban picked up the hunched and weeping Bentwood, and walked out while protecting his shoulders that had slumped in frustration.

Xiangzi had already opened the leather bag and wanted to hand over the money to Qumu, but he didn't know how to tell Qumu who was crying bitterly. Xiangzi and Junping walked out of the living room to catch up with the two who left. While putting on his canvas shoes, Junping squatted down and sat at the door wiping his glasses. When Liaoyuan's wife came out, Junping stood up hastily. "Is this a family portrait of your family?" Junping used the large portrait hanging on the shoe box as the topic. "Yes, it was drawn by the artist Miyamoto." Mrs. Gohara replied with the same serious expression as the portrait.In the gorgeous portraits, the family all present affluent faces, but the flowers in the vase placed under the paintings have all withered and been discarded, revealing the indifference of the family hidden in the portraits.

There are four figures in the portrait.In addition to the Gohara couple and their daughter, Miyoko, there is another young man who looks like a master at the age of a college student. "Is this your son?" "Yes, it's college holidays and he's traveled to America. What's the matter?" "No, nothing." "Come back if you're okay! We're all tired." Mrs. Gohara suddenly became very unhappy and chased the two of them away.It was already summer night outside, and Junping's body was dripping with sweat from the blowing of the air-conditioning in the room just now.In a corner of the garden, there is a spacious garage, in which there is a Lincoln sedan.Just as he was fascinated by the luxury of the car, a Scottish puppy ran out of the doghouse in the shade of the flowers, approached unsteadily, and jumped onto Junping.He was happily licking Junping's thinning head as if he was seeing an old friend. I don't know if it's because of Xia Ri's physical weakness, or because of his thin body, this dog doesn't look very energetic.Next to it was an empty, discarded dog food container.

Walking out of Gangwon's house, there was no trace of the white turban or bent wood on the ramp. "Looking at Mr. Qumu's appearance, he probably won't even be able to get 10,000 yen out. I might give them the money now to comfort them a little bit. I really hate that guy Gohara, I really want to throw the money in his face .Living in that kind of house built with hundreds of millions of yuan, 30 million yuan is just a drop in the bucket! But he—” "The money will be given to them tomorrow. I have already posted that the hospital will be on vacation tomorrow." "Why did you decide to do it tomorrow?" "Because the deadline for paying the ransom is at noon tomorrow, I want to be there to see what will happen at Qumu's house tomorrow." "why?" "Chairman Gangyuan's house, it's a bit strange. There is no servant in such a spacious house. No, there is! But I heard that he resigned recently. The door has a thick layer of dust, and the flowers are dead—— And it seems that I haven't fed the dog for a while, it looks very pitiful." "So, until July, Miyoko was still picked up by a servant who was about thirty-five or six years old, but when the summer vacation started, Mrs. Gohara picked him up in a Lincoln car instead?" "Such a spacious garage with only one Lincoln car, there is too much space left. Perhaps there was another car until recently? It may be a foreign car driven by his son. A young student from such a wealthy family must want to Show off by driving a foreign car!" "I heard that his son is in America." "I don't think it's traveling overseas in a car, and when we mentioned his son, Mrs. Gohara immediately became very upset." "Junping!" Xiangzi suddenly said solemnly, "When I was in the living room of Gangyuan's house, I have been thinking about it. If A Ling can come back safely, I want to give birth to this child in my womb. This is not a random thought, I The child in the womb is also like A Ling today, and his life is also in danger, and my will is like the kidnapper's shotgun." "It's better to think like this." When Jun Ping felt that his words had naturally returned to the familiar tone before, he moved away from the shadows of the two people who were getting closer on the ramp, and stepped on his own shadow.At this time, Junping regretted the letter he wrote to Xiangzi seven years ago, the day after the graduation ceremony. "Before you leave for Hokkaido, please meet me one more time." This is the first and last letter that Junping plans to forget everything about Xiangzi from now on.Immediately received a reply. "Goodbye! Junping!" It was a note with only one line written, and the rest were blank.In the blank, there is a confession attitude towards Junping, and a gentle heart that does not want to hurt him. "That's good, the best way to end it." Junping seemed to be asking himself an answer, repeating the answer several times.