Chapter 23 chapter Five

The two walked out of the teahouse.Under the streetlight at the intersection of the main road, Xiaozi suddenly stopped, and took out money from her pocket. "Although there are only three... Take it! Pay the rent." Three bills of 10,000 yuan were handed over to Junping. "What's going on, so much money..." "I'm a member of the Yazhihui! I called the meeting just now, and there happened to be a good customer, so I took a job." "Will it be duck feet?" warm!You do not know? —— With an ambiguous expression, Xiaozi took out a photo from her pocket.The postcard-sized photo of a celebrity, with Yoko's soft smile on it.The long hair is decorated with ribbons, and the innocent Xiaozi in front of her looks like a stranger.

"That's right! This is the photo I used in the Duck Plantation Club. I put the artificial flowers of Commelina chinensis on my chest, waiting for the guests to come... Is it common to see advertisements next to public telephones? It says: beautiful People are waiting for you, please call..." Junping was so shocked that his glasses almost slipped off.In this way, Xiaozi was selling her body for the past hour and a half... "It's not surprising, and it's not a serious matter. The female stars are not naked behind others, and even glance at people they don't know well. In short, they are selling their bodies as commodities! Today's Nice gentleman!"

"You, are these true?" "I didn't lie to you!" Xiaozi said with a nonchalant expression, "You're welcome to accept it! It's not much money!" Junping coldly waved away the hand that was about to stuff money into his pocket. "How can I collect this kind of money?" "What! Isn't the money all the same? Don't look down on it with such dirty eyes!" Like Junpei, Xiaozi blushed and became angry: "I see. I can't take my money, can I? Good! It's already..." She tore the banknotes to pieces and threw them at Junping's glasses.The banknotes didn't float to Junping's face, Jing had already floated down between the two of them, Junping raised his hand without thinking and slapped Xiaozi on the cheek.

"Idiot, don't you think it's shameful to do such a thing?" Xiaozi's eyes were filled with tears, as if she wanted to hide the tears and pain, she covered her cheeks with her hands. "Forget it! I was a terrible person." Xiaozi said sadly. "You also have advantages! Although you can't express your advantages because of your clumsy words, if you can make good use of these advantages, you can reflect your true face in a beautiful mirror..." I don't know if she was quite angry because of being slapped, Xiaozi just looked back at him with eyes full of hatred:

"You overestimate me, Junping. If I were a meek, beautiful, ordinary happy woman, wouldn't I be beaten?" "Meek, beautiful, ordinary happy women don't sell their bodies." "Junping, you are so cruel. You look kind and gentle, but you are not gentle and kind at all. I don't do that kind of thing often! In the past, no matter how embarrassing I was, I only did it once... This time it was because of you A lot of care...and you owe rent...you talk so cruelly!" Xiaozi pushed Junping away and ran out of the alleyway.Junping chased after him, but when he reached the corner, there was no trace of Xiaozi on the street at dusk.

The next afternoon, Junping came to Xiaozi's apartment with three 10,000-yen bills tied tightly with string.She wants to apologize for her rude behavior, but unfortunately Xiaozi is not at home.Junping stuffed the money into the crack of the door and left.There was a feral cat looking for food by the dumpster outside the apartment door.After hearing Junping's footsteps, he ran away immediately, hid in the dark place next to the trash can, looked up at Junping with resentful eyes, just like Xiaozi's eyes last night. At nine o'clock, Xiaozi called.Her voice seemed to have completely forgotten what happened last night:

"I got the chance to act. It's a big role! ——Although it's just a drama performance in the cultural festival of the university, the protagonist of this play is shaped in my image! At the moment I'm working hard on the rehearsal, but at the end there is a phone call The scene of saying goodbye to your boyfriend is a difficult part. Although it is a scene of talking on the phone, but because it is a stage play, the other party does not make a sound, so it is my one-man show. It is always difficult to rehearse, please Act as my opponent for the time being!" "But, I..."

"You just have to say 'ah!' and 'um'. Because I just need to imagine a real person talking to me on the phone to get the show going...I'll hang up first! Next time I call, I'll say 'it's me , do you know who it is?', it was a monologue until I hung up the phone. Now, I saw a group of students coming to the theater, looking forward to my performance! I really want to start acting !...Don't laugh!" Xiaozi kept talking to herself, then cut off the phone, and immediately the ringtone rang again. "It's me, do you know who it is?"

The show begins.Her voice was choked with sobs. "I like you. But I haven't noticed my feelings... I'm a bit stupid! That's why I like you, but I didn't realize it. Instead, I kept doing things that disgusted you... Are you listening?" "Yes!" Junping hurriedly agreed. "You are such a good person, I really like you!... But, after I found out that I have feelings for you, I feel that I can't treat you like other men... You are suitable for a more gentle, beautiful, ordinary and happy girl ...I am not suitable for you." "Ok!" "So, I think it's over for the two of us! I knocked on your door uninvited for the first time, so I should have disappeared in front of you... In fact, instead of saying 'bye!' farewell, I I would rather say 'thank you!'."

"what!" "……Bye-Bye." Xiaozi's voice was so low that he could hardly hear him, as if he was waiting expectantly for Junping to break the silence. After a while, Junping just remained silent, and finally came the voice of hanging up the phone.Since then, the phone has not rang again. During Xiaozi's performance just now, I really cried.Junping thought that her acting skills are quite good, so the cultural festival performance must be a success!While staring at Xiaozi's photo on the table.The person in this photo of the member of the Yazhihui is really innocent and innocent. Just looking at the photo, one would definitely think that Xiaozi is a submissive, beautiful, ordinary girl with a happy life.At this moment, the sound of Xiaozi crying still lingers in his ears, and the eyes in the photo seem to be looking at Junping with tears in his eyes.Jun Ping was embarrassed by the unblinking eyes staring at him as if he wanted to tell something, he looked away and looked away.

At this time, Junping's mind turned several times like a rotating stage.He crossed his arms and pondered for a while, and then: "Oh!—" As if he found some mistake, he shouted at the end of the sentence, and went straight to the phone. He dialed the police station responsible for the incident and asked Kano Yasuhiko to listen to the call.Fortunately, the Ghanaian Interpol is still on duty. "Sorry, please take a moment, I have something to say." "I was going to the Qingya Hall. When I was talking with you there, my pen seemed to be lost there..." "What a coincidence. If possible, I'd love to be able to stand center stage and talk to you." Thirty minutes later, Junping and the Ghanaian criminal police were standing on the stage of Qingya Hall.It seems that the show has just ended!There was no one in the auditorium, but it was still full of heat, and the cleaning crew and prop team were busy around the two of them. "I finally understand, the truth this time..." Junpei, who looked through his glasses and gazed at the auditorium, sighed and said these words. "Do you know who the murderer is?" Surprised, the Ghanaian criminal police looked at Junping in a blink of an eye. Seeing Junping's angry and painful expression, he straightened his tie immediately, as if to match his feelings, and his face became very heavy. Junping shook his head and said, "In this incident, 'who' or 'how' is not important. The question is 'why', why did she commit suicide?" "Suicide?—But, Aoi Lanko was shot!" "She had a way of making her suicide look like a homicide." "what way?" Junping shook his head again, "Discussing the 'why' is more important than the method, shouldn't that be the case?" "However, we have not found any possible suicide motive!" "Indeed, because she didn't seriously intend to commit suicide at first. When she got on the stage, she just had the mood of taking a gamble. However, in the middle of the performance, she had the idea of ​​death. The reason why she must die during the performance It happened suddenly.—she saw this reason from the audience in the middle of the play, which drove her to such a desperate situation." "Wait a minute—the auditorium is always dark during the performance, that is, from the stage, where we are at this moment, we can't see any movement in the auditorium at all." "It should be said that it was dark on the stage that night. Moreover, at the beginning of the third act, the lights behind her were shining side by side, and she was performing in the shadow of the backlight. That is to say, at that time, lights appeared in the auditorium .She should be able to see the seats...it can even be said that she can see clearly...If you look at the intensity of the lights at that time, even the farthest seat can be seen!" "But, what exactly did she see? Who did she see doing what?... After seeing that scene, she was forced to die. What is it that makes her so desperate?" Junping stood in the center of the stage, his eyes slowly looked around the auditorium.A mournful and deep voice said: "Life—one's own life." He replied in a low voice, as if talking to himself. "Life? How to say?" Garner asked puzzled.Junping didn't answer his question. "It wasn't until that moment that I suddenly realized. After seeing a picture of a certain girl... that day, who was the only audience that Lanzi invited." "Who? It's Beiyuan?" Garner immediately asked loudly, and Jun gently shook his head. "So, it's Sakurai?" Fujikawa, Ono, Okura, and Garner read out these names one by one, but Junpei shook his head in denial. "Ranko Aoi performed that play for the only audience. And the only guest she invited was her—Ranko Aoi herself."