Chapter 27 Chapter One

"Who are you?" This was the first sentence of this beautiful woman who finally opened her eyes after Jun Ping patted her cheeks after waking up.She didn't immediately remember what she had done, as if she had just woken up from a happy dream, a smile floated on her pale red lips. Junping read his name aloud like a curtain caller. He is twenty-six years old and lives in a small apartment about an hour away.His hair is thin, and behind his stupid glasses, there are big round and ugly eyes. The other party can tell that he is not a handsome man, so it goes without saying that he suffered an irreparable injury during a karate competition in college, so Holding on to the idea that if I live a happy life, I will be sorry for the injured person. I have cut off the opportunity to find a job, and I have no fixed job so far;

"Passing by your house by chance, this one..." Junping pointed to it curled up in a corner, as if his responsibility had been fulfilled, and it was wagging its tail calmly.Because of its unusual whining sound, Junping was peeping into the house from the window next to the main entrance.The blood-stained wrist can be seen hanging by the sofa through the gap in the curtain.Following its lead, Junping entered the house through the back door. "So the dog saved my life!" "..." "What's wrong?" "...is it really a dog?" I don't know if you think Junping's rather serious expression is funny, but the woman smiled cheerfully, but she immediately became unhappy when she noticed that Junping tore his white shirt and tied his injured wrist tightly in order to save the emergency.

"It's okay. The bleeding has stopped, and it's not a serious injury. Apply medicine again..." After the woman got up, she was about to straighten the skirt of the kimono when she realized that the clasp on the cloth socks under her feet had come loose.She seemed to want to fasten it, but couldn't fasten it well, and finally she took off the cloth socks with slightly restless fingers, and threw them to the corner of the velvet carpet.It is indecent to wear socks on one foot and barefoot on the other in front of a young man, but at this moment, the bare foot exposed under her blue dress is as white as another layer of silk, and her indecent behavior forms an indecent appearance on the contrary. Beauty that doesn't match her age.

The loose hair covered half of her face, and she was staring at the sunset approaching the house in a daze.Her slender eyebrows are more lovely than her full moon eyes. "I don't really want to die. If there is a plan to die, there will be no blood loss, just a coma." she whispered.Then he kept silently looking up at Junping who was standing there. "You haven't asked me why I committed suicide!" "If you want to talk, I'll ask." "...I don't want to say it! I hate to let others know something more shameful than suicide. I haven't told anyone about my situation in the past six months. Anyway, I don't have any contact with my neighbors, and I don't have any particularly close relatives or friends."

"...Speaking out is more comfortable than bleeding!" The resolute gaze on her face that did not match the moon-like eyes suddenly weakened and softened. "Are you hungry?" she asked abruptly.It seemed that he heard Junping's stomach growling, and Junping immediately blushed. "I'll make dinner." "not busy……" "Want to have dinner and listen to my stories. It's incredible! You're just a stranger passing by, but I want to tell you everything. Don't worry, it's got the meat I just bought at noon After all, I don't intend to die. People who really make up their minds to commit suicide will not go to the supermarket to buy meat and food at noon."

After finishing this passage as if talking to herself, she lit the lamp in the room, walked out of the living room, and quickly brought a shirt worn by a man. "I'm sorry. You tore your shirt... This one belongs to my husband, and it's just this old style. He took all the new ones when he left the house, so... please put this one on." Let's do it!" When Junping was left alone, he quickly changed his clothes. The middle-sized Junping fit him well, only the thick arms from karate training in college seemed narrower.Fifteen minutes later, the kebabs were ready, and she immediately noticed this when she returned to the living room, "I'll buy the larger ones tomorrow." Junping, who seemed embarrassed and polite, told her where she lived.

"You're welcome, please eat as much as you can. This is a small gift to thank you for saving your life." "How much? The meat..." Junping stopped in the middle of the air with the chopsticks holding the meat. "Three hundred and twenty yuan for one hundred grams. Why do you ask? Cheap meat is not to your liking?" "No... Your life is also one hundred grams and three hundred and twenty yuan?" "..." "It's not so cheap! Life is something." Hearing Junping's suddenly angry voice, she seemed a little flustered, but she forced a smile as if she immediately understood what Junping said.

"But sometimes my life is cheap! Thirty minutes ago, it was cheaper than this beef!" "but……" As if to block what General Junping said, she shook her head slowly, staring at Junping's displeased face for a while with the eyes of an older sister looking at her younger brother. "How considerate!" After whispering this sentence in a low voice, his voice suddenly amplified.As if imitating Junping's performance just now, he said in one breath: "My name is Akiko Orihara, I am 31 years old, I married Ichiro Orihara five years ago, and my husband abandoned me a year ago. To put it more clearly, yes My husband Ichiro Orihara has eloped with Yumiko Yamashita. Currently, I am living alone as a waitress in a restaurant in Kanda.” After saying these words in one breath, he suddenly looked away and whispered, “Yumiko Yamashita is mine. sister" sentence.

An hour later, when the small courtyard outside the window was covered by night and there was no residue left at the bottom of the pot, Junping had already learned from her what happened between the couple. The Orihara couple married because of love and lived a happy life. Their married life began to cast a shadow when the metal products company where Mr. Ichiro worked closed down due to the economic downturn two years ago.The cheerful and happy standard husband became depressed after the company closed down. He didn't want to find a job. He was idle all day long, addicted to gambling and betting on bicycles. His savings were quickly exhausted, but half of the family loans were still outstanding.

Disappointed, Akiko began to work as a waitress at the first-class restaurant "Ring Pavilion" in Kanda. Unexpectedly, this became a decisive gap between the couple that could not be reunited.Akiko was working in a film studio when she was away from home on the night shift. Akiko's two-year-old sister Yumiko often visited and became close friends with Ichiro.The younger sister who works in a film studio that Junping also knows her name has a bold and unrestrained personality, which is different from her older sister. In the past, she would be caught by her older sister and be very affectionate to her brother-in-law.Akiko found out that her husband and sister spent the money they earned on a tryst at a hotel in Shinjuku, and angrily questioned her husband.The husband said that he would never see Yumiko again, and Yumiko also promised not to go to her sister's house, but the two still seem to be secretly communicating behind Akiko's back.

At the end of last autumn, Akiko, who had been on night duty for two consecutive days, returned home early in the morning, and there was a letter on the table with a simple sentence: "I have decided to stay away from this place with Yumiko and live somewhere else."The husband only took some newer clothes with him, and eloped with his sister. Akiko was stuck in a situation where she could not find them. One month later, at the end of the year, her husband sent a letter.Inside was the divorce certificate with his personal seal, and the postscript was only a few words: "After stamping the two people's seals, take it to the district office for processing. I have decided to marry Yumiko, so I hope you forget about the past! " These are the few words that a husband who has been together for four years wants to leave his wife. My younger sister, Yumiko, has a fiance named Akio Natsuki.Both belonged to the position of being betrayed. Akiko consulted with Xia Mu immediately after her husband disappeared. Xia Mu saw the envelope and thought: "The two of them must have gone to Kanazawa." It will be mentioned that Kanazawa is the most suitable place if you want to settle down for life.Therefore, Xia Mu immediately went to Kanazawa on a long-term vacation, rented a small room, explored the apartments in the city, and searched for the footprints of the two of them; Finally, at the beginning of February, she found her husband and sister's love nest in an apartment in a certain corner of the city. After receiving Xia Mu's notice, Lu Yangzi hurried to Kanazawa to visit the apartment with Xia Mu.It seems that the younger sister works in the bar, and the husband still has no job and idles around like before, living a decadent life like a person who can't see the sun.The four of them gathered to negotiate, but they still couldn't resolve it. Akiko returned to the hotel with the intention of negotiating again, but that night, her husband and her sister returned to the apartment and fled for the second time.Things were not so simple. After that night, Xia Mu's whereabouts were unknown.Neither returned to the rental office in Kanazawa nor to Tokyo.The manager of the apartment where the husband and younger sister lived was informed that the two of them seem to have moved to Niigata. Akiko really wanted to go to Niigata to check on their work, but she didn't know where to go or how to find them. At a loss, she had to return to Tokyo and go to the studio where Natsuki worked to find out if there was any news.But there, she heard something that surprised Akiko.The people in the studio explained that Xia Mu, who was the manager, embezzled 10 million yuan of public funds and disappeared at the beginning of the first month, because the studio was not operating legally, and he didn't dare to call the police for fear of exposure and trouble.And in turn asked Akiko if Xia Mu called her to contact her, she must inform them as soon as possible.It has been nearly half a year since then, and there is no news from any of the three of them, and Akiko lives alone and continues to work as a maid, while paying the family's loan. "So, Xia Mu went to Kanazawa in January, not to find your sister, but to escape from Tokyo?" After listening to Akiko's long narration, Junping raised a question. "I don't know. I believe the statement that he asked for leave from the company, and there is no sign of him fleeing... However, it is true that he tracked down the whereabouts of the two of them more than I did." Jun Ping always felt that Xia Mu's theft of 10 million public funds must be related to the elopement of Zhiyuan and his wife, but he did not express his doubts. "I would like to forget everything in the past several times, file a divorce application, and move away from the original residence to stay away from the past, but after all, I can't erase the sense of grievance of being betrayed... No, it should be said that the feeling of loneliness is more than the sense of grievance... just now When I was about to go out to work, when I was putting on makeup, I looked at my face in the mirror, suddenly felt abandoned by everyone, loneliness surged, and when I woke up from depression, I found that I had a knife in my hand." After realizing Junping's silence, Akiko seemed to want to comfort herself, and poured barley tea for herself with a smile. "It's really unbelievable. You can't tell anyone about this shameful thing. The neighbors think that my husband is still living at home! I have no contact with the people around here at all, and I don't even know who lives next door... …I just want to tell you all these sad things. As you said, it is better to say than to bleed. Now I feel so relieved!" In fact, it was as if Akiko had been covered with a layer of white powder, her skin that was too fair was now slightly rosy, returning to the original bloody color with vitality. Akiko glanced at the photos on the TV. "The one on my right is my husband, and next to him is Xia Mu..." she explained.This is a photo taken by my younger sister Yumiko during a trip last spring.Akiko's husband has a fair complexion that is rare for a man. His cheeks are thin and he looks a little nervous. Xia Mu, who stands a little away from him, has regular facial features, but I don't know if he was affected by his embezzlement of public funds. His dark skin It gives the impression that there are more ingredients in some shades than in a healthy body.However, Junping didn't pay attention to this at the moment. The birdcage on the tableware rack next to the photo had already attracted him deeply. Living alone is too lonely, right?There were several flower vases in the narrow living room, including three goldfish bowls.I thought the birdcage was a real bird, but after a closer look, I realized it was a paper bird.A skylark-shaped bird made of origami-colored paper. "Run away!" Akiko whispered suddenly. "...?" "No, I'm not referring to my husband, but the ten sisters... An empty birdcage is lonely, so I folded it into a paper bird and put it inside." Although Akiko thinks so, but because of the light, the figure is elongated, the wings are clamped, and the motionless paper bird looks lonely and pale, which makes people think that maybe it is better to have nothing in the birdcage.Akiko, who had been staring at the paper bird, also had some blue eyes. Junping wanted to say something to cheer up Akiko, but in the end he didn't say anything, and just like that, Akiko and the dog sent him to the main gate and walked out of the house.In the summer night, the door lights and the darkness melt into the cool wind, and the mirabilis on the stone wall looks more dazzling than at sunset.The flower trembled slightly, letting the night wind rob it of its quiet nature. Hana's expression resembled Orihara Akiko's faint smile the moment she regained consciousness.