Chapter 29 third chapter

It was already early in the morning when we arrived in Kanazawa by the Hokuriku Line.The modern buildings in front of Kanazawa Railway Station are no different from other bustling cities, but unlike Tokyo, there is a sense of tranquility even in the summer sun.Five minutes after walking out of the train station, you can see old-style houses lined up side by side. The faded houses have a sense of history. From Akiko's mouth, I heard that the apartment named Showazhuang was a city four hundred years ago, but now it is a corner of an industrial area.Akiko's husband and sister are said to live in the uncomfortable-looking apartment under the pseudonyms Kiyoshi Tanaka and Ryoko.He didn't mention these two names, but said that they were a man and a woman who rented an apartment here from the end of last year to the beginning of February this year. The apartment manager, who was about forty years old, immediately knew who Junping was looking for.Junping pretended to be the man's friend and wanted to check his whereabouts. The administrator's eyes hidden behind the round glasses showed confusion after hearing his intentions and asked:

"What happened to those two people?" "No...why do you ask that?" "At the beginning of February, men and women of your age also came to them. The four of them locked themselves in a room to talk. The students living in the next room heard their fierce quarrel, and heard a male voice say: 'I I'm going to kill you two'! Then, the man who lives here drags the visiting woman away!" The people who visited this apartment were probably Akiko and Natsuki, and the one who said "I will kill you two" was probably what Xia Mu said to his betrayed fiancée Yumiko and her brother-in-law Orihara!Then Ichiro Orihara took Akiko away from the apartment.

After more detailed questioning, it was learned that shortly after the quarrel, the visiting man, Xia Mu, left alone. As soon as he left, Yumiko immediately packed their luggage and said that they were going to Niigata, so they quit the rent and moved out. "No more texts since then?" "No, the man who visited the next day—" When Natsuki visited twice the next day, he heard that Yumiko had quit the apartment and seemed to have gone to Niigata, and his face changed drastically.Immediately asked again: "Walk with the man?" The administrator replied: "No, after the man took away the woman who came with you, he never came back." After that, Xia Mu's face was gloomy, and he said to himself "Could it be that they met there and fled together?..." Asked again as if worried: "Did she really say she was going to Niigata?..."

The matter did not end there, two days later, that is, February 11th, was a festival day.A woman who looked like Yumiko called the management office to inquire: "Is Kiyoshi Tanaka there?" The administrator replied that she had gone out four nights ago and hadn't come back. She then asked, "I went to visit that night The man should still be there, and he didn't go to the apartment again?" After telling her that the man would come to the apartment again the next day, and explaining the situation in detail, the woman on the phone asked in surprise: "Then, he will come to the apartment as well." It’s gone?” The administrator replied that she hadn’t heard from her since then, and the other end of the phone was silent for a while as if confused, and finally hung up after thanking her.

"Since then, no one has called again?" "The woman who hung up at the end was not the one who lives here, but the one who came to visit, right? Perhaps because they are sisters, their voices are quite similar." "Probably so, since she did not say her name..." The woman who called was not Yumiko, but Akiko's inference was logical.After the four of them quarreled, Orihara took his visiting wife out to negotiate. Although there were only two discussions, they still couldn't reach an agreement, so he abandoned Akiko and ran away!Then, I don't know where to meet Yumiko who quit the rented apartment and escaped from Natsuki. If what Yumiko told the administrator is true, then the two of them must have fled to Niigata.After Xia Mu asked the administrator, he also fled to Niigata.

Akiko couldn't wait for Xia Mu's contact at the hotel. Two days later, she called Showazhuang and learned that Xia Mu had also gone to Niigata, but since then, even Xia Mu's whereabouts have been missing... "After they quit the lease, they couldn't find a tenant, so the house is still the same, do you want to see it?" I don't know if he trusts Junping's honesty and honesty, the administrator said.On both sides of this narrow passage that must be passed one after the other, there are many rooms lined up, and the end of the passage is a wall without passage.Connecting this wall, on the right is the room where Orihara and Yumiko lived.

When Junping was holding the doorknob and was about to open it, the administrator exclaimed "Ah!", his face stunned.It seems to see the seven numbers on Junping's wrist.Junping hurriedly turned around to cover up, but because he was too flustered, his forehead hit the door. In the room, the only furnishings in the space of four tatami mats are a sideboard and a low-corner dining table.The walls are old, but the tatami is still new. "The man who lives in this room is an annoying guy, asking for a new tatami mat and repairing the door lock." "It seems that there is a plan to live for a long time!"

"Probably so! Oh! That woman is not a bad person, she will give guests clothes that don't suit her color as gifts to my daughter..." The administrator also told Junping that the men who live here stay in this narrow room all day long with nothing to do, while the women go out to work in the bar in the evening, and they always come back drunk late at night. The windows of this room were trapped by the factory's galvanized sheet iron walls, so the room was dark.Thinking of abandoning such a beautiful wife as Akiko and fleeing Tokyo, and living in such a dark room all day, Junping's chest is as depressed and gloomy as this window.Langshi Orihara and Yumiko are together for love or lust, but will they really be happy living in this kind of house? ... From the bottom of the tatami mats in this dark house, there seemed to be a slight sound of sea waves.

"Can you hear the waves of the Sea of ​​Japan in this kind of place?" "No, it's the sound from the steel factory opposite! It's been ringing non-stop from morning to night... probably the man who lives here can't bear it either! He seems to often go out to play bicycle racing gambling games!" The administrator in his forties opened the window, threw the cigarette butt into the ditch outside the window, and muttered to himself. Junping thanked and left.I want to go to the bar where Yumiko works, but unfortunately the administrator does not know the name of the bar.I only know that it is located in the area of ​​Dafang and Xianglinfang!When I went to Kanazawa's Happy Street, I found that the total number of bars there is too many to count.Moreover, when Junping arrived there, every store was still closed, and they would not open until evening.Junping gave up, and left behind the drowsy, unpainted and simple happy street in summer, walked to the train station, and returned to Tokyo at dusk.

Especially ran to Kanazawa, all returned empty-handed.Until the next afternoon, before calling Akiko as agreed, he still hesitated whether to tell Akiko about his trip to Kanazawa?Or keep silent? But this doubt is obviously superfluous.Akiko's voice on the phone was weak: "Can you come now?" Junping was very worried. He rushed to Akiko's residence, burned by Tokyo's unclear sunlight, as if the withered flowers and dogs were happy The sound of whining, and Akiko's seemingly helpless face greeted him at the door, no different from three days ago. As soon as Junping sat on the sofa in the living room, Akiko started to say that it was very surprising. things.

"The corpse I saw in Baigen the day before yesterday was indeed my sister!" After saying the shocking words, as if to apologize for her lying, Akiko stared at Junping and smiled lonely.