Chapter 33 Chapter VII

When he was on the TV station, Junping realized a little bit.The TV pictures seen in the studio gave Junping a novel feeling.Looking at the face of the wife telling her husband's characteristics on the screen, I thought it would be wonderful if the missing person was the one sitting at home. However, the real full knowledge of the truth is due to last night's dream.In the fog, is Akiko looking for Junping?Or is Junping looking for Akiko?In a half-dream and half-awake state, Junping wondered if it was not Akiko who was looking for a husband, but Akiko's husband was looking for a wife, would it be possible?And does that blue bird mean anything? ——

Is it a coincidence that Akiko folded a bird with blue colored paper?She compared herself to a bird that once flew away from the cage of "home" and then returned to the cage again. The blue color represents this meaning, and the living real bird must be released from the cage by Akiko. Akiko looked at the garden in the twilight and remained silent.Although Akiko didn't say anything, Junping could roughly imagine what happened. Akiko probably couldn't bear her husband who was doing nothing at home all day after the company closed down, so she consulted with her sister's fiancé, Xia Mu.The restaurant where Akiko works is often visited by people from the show business circle, presumably Xia Mu is also a frequent customer in her restaurant, and the relationship between the two is naturally derived from this.

Yesterday afternoon, in a small alleyway in Ueno, Akiko's two fingers stretched out to represent her husband and Natsuki. Junping believed that Akiko did not abandon her husband because of being infatuated with Natsuki and left home, but because of loneliness.Even in the alleys of Ueno, Akiko, who bends her ring finger and invites Junping to enter a hotel with flashing red neon lights and a striking heart-shaped signboard, still has a lonely beauty. Xia Mu should have feelings for Akiko, but in the end it was the embezzled 10 million yuan of public funds that motivated him to elope with Akiko.Although Akiko hesitated, she chose to travel far away with Xia Mu instead of living with her husband who had no previous charm.At the end of last year, the two settled down in Kanazawa, and Kanazawa sent a divorce certificate.Jingzi knew that Xia Mu embezzled public funds after the two eloped together, but at that time, it was hard to turn back.

The men and women living in Showazhuang mentioned by the administrator are Akiko and Natsuki, and the man and woman who went to visit them are Orihara and Yumiko who live in Showazhuang according to Akiko. Although Junping doesn't know whether there is an ambiguous relationship between Orihara and Yumiko.In Junping's imagination, if the two had a relationship, Akiko probably chose to elope with Xia Mu because her husband and sister betrayed her first.But no matter what, Natsuki and Akiko were the ones running away, and Orihara and Yumiko were the ones chasing them.The two of Orihara finally found Akiko in Kanazawa, and the four of them negotiated in Showa Village.

At that time, Zhiyuan was furious for a while, and shouted at Akiko and Natsuki who had betrayed him: "I will kill you two".After Natsuki took Yumiko out of the apartment to negotiate, Orihara returned to the boarding house, and Akiko packed her luggage and fled Showazhuang immediately.Judging from the fact that she took away the clothes for two people, she might have made an appointment with Xia Mu to meet up there!But in the end, Xia Mu didn't go, and he fled with Yumiko. Akiko, who didn't know, called back to Showa Zhuang to inquire about the news.From the phone call, I found out that the day after I fled the apartment, my husband visited again, and the administrator had told me that Akiko might have gone to Niigata.Moreover, the husband probably didn't know the whereabouts of Yumiko who was interviewed by his peers. He only believed that Natsuki and his wife fled again, and they must have chased after Niigata again. ——Akiko thought so, so she also rushed to Niigata, and there was no way to track her husband's whereabouts in Niigata. As a last resort, she returned to her home in Tokyo, and while waiting for her husband to return, she worked as a maid again to make ends meet.

Originally, Akiko also had a plan to meet up with Natsuki at the agreed place, and then flee to Niigata.It wasn't until he returned to Tokyo that he realized that Xia Mu had abandoned him and might have fled with Yumiko.Moreover, the two of them probably went to Niigata as well.However, Akiko couldn't figure out the reason why her husband didn't return to Tokyo. In fact, Orihara thought that even if he returned to his home in Tokyo, where his wife had left home and still had a loan, he would not be able to bear the burden alone, let alone that his wife would return to Tokyo, so he stayed in Niigata and worked as a maintenance worker during the day. Health, while checking on his wife's whereabouts.But Akiko's thought was: maybe her husband found Xia Mu, angrily killed him, while fleeing, while checking my whereabouts.

One summer day half a year later, a report in the morning paper solved Akiko's doubts.It was a news report that Shirane found the bodies of men and women, and the characteristics of the deceased were similar to Xia Mu and Yumiko.It would be fine if it was a pure love affair, but what if the husband killed Xia Mu, in order to cover up the crime, so he raised suspicions, and even killed the innocent Yumiko? ... Akiko was troubled by this doubt, and that evening, she took a knife and cut her own wrist.Akiko happened to find help for a passing young man, so Akiko talked to the young man about what happened at home.She only concealed the fact that she betrayed her husband and ran away from home.

After confirming that the dead on Shirane Mountain were indeed Natsuki and Yumiko, Akiko felt the need to find her husband immediately.If the husband is also looking for him, he must find a way to let him know his whereabouts.Before telling the police the identity of the deceased, it is necessary to ask the truth from the husband no matter what.For this reason, she appeared on TV. On the TV screen, what Akiko really wanted to lobby was not her husband in the photo, but herself on the screen.This situation is different from the general case where missing persons come forward to be found.She wants to be discovered by her husband through the screen, and tell him that she is currently living at home.If her husband can see her because of this, after contacting her, she will have a meeting and talk to clarify the doubts, and she is determined to go to the police station the next day to explain the identity of the deceased.And, to break up with Junping - without telling him that lie.As for the police, she doesn't want to hide it. The only person Akiko wants to keep concealing is the young man who saved her life.She didn't want him to see her true face, and she didn't want him to know about betraying her husband.After hearing that Junping went to Kanazawa to investigate with the manager of Showazhuang, he was shocked and unhappy. This is also the reason. It was not until he learned that Junping mistakenly thought that the people living in Showazhuang were his husband and sister that he felt relieved. look.

Junping believes that his imagination should be roughly in line with the facts, but the Ministry does not want to confirm any point from Jingzi's mouth.He just wanted to tell Akiko that he knew that the person who ran away from home was Akiko's business. He thought it would be better if there were no lies between the two. Junping also silently stared at Akiko who was speechless and turned his back to him.As soon as the ten-minute talk time requested by Junping expired, he stood up immediately. "Thank you!" Akiko said looking back. In the twilight, her face appeared even whiter.This woman is the kind of flower that can show the most beauty under the evening mist, Junping thought.

"I don't need to thank you for saving your life. That little injury is not life-threatening, and it is a simple rescue that anyone can do." Akiko seemed to have never heard his words, and said in the same tone again: "Thank you!" Is it to thank Junping for letting go of the paper bird?Or thank him for removing a lie between the two?However, no matter what she thanked, for Junping, it was all done for herself. Akiko was biting her fair ring finger absent-mindedly at the moment, while Junping was watching her movements from afar.I met the person in front of me by chance, and I was hooked with her ring finger and thumb in a few seconds, and after a few short days, I became strangers to each other again.Noticing that the ring finger in his pocket was bent again at some point, Junping seemed to shake it off, stretched his hand out of his pocket, gripped the doorknob, looked back, then immediately lowered his head and walked out the door silently.

After leaving her home, Junping never heard from her.The 20,000 won sent back to her was returned to no one, so it is known that she has moved out of there. A month later, at dusk in late summer, Junping happened to come to the residential street on the gentle slope again.When I passed the familiar door, I heard that cat-like and dog-like, sad and happy whining sound coming from the side of the road. "Wow!" After a sound, the puppy, locked in a courtyard with a completely different taste from a month ago, returned to the aluminum bowl.The dog was not taken away, but someone else's name had been put on the house number.The sound of arguing between mother and child came from the house.The people in the neighborhood seemed not interested in the noise, which was so loud that it could be heard from the road, and lived their lives quietly. Even though things are different, the mirabilis under the stone wall is still blooming in the sunset in summer when its beauty is about to fade. Even if there is only a short life at dusk.But the flowers are still full of life, Ming Junping thinks that no matter where Akiko is and what she looks like at the moment, she will show the beauty of sunset like these flowers!While engrossed in memories, Jun walked up the ramp slowly.