Chapter 4 second quarter

"Liang, aren't you married to Guang?" Gu Wei came back from the counter with a new pack of Seven Stars. "Why are you asking that all of a sudden?" "No, brother Yeji was saying just now, you should get married too, or else it's just that." "Which one?" "Your age," Gu Wei said, sitting down in the round chair. "It's almost thirty, isn't it? I also think that if you want to have children, it's better not to delay." "I didn't delay." Himekawa replied honestly.Gu Wei, smoking a cigarette, frowned slightly.Takeuchi's interest seemed to be aroused, and he interjected from the side:

"Is there any problem? Could it be a family problem?" Himekawa didn't know how to answer.In a way, Takeuchi's question hit the heart, but the heart was not what Takeuchi thought. "Is it true that the problem still lies with Guang's father?" "It's not like that..." Himekawa and Hikari started dating in the spring of their second year of high school.Himekawa has only ever had one woman before, and he believes that he is also Hikari's first love.Tanio, Takeuchi, and Noji, who had known Hikari since childhood, all thought that they would just get married like this.

Hikari's parents divorced when she was in junior high school, so her mother left home, and Hikari was raised by his father, who was a jazz drummer.The father only taught his daughter how to play drums and did not interfere with her private life. He made girlfriends everywhere, lived with women, and hardly ever went home.I heard that Guang now doesn't even know where his father is.Noji is an old acquaintance of her father, but he doesn't know the whereabouts of Hikari's father either. Himekawa felt that he and Hikari must be attracted to each other because of loneliness, or rather because of scars, so he likes Hikari.

But thinking about it now, maybe this kind of attraction is actually very dangerous, because if there are women in the same situation as Guang, there is no guarantee that he will not be attracted to him in the same way. Guang has a younger sister named Gui. ——I want to give up playing drums. In the winter of two years ago, Guang suddenly said. --why? Himekawa asked.But Hikari just shook his head. ——I just feel that I should give up. she replied. Himekawa, as well as Takeuchi and Tanio who heard about it later, did not strongly object, for two reasons.One is that the orchestra was originally formed out of interest, and the other is that she is ready to take over.Katsura Ono - lives with Hikaru, her younger sister who is five years younger.

Now Himekawa and the others are not waiting for Hikari, but for Gui. Gui's talent in playing drums is comparable to that of her elder sister, perhaps even better than that of her elder sister. When Ji Chuan and the others played with Gui for the first time, they immediately recognized her strength. Gui is not an amazing beauty. Compared with Guang, who has a straight face like a model dummy, Gui has a cute baby face. Her figure is not as feminine as her sister, and she is relatively thin.Their hair styles are also very different, the elder sister has long hair, while Gui has short hair like a little girl.But her short hair suits her slightly nervous personality, small chin, and thin cheeks. ——There is only one aspect of Gui's appearance that resembles Guang, and that is the eyes.The big eyes seem to be covered with a layer of film, shrouded in thick fog.Maybe I'm squinting a bit, I feel my eyes are in a trance, it seems that I can't catch the focus.

"If Xiao Gui didn't come, then please just help me, and you should be able to recall it after a little practice." Takeuchi tapped on the table with the index fingers of both hands and said. After leaving Sun Downer two years ago, Kwang has been working here as an "electric guitarist".Working next to his father's old acquaintance Noji, maybe there is a chance to contact his father, I probably have such an idea.It's just that so far, I haven't heard that her expectation has come true. "Just come at six o'clock, she seems to be on the evening shift today."

"What, she's not here now? I thought she was behind." Takeuchi turned his head and craned his neck to look into the corridor.The corridor is L-shaped, and there are warehouses and small offices dedicated to employees in the past.Although it is only for employees, it is different from the band boom era in the past. Now the number of players using this kind of band practice center has dropped sharply. It is said that it is impossible for more than two people to stay in that small office at the same time. "On the evening shift, she won't be able to go to the 'dancing house' after we're done practicing."

Takeuchi said with a dull face, Himekawa also nodded. "She said she works until twelve o'clock, so it's impossible to come." After the practice at "Electric Guitarist", they would go to a nearby izakaya called Maiya to chat and chat about family affairs, which is already a custom.If the timing of the end of work fits in, Hikari usually joins them midway. Toys in the Attic Toys in the Attic Takeuchi shook his head and began to sing softly again. Looking back now, that room was like an attic. ——Himekawa thought of this in a daze. The room he lived in when he was young; the children's room where he and his sister lived together until his sister died.The six-tatami room on the second floor.Sloped ceilings, wooden floors, bunk beds, and paintings of Humpty Dumpty on the walls.

——Did your sister tell you anything? The voice of the detective at that time. ——For example, family matters and the like... He asked Himekawa, who was still in the first grade of elementary school at the time, many times. — Are you hiding something? He still clearly remembers that incident, the one that left him and his mother alone. Takeuchi changed the lyrics and hummed the same melody again. Thing in the attic Thing in the attic The idea that was deeply rooted in my father's head.Thoughts entrenched in my father's mind. "Let's play my work before the performance." Takeuchi shook Tanio's shoulder like a spoiled child.

"No, let's forget it. What Liang just said was right. There's no need to ruin a fourteen-year tradition for a strange idea." "How can we have any traditions? It's just because of interest that we get together." Neither Tanio nor Takeuchi knew about that incident, and Himekawa didn't tell them, and he didn't tell Hikari and Katsura either. No one found out that there was this black whirlpool in Himekawa's heart.They probably think that Himekawa has a gentle personality.Occasionally fall into the world of thinking alone, a very quiet person. However, it is not.

When Himekawa was silent, he was mostly thinking about that incident.He stared at the dark whirlpool in his heart, resisting the urge to scream. No one knows the truth.