Chapter 12 second quarter

Kayo and I take a walk every day.Get up at six o'clock every morning and leave the office at six ten o'clock. I will still be tied up with a leash. In fact, both Kayo and I know that there is no need for this. However, due to my huge size, although I am middle-aged, my steps are still very strong. If I am allowed to run and jump freely, sometimes It will frighten the newspaper delivery students who pass by or the office workers rushing to work, which is unbearable. According to human classification, I am a dog breed called "German Shepherd Dog", and generally, it seems "very ferocious".

This statement is really rude.If human beings were classified as "generally stingy" or "generally lecherous" according to the county or city of origin, they would definitely be angry. It's easy to spot me, the black fur on my back mixed with silver bristles, a white star between my eyebrows, a little split at the edge of my left ear, and an old scar on my right front foot.This is not from a fight with the same piece, but a bullet mark! But the easiest way is to call him the name "Azheng".If the dog you called out like that stopped, barked softly at a volume that wouldn't scare you, and sat down on the spot, it would be me.As long as you don't exude the bloody smell of someone who just killed another person, I promise you won't bite into it.

Closer to home.Kayo and I, who started from the office, walked around the block near the Hasumi office, then crossed two paid parking lots full of cars, and headed to the water park. The water park is a park built by filling in the canals that run through the area from east to west.Kayo and I always go to and from this park, walk around the office, and then have breakfast. Before the water park was completed, we always jogged around town.Although it can increase the familiarity with this land, it is really uncomfortable to run on the asphalt road. In the water park, by contrast, the walking trails are mostly unpaved, giving off a nostalgic earthy scent.Whether it's groves, trees, grass, flower beds, sand, artificial pools, boat rides, fountains, children's water play areas, everything is there.The canal was not completely filled, but left a slender stream with fishing ponds everywhere. Walking around, sometimes you can see surprisingly large fish jumping out of the water from the other side of the fence.

What makes me most happy is that in the park, Kayo can take off my leash openly. This was originally a canal with low-lying terrain, so when entering the water park, there is a feeling of "gradually going down".Running in it is like being overlooked by the buildings built around the park. Kayo and I greeted an acquaintance we often met at the entrance of the park. The other party was a man who seemed to have just retired, and he was very sweaty. We jogged to the center of the park with him who was panting like a cow, and said goodbye at the suspension bridge.The park is rebuilt from tributaries such as canals in a mesh pattern, so there are many divergence points and paths in the park.

From the suspension bridge to the next fork, only Kayo and I were left.On the way, I passed a pond with many ducks, where I would play with them every morning, and then returned to Xiao Kadai.Little Kayo didn't like me doing this very much, and always looked at me with an expression of "I really can't help you". You can bet me, the ducklings are actually looking forward to my arrival.They live in narrow ponds, have endless bait, and lack exercise and stimulation in their lives.And I wouldn't "really" do anything to harm them, and they know it all too well. While I was playing with the ducklings and Kayo-chan was doing stretching exercises, the boy who delivered the newspaper ran over.He said "good morning, sister" to Kayo-chan, blew and nibbled at me, and left.In the two years we have been walking here, we have passed him every morning; but no matter how long the child has passed, he still looks like a schoolboy.

Back on the promenade, after walking for a while, we passed acquaintances from the boat yard.It was the dog "Xiao Qing" raised by the fishing boat shop beside the Sumida River, which is closer to the sea than the town where Hasumi's office is located, and the fishing boat shop brother who was leading him.The little brother is always full of vigor, but Xiaoqing is always dying.Xiaoqing was already very old and couldn't travel long distances. Even so, he was still panting with joy, so he must be very happy.I once visited Xiaoqing's house once, it was a nice place full of sea breeze and fishy smell.If one day I really retire, I also want to live in seclusion in that kind of place.

After saying goodbye to Kiyoshi and the others, Kayo-chan and I are finally approaching the turning point.Running along the promenade with a large arc, the field of vision suddenly widened.There is the forest of palms. Although it is called Palm Forest, it is not a real forest.On the left is the canal, and the concrete wall blocking the canal—the stone edge is a gentle slope covered with grass, and a few plane trees are planted at the top of the gentle slope.On the other side of the tree is a one-way road with one lane. Why this place is called Palm Forest, I don't know.However, there are many human handprints printed on the cement wall here, and small signs at both ends of the wall read "Forest of Palms".

Before that sign, there is a narrow path.Every morning at this time, a girl would run down that path and meet Kayo and me on the way out.She is the last familiar face I meet every morning. Her name is Fujimi Sakiko.About the same age as Kayo-san, perhaps two or three years younger than Kayo-san, always dressed in clean jogging clothes, with long hair tied up in a bandanna.She started appearing here about three months ago, because they were all young girls, and they chatted while greeting each other, and gradually became familiar with Kayo-chan.Recently, she started running with us to the turning point.

"Six forty-five, every morning is exactly the same." She stepped lightly and said in step with us. Little Kayo smiled: "Really? I didn't pay special attention to the time." Even if you don't care about it, if you jog in the same place for two years, the rhythm will naturally be fixed. "However, Ms. Fujimi can really persevere. If I were alone, I really couldn't get up to jog. It was because I wanted to walk the dog, so I ran by the way." "I do a desk job, and I suffer from sore shoulders or low back pain from time to time, so I can't do more exercise."

Ms. Fujimi turned her arms with all her strength. Although she was slender, she was quite energetic.Not only does she jog, but she doesn't forget to carry small dumbbells, and she moves up and down while jogging, exercising her arms by the way. We ran into the palm forest with her at a slow pace. I was the first to notice the anomaly. My field of vision is lower than Kayo-chan and the others, so I saw that thing right away.I stopped and barked, urging Kayo-chan to pay attention. A person fell down in the middle of the palm forest. Kayo-chan also found out, and Ms. Fujimi said "Oops", and we ran over together.

There was a man lying there alone. It was a man.He doesn't look young anymore, but he has a good physique. He is wearing a patterned plaid shirt and gray trousers. He is lying on the road with his hands clinging to his sides. In addition, the back of his head was covered with a reddish-black sticky fluid. Kayo knelt down beside the man. At this time, I heard a faint sound and pricked up my ears. It appeared that the sound was coming from the road above.It was the sound of a car engine idling. "Is he dead?" Ms. Fujimi looked over from a distance of one meter away from the man as if she was uncomfortable. Kayo-chan felt for the pulse of the man's wrist.She let go of her hand, her face was slightly tense, and she wanted to reach out to touch the man's neck, but she saw the hair stuck to the back of his neck, so she stopped.She seemed to judge that it was best not to touch the area near the wound at such a time. Once again, I deeply felt the inconvenience of not being able to speak human words.I blinked my eyes, snorted, and whined a little questioningly towards Kayo-chan. This man has no head injuries! Because there is no smell of blood.To Kayo and the others, the red-black paste looked like blood, but it was not.It's similar, but it's not.It smells of dye. At least the man wasn't bleeding from the back of his head.I doubt it's some nasty joke. Kayo stood up. "No pulse, as if dead." I doubt what I hear.No pulse? really?I stared at the man intently.He didn't move.I slowly sniffed around, trying to bite him lightly.Kayo's voice flew over: "Hey! Ah Zheng, don't move around!" I groaned sadly.Kokayo was puzzled. "What's wrong with you? Looks weird?" "Here, hurry up and call the police!" Ms. Fujimi said shortly as if she was about to squat down, pressing her hand on her mouth.Her face was full of fear, her eyelids trembling constantly. "I'm about to throw up." Her appearance seemed to make Kayo-chan make up his mind.She said decisively: "Then, you wait for me here. I'll go find the phone and call 110." "don't want!" Miss Fujimi grabs Kayo-chan.She half bent down to look at the man, and pulled Kayo's sleeve. "Don't leave me here alone, I will go with you." Little Kayo turned to me with a look of "I really can't do anything about you", and said, "Did you hear that, Ah Zheng, stay here." learn. After watching the two run away, I raised my head high to observe the movement around me, took a deep breath, and prepared to bark.Is it really a dead body?Or did someone pass out?Or just disguised as a dead body?As long as you frighten him, you can figure it out immediately. Before I could bark, however, the man jumped up like his ass was on fire and fled down the right-hand ramp. Facing the sudden development, I ran after it while barking.At one point, I pounced on his cuff and hooked my teeth together.The man panicked, his eyes wandering.When I was about to pounce on him again and knock him down, I was suddenly punched from behind with a "boom!" How can you be so careless... Darkness in front of my eyes. About an hour later, when I woke up at Hasumi's office, things were going the way I predicted.That is, the commotion of the sudden disappearance of the male body found in the palm forest this morning. Let me tell you that it is not a corpse!