Chapter 14 Section five

That night, Mochi went alone to the bean curd sushi stand at the alley beside the Tomioka Bridge. Coincidentally, there were no customers in front of the stall, only the boss was alone.Shigeru greeted him. "Ah, Boss. I'm having a hard time tonight." The boss smiled. Taking a closer look, Mao Qi was taken aback.There are two large wine barrels lined up behind the boss's booth, and an old man is sitting there.There are several containers piled up on the side, which seem to be sold on the basis of weight and retail. The owner of the bean curd sushi stall said with a smile:

"I don't sell alcohol because I don't understand alcohol. However, many customers say that they want to drink after eating delicious food, so the two decided to work together." Mao Qi didn't pay attention to the boss's words, but just stared at the side face of the old wine seller.Since the old man was covered with a hood and turned away, he didn't see it right away, but on closer inspection—— "Aren't you Inosuke? Right?" The old man took off his turban slowly, and bowed deeply to Mao Qi. "Health?" "Thanks to you, it's ready."

On the helper's rest day this year, a female floating corpse appeared beside Okawa.After investigation, it was learned that it was Ah Se, a soy sauce peddler. Inosuke is Ashi's father.When Ah Shi was killed, he was admitted to the Xiaoshichuan Nursing Center due to poor health. Before he fell ill, he was a peddler of liquor.So now he's back in business this way?In this way, the sick old man does not need to sell wine all day long, as long as he is next to this vendor, he can also do business well. (Having said that...) Maoqi squinted at the boss of Doubi Sushi. Why did you come up with this idea?How did you get in touch with Zhuzhu?

"What do you want to eat? Boss." The boss asked Shigeru Shichi.Mao Qi looked into the eyes of the boss, saw a pair of eyes that were difficult to deal with, and sighed and said: "I'll ask the old man over there for some wine, and you'll have some bonito sashimi here. You seem to have shown your skills during the day and bought bonito. Let me taste it too." The boss didn't even move his eyebrows, just said "yes", and immediately started to prepare.Although it is a tofu sushi stall, it has soup, fried fish, sashimi, and everything else. "The boss seems a little sullen tonight."

When Mao Qi finished drinking a glass of wine, the boss spoke up. "Every time I come here, I'm always morose." Recently, Maoqi would come to the vendor whenever his thoughts were not smooth, or whenever he had found the answer to a question, but the answer was frustrating. Tonight it was the latter.There are nasty tasks waiting tomorrow.If he guessed right, there would be an extremely uncomfortable job waiting tomorrow. "Don't drink too much wine." After the boss finished speaking, he remained silent. Moshichi drank the wine quietly, trying hard to think about other things in order not to think about the Kakujiro couple, Achun, and Iseya couple.Who is this boss?What is his relationship with Kajiya?

Moshichi had speculated before that he was a samurai, and judging from the fighting scene Seiji saw today, this conjecture should be correct.But what does this have to do with Kajiya? Moshichi felt his head swell more and more, and his tongue became frivolous due to drunkenness. Just when he couldn't help but want to say, "Boss, what is the relationship between you and Katsuzo Kajiya?" . He looked at what was in his hands at the other end of the stall. "What's wrong?" Mao Qi stood up and looked at the boss's hand. "It's a very rare thing," said the boss.

There was a shelled egg in a large bowl.It is obviously an egg, but there are two yolks.It's a double yolk egg. "I'm going to make egg soup," said the boss. “Great with bean curd sushi.” "That's great." Mao Qi said absently.When he saw the double yolk egg, he remembered the task for tomorrow. Mao Qi hurriedly finished eating the bean skin sushi and drinking the egg soup, feeling unmotivated.At this time, other guests came, and the benches became lively, and Mao Qi took the opportunity to get up. After paying the bill, Mao Qi left, intending to go to Fugang Bridge and when he walked out of the alley, he noticed a figure shaking in the dark on the right.Mao Qi stopped and took a closer look, the figure did not dodge, and after realizing it was Mao Qi, he took a glance here.

It turned out to be Kajiya Katsuzo. This man had a rough face and short neck, and even the back of his hands were tattooed. The chin was probably cut by a sharp blade, and there was an ugly raised oblique scar. "What are you doing there?" To Moshichi's question, Katsuzo just looked away and didn't answer. "How about trying the bean curd sushi? It's delicious." Katsuzo still didn't answer. "Hey, Katsuzo, who the hell is that boss? Do you know that guy?" After a while, Katsuzo replied like a dying dog still growling at a dog that wanted to encroach on his territory:

"I do not recognize." "Then, why don't you charge him the venue fee?" Shengzang didn't respond, just stared at the vendor owner intently, and then turned around suddenly to cross the bridge. "Hey, Katsuzo." Maoqi's shouts were lost in the dark night. Before dawn the next day, Moshichi went to Miyoshi Town to visit Kakujiro and his wife even though he was a little dizzy from a hangover. He stopped Kakujiro who was going to the fish market, and took the couple to the gate of the courtyard. He said: "You have to answer honestly. As long as you answer honestly and listen to my advice, I will forget all of this and act as if I have never heard of it."

The couple looked at each other with worried faces and stood next to each other. "What's up?" Mao Qi said straight to the point: "Isn't Ah Chun your child? Did you pick it up? Probably a newborn baby, probably when you were still living in Liuqiao." Asen's face turned blue in a blink of an eye, and Kakujiro hugged her shoulders tightly. "I promised to answer honestly. What exactly is it?" Kakujiro slumped his shoulders, nodded and said: "……yes." "I see." "This matter has been concealed until now. Achun didn't know about it herself. We found her wrapped in old clothes and left there by the Liuqiao Bridge. I felt sorry for her... I couldn't help but bring it back."

Ah Xian choked up and said: "We have no children, Ah Chun is like our own daughter. The reason why we moved here is because the neighbors nearby know that she is an abandoned baby. We want our children to stay away from those neighbors... That's why we call me that." If Kouzi does business in another place, I will also give up all the regular customers at Liuqiao." "Isn't that good?" Mao Qi nodded vigorously. "That's all I want to ask. What I want to ask is, please forget about the thousand taels. It's just the rich people's unreasonable thoughts, not serious business." The couple trembled all over, but it was not because they were reluctant to part with the money.Ah Xian took a step forward and asked Mao Qi: "What do you mean? Boss, what do you mean, does Ah Chun's matter have anything to do with that Qianliang?" Mao Qi looked directly into her eyes, and then asked: "If I say yes, what are you going to do?" "What do you mean?" "Do you want Ah Chun or the thousand taels?" A Xian slapped Mao Qi coldly, and then she seemed to be startled, and almost fell to the ground staggeringly.Kakujiro hurriedly hugged her. "That's good, I'm relieved." Although Mao Qi's cheeks were hot after being slapped, she still smiled slightly. "Thank you, Ah Chun." Mao Qi left this sentence and turned around. After Moshichi left yesterday, there seemed to be a small commotion in Iseya.When Moshichi went to visit, Kasuke came out and said that the proprietress was not feeling well and could not see the guests. "The boss is fine too. You tell him I want to see him." It was also in the tatami room yesterday, but this time Shigeru Qi was not kept waiting.The owner of Iseya's face seemed a little swollen, and his eyelids were also slightly swollen. "I said it directly," Mao Qi said. "Chun, the daughter of the peddler Kojiro, used to... thirteen years ago, was the baby that your husband and wife lost at Willow Bridge, right?" The owner of Iseya didn't answer, just blinked frequently. "Achun is the twin sister of your daughter Ami who passed away half a year ago. Your wife gave birth to twin daughters, right?" The owner of Iseya stopped blinking and asked in a low voice, "Why do we have to discard the baby?" "Maybe you and your wife don't want to throw it away, but you can't throw it away. Because your parents—especially your grumpy mother, were probably noisy and noisy at the time, saying that this kind of thing happens when you marry a daughter-in-law with a low family background. , Said that Jiashi is probably an animal stomach or something." The owner of Iseya lowered his head. "Wu family and merchants already hate twins very much." Mao Qi continued. "I can get two precious children at a time, why I hate it so much, I really can't figure it out." "I've been in pain too." As if reading from what was written on the paper, the owner of Iseya said in a flat voice: "In the past thirteen years, no one knew how painful Jiashi and I were." "However, that terrible mother is no longer there." Mao Qi said. "Besides, I didn't expect Ami to pass away too. You felt very lonely and wanted to return to the abandoned baby back then, so you found Achun. You are really good at finding that child in less than half a year." "I knew where they lived before." The owner of Iseya said. "At the time of the abandonment, we hid in the dark and wanted to see who picked up the child, so we followed the other party and confirmed their identities. We also have this kind of parental heart." Mo Qi's voice turned severe, staring straight at the owner of Iseya and said: "In that case, what exactly does Qianliang mean? Do you want to save Ah Chun's family? Or, do you want to use this unusual method to win over that family? Don't you have the courage to go directly to them, apologize to Ah Chun, and say that you The biological parents are actually us? That's why you want this little trick?" The owner of Iseya gritted his teeth and said, "We just want that child to be happy. It's too pitiful to be a fishmonger's daughter..." "Achun is very happy now. She is not your child. Your child died when it was thrown away thirteen years ago. No matter how many taels you spend, you can't buy it back." The owner of Iseya lowered his head. "You give up." Mao Qi said firmly. "There is one more thing to discuss next, Boss Iseya, you can treat the one thousand taels as being given to Kakujiro, can you give it to me?" The owner of Iseya immediately raised his head, blushing. "What's the meaning?" "Let's put it this way, consider it a hush money." "If not, are you going to tell Ah Chun about our past?" Mao Qi remained silent.The owner of Iseya stared at Shigeru silently for a moment, then stood up abruptly and ran out of the tatami room. After a while, he strode back again, holding the silk scarf that Mao Qi had shown yesterday in his hand. "Then, this is it." He threw the money in front of Maoqi. "Take it. You beast!" Mao Qi picked up the money slowly and rewrapped it with a silk scarf.Iseya has been panting watching Moshichi's actions since just now. "Then, Boss Iseya." Moshichi pushed the wrapped silk scarf to the boss of Iseya. "I pay you the money, this is my hush money for you." Iseya opened his mouth wide "ah". "Don't use Ah Chun's brain in the future, and don't tell anyone that the child is an abandoned baby. Do you understand?" After Mao Qi finished speaking, she stood up quickly. In the corridor, he smelled the same scent of thread as yesterday.Mao Qi stopped in her tracks and lightly clasped her hands together. A few days later, Ah Chun went to Maoqi's house. "Abba and Aunt said that this is a thank you gift this time." She hands out a fat bonito. "Abba also said that if the boss doesn't mind, he plans to take care of it. How about it? Boss." Mao Qi smiled and said to Ah Chun: "Go back and tell your father, please come over. Also say hello to your mother by the way." The head lady was stunned when she heard it. "I really don't understand, is it about the thousand taels of bonito? Didn't you do nothing?" No, I got a slap in the face, Mao Qi thought to himself.