Chapter 3 second quarter

I stuffed my bicycle in the back of the car and went home with my dad, only to find that the door to our house on the second floor of the old apartment was covered with dark clouds.It was an ominous cloud that changed the fate of a peaceful family - I froze when I saw the idioms taught in school come true. Pa murmured, "What the hell are you doing?" So Pa saw that cloud too.Not literally, but actual dark clouds. We rushed into the house just in time to see Mom frowning and coughing violently as she opened the kitchen window and flicked the smoke out with her hands.As soon as she saw me, my mother immediately yelled at me.

"Yanan! Your milk is half hot, and you just ran out like this!" After a long time, it turned out that this is the case.I simply forgot that I was heating milk.Even in the hottest part of summer, as long as I drink iced milk, my stomach will feel like a super express, so I drink warm milk every time. "It's Mom who has a terrified look on her face, and told me to hurry and get Dad back." Hearing this sentence, Chang Dad froze. "It's okay, there's no fire." After all of us sat down in the living room, lawyer Maekawa said this while wiping the sweat from his forehead.He must be thinking in his heart, how could he get involved with such a difficult family.

"So……" Mr. Maekawa coughed and was about to speak when Ma interrupted him.She had that "I've been waiting for this moment for a long time" look. "Lawyer, there is something I want to declare first..." "Ah? What's the matter?" "Excuse me, what contract did you sign with my husband?" "Contract?" "Yes, sign the contract. You were entrusted by my husband to come to our house to discuss divorce, right? Don't talk about anything related to my pre-marriage, anyway, I know it all. " Lawyer Maekawa's small eyes opened wide. "Mrs. Ogata, what are you talking about..."

Mom started to get excited. "Please don't pretend! Are you here to talk about divorce? You made up this lie because you were worried that if you told the truth at first, I would ignore you. Now that our whole family is here, it doesn't matter, just tell the truth. Quick, please speak!" Surprised this time. "Hey! Satoko, what are you talking about?" Mom turned to Dad with the attitude of a watchdog on a thief. "Even you want to play tricks on me? What is this? Call the lawyer in such a despicable way! You think I don't know that you are messing with that woman outside..."

Dad stood up and interrupted Mom, glanced at me with a scary expression and said. "What nonsense are you talking about! And in front of Yanan!" "What does it matter! This incident has a greater impact on Ya Nan than anyone else!" After yelling, Mom cried out.I looked at my dad who was in a daze, and then at my mom who buried her face in the cushion, and tried to speak. "Dad, Mom, I'm fine." Dad turned to me, Attorney Maekawa's eyes were still wide open, looking in my direction. "What are you okay?" I leaned closer to Dad and whispered, "Pink golf."

Pa's shaved, blue chin dropped off. "you……" I said to Attorney Qianchuan: "Mr. Lawyer, I always thought that my mother hired a lawyer to ask my father about the divorce. It was just because she was afraid of scaring me that she said something else at first. I guessed wrong Yet?" Dad murmured, "Me too...to be honest, I thought so too." Mom raised her head and said with tears in her voice, "What did you say?" Under the watchful eyes of the three of us, lawyer Maekawa slowly raised his right hand to touch his eyebrows, as if he was afraid that his eyes would open too much and his eyebrows would be crooked into the hairline.

After confirming that the gray and white eyebrows were still in their original positions, the lawyer finally put down his hands, coughed and said, "I neither accepted Mrs. Ogata's commission nor signed a contract with Mr. Ogata." Then, for the sake of being correct, I added a sentence: "Of course I was not invited by you." I did not hire a lawyer, so I nodded. "As for me, everyone," said Attorney Maekawa, "I came here at the request of Mr. Naoki Sawamura." "Naoki Sawamura?" The three of us repeated it in unison.In hindsight, we were all very different in our surprises when we heard the name, but at the time it sounded like we were all in unison.

It might be an occupational disease. Once lawyer Maekawa took control of the situation, his attitude became calm.He smiled and said to his mother: "Mrs. Ogata, do you remember Mr. Sawamura?" Mom stood there in a daze, with tears still on her face. "In short, to put it simply..." Attorney Maekawa said this in order to prevent the three of us from drawing a conclusion too early. "Mr. Naoaki Sawamura was rescued by Mrs. Ogata 20 years ago. He has always been grateful for this, and he never forgot it until his death." I looked at Mom, and Mom pressed her mouth with both hands.

"Do you remember?" Hearing Dad's question, Mom looked Dad in the eyes first, and then replied, "Yes. Did he pass away?" "Yes, he passed away on April 16 this year because of lung cancer. He has always paid attention to his health, and he doesn't even smoke. It's ironic." Mom looked at the sky and muttered to herself with a face that had completely entered her personal world: "But... he shouldn't be that old yet." "Fifty-five. It's a real pity." For a while a stiff silence fell upon us. Dad said: "But, so what? My wife's friend is dead, what does it have to do with us?"

"Hey," the lawyer puffed out his chest, "that's why I'm here." "for what?" "I've said over and over again that you have to wait until you're all here, and I've also reminded you that this is an unbelievable thing and there's a reason for it." Lawyer Maekawa said to his mother: "Mrs. Ogata, when you saved Mr. Sawamura, he would say out of gratitude, 'I will never forget your kindness. When I make a lot of money in the future, I will definitely repay you.' .do you remember?" This time, my dad and I turned around to see my mom.

"Hey, Satoko, has something like this happened? You saved someone? What happened?" "Don't worry, don't worry, you can talk about this matter slowly later." Attorney Maekawa said with a smile.Mom nodded: "Yes, I do. But..." The lawyer smiled. "You didn't believe it was going to happen all the time, did you?" Mom nodded again. The clues of the matter were sorted out bit by bit.Dad swallowed his saliva honestly, and asked, "So, you said that the person named Sawamura left her an inheritance because he couldn't forget his wife's kindness to him?" Lawyer Maekawa was very calm. "That's right. To be precise, it should be a 'legacy'. Because Mrs. Ogata is not a blood relative of Mr. Sawamura." Dad made a "ahhh" or something. "I... didn't take those words seriously." Mom murmured in a daze. "Mr. Sawamura was a very capable industrialist, but his life was full of ups and downs. He died unmarried and had no children. His parents were long dead and he had no brothers or sisters; in other words, he had no blood relatives to Inherited the business. Therefore, when he knew that his days were numbered, he sold all his businesses and assets to cash in." The three of us said "oh". "I repeat, Mr. Sawamura has no parents, wife, children, siblings, or grandchildren; that is, he has no direct blood relatives, spouses, direct blood relatives, and successors. Although there are distant relatives, our country does not There is no unlimited inheritance system for blood relatives, so they are not eligible to inherit. In this case, if no arrangement is made, Mr. Sawamura's estate will directly belong to the national treasury." Dad swallowed again, and Mom wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes. "So, Mr. Sawamura wrote a will. This is called a notarized will, and it is a will that does not require legalization procedures. Since I was Mr. Sawamura's counsel during his lifetime, he appointed me as the executor of the will. Mrs. Ogata, Mr. Sawamura specified in this will that all property be bequeathed to you. Do you understand by now?" Each of us is slowly "understanding", but still can't believe it. "So...that Sawamura or something, how much money did he leave to his wife?" I'm not talking for Dad, but I don't feel ashamed at all when he asks this kind of question.Because I really want to know, but no one can call out. "After deducting taxes, which is also a very large amount, and all kinds of expenses, the net amount you can get is..." The lawyer raised his right hand with a wide smile and extended five fingers.Although the meaning of the representative is different, the posture is exactly the same as that of the counter lady at the hole-in-one club just now. "Fifty million won?" Facing the father who was leaning forward and the mother who was speechless, lawyer Maekawa slowly shook his head. "No, it's 500 million won."