Chapter 13 fourth quarter

Lawyer Maekawa asked if we wanted to go to his villa for the weekend.Mom said to me that Friday. "Tomorrow? It's so sudden." "Yeah. I should have told you earlier, but my mother was also in a mess, so I forgot accidentally. I'm sorry. Do you have anything to do this weekend?" "No, I can go." I can't let mom know that I have heard Mr. Nitta mention this, so I play dumb. "How long do you want to stay?" "For two nights, I will drive to and from the office, which is great." "Where?" "Kami-Suwa. I heard it's by the lake, and there's a hot spring."

We had just finished dinner and Mom was washing the dishes at the counter.She stopped what she was doing, let the water hit her hands, and after thinking for a while, said: "But, Ya Nan. Mom wants to visit your dad tomorrow..." I was lying on the sofa watching TV, and got up when I heard this sentence. "Do you need to find Dad?" "Hmm.... That woman came last time, but there was no movement after that. Mom was very worried." "You don't have to pick tomorrow, do you?" "But, if it's not the weekend and holiday, it's hard to find your dad." Mom turned the faucet to turn off the water, and turned to face me.

"Actually, an acquaintance in your company called yesterday, saying that your father really broke up with that woman." I seemed to frowned unconsciously, and my mother smiled slightly and said, "Don't show that expression." I was thinking about the expression and words of that shepherdess in my heart.Did she throw Papa out right away because she knew there was no hope of getting a dime from us?Was there a big fight between them? "Is this news true?" "That's absolutely true. Looks like your dad moved out of her apartment and came home." I turn off the TV.Anyway, it's a boring soap opera.

"So, Mom wants to go to Dad?" Ma shrugged as she wiped her hands on her apron. "You object to mom going to see dad, right? You don't want mom to reconcile with dad, right? Dad said such exaggerated things before." "How treacherous." "What treachery?" "Mom is treacherous. If I say 'Well, I object, let's break up with Dad', is Mom going to say 'That's the decision. Let's not meet with such an overbearing dad again'? What is Mom going to do? Do?" Mom seemed a little frightened, opened her eyes wide and said, "Mom... I don't know what to do now..."

"Me too. I've learned so many things I didn't know in the past few weeks, and I can't find the answer right away." "……makes sense." "I agree with whatever mom wants to do. If you are worried about dad, go talk to him. I just said 'you don't have to pick tomorrow' because I think it would be a rush to go before the trip, and it would be better to go when you come back. I It’s not that I don’t want you to go to find Dad, so I said that.” Mom just blinked her eyes and didn't speak. My tone will become tougher because what I have been thinking these days has been sloshing deep in my head.Because of this, I was a little angry.

When talking about my father's fickleness, my mother would say "If I hadn't considered the children, I would have divorced a long time ago"-because of this, I felt very sorry for my mother, and felt that I didn't know anything and was really useless.If so, forget it, but I am getting more and more angry. Because I think mom shouldn't blame me for everything.Please don't say it's for my sake! "If I want to see Dad too, I will think clearly and go find him myself." Ma stared down at the floor.After a while, she whispered, "You're starting to talk to grown-ups like that, too."

I keep my mouth shut.At this time, if you apologize: "I'm sorry, I will never say such a thing again", the matter will return to the original point.I'm afraid that if I say it, I will actually say it, because it's so much easier to do so. Mom sighed and went back to wash things.She turned the faucet to let the water flow out, then turned her head and smiled at me: "Then, I will go to your father tomorrow. At the office, Mom will ask them to pick us up after Mom comes back." I was relieved and smiled too.It takes courage to say something like this.Mustering up what was left of my savagery, I added another sentence.

"Mom, don't be angry, listen to me." "What else did you say?" "After you've visited Dad, you'd better make sure that the woman is fine. Mom, do you know where she lives? Have you investigated it before?" Mom's hands were full of bubbles, and she was stunned.She paused for a moment, and then said in a slightly raised voice: "What do you think your father did to that woman?" "Sometimes there are surprises." If the shepherdess wants to break up with Dad very simply and realistically, Dad has already considered marrying her, and he will probably become angry, even if he didn't intend to hurt her, but in case the quarrel gets worse, push her , she was very unlucky, and if she just bumped her head against the corner of the table...

Am I watching too much reasoning theater?But I'm really worried.Dad must be at his worst now. "I said, little man," said the mother with drooping corners of her mouth, with a face full of self-blame, "You seem to distrust your parents, don't you?" I silently and alone in my heart: no.It's just that no matter who it is, there are some places where you can't fully believe it unconditionally. hey-hey!Am I becoming more and more like Shimazaki? The third largest, when I sleep in until the sun basks in my butt, my mother has already gone out.No wonder, because it was almost noon.

When it was raining, lawyer Maekawa called. "Is your mother out?" "Yes, has my mother contacted a lawyer?" "Well, I contacted you yesterday. I have a meeting coming up, so I told your mother to leave in the evening. This way the weather will be cooler and the roads will be less congested." Today the sun also spared no effort to give full play, and it was very sunny outside. "Before I go to pick you up, I will call first. I am afraid that you will be bored waiting." "I can play video games." The lawyer laughed. "When you get there, there will be no electricity to play. I told your mother to stay for two nights, but my family will stay there. If you like it, you can stay for a few more days."

"Thank you lawyer." While waiting for someone to pick me up, I called Shimazaki.It was my aunt who picked it up. "Oh, it's Ya Nan. How are you?" "Thank you, auntie, I'm fine. Is Toshihiko there?" "He seems to have gone out. I don't know what he is busy with. He is not at home all day long." Huh?What is he up to?I wonder.Hasn't our investigation been suspended...Maybe it's a date or something. "Could it be going to the library?" "Who knows if he's going to such a temperamental place, anyway, we can't control him. His whole body is as tanned as black charcoal. Hey, let it go. Ya Nan, how are your parents?" Is there any overtones to this question?I'm guessing, but it's not necessary.Aunt Shimazaki was not the type to beat around the bush. "I haven't seen your mother around recently. I don't know what's wrong. I'm worried that she may have broken her body because of other people's love to talk. It's fine if nothing happens." I haven't heard such words in a long time, and I feel so happy. "Hey, there are good and bad! Come play again next time! You too, haven't come to our house to play for a while." Auntie, sometimes I go in through the clothes drying table and spend the night in Shimazaki’s room without telling you——I laughed when I thought about it. "I will." Let's get a haircut!After finishing speaking, the aunt hung up the phone.Almost as soon as I hung up the phone, Mom came back. "How is Dad?" Mom seemed to be very hot, so she turned down the temperature of the air conditioner while blowing the wind on her face with her hands. "Your dad isn't here. But it does look like he's back at our apartment, with laundry hanging out on the balcony." "Dad is out?" "It seems to be. I thought I was going to work overtime and called the company, but it turned out not to be." Everyone is not at home today... Where did Dad kill time?My dad doesn't gamble at all. Not only does he not play mahjong, he doesn't even play pachinko, saying that the noise will give him a headache.But dad is not the kind of person who walks around... I think, probably going to the hole-in-one club again.Looking forward to meeting lovely girls there again. For me to have such thoughts, obviously I have become a lot worse.No, this is called growing up. "The garbage is almost full," Mom said to herself, leaning against the kitchen counter with a cup of iced barley tea. "Dad has only been home for two or three days?" "It's all takeaway bento boxes, instant noodle bowls and the like, which take up a lot of space. There are also empty cans of beer." Dad never cooks, and he often eats dry instant noodles because he finds it troublesome. "It's bound to be malnourished." This made it all the more embarrassing for Dad's current situation.To put it badly, there is nothing worse than an eating disorder.For some reason, I feel as if even my mood is wearing wet shoes. "So, what about that woman? How is she? Are you all right?" Mom drank up the barley tea, with the ice cubes in the glass in her mouth, biting on the glass. "she is not here." "She's not there either?" "Well, there are three days' worth of newspapers in the mailbox." Last night's idle assumption of nothing to do, suddenly took on a bit of reality.The shepherdess hit her head hard against the corner of the table... No, maybe strangled to death... Newspapers for three days.If the body was in the room, and it was this hot, it should start to stink.It must stink like hell. "Mom, did you smell any strange smell over there? Like the smell of rotting things?" Mom leisurely bit the ice and said, "No, I didn't smell anything." Then it should be fine.But... Dad also watched a lot of mystery dramas.Maybe he has already learned how to transport the corpse to the mountain and discard it.In this way, he will drive out and buy a shovel... No, no, maybe it will be more than that. Dad, who is desperate for the future, may want to die himself, but he can't die, so he starts to run around.The identity of the deceased was immediately confirmed due to the clear tire marks left at the scene. When the police asked the shepherdess's friend, her friend shouted, "Ogata did it!" The detectives took immediate action.Maybe, ah, it's really possible, Mom left the shepherdess' apartment before the detectives arrived, and they're coming this way now.Now if you call our house, it may be a strange man who answers the phone, that is, the criminal police guarding the phone. Suddenly someone slapped me on the head from the side. "Yanan, what are you thinking!" "Mom, let me tell you, maybe there will be criminal police coming." My imagination sprinted and sprinted like a thoroughbred racehorse. I had already passed the fourth turn and entered the straight track, and I couldn't stop it even with a whip. "The doorbell will ring any minute..." Ding dong.It's ringing! Mom and I immediately became the exhibits in the wax museum.After being frozen like this for several seconds, my mother let out a "choke". "What's wrong?" Mom swallowed the thing, and then said, "It's your nonsense that made me swallow the ice cube." If it was a foreign movie, Mom should have yelled "Damn" at this time. I jumped out of my chair and ran to look at the screen on the intercom. "Hi, I'm here to pick you up." The man with glasses as thick as a milk bottle spoke cordially and cheerfully.