Chapter 10 end

In mid-September, at around 5:30 on a Saturday night, Nishina Akio walked leisurely and leisurely on the street in the bustling area leading to Kawasaki Railway Station... It was a hot day, but perhaps it was due to psychological effects. In the gray-red evening that is unique to this city, you can still feel the breath of the season from the wind blowing here.Akio Nishina, who was off work on Saturday, went to the street at two o'clock in the afternoon. First, he went to visit his colleague at the Noborito factory who was hospitalized due to duodenal ulcer. Then he went to the cultural center, watched the art exhibition, and then went shopping in the commercial street for a while. , I went to the bookstore to take another look, and I was about to go back now.

At the crossroads in front of the train station square, while waiting for the green light, he took out filter-tipped Seven Star cigarettes from the top pocket of his sweatshirt and lit them.The smoke melted into the evening air, and a nostalgic smell wafted from nowhere, directly hitting the nostrils.During the repayment of Kajitani's housing loan, Nishina desperately quit smoking, but since he started smoking again last September, he has returned to the level of one and a half packs a day. He heard footsteps coming towards him and looked back.Setsuko Yamato, who was wearing an elegant and elegant floral dress, ran towards him calling his name.

"Chief, long time no see!..." Setsuko Yamato was his subordinate when he was the head of the technical department at the Noborito Plant, and he still hasn't changed his previous habit of addressing. "Oh, it's been a long time since I saw you!... How is it? Are you okay?..." "Okay, thanks to you." Setsuko's hair was pulled back, and her big face with slightly high cheekbones looked extraordinarily energetic. Nishina Akio noticed this. The last time I met Setsuko Yamato was at the beginning of April this year, almost half a year ago.She helped her when she moved from Kajiya to the Noborito staff dormitory. To express his gratitude, Nishina Akio visited her residence, Keihin Apartment.At that time, she complained all day long that because she bought a bad apartment, her mother's health was even worse.

"Lingtang, how did you feel afterward?" "Ah, now it's still good for a while, and bad for a while, hey, what can I do!..." "Do you still live there?" "yes." "Is it still so noisy upstairs?" The upstairs of her original home was rented by a student from a private university. Every night, she played recordings and played chess, making the people downstairs unable to sleep because of the noise.Therefore, mother and daughter often complain and blame.Not only that, but I heard that it often leaks water. It turned out that he had talked to her about the housing problem.Although Akio Nishina felt that this was not someone else's business, he felt sympathetic.But since then, PeopleSoft has been in a predicament himself and cannot protect himself. As a result, he has not heard from him for a long time and has nowhere to go.

The police once suspected Akio Nishina because of the Yokohama murder case of Yashiju, who was very familiar with each other.Although someone testified that Nishina was at Setsuko's house in the apartment at the time of the incident, the police still held a distrustful attitude; the mother and daughter of Yamato also testified about this, but the police suspected that it was a false testimony.Because Setsuko Yamato was implicated in last year's murder case of Section Chief Eizo Tobo, when Nishina came forward to testify, Setsuko was not at the scene of the crime.Therefore, the police investigators were extremely suspicious and believed that the two of them were accomplices.

Therefore, Nishina Akio believes that if the case is not resolved, if you contact Setsuko Yamato, you will be involved more deeply, and you should be cautious in your words and deeds.In silence, Setsuko also seemed to understand Nishina's state of mind... "No, fortunately, the students on the 6th floor moved out during the summer vacation. I only found out from the administrator that he sold the house to someone else and moved to a better place to live. This time, a couple with dual careers came to live here. Dinner It was done later, and it was clanging until nine o'clock, and then it quieted down, fortunately..."

"What about the leak?" "That can't be helped. In the wall that cannot be disassembled, the drain pipe installed is cracked, and water seeps out once or twice every three or four months. At this time, it is repaired with the management fee of the management committee. .” Although Setsuko was going through all these troubles, her undisguised expression made Akio Nishina look at her again. "Now, are you going back to the factory?" The Dengto factory went to work as usual on Saturday. "No, I went home a little after noon, and then I went shopping again. I stopped by - a real estate company."

"A real estate company? Is it Tama Corporation?..." Nishina Akio thought that she was still negotiating the issue of compensation. But Setsuko Yamato shook her head and said, "No, they didn't pay any attention to it at all." She bit her lips angrily, "It's a smaller real estate company that's here to discuss now." "What negotiation?..." "That apartment, I want to sell because of those defects, there is no way." "what……" "I used to think that I was carrying a big burden, and I was really depressed. But now, the game of getting rid of the burden is not over yet!...Just throw this burden to someone else!..."

Setsuko Yamato's eyes seemed to flash a challenge. "Since I noticed those things, I didn't go to complain to the manager, and I didn't blame the Tama General Industry Company. Because if all the problems are disclosed, the house will be difficult to sell. Now I am meeting a buyer. An insider Of course, you will know the problem when you see it, but you will pretend not to know it to the buyer, and you can sell it cheaper." Nishina Akio looked at Setsuko Yamato, not knowing what to say for a moment. "When I get rid of the burden, I will pay more attention this time and find a real one. Even if it takes a loan, it will be worth the pain. For us, only the house is property after all!..."

Setsuko picked up the big paper bag, closed her eyes slightly, and looked in the direction of the Keihin apartment. "Then, please greet Lingtang." When Nishina was about to leave, Setsuko suddenly realized his complicated eyes. "What happened to... the apartment at Kajiya's place... the section chief?..." "I heard that you're going to auction the house...?" Setsuko Yamato peeked at Akio Nishina's face with a bit of regret.He lives in the staff dormitory of the Denghu factory, and the neighbors are all the family members of the employees who work in the Denghu factory.Therefore, if there is any rumor here, it will immediately spread to the factory.

"Ah, the auction is over, at the end of July." "Well... so, how is the sale going?" "I finally won the bid, but I still haven't paid the arrears." Setsuko wanted to ask more detailed questions, waiting for Akio Nishina to continue.But seeing that he was silent, it was inconvenient to ask further questions. Nishina Akio received the "Notice of Decision to Start the Auction" issued by the Kawasaki Branch of the Kanagawa District Court, at the beginning of June about two months after handing over the house of Suoya.The auction date is July 14. About 10 days later, on July 23, this time, it was notified by the District Court and the Japan Home Loan Insurance Company that the house was awarded at 14.5 million yen. It cost 22 million yen to buy this house in March 1975. It is said that the land price at that time increased by 70%, but this time the bid was only 14.5 million yen.I heard from people in the insurance company that before the auction, the executive will first show the real estate price clerk, the minimum price calculated in advance, if the minimum price cannot be sold, the auction will be re-auctioned the next day, but every time the minimum price is changed, the minimum price must be reduced by 10 %.The auction winning bids on the first day were less than half of the total.More than half of the auctioned houses were still unsold after repeated auctions.This time, Nishina Akio was lucky. Afterwards, a meeting of extortionists was held.As the first and second mortgagee, the Housing Finance Corporation and the Mutual Bank received 4.85 million yen and 3.03 million yen from the winning bids, respectively.Although Akio Nishina has repaid the loan for about 20 months, most of it is just the part that offsets the interest, and the principal has hardly been reduced at all.Coupled with the amount of deferred compensation, the arrears have increased.The remaining 6.62 million yen was not enough to pay the 8.8 million yen owed by the insurance company. As a result, PeopleSoft's debt left 2.18 million yen, which was repaid at a monthly rate of 50,000 yen. Nishina Akio once simply believed that after borrowing money to build a house, if he could not repay the loan, he could recover the capital even if he sold the house.But in fact, not only the initial deposit of 5 million yen and the 2 million yen his father gave him, but also a considerable amount of arrears.However, this period of disgusting troubles finally broke through. "Hey, let's repay the loan slowly!..." Akio Nishina said mockingly. "How is your wife?" "Yeah. It seems that it took a lot of effort to get used to the life in the staff dormitory." Nishina Akio smiled wryly. Zhengzi couldn't bear to go back to the staff dormitory, so she ran to her sister's house in Tokyo.However, it couldn't go on like this for a long time. Within half a month, she returned home.When she came back this time, when she saw PeopleSoft, she said very frankly: "I think, this failure is not our fault. It is just because of various misfortunes. If the company has good opinions, we will start from scratch." , let’s do it again.” To start over is to rebuild the house.It took Nishina a long time to comprehend its meaning.The absurd dream of rebuilding the house seems to still support his wife spiritually. After saying goodbye to Setsuko, Akio Nishina boarded the tram on the Nambu Line.Row upon row of high-rise buildings and family houses, countless roof ridges stretch out under the fading sunset.The water of the Tama River reflects the light blue scenery of early autumn.On the road beside the river, there is a steady flow of vehicles, and small motorcycles freely pass through it.Nishina guessed that those pedestrians were also on the long way home.The coast of Tokyo Bay is as hazy as thin ink, adding infinite brilliance to the stars in the twilight... "In the Milky Way where the earth is located, there are hundreds of billions of star clusters. However, there are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the universe that are as large as the Milky Way with hundreds of billions of star clusters..." In the past, Nishina Akio read this paragraph in the newspaper comment column, and for some reason, at this moment, it suddenly appeared in Nishina Akio's mind.