Chapter 4 Chapter 4 The Fox Spirit's Tail

A dark cloud appeared in a corner of the sky, and the area became larger and larger in an instant. The dark cloud covered the entire sky, and heavy raindrops fell in an instant. There was a long snake-like queue waiting for a taxi in front of the station. Shinichiro Takeura left the long queue, thinking that home was not too far away, so it was better to walk, but the heavy rain on the way made him in a dilemma. The sudden torrential rain poured over his body like a shower. Of course, Shinichiro didn't bring rain gear, and even an umbrella couldn't resist the downpour. The rainwater bouncing off the road covered the road with a layer of white smoke. Shinichiro Takeura, who was old and frail, regretted it and was forced to stand under the trees on the street. The green shade trees could not hide from the heavy rain.

At this time a miracle happened, a small car stopped in front of Zhupu, and the door opened. "You seem to be in a difficult situation. If you want, I will send you off!" From the driver's window, a young woman's voice floated.In the twilight, the woman's face swayed like a white flower. "Is this appropriate?" Zhupu was skeptical and confirmed it. "Please, please. I can't bear to see the old man suffer!" The woman shook her chin and invited him into the car. It was really a savior in a time of crisis. Zhupu was soaked by the rain and got into the car all at once.

"Where do you live?" the woman asked, turning the steering wheel. The side face was covered by thick long hair, and when the hair fluttered, the exposed face was extremely charming and extraordinary. In times of trouble, she appeared like a goddess of salvation, and Shinichiro Takeura's eyes were bewildered.When he gave the address— "Oh! It's exactly the same direction. I thought that even if it wasn't the same direction, I would definitely take you home." Her smile was sweet. The rain shrouded the entire car body, like a white rain curtain, gently isolating the car between the two of them from the world.

For Shinichiro, being alone with a young woman in this narrow space was a long time ago. "Thank you so much. I'm wondering what to do in this rainy day." While thanking her, Shinichiro was also glad that he got in the car of such a young and beautiful girl. "You are soaked, you have to change your clothes as soon as you get home." The woman suggested enthusiastically. "My name is Shinichiro Takeura." Takeura introduced himself. "Oh, sorry, I was a step late. My name is Machiko Yasui." She hastily introduced herself. Shinichiro calmed down a little, and began to look sideways at this woman, and carefully figured it out.

At first glance, it looks like a high-end white-collar worker; wearing a brand-name suit, the clothing items are not eye-catching but seem to be high-end.Clothes and accessories are very valuable, but it makes people feel that she is deliberately hiding her wealth.The scent of high-end perfume wafted in the car, blending with the woman's fragrance and body odor, making people mesmerized until Shinichiro's withered body and mind. Soon, the car arrived at the apartment where Shinichiro lived, and he complained in his heart, why is the distance to home so close? "Thank you so much. It's a timely help. Without your help, I really don't know what I would do." Shinichiro reluctantly said his thanks.

"It's too much of an honor for you to say that you can give charcoal in a timely manner. You must take care of yourself when you are old. Then, please pay more attention!" Machiko got out of the car briskly and opened the door for Shinichiro.This is the first time in my life that a young woman is cared for so much at this age.Shinichiro felt terrified and very sorry. The flattered Shinichiro fell into a state of ecstasy, and staggered a few steps when he got out of the car. "You have to be careful!" Machiko hurriedly approached to help. "It's okay." Shinichiro insisted.

"It seems that the soles of your feet are weak. It has already been sent here, so let's just send you to the door." Machiko offered. "really sorry." "It's sent here. If you don't give you to your family directly, you will not fulfill your responsibility." "I have no family." "Are you single?" "There's a daughter and a son. They're both independent, so everyone can be polite." "Don't you have a wife?" "The wife has passed away." "You've been alone, isn't it lonely?"

"I'm used to it. My son often comes to see me, so it's good." The separation from the children was suggested by Shinichiro himself, saying that he wished for many years to live freely by himself while his legs and feet were still healthy. So he sold the house he had lived in for many years and moved into this apartment.After the daughter got married, she went abroad to work with her husband, while the son already worked and lived alone. —The three members of the family live their own lives.Shinichiro lived a happy life alone. Recently, he is writing a memoir and plans to publish it at his own expense.Sometimes traveling, visiting old friends, etc., is very comfortable.

Visited an old friend from college today. With the help of Machiko, he finally arrived at his door, feeling inseparable.She was next to her, and the body temperature of the young woman was actually transmitted to her body. "Did you just go back like this? I'm so sorry. The humble house is simple, please come in and sit for a while." Shinichiro was not as reserved as he was at the beginning, but boldly invited, appearing very sophisticated. "Isn't that inconvenient?" Machiko hesitated. "No, it's okay. If you leave, I will lose face. Please give me this old face." Shinichiro tried his best to persuade him to stay.

"Then, I'll stay for a while." Machiko agreed. Shinichiro Takeura and Machiko Yasui met in this way, and since then Machiko has often come to Shinichiro's house to play. According to Machiko, she works in public relations for a foreign-funded cosmetics company.One day, she brought the company's export vitamins and health drinks to Shinichiro.Shinichiro wants to pay her. "Okay! This is a small gift from me. I hope you will always be healthy and live a long life after drinking it." Machiko smiled and refused to accept. "I can't ask for your products for nothing." Shinichiro confessed.

"I didn't send it to you to sell products." She seemed a little angry. "I understand. But, you paid for it!" "Send some small gifts to friends, it's a matter of course." "Do you consider me a friend?" "Of course! You are my best friend. You are my friend as well as my teacher. You must teach me a lot. How much should I pay?" Machiko pushed the gift into Shinichiro's hand, and immediately took the initiative to cook for him and clean the room enthusiastically.The relationship between the two soon became close. The young Shinichiro never dreamed that he would have such a young and attractive girlfriend. Her age is not so much a daughter, it is better to say that she is close to her granddaughter.Shinichiro has no unreasonable fantasies about her, but as soon as she comes to the door, he immediately feels his aging body and mind regain youthful vitality. Shinichiro went to the Ginza jewelry store and specially ordered a gift for Machiko. Not long after, Machiko visited again.Shinichiro handed her the prepared gift, and her eyes lit up immediately. "Oh my! What a beautiful necklace! I've wanted one like this for a long time. But it's a bit..." "This is a small gift from me to a friend. I accepted your gift, so it's your turn to accept mine this time!" "However, I have never accepted such a high-level gift before." Machiko was very happy, but he seemed to have encountered a problem, a dilemma, and didn't know how to deal with it. "If it is for you, I will contribute all my property, and I will be willing." Deep in his heart, Shinichiro silently made a wish. "As long as I have your feelings, I will be satisfied. You bought it specially, so I will accept it this time. Please don't give me such expensive gifts again in the future, otherwise I won't dare to come." "Please don't scare me. If you don't come, how will I live?" Shinichiro begged. "How free it is to be alone!" Machiko's tone was a bit sarcastic, and she looked at Shinichiro with mischievous eyes. "That was before I met you, but it's different now. I can't live without you. I'd like you to move here if I could." Since meeting Machiko, Shinichiro realizes that he can no longer resist the temptation of young women after more than 70 years of life and rich experience. Even though he knew how worthless he was, he still couldn't suppress the fire in his chest like a high school student, looking forward to her frequent visits. Falling in love with a young heterosexual is out of control when he is older, but after all, it is not an equal relationship like when he was young. He is anxious all day long, for fear that she will leave him. In order to tie her down and please her, he is almost willing to sacrifice everything for her without any scruples. A man in his seventies dating a woman in her twenties is a miracle.Even if she unilaterally proposed to break up, it is understandable. But after meeting her, he never wanted to go back to his bachelor days.Shinichiro's life, trekking to his old age, the freedom he finally obtained was handed over to a young woman who was willing to be her slave.And reveled in his sinking into slavery. Shingo Takeura visits his father whom he hasn't seen for a long time.He respected his father's desire to live a free life alone and lived separately from his father, visiting his father once a month. Because of the rape case, Shingo Takeura delayed visiting his father. He just contacted him by phone. He knew that his father was healthy, but he didn't see him, so he was still very concerned. Father's apartment is located in a quiet area called Kakigizaka. There are many high-end apartments in this area, and it is one of the few high-end residential areas in the city. I used to live in Shimokitazawa, which was an old house with a courtyard. After selling this house, I bought the current apartment. Shingo looked around at his father's house. After visiting for a long time, he felt something changed inside. The house is very tidy. This is not just tidying up. In the past, the father and the elderly lived alone and it was relatively tidy. Now the house has undergone a complete revolution, and everything in the house has changed. The positions of large furniture such as tables, chairs, TVs, and sofas have been moved, the arrangement of books on the bookshelves, and even the location of tableware storage have changed.The insides of the sideboard drawers are also all neatly organized. "Yeah—I seem to have gone through the wrong door." Shingo exclaimed.Father felt very uncomfortable. "Dad, have you hired a maid?" Shingo asked. "No, no, no." The father replied falteringly. Shingo looked at the bedroom again and smelled a faint scent of perfume, which my father had never used. The changes in my father's family were undoubtedly caused by women.The father has a woman, and it seems that the father has become younger, and this is due to the woman.This is a good thing, what kind of woman is she?I really think about it. "Dad, there seems to be a woman?" Father lowered his eyelids. "I was just about to discuss with you, but I actually want to get married." "You want to get married?" Shingo was astonished.I thought my father had a woman, but I didn't expect the word marriage. His father married late, and there is a big age gap with Shingo.Shingo didn't expect that his father, who was near the age of his birthday, would remarry.Nothing happened two months ago. "Who is the other party?" Shingo restrained his panic and asked calmly. "Recently, I wanted to introduce you. Her name is Machiko Yasui." "How are people?" "A very nice man. I think you will be satisfied." "The other party's family members also agree?" "The important thing is that I have the will." "Although I have the wish, we are both married at an old age, so you can't ignore the opinions of your family, right?" "The woman is not an old man." "Not an old man? How old is that?" "Twenty-three." "What? Twenty-three years old?" Shingo was shocked again.Twenty-three years old, younger than himself. "Dad, are you serious? She is younger than your child." "Isn't it good to marry a woman who is younger than your own child?" "It's not bad, it's just that the age gap is too big." "Couples with this age gap are not uncommon. Picasso is an example." It is said that Picasso had children after he was ninety years old, so did he want to imitate Picasso and plan to have children?Shingo was stunned in surprise. "What does the woman do?" Shingo was worried that his father would be deceived by a woman of the highest rank. "She's not the bad woman you're worried about, she's a serious 'white collar'. I've already decided on this!" No matter how much the child objected, he would not change his mind. The expression on the father's face showed his will. In just two months, the cautious and calm father was completely captured.Who is this woman?The more Shingo thought about it, the more disturbed he became. A twenty-three-year-old woman is willing to marry a seventy-six-year-old man. It is unbelievable that she has no plans. In addition to the apartment where my father lives now, he also has some rented houses in the city. With the sharp rise in land prices, his father's property has also increased accordingly. This woman may be an insider, so she approached her father. "Father, she may have come here because of property." Shingo's guidance seems to be touching the heart of his father. "What did you say? I'm sorry for Machiko with these words. She is definitely not this kind of woman. She really loves me and wants to marry me. Once I get married, won't it lighten your worries and burdens?" The father fought with reason. "Dad, don't say such things. You and her have only known each other not long ago. After a while, wait until you get to know each other better before getting married. I don't think it's too late." "The two of us seem to have lived for decades and know each other very well, so there is no need to wait." "When I came two months ago, there was no sign of my father getting married at all. I think it took nearly two months. It's not enough to spend two months getting to know a person. Please wait a little longer time." "There's no need to spend any more time. She and I live on different sides, which is a great loss to our lives." "Dad..." Shingo couldn't help being dumbfounded. The positions of the father and son are decidedly different.Now the father, who is not seventy-six years old at all, is like a toddler eager for toys, eager to marry a young woman. The more Shingo persuaded, the more disgusted my father became.If you think about it calmly, this marriage is too unusual. In just two months, the maturity my father had accumulated over the past seventy-six years was destroyed by this woman.Shingo shuddered. "Anyway, please let me meet her." A few days later, my father reluctantly let Shingo meet Machiko Yasui. "Thank you for taking care of your father in many ways. Please take care of me in the future." Machiko saluted calmly, as if she had the qualifications to be my "stepmother". "Please take care of each other." Shingo couldn't help but immediately returned the gift, feeling that he had lost to the other party. If she is not sloppy about her age, she is five years younger than Shingo, so she might as well be her son's lover, their age is just right. "Yasui, where were you born?" Shingo asked in retaliation for the defeat just now. "In Ichinomiya in Aichi." "Ichinomiya is not far from Nagoya, so where do your parents live?" "To be honest, my father divorced when I was fifteen, and my mother left home first, and I stayed with my father. When I was twenty, my father remarried, and I left my father and went to Tokyo." "Have you been doing your current job since you came to Tokyo?" "Yes, it is... like this." Machiko's answer was a bit hesitant. "Hey, it's alright, it's the first time we meet, why do you ask the bottom line! It's too rude." Father couldn't stand it anymore and interrupted. "No, it's okay. Anyway, it's something to talk about." Machiko smiled kindly, her smiling face was very pure. "Hearing that my father said that he planned to get married, to be honest, I was surprised. My father and you are almost the age difference between grandparents and grandchildren. What do you think?" Shingo's question was straight to the point. "Your father proposed to me, and I was taken aback at first. However, the age gap is not a problem. Because I know your father really loves me, so I agreed to the proposal." "Excuse me, I want to ask, have you ever been married?" "No." "Do you want to marry a seventy-six-year-old man willingly when you get married for the first time?" "That's how I think about it. Now I'm seventy-six and twenty-three, but ten years later I'll be eighty-six and thirty-three. The age difference doesn't change, but the age ratio is shrinking. I think marriage You can't just look at the age difference, but whether you regard each other as a life partner, love each other, and trust each other." The rhetoric of the good school is correct.What seems to be a pre-prepared and formulaic speech dulls the listener. Besides, can the father guarantee to live to the age of eighty-six?As a son, Shingo couldn't say that. Father nodded in satisfaction at Machiko's words. "Sorry, I want to ask a sharp question, have you ever been in love before?" "It would be a lie if I said I've never been. I'm not interested in young people. As a life partner, I only want to entrust myself to people I respect. Today's young people are me-centered and rarely think about each other, so I have no respect for young men. I respect your father from the bottom of my heart." "You mentioned entrusting your life to something just now, so you have already considered that your father is old?" Shingo hinted that entrusting his life to his old father who has a limited remaining life, the days will not be long. "Young lovers, people wish that they will grow old together. If they get married and divorced, the blessing will become empty words. Marriage is not a guarantee that they can spend many years together in the future, but whether it is possible to look forward to a common life full of infinite hope. " Another formulaic speech. "Unfortunately, you didn't consider how long it might be possible for an elderly father?" "No, 'possible' cannot be measured by the length of years. It often condenses the whole life in an instant. For this moment, my life is valuable. When I met your father, I felt this, my All my life was prepared for your father..." She talked eloquently, and her eloquent and pleasant words hit her father's arms, and he nodded in appreciation again and again. I don't want to say anything anymore.Machiko's words and sentences are like excerpts from innocent novels. This set of rational concepts of love does not allow for secular refutation.However, lovers who are passionately in love, even if they never change their minds, one day, one of the men and women will change their minds, and everything will be illusory. Machiko's defense was fully prepared in advance.Her definition is that love is not a guarantee, but something that can be expected.She seems to have prepared a sample answer before meeting Shingo. The old man who has accumulated rich experience in life should see through the dark side of the world. However, when faced with the theory of pure emotion lobbied by Machiko, he is intoxicated, listens attentively, and admires it. The final outcome is not optimistic. Shingo lost to Machiko.This just fulfilled what my father said that Shingo would be satisfied with Machiko. Today's meeting is over.Shingo's older sister is abroad.Shinichiro introduces Machiko to Shingo, so there is no need to go through other cutscenes.In front of Shingo, the old man pretended to be married to Machiko.Talking nonsense about whether the wedding trip is going to travel around the world and so on. After Shingo and Machiko Yasui met, they left behind inexplicable mysteries.She not only has a good appearance, but also has a polite and knowledgeable conversation.If Zhenwu took her in and out of the social circle, it would be no less inferior.However, the overall image is ambiguous and nothing memorable. Her experience, family relationship, living environment, background, personality, lifestyle, and friends are all vague. After Shingo bid farewell to her, her appearance, clothing, and accessories seemed to have drifted into the mist. When we met—it was vivid in my mind, and the impression faded away as if after a long time, and only suspicious appearances were left. Shingo warned himself that when they first met, she was prejudiced against her and thought she was a vixen who lied to her father. This prejudice has been denied by her, which may have led to a weak impression and confusion.However, Shingo's instincts have already sensed the dangerous aura emanating from Machiko. She said that she respects her father. Is it considered respect after only two months of being together?She also said that in order to meet her father, she had prepared half of her life, which was a heart-touching potion. Can an old man who lives alone be able to resist being given this ecstasy potion by a young and beautiful woman?The so-called ecstasy decoction is only used when defrauding the other party. Ecstasy is also used in the rhetoric of love, and that is because there is an element of deceit and concealment in love.No matter how pure love is, it cannot escape this factor. At this moment, Shingo suddenly thought: "Marriage is not a guarantee, but a possibility to look forward to. That's right! This vixen! Showed his feet and uttered the truth!" When she married her father, she never mentioned the promise of life from the beginning. If my father lived to the average life expectancy, there were still two or three years left, and he held on to live for another ten years. During this period, how much property would she absorb from his father!That woman only wanted to get married in anticipation of her father's property. Zhenwu thought in his heart: he can't let his father marry that vixen, and to expose the vixen's true colors, his father must be awakened as soon as possible.