The cherry blossoms bloom quickly and thank quickly.
As in previous years, Minako did not enjoy the cherry blossoms this year.When I went shopping near the station, I saw that the cherry blossoms were only half in bloom, but when I went out four or five days later, there were already green leaves left.
Minako often goes to the Xiangyang Corridor to watch the young leaves on the neighbor's persimmon tree, and the little green leaves are growing bigger day by day.The growth of young leaves makes people feel that the time of spring is flying by.
Minako reads through the three newspapers every morning.During the two weeks after the climbing rope test, almost every day you can see a newspaper discussing the problem of nylon climbing rope.
After all, the problem was so extraordinary that no newspaper discussed the incident itself positively.The titles are all "Precautions for Using Nylon Climbing Ropes" or "Advantages and Disadvantages of Nylon Climbing Ropes".Investigating its content, the cause of the incident is all attributed to Uozu and his team's mistakes or lack of relevant knowledge in the operation of nylon climbing ropes.
Nylon climbing rope has advantages and disadvantages, as long as you pay attention to these when using it, its fastness can be better than the previous hemp rope - this is the unanimous opinion of all the authors of the article.
Although they did not dare to say that Uozu cut the climbing rope out of fear of death, they all blamed Uozu and Kosaka for the accident.
Whenever she reads these articles, Minako feels distressed.Since Uojin emphasized so much, of course he couldn't have cut it himself, and it doesn't necessarily mean that there would be flaws in the operation.In this way, the experiment of her husband Gyonosuke was perfunctory?Not necessarily.Kyonosuke will not violate the attitude that scientists should have under any circumstances.On this point, even if people all over the world deny it, Minako still believes in her husband.
What Uozu said was true, and her husband's opinion was also correct, at least within the scope of the experiment.So what's the problem?The only thing that can be assumed is that Kosaka committed suicide.For Minako, there is good reason for thinking so.Although Uozu firmly believed that such a thing would not happen, it was only his firm belief without any basis.Minako believes that the incident can only be explained convincingly if it is confirmed that Kosaka committed suicide.
It was the first Sunday in May, and there was a phone call about ten o'clock.Minako picked up the microphone, and Uojin’s voice came unexpectedly; "Is Mr. Yatsushiro at home today? If he is, I want to come and visit." This hearty voice came to the eardrums, like rain after a long drought, and Minako thought it was very pleasant .
"Please wait a moment." In order to tell Jiaozhisuke, Minako put down the phone, walked up to the second floor, and looked into the study with her head, but her husband was not there.Went back to the ground floor and asked Chun Zhi, she said she saw him walking towards the gate just now, probably for a walk.
Minako returned to the phone and replied, "My husband has gone for a walk. Come here! I heard from him this morning that he will be at home all day today."
Normally, even on Sundays, Konosuke always had to go out in the afternoon, but during breakfast today, Minako rarely heard him say that he was at home all day today.
What is the purpose of Uozu's visit?Minako was a little uneasy.
"Is there something about the experiment..." Minako asked.
After a while, Uozu said, "I want to go to Mt. Hodaka with five or six people in a few days. We can't just leave Kosaka alone. At that time, we still want to visit the scene of the accident. Therefore, I would like to invite Mr. Yatsushiro From a scientist's point of view, what should be investigated. I think there is always something that needs to be investigated."
"Okay, I see, I'll tell him like this."
"I'm leaving now, and I can arrive at the mansion in about forty minutes."
"Welcome! I'm waiting for you."
Just as Minazi put down the microphone, she heard the sound of the front door opening.She walked out of the room and saw Konosuke in a kimono walking in. He said as he walked, "A lot of grass has grown on both sides of the gate."
"Yo! It was just removed a few days ago."
Konosuke ignored her and went straight to the second floor.
"Mr. Uozu called just now."
When Konosuke, who was walking to the stairs, heard her words, he stopped and asked, "That's the young man who climbed the mountain, isn't he?"
"Yes, he said he would come to our house right away."
"It's not convenient for him to come. I'm not at home."
"Ouch! Didn't you say that you stayed at home all day today?"
"Well, no, I still have to go to the company."
"He said he would be there in forty minutes."
"I'm going out right away."
"Can't you wait? Wait three to forty minutes."
"can not wait."
"But he came here on purpose!"
"Whether he came on purpose or not, I have something urgent."
"Didn't you say you don't have to go?"
"I thought that way in the morning, but now it's changed."
"Evil-hearted!" Minazi froze for a moment after saying it.Since marrying Konnosuke, the relationship between the two has never been so opposed as it is today.
Minako realizes that her current feelings towards her husband are worthy of being called "hate".She had never felt any resentment towards her husband before.There was once a relationship with Kosaka in the past, but the reason was not because of a rift in her feelings for her husband or because she disliked her husband.
Minako stood still, dumbfounded by her state of mind.But she wasn't just surprised that she had such feelings. It can be said that her husband Konnosuke also had the same emotions.She thought that Jiaozhisuke must be hating herself at this moment.Of course, Kyonosuke didn't suddenly want to go to the company because he heard about Uozu's visit, Minako knew this very well.She knew that it was only because of the name Uojin that the conversation between the two sparked.Even so, she still thinks that Konnosuke's feelings towards her now can be called hatred.
Konosuke stared at Minako with indifference, and Minako stared at her husband the same way.For an extremely brief moment, neither of them took their eyes off the other's face.
It was Minako who just looked away. "Okay then, Mr. Yuzu is here, I'll tell him that you have something urgent to go out."
Instead of answering her, Kyonosuke ordered, "Call me a car." After that, instead of going upstairs, he walked along the corridor to the room with the large wardrobe.
Minako followed her husband into the room, opened the closet door, took out her suit and handed it to her husband.Then she called the maid: "Chun Zhi!" When Chun Zhi came, she ordered: "Call me a car right away."
While Konosuke was wearing a suit, Minako looked out at the yard through the glass window.The young green leaves on the trees in the yard thickened rapidly during these four or five days, and looked like a ball of green, flickering in the sweltering sunlight.Behind it is a cloudless sky.Looking at the yard through the glass window, it seems that it is not late spring, but early summer.
Minako turned her gaze to her husband.Konosuke was putting on a shirt on his skinny body and tucking the hem of the shirt into the waistband of his thin trousers.A slender neck was exposed from the collar of the shirt that hadn't been tied with a tie, and his Adam's apple was quivering up and down.
"I won't be back until evening." Kinnosuke sulked, as if announcing something.
"Where's the food?" Minako asked.
"Maybe go home and eat."
Minako turned her eyes to the garden again.At this moment, Minako suddenly had a strong desire, as if it was all for fighting her husband.She longed for a powerful force that could hug herself tightly and make her breathless. This was the desire that hit her the moment she felt her husband hated her.
Minako stared at the green leaves, her whole body trembling slightly.
As soon as the car arrived, Minako sent Konosuke to the gate.
"What's the matter with him?" he said, pausing.So the two stood face to face again between the main door and the main door.What Kyonosuke asked was about Uozu.
"Accordingly, he has nothing to say to me." The subtext is: "As for you, I don't know."
"It is said that I will go to Hodaka Mountain to collect the corpse in the near future, and at the same time go to the scene of the accident, so I would like to ask you what you want to verify..."
Kennosuke interrupted her: "Ask me? I don't worry about that incident anymore. I have neither interest nor time. If you ask me what to verify, my answer is no. Could it be that he Think I'll do the experiment again?"
"I think it may be. Mr. Uozu is in a difficult situation, so I want to use conditions that are closer to the actual situation..."
"What conditions are close to the actual situation! No! Experiments are always carried out under specific conditions." Konosuke said and started to walk two or three steps forward before stopping.
"What on earth are you thinking? I don't think the climbing rope will break so easily."
"So, you mean Uozu cut it?"
"There won't be a third party to cut it off."
"Ouch!" Minazi uttered a short cry, "I don't think he is that kind of person, and he would never do that kind of thing."
Hearing what Minako said, Konosuke stared at her calmly: "So, did Kosaka-kun cut it off? Did he commit suicide because of a broken relationship?" This tone was like a final showdown: I know everything!Mina's expression became serious, and she stood silent.
"I don't think so, though. It's fine to assume that the young man committed suicide, but the reason for his suicide..."
Minako looked up at Konnosuke's expression.At this time, Minako felt that the face of Kennosuke was the scariest in the world.Although Jiaozhisuke didn't say everything, Minako understood what he wanted to say.He might want to say that the reason for Kosaka's suicide was related to Uozu.
Konnosuke seemed to take back what he said just now, and said with a low smile, "I just said that if it's a detective novel, you can make all kinds of assumptions. I'm joking." After finishing speaking, he got into the car .
Minazi saw that his expression was extremely calm.After the car drove away, Minazi was still dumbfounded.
It was the first time Minako realized that Konosuke was jealous.
Kosaka Otohiko had sent him letters, called him, or visited him, more than once or twice, but Konnosuke had never said a single sarcastic word about Kosaka to himself.But why, when Uozu was mentioned, did he express to himself such a sharp attitude that he had not expressed on the Kosaka issue?Could it be that when I mentioned the name Yujin, there was something abnormal in my tone or expression?
Regardless of these, it is now obvious that Jiaozhisuke does not like Yu Chun.Minako didn't go into the house, but went straight into the garden.The husband believes that the responsibility for the incident lies with Uozu.Looking at him like that, he might even think that it was Uozu who cut the climbing rope.Even if Uozu did not cut it off, but Kosaka Otohiko committed suicide, he might think that it was Uozu.So what is the reason?
Thinking of this, Minazi felt his head swell.An impulsive emotion was driving her to squat down immediately.I don't know where the plane dived, and there was a violent whistling sound.She looked up at the sky, only to see that the sun was shining brightly in the blue sky, and there was no sign of the plane in the blue sky covered with a layer of silvery white ocean.
Minako wanted to do something but stopped.In her dream, Yujin grabbed her body with both hands and shook her violently.The same feeling then came back to her shoulders and arms now.The sun was still shining on the green lawn, and the roar of the plane came from nowhere.
Harue walked across the lawn and said, "Mr. Uozu is here."
Hearing this voice, Minazi really wanted to escape from this place immediately.
"Come right away, invite him into the house." Minazi walked towards the kitchen at the back of the house instead of the main entrance.She felt restless, which she had never felt before when Kosaka visited.
Minako walked into the reception room where Uojin was waiting. It seemed that she was more depressed than usual. Not only did she look like this, but in fact her mood was indeed depressed.She felt that she was one of the few unfortunate women in the world.
"I'm sorry, after you called, there was a sudden emergency at the company, and my husband just went out." Minako and Yuzu sat down face to face, and said so.
"Really. I'll call earlier and come earlier." Yujin showed a disappointed look. "Then, I'll visit his company." He said, about to stand up.
It happened that Chunzhi came in with tea, Yujin still took a sip before standing up.Mina only needs to say a word or two to keep him, but for some reason, she can't say it.
"You came here on purpose, I'm so sorry." She walked Yujin to the main entrance and watched him put on his shoes.At this time, thinking that it would not be good for Uozu to go see Konosuke like this, he said, "I'll give you a ride."
She went down to the place where she took off her shoes, and went out the front door before Yujin.
When he walked to the gate, Yujin said "goodbye" and wanted to break up.Kemei Nazi said, "I'll take you to the station. I feel more comfortable going outside." As he spoke, he and Yujin walked forward together.Along the road they walked together the night they first met, the two walked in opposite directions to the station.
"When are you going up the mountain?"
"I plan to leave in four or five days."
"Is there still snow?"
"Probably not in Kamikochi area, but of course there are still in the mountains."
After talking about this for a few words, Minazi changed his mind and said, "I think you'd better not go to my husband."
"Why?" Yujin asked in surprise.
"Perhaps you know that my husband is a very eccentric person. I think he has let go of the experiment with the climbing rope and will not touch it again. I just told him what you said on the phone At that time, he said something like this—I hope that the experiment will not be mentioned again in the future.”
"Oh..." Yujin showed a slightly painful expression. "It's no wonder Mr. Hitodai. I would be bored if it were different. This is a troublesome and troublesome question." Then he said thoughtfully: "So it is like this."
The road turned at a corner where many large houses lined up, and went straight to the station.
"Then I won't visit him at the company."
"However, in this way, you will have difficulties, right?"
"It's difficult, to some extent. However, there is always a way. I'm going to the site this time. I think I can redo the test under more accurate conditions. Mr. Yatsushiro now denies that the nylon climbing rope will break. I thought I could ask him to use his own experiments to overthrow this conclusion."
Yujin looked gloomy, and Minako watched from the side, feeling unbearably heartbroken.
Minako slowed down as she began to see some buildings of the station. She felt that she still had a lot to say to this young man.
At this time, Uozu suddenly stopped and said, "This time up the mountain, if you find Kosaka's body, I think your worries will be eliminated."
"You said that what I'm worried about is..." Minako asked him back.
"Don't you think that Kosaka committed suicide because of you? I think at least this problem can be solved. Just for this alone, it is worth going up the mountain this time. This way it may be clear that this incident has nothing to do with you. "
The place where the two of them were standing happened to be under a big cherry tree whose green leaves were beginning to bloom, so Minako felt that Uozu's face was extremely pale.
Minako was a little dissatisfied with Uozu's words: it is regrettable that he understood his own view of the incident in this way.
"Yes, if it is confirmed that Kosaka did not commit suicide, I will feel better. However, I am not worried about this, even if Mr. Kosaka committed suicide for me. I am not afraid. Although I looked at Mr. Kosaka, but at that time That's all I can do, there's no other way."
When Minako said this, she paused for a while, looked up at Uozu, and then continued: "I'm afraid that this incident will bring you disaster. If so, I will be very painful. The relationship between me and Mr. Kosaka is very important. It's a scandal anyway. If you deny the possibility of Mr. Kosaka's suicide in the first place in order to cover it up for us, I don't feel comfortable. My current mood is that, instead of doing that, it would be better to put my It’s better when things are out in the open.”
Minako felt that she hadn't said enough.She was agitated by the difficulty of fully expressing her state of mind to the other party.
At this time, Uozu said: "I have already said last time that I cannot imagine that Kosaka will commit suicide. This point will be clear when I go up the mountain this time. Let's not talk about it for now. I have one thing I would like to advise you, I don't think you need to tell Kosaka's sister about your feelings for Kosaka or your relationship with him."
"If I don't speak, how can I speak?"
"Kosaka's younger sister has noticed something. I think your aloofness is superfluous."
Strangely, Uozu's criticism stretched Minako's heart.They continued to walk slowly towards the station.
When she arrived at the station, Minako realized that she had nothing to talk about to keep Uozu, and felt very sorry for not being able to help this young man.
Finally, Uojin said, "I'll call you as soon as I get off the mountain."
"Excellent! I'll wait. You said you'd go up the mountain in four or five days, didn't you?"
"Maybe. I can leave at any time. But the people who travel with me all have their own jobs."
"Are all the people in the company mountaineering?"
"They are all people who worked hard together on the mountain before. And Kosaka's younger sister."
"Ah! She's going too?"
In order to unearth his brother's body, his younger sister Axin went with him. It was nothing surprising, but Minazi felt somewhat at a loss, as if something unexpected happened suddenly before her eyes.
"Can women climb mountains too?"
"can!"
"The scene is not a simple place, is it?"
"It's difficult to get to the scene. You may have to ask her to wait at the Deze Inn or nearby." Then Uojin said "goodbye" and nodded slightly to say goodbye.
"Please be careful all the way!"
Uozu's figure disappeared beyond the ticket booth.Minako went back the same way.I didn't feel it just now, but now that Yu Ran is alone, I suddenly feel that the dry road is full of dust, which makes people uneasy.
Minazi returned home, walked into the reception room, and sat blankly on the chair she had sat in before, not wanting to do anything, and her whole body fell into a strange dilemma.
Harue probably didn't know that the hostess had returned, humming something similar to a pop song in the kitchen.The crisp and clear singing is sometimes interrupted by the sound of running water, but it comes again after a while.
It was the first time Minazi heard Chun Zhi sing, and the clear and bright voice knew it was the girl's singing.But when and where did she learn this song?
"Chunzhi!" Minazi came to the corridor and called out, clapping her hands again, afraid that she would not hear her.The singing stopped immediately.After a while, Harue came.
"you are back."
"You sing really well!"
"Oh!" Chun Zhi was at a loss.
Minazi looked at her maliciously and said, "Teach me—the song just now."
"I won't."
"Weren't you singing just now?"
"But, I won't."
"Isn't it love, love or something?"
Seeing Chunzhi's face turn red, Minazi remembered that Ah Xin had blushed like this last time, so she said in a mean tone: "Is it like talking! Sing pop songs at home."
On this day, when Konosuke returned home, it was past nine o'clock.
"Is there a banquet?" Minako asked him at the main entrance.
"No, I'm having dinner with the young guy from the research institute." Kinnosuke answered while taking off his shoes.
"The family also cooked good dishes for you. Because you didn't call to let me know."
"I called. I called as soon as I arrived at the company, but you weren't here." After finishing speaking, Kennosuke followed his usual habit after drinking, walked into the reception room, lay down on the sofa and called, "Water!" Then loosen the tie.
Minako guessed that when her husband called, she might be delivering Uojin to the station.In order to pour water for Konosuke, she walked into the kitchen, saw Harue sitting on a chair in the corner, reading a magazine, and asked, "Did you call today, sir?"
Chunzhi hurriedly replied as if just now remembering, "I've been here before. I forgot."
"It's nothing. What he said on the phone."
"He wants me to be called Mrs."
"what do you say?"
"You were not here, so I replied that I might have gone to see off the guests."
"Didn't you tell me about dinner?"
"I said so." Chun Zhi showed a pitiful expression.The hostess never reprimanded others, but today she was reprimanded for singing popular songs, probably because of this.Trained her unconscious.
When Minako returned to the reception room with a glass filled with water, Konnosuke had already taken off his shirt, and seemed to be thinking about something, leaning against the back of the sofa chair with his head held high.
"It's quite like a summer night."
"It's hot, do you want to open the window?".
"No, I wanted to drive it, but it would make me feel cold."
No matter how hot it was, Konnosuke might catch a cold when exposed to the cold night air.
Minako thought, since Jiaozhisuke knew that he had given Uozu, he had to mention Uozu. "Mr. Uozu said he was going to the scene of this incident. If only you could tell him what to investigate."
"There's nothing to tell. I want to ask him."
"What do you want to ask?"
Konosuke didn't answer, but stood up after drinking the water in the glass, and went to take a shower.
On May 5, in order to find Kosaka's body, Uozu and Axin left Tokyo for Kamikochi.Two days ago, six seniors from the Mountain Club who had worked hard on the mountain with Kosaka and Uozu in college came to Kamikochi first.Uozu had originally planned to set off with them, but had to postpone it for two days in order to raise funds to be used after arriving at the scene.
That's quite a lot of money.Needless to say, for this expense, Kosaka's mother sent money to Ah Xin, but Uozu worried that it would not be enough.Later, he went to two sports equipment stores that he had been friends with since he was a student, explained the reason, and borrowed money to make up the expenses.
On the morning of departure, in order to catch the express train leaving Shinjuku Station at 8:10, Uozu carried the heavy rucksack that he hadn't carried for a long time, and left the apartment with a climbing pick in his hand.This is the first time for Kosaka to go up the mountain.
Walking onto the platform of Shinjuku Station, I quickly found Axin in the crowd wearing black pants and a white top.In order to grab the seats for the two of them, Ah Xin came thirty minutes early.
The two sat face to face on the window seat in the middle of the third-class carriage.As soon as the train started, Ah Xin got busy for Yujin who hadn't had breakfast yet, taking out sandwiches for a while, and pouring the tea from the thermos into a small cup for a while.Seeing Ah Xin's busyness through the light coming in from the window, Yujin felt that she was so happy and cheerful. Perhaps no one would have thought that she was the girl who went to dig up her brother's body.
It has been five months since the accident happened, so even though the purpose of this trip was to discover his friend's body, Yujin's mood is not so gloomy at the moment.He even felt a fever in his heart, as if he was going to meet a friend who had lived in seclusion in the mountains for a long time.
After the train entered Yamanashi County, I saw the villages on both sides of the railway, erected everywhere.It is called a carp banner, but in fact very few of them are actually made into the shape of a carp. Most of them are in the shape of banners that military generals put on their backs during wars in ancient times.This custom makes people feel that this is the ancient base of Kai Kingdom after all.
Uozu has been in depression every day since he experimented with nylon climbing ropes, and now he feels freed from that depression for the first time.Right now, I am approaching the snowfield of Mt. Hotaka, where my friend is sleeping, every minute.When I think of this, I feel numb all over my body like an electric shock.
"From Matsumoto to Kamikochi, let's go by car. We'll go to Tokuzawa Inn today."
Ah Xin asked; "From Kamikochi to the Deze Inn, the road is difficult."
"There is no snow anymore, and you can walk there in two hours."
"Where there is snow, I'm not afraid. It might be impossible without snow. I'm so stupid to walk. I'm ashamed to see you."
Yujin thought to himself: Strange thing!How could this be embarrassing.
Arriving in Matsumoto at two o'clock in the afternoon, the two immediately hailed a taxi in front of the station and drove to Kamikochi.
When the car drove out of the urban area, there were apple orchards on both sides of the road, and white flowers could already be seen on the trees, which made people feel that they had come to the Shinano area in May.
"Ah, the double-flowered cherry blossoms are blooming!" Hearing Ah Xin's yell, she looked out the window, and found that there were heavy red flowers that were slightly withered on the double-flowered cherry tree next to a farmer's house.
It was the first time for Ah Xin to come to the Shinano area in this season, so everything in front of her eyes might make her feel strange, so she kept looking out the window.And from time to time, she yelled shortly: "Ah, Ditang flower!" "Ah, wisteria!" "Ah, Mulan!" and Mulan.Ah Xin's crisp, short shouts were so charming that Yujin had to do this.
"This is the Azusa River." When the water of the Azusa River appeared on the right side of the train for the first time, Yujin pointed it out to Ah Xin.
"Yo! This is the most beautiful river in Japan, isn't it?"
"I don't know if it's the most beautiful in Japan, but it's beautiful."
"My brother said it was the most beautiful river in Japan. When I was a child, my brother taught me several times, so I just believed it."
"So, education is scary!" Uojin said with a smile.
"Ah!" Ah Xin made a staring look, and then said, "My brother taught me another number one in Japan."
"What is it?"
"That can't be said." With a smile on her face, Ah Xin looked away from Yujin and turned to the window.
"Can't tell?"
"Ok."
"why?"
"No reason." Ah Xin laughed as if it was ridiculous.
"Does it mean that I am the top mountaineer in Japan?"
When Uozu said this, she let out a surprised "Oh", and then clearly denied "no", and then said: "You are the top mountaineering athlete in Japan, the top is the top, but he said you are still young. "
"You say I'm a seedling?"
"Isn't it? At that time, I was still young!"
From her expression of explaining solemnly, Uojin found that she was very pure and focused, just like her brother Kosaka.
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