Chapter 9 Chapter VII

I lay on the bed without moving, pretending I didn't hear A Kai's words, I was too lazy to get up and adjust the sound, and sat on the bed to cut my nails.Suzuko and Okinawa spread the blankets on the kitchen floor and slept soundly on their stomachs. "I'm not just referring to the hickey, that's not the problem. I'm saying we should comfort each other and be considerate of each other. We live on a different level from the philistines in society." Kazuo wiped his feet and asked, "Ryoko, what do you mean, who is a vulgar guy?" Liangzi didn't look at Kazuo at all, and just whispered: "It has nothing to do with you."

The smell of pineapple still lingers on my nails.Something seemed to be stuck on the neck, and when I moved the pillow away, it turned out that Moka's bra was stuck on the bed. The embroidered bra with wire hoop still smelled of washing powder. I put it in the closet and threw the nail clippings on the balcony.In the courtyard of the hospital, a woman was walking with a shepherd, and people the woman knew greeted and chatted.From here, you can clearly see that when the woman smiles, she covers her mouth. Her teeth are probably painted black like women in the Edo period.The dog barked forward.

"We are inseparable from each other. Now I only have you, my mother is gone. Our enemies are common, and we should help each other as before. We once swam together in the river in Kyoto, do you remember I really want to go back to when we first met. Why do we always quarrel like this, can't we live a good life? Money is not the key issue, don't we always have enough to spend, besides, I can still go to work. Moka told me that in Roppongi you can pick up tables, cabinets, and even cutlery. Then we just paint the furniture." "We can save a lot of money, I have money as soon as I work, and you can have a kitten. Don't you want a gray cat? I'll buy you one. We have to move so we can re- To start, this time rent an apartment with a toilet in the room."

"We can also rent a house and let Moka and Okinawa live with us. There are many small buildings built by the US military with many rooms. In this way, we can hold parties every day. The foreigners that Aaron knows are planning to sell A car, I will buy it, and then I will take a driver's license test, and then we can go for a drive on the beach. How interesting, Ah Kai, what do you think." "When my mother died, I was not indifferent to you. You have to understand my feelings. Anyway, now that my mother is gone, I only have you. Okay, let's start from the beginning."

"Please understand me, okay, Kai." Liangzi wanted to touch Ah Kai's face, but Ah Kai pushed his hand away resentfully, lowered his head and smiled and said: "Look at you talking as if it's true, you're so thick-skinned. What have I to do with your mother, I don't know your mother. When I'm with you, I always loathe myself. I feel so miserable and I don't want to go on like this." When Ryoko spoke, Kazuo covered his mouth desperately to keep from laughing.He and I looked at each other, and when Ah Kai complained, he couldn't help laughing.

"Ryoko, how about this, if you have something to say to me, just redeem my necklace from the pawn shop first. It was given to me by my father, so return it to me first." Ah Kai started to cry, his face twitching.Kazuo stopped laughing. Liangzi said, "Why are you doing this? You agreed to pawn. You said you were going to buy medicine, but you suggested selling it first." Akai wiped his tears and said: "Stop talking, you are this kind of person. You probably don't know, I was crying all the time afterwards, and you were still singing when I came back." "Don't cry, I will redeem it for you right away, I will have money as soon as I work, don't cry."

Ah Kai had a runny nose and tears, no matter what Liangzi said, he ignored him.Said to Hefu: "Let's go out for a while." Hefu pointed to his legs and said that he was too tired to move. "Aaron, let's go to the roof. You can play the flute for us later, okay?" Akai said. After the door was closed, Liangzi called Ah Kai loudly, but there was no reply from Ah Kai. Okinawa's face was pale, and he made three cups of coffee and brought them over, shaking his hands so much that he spilled the coffee on the carpet. "Ryoko, let's have a cup of coffee, you are so sympathetic. Whatever she does, what can she do, come, give you coffee."

Okinawa handed the coffee to Ryoko, but Ryoko refused, and Okinawa muttered: "It's up to you." Liangzi sighed listlessly against the wall, as if hesitating to speak. Suzuko was lying on the kitchen floor.She lay there like a dog with her legs spread out, twitching her body now and then. Yoshiko glanced at us and stood up, wanting to go out.He looked at Suzuko, took a few sips of raw water from the tap, and opened the door. I stopped him: "Hey, Ryoko, don't go, stay here." He ignored me and closed the door. Okinawa smacked his lips with a wry smile and said: "Those two people are hopeless. Ryoko doesn't understand this, stupid ass. Aaron, can you take heroin? It's pretty good. I still have a little bit here."

"Stop playing, I'm a little tired today." "Yes, are you going to practice the flute?" "It never blows." "Aren't you going to rely on it for food in the future?" "Who knows what will happen in the future, anyway, I don't want to brag now. I'm not interested." I listen to records from Okinawa. "Why are you so lazy?" "No." "I saw Kurokawa a few days ago, and that guy said he was desperate right now. I couldn't understand what he was trying to say. He went to Algeria and joined the guerrillas there, unlike people like me who just talk but don't do anything .Do you think differently from him?"

"Kurokawa? I'm different from him. I just feel that I don't understand anything, I don't understand anything. I was interesting when I was young, but now I don't understand anything, I don't know anything, so I want to see the world more in the future , a long experience." The Okinawa coffee was too strong to drink, so I added some water. "So, do you want to go to India?" "Why go to India?" "Go to India to increase your knowledge." "Why do you have to go to India? It's not necessary. You can see the world in Japan, and you don't need to go to India,"

"So you've thought about the police department? Trying things out? God knows what you're up to." "Even I don't know what I want to do. But India will never go. I have no place I want to go. Recently, I often look out of the window by myself. Watching the rain, watching the birds, watching the road I can see it for a long time, which is very interesting. That's what I mean by long view. I don't know why, I think those views are very fresh." "Don't say such old-fashioned things, Aaron. I feel that fresh scenery is a sign of aging." "Playing the piano randomly, I'm talking about something else." "That's the thing. You are younger than me, so you don't understand. I think you should learn the flute. You have to do it. Don't associate with a fool like Yoshiko, learn the flute well. Once on my birthday, I remember you It even blew it for me." It was in Suzuko's shop that time. I was very happy and excited when I heard it. It is really hard to describe my mood at that time, it felt so warm.I won't express it, anyway, it's like the feeling of reconciling with someone who has quarreled.At that time, I thought, what a happy guy you are, I really envy you.It was you who made me feel that way.In fact, only you know yourself best.I'm just a useless drug addict who can't stand the pain when he's out of heroin.I sometimes want to kill for the heroin.I feel like there's something there, I mean there should be something between me and the heroin.I was shaking like crazy and wanted to take heroin, but there seemed to be something missing when it was just me and heroin, and I didn't think about anything after the injection.What is missing?I can't tell, anyway, it's not Suzuko, nor mother, but the sound of the flute you played that time.I've been meaning to say that to you.I don't know how you feel when you play the flute, but I get excited immediately, and I've been looking forward to hearing this wonderful sound.Every time I get ready to hit heroin, I think of your flute.I'm finished, my body is rotten, you see, the flesh on my face is so flabby, I can't live long.I don't care when I die, there is nothing worth nostalgic for. " "It's just that I really want to find out what the happy mood was when I listened to the flute. I just want to know what that feeling is. If I figure it out, I might go to detoxification. Don't you believe it. Anyway, You learn the flute. I'll sell the heroin and buy you a good flute." Okinawa's eyes are red.He kept talking over his coffee, a few drops of which spilled onto his underpants. "Buy it for me, Muramatsu's is good." "What did you say?" "Muramatsu is a famous brand of flute. I want the Muramatsu brand." "Is it from Muramatsu, I see. I will give it to you on your birthday. You must play a tune for me then." "Aaron, hurry up and persuade me. I don't want to get involved with those two people. My leg hurts so much." Kazuo pushed Fi in breathlessly, and said, "Liangzi is beating Ah Kai." Okinawa lay motionless on the bed. At this time, A Kai's scream came from the roof.Obviously, it was the howl of pain that could not be restrained when he was beaten by Ou. Kazuo picked up the cup of coffee that was originally for Yoshiko Toru on the table, drank it, then lit a cigarette, began to change the bandage, and said to me: "If you don't hurry up, someone will die. Ryoko is a lunatic!" Okinawa raised his body and said to Kazuo: "Leave them alone, let them have a good fight, it's annoying. Kazuo, how's your leg?" "Oh, I was beaten by that Hibiya guard, it's better not to go there." "Is it broken?" "No. But there are nails on that stick, which must be sterilized. The nails are the most susceptible to infection." On the roof where the clothes were drying, Ryoko grabbed Akai's hair and kicked her in the stomach.Every time Ryoko kicked, Ah Kai groaned in pain. I pulled Liangzi away, and Akai lay on the ground and vomited blood. Liangzi was sweating coldly, and the muscles in his shoulders were stiff. A Kai lay on the bed moaning in pain.Gritting his teeth, he grabbed the quilt to cover the injured part.Suzuko got up unsteadily from the kitchen, and slapped Yoshiko who was crying hard. Kazuo endured the pain to disinfect the wound on his leg, and then applied an unpleasant ointment. Okinawa soaked a piece of ecstasy in boiling water and gave it to Ah Kai to drink. "You are really good, how can you kick her in the stomach? Ryoko, if you beat Akai to death, you are a murderer." Okinawa Ryoko said. "Then I'll die together too." Ryoko said with a bitter face.Hearing this, Kazuo laughed heartily. Lingzi put a towel on Ah Kai's forehead, and wiped away the blood on her face.Look at her belly, it's blue and purple.A Kai said nothing to go to the hospital.Ryoko came over, tears fell on A Kai's belly.Blue veins appeared on Ah Kai's forehead, and he spit out yellow liquid again.The right eye is red and swollen.Suzuko wiped away the blood that spilled between her teeth with a medicated cloth. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Kai!" Ryoko said hoarsely.At this time, Kazuo finished bandaging his wound and said: "I beat someone myself, and I'm sorry, it's too bad." "Go and wash your face." Suzuko pushed Ryoko. "Your face is unbearable, go wash it first." A Kai let go of the hand covering her stomach, Okinawa asked her if she wanted to take heroin, she shook her head, panting and said: "I'm really sorry for bothering everyone and spoiling everyone's happiness. However, it's over at last, and I endured his beating for this." "Where, don't mind, there is nothing to spoil the fun." Okinawa said with a smile. "Akai, please don't say it's over, don't leave me, please, please forgive me, I can do anything for you." Okinawa pushed the weeping Ryoko into the kitchen, "Got it, got it, you go wash your face first." Ryoko nodded, wiped her tears with her cuff, and walked towards the kitchen, there was a sound of rushing water. After a while, Ryoko came out of the kitchen, and Kazuo saw him and yelled.Okinawa shook his head and said, "This guy is hopeless." Suzuko also screamed when she saw it, and closed her eyes tightly.It turned out that Liangzi cut his left wrist, and the blood dripped onto the carpet. Kazuo stood up and shouted, "Aaron, call an ambulance!" Liangzi supported her shaking left hand with her right hand, and said to Akai in a rough voice, "This time you should understand my heart." I was about to call an ambulance, but Ah Kai grabbed my arm and refused to let me go.Akai stood up with Lingzi's support, stared at the bloody Ryoko, then approached him, touched his wound, Ryoko had stopped crying.Ah Kai pulled Liangzi's left wrist to his eyes for a look, opened his swollen lips, and said with difficulty: "Liangzi, let's go to eat now. We haven't had lunch yet. If you want to die, you can die by yourself. It's better to die outside, not here with Aaron." Nurses with bouquets walk down the waxed corridor.The nurse wore only one sock and a bandage on the other foot.A little girl in front of me was shaking her legs boredly. Seeing this bunch of sparkling flowers wrapped in cellophane, she patted the shoulder of a woman who looked like her mother sitting next to her, and whispered: "That bouquet must be expensive." A man with a few magazines in his left hand and a T-shaped crutch in his right walked across the line to buy medicine.His right leg was straight, the ankle was bent inward, and white powder was exposed from the instep of the foot to the nails.Among them, the little finger and ring finger are as ugly as two sarcomas. Next to me sat an old man with a thick bandage around his neck, talking to a woman knitting a sweater opposite him. "They pulled my neck hard." As soon as the old man spoke, the white hair on the temples fluctuated accordingly, his eyes narrowed into a line, and the wrinkles on his face were indistinguishable. He watched the woman knitting a sweater rhythmically hand continued: "Let's not mention the pain. I almost died from the pain. It's really unbearable. I don't know if there are other medical methods that are more suitable for the elderly." Touching his neck, the old man coughed a few times.The thick-necked, dark-skinned woman was knitting, looking at the old man and saying: "You really suffer." The old man smiled when he heard this, stroked his colorfully painted face, and coughed a few times. "Well, I shouldn't be driving at my age, and I won't let my wife drive in the future." A cleaner in a white turban wipes Yoshiko's blood on the ground.The female cleaner hummed a little tune while wiping. "Why, cut your wrists to commit suicide? If you don't die, you are an attempted suicide. However, you shouldn't do it. From the perspective of human body structure, it is not so easy to die. If you are not acting and really want to die, you should cut yourself If you break this place, just below the ears, you'll be dead in no time. It's too late to call an ambulance." The doctor said, examining Yoshiko's wrist.Yoshiko keeps fucking her eyes in the emergency room. The old man with the bandage around his neck said to the cleaner: "Can it be wiped off?" "Wipe while wet, easy to wipe off." "Enough to keep you busy." "nothing." Several children in wheelchairs were playing with a ball in the yard.All three children have thin necks, and a nurse is picking up balls.One of the kids has no hands, he uses his wrist to hit the ball, and every time he hits the ball on the ground, the kid is grinning. "It's too hard to wipe off the blood. I have never fought a war, and I have never seen a scene of bloodshed. I really can't bear to see this blood." The old man said. "I haven't fought a war." The cleaner said, sprinkled some white powder on the indelible blood, knelt on the ground and began to play with a brush. The ball rolled into a puddle and the nurse wiped it dry with a towel. "It is said that it can be wiped off with hydrochloric acid." "Hydrochloric acid can only be used to wash bedpans, if you wipe the floor, the floor will be ruined." The distant leaves swayed in the wind.The nurse puts the ball in front of the child.Many pregnant women with big bellies got off the bus and walked towards the hospital. A young man ran up the stairs with a bouquet of flowers.The woman knitting looks at the man. The cleaner was still humming the tune just now, and the old man who couldn't bend his neck was holding up the newspaper to read. After Ryoko's blood was mixed with white powder, it became a pink foam. "Aaron, I'm really sorry, I want to save money to go to India. I will go to work to earn money, and I won't cause you any more trouble." On the way back from the hospital, Ryoko kept talking.His plastic slippers and toes were stained with blood, and he touched the bandages from time to time.Although his face was pale, he said that the pain was not too bad.The pineapple I threw under the poplar tree was still on the ground, although it was evening, but there was no shadow of the bird. Kazuo was not in the house, and Suzuko said he was back early. "That guy said he admired Yoshiko's courage, this fool actually said such a thing." After Okinawa took the third shot of heroin, he rolled to the floor, and Ah Kai's face had already subsided a little.Yoshiko sat in front of the TV. "The biography of Van Gogh is being played, Aaron should come and watch it too." Ryoko said to me. I asked Suzuko to bring me a cup of coffee, but she ignored her. Liangzi told Akai that he decided to go to India, but Akai just said "really?" .