Chapter 8 Section VII

Mother brings tea.It seems that the boiling water has just been boiled, and the cup is steaming. "The girl is often taken care of by you." The thin mother bowed her head, making her look more and more like a dwarf. "where!" Heitaro raised his hand and touched his face.Being thanked in person like this made him feel a little embarrassed. "I'm sorry to disturb you in the middle of the night. Wenzi came back late, I wonder if he's already back?" At this time, he explicitly used the title "Wenzi".Heitaro called her "Miss" when he first met her.Later, she was called "Wen Zijun", but now she is called by her first name.The change of this appellation reflects the evolution of Heitaro's position in the family's economy.

"No," my mother was a little surprised, "I'm still with Changcun-kun." Heitaro grimaced. The meaning of what mother said was that Heitaro and Fumiko spent the night in Atami together last night.In this family, the relationship between Fumiko and Heitaro is recognized.Regarding Wenzi's delay in returning tonight, the mother may think that the girl will continue to be with Heitaro after last night. "So that's the case. But, I broke up with Wenzi before ten o'clock this morning... Where did she go?" Mother watched Heitaro's expression. "That kid, who is keen on drawing all day long, did he attend an ink painting meeting and won't come back for a while?"

The mother replied as if explaining to the girl. "She said she was going to visit the exhibition from the teacher's house, but the exhibition won't be open until now!" Just as Heitaro said this in a slightly sarcastic tone, there was a dry cough, and the paper door was pulled open. A skinny old man walked in stooping.His crew cut was all white, his eyes were deep-set, his cheekbones were prominent, and the skin on his wrinkled neck was sagging.This is His Excellency Kuai Tedaro, former Lieutenant General of the Army. "Sorry." Wenzi's father seemed to have changed into a kimono on purpose, dressed plainly and elegantly, and sat down with his knees bent.

"Tell you." Mother lost no time and said from the side, "It turns out that Wenzi is not with Changcun-kun tonight, and Changcun-kun is worried, so he came here." "yes?" General Yuan Zhong squinted his eyes and scratched his face with one hand. "I'm really sorry for making you worry." He lowered his head to Heitaro while saying that, "But Fumiko will never make a mistake, and she will be back in a while." Father made a deliberate gesture of composure. "Tell you, it's past one o'clock!" Mother understood Heitaro's mood and said as if explaining it for him, "I've never been so late before."

"Where. In an event like a gathering, after the scheduled content is over, people who like you will still talk together! You don't have to worry so much." "Isn't that right? It takes nearly an hour to get here by car from the city center. Even if you leave Ginza at twelve o'clock, it will be one o'clock before you get back here." Mother's gaze flicked back and forth across Father Heitaro's face. "Wenzi doesn't know how to drink, I don't think she will last until twelve o'clock." Heitaro's voice was filled with displeasure.

"Yes." Mother nodded, "I said old man, if it's not done well, maybe there was a traffic accident." "Nonsense! If that's the case, the family will get a call." Heitaro couldn't help becoming anxious. "Old man!" He called Wenzi's mother, and then said, "Excuse me, can you show me Wenzi's room?" "what!" There was anxiety in the mother's eyes.She became more and more afraid of Heitaro's unusual displeasure.However, in front of the old man who was sitting dazedly, she tried her best to restrain herself.

"Didn't Changcun-kun say it, take him there!" The father ordered, not without regret. Mother walked in front of Heitaro.Even if no one is in charge, Heitaro knows the layout of the room in this family as well as his own. At the end of the corridor is Wenzi's room, which has been transformed into a Western-style room according to her intention.Therefore, the paper door was replaced by the Qinggang wooden door. The modification fee of the room was also paid by Heitaro.This is because when Heitaro came here to play, he always felt that the paper door was not ideal.This room has been remodeled as if it had been individually remodeled in the entire building.

This Western-style room was remodeled from the original eight-mat room, and none of the furnishings in it were purchased by Heitaro.Under the light that my mother had just turned on, the large wardrobe, the middle cabinet, the table, the chair, the bookshelf, the display rack with various dolls, the three-sided mirror beside it, and the bed all shone brightly. Heitaro inspected the furniture one by one.At this moment, he was doubting: besides the furniture I bought, did I add anything else? Heitaro walked to the big wardrobe and reached out to open the door, but it didn't open because it was locked.The same is true for the cabinet.The mother watched Heitaro's examination anxiously.

"Old man!" he said, "Did Wenzi buy new clothes recently?" "No." Mother shook her head immediately.She seemed to have read Heitaro's mind, and was determined to try her best to clear up his misunderstanding. "This kid only has the clothes and things you bought him." Heitaro walked out of the room silently.All the cabinets were locked, so the mother's story could not be verified. There is also a converted room in this home.It was a Japanese-style room with six mats, and it was mainly used by Fumiko for painting.Therefore, in order to maintain the atmosphere of painting, a dignified and elegant Japanese decoration was adopted.

Mother turned on the light in that room. Paintings pasted with antique brocade, elegant alcoves, antique display racks with lacquered inkstone boxes, ebony tables, and red felt on tatami mats are all given by Heitaro at the request of Wenzi. bought. "Old man, please open the closet!" Frightened by Heitaro's tone, mother complied.There are picture posts, photo albums, etc. piled up in the closet.In addition, there are many rice papers placed inside one by one. It is impossible to hide Fumiko's secrets in these places - Heitaro bit his lip. From Front Street came the sound of cars parking.Both Heitaro and his mother listened carefully in astonishment, but the sound of footsteps getting off the car entered the opposite yard.

"It seems that Fumiko is going to live outside tonight." Hearing Heitaro's thorny words, the mother almost cried. Heitaro walks out of Fumiko's house.Mother followed behind and explained in a rambling manner. Heitaro was still looking at the road at this time, staring at the passing vehicles.I always feel that one of them will stop in front of me soon.This feeling made him stand there for thirty minutes in vain. Finally he gave up and walked helplessly to his home.Fumiko and Ichizawa Yusuke's wanton ugliness appeared again and again in his mind, and he was familiar with every part of Fumiko's body, so this kind of imagination was strangely real.He was nearly driven mad by his own fantasies.If you know where they are.He wanted to jump in an empty taxi passing by and fly there immediately.Not knowing the other party's whereabouts made it impossible to calm down the raging waves of emotion in his chest. He entered his house, and first ran to the kitchen to drink some water.The whole house was silent. Heitaro entered the room in the dark, wanting to fall asleep immediately.However, the nervous excitement piled up to sleep soundly.In order to calm down, he wanted to read the unfinished evening paper, so he turned on the light casually. His wife, Sadako, lay beside him.Maybe it was because she felt the light of the electric light, or maybe she hadn't slept at all and waited all this time, she suddenly lifted the quilt and turned her face. Heitaro was surprised.The look in his wife's eyes showed that she had seen through her actions. Heitaro looked at the newspaper pretendingly. "You!" Shouted Sadako, her eyes glaring fiercely, "Where are you going?" Heitaro looked indifferent. "Walk around for a while." "Hmph, did you go to that woman next door again?" Heitaro ignored her, threw away the newspaper, turned off the light, and got under the covers. "You want to lie to me, but you can't. Why did you go to the next door just now?" In the darkness, Zhenyu's voice was aggressive. "You're talking! Is it okay if you don't make a sound?" Heitaro turned over on the bed without answering. "You really have the audacity to go to that woman in the middle of the night! You think I don't know anything, so you want to get away with it! Tell you, I know everything!" The wife's tone suddenly changed, with crying. "What did you say that the relationship is broken, and no longer come and go. I just pick up beautiful words, but on the other hand, I still keep in touch with each other secretly. A lot of age! It's too shameful to use a young girl from the neighbor's house as a concubine! Actually, You've been fooled. So far, you've spent countless dollars on this woman!" Suddenly Sadako yelled "I'm so unlucky!" and burst into tears like an animal roaring. "so annoying!" Heitaro scolded angrily. "What are you talking about! I went to the next door, not to see Wenzi. Don't be suspicious! Go to bed honestly!" "Then... why are you going to the next door at this late hour like a cat smelling fish?" The wife said while crying. "Don't do anything, just go wherever you want. You're the only one to blame. You're spying on Lao Tzu's actions in the middle of the night! How can there be such a dark-hearted woman like you!" "Isn't it just that I made a little more money? What's the big deal! I'm not ashamed at all if I grab the young girl next door!" It's common for these two couples to be so noisy.The wife's crying continued for a while.Heitaro didn't punch or kick Sadako tonight, so the row wasn't serious.On one occasion, Heitaro pushed his entangled wife to the ground, grabbed her by the hair, and kicked her into the yard.At that time, the neighbors peeped here through the crack of the door.This is when Heitaro started having a relationship with Fumiko. However, Heitaro has been less violent recently.Sadako's feelings have also changed; half of despair, half of jealousy.When he was disturbed by frequent noises before, Heitaro once said that he had broken up with Fumiko.Of course his wife didn't believe it. Sadako often abused Wenzi's parents viciously, and even yelled at Wenzi's family more than once: "Your family hugged together and lied to my husband's money!" Sadako also peeked through the wall every day to monitor the actions of Wenzi's family. . Wenzi's house planted dense pine trees along the wall, also because of the fear of Sadako's surveillance.Of course, there is also the wisdom of Heitaro. His wife's crying finally stopped, but Heitaro still couldn't fall asleep. The fatigue of the day made Heitaro's mind in a trance, and in this dream, not a dream, half awake, the shadows of Fumiko and Ichisawa Yusuke emerged again. "You bastard, torture me like this!" Cursing, Heitaro clenched his fists in the darkness. "I have to call that woman over tomorrow, and I'll give you a hard fight. How dare you stay outside tonight!" This time she must be told to tell the truth.Then, depending on the situation, go to Shi Zeyongliang and scold him for being a bloody sprinkler!What old Chinese, what celebrities, go to hell!I'm not polite to a bastard who takes away other people's women!No matter how great he is, he must be stripped of his painting skin in public! ——Heitaro could only use this kind of scolding to comfort himself a little. In a daze, he opened his eyes again.There is a faint light coming in from the cracks in the rain, and the sky is already bright.But judging from the morning light, it was still early. Looking around, Sadako may have fallen asleep crying.Mouth was open and head was off the pillow.Heitaro gently got up from the bed. He took off his pajamas as quietly as possible, put on pants and a jacket, and tiptoed out of the house. He forgot to bring his watch because he was in a hurry, but he saw that the milkman was delivering milk bottles that collided with each other from door to door, and it was estimated to be around six o'clock or half past six.The rising sun has not yet appeared on the horizon. Heitaro looked up at the roof of Fumiko's house through the wall, thinking that Fumiko who had tortured him all night lived in that house, so he really wanted to go up and set a fire.I don't know how much money I have poured into her.Items and banknotes dangled in front of Heitaro's eyes. Last night, after returning from Wenzi's house, she did not hear the sound of a taxi stopping, so it is certain that she did not return all night.Perhaps because he didn't sleep well last night, he felt his heart beating faster, and his head sank as if an iron hoop had been added. What flashed past his bloodshot eyes were figures hurrying to the morning shift.People have a peaceful and serene expression.Heitaro thought that if he didn't have Fumiko, he would be able to be at ease.He gritted his teeth with hatred for Wenzi who had betrayed him, and killed him quickly. She patronizes her own future and plans to use this man, Shi ZeYongRyo, to become famous and start a family.It was impossible for her to dedicate her love to such an old man, and that old man only saw her young and beautiful.In order to pull her from the abyss of poverty to where she is today, I have gone through untold hardships, but this woman will trample on her efforts like a mustard.