Chapter 10 chapter Ten

The two sat solemnly in front of Changzi. The thin-haired section chief and the tall, thin, pointed-jawed assistant to the section chief treated Changzi impeccably. Masako bowed deeply to both of them. "Horizawa did such a disgraceful thing this time, and today I came here to express my apology to you." Section Chief Takemura picked up the cigarette and slowly lit it with a lighter. "thanks." As he spoke, he took a puff of cigarette, and Changzi felt that his action of puffing out seemed very rough, maybe it was expressing his current mood. "Ma'am, you're just here to apologize, I really don't dare to take it." As he said that, the section chief glanced at the assistant sitting beside him, "What happened to Horizawa-kun is really embarrassing for us!"

What the headmaster said is beyond reproach.Changzi felt that his tone of voice had also changed, not as cordial as on the phone. Masako didn't expect Section Chief Takemura to be so domineering towards her.But her husband didn't live up to it, so she had to endure it. "I'm really sorry, I'm here to express my apology again." Changzi lowered his head. "Madam, you came here to apologize on purpose, we really don't dare to do it. Noji-kun, don't you think so? Ah! This is the assistant to the section chief, Noto." It was only then that Section Chief Takemura remembered to introduce his subordinates to Masako.

It was only then that Masahiro realized that the feelings of Section Chief Takemura, who Horizawa thought he was intimate with, had nothing more than that for Horizawa. "Ma'am, has there been any news from Horisawa-kun since then?" The section chief sat motionless on the chair, only moving his mouth. "No, there is no news." Changzi still lowered his head. "This is too strange." Said the assistant to the Field Section Chief who was sitting on the side.This person has a broad forehead and wears a pair of glasses. The eyes that shine through the lenses make people feel that he is extremely alert. "I heard that Horizawa-kun ran away with his wife's younger sister."

"No, they didn't go together, it's just that both of them are not at home." Section Chief Takemura remained silent.The assistant to the head of the class glanced at the head of the class. "But that's how it's reported in the newspapers. It's a headache for us. As the person in charge of the agency, we can't shirk our responsibilities!" "yes……" "He not only caused trouble for our agency. He may also make things worse. Ma'am, don't you realize that your sister and Horizawa-kun are so unscrupulous? Ma'am, now report to Daiden Teden , this is a sudden disaster for you, but after all, this is your personal matter, and you can still bear it. Please consider our situation. Our subordinates have become news figures. Think about it, we Can you bear it? The head of the section has already submitted his resignation to the director.”

Section Chief Takemura flicked the ashes into the ashtray, and silently exhaled, his movements extremely quiet.The section chief's silence was obviously putting pressure on Masako without words. The head of the section has submitted his resignation to the director, and this sentence has caused Changzi to suffer a great blow. "I'm really sorry. I didn't know that the competition would cause so much trouble for the section chief." "Ma'am—" the assistant head continued. "Subordinates' indiscretions are not limited to work mistakes. Even if there is a problem with their life style, the boss will be held accountable. Misconduct at work can be dealt with internally and it will be over. And this kind of thing spreads to the society, causing very bad It will affect and damage the reputation of the Economic Planning Department. The section chief is very embarrassing. The section chief has a strong sense of responsibility, so he had to submit his resignation to the director. Of course, the section chief is a talent, and the boss will not just..."

"Hey, hello," the section chief interrupted the assistant section chief's words, "it's still uncertain!" "yes." "Ma'am, my affairs have nothing to do with it. The problem is that I have always trusted and respected Horizawa-kun, but his private life is so indiscreet. Isn't this a revenge for kindness? It is beyond my expectation." "Yes. I'm really sorry." Changzi apologized again. In fact, she really came to apologize.Because the attitude and words of the section chief and the section chief's assistant were much more serious than Chang Zi imagined.There is no human feeling at all here, only to scold Horizawa severely for fear of causing trouble.

"Ma'am, it's been a long time since the incident happened. Maybe Horizawa committed suicide, and he's already turned into a pile of bones by now!" The head of the class said half-jokingly, how cruel these words are! Changzi walked towards the back door of the government hall, her mood was extremely gloomy.Because of her husband's indiscretion, she came to apologize to the section chief, never expecting to be so insulted. In the long corridor of the yamen, people come and go busily, just like the street. No one noticed Changzi walking with his head down, everyone was busy with his own business.Among them are high-spirited officials.This expression was exactly that of Horizawa yesterday.He is full of confidence in his work and dreams of soaring to the top.

At that time, Masako hated her husband's attitude.Now, instead, she sympathized with her husband.Especially after listening to the words of the section chief, I felt very disgusted, which deepened my sympathy for my husband. The head of the section only thinks about himself and does not consider others. Fearing that his subordinates' indiscretions will affect his status, he voluntarily tendered his resignation.He was afraid that Horizawa's accident would affect his fortune. Changzi was walking in the corridor when he suddenly heard footsteps coming up from behind.Changzi didn't expect that the footsteps were coming towards him, so he didn't mind at all.Then someone called her:

"Mrs!" Changzi stopped in his tracks.Looking back, it was still the assistant to the head of the class, his eyes were looking at her slyly through the lens, without even a smile. Changzi saluted him. "I'll be rude tomorrow." said the assistant to the Field Section Chief. Masako knew he must have something to ask. "Madam, are you still living in the old apartment?" "No, I'm moving." "Where to move?" Only then did Masako realize that Horizawa's work unit had not been notified of the new address before the move. "Please tell me your current address."

Changzi said his current address, and the assistant to the Field Section Chief hurriedly took out his notebook and wrote it down. "Madam, who do you live with?" "No, just me." "Only you?" he asked again. From the eyes of the head assistant, it seemed that he was interested in this.Masako was very unhappy. "excuse me." Masako bowed slightly to him.She noticed that the eyes of the assistant head of the field department were completely different from those in the reception room just now. Changzi hurried down the stone steps. "Mrs!"

Someone called her from behind. Changzi looked back and saw a strange man standing there. The man had long hair and wore wide-rimmed glasses.Seeing Changzi, he smiled and bowed to her. Changzi was in a dilemma and didn't know what to do. "I bothered you last time." Masako couldn't remember where he had seen it.At first I thought the other party had made a mistake. Seeing that Changzi was puzzled, the other party said his name first. "I'm Morimoto from the B Newspaper who harassed you that night." Only then did Changzi think of the unreasonable reporter who broke into his house that day. "Just now, Ma'am, you were talking to the assistant to the Field Section Chief. I happened to pass by and saw it." At this point, he bowed slightly again. "I'm really sorry to bother you last time." Uncle Changzi was going to ask endless questions again.Journalists never relax with their subjects. Changzi wanted to run away quickly, but the other party noticed it from her face. "Madam, I won't talk about work today, but I have something to tell you." The reporter took a step closer to Masako. "Just now I saw the assistant principal and his wife talking here, and something suddenly occurred to me. Madam, maybe you don't know anything. But there is something I must tell you." "……What's up?" Changzi couldn't help asking.She couldn't guess what the journalist was going to say to her. "It's too conspicuous to stand here and talk, let's talk while walking! It won't take long." The reporter took a step first, and Masako had to follow him. Perhaps it was the words of the section chief and the section chief's assistant that hit her, and Masako's mood was extremely chaotic. After exiting the Economic Planning Office, there was a tramway in front of it. The tram was running, and reporter Morimoto was strolling in the shade of the horse chestnut tree. "The last time I went to interview about what happened in your house at night, do you know where this information came from?" Masako walked shoulder to shoulder with the journalists.After hearing what he asked, don't let your heart skip a beat.This is the fear of hearing bad news. "No, I don't know." I heard that someone called the Economic Planning Agency that day.So how did the newspaper get the news?At that time, Changzi believed that the newspaper had a superhuman intelligence agency. "Actually, this information was leaked by Section Chief Takemura." "Uh?--" Changzi wondered if he had heard wrong. "No wonder you were surprised. We did indeed get the information from your husband's boss, Section Chief Takemura. At that time, he ordered us to keep it absolutely confidential..." The shadows of the horse chestnut leaves fell on the pavement.Masako listened to what reporter Morimoto had to say. It is unbelievable that Section Chief Takemura would take the initiative to leak the news of Horizawa and his sister's elopement to the press, which caused a lot of trouble in the city, causing trouble for the Economic Planning Agency, and the section chief even submitted his resignation to the director.This seems unreasonable.Besides, bureaucrats are single-minded in their pursuit of prosperity, and no mistakes or dereliction of duty are allowed.Why did Section Chief Takemura call reporters to expose the mistakes of his subordinates? Changzi wondered if the reporter was lying?Her mood was immediately noticed by reporters Morimoto walking side by side. "Ma'am, it's no wonder you couldn't believe me right away," Morimoto whispered. "We also find it incredible. Why did Mr. Takemura leak this news? If Mr. Takemura didn't tell me, we wouldn't know who Mr. Horizawa is at all." Even if the head of the section revealed the situation about Horizawa to the reporter, how could the head of the section know that Reiko's whereabouts are unknown?Changzi couldn't understand this.Without figuring this out, she could hardly believe what the news reporter said. "The head of the section also said: The Horizawa issue has caused a lot of trouble to the agency. When you report, don't say that I said it, but you interviewed it. Doing so will bring great benefits to your newspaper." "The interests of the newspaper?" Changzi asked involuntarily. "We also asked him back. He did say that it would bring benefits to the newspaper. We don't know what the benefits refer to. When we questioned him, he smiled ambiguously..." —How can you believe these words? "Yes. I didn't want to tell you these things at first. We promised the section chief to keep silent to each other... But I just saw you standing there talking with the field section chief's assistant? I guess you don't know anything about the situation .You have suffered a loss and are still kept in the dark...this is my intuition." The two came to the corner of the tramway, where there was still a quiet boulevard. "We guessed right away. Ma'am, you don't know the source of your husband's accident at all, so when you talk to the assistant head of the field department, you have concerns. I couldn't help but talk to you when I saw this scene. Talk. Maybe my words came too suddenly, and you couldn’t believe them right away. Even the people in our newspaper office didn’t believe what Mr. Takemura said!” "..." "Later, the head of the section said that publishing the news would bring benefits to the newspaper. Out of this consideration, we believed his words and tried to publish it as large as possible in terms of layout." yes!Horizawa is a low-level official, not very famous, even if he elopes with his sister-in-law, there is no news value at all.However, the journalists broke into Masako's apartment with a lot of fanfare with a camera. Why?Changzi was puzzled, but after listening to Morimoto's explanation, Changzi gradually understood a little bit. That being the case, why did the journalist point it out to himself? Did he really tell himself because he didn't understand the inside story?Or the reporter saw his lonely figure, which aroused his sympathy.In any case, the words of reporter Morimoto inspired her. "Ma'am!" Reporter Morimoto said, "I wonder if you understand the so-called interests of the section chief?" Of course she couldn't understand.Why did the disappearance of Horizawa and Reiko bring benefits to the newspaper? "No, I can't figure it out at all," Masako said. "That's right! I don't think you understand the mystery. The section chief's so-called interests mean that Mr. Horizawa's incident will foreshadow the events that will happen in the future." "Foreshadowing? What foreshadowing?" "We didn't understand what he meant. We questioned him, but he kept silent. After investigation, we found that Mr. Horizawa was highly valued by the head of the department. He cooperated closely with the head of the department and took him with him wherever he went. " Horizawa himself said this before.Masako thought that Horizawa's words were not lies, they were somewhat exaggerated and boastful, but they were definitely not fabricated out of thin air. "However, it's inconceivable that the head of the class suddenly said such a thing. Since you have so many things in your mind, madam, we are even more confused." The journalist took out a cigarette and lit it. Changzi thought: Journalists feel puzzled, and I am an ordinary housewife, let alone understand.What exactly does he mean by "foreshadowing"? The most puzzling thing is why did the section chief reveal the matter of Horizawa and Reiko? Section Chief Takemura must have mastered the materials, but who provided the materials?The faces of female reporter Kikuko Ono and the president of Toto Kanko Co., Ltd. Otomo Ryosuke appeared in front of Masako's eyes.Of course, there was no basis for this, it was just because the two of them had a relationship with Ling Zi. The next day, eleven o'clock in the morning. Someone knocked on Changzi's door, and it turned out to be his mother. The mother was pale and short of breath. Changzi stared at the face of his mother sitting in front of him, thinking, this expected thing finally came. Mother was silent, out of breath, and almost fell down on the tatami. "Mom, what's the matter with you? What's the matter?" No need to ask, mother must have come to tell her about Horizawa and Reiko. Mother stared straight at Masako's face, bloodshot eyes and pale lips. "Changzi!" Mother shouted hoarsely. Changzi quickly brought a glass of water to his mother. "Mom, just say what you have to say, I can stand it." Mother took a sip of water, but was still unable to make a sound. Masako encouraged her from the sidelines. "Mom, I've been mentally prepared for a long time, so go ahead and talk about it! Is there any clue about Horizawa and Reiko's affairs?" Mother nodded blankly. "Where did you find it?" Masako sat beside her mother, putting her hand on her shoulder and holding her mother's hand with the other. At this time, the mother burst into tears and sobbed, "The police just came to notify..." If so, Changzi didn't expect her husband to come back alive, but now hearing what his mother said, he was baffled all over.When the mother said this, she couldn't go on anymore. "Mom, cheer up and keep talking!" "Lingzi... Lingzi, she..." "What's the matter Ling Zi?" "Lingzi's body was found..." "Where?" "A hot spring in the deep mountains of Miyagi Prefecture..." "Miyagi Prefecture? How do you know?" "Her relics were found, and the local police called the police in Tokyo, asking us to identify and retrieve the body..." "Do you only love Xianlingzi herself?" Mother still had some concerns, so she spoke out about Lingzi first. Masako stared intently at her mother's face. "Is Horizawa also together?" Mother nodded and fell on Masako's lap.His mother burst into tears, and Masako stroked her back. "Mom, it's okay! Don't be sad." Changzi comforted his mother quite assertively, and even she herself was unexpected, she was so calm. "I'm going to Miyagi Prefecture to retrieve the bodies of Horizawa and Reiko." The ups and downs of the mother's shoulders made her cry bitterly. "Changzi! Mom, I'm sorry." My mother managed to utter these words in her throat. "Don't say that. I've been mentally prepared, it's okay." The bodies of the two were found at the same time. No matter how you think about it, the two people undoubtedly died of love, so the mother apologized to Changzi. "Where is it in Miyagi Prefecture?" Masako felt that he would never be broken because of this, so he asked, cheering up. "The bodies of the two were found in a mountain depression near Sakunami Hot Spring in Miyagi Prefecture..." Changzi's eyes suddenly appeared two figures in the northeast mountain stream.Withered grass and leaves covered their faces.