Chapter 19 second quarter
On the evening of the second day after going to Dongbang Paper Manufacturing Corporation to apologize, Misawa Junko came back from shopping in the department store and received a fast letter.The envelope is a special envelope of Dongbang Paper Manufacturing Corporation.Next to the name of the head office, the word "Umino" is clearly written with a pen.Misawa Junko was taken aback.As an individual, what would Uno have to say to her?She recalled the scene of going to Dongbang's head office yesterday, thinking about what Uno Tatsuhei said, and she always felt that it could not be unified with the name written in pen on the envelope.
Yesterday, after Kawakita Ryoce returned to the newspaper office, he was very happy.Of course, it's not for Sunja's sake, but to save Unino's face and be complacent about recovering his own losses.He planned to find another opportunity to visit Unino in the future.
Sunja thought that if Unino had something to say, he could convey it to him through Ryoce Kawakita, so why did he write to himself directly?Really puzzled.
"I will go on a business trip to Osaka on the 14th of this month. I will live in a hotel in Nakanoshima. If you like to travel, please come to my place in the evening if you like. I can provide you with various conveniences.
"Also: It would be great if you are willing to come. However, I have the right to reiterate: the incident similar to the beer topping the day before yesterday is not allowed to be repeated, how?" laughed.
Misawa Junko tore up the letter after reading it on the spot.The prosperous and powerful Unano Tatsuhira suddenly became an ordinary man in Shunzi's mind.Unano Tatsuhei, who not only impressed the director of Chuanbei, but also the entire R newspaper, now, Junko Misawa feels that he is not an unattainable big man, but an ordinary person by her side.Misawa Junko wanted to write a reply letter to taunt Unino fiercely, but she was afraid that it would be interpreted as something else.
That night, Shunzi tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep for a long time.
It's inexplicable!In the corner of the data investigation department, Misawa Junko, who spent all day sorting out photos cut out from newspapers and magazines in obscurity, and then glued them to the notebook with paste, seemed to be another person.For example, she has clearly realized that Yoshisaku Kawakita, the editorial director who is feared by people in the newspaper office, is such a worthless and shameless villain. She actually doesn't care about him and dares to despise him.When I saw the director before, I was so nervous that I didn't even dare to breathe. I thought he was so sacred and unattainable.The corridor leading to the director's office is called the "Road to Qingyun".Walking on the "Road to Qingyun", I really feel that Director Chuanbei is that unattainable figure in the cloud.In the same way, she also felt devalued of Ryoce Kawakita's friend, Maruhashi's executive at the TV station.In the past, she thought that the executive was also a great big shot.Even so, she has always believed that whether it is the director Chuanbei or the executive Maruhashi, they are on the same level as her in terms of personality.
Because of Unano Tatsuhei's express letter, Shunzi's net worth doubled, and she was at a higher level.The high and mighty Unano Tatsuhei, known as a geek in the publicity industry, a tycoon in the financial world, and a treacherous figure in his career, is nothing more than an idol.At this moment, she felt that he was a man of flesh and blood, on the same level as herself.In a sense, Nakawakita Ryosaku, Maruhashi and others have dropped a lot from this level.
This may be a dangerous awareness!Shunzi couldn't help thinking of what Masako who worked in the nightclub had said.Those who patronize and gather in nightclubs every day are generally people with status and power in society.But there, they are all ordinary men who have left their jobs.If we put it a little more clearly, they are men who have exposed their inner secrets and torn off their disguises one by one.And the waitresses who came into contact with them unknowingly equate themselves with those men who are both powerful and ordinary people, forming a half-numb, half-rational emotion.Danger!Misawa Junko clearly knows that Chuanbei and others keep a polite distance from Mihara Masako, not only to Masako, but also to other guests who patronize the nightclub, and also to those waitresses who are closer to dignitaries and dignitaries. psychology.Of course, everyone has their own needs and interests.The psychology of reverence for waitresses will not change, and the more politically motivated the person, the more prominent this psychology will be.Did I also have the same sense of superiority as Masako and the others?
As soon as she arrived at the office, Misawa Junko completely lost Uneno Tatsuhei's invitation.Sitting opposite was Mitsuko Kawachi, who was still wearing men's clothing.She is cutting newspapers.Others are also chasing each other to sort out the data.Here is where ordinary people gather.When Junko Misawa was in such an occasion, the incident at the nightclub and the express letter from Tatsuhei Unano left her memory again like a dream.
The 14th of this month is the day after tomorrow.Only this impression remained faintly in Shunzi's consciousness.
Early this morning, Junko Misawa felt that there was something wrong with Mitsuko Kawachi's expression.At first, Shunzi didn't pay attention to it, but in a daze, he felt that the gaze from Sanjinzi was a bit strange.She couldn't figure out what it meant.It wasn't until Hanoi Mitsuko invited her to the cafeteria for lunch that he realized it.
"Sanze-kun, please wait a moment." Kawachi Mitsuko said.
Shunzi followed Mitsuko to a corner of the cafeteria with few people.Mitsuko asked in a low voice with concern:
"Have you heard the rumors about you?"
"Huh? Rumors? What rumors?"
"Have you ever been to Fried Lang Restaurant with Mr. Chuanbei?" Mitsuko Hanoi's question was unpredictable, as if there was something in the words.
"Hey, I'm gone." Misawa Junko replied.
"Why, is it really true?" Hanoi Mitsuko's eyes were fixed on the wall motionless.
"What's the matter?" Shunzi looked at the other person's preoccupied look, and had a premonition that something might happen.
"So, rumors are spreading everywhere now." Mitsuko said.
"What rumor?"
"Say you have an abnormal relationship with Director Chuanbei."
"..." Misawa Junko didn't speak.But I thought in my heart: Sure enough, as expected, there will be ghosts if you are afraid of ghosts.
"Director Chuanbei has always emphasized discipline. He didn't invite you because of work needs, and it is said that there were only two of you together at the time. Therefore, people in the newspaper office talked a lot."
Misawa Junko thought: I really don't know who made the news about entering the restaurant?When they went in, no one saw them!
"We were also surprised when we heard this kind of statement. The director is an intolerant person, why did he bring you into the restaurant alone?" Mitsuko accidentally used this word, as if the two of them What are you doing behind your back?
"Who did you hear that from?" Misawa Junko asked.
"Hey, here." Kawachi Mitsuko took out a folded piece of paper from his pocket, with the words typed on it printed on it.The original text is like this:
"Editorial director Ryosaku Kawakita took Misawa Junko from the data investigation department to Tianqiao's deep-fried shrimp restaurant for a tryst on X. At that time, the room was reserved for two people. Not only that, the director often took Misawa Junko in and out In a certain nightclub in the city. I don’t know if it’s appropriate for the editorial director who insists on discipline to do such a thing? Please check it out carefully. Comment according to the rules.” The signature is “Justice”.
Misawa Junko's hand holding the paper trembled.
"This is not typed with the typewriter of the newspaper." Mitsuko Hanoi added: "If you use the typewriter of the newspaper, everyone will recognize it immediately. Therefore, this person is guilty, so he uses the typewriter outside to type out the mimeograph. This note It has been widely circulated in newspapers."
Sunja really couldn't understand.During her several contacts with Director Chuanbei Liangce, Chuanbei was very cautious, and repeatedly told Shunzi to be careful, and to keep everything confidential.Therefore, it is impossible for this matter to leak from Chuanbei's mouth, and even his own actions seem to be arranged after careful consideration.He even hid it from his female secretary.How did this get out?
"This matter, on the surface, seems to be to slander you, but in fact, it is to frame the director of Chuanbei Bureau, which is probably the intention."
Hearing what Mitsuko said, Shunzi couldn't help being secretly surprised.She suddenly remembered that time when she came out of the restaurant and on the way back to the agency, she bumped into the former director of the data investigation department Zentaro Suehiro.At that time, Suehiro Zentaro came out of the teahouse, followed by a somewhat familiar woman.The woman turned her face away as soon as she saw Sunja.what! ...Don't ask, the rumor is from Zentaro Suehiro!The tone of the leaflet was like his too.However, only one Zentaro Suehiro, how could he make things so clear?Is there anyone else who can provide him with information.Suddenly, that somewhat familiar woman appeared in front of Shunzi.All of a sudden, like dust off a glass, everything is revealed.She is the female operator of the switchboard——Eki Ikuko!
The staff of the switchboard generally rarely interact with the outside world.Once they went to work, they were locked in the switchboard room on the second floor.Only when I go to the cafeteria to eat can I occasionally meet them.And a few of them also like to gather together to eat alone.
As a switchboard, it is not difficult to understand the process of knowing the facts.When Director Chuanbei called Shunzi, although he always used an outside line, the telephone operator Eki Ikuko could eavesdrop.But I don't know why Egi Ikuko used the convenience of work to eavesdrop on the phone call of Director Kawakita, so why did she tell Suehiro Zentaro?Junko thought of Suehiro Zentarou and Eki Ikuko's panic when they saw her.
Sunja was in great pain.She didn't expect that her contact with the director would be so slandered and slandered, and she didn't expect that she would become a tool for others to frame Chuanbei Liangce.How pathetic!
That day, when Misawa Junko passed by the corridor, she felt that all the staff were staring at her as if observing some monster.It seemed that she was the kind of vixen who seduced Chief Chuanbei to achieve her own goals.
Shunzi was very angry at these out-of-the-box slanders.Although she knew that it was the work of the former minister Suehiro Zentaro and the telephone operator Eki Ikuko, but there was no evidence and she could not directly protest.They cannot be refuted by mere speculation.It's really dumb to eat coptis -- it's hard to tell!
The next day, the look at Sunja became even more hostile and explicit.This fully exposed that the staff of the newspaper had shown great interest and "concern" in the "scandal" between her and Chuanbei.Sunja couldn't take it anymore.But she didn't want to tell Chuanbei the leaflets and rumors typed out by the typewriter.He would know anyway, she thought.It may take some time before it reaches his ears.Let those guys who never use their own heads to think about problems and follow what others say, slander and mock themselves for these silly things!
Mitsuko Hanoi comforts Shunzi not to mind.At first, Shunzi was going to ignore those vicious words, but those out-of-the-box slanders finally made her too angry to be quiet.Indignation, but there is no opponent to vent the anger on, and the face of the slanderer cannot be seen.Anger was suppressed in his heart.Shunzi couldn't take it anymore.
At noon that day, the newspaper staff received a notice written in the name of the president.The original text is: "Recently, there has been a vicious discussion about the management of this newspaper. You must not be deceived by it. The management policy of this newspaper is very sound, but there are inevitably some mistakes in strategy. I hope everyone will be more united , to fight for our common goals with reason and restraint."
After reading the announcement, Shunzi knew that the "bad comments" must refer to Unano Tatsuhei's threat to buy this newspaper.Now, the president is issuing the "Anmin Notice" and wants to stabilize the situation.Of course, this has nothing to do with the rumors about her directly.
In the evening, Junko Misawa received a call from Kazuo Kiuchi directly from the inside line of the newspaper office.On the phone, Kiuchi Kazuo said:
"After get off work today, I have an appointment with you. It only takes 30 minutes." Hearing his tone, it seemed that something urgent had happened.Shunzi thought, it must have something to do with the rumors.
"Okay." Sunja replied.
"Then, wait at Youle Street Station." After saying this briefly, Kazuo Kiuchi hung up the phone.
Sunja could completely imagine the content of Kazuo Kiuchi's conversation.
After get off work, Misawa Junko walked out of the newspaper office and came to Youle Street Station.Kazuo Kiuchi was already standing beside the ticket gate in a daze.Shunzi walked up to him, and the two of them cut the ticket without saying a word, and walked out.Their expressions were all indifferent.
Walking out of Yule Street, the two came to a relatively secluded road in Marunouchi District silently.Sunko was two or three steps behind Kazuo Kiuchi.At the corner of the street, Kiuchi stopped to wait for Junko.
"There are a few words I want to tell you." Kiuchi said as he walked.
"Just say what you want!" Shunzi walked beside him.Kiuchi's tone didn't seem very polite.She had never seen Kazuo Kiuchi speak to her in this manner.In the past, when Kiuchi saw Sunja, he always approached her happily.It is also a pleasure to walk side by side with her.Now, it is a "180-degree turn."Today's Kiuchi Kazuo, with a straight face, seems to be treating a hateful enemy.
"I want to ask you something." Kiuchi Kazuo controlled his emotions and whispered.
"Ask what?" Hearing Kazuo Kiuchi's questioning tone, Shunzi was a little disgusted.
"About the bizarre rumor circulating inside the newspaper, it has something to do with you. It started yesterday, and the discussion is fierce."
"I already know." Misawa Junko said lightly.
The red light at the intersection is on, and we have to wait for the next green light.It was inconvenient for the two of them to say anything more, so they stood silently with the crowd waiting at the intersection.
The green light came on.Kazuo Kiuchi said as he walked:
"Then let me ask directly. Is the matter between you and Director Chuanbei true?"
"I had lunch with him. It's true." Shunja answered without hesitation.
"Not only that, I heard that he took you to which nightclub?"
"Yes, there is such a thing."
Hearing Sunko's answer, Kiuchi Kazuo's face was distorted.He felt the blood all over his body rushing straight to his head, as if he was about to explode.
"Then," Kazuo Kiuchi's voice trembled.He was still trying to restrain himself: "What is the real relationship between you and Kawakita Ryoce?"
"I refuse to answer your insulting question!" Shunzi got angry, and she really wanted to say one more sentence: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" She turned around and left without talking to Kazuo Koucho.But she kept it under control.
"Is that so?" Kiuchi was dubious about Sunja's anger.He really wanted to believe that the matter between Shunzi and the director was not true.Due to psychological effects, he calmed down a little: "Director Chuanbei is a person who insists on discipline and order. Such a person actually took you to the second floor of the restaurant, and all the leaflets were printed. There are only 2 seats. Room. That is to say, there may only be the two of you present, and no one can see you. For example, if Chuanbei asks you to do something, you just refuse to obey him, and no one helps you. In that case, you just You can submissively listen to his control. I don't know what you thought at the time?" Kazuo Kiuchi asked Shunzi excitedly in a guessing and blaming tone.
Sunja could also understand Kazuo Kiuchi's mood.But for Shunzi, Kazuo Kiuchi used such a tone, what kind of person is Shunzi?He has no special relationship with Shunzi!He was just working in the same newspaper office as Shunzi like other employees.
Kazuo Kiuchi's feelings at this time were a little abnormal.His willful and angry emotions towards Shunzi are like a frustrated person who has been betrayed by his lover.
In the past, Misawa Junko liked Kazuo Kiuchi who was punished but went to buy books and poetry collections to masturbate secretly.If you look at his character from this point of view, although he is withdrawn, at least he is not an old fritter.But Kazuo Kiuchi in front of him, when he heard the rumors about Shunzi, was so angry that he couldn't help himself, as if he had already been loved by Shunzi.Sunja thought it was funny.This is actually the jealousy and narrow-mindedness of men, and there is no other explanation.At the beginning, when Kazuo Kiuchi was punished for his mistakes, Sunja always thought that he was a taciturn and introverted person.Perhaps it was because of the blow that he showed his lonely nature.Unexpectedly, it was her fault.Judging from Kiuchi Kazuo's critical tone, it not only exposed a man's arbitrariness, but also exposed a man's selfishness and machismo.He and Shunzi hadn't talked about any personal relationship yet, just hearing that Shunzi had gone to dinner with the chief, he was so furious that he couldn't stand it, and even believed those slanderous rumors, which made Shunzi angry and incomprehensible.
What makes Shunzi especially angry is that he also mistakenly believes that Shunzi is following the crowd, adoring the influential editorial chief and abandoning him.Both he and Shunzi were responsible for the "photo incident", but Shunzi got close to the director of the editor, not only was not punished, but also accepted the director's kindness. He talked on.
"I don't think you have any reason to say this to me!" Shunzi threw out this sentence on the street at dusk without even looking at Kiuchi.This seems to be a serious protest against the out-of-the-box ridicule and insults from the newspaper!
"I have my freedom. I don't care if I doubt my personality because of one or two things. Let's end my friendship with you. When we meet again in the future, we will greet you like other employees. Goodbye!" Misawa Junko Before Kiuchi could say anything, he turned around and walked away quickly.
Hearing the footsteps of Kazuo Kiuchi chasing after her, Sunja immediately stopped the taxi that was coming towards her, got in without looking behind her.
The taxi is running.Sunja saw the scene of the fast-moving evening street.The street scene seemed completely different from what Sunja had seen before.
It's incredible.If I hadn't met Ryosaku Kawakita and Marubaki, Junko Misawa, as a staff member of the data investigation department of the newspaper, would have nothing special about her and would not attract the attention of others.She will be no different from ordinary people in ordinary jobs.If it hadn't been for pouring beer on Haiye Tatsuhiro's head in a nightclub, her thoughts and observations of life would not have changed drastically.For Shunzi, today's R newspaper office is already an ancient world, and she has already glimpsed the new world that symbolizes the future of Unano Tatsuhei.
Misawa Junko is determined to send her resignation letter from the post office to the newspaper office where she works tomorrow.There is no need to bother Chief Kawakita Ryoce anymore.In her eyes, the current director of Chuanbei is just a cautious hypocrite.The weight of the balance in her heart began to lean towards Mihara Masako's lifestyle.Although she still feels a little disgusted with Masako's way of life, she still feels that pursuit occupies an important position in her consciousness.
Misawa Junko stopped the taxi.I looked at my watch, it was just past 6 o'clock.It is estimated that Uno Chenping is still in the manager's office of Dongbang Paper Manufacturing Corporation at this time.He is said to be a man of great energy and tirelessness.
Shunzi called Dongbang Paper Manufacturing Corporation.The switchboard at the head office switchboard connected the call to the Company Secretarial Section.Someone said on the phone: "The manager has gone home."
"Is he going on a business trip tomorrow?" Hearing Shunzi's question, the other party asked Shunzi not daring to neglect:
"Excuse me, who are you?"
"My surname is Sanze. I visited the manager the day before yesterday."
The secretarial department also answered the phone with a young woman.She thought that since it was a call to the manager, she must be responsible.He answered seriously:
"Mr. Manager will fly to Osaka tomorrow."
"okay, thank you."
"Hello, I'm sorry," the other party asked again hastily: "Excuse me, which unit are you from Sanze? I want to tell the manager when he comes to work."
"No, I can still see him again." Shunzi hung up the phone and walked out of the phone booth.
She could see Unino again—this would mean not waiting for Unino to go out and return to Beijing, but in Osaka, where Unano invited her to.Sunja had made up her mind when she left the phone booth.That is to say, she has made the final decision to invite Unino Tatsuhira to Osaka, and she will embark on another life path.
"Excuse me, where are you going?" After Misawa Junko got into the taxi, the taxi driver asked her expressionlessly.
Sunko let the driver wander aimlessly from Marunouchi to Otemachi, to Kanda, Nihonbashi, and even Ginza, and finally said to the driver as if betting on her own fate:
"Please drive to Hibiya."
Tokyo Airlines is built in Hibiya.Misawa Junko decided to see if there were any vacant seats on the flight to Osaka tomorrow.At this moment of thought, Shunzi understood that she would give up her previous life and start a new life that even she couldn't understand.Why she thought so, she couldn't explain herself.She felt like she was rowing a lonely boat in the vast ocean, with no one to rely on.She used to yearn for a life like Masako's, but it's better to be different from Masako's way of life.It didn't matter that Kiuchi's face came back to her now.She has no interest in Kazuo Kiuchi now.
Junko Misawa got off the car in front of the Hibiya Airlines office.In the ticket reservation room, she saw a young man and woman who were booking a ticket to Hokkaido and discussing a week's trip.Ah, travel!Who said such a sentence: In life, there is never a scheduled trip.Misawa Junko has not yet realized the true meaning of this sentence.
After the clerk booked the air tickets for the young couple, he came to Shunzi and asked:
"Are you taking the passenger plane to Osaka at 18 o'clock tomorrow? Please wait a moment." The clerk said and checked the registration book.Find out if you have a ticket or not in seconds.These few seconds are simply a three-way intersection that determines Shunzi's fate!
"There are still tickets left." The clerk with a beautiful hairstyle raised his head and said, "There is just one seat left on this flight."
The passenger plane flying to Osaka at 18:00 tomorrow will arrive in Itami at 19:00, and will arrive in Osaka City at 19:30.Shunzi filled out the ticket reservation form, thinking in her heart, that is, tomorrow evening, she will appear at Haneda Airport in her own form!
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