Chapter 25 Section 25

Heisuke looked down through the window while thinking about how long he hadn't been on a plane.He was looking forward to seeing the sea, but all he could see was endless white clouds.His seat was near the wing, and his view was mostly blocked by the plane. "What are Master Sugita's plans tomorrow?" asked the young Kawabe sitting next to him.Sitting across the aisle from him was Kijima. "I have a place I would like to drop by. I will go there tomorrow and return to Tokyo the next morning. What about you?" "We plan to have a good day in Sapporo tomorrow and take the plane back the night after tomorrow."

"It's hard to go on a business trip, so I have to make good use of it." Mujima said beside him. When we arrived at Chitose Airport, the other party had a car to pick us up.The other party hired a black car.Three people sat in the back seat, and there was a lot of room left.Heisuke said: "It feels like becoming a politician." Kawabe and Kijima laughed when they heard that.The person in charge of the other party who was sitting in the co-pilot's seat also showed a wry smile. Heisuke and others came to the other party's service point next to Hokkaido University to test the performance of the machine to be purchased.If all goes well, this kind of test can end quickly, but it is not uncommon for unexpected troubles to bring the test to a deadlock.Sure enough, as they had feared in advance, they encountered some difficulties in obtaining test data.Ping Jie and none of them spoke.The other party probably wanted to make up for it, and arranged a luxurious feast for lunch.Of course, even so, it is impossible for Hirasuke and the others to feel better all of a sudden.Kawabe even muttered, "Without wine, French food tastes like nothing."

It was not until after 6 pm that they finally collected all the data they wanted.The other party entertained them for dinner at a sushi restaurant in Sapporo, and then took them to a nightclub near Odori Park.After finishing the work, drinking wine is also very comfortable at this time.The young hostess was sitting beside her, talking to Ping Jieta non-stop.Heisuke's eyes were straightened when he saw their low chest and thighs exposed under the miniskirts, and he felt like he was floating more than once.His heart hadn't been beating so violently for a long time. It was past 12 midnight when we got back to the hotel.Although it felt a bit late, he still made a call to Tokyo.Naoko answered the phone right away, it seemed she was still awake.

"I'm fine at home, you don't have to worry about me. I'm chatting with my aunt right now." Naoko's voice was excited, "Wait a minute, I'll hand over the phone to my aunt." After Rongzi answered the phone, Heisuke thanked her first.Of course, Rongzi would never have thought that it would be his younger sister who was with her now.She said: "Saka Nami is so much like Naoko! She speaks and acts like Naoko. I asked her to rub my shoulders just now, and it turned out that her rubbing method was just like Naoko's. I was shocked." I jumped."

At this moment, Heisuke remembered that Naoko had told him that she used to rub her sister's shoulders, so Naoko must be snickering next to Yoko at this time. After saying "please" again, Heisuke put down the phone. The next day, Hirasuke had a late breakfast, checked out, and took a taxi.He told the taxi driver the address on the remittance stub, and the driver said he knew the approximate location. "Excuse me, is there a place with more beautiful red leaves near here?" Heisuke asked. The half-aged taxi driver tilted his head and thought for a while. "The nearest one is Mount Moiwa, but it's still a bit early. The most suitable time should be around the sports festival."

"So, it would be nice if I came a week later." "Haha, isn't it. It should be almost the next week." Ping Jie rarely took the initiative to talk to taxi drivers before.He didn't really want to see the red leaves, but just wanted to relieve his nervousness. "This is the area." The taxi driver said. Heisuke got out of the car and found that it was a street full of small shops.He walked forward while looking at the door plate.Finally, he stopped in front of a store. This is a very small ramen restaurant with the sign saying "Kuma Kichi".The door of the store is closed, and there is a sign of rest on the door.Looking up the tightly closed rolling door, Heisuke saw a nameplate with "Negishi" hanging on it.

Heisuke tried to knock on the shutter door two or three times, but there was no answer from inside.The second floor of the ramen restaurant seems to be used for living, but the windows of the rooms are closed. He looked at the store sign again, and there was a phone number written in small print on it.He took out the notebook used to record the test data yesterday from his bag, and wrote down the phone number on the bottom corner of the cover. At this time, a taxi happened to pass by, and Pingsuke waved and got into the car.Hirasuke told the driver the name of the hotel where he was going to stay tonight, and then he noticed that there was still some time before check-in.

"Master driver, is the big clock in Sapporo far from here?" "Big clock?" Through the interior mirror, Heijie saw the driver blink twice, "It's not far, it's near here." "Go there, then. I want to pass the time there." "Ah..." The young driver scratched his chin, "That's no problem. However, the big clock is not suitable for passing time." "Ah, is it?" "Haven't you heard of it? It's the most disappointing scenic spot after seeing the real thing." "I've heard people say it's nothing to look at"

"Hehe, you'll know when you see it." The taxi soon stopped beside a main road.Hirasuke was wondering why he stopped at this place, when the driver pointed to the opposite side of the road and said, "That's it." "That's the one..." Hirasuke showed a wry smile.It is indeed too different from the photo, but it is just a desk clock installed on the roof of a small white western-style building. "If you still have time, you can go to the seat of the old government. Go straight along the left side of this road. If you still have time, you can go straight ahead. There is the Botanical Garden of Peking University in front of you." The driver told Pingjie while taking the money.

The driver's advice came in handy.He spent 10 minutes around the clock, 20 minutes at the old government seat, and 30 minutes at the plant house before taking a taxi to the hotel just in time for the check-in process to begin. After entering the room, Hirasuke immediately picked up the phone.I called the phone number I just copied down, the phone rang three times, and someone picked up the receiver. "Hello, this is the Negishi family." A man's voice sounded very young. "Ah, hello, I'm from Tokyo, my name is Sugita. Is Ms. Noriko Negishi at home?" "Mom is not at home now." The other party replied.It seems that he is the son of Noriko Negishi.

"Ah, yes. Then, when will she come back?" "Well, I think it will be around evening...excuse me, what can you do with your mother?" The man's voice was somewhat wary.Probably because he had never heard of the name Sugita before, and the fact that he was from Tokyo made him feel suspicious. "I want to talk to her about Yukihiro Kajikawa." Heisuke said without any concealment. The other party was silent for a while.The change in his expression came over the phone line. "May I ask what you want to say?" the man asked, his voice much lower than before, "That person has nothing to do with us now." "I know that. It's just that I have to tell Ms. Negishi face to face. Excuse me, do you know that Mr. Kajikawa has passed away?" The other party did not answer right away.He seemed to be thinking about how to answer. "I know." The other party finally spoke, "However, the death of that villain has nothing to do with us." "Do you really think so?" "...What do you want to say?" "Anyway, I want to see your mother. I have something to give her. She will be back in the evening, right? Then I will call her then." "Wait a minute," the man asked, "where are you now?" "I'm in a hotel next to Sapporo Station." Hirasuke said the name of the hotel. "I see. Let's call you then. Have you been in the hotel all this time?" "Well, if you want to call me, I'm always there." Heisuke replied.I thought, anyway, Sapporo is almost the same. "Then I'll ask mom to call you when she comes back. Well, your name is Sugita, right?" "Yes, Sugita." "I see." After finishing speaking, Noriko Negishi's son unilaterally hung up the phone. Heisuke lay on the bed and dozed off for a while, having a few messy dreams, when the phone rang and woke him up. "Is that Mr. Sugita?" It was the male operator of the hotel. "Ah, it's me." "A guest named Negishi is looking for you at the front desk. Please wait a moment, I'll give him the phone." Hirasuke felt that the phone was in the hands of another person.Thinking that Noriko Negishi came directly to the hotel to find him, Heisuke felt a little nervous. "Hello, I'm Negishi." The voice of Noriko Negishi's son came from the phone. "Ah, hello. Is your mother back?" Heisuke asked. "I was just about to tell you about this. I have something very important to tell you, can you come down?" Negishi Noriko's son's tone was stiffer than before. Hirasuke clenched the microphone, appreciating the meaning of his words. "Ms. Noriko Negishi didn't come with you, did she?" he asked. "Yes, Mom didn't come, it was just me." "That's it... Then, I'll go down now. Where are you?" "I'll be waiting for you at the front desk." "Okay, I see." Heisuke put down the phone and rushed into the bathroom.He wanted to wash his face to make his brain clearer. Heisuke came to the first floor and looked around the front desk for a week.The front desk is surrounded by a lot of travelers checking in.A little farther away from the passengers, a young man in his 20s wearing a white shirt and jeans stood there.He was tall, with slender eyelids, and his tanned skin made him look very thin.Hirasuke was sure it should be him. The young man turned his head slowly, and stopped moving after seeing Heisuke.That expression is asking: Is that you? Heisuke stepped forward, "Are you... Negishi?" "Yes," he said, "nice to meet you." "Ah, it's a pleasure to meet you." Hirasuke lowered his head, and then took out a business card.The address and telephone number of his home had been added in advance with a ballpoint pen on the business card. "My name is Sugita." The young man looked at the business card: "Ah...you work in BIG00D." "Ah, yes." "Excuse me, please wait a minute." He said and strode to the front desk, and returned after writing something on the note provided by the hotel for guests. "I'm still a student, so I don't have a business card." As he spoke, he handed over the written note. It has the address and telephone number of the ramen restaurant "Kumi Yoshi" written on it, as well as his name - Fumiya Negishi. The two came to the nearby coffee shop.After being seated, Heisuke ordered a cup of coffee, and Negishi also ordered the same thing. "I came to Sapporo because of work, and I want to contact your family by the way." Hirasuke said honestly. "What do you do in BIGOOD? Do you do research?" "No," Heisuke waved his hand, "it's at the production site. We produce gasoline injectors. The specific name is ECFI." "ECFI...is it an electronic fuel injection device?" the young man said fluently. Heisuke stared at his face in surprise and said, "You know it in detail." "I'm in the Automobile Association at the university." "Oh. So, what university are you in?" "Northern Star University of Technology." "How old are you?" "Junior." "That's right." Ping Jie nodded.Beixing University of Technology is one of the few science and engineering universities. When the coffee came, the two of them took a sip almost at the same time. "Then, where's your mother?" Hirasuke got to the point. Wen also licked his lips and said, "Actually, I didn't tell my mother about you. Should I tell her? I want to make a decision after hearing what is going on." "Ah... why is that?" "What you want to say is related to that person?" When he said the word "that person", there was obvious disgust on his face. "Kagawa Yukihiro is your father, that is to say, he used to be your mother's husband." "That was all in the past. I don't think so now. He is someone who has nothing to do with us." Wen Ye said with a serious expression, and his eyes seemed to hang upwards because of this. Hirasuke reached out to the coffee cup, thinking about how to proceed with the next conversation.He also more or less expected that he would not have a good impression of his father. "What is the relationship between Mr. Sugita and that person?" Wen Ye asked back. "This is a bit of a long story." Heisuke put the cup on the table, "You have heard that Mr. Kajikawa passed away, so you must know the cause of his death, right?" "The newspapers here also made a lot of reports on the accident of the ski tour bus falling off the cliff." "Then how did you know that the driver belonged to your father?" "He was also a bus driver when he was here and had the same name and surname, so I figured it must be him." "So that's the case. He was also the driver when he was here." Pingjie nodded.Then he stared into the eyes of the young man on the opposite side and said, "That accident took away my wife." Fumiya Kajikawa had a look of surprise and embarrassment on his face at the same time.He lowered his head, then raised it again. "It turned out to be like this. That's really unfortunate. However, as I said just now, that person has nothing to do with us..." "No no." Heisuke smiled and waved his hands, "I didn't mean that. I didn't come to complain to you. I have already said on the phone that I have something to give you." He took the watch from his coat pocket and put it on the table.Afterwards, he explained the long process of obtaining this pocket watch in as concise a language as possible.Wen also listened silently, only exclaimed when he heard that Yukihiro Kajikawa sent living allowance to Noriko Gungishi during his lifetime.It seemed he hadn't even known about it before. Heisuke opened the cover of the pocket watch and aimed the photo inside in the direction of Wen Ye. "I recognized you the first time I saw you just now. The boy in this photo is you, right? Mr. Kajikawa missed you all the time during his lifetime, so he always kept it with him." Wen also stared at the photo in the pocket watch for a long time. "I see what it is. I am very sorry that you have come all the way for this." "Don't say that. Then, you accept it." Heisuke pushed the pocket watch to Wen Ye's side. "But," Wen Ye said, "I can't accept it, and I don't want to accept it." "why?" "For us, that person is someone we want to forget. Even if I took this thing, I would throw it away immediately. I think it's better not to take it." "Do you hate your father that much?" "To be honest, I hate him." Wen Ye said firmly, "That man abandoned my mother and me when I was young, and suddenly ran away with a young woman. I can't forgive my mother when I think about it. That person. Now we finally have our own little noodle shop, but my mother even worked on a construction site before. I wanted to work after high school, but she insisted that she would find a way to save me enough for college, and even paid for it. For me to repeat for a year." Hirasuke felt a bitter taste spreading in his mouth.Only then did he know that Kajigawa Yukihiro's divorce had such a background.But what about the young woman who ran away with Kajikawa Yukihiro, she must not be Kajigawa Seiko. "But then your parents officially divorced, right? In other words, your mother also wanted to open it to a certain extent, so she agreed. Am I right?" "How can this kind of thing be thought through? I heard from my mother that the divorce agreement was handed in without her knowledge. I believe that as long as she formally appeals, it can be easily invalidated. Mom thought it was troublesome, so she just gave up. I If I had been older at that time, I would never have watched my mother swallow her anger like that." Wen Ye's words made Hirasuke feel very heavy.He thought to himself, it's no wonder Wen also hates Yukihiro Kajikawa so much. "So, those living allowances may be a manifestation of his apology." "I heard for the first time today about the subsistence allowance. But I will not forgive him for it. The man has abandoned a greater obligation that should have been undertaken." "Does your mother think so too?" Heisuke asked, "Does she also hate Mr. Kajikawa very much? Is it because of this reason that she didn't attend his funeral even after learning of his death?" Hearing this question, Wen also lowered his head.He seemed to be thinking about something.After a moment of silence, he raised his head again. "After learning about the accident, my mother wanted to go to the funeral. She said that although she had broken up, she had been a husband and wife after all and lived together for so long, so she wanted to burn incense for him. She may also be because of living allowances But I stopped her. I told her not to do stupid things." "Stupid..." Hirasuke can also understand Wen Ye's mood.He really wanted to say on such an occasion that Yukihiro Kajikawa not only sacrificed himself, but also his wife and daughter at the time in order to send them living allowances.In the end he didn't say it, because the Negishi mother and son had nothing to do with it.When Yukihiro Kajigawa died, Wen also didn't know about the living allowance, presumably his mother Noriko kept it from him. "So, I can't accept this thing." Wen Ye pushed the pocket watch on the table back to Heisuke's side. Heisuke looked at his pocket watch, and then at Wenya. "Can I talk to your mother?" he said, "just for a moment." "I don't agree. I don't want my mother to get involved with that person again. She has completely forgotten the past and is living a peaceful life. I hope you don't disturb her." From his tone, Hirasuke knew that Wen Ye never meant to let him see his mother from the beginning. "Really." Heisuke sighed, "Since you have said that, I have nothing to say." "Can I ask you a question?" "Just ask." "Why did you work so hard on this matter? Yukihiro Kajikawa was the culprit of the accident, and you are the victim of the accident!" Heisuke scratched his head and smiled wryly. "I'm not sure about this myself. Isn't there a saying that 'riding a tiger is easier than dismounting a tiger'? In short, that's how it is." Wen also showed an expression that was still incomprehensible.To make him understand, the wonderful relationship between him and Kajigawa mother and daughter must be explained in detail.But it doesn't make sense to say such things on such occasions.Moreover, he does not have the self-confidence to explain clearly. "Then it's better for you to get off the tiger's back earlier." Wen Ye said calmly. "You're right." Ping Jie picked up the pocket watch, he was just about to cover the watch when he suddenly remembered something and looked at Wen Ye. "Then can you just accept this photo? It doesn't make sense for me to keep it, and throwing away other people's photos has a psychological barrier." Wen also showed a slightly embarrassed expression, but he still seemed to understand Heisuke's explanation. "I see. Let me handle the photos." Heisuke used the corner of his business card to pull the photo out of the watch cover.The photo is not glued on, but cut into the size of the watch cover and embedded. Hirasuke handed over the photo cut into a circle to Wen Ye. "I don't think Kajikawa-san has ever forgotten you." "That can't be used as an exoneration talisman." As if to interrupt Heisuke's words, the young man shook his head vigorously.