Chapter 33 Section 33

On the second Saturday in December, Sugita's family received a package.The package was sent from a place called Nihombashi in Osaka City.Naoko has gone to school for tennis club practice and won't be back until evening.Heisuke took the carton to the Japanese-style room on the first floor, removed the tape on the outside, and opened the lid of the carton.There are also two small boxes inside.Hirasuke opened them one by one and confirmed the contents inside. A cassette player was contained in a case, only the size of his palm.The biggest difference from ordinary recorders is that this is a voice-activated recorder.That is to say, as long as someone or something makes a sound, it will automatically start recording and the sound will stop automatically when the sound disappears.If you use it to record during meetings and lectures, you don't have to worry about large gaps.

However, it is neither for meetings nor for lectures. Another box contained a matchbox-sized component called an Electronic Telephone Recording Earphone.A very short wire protrudes from the earphone, and the front end of the wire is connected to an earphone plug.In addition, there are two accessories in the box, a cable for the phone and a two-hole adapter for the phone. Heisuke first carefully read the instruction manual of each product, and then began to look for the location of the telephone line terminals in his home.The telephone wire terminal should be connected to the telephone box, and the telephone box is installed on the wall next to the combination cabinet.Old newspapers were stacked high on the unit cabinet, and the phone case was blocked.Heisuke removed the newspaper, and the phone box was exposed, and the phone line terminal was plugged into the phone box.He first pulled out the phone line terminal from the phone box, and plugged in the two-hole adapter.He then inserted the telephone wire terminal into one hole of the two-hole adapter, and inserted one terminal of another accessory, a telephone wire, into the other hole.

In the next step, Heisuke installed batteries and tapes in the cassette tape recorder, and inserted the plug of the electronic telephone secret recording earphone into the microphone jack of the tape recorder.Finally, he connected the other terminal of the telephone wire with the electronic telephone secret recording earphone.The entire installation is complete! Heisuke picked up the handset of the phone and pressed the number 177, and the weather forecast was broadcast on the phone. "The following reports the weather information released by the Meteorological Agency at 12:00 p.m. on December 10th..."

After confirming that the voice-activated recorder had started working, Heisuke hung up the phone.Heisuke rewound the tape and pressed the play button.The weather forecast just heard came out of the loudspeaker again.Heisuke was relieved, and rewound the tape to the beginning again. Ping Jie moved the combination cabinet forward, and stuffed the voice-activated tape recorder and telephone secret recording earphones into the gap between the wall and the combination cabinet.In order not to expose the gap, Hirasuke piled old newspapers on top.It is Heisuke's job to dispose of old newspapers, so there is no need to worry about Naoko touching the newspapers.

After that, Hirasuke started to process empty boxes and cartons.He knew that something bad would happen if Naoko saw it. Ping Jie also knew that it was a bit despicable to do so, but when he saw the advertisement of this phone tapping device in a magazine, he couldn't restrain his desire to order anyway.To exaggerate, he even thought that doing so would save him. Heisuke really wants to know what Naoko does outside, who he associates with, and what topics he talks about.When Heisuke was together, Naoko was of course still the same as the Naoko he knew before, and there was no change.But Hirasuke has recently begun to realize that that's just one side of her.

Come to think of it, this is a matter of course.The personality she showed in front of Hirasuke can only work in front of Hirasuke.Out of the house, she must live with Sami Nami's personality. Before, Hirasuke didn't pay much attention to the personality she showed outside.He believes that although she lives in the appearance of Sami Nami, her essence is still Naoko, and Naoko Chengyuan is his wife. But now, Hirasuke's self-confidence has been shaken.No, perhaps it can be said that what can be called self-confidence has completely disappeared.He was afraid that he would lose her.Aware of the possibility, he was afraid.

He cut up the empty plates and cartons from the bugging device, wrapped them in newspaper and threw them in the trash.At this time, he heard a sound outside the gate, it was the sound of the postman dropping something into the mailbox.Heisuke came to the door immediately. There are three emails in total.One is a mailing advertisement addressed to Hisuke, one is a credit card consumption list, and the other is a letter addressed to Sugita Sami Nami. Heisuke took a look at the signature of the letter to Sami Nami, and wrote the name of the elementary school she attended and the convener of the fifty-fifth graduate class reunion.It might be that the elementary school she attended had a class reunion, and this letter was probably an invitation letter for the class reunion.

After Hirasuke returned to the room, he put the three letters on the low table and turned on the TV. But it didn't take long before he began to care about the letter sent to Sami Nami again.Is that really as simple as an invitation to a class reunion?Even if it is a class reunion, it may not be large-scale, but only among a few close people. He stared at the handwriting on the envelope. Could it be that the boys in high school want to have a male-female party in the name of a class reunion?Or was it her male classmates in elementary school who recalled her female classmates in elementary school, or saw graduation photos in elementary school, and sent them out in order to find those who might have grown into beauties?It's a lot like the behavior of high school boys whose minds are preoccupied with lust.

Thinking of this, Hirasuke couldn't sit still anymore.He went to the kitchen and started boiling water in the kettle. Steam began to rise from the spout of the kettle.Heisuke pointed the glued area of ​​the envelope at the steam, and the paper quickly became damp. When he felt that the glue had almost melted, Heisuke carefully scratched the seal with his fingernails.The seal was quickly and completely scraped off. There are two sheets of paper in the envelope, all of which are B5 copy paper.One is the orientation map of a public venue, and the other is indeed an invitation letter for a class reunion.It was not the small-scale gathering of friends that Hirasuke imagined, but it was for all the fifty-fifth graduates.It also said that several teachers would also participate.

It seems to be ok.Heisuke put the copy paper back into the envelope while thinking, and then smoked it on the steam. After the glue recovered its viscosity, he sealed the seal again. It's not the first time Hirasuke opened Naoko's letters privately, there were two times before.Naoko usually comes back late, and Heisuke always picks up the mail. The first letter he opened was from a classmate of Naoko's middle school classmate, and it was a female classmate.There is nothing wrong with the content well, it probably means that I haven't seen each other since I went to high school, and I want to ask if I'm doing well.

In fact, judging from the signature on the envelope, it can be judged that it was written by a female classmate.The reason why Hirasuke opened it to see it was because he had doubts about the envelope.Such a beautiful envelope, such a girl-like font, could it be made by a boy on purpose?Could it be the letter from Haruki Soma?It's impossible to know if you think about it calmly, but the problem is that once Naoko is involved, Heisuke can't keep calm. In the end, he couldn't bear to open the envelope and read the contents inside.After reading it, he realized that he was wrong.Although he also developed a feeling of hating himself, but more, it was a sense of peace of mind. As for opening Naoko's letter for the second time, it was even more absurd.It was just a mailer for an encyclopedic dictionary.Possibly to catch the recipient's eye, the envelope was completely written in the format of a personal letter.On the part of the sender, the name of the president is printed in handwriting.Of course, there is the name of the publishing house next to it.However, Hisuke's attention was all attracted by the man's name, and he tore the envelope angrily.And when he saw the leaflet of the encyclopedia dictionary with many color photos in it, he couldn't help laughing at himself for being extremely stupid. The third time I opened it was today's class reunion invitation letter. Frankly, he too has a sense of guilt.However, it was already difficult for him to ignore Naoko's letters.Because I have experienced the sense of security after opening the letter before, so now I can't stop it.It's like being addicted to drugs. His symptoms of poisoning were not limited to his letters.Recently, taking advantage of Naoko's absence, he had entered her room several times, opened her drawers, and rummaged through the notes on the bookshelf.His purpose of doing this was the same as opening the letter, nothing more than wanting to know more about her. His original reason for doing this was to find out if Naoko kept a diary.In his impression, girls love to keep diaries.Thinking of this, his heart could not calm down.In the end, he infiltrated Naoko's room for the first time in order to find and confirm whether the diary existed. He did not find the diary.On the contrary, he found out the details of Naoko's room.He has already copied the contents of Naoko's address book from beginning to end on a piece of paper, and he has copied all the activities that Naoko wrote on the calendar into a notepad.He even knows when her next period will be and where she puts the sanitary napkins she bought. Even so, the uneasiness in his heart still did not disappear.What bothered him the most was the phone call. Calls always come in by 9:30 at the latest and end by 10:00.The person calling must be Haruki Soma.It seems that although he apologized for calling late before, he didn't think there was anything wrong with the phone call itself. There is another thing that Hirasuke is very concerned about, that is, recently Naoko himself has called out.He judged this by carefully checking the monthly telephone bill. Under normal circumstances, when she calls outside, the extension light should also be on.But so far, except for her answering the phone, Pingjie has never seen the extension light turn on.Did she never call outside?But that doesn't explain the change in the amount of the phone bill.Ping Jie himself seldom calls outside. From this point of view, it can only be assumed that Naoko called when he was not at home, such as when he came home late because of overtime work, was away from work on weekends, or went out for a haircut.In addition, Kusuke also thought of a time when Naoko could call behind his back even when he was at home, and that was when he was taking a shower.Hirasuke, who likes to take a bath, has to take a bath for at least thirty or forty minutes before coming out of the bathroom.Using this time, Naoko can make phone calls without any scruples. After realizing this, Hirasuke gave up the habit of taking a bath.Now every time he washed himself clean, he would come out of the bathroom without taking a good soak. But doing so alone cannot fundamentally solve the problem.It wasn't the fact of her calling that bothered him, but that he didn't know what she was calling.His heart was filled with uneasiness. That was the main reason why he thought he could be rescued from it when he saw an ad for the phone-tapping device in a magazine. Heisuke looked at the wall clock, it was already 4:30 in the afternoon.Her practice should be almost over. It's a bit cold today, maybe she will go to Tangjinku. The Sapporo ramen restaurant came to his mind.The noodle shop is next to Naoko's school.He knew that she often went to this noodle restaurant called Tangjinku through the cash register slip she threw in the trash can in the room.The cash register slips he found, in addition to Yukino's, also belonged to her favorite Mifu Yakiniku Restaurant and Kururu Cafe.It is estimated that she will go to many other stores, but because those stores are specially opened for high school students, they do not provide cash registers. If she went to the soup pan library, then she should eat char siew noodles in miso soup. He knew that it was Naoko's favorite noodle dish, and he also knew that the price of char siew noodles in miso soup was 660 yen.