Chapter 35 Section 7

Toasted bread with vegetable soup, sliced ​​ham and fried eggs, and coffee after dinner—Xiaoxiao ate his regular breakfast while reading the newspaper.Kyoko tried many times to get her husband to get rid of this habit, but every time he would justify himself and would not listen to the advice at all.Kyoko has given up recently too, it's better than watching TV while eating.They strictly forbid their daughter Yaoxiang to watch TV while eating.If the father does not obey, he cannot set an example. "Young girls hook up with middle-aged men to have sex and ask for money. It seems to be more and more. This is actually prostitution. The recent young people are really shameful. I don't know what they are thinking." Zeng I in the newspaper Said later.

"It's still not good for men." "That's right. It's reported here that there are company employees who have had sex with girls. Some people have daughters who are in junior high or high school. Such people say that they never want their daughters to do such things. It's really selfish. .” "Such people should be sentenced to death, or have their penis cut off." Kyoko's words made Xiao Dao burst out laughing.He finally closed the newspaper. "Maybe I'll be back later today." "Another entertainment?" Kyoko rolled her eyes and looked at him.

"No. I have an appointment to meet someone. I told you before that it is Minister Xinhai's daughter." "Ah, we can finally meet. Didn't she change her mind temporarily last week?" It was planned to meet at the coffee shop, but the other party called the shop and said that there was a sudden emergency and they couldn't go. "Yeah, but it's too unfair for her to change her mind temporarily. I suddenly asked to meet." "It's a good thing anyway, and you've gone through all the trouble." "Hmm. To be honest, I didn't expect it to be so troublesome, but I can't think of a way to give that thing to Minister Xinhai's daughter, and I can't let it go." Xiaodao stood up, put on his coat, picked up the leather bag on the chair and asked Go to the door.Kyoko followed behind.

"Shall we have dinner at home?" "It should be." He said as he put on his shoes. It should be, but there is no guarantee—the husband, who is an employee of a trading company, seems to be telling his wife behind his back.After seven years of marriage, she has already gotten used to it. "If you're eating out, give me a call." "Yes. I'll call you by eight no matter what." After sending her husband away, Kyoko asked Haruka to get up.My daughter, who has entered elementary school this year, still can't wake up by herself, and often complains that she is too sleepy and doesn't want to go to school.

But she woke up right away this morning, which is rare.She went to the living room in her pajamas, looked around and asked, "Where's Dad?" "Already went to the company." "Huh? Already gone? I wanted to see Dad." "What are you talking about. Isn't it always like this, so I told you to get up early." Haruka stood unhappily, and Kyoko was a little anxious.Usually the father goes out early, but the child doesn't care at all. Why did he say that this morning? Sitting at the dining table, Yaoxiang was still acting weird, poking the slices of ham with a fork, not eating well at all.

"Can Dad go home early?" "What's the matter? What can I do with my father?" "That's not true." "Don't just say inexplicable things, eat quickly, you're going to be late." The child Yaoxiang is not very close to his father at ordinary times, perhaps because he is too busy with filial piety work and rarely sees the child.Most of the time she acted like a baby to Kyoko, and almost never acted like a baby in front of filial piety.Filial piety sometimes feels a little lonely. After sending her daughter off, Kyoko began to eat breakfast alone, Haruka only ate half a slice of bread, and the vegetable soup was barely touched.After Kyoko finished eating all of these, she toasted another piece of bread and said to herself, "You always get fat when you eat too much."

Kyoko is very satisfied with her current life.The husband who works for a top-notch trading company works hard, has no bad habits, and is considerate to everyone.The only daughter Yaoxiang is also lively and healthy.She is also very satisfied with this apartment. It only takes a few minutes to walk to Minami Asagaya, shopping is also convenient, and the pressure of repaying the loan is not great at present.Filial piety didn't object at all to his signing up for a cultural school. Kyoko thought, as long as the current life can continue, she won't have too many extravagant demands.She believes it will continue, and there is no sign that this life will be disrupted.

After breakfast, she started to wash clothes, then wiped the glass, and cleaned the balcony by the way.She decided to clean up the place that she didn't usually clean up today.She tidied under the kitchen sink, wiped the top of the refrigerator, and used a special cleaner to remove dirt from the leather sofa, which was exhausting work. Just as she was watching TV and eating a past breakfast, Yaoxiang came back.Kyoko hastily turned off the TV. Haruka proposes to make a cake for her father.Kyoko thought, why does this kid keep talking strange things today, but this is a good idea.Xiaodao can't drink much, but likes to eat sweets.When he first got married, Kyoko always baked sweet cookies for him.

The mother and daughter were busy making cakes, and the time passed in the blink of an eye.Kyoko took Haruka to buy ingredients for dinner. "What would you like to eat today?" Kyoko asked her daughter as she wandered around the food counter in the supermarket. "Gratin." Yaoxiang replied without thinking, "Dad likes it. He likes to eat shrimp gratin." "Ok." Every night I worry about not knowing what to do, but today I settled down so easily, which is really good.But why does this child always think about his father today? When she got home, Kyoko started to prepare. As soon as Xiaodao came back, she could bake it right away.

After everything was ready, Xiaodao hadn't returned yet.Haruka looked at her watch while watching TV.Her favorite idol program was on TV, but she seemed to be absent-minded. "Why isn't Daddy coming back?" "Yeah, but he said he would call home before eight o'clock." Kyoko looked at his watch, it was half past seven soon. After another ten minutes, the phone on the living room partition rang. "Finally a call." Kyoko heaved a sigh of relief and picked up the receiver.I'm sorry, I'm going to eat out again - she thought she would hear such words.

But it wasn't her husband's voice that came through the microphone. "Hello, is this Mr. Soga's house?" It was a young woman's voice. "yes." "I'm sorry for the sudden interruption, my surname is Xinhai." "Xinhai? Ah, I heard from my husband that you are the daughter of Minister Xinhai, right?" Kyoko nodded, but she didn't understand why this person would call home?The husband should be with her now. "Thank you for taking care of Mr. Zengwo this time, thank you very much." "Where, my husband always said that Minister Xinhai took great care of him, and he should do so." "Oh...then, is Mr. Zenga at home?" "Ah?" Kyoko was stunned, "Aren't you with my husband? He said he was going to meet Minister Xinhai's daughter tonight." "Yes. We made an appointment like this, but when the appointed time came, Mr. Zeng hadn't come yet. I wonder if he forgot..." "Oh, I'm so sorry! What did he do, but I don't think he'll forget, and he said it this morning." "Then I'll wait a little longer." "The time you agreed upon is..." "Seven o'clock. At a coffee shop called Osmanthus in Ginza." So, it's been fifty minutes.Whatever the circumstances, if it was so late, the husband would have called the coffee shop. "I'll wait a little longer." Shinkai Mifuyu said as if aware of Kyoko's doubts. "No, that's too embarrassing." Kyoko thought quickly, she couldn't embarrass her husband, as a filial wife, she must make a proper judgment, "Well, if my husband hasn't left by eight o'clock, you can go back Well. Maybe he'll go to the coffee shop after that, but there's no way... I'll ask him to call you if I can get him. Is that okay?" "No problem, I'll wait until eight o'clock." "Can you tell me your home phone number?" Kyoko hurriedly wrote down the number that Shinkai Mifuyu said.That's all right?There should be no omissions, but what is filial piety doing? After hanging up the phone, a trace of uneasiness quickly flooded into my heart.This has never happened before, and even if I am late, I will definitely contact the other party. She called Xiaodao's mobile phone, but couldn't get through, maybe it was out of battery. "Where's Dad?" Yaoxiang asked. "It seems to have gone somewhere because of work. Dad is really shameless, let's eat first." The daughter shook her head. "I want to eat with my father and wait for my father to come back." The child must be hungry—Kyoko looked at her daughter's face in disbelief. She decided to call the company, but the person who answered the phone was from another department. He said that the filial piety department had long since disappeared. In the end, it was mother and daughter who ate the gratin.After ten o'clock, the phone rang again. Kyoko quickly picked up the receiver, but it was Mifuyu Shinkai calling again. "Sorry, I haven't been in touch with my husband yet." "Oh. It seems that Mr. Zeng is very busy with work." "Maybe there's trouble at work, it's never happened before...I'm so sorry." "It's okay, you don't have to worry about it." "thanks." She should have apologized to Xinhai, but was comforted by her on the phone.After hanging up the phone, Kyoko looked at her watch again. Two days later, Kyoko and Xin Haimeifu met.Xiaodao never came home that night.The next day, Kyoko called the company and learned that he didn't go to the company either.In the afternoon, she went to the police station.The police took a note, but it seemed that they would not take immediate action. The only advice given was to tell her to wait. Kyoko was fidgeting and couldn't bear it anymore, so she called Mifuyu Xinkai at night, thinking that she should be able to provide some clues. The Shinkai Mifuyu I met in the coffee shop was much more mature than expected, and far from Kyoko's expectations. She didn't even react when Mifuyu greeted her, but the business card handed over was indeed printed with Xin Haimei winter.Kyoko was even more surprised when she heard that she was running a beauty salon. "You must be very worried." After hearing Kyoko's description, she frowned her beautifully trimmed eyebrows. "So, sorry, I want to ask if you have any clues." Shinkai Mifuyu just shook his head sympathetically. "I only talked with Mr. Zeng Wo on the phone. He said he wanted to give me something, and we will talk about the details when we meet..." "Oh..." Although Kyoko was already mentally prepared and felt that it would be useless even if they met, she was still disappointed when she heard these words and couldn't help sighing. "I don't know what he wants to give me..." Xin Haimeifuyu whispered to himself. "It's a photo." Kyoko said. "photo?" "A photo of you and your parents. He happened to find it and wanted to give it to you. He also said that the photo album must have been burned in the earthquake." "Oh, just for this..." Xinhai Meidong shook her head. Seeing the other person's expression, Kyoko finally understood why she hadn't recognized her as Shinkai Mifuyu just now.Filial piety once let her see the photo.Although I didn't look carefully, the impression I had at the time was completely different from that of this woman. But this kind of thing doesn't matter, Kyoko is most worried about her husband now.