Chapter 16 Futaba Chapter Eight

The digital clock in the car showed nine o'clock, and Kosuke Wakisaka was sitting in the driver's seat studying the map. I don't know how many times I have seen this scene today. The car was parked in the parking lot of a building, probably an art museum or a museum, right next to it, to be precise, the sign saying Goryokaku was right next to us.The inside of Goryokaku is dark, and the outside looks like an ordinary garden. We arrived in Hakodate in the evening. We did not expect that it would take nearly seven hours to drive from Sapporo to Hakodate. There were no valleys and slopes along the way, but it took so long to drive at a certain speed on the straight asphalt road.

We came to Hakodate to meet Shijiaqing. Judging from the surname, the Juzi who Afeng met should be Shijiaqing's daughter.Although I don't know the address of the Uji family, I vaguely remember that Fujimura mentioned that the Uji family taught at Hakodate University of Science, but when I went to Hokuto Medical University to find Fujimura, I heard him say on the phone that the Uji family had gone to Tokyo, so maybe the Uji family has not yet arrived. Back to Hokkaido. Having said that, why does the daughter of the Shi family look a lot like me? The first possibility I intuit is that I am also the daughter of the Shi family.

Not only that, but I was half of twin test-tube babies, and the other half was put into the womb of the wife of the Shi family, and the child born was Juzi of the Shi family.I have read in the newspaper that the technology of in vitro fertilization can make twins be born by different women. If this hypothesis is true, all doubts will be solved. "Perhaps." Wakisaka Kosuke also agreed with my deduction, "But who is your mother?" "It's probably not my mother." I said, "I don't look like my mother at all. Maybe it's the mother of Juzi from the Shi family?"

Kosuke Wakisaka did not express any opinion on this point. I kept thinking about these questions on the way to Hakodate.My mother's death is related to Ihara Shunze, Ihara is sick, he or his subordinates want my body; I may be a test tube baby, there is a girl who looks exactly like me, she may be the daughter of the Uji family, The Shi family used to work at Beidou Medical University with her mother... The more I thought about it, the more I felt that there might be no answer to this whole thing, that I would never find it, and would just wander aimlessly in a fog of confusion.But I thought about it again, this sudden mist made no sense but only shrouded around me, there must be some answer in some corner.

After much deliberation, I decided to meet that Juzi, maybe I could find a jigsaw puzzle piece that I hadn't found before. After arriving in Hakodate, I called Afeng and asked him to ask Mariko when she would return to Hokkaido, because I couldn't summon up the courage to call her myself. When I called Toyoto, Wakisaka Kosuke also called back to his company. He said that his colleagues found Ujiie Kiyoshi's address for him. "It's really amazing that such things can be found." I was very impressed. "Just grab the professor of Hakodate University of Science and look into it. This is the power of the intelligence network." Wakisaka said lightly.That's what it's all about, I nodded.

Wakisaka Kosuke was looking at the map while driving to find the residence of the Uji family. After searching for a long time, he still didn't get anything to say. After driving for a long time, he stopped on the side of the road and stared at the map. "Okay, I see. Wrong direction." With the map still on his lap, Kosuke Wakisaka started the engine. "Did you really find the right way this time?" "Absolutely, and not far from here." He stepped on the gas pedal. Maybe it's because of the night, the streets of Hakodate are more simple than I imagined, and it looks like an ordinary town. Where are the exotic places introduced by TV travel programs?

Kosuke Wakisaka finally stopped the car next to a three-story apartment building. This area is a very ordinary dense residential area, no different from Tokyo. "It's the third floor of this building." Kosuke Wakisaka stretched out his thumb and gestured upstairs. We walked up the stairs to the door of Shi’s house. The door next door opened suddenly, and a fat middle-aged aunt came out. She was surprised when she saw me, and then she smiled for some reason. "Ah, you surprised me, you're back?" she said to me affectionately. I was confused and responded with a "hmm".

"Oh..." Auntie walked around us down the stairs while sizing up Wakisaka Kosuke. I turned to him and asked, "What's going on?" "It's the wrong person." He said, "She thought you were the maid of the clan." I crossed my arms and swallowed, "She didn't suspect anything at all." "Yeah," he said. I plucked up the courage to ring the doorbell of Shi's house, but no one answered. "You haven't come back from Tokyo yet." "It's possible, I can only make another trip." "Ok."

We went back to the first floor and were about to walk out of the apartment door. Kosuke Wakisaka stopped and stared at the rows of mailboxes. The name plate of mailbox 305 said "Uji's House", and it was full of letters, some of which were crowded. Come outside. He gently pulled out one of them, checked the front and back and handed it to me.The sender column of the white envelope was printed with the name of a girls' school dormitory, which should be a Catholic school, and the addressee was Shijiajuzi. "It seems that she lived in this dormitory." Wakisaka Kosuke said.

"Yeah, you can tell it's a noble school at first glance." "Father is a university professor, so he must be very particular about his daughter's education." "It's completely different from my situation." "Studying in an aristocratic school doesn't necessarily make you happy." "That's right." I looked at the words Shijiajuzi again, and thought that this name was really good. After leaving the Uji's apartment, I called Afeng again. Afeng said that the Uji's Mariko was scheduled to return to Hokkaido tomorrow, and he would call her to confirm the flight time tomorrow.

This evening we parked the car in a dark corner next to the dock warehouse, intending to spend the night in the car.Ibara's clutches should not reach Hakodate, but we decided that it would be safer not to stay in a hotel.Sleeping in the car for two consecutive nights, I am also used to the feeling of being wrapped in a smelly blanket; Kosuke Wakisaka still carried his sleeping bag to find a shelter by himself like last night. Although I think he is very pitiful, I am not big enough to be willing Sleep with him in the cramped car.Regardless of him, Hokkaido should not catch a cold this season. I fell asleep looking at the night sky with the skylight open, there are no stars tonight. The next morning, we washed our faces in a nearby park, had breakfast at a coffee shop, and headed towards the Uji family's apartment. "I really want to shave." Kosuke Wakisaka held the steering wheel with one hand and stroked his chin with the other. "My head is also very itchy, and my whole body is sticky." "Be patient, I haven't washed my hair for two days in a long time." "Buy a pair of underwear to replace..." He muttered to himself, I sullenly moved my body away from the driver's seat. We parked the car on the side of the road in front of the apartment and waited for the Uji family to appear. Since we don’t know the appearance of the Uji family, our strategy is that whenever a man of similar age walks into the apartment, Kosuke Wakisaka will follow him to see which door he walked into. Door.After watching for an hour, the two men who entered the apartment were not from Shi's family. "Will he go directly to Hokuto Medical University after leaving Tokyo?" "It is indeed possible." Kosuke Wakisaka nodded, "Would you like to visit Hakodate University of Science? Maybe there will be a clue." "Alright..." I picked up the white envelope that I pulled out from Shi's mailbox yesterday. "Oh, you didn't put the letter back? That's a crime." "The one who was drawn out is you." I shook the envelope, "Hey, do you want to go here and have a look?" "Huh?" He looked straight into my eyes, "Are you serious?" "Yes." I said, "I want to know more about this girl. I want to know what kind of child she is and what kind of life she lives. Since she used to live on campus, the fastest way is to ask the dormitory directly." Kosuke Wakisaka tapped the steering wheel and thought for a moment, glanced at the school address on the envelope, and silently opened the map. "It's in the mountains, but it's good for a ride." "That's it." I said and pulled up my seat belt. "However," he said with a serious face, "your appearance is exactly the same as Juzi of the Shi family, don't forget that." "I know." I buckle up my seat belt. The car drove along the road along Hakodate Bay for a while, we drove into the small road on the right, and after crossing a small level crossing, the slope of the road suddenly began to rise, and there were fewer and fewer houses, and soon we entered the forest. The smell of the air has also changed from the tidal aroma to the fragrance of leaves. The car drove into a straight road that seemed to be drawn with a ruler. The road was not paved with asphalt. The two clear tracks of car marks seemed to extend endlessly. Towering trees were planted at equal distances on both sides of the road. Seeing the vast prairie in the distance, the car drove for a long time with this view. When I began to suspect that there would never be an end, a beige building appeared in front of me. "Great." Wakisaka Kosuke murmured, "This road seems to be straight, but I'm worried whether it's going in circles at the same place all the time." The light brown building is an old brick church with a red brick wall in front and a black iron gate at the entrance.Kosuke Wakisaka stopped his car by the fence. When I got out of the car, the air was extremely cold, and I couldn't help rubbing my hands and arms. "Here." Wakisaka Kosuke threw over his windbreaker, while he himself was wearing a thick sports coat. I put on my windbreaker and peeped inside the wall, but I could only see the church through the iron gate, and the surrounding area was so quiet that I even wondered if I was deaf. There was a wicket beside the iron gate leading to an elegant brick cottage. The windows of the cottage were closed and covered with white curtains on the inside. There was a small button next to it, and I pressed it without hesitation. Soon the white curtains were lifted, and an older lady stuck her head out of the window. The wrinkles on her face revealed an elegant temperament. She opened the window with a slight smile. "We want to visit your dormitory." I said. "It's our dormitory inside, but..." The lady had a smile on her face, but she was still wary, "What can I do?" "Uh……" "We want to ask something about graduates from your school." Kosuke Wakisaka who came behind me at some point said, "We are definitely not suspicious people." He said and handed out his business card. The lady took the business card, looked at it, and gave Wakisaka an introduction. "I'm very sorry. People outside the school must have a letter of introduction to enter. After all, we have an obligation to protect students." Her tone was gentle, but her attitude was very strong. "Then can you let us meet the person in charge of your dormitory?" Wakisaka Kosuke refused to give up. "Well..." The lady looked troubled. At this moment, footsteps sounded on the gravel ground inside the wall, and a lady in black with a white apron was walking towards the hut with heavy steps. Her chubby figure reminded me of the black maid in ② . "I baked a pie, you can eat some too." The fat lady smiled and said to the lady in the hut.She was holding a silver plate covered with a white cloth, but when she turned her head and saw me, the smile on her face disappeared. "Oh, nun, what an embarrassment." The lady in the hut smiled and took the silver tray and said, "By the way, nun, these two want to visit the dormitory..." "Ah!" the fat lady said with her mouth wide open, which fits her body shape: "Isn't this Juzi? Oh, oh, my whole person feels different. Look at your outfit..." She looked me up and down After a while, "It's really...you are so young and energetic. You didn't even want to wear long trousers before." "Sister, do you know her?" "She is Juzi, a graduate of the family here. Juzi, it's been a long time." The fat nun smiled at me and said, "Is everything alright?" I couldn't help but "uh", quickly shook my hand and said, "Sorry, I'm not." "Not what?" "I'm not Miss Juzi of the Shi family." The fat nun was stunned for a moment, then stared at Kosuke Wakisaka with wide eyes for some reason, then turned to me and said: "It's not the Shi family... So you're married?" I gasped in fright, and quickly clarified, "No, my name is Kobayashi Futaba, and I am not Miss Juzi of the Shi family." "Huh..." The fat nun's cheeks trembled slightly, "Are you kidding me?" "it is true." "But you..." The fat nun blinked her chubby eyes fiercely, "...you are the sister of the Shi family." "The thing is like this." Wakisaka Kosuke helped explain, "This Miss Xiaolin is Miss Juzi's twin sister. For some reason, she never lived with her biological parents since she was a child. She has the opportunity to come to Miss Juzi's hometown this time. , so I want to take a look at the dormitory where my sister lived back then." When I heard this big lie, my face stiffened immediately, but the fat nun seemed to believe it. "Ah, so that's the case." She nodded forcefully with a face of enlightenment, "No wonder you look so alike, ah, no wonder no wonder, but Juzi never mentioned that she has a twin sister." "I think it's Mariko's parents who asked her not to talk about it." I had no choice but to follow what Wakisaka Kosuke said. Just now I politely called Ujiie Mariko "Miss Ujiie Mariko", but this nun The body is fat and the nerves are thick, and it seems that I have not noticed it at all. "Then let me show you around the dormitory," she said. "Thank you." I said.Kosuke Wakisaka also bowed his head in thanks. "However," the nun raised her index finger, "the male guests in the dormitory are stopped, so I can only trouble this gentleman to wait in the church." "Huh?" Wakisaka Kosuke, who was about to take a step while holding a notebook, was stunned on the spot. "This is the rule." The nun put her hand on my shoulder, "Come on, let's go in." I turned my head and said "goodbye" to Kosuke Wakisaka. The dormitory is an antique wooden building. In front of it is a large pasture. The cattle are either strolling leisurely or squatting to rest. This scenery makes me almost forget that this is Japan. As soon as I entered the dormitory, there were rows of shoe cabinets in front of me. I changed my slippers and went inside.Although the dormitory looks old, the interior is very new, and the corridors are carpeted.The fat nun said that the dormitory students are all on the other side of the campus now, so the dormitory is very quiet. The middle and high schools of this school have not had summer vacation yet, which is later than other schools. I was ushered into the saloon, where we sat down at a large television and round tables with four chairs each. The fat nun said that her surname was Hosono, and she had been the warden of the dormitory for many years.After she sat me down, she left the saloon for a while, and came back with two glasses of apple juice in her hand. Sister Hosono told me a lot about Ujijiajuzi. She talked about Ujijiajuzi’s honesty, hard work and honesty, and interspersed many examples. She thought I was a relative of Ujijiajuzi, so of course she would not speak ill of Ujijiajuzi in front of me. , I can understand this, but every compliment she said is well-founded. The Shijiajuzi she said is so beautiful, it makes me feel a little uncomfortable, and I can't explain why it is like this. "She is really a cheerful and good child, but the fire still had an impact. I always feel that she became more melancholy afterwards." Sister Hosono's face darkened. "What fire?" Sister Hosono was stunned when she heard my question, and I couldn't help feeling a little regretful. "It's... the fire that burned her house..." Sister Hosono was very surprised, "Her mother died in that fire..." My heart seemed to be pulled by someone. It turns out that Juzi of the Shijia lost her mother under such a situation. "Don't you know?" Sister Hosono had an unbelievable expression on her face. "Ah, um, I've heard of it, but the details are not very clear..." I couldn't think of an excuse for a while and panicked, but I didn't expect Sister Hosono to rationalize herself after seeing my strange reaction. "It must be that the people around you don't want you to know the details." She looked at me with pity, and she had infinite sympathy for me in her eyes, so I had to reply "um" perfunctorily. At this time, a young girl walked in. She was wearing a long skirt, exuding a pure temperament all over her body. "Nun, do you have any guests..." Before she finished speaking, she saw me, and she slowly opened her eyes and mouth, "Juzi..." here we go again.To be honest, I'm starting to get tired of this kind of plot. "Chunzi, are you in the same class as Juzi?" Sister Hosono was a little surprised. "No, nun, Juzi is two years younger than me, but we are roommates, right?" The girl named Chunzi smiled at me, and I scratched my head and looked at Sister Hosono. Sister Hosono showed a wry smile on her chubby face, "Chunzi, let me tell you, although this young lady looks like Juzi, she is not Juzi." "Huh? Huh?" Miss Chunzi blinked several times, "Impossible..." "My surname is Xiao Lin, and my sister has been taken care of by you." I said self-destructively. "younger sister……?" "She is Mariko's twin sister." Sister Hosono repeated Wakisaka Kosuke's lie, and Ms. Haruko nodded vigorously without any suspicion at all. "Ah, so that's it. You and Juzi look so similar. I thought it was Juzi." She paused and said, "It's really rude to keep staring at you. Please allow me to apologize to you again." "it does not matter." It’s the first time I’ve heard a girl around my age speak in such a respectful manner. It feels very fresh. Maybe Uji’s Juzi also speaks in this tone. If I went to this school, I’m afraid I will become like this , those people in the band would laugh out loud if they heard me say that. Ms. Chunzi said that she is currently studying in the university department here, and she came to help in the dormitory during the summer vacation. She is studying in the College of Education, so if there is no accident, she will always live here in the future.I really wanted to tell her, then you will never have a boyfriend for the rest of your life, but the atmosphere at the scene seemed not suitable for joking, so I had to endure it. For a long time after that, Miss Chunzi kept talking about the memories of Juzi of the family. Some of them had just been told by Sister Hosono, but there were also many secret activities that they had hidden from the dormitory supervisor for the first time, but even though they were secret activities , The great thing is just playing imitation fashion shows in the room, or oddly signing letters to favorite idol stars and the like. After all, Ujijia Juzi was only in the first grade of middle school at the time, so she couldn't play any tricks. Then the topic turned to me. Ms. Haruko and Sister Hosono didn’t ask any questions, but both of them expressed strong concern about the fact that Mariko and I hadn’t lived together since childhood. In fact, they would have such a reaction It's also normal. "Because of some complicated reasons," I said vaguely, "I didn't meet Juzi until the parents who raised me passed away." "I see." Sister Hosono nodded. Seeing her expression, she seemed to have a lot of imaginations in her head, but she didn't dare to ask casually. Fortunately, these two people are very educated, which really made me feel a lot easier. "Excuse me, can I ask a question?" Miss Chunzi seemed to hesitate for a long time before opening her mouth. "Please say." "Miss Xiaolin, your biological parents are the family couple...that is, Juzi's father and mother...?" "Yes." In order to prevent them from getting into more confusion, I had no choice but to answer like this, but Miss Chunzi's face was still heavy when she heard what I said. "What's wrong?" I asked. "Uh, um, there is something very rude, I don't know if I should say it..." She looked at me and Sister Hosono hesitantly, "Juzi once said something to me, and I have always cared about it .” "What's up?" "It's just..." She hesitated for a moment and said, "Ju Zi said that she suspects that she is not her parents' biological daughter." "Huh?" I straightened my back in surprise. "Chunko, don't talk nonsense." Sister Hosono scolded Miss Chunko in a very severe tone, perhaps this was her usual attitude towards boarding students. "I'm sorry." Miss Chunzi bowed and apologized reflexively, "But Juzi was really troubled at the beginning, and she said that she didn't look like her mother at all, and she was very worried that her mother would hate her because of it." "What nonsense are you talking about? There are so many children in the world who don't look like their parents." "That's right, we comforted Juzi in the same way at the beginning, but she still couldn't let it go, and then the fire broke out again, and we never dared to mention it to her again..." Miss Chunzi lowered her eyes. I was lost in thought.Afeng said on the phone that Juzi of the family is also investigating her own life experience. So, the reason why she is suspicious is because her mother doesn't look like her? The question is, if Juzi and I are both test-tube babies, and neither of us looks like our mothers, who is our real mother? "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said such absurd things." Seeing that I was silent, Miss Chunzi repeatedly apologized to me, almost crying out of anxiety. "It's okay, I don't worry about it." I smiled politely. After that, I took a tour and said goodbye. Sister Hosono escorted me to the gate. "Please send my greetings to Mariko." Sister Hosono said to me before leaving. "Okay." I nodded.If this fat nun finds out the real relationship between me and Juzi of the Uji family, I don't know what expression she will show. Walking out of the gate, the MPV was parked under the shade of a big tree. Kosuke Wakisaka was taking a nap in the car. I knocked on the car window to wake him up, and told him about the information I had just received about the Uji family Mariko.Hearing that Juzi of the Shi family didn't look like her mother, he crossed his arms and murmured: "In this way, there is only one possibility, that is, both of you are test-tube babies, and you were born by different surrogate mothers." "Surrogate mother..." That word sounds harsh, and I don't want to define the mother who gave birth to me that way. "By the way, it suddenly occurred to me," I looked back at the road behind me, but the view was the same whether I looked forward or backward. "Maybe I have the same body as Ujiie Mariko." Wakisaka Kosuke was silent for a while, then asked, "What do you mean?" "Since the faces are the same, the body should be the same too? Aren't all twins like this?" "So what?" "You said last time that there might be some secrets hidden in my body, and Ibara Junsaku and his gang are so relentlessly chasing after me, and these secrets should also exist in the Uji family's Mariko, right?" "Maybe." "That would be terrible!" My heart began to beat faster, "I have to inform Juzi of the Shi family as soon as possible, the next target of the villains is likely to be her!" (Gone With The Wind) is a famous American novel, also translated, published in 1936 by Margaret Mitchell.