Chapter 28 Section 1

Seafood-based dishes are on the table.Jingzi seldom cooks meat dishes because she doesn't like meat.Minemura brought light white wine, which he knew she liked.Naoki admires him very much, he can always consider the details, and he is flexible in handling things.Naoki sometimes even felt that it was a pity for him to be a technician. "Surlie is a wine made from early-harvested grapes, and it has a mild taste. To be honest, I don't know much about wine." Minemura explained the wine he brought.It can be seen that he is trying to make his explanation less boring. "It's so true. The taste is very light and delicious, right?" Shizuko held the glass in one hand and looked at Naoki.

"Yeah." He nodded.In fact, he does not understand the difference between wine, he likes Japanese sake. Fengcun and Naoki are college classmates. They are in the sailing team together. Fengcun is three years behind Naoki, but they have different departments. Naoki is from the School of Economics, and Fengcun is from the School of Engineering.At that time, their relationship was not particularly close. Even though they were both in the sailing team, they only dealt with each other at the sports meeting. There was an invisible wall between the seniors and the juniors. They began to interact frequently after Fengcun entered the company where Naoki worked.Naoki is in the Propaganda Department, and Minemura is in the Product Development Department. The two have little contact at work, but they have a common hobby-sailing.Naoki has his own sailing boat after graduation, and goes out to sea with his friends several times a year. For him, having such a reliable helper like Mine Village is very satisfying.

More than ten years later, the two still maintain this relationship.A few days before going to sea every time, Fengcun would come to Naoki's house to discuss going to sea with him.That's why he's here tonight.In addition, Naoki would also invite him to eat the dishes made by his wife, which can be regarded as a kind of reward for him. Just when the wine brought by Fengcun was about to run out, the mobile phone on the cabinet in the living room rang. "Ah, it's Sugawara's phone ringing." Minemura said. "It's so late, what's the matter?" Naoki stood up, but he was not in a hurry to answer the phone, he had an ominous premonition in his heart.He began to regret why he was so stupid for not turning off the power first.

The phone kept ringing.If you don't answer the phone, it will arouse the suspicion of Fengcun and Jingzi. There is no way, he connected the phone: "Hello, hello." A gasping voice came from the other end, "It's me," a woman said.He was quite familiar with this voice. "Ah... hello." The ominous premonition just now came true.Naoki turned his back to the two people sitting at the table. "Where are you?" the woman on the phone said. "I have a visitor at home, I will call you later." She smiled at Naoki's acting skills: "Are you at home?"

"Well, yes. So, I'll call you back later. I'm sorry." He finished quickly, ready to hang up. "Don't hang up! If you hang up, I will keep calling. Turning off the phone is useless. I will call your home. Anyway, I know your home phone number." Naoki felt hot all over, and this woman's attitude this time was obviously different from before. "Okay, I see. Let me wait for you first." Naoki put the phone to his ear, pushed the door to the corridor, he didn't see the reaction of Minemura and Shizuko, because he didn't know how to face them.

He walked into the next room, which was used by Naoki as a study. "What do you want to do? Don't embarrass me anymore!" Naoki said while sitting on the chair. "What's so embarrassing? You just kept hiding me like that?!" "Think about it for me, my wife is still by my side." The woman said as if surprised: "Oh, isn't it? Didn't you tell me to tell your wife about me? It's okay if she hears that." "Didn't I say to choose the timing? This kind of thing depends on the timing!" "Again! I've heard enough!"

"Anyway, I'll call you tomorrow. Is that all right?" "No!" The woman flatly refused. Naoki sighed quietly. "why not?" "I don't believe your words anymore! I wonder if you really want to divorce your wife. You do this every time, and you definitely don't want to divorce!" "I didn't lie to you. You can do it, don't be so annoying." Naoki lowered his voice, afraid that Shizuko and the others next to him would hear. "Say it now!" "what?" "Tell your wife about us." "Stop messing around! I'm sure I'll tell you later."

"Who is messing around?!" The woman became hysterical, "I always talk about it later, later, when are you going to make me wait? I can't wait any longer, so I called you this time." "Then you should also know that this kind of thing cannot be rushed!" Naoki's voice was pleading. "If you can't say it, let me say it, and you hand over the phone to your wife!" "How can this be done? Come on, I see, let's talk about it tomorrow. You can book a place." Naoki just wanted to get through this as soon as possible, but the woman didn't listen to him at all.

"Put your wife on the phone!" "Stop joking!" "Do you think I'm joking?" "At least you're not cool, that's for sure. Can you cool your head?" For a moment, the woman closed her mouth.For Naoki, it was an eerie silence. "I think you should be more serious." The woman lowered her voice. "What do you mean?" "Aren't you in your room? You draw the curtains." "what?" "Didn't you hear? I told you to draw the curtains." Naoki felt uneasy in his heart.What the hell is this woman doing?

He drew back the curtains. Opposite is an apartment, from here you can see the balcony of the opposite room.There, too, the curtains were open, and a woman stood facing him in the room, holding a cell phone. "What the hell is going on?" he asked. "If you really don't want to take it seriously, I'm prepared." She retreated indoors. There is a steel pipe hanger in the room, which is telescopic, and the height of the steel pipe can be adjusted.There was no clothes hanging on the hanger, but something else was hanging on it. Naoki gasped when he saw it clearly. It was a rope with a knot at one end.

"Hey, what do you want to do?" The woman didn't answer.There seemed to be something in front of the hanger, she stepped on it, faced Naoki, and stretched her neck into the rope loop. "Hey, Fu Yuko." Naoki called out, "Don't make such a joke!" "This is not a joke with you. I have told you that I am prepared." "Come down! Don't do anything stupid!" "If you want me to stop, you have to listen to me!" "Okay, let me tell my wife, I must say it these days! Please stop thinking about stupid things!" "I don't believe it. You put your wife on the phone now! I'm going to tell her my resolve myself." "Please spare me! Isn't this a threat? Are you happy to make me suffer?!" "Then what did you do to me? You've been putting me in pain for so long. What do you think? I can't take it anymore! Rather than doing this, I'd rather die." "I'm sorry. I know it's my fault, so please..." "Call your wife!" "not now!" "Isn't it okay anyway?" "But--" "Okay, goodbye"" He saw the woman jump down, and the hanger shook. "Ah, Tomoyuko!" Naoki yelled, "Hey, hello, Tomoyuko!" I can't hear anything on the other end of the phone.Naoki stared at the opposite room.The woman's body was hanging in the middle of the room, her head hanging limply in front of her.His hands drooped, no matter how he looked at it, he was not acting. The next moment, there was the sound of running footsteps in the corridor, followed by a knock on the door. "Sugawara, can I come in? Something serious happened!" It was Mine Village's voice. Before Naoki could answer, Fengcun had already kicked open the door.Seeing that Naoki was still holding the phone, he hesitated for a moment. "Ah, sorry, are you still on the phone?" "Oh...it's over." Naoki hung up the phone. "Something went wrong! A woman in the opposite building committed suicide!" Fengcun's eyes were bloodshot. "you saw it?" "I accidentally looked out the window and saw that scene..." Speaking of this, Minemura noticed that the curtains of this room were half open. "Did Sugawara see it too?" "Ok……" "It's better to call the police. I guess no one else saw it." "No, wait a minute." Naoki called to Minemura who was about to leave the room, "How is Shizuko?" "She saw it too, and she was frightened at the time, and she may be resting on the sofa now." "Really." Naoki clenched his lips, all kinds of thoughts were churning in his mind, he couldn't organize his thoughts at all, his mind was in chaos. "Sugawara, do you want to call the police—" "Wait a minute," Naoki spread out his right palm, "That woman is my lover." "Huh?" Minamura's eyes widened. "I don't have time to go into details with you, anyway, that's how things are. I was talking to her just now, and she said that if I don't tell Jingzi about her, she will die to me. I thought she was just threatening me. " "Didn't think she would really commit suicide?" Naoki nodded, he was already exhausted. "This..." Fengcun might as well say what to say. Naoki held his head in his hands. "What can we do? As soon as the police investigate her room, they will know the reason for her suicide, so that people in the company will know about Sugawara... Oh my God." "I understand. Sugawara, I'll go to that room to have a look first. Maybe I can be saved in the hospital right away. I'll go right away." "Is it still useful?" Naoki replied weakly.Although Fengcun's words brought him a glimmer of hope, he felt that there was still darkness in front of him. "I can't say for sure, but it's the only way to do it." "That's right, then I'll trouble you to make a trip." "Understood, I will let you know as soon as I have news." "The key is here," Naoki opened the drawer of the desk and took out a key hidden inside. But Minemura shook his head. "Isn't it good to go in without authorization? Let the administrator open it." "Ah, yes." Minemura was right. Fengcun left the room, did not go back to the living room, and went straight to the door, probably because he didn't know how to explain to Shizuko. Naoki looked at the key in his hand, it was a key that brought him nightmares.