Chapter 7 Chapter VII

The two were silent for a while, and soon there was the sound of the toilet flushing and the door opening and closing.Then I heard Zhenghui walking back barefoot, and his footsteps gradually drifted away. However, the sound of dripping water continued. As soon as the sliding door of the back room was closed, Yaeko stood up.She entered the hallway and opened the toilet door, and the dripping stopped.Zhenghui must have left the faucet for washing hands unturned. This is already a common occurrence. With a bang, Yaeko closed the toilet door, which startled Akio. She leaned against the wall, squatted down as if she was about to collapse, covered her face with her hands, and sighed.

"It's a mess, think about it or die." "Is this my fault?" - Akio swallowed the words stuck in his throat.His eyes fell on the tatami mats that had turned reddish brown, and he remembered the scene when the tatami mats were still emerald green.At that time, he had just entered high school, and his father worked very hard every day to barely afford a house of such a size. He even complained about such a father in his heart. But now Akio is asking himself what he did.Back to the small house that I looked down on at the beginning, I couldn't even form a decent family.Not only that, he also brought misfortune to other families, because the source of this misfortune was caused by him.

"How's the park?" he said. "garden?" "It's that ginkgo park." "Throw the body there?" "Ok." "Just put it in the open air?" "No," he shook his head. "Isn't there a public toilet there? I want to put the corpse in the private room inside." "Public toilet..." "Doing so may delay the time of discovery." "Well, it's possible." Yaeko climbed into the room, watched her husband's face and said, "When will you move?" "In the middle of the night, around two o'clock...about."

Zhaofu glanced at the clock on the coffee table, it was only half past eight. He pulled out the folded cardboard box from the closet that he bought the dryer with three months ago.He asked the electrical store to install the machine in it when it was delivered to the door, because Yaeko said it could be used to store the extra cushions, but it didn't work.But Akio really didn't expect to use it to transport corpses. He carried the cardboard box to the yard. After assembling it, he placed it next to the girl's body covered in a black plastic bag, making sure that it could be packed in smoothly.

Akio folded the box again and went back to the house.Yaeko was sitting on a chair at the dining table, holding her head in her hands.Her hair was disheveled and hung down, covering her face. "How is it?" she asked, maintaining this movement. "Hmm...it looks like it can fit." "You didn't pretend?" "It's still too early. If there is any sneaky behavior in the yard, it will be troublesome if someone sees it." Yaeko turned her head slightly, as if looking at the clock, and then expressed her approval in a hoarse voice. Akio felt thirsty and wanted to drink beer.No, a stronger alcohol would be better.He wanted to escape the pain in front of him by getting himself drunk.However, he must not get drunk now, because there are still important things waiting for him to do.

"What is Naomi doing?" Yaeko shook her head, it seemed that she didn't know either. "You go to his room to see?" Yaeko let out a long sigh, and finally raised her face, her eye circles were red. "Leave him alone for a while now." "But there are still many questions to ask him, such as the details." "What do you want to ask?" The wife said with a twisted expression. "Of course he was asked if he was seen with the girl." "What's the use of asking this now?" "What's the use? Didn't I just say that if someone sees them, they will report to the police soon, and then they will come to interrogate Naomi, and it will be too late to think of a solution."

"Even if the police come," Yaeko looked down, "I won't let them see my son." "You think you can deal with the past like this? This will only increase their suspicion." "Then let him say that he doesn't know anything. As long as he insists that he doesn't know that girl, the police can't help it." "You think too simply. What if the witness is sure that it is Naomi? The police will not give up easily. Also, what if Naomi was greeted by someone when he was with the girl? And he replied What should the other party do? It is impossible for us to justify ourselves."

"What's the point of making these completely empty assumptions?" "That's why I want him to tell the situation, at least find out if he has met anyone." Perhaps because she felt that what Akio said was reasonable, Yaeko did not continue to refute.Her face became expressionless, and she stood up slowly. "where did you go?" "On the second floor, go ask Naomi to see if he was bumped into by anyone." "Let him come here and speak for himself." "You don't have to do that, do you? The child has also been hit." "Then it's even more important to—"

Yaeko ignored Akio, left the dining room straight away, and came to the corridor with the sound of slippers touching the ground.However, as soon as she walked up the stairs, her voice suddenly became softer, as if she didn't want to irritate Naomi.Akio was very disgusted with this kind of submissive behavior. After slamming out the cigarette butt, he stood up abruptly, opened the refrigerator door, took out a can of beer and drank it standing up. There was a plastic bag provided by the supermarket at his feet. Yaeko must have found the girl's body after returning from shopping in the supermarket.It seems that in a panic, he forgot to put the things he bought in the refrigerator.

The plastic bag contained vegetables and minced meat, and it seemed that she was going to make hamburger patties again, which Naomi liked to eat.In addition, there are packaged semi-finished vegetables that can be eaten after cooking. Yaeko has not cooked a good meal for her husband for several months. At this moment, footsteps were heard, and Yaeko opened the door and entered. "How is it?" Zhao Fu asked. "He said he didn't meet anyone." She sat down in a chair, "so I told him that if the police came to question him, he said he didn't know anything."

Akio took several swigs of beer. "If the police come, it means that they have some clues. At this time, you still say that you don't know anything. Do you think they will believe it?" "Even if they don't believe it, they can only insist that they don't know?" Akio snorted contemptuously. "You think he can handle this kind of thing?" "What kind of thing?" "It's just lying to the police. The police are not ordinary people. They have witnessed so many murderers, and they often interrogate such guys. If they are targeted by them, Naomi's legs will go weak all at once. He faces us all. It's willful and tyrannical, but in fact it's just a coward, and you know that." Yaeko did not answer, perhaps because she also agreed with her husband's conclusion. "It's because you dote on him so much that he becomes what he is now." "You say all of this is my fault?" Yaeko stared. "Because you are obedient to him, he doesn't even have a little bit of patience now." "It's a good thing you can speak, you haven't done anything yourself, and you run away from problems whenever you encounter problems." "When did I escape?" "Didn't you escape when your son was in sixth grade?" "Sixth grade?" "Look, I've already forgotten it. That was the time he was bullied. You scolded him at that time, saying that you were a boy and you would fight back with your teeth. He obviously didn't want to go to school, but you still dragged him to go. I stopped him." It's no use either." "I did it for his own good." "No, you are evading. You didn't solve any problems at all by doing that. Naomi was bullied all the time. Although the teacher warned those who bullied him, he was no longer subjected to violence, but until graduation, he was still bullied. He was isolated by his classmates, no one spoke to him, and completely ignored his existence." It was the first time Akio heard these words. He originally thought that since Naomi went to school every day, the matter of being bullied must have been resolved. "Why didn't you tell me?" "It was Naomi who asked me not to tell you. I also think it's better not to tell you. Because you can only scold children anyway. For you, your family is just your trouble." "Why do you say that?" "Isn't it? Especially during that time, you don't know which woman you fell in love with, and you didn't care about the family affairs at all." Yaeko stared at Akio fiercely and said. "Why are you still talking about this?" Akio responded impatiently. "Forget it, I don't want to mention that woman again. What I want to say is that no matter how you fool around outside, you can't ignore the affairs at home. You don't know your son at all. I'll tell you now, he Now I am still alone in school. Because the group of people who bullied him in elementary school said bad things about him everywhere, no one wants to make friends with him. Have you ever considered your child's feelings?" Tears welled up in Yaeko's eyes again, not only from sadness, but also from her grievances. Akio turned his face away from his wife. "Forget it, don't talk anymore." "You wanted to mention it yourself." Yaeko muttered. Zhaofu drank all the beer and crushed the empty soda can in his hand. "Now I can only hope that the police will not come. If they come...there may be no chance, so let's give up at that time." "No," Yaeko shook her head, "I will never." "But this is also impossible, what can we do?" "I'm going to surrender myself." "what?" "Just say I strangled her so they won't catch Naomi." "Stop talking silly." "Then are you willing to surrender?" Yaeko stared at Akio's face with wide eyes, "No? Then I'm the only one to surrender." Akio smacked his lips and scratched his head hard, he started to feel a headache. "Why did you and I kill a little girl? I can't give a reason at all." "It's too late to think about this kind of problem now." "So when did you kill him? Did you go to work odd jobs? I have the same alibi as you." "Just say that he killed him as soon as he came back from work." "It's useless. The time of the murder can be accurately calculated through anatomy." "I can't control that much anymore. In short, I want to take the blame for him." "Stop talking silly," Akio repeated, before throwing the crushed empty beer can into the trash. At this moment, a thought suddenly flashed in his mind.The thought was so tempting that it lingered in his mind for a few seconds. "What's wrong? What do you want to say?" Yaeko asked. "No, it's nothing." Akio shook his head, and at the same time tried his best to get rid of the thought just now.He was going to never think about it again, because that thought was so evil that even thinking about it would make Akio feel terrible and loathe himself thinking about it.