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Chapter 50 Section VII

white night walk 东野圭吾 1970Words 2018-03-22
The fateful day has been gloomy since the morning, and it seems that it will rain at any time.Cheng ate breakfast late, and then stared at the sky in his room.He didn't sleep well last night and he had a terrible headache.He was thinking about how to contact Misawa Chitsuru.He knew that she would be staying at the hotel in Shinagawa tonight, so if he had to, he could go directly to the hotel to find her, but he hoped to see her as much as possible during the day and confess his love to her. But he couldn't find a way.They had no personal correspondence, and he knew neither her phone number nor her address.She is a dispatcher, so her name will naturally not appear in the company's address book.

The section chief or director may know, but how should he ask?What's more, they don't necessarily keep their address books at home. There is only one way to go to the company to check directly.Although today is Saturday, there should be quite a few colleagues working overtime in the company.Even if he went to the office to find something, he didn't have to worry about being suspicious. Cheng secretly said that it was not too late, and stood up from the chair, when the doorbell at the entrance suddenly rang.He immediately felt ominous. After about a minute, he confirmed that his hunch was right.The sound of someone going upstairs came from outside the room, like the unique footsteps of wearing slippers, it should be Lai Zi.

"Cheng, Xuesui is here." Lai Zi said outside the door. "Is she here? I'll go down right away." Xuesui is drinking black tea with Lai Zi, grandpa and grandma in the living room.She is wearing a dark brown suit today. "Xuesui brought a cake, would you like a piece?" Lai Zi asked, seeming to be in a good mood. "No. Uh, why did you come?" Cheng looked at Xuesui and asked. "I missed buying several travel items, and I want you to accompany me to buy them." She said like singing, her almond eyes shone like jewels.She had already shown the expression of a bride, and thinking about it made Cheng feel pain in his heart.

"Oh... Then, what should I do? I have something to go to the company." "What! It's about this time!" Lai Zi's eyebrows were furrowed, "You still ask someone to go to work before you get married. Is there something wrong with your company?" "No, it's not a job either, I just want to look at the information." "So, why don't you drop by when you're shopping?" Xuesui said, "However, can I enter the company with you? Didn't you say that you don't need to wear uniforms during holidays, and non-company employees can come in and out freely."

"Well, it's possible..." Cheng felt uneasy in his heart, he never expected Xuesui to suggest such a suggestion. "Workaholics are really annoying." Lai Zi pouted, "Family or work, which one is more important?" "Okay, there's no rush anyway, I won't go to the company today." "Really? I don't care." Xuesui said. "Well, I'm not going, it's okay." Cheng smiled at his fiancee, planning to go directly to the hotel to find Misawa Chito stay at night. He said "I'm going to change clothes", asked Yukiho to wait, then returned to the room, and immediately called Shinozuka. "I'm Takamiya. Is that okay?"

"Well, I'll be there on time at nine. How about you? Got in touch with her?" "Not yet, I still can't find her contact information. What's more troublesome is that I have to go shopping with Xuesui now." Shinozuka sighed on the other end of the phone. "Just listening to it makes me feel tired for you." "Sorry to ask you to do this for me." "No way, it's nine o'clock." "Trouble." Hanging up the phone, changing clothes, Cheng opened the door, and suddenly saw Xuesui standing in the corridor.He couldn't help but startled.She put her hands behind her back and stared at him against the wall, with a faint smile on her mouth, which seemed different from her usual smile. "You're so slow, I'll come and have a look." She said.

"Sorry, I'm choosing clothes." Just as he was about to go downstairs, Xuesui asked from behind: "What is that matter?" Cheng almost stepped on the ground. "You listen to me?" "The voice came out by itself." "Oh...it's about work." He walked down the stairs, afraid that she would continue to ask, but fortunately she didn't speak again. They shop in Ginza, and after famous department stores such as Mitsukoshi and Matsuya, they go into famous brand stores. She said she wanted to buy travel supplies, but she honestly saw that Xuesui had no intention of buying anything.He pointed it out, and she shrugged and stuck out her tongue. "Actually, I just want to have a good date. Because, today is the last day we are single, okay?"

Cheng sighed lightly, he couldn't say no.Looking at Xuesui's happy shopping, he recalled the four years they were together, and re-examined his feelings for her.Yes, because I like her, I have dated until now.But what is the immediate reason for deciding to marry?Is it the deep love for her?Unfortunately, maybe not, he thought.He had first seriously considered marriage two years ago, when an accident happened. One morning, Yukiho asked him to meet at a small business hotel in Tokyo.Only later did he know why she was staying there. Yukiho waited for him with a serious expression he had never seen before.

"I want you to see this." She said, pointing to the table.There stood a transparent tube, about half the length of a cigarette, filled with a small amount of liquid. "Don't touch it, look from above," she added. Cheng looked down as she said, and saw two small concentric circles at the bottom of the tube.He told what he saw, and Xuesui silently handed him a piece of paper.It was the instruction manual of the pregnancy test device, which stated that if concentric circles appeared, it meant that the test result was positive. "The instructions say to check the first urine after waking up in the morning. I wanted to let you see the result, so I came here to live." Xuesui said, she could hear that she was already convinced that she was pregnant.

Cheng's face must be extremely ugly, but Xuesui said cheerfully: "Don't worry, I won't give birth, I will go to the hospital by myself." "Really?" Cheng asked. "Well, because you can't have children yet, right?" Frankly speaking, after hearing Xuesui's words, Cheng's uneasy heart was relieved.He was about to become a father. He had never even thought about such a thing, and naturally he was not mentally prepared for it. As Xuesui said, she went to the hospital alone and quietly underwent an abortion.During that period, she was not seen for about a week, and her demeanor afterwards was as cheerful as before.She never mentioned anything about the child. Even if he wanted to ask, she would immediately notice and always shake her head first and say: "Don't say anything, I'm fine, really."

Because of this incident, Cheng began to seriously consider marrying her, and he thought it was a man's responsibility. However, Cheng now thinks that he forgot something more important...
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