Chapter 2 Missing

Zhenzi spends her days bored in the apartment waiting for her husband Kenichi Uhara to come back from a business trip. My husband said he would be back in a week.A week is not short, and it is not that I am eagerly looking forward to his return.She was bored because there was no one at home.She was still waiting for him as her husband left for work in the morning and returned in the evening. In the narrow room, the husband's things and his own things are piled up randomly, and they haven't yet become a whole; the husband's luggage and his own supplies are still separate.She realizes that the relationship between the couple is not yet close.

In fact, Kenichi Uhara is not completely owned by himself.The so-called everything means that she should know everything about her husband. In this case, she doesn't even have half the qualifications.The relationship between the husband and wife has been established, but the unknown of the husband still occupies most of it. She thought to herself that when her husband came back, they would gradually get along better.Living together every day, the unknown will be known.At the same time, she also wants to let the other party understand herself.After the two parties get to know each other, they will be like a couple who have lived together for ten or twenty years.

One day, Zhenzi went to visit his uncle's house.His home is on the downhill of the southern leaves of Qingshan Mountain.The house is surrounded by low walls. "You are here." Today is Sunday, and the big fairy is at home.Smiling on his boyish face, he sat cross-legged next to his wife. "How is it? Are you settled?" he asked, putting the five-year-old on his lap. "Not yet. The luggage has not been moved, and it hasn't been sorted yet." Zhenzi looked at his uncle, then at his sister-in-law and said.The child was caught between them.Zhenzi thought to himself that this is like a couple, and they are all open to each other.

"Yeah! When Xianyi comes back, that's the real life. After the wedding trip, he will leave immediately, and you will be left alone." The sister-in-law said, staring at Zhenzi's face. "When will Xianyi come back from Kanazawa?" the uncle asked. "One week. Three more days." "That's all right, he's transferred to Tokyo to work. He was asked to go back to Tokyo several times before, but he refused." The sister-in-law took the tea brought by the maid and brought it to Zhenzi and said. The eldest brother took it and said: "Maybe he feels bored in Tokyo."In fact, like Kenichi, staying in Kanazawa for 20 days and returning to Tokyo for 10 days is not bad. "

"You still envy him. That's hitting a bachelor, there's nothing you can do about it." The sister-in-law glanced at her husband. "That's right. After getting married, it's better to stay in one place." The uncle said simply. "Until now, do you still envy Xianyi's life?" The sister-in-law persisted and continued, "That way, you won't have to make excuses for playing mahjong all night." "'Don't say nonsense in front of the shop,' said the uncle embarrassingly. Zhenzi smiled. "Men have entertainment. That's another matter." The uncle continued. "As a man, the family life is too long, and I always want to breathe the air outside. There is a man who has just reached an old age. He has saved his property and his children have grown up. He has no worries around him, so he abandons his family and runs away. To seek another life. This feeling is understandable. But this is a story in a foreign novel."

"Foreign novels can be ignored. Otherwise, the wife who stays will be too miserable." "That's a wish of a man. Even if he wants to do it, he doesn't have the courage." "There are demons in men's hearts." Sister-in-law shifted her gaze to Zhenzi. "But Xianyi has nothing to do with it, be honest." "Oh, he is somewhat different." The uncle said exaggeratedly: "He is a bachelor and has never had any entanglements with women. It is really rare now." "Zhenzi, you can rest assured." Sister-in-law said to Zhenzi with a smile, "I can assure you of this. He is completely opposite to mine. He will definitely love his wife."

Zhenzi left her uncle's house and went back to her mother's house by the way. "I'll be back in three days. Let's pack it up later. Do you have any letters?" said the mother. "No." Mother pondered for a while, then leaned over and whispered: "Xianyi, how is he?" My mother was always a little uneasy that Xianyi was still a bachelor at the age of thirty-six. "Looks like he's a good guy." Zhenzi said, anyway, there are still many things I don't understand, so I can only speak from my current feeling. "That's all right. Let's live together. Be careful until he comes back."

What the mother meant was that if the two lived together, they had to observe Xianyi carefully. Back at the apartment, Kenichi sent a colorful postcard. "Hand over work with Mr. Honda, and take him around, and return later than expected, on the twelfth. Just put your luggage and other items.If the luggage is a little messy, it will cause you trouble.wait me back. " It was the first time that Zhenzi saw the handwriting written by Kenichi Uhara, and the calligraphy was neatly written with a pen.Looking at the postmark, it was sent from Kanazawa. "Let's mess up your luggage, I'm causing you trouble, wait for me when I come back." That means don't pack it up, a woman will be exhausted.Wait for him to come back and clean up together.Although this meaning is very clear, Zhenzi somehow thought of another meaning.Maybe it's my own overthinking, but I don't know this husband very well.

Zhenzi stood by the window.In the distance, the street unfolds in front of us like the sea.The vast sky, the space of the street seems to be pressed under it. At this time, she had a wish, hoping that her husband would come back soon.As long as I'm with my husband, in other words, as long as he's actually staying at home, I won't have any agitation in my heart. The memory of her husband felt during the wedding trip has gradually faded, and her husband's words and the love that followed seem to have blurred.This is because her husband is not around, leaving her with a blank space.Everything she felt with her husband seemed to disappear in a vacuum.

Husband is scheduled to come back tomorrow.Sadako opened her husband's bookcase.Everything else has not been sorted out.There are only 12 or 3 books in the book box, almost all of them are economic books, and there are two or three English original books, and there is no literature book. Sadako was a little disappointed. She opened an original book and wanted to review her English.I thought it was also a book on economics, but it turned out to be a law book.This law book on executions seems to be incongruous with other economic books.Moreover, those economic books were not read much like new ones, but these three or four original books on executions were full of hand dirt like books sold in second-hand bookstores, and many pages were marked with red pencils.

What exactly is he trying to learn?Zhenzi couldn't figure it out.Perhaps Uhara wanted to be a sheriff or a lawyer in the past.In this way, Sadako realizes that she knows next to nothing about Uhara.I heard that he had worked in various occupations before he got his current job.Why, but I never heard him talk about it.In fact, I didn't ask him, but he kept silent.Besides, the days after marriage are not long. However, among couples in the world, before marriage, the wife is relatively indifferent to her husband's career, and the focus of concern is after marriage.As long as the doctor's past has no influence on the present, the wife can rest assured. Zhenzi is not familiar with the words in the English book and finds them meaningless.When I was about to close the book, I found that there were two card-like things in the book. I shook it off and saw that it was not a card, but two photos. Is the scene in the photo considered a landscape?The two photos are of houses, the first one is a beautiful house, and the other one is a simple folk house.That beautiful house is surrounded by walls, and the trees are lush with foliage, and a two-story bungalow can be seen in between; there are no other houses nearby, and there are no mountains in the background, giving the impression of a house in Tokyo. The other one is obviously a private house in Hokuriku.The house is small, the gate is also small, and the wing room is at the end, with crude lattice windows.It seems to be the autumnal equinox season. The persimmon tree next to the house has dense branches and leaves, bearing round fruits.This photo was not taken from the front, but from a slope, which also included the mountains in the distance.But this is only a small space, and only part of the mountain can be seen.In these two photos, there are neither people nor animals nor scenery.The photo of the humble folk house is old, and the one of the luxury house is fairly new. Is this an art photo?It's too unsightly.Maybe I took the photo because I became interested in the structure of the house. However, let’s not talk about that private house, even that luxurious house is nothing special, and it can be seen everywhere in Tokyo’s residential areas.Zhenzi has an intuition that this photo must have been taken by her husband Kenichi. Zhenzi turned the photo upside down, and the photo of the luxurious residence was written 35 squarely with a pen, while the photo of the private house was scrawled with 21. Zhenzi put the photo back where it was, and put the book back in the wooden box.The strange thing is that these two photos are always in my heart and can't be erased... The husband did not come back the next day.Zhenzi went to the market to buy things, packed up and waited.But until evening, the door was still closed, and no one opened it. From Kanazawa, you usually get on the train at night and arrive at Ueno Station in Tokyo in the morning.He should have been back long ago.Could it be that the husband went back to the company directly? Even so, he should be back in the evening.At night, there was still no sign of him.This night, Zhenzi slept very late. The next morning, Zhenzi called her husband's company. The operator said that Uhara had not come back, and then said to wait a minute, and immediately asked: "Which one are you?" "It's from Uhara's family," Zhenzi said. "Really? Mr. Uhara hasn't come back from a business trip." The operator replied. Sadako returns to the apartment.My husband has not come back from a business trip, two days later than expected, is it often like this? Zhenzi regrets calling the company. The whole day went on in a state of turmoil in her mind. In the evening, footsteps were heard in the adjacent room.There was a sudden commotion on the stairs.Zhenzi looked at his watch, it was six o'clock.Usually at this time, the husband who came back from get off work always had a row with the neighbor's wives for a while. Someone knocked on the door, Zhenzi thought it was the next room.Knock again for the second time, only to realize that he knocked on his own door, and Zhenzi ran to open the door. Not the husband.It was a strange, thin, middle-aged man with a hat in his hand and very well-dressed. "Is it Ma'am?" "Yes." Zhenzi replied with a gasped breath.The middle-aged man took out his business card. The title was a section chief in his husband's company. The words Hideo Yokota came into view. Zhenzi took off her apron, bowed to him and said, "Come in!" Her heart was pounding and her fingers were trembling. Section Chief Yokota walked in respectfully, and after the greetings, he took out a cigarette and lit it, and first said some empty words without much content. Seiko sat across from him and smiled.Miscellaneous chat is a kind of etiquette before talking about the main topic.Zhenzi was very upset. The section chief rubbed out the cigarette butt in the ashtray and started to get down to business. "Has there been a letter from your husband?" The tone was very steady. Zhenzi stood up, took out the postcard sent by her husband, caught it in her fingers, and almost dropped it on the ground. "Let me take a look." The section chief took it and looked at it, his eyes following the words.Zhenzi stared. The section chief took out a notepad and wrote a few words with a pencil, as if he had written down that he would come back on the 12th.Then I turned it over and looked at the postmark, and wrote it down in the notepad again. "Thank you." After thanking the section chief, he returned the postcard to Zhenzi. "Excuse me, will my husband be on a business trip for a long time?" Zhenzi asked tentatively.She wanted to elicit an answer from the other party, feeling very anxious. "this··" The section chief blinked his eyes and moved his knee. "According to the postcard, Uhara-kun should leave Kanazawa on the night of the 11th." Zhenzi held his breath and was speechless. "However, it's the 14th today, and he hasn't shown up at the company yet. Just to be on the safe side, I called Kanazawa's office. Uhara-kun's successor, Honda-kun, said that he should leave on the evening of the 11th." .” Should we go?That means they didn't leave. —— Zhenzi thought in his heart, but didn't say it. The section chief continued: "We thought that Uhara went home directly after getting off the car. We always thought that he just moved to a new house, so he might be packing things at home and resting until today." The section chief's eyeballs rolled, he must have wanted to refer to "new residence" as "newly married". "However, there has been no news for two days. I feel very strange. I wanted to send someone to the house to take a look. It happened that my wife called the company in the afternoon, so I hurriedly contacted Honda-kun by phone. The answer was the same, Uhara You were not there. Then I thought, maybe because of business matters, he might go to various customers, so I called again to ask, but I didn’t go anywhere. Anyway, we don’t know anything about the situation. By the way, madam Do you have any clues?" The section chief stared at Sadako. "I don't know anything." Zhenzi answered with her head down, busy searching for her husband's whereabouts.Did he go to his brother?This is impossible.So she dismissed her doubts. "For example, relatives and friends, etc." She didn't know anything about her husband's acquaintances and friends. Even if he went to a friend's house, he should report to the company until today.It's unimaginable. "I don't have a clue either. It's just…" Speaking of this, she thought that she should ask her uncle.She told the section chief, who immediately agreed. Zhenzi went to the management office to make a phone call.As she walked up the stairs, her feet seemed to be floating. My sister-in-law answered the phone. "Xianyi hasn't come back from a business trip. He should have come back the day before yesterday, but he didn't go back to the company. Now the section chief is here." Zhenzi didn't want the manager to hear, and covered the receiver and said, "Did he go to your place?"' "No. It's strange." The sister-in-law replied, "Did you go to a friend's house?" The words of the sister-in-law are the same as that of the section chief. "I can't figure it out, does my brother know?" "I'll call and ask right away. Don't worry, maybe you will come back suddenly tomorrow morning." The sister-in-law's voice was also hesitant. After the section chief went back, the uncle then called and said that there was no sign of Xianyi there either. Zhenzi walked out of the management office, and on the way up the stairs, two photos in the original book suddenly appeared in his mind. This is an unfounded association. At noon the next day, the company called Zhenzi. "Hey, hello, hasn't your husband come back yet?" Section Chief Yokota was still here yesterday. "not yet." The section chief paused and said: "Really? Want to send someone to Kanazawa tonight. Would you like to go together, if you like? Take the night train and arrive tomorrow morning." The company wants to send someone there, why is that?Sadako feels the urgency of the situation. "Did Xianyi find any trouble?" "Trouble?" "For example, money matters..." "No, no, there will never be such a thing. It's just that we are worried, because there is no news from Uhara-kun three days later than scheduled, although he has called If you want to make a phone call, I would like to send someone to implement it. I am afraid Madam also feels the same way, if you want, Madam will also go together, how about it?" "I'd like to go," Sadako replied. If her husband didn't send the postcard saying "I'll be back in 12 days," she wouldn't say yes right away.The husband's whereabouts are unknown, maybe not out of his own will, maybe there is external pressure. The other party said the departure time of the train tonight, and hung up the phone. Then, like chasing him, the uncle called. "Xianyi hasn't come back yet?" "Not yet." "This guy is really troublesome." The uncle said, clicking his tongue. Zhenzi told him that the company called just now.The uncle seemed to realize that the situation was extremely serious. "It stands to reason that I should go too, but I still have some work to do." The uncle said hesitantly. "Oh, brother, you don't have to go. I'll go first, and it's not too late for you to go after I understand the situation." After Zhenzi finished speaking, the uncle said, "That's how it is, please." He hung up the phone. Zhenzi returned to the room, her heartbeat was not so strong.Outside the window, the ocean-like buildings are moaning.A wide space, today covered with thin clouds.The clouds are divided into several layers with different colors, which are displayed in front of the eyes like a wall.Zhenzi thought of the clouds in the north that he saw at Xufang Lake. When packing, Zhenzi stuffed the two photos in the original document under the suitcase. At Ueno Station, a thin middle-aged man was waiting for Sadako at the ticket gate. "Are you Mrs. Uhara?" He asked, saying that he was from the same department as Xian, and his appearance was not good. He took out the ticket, said that he had already reserved a seat, and walked towards the platform in two steps while talking three steps. Seats are at one end of the second class car. "My surname is Aoki. You are worried this time." He said to Zhenzi, "There is Mr. Honda over there, and I want to go to the local area to investigate in detail. Today, Mr. Honda has asked the police station, saying that the four No unidentified corpse was found for five days." Aoki said eloquently. Zhenzi couldn't help but startled.No unidentified bodies were found. ——His original intention was to reassure Zhenzi.However, after hearing what he said, Zhenzi's heart twitched even more. The situation has developed to this point, and I don't know it.The husband's body has undergone drastic changes.The husband walked alone in the dark and out of reach.Zhenzi felt that her thoughts were too optimistic.Then she found her fingers were shaking. Zhenzi was very awake, but Aoki had already fallen asleep with his arms crossed. It's pitch black outside the window.Occasionally dim lights emerge over the river.When the train passes through the gorge, you can see the stars in the sky. Station names such as Yutian, Mizukami, Osawa, and Liukaba flashed past in the lonely lights. The Hokuriku Road is gradually approaching.Zhenzi never expected to come here with such a mood in the northern country that he had longed for. Zhenzi couldn't sleep at all. It was darkness before dawn when we departed from Naoetsu.Sadako rolled up the shutters and looked out.The sparse lights in the distance froze on the windows, and on the blurred panes the lights moved slowly. The body next to him was moving, and Zhenzi opened his eyes. "I'm sorry." Aoki said, and stood up from the seat holding the washing utensil.Only then did Zhenzi realize that she had slept for a while.She saw the pale light from the window entering the carriage. The shutters in the carriages were all open.Seen from an oblique plane, white light is galloping.Zhenzi unfastened the strap, and the shutter snapped open.A flowing scene unfolds before my eyes. Snowdrifts were flowing outside.In the gloomy sky that has not yet been exposed to the sun, there are piles of snow piled high. Black trees formed a line, buried in snowdrifts, showing faint lights under the low roofs.In some places, fires are lit, and the color of the fire is very bright.The sky was overcast, sealed in coal gray. ——This is the Northland. Zhenzi sobered up a lot.There is no snow in Tokyo this year.When you come here, you can not only see the snow, but also the shape of the trees and the roofs of the houses, you can't see it if you don't look beyond the mountains to the north.In the morning, the gloomy light revealed the desolation of the northern kingdom.Looking at the watch, it's not even eight o'clock. Aoki returned after washing his hands.He leaned his hand on the window frame, looked out, and said to Zhenzi, "It's almost here." Aoki's face was unshaven. Zhenzi puts on makeup in front of the dirty mirror in the washroom.The shaking of the car body made her unable to stand on her feet.Her body, which could not control the center of gravity, seemed to feel uneasy in her heart.The skin is rough and the make-up is not going well.She fell asleep for a while this morning, still remembering the lights at Toyama Station. Back on the seat, Aoki was smoking.Sadako doesn't feel close to this companion, but still greets him good morning. A dark sea looms in the distance.The coastline of the Sea of ​​Japan is much smaller than expected.Beyond that are rolling mountains.The snow on the mountains seemed to show its teeth against the gray sky. "That's the Noto Peninsula." Aoki said. Is that the Noto Peninsula?In Zhenzi's mind, a place as big as a hand on the map protruded toward the sea.The shape of the Noto Mountains seems to be flat.The geography learned in Wajima and Nanaya elementary school, Zhenzi still remembers these place names at this moment. Sadako looked at the distant mountains that moved slightly.Suddenly remembered to ask Aoki: "Could it be that Uhara's work went to the Noto Peninsula production' Aoki took the cigarette from his mouth.His wrinkled eyelids twitched. "This... I don't know much about the details. It seems that Noto will not have a decent advertiser." Therefore, there will be no business here. ——Aoki said in a lifeless tone.Perhaps so, seeing these deserted mountains, Zhenzi also felt that the peninsula protruding from the Sea of ​​Japan might only be a somewhat desolate fishing village. The sea was out of sight.There are more houses dotted on the snow, the train stopped here, people with black blankets on their heads walked around the line, and saw the name of the station: "Tsubata". "The next stop is Kanazawa." When he was about to get out of the car, there was some vitality on Aoki's face.It can be said that since he got on the train at Ueno Station, his face has been listless and sleepy. In the carriage, people began to pack their luggage.The turmoil seemed to be chasing Zhenzi for a while, and her heart began to be chaotic again.I remember this happening before.By the way, on the first day of the wedding trip, when going from Kofu Station to the hotel, the foreman closed the door of the car and the car started, and I also felt this kind of tilt. The train slowed down and pulled into the station.The pedestrian corridor extends forward like a trestle bridge. Aoki stretched for a while, and walked towards the car door first.He turned up the collar of his coat, and the cigarette ash just fell on the collar. Zhenzi didn't have the courage to reach out and shake the ash off. "ah boo' When he was on the platform, Aoki suddenly shouted.From behind him, a bloodless man's face appeared, with thick eyebrows and big eyes.Sadako remembered that it was going to Ueno Station to bid farewell to her husband Kenichi Uhara, and his successor Yoshio Honda who walked with him. ""are you tired! Yoshio Honda said to Zhenzi with big eyes and a smile, "I didn't sleep well on the train last night, did I?" " Zhenzi bowed to him. "It's really embarrassing to have you come to greet me so early in the morning." So far, she has worried about his husband's affairs, and plans to thank him later. Aoki asked Honda: What news has there been since then about Uhara-kun? " His voice was loud, but Yoshio Honda just shook his head slightly, without answering, but turned around and said to Zhenzi. "It snowed a lot here the day before yesterday. That was a real blizzard." After he finished speaking, he moved slowly.Zhenzi felt that this person was very careful. I got into a taxi in front of the station.The snow on the square had been swept aside and piled up, and the sun was breaking through the deep clouds.Under the sunlight, the streets of Jinyi unfolded in front of our eyes.On the front is the roof of the great monastery. The office is on the side street of the bustling street, and the rented house is on the second floor of the Kutani ware shop.There are red and gold Tang lions and pottery pottery on the storefront. It is an old store and very grand.Upstairs, there are four desks in a ten-bed room, and some account books are erected on the desks. It turned out to be an office converted from a Japanese-style room. "This is Mr. Uhara's desk." Bentara pointed to the desk by the window that he was using now. Maybe it's used by the director, it's bigger than other tables.Zhenzi imagined her husband's appearance while reading the account books and writing letters on this table for the past two years. Early in the morning, no one else came, only Aoki and Honda.Aoki didn't take off his coat, and stood there coldly. Honda said: "Mr. Uhara's things in the drawer have not been sorted out. Almost all of them are documents from the company. For the sake of convenience, I put them together." Honda opened the bottom drawer of the desk.Zhenzi took a look and saw that they were all subpoenas and the like. "Ma'am, the work here has not been handed over yet." Honda showed a comforting smile on Sadako's face. "Mr. Uhara wants to come back here again." After hearing Honda's words, Sadako couldn't help being startled. In this way, he returned to Tokyo directly from Kanazawa.She seems to have heard from the section chief. "Honta-kun," Aoki dragged the empty chair to him, sat down sideways and said, "Is this the office where you and Uhara-kun broke up for the last time?" The sunlight coming in from the window became brighter.Yoshio Honda said: "Okay, now let me explain, please listen, Mrs. Uhara. Mr. Uhara said that the departure will be on the evening of December 11. I think it will be the express train departing from Kanazawa at 20:20. Said to see him off at the station. Mr. Uhara said, no need, he still has some business to go to Takaoka, so leave early, come back to the Kanazawa office tomorrow morning, and leave in the evening. He left the office alone." "Takaoka? He said something is wrong? Is it something in the company?" Aoki asked. "No, there is no company business in Takaoka. It's probably a personal matter, I didn't ask in detail. Ma'am, does Mr. Uhara have any friends in Takaoka?" "No, I haven't heard of it." Zhenzi replied.Maybe there are friends, because the marriage is not long, anyway, I have never heard of it.She felt how helpless she was. "Really?" Honda nodded.His expression seemed that Zhenzi should know. "The next day, I have been waiting for Mr. Uhara to come back, and these documents need to be handed over. However, the next day, which is the 12th, I have been waiting since the morning, but there is no sign of him. He didn't come in the afternoon. He didn't come for two days. I thought he went back to Tokyo directly from Takaoka. The undelivered documents are not very important. Mr. Uhara didn't tell us, we can understand. So four days later, the Tokyo head office said Uhara The husband hasn't gone back yet, so he called to ask. I was really surprised." Aoki looked at Honda's explanation as if it was only aimed at Zhenzi, and he felt a little dissatisfied. "Listen to me. You reported to the head office on the phone that Uhara-kun returned to Tokyo from Kanazawa on the 11th. Then this needs to be corrected. In fact, I went to Takaoka on the 11th due to business, and the appointment is scheduled for 10th. Return to Kanazawa on the 2nd. Therefore, it is correct to say that Uhara-kun should have gone to Tokyo on the morning of the 12th. On the evening of the 11th, he went to Takaoka and never came back. You thought he went back to Tokyo directly. Therefore Do you think that's how he left on the evening of the eleventh?" "That's right. I can only think so." Honda replied. Sadako felt a little skeptical about Aoki's question.Honda's answer was also a reply to Sadako. "Takaoka, Takaoka, what is Uhara-kun doing there? Madame, do you have any clues?" Aoki said to Zhenzi. "No, not at all." Zhenzi denied again. "Did Uhara-kun go to Takaoka often?" Aoki shifted his gaze to Honda. "I just arrived here, so I don't know much about it. I asked people who were here before, and no one has heard of it." "That's weird." Aoki tilted his head.Zhenzi also found it incredible.What must my husband do in Takaoka before he leaves office? "You and Uhara-kun have finished handing over, haven't you? In other words, he took you to visit customers around the world?" Aoki asked. "This matter was finished in five days, and there was nothing left." "When you were together, did Uhara-kun reveal anything about this incident?" "No, not at all." "Where is Uhara-kun's house?" "Home?" "It's the house he rented, where is it?" There was a suspicious look in Honda's eyes, and then disappeared. "I seem to have rented a house in Tsubata, a small town two miles east of here." Sadako remembered the name of the station she stopped at before arriving in Kanazawa.Does the husband live in such a deserted small town?This is the first time Zhenzi has heard of it. "Has the house over there been returned?" "of course." Aoki took out a cigarette from his coat pocket and lit it, glanced at Sadako and said: "I say this, maybe it's not very good for Madam. It's not just in case, just in case. Should I call the police and ask the police to search, because today has passed five days." "I agree." Then he said, "I think it is necessary to do so, otherwise, I will accompany you to the police station now. " Zhenzi pondered for a moment, then nodded. Sadako and Yoshio Honda walked out of the Kutani ware shop side by side.The sun was shining, but the wind was cold.There are more people on the street. "Aoki-kun..." Honda said as he walked, "He is a straightforward person, maybe he offended you, but he is a good person." "No, it's all right. I'm really sorry to bother him about everything," Zhenzi said.In fact, this was also said to Yoshio Honda. The police station is not far away. "I would like to request a search," Honda said. A young police officer who just came to work handed over a piece of paper. "Write down your age, characteristics, clothing, and the time you left home in detail." Divided into several columns in detail, searching for a person's whereabouts, it turned out that such a printed paper was used. Zhenzi felt very strange that this piece of paper has a very close relationship with people.Zhenzi clearly wrote down her husband's characteristics, height, weight, clothing, money and things on her body, where she might go, etc. column by column.While writing, she had the illusion that she was describing a stranger named Uhara Kenichi. "Why did you run away from home? Is there anything wrong?" the police officer asked routinely.This was just one of dozens of incidents he had dealt with, so there was no expression on his face. "No. There are no other clues." Honda said instead of Sadako.From time to time the policeman jotted down something with a pencil. At this time, the police officer who had just come to work saw Honda and walked over without hesitation. "Is there no news about the person you came to inquire last time?" This is an elderly police officer.When Ben Duo saw him, he hurriedly saluted. Judging from his collar badge, he was a police superintendent. "Not yet. This one is his wife." Honda spread his hands to Zhenzi. "This is the police officer who troubled me last time. He checked in the area." Honda introduces the officer to Sadako.Zhenzi was taken aback, and said that he had checked, which meant whether the body was found. Zhenzi thanked the police officer. "You're worried, aren't you?" said the governor, taking the "Search Request" from the young constable and reading it. "It's been almost a week, he raised his eyelids and asked 'Yes. " The Superintendent thought for a moment.Say to Honda: "This matter is not so much within the jurisdiction of the Kanazawa Bureau, it should be expanded to the entire county to check for unidentified corpses. Then it should be extended to neighboring counties. Does he have a business card with him? " "I think he's got a card case." "Madam, did he have any motive or idea of ​​suicide? "Absolutely not." Sadako replied. But after talking about it, she herself felt unsure. The marriage was less than a month old, how much did she know about him?The unknown part piles up like a mountain.Maybe his "motivation" was buried in the unexplored soil, but she didn't know it. She could only answer the part she knew. "The neighboring counties are limited to Fuli and Fubin, and the rest are places with inconvenient transportation." The superintendent expressed his opinion, and Honda agreed. Zhenzi wondered why Honda didn't mention Takaoka.Didn't my husband say that I need to go to Takaoka? In this case, it should be said first.But Honda kept his mouth shut. "Now let's go to Mr. Uhara's landlord's house." Came to the street, Honda said to Zhenzi. "Oh! Isn't that in Tsubata?" Zhenzi was surprised. "Before this, he was in the house of the internal medicine department in the city. I went there to have a look." Honda said in a low voice, "I have to explain this matter clearly to Madam." The ending of the words stayed in Zhenzi's ears, and she felt that there was a secret in it. The two boarded a small city tram painted green.Sadako leaned against the window, looking at the slowly moving city streets. It was full of old, stately houses.Occasionally, there is a modern building, sandwiched like a foreign body.All houses are full of glass tiles.Backlight in sunlight.The city survived the war. "It's right here," Honda said. It's here in less than ten minutes. Turning in from the tramway, the road is a gentle slope, with a wave, and there is a small bridge.The road twists and turns along the creek. Beside the road, there are long rows of earthen walls.The small river course is also a row of white walls of clay-built houses.There are very few pedestrians here.The sun shone on the white wall, and on the shoulders of Honda and Sadako as they walked, casting shadows flickeringly. "I'm dissatisfied with what you said about the house rented by Mr. Uhara..." Honda and Sadako kept a certain distance and said, "It doesn't mean the family I'm going to see now. I mean the place where I lived in the last year and a half. " "A year and a half? Then the previous family only lived in half a year?" Zhenzi asked. "It seems to be, why do I say it seems to be, because I don't know. It was said by the people in the office. No one knows where he lived afterwards." Sadako stared at the profile of Honda who was speaking. "why?" "As you know, Mr. Uhara is in Tokyo for ten days a month and here for twenty days. About one week out of the twenty days he goes to the Beiling area to discuss business with advertisers. We do business like this. So the rest He works in the office for thirteen days, and comes every day except Sunday, so no one knows where he lives. Mr. Uhara himself said that he is in Tsubata. However, people in the company say that he does not seem to be in Tsubata, because some of the employees are from Tsubata , Said he had never seen him." "Didn't Uhara make it clear?" Zhenzi said timidly. "Yes, it's a very vague thing. But he's a scrupulous worker, and no one cares much about where he lives." "Wouldn't it be inconvenient if you don't know where Uhara lives to contact work?" "Not at all. Because he comes to work every day and travels the rest of the time, and now something is wrong, I feel very troubled. But now, even if I know where he lives and has moved away, there will be no problem, so I don't Tell Aoki-kun." From these words, Zhenzi felt that Honda was very careful. "He said he was going to Takaoka, why?" Sadako was suspicious when he said that Honda was not in the police station just now. "I also found it strange what he was doing in Takaoka. I thought Mr. Uhara was lying, so I didn't tell the police." Sadako had an intuition that Yoshio Honda must know something about her husband. It looks like an ancient samurai's residence, which looks very dilapidated, stretching forward, and the damaged tiles are covered with snow.Two passers-by in kimonos and gowns turned their heads to look at the two of them.