Chapter 22 fourth quarter

As usual, Mariko arrived at Jingtou Park 30 minutes earlier than the agreed time on the second day. This habit seems to never change. Needless to say, Jingguan could not be seen at this time. Mariko sat down on a bench ten meters away from the greeting station and waited for Jingguan. The warm winter sun shone in from the tops of the big trees, drawing light and dark stripes around the bench. Although the temperature is very low, but because there is no wind, it will not feel very cold. There is a bus arriving every seven or eight minutes. It may not be the sightseeing season, so almost no passengers get off the bus in the park. Occasionally, only young couples get off here and walk to the pool in the park. Watching the couple talking quietly, shoulder to shoulder The happy scene of walking side by side reminds Mariko of the happy time three years ago, can they go back to that happy time?Another bus came, and two men and women got off. They were not lovers, but the woman was an old woman in a kimono. They crossed the road and disappeared as soon as they got off the bus.

The man was about 30 years old. After getting out of the car, he looked around. That man must be Jingguan, right?As Mariko thought this way, she opened her eyes wide and was shocked. It turned out that the man was her husband. Mariko quickly covered her face with a handbag, probably he saw it, right?Thinking of this, Mariko couldn't help feeling breathless. The husband didn't seem to see Mariko sitting on the bench. He stood and took out a small piece of paper to look at, which seemed to be a map. The husband raised his head from the piece of paper, thought for a while and then walked towards Kichijoji.

Where is the husband going?And why go there? Mariko couldn't come up with an answer after thinking about it. It didn't seem like she was going to meet Yumiko Kuwahara, because Kuwahara's apartment was in Yotsuya 3-chome, which was in the opposite direction from her husband. Mariko thought about it, and suddenly had the idea of ​​following her husband, who had followed her before, and she was not wrong to imitate him, not to mention that there were still twenty minutes before the time agreed with Jingguan. As soon as Mariko made such a decision, she immediately stood up from the bench and followed behind her husband.

The husband walked slowly, as if he hadn't noticed that someone was following him.After walking for about five minutes, her husband stopped suddenly, and Mariko hurried to the back of the electric pole. The husband took out the piece of paper again and looked at it. The place where he was standing was a shopping street, where shops with "DPE" signboards such as photo studios and fruit shops were lined up side by side. After reading the paper, the husband looked around with uneasy eyes, and then entered one of the shops in a panic. The shop the husband went into had a sign saying "Kokubo Pharmacy".

The husband stayed in the pharmacy for a few minutes before coming out, looked around in front of the pharmacy with a vigilant look, and then left.Although he didn't hold anything in his hand, but seeing that he pressed his hand on the coat pocket, he probably put the things he bought in the store into the pocket. What does the husband buy at that pharmacy?Why did he look around in such a panic?Was he afraid of being seen entering the pharmacy?And why the fear of being seen entering the pharmacy?Just as these questions arose spontaneously in Mariko's heart, her husband had already stopped an empty taxi passing by.

After her husband took the taxi and left, Mariko came out from behind the telephone pole and stared at the Xiaokubo Pharmacy that her husband had just entered. It was a small shop with a 12-foot front. Why does the husband come to this pharmacy?Mariko thought of this question again, did he come to buy cold medicine? However, if you want to buy cold medicine, you can buy it near home. There is no need to travel all the way here to buy it. Could it be that he... Mariko couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine when he thought about it. "He really..." The more Mariko thought about it, the more frightened she became, and she wanted to suppress this terrible thought, but once she felt scared, she couldn't restrain it. Although she forcibly suppressed this terrible thought, the uneasiness and doubts gradually spread. open.

Mariko stared at the signboard of "Kokubo Pharmacy" with a pale face, and soon made up her mind to enter that pharmacy.