Chapter 21 Chapter 3 The Cabaret

It's still a bit early, but the tavern has already started selling Blossom Festival items.The interior is decorated with artificial cherry blossom branches everywhere, which is extremely gaudy, but it is still so lively.Even the uncoordinated red lanterns seem to be coordinated. Noisy.Not that anyone is yelling, but the alcohol is fermenting in men and women.Everyone talking was surrounded by cigarette smoke, and the hall was buzzing. On the stage, a jazz band moaned, and people crowded shoulder to shoulder and writhed wildly.It is not an exaggeration to describe it as a group of demons dancing wildly.The outdoor night is cold, but the indoor is full of heat, and the dancing people are sweating profusely.This is the 22nd year of the Showa era, and everyone's clothes are relatively simple.

10 at night.The proprietress Xuezhi's makeup was stained with sweat, so she sat down in the innermost private room.She was about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, slender and tall, with clear eyebrows and eyes, and moist skin. I don't know how those who chanted the praise of shadows would comment, but she was very outstanding anyway. Ito Yukie is a dancer hired shortly after the opening of the Cabaret shop. I don't know when she and the manager Jinzo Terada got married. Recently, Terada even handed over the shop to her.From this point of view, she is not only good-looking, but also quite scheming.

"Really, it's so annoying. I've already said I'm annoying. How long will I be entangled?" Xuezhi gently pressed the handkerchief folded into small pieces on her forehead and hairline, frowned and smacked her lips. "Is it the person who works over there..." #卫士田田武郎 replied casually. "Several." "There is nothing very conspicuous here, don't worry about it so much." "I can't take it anymore, whether it's conspicuous or not. I can't help it. Plain clothes every day, how does it hinder business?" "Okay, there's no need to worry."

"What's unnecessary? The guests who come here are not good people." Xuezhi looked at the writhing crowd in the hall, and said, "If they know that plainclothes come every day, they will gradually stop coming here. Mr. Wu Lang, you Can't do anything?" "Although I am a bodyguard..." Wu Lang shrugged his broad shoulders, "But the other party is a policeman, so it's better not to move around." "It's really useless." Xuezhi wrinkled her nose and mocked, "But Mr. Wu Lang, is that true?" "what?" "The reason for ambush in plainclothes. Although it is because of the bank robbery case, who knows if there is anything else?"

"No way... But, does the proprietress have any clues? It made the police stare out their eyes." "Not at all! Not at all!" "Be clear." "If it goes on like this, something will always be dug up. But, ah, the annoying plainclothes are entangled..." "No, that's not what I said." Wu Lang's strong body crossed the table, and his fat palm pressed Xue Zhi's hand. "What kind of person is Mr. Terada? How rich is he?" Wu Lang's pupils were burning with a strange frenzy.The man as strong as a bull had the grim look on his face, like when he threw a drunk out of a tavern.

"What's the matter with you?" Xue Zhi hurriedly withdrew her hand, sat up straight, and looked at Wu Lang intently. "Don't say such boring things, I am the proprietress here after all." Xuezhi's voice could not help but sharpen. Wu Lang also sat up straight, put his hands in his pockets, and looked down at the woman.There was suppressed anger in his eyes.Xuezhi and Wulang are old acquaintances. When Xuezhi was a dancer in Ginza, Goro was a frequent visitor there.Wulang was a boxer in college, Xuezhi admired his physique, and soon the two lived together.Later, Wulang enlisted in the army, the ballroom was closed, and Xuezhi went to Shanghai.

In the spring of the 21st year of the Showa era, Wu Lang came back from the south.That fall, when he heard that the Cabaret was hiring bodyguards, he applied for the job and was hired.Not wanting to meet Xuezhi there, the two rekindled their old relationship. But Xuezhi is no longer the previous Xuezhi.She has experienced the hardships of war and the cruel life of returnees after the war.It makes sense to favor the owner of the cabaret over the bodyguards of the cabaret. When Xue Zhi dealt with Wu Lang and Si Tian, ​​Wu Lang suffered a lot. Why didn't Goro leave the Cabaret?What was it about the cabaret that attracted him?Xuezhi was afraid of Wulang, and felt even more incredible.At the same time, she firmly remembered what Wu Lang said just now.

Xue Zhi didn't know who Terada Jinzo was, let alone how rich he was, anyway, she didn't care.In the 22nd year of the Showa era, there were many such people. At that time, although decent rich people were rare, if you really wanted to look for them, there were still some. Therefore, what Xue Zhi was worried about was not Terada Jinzo's identity, but the management right of the cabaret tavern. Although I said before that as the proprietress of the Cabaret, Xuezhi is responsible for all basic affairs, but this is only literally "basic".The fundamental matter is still firmly in the hands of Terada.No matter how blatantly Xuezhi begged, Terada just refused to give her the key to the vault.

Xuezhi felt that she was being used as a tool by this man, and felt more and more uneasy and depressed.And thinking that Wu Lang was thinking about these things, Xuezhi became even more anxious, and couldn't help but say something that angered Wu Lang. While the two were staring at each other with hostility, the branch manager Higaki Shigesuke came in, and behind him was that strange man.The two walked into the Cabaret in this way. Cat!Cat! "oops……?" When Yukie and the bodyguard Kamada Goro looked at each other angrily, they made a weak cry from the boss's special box, and it was the bank branch manager Shigesuke Hioke who leaned out.

He was taken to this box, which shows that he has an unusual friendship with the boss.The people in this world who value credit the most are bank staff...not to mention that the branch manager is so close to a woman like the Cabaret proprietress. "Oh, Mr. Hiki, what's the matter?" Seeing his eyes wide open, Yukie, who was holding a ginger drink for Hioki, put down the silver plate and followed Hioki's gaze towards the entrance. Standing there was a man with a strange sense of emptiness. "Mr. Hiki, do you know him?" "Miss Boss, you were talking to him just now..."

"Yeah, she looks dumbfounded, I don't know what's wrong..." "What did he answer?" "No, just stared at me and shook his head a little sadly. Do you know him?" Xuezhi asked again.Hiki didn't answer, and stared at the man with his eyes motionless.His eyes widened when he saw the two people coming in behind the man. "Then, is that the police?" Xuezhi, who has been in the business world for a long time, has an instinctive sense of the police.she asked in a low voice. "Yes, tall and chubby, and he's a police officer. The other one must be a criminal police officer, too." "Ah, I hate it." Xue Zhi frowned, "Those two people must have come with that idiot. But who is that idiot? Is he a lunatic? His expression is really strange." "Ah...?" Hioki wiped his sweaty hands with a handkerchief, "That man's name is Saeki Makoto. He's not crazy, he just lost his memory." "Ah, is that the bank robber...?" The landlady's voice couldn't help but sharpen.The guests at the nearby tables all turned their heads to look at her, and following her and Hiki's gaze, they noticed the existence of that strange man. "But why did he come here...?" Hioki muttered uneasily and stood up, moved five or six steps towards that side, then seemed to have changed his mind again, and stood still. Hiki finally understood why Makoto Saeki appeared in this cabaret.Makoto Saeki, who lost his memory, was also taken to the place where he had been shot, no doubt to test his reflexes. Being taken a second time to the place where the dramatic events took place, to give some stimulation to his blank memory, maybe something important can be unearthed... Well, tonight must be the test of the waiter. The manager of the Hioki branch became tense all of a sudden, his cheeks tensed. However, Makoto Saeki didn't notice this at all.He stood blankly, looking around timidly, his eyes still empty. The bodyguard Kamada Goro walked over politely, put his hands on Saeki's shoulders from behind, swayed, and said something. However, the police officer Waiting Li seemed to remind him from the side, Wu Lang was taken aback, looked back, and immediately realized the identity of the other party, shrugged and walked away.He looked at Saeki with a ferocious expression, and walked towards this side unsteadily. When it was time for the encore, there was tap dancing on the stage.The central hall was empty.With his hands in his pockets, Saeki staggered towards the hall, his steps were soft, as if he was stepping on clouds.People must have felt a layer of goosebumps when they saw his distraught appearance. Everyone who noticed him fell silent and watched his back leave.Even the dancers on the stage were tapping their steps while looking straight at Saeki. Slightly to the right of the hall, a large pool was dug out.There is a concrete rock in the middle of the pool, and on the rock stands a naked female statue, as if dancing, with one hand stretched high to the sky, and a stream of water is sprayed from the fingertips. Makoto Saeki also looked at the statue thoughtfully, shaking his head slightly while staggering around the pool. "It's so hot. It's stuffy." Saeki took off his shirt, held the clothes with one hand, and walked staggeringly. The tap dance was coming to an end, and the next jazz singer, Himeko Eguchi, came out from the backstage.The entrance to the side of the stage, just behind the proprietress' box. Fei Shazi walked to the entrance, stopped suddenly, stretched her neck in amazement, and looked around the cabaret hall.The hall, which was always full of people, suddenly fell silent, as cold as ice, and the atmosphere was very strange. Eguchi Fei Sako is still very young, only twenty-two or three-year-old.The cheekbones are slightly higher, but she is still a beauty.However, Fei Sazi's charm does not lie in her being a beautiful woman. As an entertainer at a cabaret, she has a sense of innocence that is so different that it is even a bit out of place here.No, it's not just the feeling, she does look very simple.When she came to the vulgar seat where there were drunk people, her face turned red all of a sudden, and sometimes she even sang the songs she was good at wrong.Her voice is beautiful and her singing is moving.But as a jazz singer, she is still a little unskilled. Fei Sazi looked around the cabaret hall strangely, and found that people's eyes were all focused on one point.She followed the line of sight of the people and found Saeki. "Ah!" There was a faint cry between her lips, and she instinctively took two or three steps forward.But immediately, she stopped again and stepped back. At that moment, all the lights in the hall were extinguished. "Ah!" There were screams one after another, and a tsunami swept through every corner of the hall.There were shouts to turn on the lights, and the sound of stomping feet, but the commotion stopped immediately, and the hall returned to silence.The jazz stopped too.The only sound in the darkness was the sound of tap shoes, which strangely set one's nerves on edge. At this time, there was a groan of fear in the darkness... "Ah, there's something in the dark. Oh, it's a cat! A cat! A cat is attacking me!" boom!gunshots.screams.Someone ran across the hall. "Nobody move! Police! Turn on the light! Turn on the light!" It was the voice of the police officer Waiting Force. Three minutes later, with a snap, as if fooling people, the light came on. Makoto Saeki also fell by the fountain.Wait until the police officer picks him up.Apparently, Makoto Saeki was hit in the heart this time and died on the spot, his hands tightly clutching his collar... Waiting for the police officer to look up and look at the diagonal direction, the gunshots came from there.Standing there was the jazz singer Himeko Eguchi, her face was whiter than the pure white evening dress she was wearing.And what she held in her hand was a pistol that was still smoking. The bodyguard Kamada Goro hugged Hisako's shoulders tightly, and the proprietress Xuezhi supported the back of the box with one hand, looking at the gun in Hisako's hand in horror.Five or six steps away, the branch manager Higaki Shigesuke almost stared at Makoto Saeki who was lying by the fountain, and then at Himeko Eguchi. Suddenly, there was a buzzing sound in the Cabaret.