Chapter 3 third quarter

Suddenly, from the sand behind, came the sound of a car stopping. The man reflexively left Sugihara Kiko, and stopped facing the direction of the car noise.Xizi also couldn't help turning his head back. Below the breakwater, a small white car was parked. A tall man got out of the driver's seat, and a man got out of the assistant's seat.These two people walked towards Sugihara Keiko and the others one after the other. "It's so cold!..." The man who got off the assistant's seat muttered.Judging from his voice, his age is no longer young. "The wind is still cold." A younger voice answered.Sugihara Kiko seems to be very familiar with these two voices.

When the two came to the breakwater and saw Xizi in the dim light, a man suddenly said, "Ah, isn't this Ms. Sugihara? She works at Kyushu TV..." Sugihara Keiko couldn't help widening her eyes: "Oh, it's Mr. Gaotang..." She shouted in surprise. The man with a short and fat body is none other than Shintaro Kodo, a nationally famous playwright.Isn't the surprised person next to him the producer of Fukuoka TV - Asaun.In the past, Sugihara Keiko asked Kodo Shintaro to write a script, and Asaun also knew Sugihara Keiko a long time ago because they were colleagues.

"Really, why are you here, meeting Miss Axi?" Qianyun said in his characteristic hoarse voice, and looked at the man standing beside Sugihara Keiko from time to time. "I would like to ask sir, why are you at this time..." Keiko Sugihara asked. "Oh, this time I specially asked Mr. Gao Tang to write a script about people who sneak into the country. This is work." Qian Yun said. Qian Yun especially emphasized the word "work", as if he could see right away that the person who came with Sugihara Keiko was not related to work. "Come here on purpose, it's really..." Keiko Sugihara muttered, wanting to say something.

Hearing this, Gao Tang laughed loudly: "Ah, it's nothing..." Sugihara Keko hurriedly shook her head, but a strange idea suddenly appeared in her heart.She glanced at the man beside her, and he looked at the two people who came just now with no expression. "Then, then..." Gao Tang walked towards the opposite side of the breakwater. "Please slow down." Qianyun quickly winked at Xizi, then chased after Gaotang. "I'm sorry, I met at work..." Keiko Sugihara hastily explained. The man next to Xizi Sugihara widened his eyes, staring at Xizi with a strange look.

"I'm sorry, I... my name is actually Sugihara Keiko..." Sugihara Keiko said involuntarily, and, afterward, desperately explained, from the beginning of the matter, to why he grabbed his wrist.Originally, she wanted to thank him, but after hearing his introduction, she wanted to take a risk and feel the excitement... Sugihara Keiko confessed everything to the other party, but she emphasized the reason for the beginning of the matter, that is, to get rid of the tracking of the three colleagues.As for the fact that this man seemed to be the man she wanted to pursue, she thought it was too abrupt, so she didn't say it.

"I'm really sorry." Keiko Sugihara bowed his head and apologized to the man again.Excitement and shame made her tremble. The man just frowned, and stared at Xizi for a long time with thinking eyes.In the strong wind, the air between the two seemed to freeze. Keiko Sugihara waited for the man's reprimand.How would he react?Compared with other things, what Xizi fears the most is to be looked down upon by this man. He must think that she is a flirtatious woman with frivolous behavior. "No, this is really a misunderstanding, please understand!..." Keiko Sugihara almost shouted.

Suddenly, the man lightly touched Xizi's left cheek with his fingers, and slowly slid his fingers towards her neck as if he wanted to untie her scarf. Then she heard a very calm sigh: "That's right..." Then, the man laughed in a hollow tone. "However, I can speak English!..." Sugihara Keiko hastily added, and looked up at the man, "Also, I speak very well." He suddenly changed his tone and said, "Go back!..." "But the one who came in the boat..." "That matter has nothing to do with you." The man said angrily for the first time.But at this moment, he still stared at Keiko Sugihara with a stern gaze.

They got back to the car, but his expression had become very relaxed.From here, Gaotang and the others could be seen walking to the middle of a small promontory in front of the breakwater.The two stood facing the sea, as if they were discussing something, which was vaguely visible.Moreover, it seemed that Qian Yun was chattering about something. The man stood beside the car and looked there for a while, but he immediately went around the front of the car and came to this side of the car, and opened the door of the passenger seat as he came. Keiko Sugihara immediately got into the car as if she had been rescued.

On the way back, Sugihara Kiko felt an unexpected relaxed atmosphere.For herself, it was a sense of relief after explaining the truth, and after hearing what she said, the man was neither angry nor contemptuous, which made her feel at ease.Moreover, not only Sugihara Keko, even this man seemed to have erased the nervousness he had when he came here just now on the way back. This man didn't like to talk too much, and the content of the conversation was limited to things around Sugihara Keko; moreover, he asked more about the situation of various departments of the TV station, and the work that Sugihara Keko himself was responsible for.

However, this man occasionally frowned tightly and remained silent.At this moment, Keiko Sugihara wondered if it was because of himself that he had ruined other people's plans, and he was condemning himself in his heart.However, if you speak at this time, you will definitely make the other party even more angry. The national highway is much smoother than when we came here just now.After walking for a while, at a three-way intersection, the man quickly turned left and stopped the car. "Should go make a phone call." He said as if talking to himself, and got out of the car. On the edge of the sidewalk, there is a telephone booth with a dim light.Behind it is a car company, and the cars that are used as exhibits reflect bright luster under the faint light.Xizi immediately understood that this was Hebaicing.Recently, in this place, several roundabout paths have been built, which can directly lead to the direction of Kitakyushu.

When the man came out of the phone booth, he was calmer than before, with a bored look on his face. "Today's matter has been dealt with by phone, and I'm not angry anymore, don't worry." He returned to the car, and while standing very close, staring into Sugihara Keiko's eyes, he said in a calm but powerful tone. Then, he sat upright again and slowly inserted the key, but he looked at the signal light and did not start the car, as if he was thinking about something.Green turned to yellow, which turned to red. Suddenly, Xizi realized whether this man was waiting for him to get out of the car, because he had no reason to ride in his car anymore.Why didn't I think of this earlier? She decided to speak.At this time, the signal light turns green again, at the same time.The car started up at once. "How about sitting down for a while, if you can?" the other party began. "Ah?!..." Sugihara Keko was somewhat surprised, and looked up at the man next to him.So he smiled at Xizi: "How can I put it this way, it's fate! It's such a pity to break up like this!..." The man said with a smile. "What's going on?..." Sugihara Keiko asked himself. "Just, if I drop by, I can take you to my house." "No, no need." Sugihara Keiko couldn't help shaking her head, probably she felt that she would feel sorry for this man even more.However, as soon as the words came out of her mouth, a faint impulse surged in her heart. The man nodded with a smile and turned right.The three-way intersection in Washiracho is the divergence point that leaves the national road and leads to the cape called "Umizhong Road".The cape is the peninsula of Shiga Island at the tip of Hakata Bay in the east.It can also be said that the "Umizhong Road" is a very standard national road built on the slender sandbar divided by the open sea (Xuenkai Nada) and Hakata Bay, until Shiga Island.There are also many vehicles. The traffic going back and forth passes through the area around the Yanchao base where the US military is stationed. From here, the view can reach the sea.On both sides of this national road are low pine trees and skin-colored sand dunes, which are very dazzling white under the night. Hakata Bay on the left is shining with silver waves under the moonlight.This "sea road" and its two sides are deeply surrounded by the Itoshima peninsula into a bay, but not a single wave is visible.The lights on the streets of Fukuoka City on the other side are very bright. However, in the open sea next to the sand dunes on the right, there are silver waves rolling.The sound of the wind blowing against the window glass was clearly discernible.The sand dunes on both sides of the road gradually eroded to the national road.Only through this road can you reach the small island sandwiched between Genkai Nada and Hakata Bay. "I still have something to do tonight..." When the triangular, black, large and small island shadows in front of him came to the front for the first time, the man slowed down the speed of the car slowly and broke the long silence. "I usually go for a walk near your TV station." His tone was very relaxed. "Are you alone?" Sugihara Keiko asked in response. "Yes. It's a good feeling to go from the commercial street to Hakata Bay all at once. My wife's natal family is in that area, but my wife died of illness last year." He said in a relaxed tone. But here he stopped.Sugihara Keko saw the corners of his tight mouth again, with a faint feeling of pity oozing out. "——We used to go to Shingu Port just now and this Shiga Island. She can do oil painting to some extent, so I went there to paint the sea..." The car drove across the bridge on the sandbar and entered the island.Although this is a half-agricultural and half-fishing island that can be circled around the island in half an hour by car, there is a high mountain above the ground. The car did not drive into the asphalt road, but passed the shrine and climbed the mountain trail. After the car drove on this uneven road for 15 minutes, the eyes suddenly opened up. There is also a lookout in front.The moonlight, which was brighter than before, shone on the sea surface of Hakata Bay, causing many islands to emerge from the sea surface.The "Middle Road in the Sea" that I walked just now is also like a white tendon on the sea surface. You can see the lights of the cars driving on it. The lights on the streets of Fukuoka City are very dense because they are seen from a distance.But wherever you can see, you can't see where it is, probably because of the season.This is just like the night scene with the fragrance of new buds, which looks hazy and beautiful. The man pressed his eyes to the glass and looked out for a moment.His side face was still so majestic, but Sugihara Keiko felt that there was still a kind of sadness in it. "Maybe he is missing his dead wife right now?" Thinking of this, Xizi Sugihara felt a little pity for this man in his heart. "Are you tired?" The man seemed to wake up suddenly, and turned his head to ask Sugihara Keiko.His eyes are smiling.The gloom faded from his face, and there was an expression of living, male alertness. "Not yet!..." Sugihara Keiko smiled unnaturally. In the process of analyzing this man from time to time, in Sugihara Keiko's heart, the barriers of guard were loosened.She felt that the wind outside had also softened.This is the first time she has felt this way.The car turned around on the edge of the lap watchtower, and then drove down from the north side of the island. After walking for a while on the path from the miscellaneous woods, you can see a newly built restaurant in front of you.There are still lights in the windows. "Go and have a rest? You haven't eaten yet." The man said in a friendly tone. They came into the brightly lit hall.The restaurant is built uphill. The man led Sugihara Keiko like a guardian, and sat down with her at a table.There were three other couples, like three couples, at a dining table farther away from Xizi and the others.Due to the darkness of the night, the light in the restaurant was relatively dim, so the figures of these people were also hazy. However, since this hotel is built on the northwest slope of the island, the scenery outside the glass window is less than what can be seen on the observation deck. Only on one side of the window, you can see the western part of Fukuoka City. Sparse lights, the street lamps in the central part of Nokoro Island in front of you, radiate blue and white light, but you can't see a single lamp in the north.However, the moonlight clearly distinguishes the undulating hills and the sea water below.The roar of the open sea passed through the mountains and into the hall through the thick glass windows. This scene made Sugihara Keko recall the fragments of poems he had learned in the past. During the meal, the man who was driving also talked more, but it didn't make people feel tongue-tied.This time he didn't just ask Sugihara Xizi about it, he even told Xizi about his childhood memories.Probably because he grew up by the sea in the San'in area, so he likes the sea very much, and said that he also has a good impression of the turbulent Japanese Inland Sea. "So, I often come here to look at the Xuanjie Beach in the distance. When my wife was in good health, we also came here together, but a year later, I was the only one left..." said Here, he suddenly stopped talking. He looked at Sugihara Keiko again.Keiko Sugihara lowered her head in embarrassment.She felt that this man was comparing himself with his dead wife. "Especially my wife was born in Kagoshima. Seeing the warm South China Sea, I seem to recall my hometown..." "Ah, I was born in Kagoshima too! I can see Sakura Island every day." "Ah!... That's really great. She often tells me stories about Sakura Island and Cape Toi!... So, speaking of the bright sea in the south, she is often confused by the gloomy waters of the Inland Sea of ​​Japan." Fascinated, once we come here, we say nothing and don’t want to go back. Sometimes, we reserve a room here and sit opposite each other until morning.” While speaking plainly, the man stared at Keiko Sugihara with his smiling eyes. The words "book a room and sit opposite each other until morning" shocked her deeply. Suddenly, Keiko Sugihara felt that this man was speaking to his wife.The topic of an ordinary and impeccable wife seems to be about to turn to Xizi.Is this his scheme, or the natural expression of the two people's feelings...? However, the current Sugihara Keko has lost his ability to judge this matter.Compared with her judgment at this time, it can be said that her will has collapsed. Sugihara Keko recalled that from the moment he got in the car and walked back, his body and mind fell into an indescribable state of paralysis, and now he was almost in a state of collapse. Maybe it's the effect of the wine I drank before the meal.However, when she is working, she often has the opportunity to drink with her colleagues. Therefore, Sugihara Keiko is definitely not a woman who is not good at drinking. Sugihara Keiko suddenly wanted to drink the second glass of wine in one gulp, maybe in this way, he could wake up. Just as her hand was reaching for the wine glass, it suddenly touched the man's finger.In an instant, her fingers were held in a generous palm.When she raised her head suddenly, she was captured by those bright eyes.The warmth of this man's palm made Xizi feel a sensation of paralyzing pleasure all over his body.She wanted to say something, but nothing came out. At the same time, Sugihara Xizi suddenly had an abrupt idea, an inspirational idea, which flashed through Xizi's mind. Could this man in front of her be the other half she had been looking for for a long time? ...