Chapter 5 first quarter
"Chunyu is a dish with a really good name."
"yes."
"It's really similar, it looks like a thin line."
"Very similar."
"People in the past may have been more frank than people today."
"maybe."
Wu Ze glanced at Lao Tie next to him.
"Why are your answers so short?"
Lao Tie hugged his shoulders and said, "Energy saving."
"The more you talk, the faster you get hungry, I think."
The two sit side by side in the body of the swan.The swan in the children's playground has its head on the ground, a slide on the back of its neck, and stairs on the other side of its buttocks. Its body is empty.The energetic children climbed in from the ass, through the body of the swan, and slid down the back of the neck to play.It's a pity that Wu Ze and Lao Tie are neither children nor energetic, and what's more terrible is that it is still raining, so they can only squat in the swan's body and hug their knees in a daze.
"However, it would be nice if the design of this thing was more serious. It goes through the asshole every day, and the children are quite pitiful."
"yes."
"By the way, old man, how do you say Swan's English?"
"Swan."
"Ah, Swann. Yes, even I know, ha ha."
"Do you know the meaning of the verb?"
"verb?"
"Swan, as a verb, means 'to wander around aimlessly.'"
The old iron is completely pessimistic about the future.
Alas, there is reason to be pessimistic.
"Long experience."
Wu Ze's gaze returned to Chun Yu.
The rain started shortly after the two escaped from the apartment.Suddenly the sky changed its shape, and the icy water droplets began to draw countless water lines around it.Thanks to the rain, the fire in the apartment will definitely not spread to the surrounding area.For Wu Ze, at least this is a comfort.
As for the cause of the fire, according to the discussion between the two just now, it may be caused by problems such as electric leakage.In fact, Wu Ze had a guess, but he didn't say it, and he didn't tell Lao Tie the reason for fleeing the apartment.He originally thought that the old man would ask himself.
"By the way, Lao Wu, I forgot to ask. Why did you escape from the apartment just now?"
The problem still came.
"Because I rented the house with someone else's resident certificate. The fire incident brought the police, and it would be very troublesome to ask this and that."
"That's it."
Although Takeo Takesawa is his real name, his household registration is Nakamura XX.It was bought from someone who resold household registration seven years ago, and it was probably sold by a homeless man for money.Where household registration is sold, most things come in this way.
"this one?"
"what?"
"The reason for running away. Is it really just because you are afraid of being questioned by the police?"
Wu Ze didn't know how to answer.
"Don't be angry if I'm wrong," Lao Tie threw out this sentence first, and then continued, "Old Wu, do you feel that that person—the one I mentioned in the store, came back to look for him again? Did you take revenge?"
"Don't guess."
in one sentence.
"That guy came to revenge after finding out where you live. Is that what you think?"
The old iron seemed to be a little worried and asked.
"Ok--"
Wu Ze's gaze fell back to Yusi.
"There are still things that happen in the world."
Wu Ze had already briefly talked about it with Lao Tie.
That's what Wu Ze said in case.
In the past, Wu Ze was also a well-behaved office worker.Although I didn't go to school very much, I also worked hard as a salesman in a certain machine tool manufacturing company.His wife is six years younger than him, named Yukie, and has an only daughter, Shadai.Although Yukie looks ordinary, she has a good temper.Sha Dai is extremely cute, and has a very different personality from Wu Ze.Compared with today's life, it can be said that there is one sky and one underground. The days at that time were very happy.
The three borrowed a house at the end of Nerima Ward and the border of Saitama Prefecture.Although the house is small, it can reflect the morning sun.There is a small hill to the west, and the house is just at the end of the slope of the hill, so there is no west sun at all.The only thing that can shine into a room is the morning and daylight.Until now, as long as Wu Ze closes his eyes, he can clearly see the white and clear light inside the eyelids, and the room can still smell the mixed smell of asphalt and soil outside the door.There are concrete steps leading up to the ramp at the back door, which are the steps to the high street.Wu Ze remembered that every Sunday, Sha Dai, who got up early in the morning, liked to run up and down the steps over there.At that time, although she hummed some out-of-tune tunes, Wu Ze can still hear them clearly.
—I want to see a doctor.
Xuehui told Wu Ze that she was feeling a little uncomfortable on a warm spring morning.Irreversible fatigue, abdominal pain, chills.She went to a small nearby clinic to see internal medicine, and the internal medicine doctor wrote her a letter of introduction and asked her to go to a large general hospital.Doctors at the general hospital sent Yukie into an examination machine that looked like a small spaceship.A few days later, the test results came out, and the doctor called home.With a tone that was almost deliberate, Wu Ze was invited to come and get the test results.
The X-ray film taken with a contrast agent is very similar to the aerial photo of "Tokyo at Night" seen by the three of them when they went to Tokyo Tower when Sadai was still sitting in a baby carriage.The glowing ones are cancer cells.The place where the neon light gathers most, the doctor explained is the liver.
Snow painting passed away, only nine months after that.
That was twelve years ago.Xue E is only twenty-eight years old.
"Old Wu... have you figured out who it is?"
"Ah, no, I can't think of it."
Wu Ze and Sha Dai started a life of only two people.Shadai was only seven years old at the time.
There is an image of "Puppet Domino", which is still firmly entrenched in Wu Ze's mind.Every one of the dominoes is Wu Ze.The upright Wu Ze stood in a row, each one waiting to be pushed down from behind and fell forward.Each Wu Ze has a different expression.Horrified face.tired face.angry face.teary face.A crying face.The last one showed no expression.Every Wu Ze held Sha Dai in his arms.Shadai was laughing all the time.Grinning, pink, chubby face.Only the penultimate Shadai has no face.There's just a black blob where the face should be.Then, the last domino - the expressionless Wu Ze, although his arms are still in the shape of holding a child, but there is nothing in his hand.Both arms are empty inside.
I lived with the two of Shadai for about three years.The two of them rarely talked about Xuee.Wu Ze is avoiding this topic.When Shadai grows up and can understand various things in this world from a perspective other than emotions, let's talk to her.Wu Ze intends to do so.
Neither rich nor poor, the father and daughter lead a monotonous life day after day.But this monotony disappeared overnight.That was when Sadai was ten years old.
Among Wu Ze's colleagues, there is a guy who likes to gamble and often associates with some dubious people.On a Friday night, Wu Ze was dragged to a room in a mixed-use building in Shinjuku by him.The reason why he didn't refuse is probably because Wu Ze also wanted to occasionally relieve the anxiety and pressure of raising children in his life without a wife.Wu Ze called Sha Dai and said that he would come back later and let her go to bed first.
——There is dinner in the refrigerator, take the microwave to turn it on and eat it.
——Do you want to spread Dad's quilt?
——Well, help me make the bed, thanks!
The place my colleague took Wu Ze to was a casino.
The guys who gather there mainly play poker.Persuaded by his colleagues, Wu Ze took a few sips of the spirits served and exchanged the little change he had for chips, but soon his wallet was empty, so he could only watch his colleagues while sipping the wine in the glass. victory or defeat.
The reason why Wu Ze didn't leave that casino was because his colleague's luck was frighteningly good.
The chips are piled higher and higher in the hands of colleagues.The colleague was excited, and Wu Ze was also excited beside him-in retrospect, it was completely a trap set by the casino.At the beginning, let people win a few hands, and when they relax their guard, they will fall into the trap of the casino.In a blink of an eye, all the money brought by my colleagues was gone.But the colleagues who had won like a rainbow before did not want to stop at this time.Wu Ze, who was watching the battle, also felt that after winning so much just now, maybe he could make money.The man at the casino offered to borrow money to play.The colleague agreed on the spot and borrowed money from the casino, and Wu Ze was the guarantor of the loan.He wrote his name, address and phone number on the A4 paper as the casino said.
In the end, the colleague still didn't win.And the loss is not a small amount.Two million—this is the money my colleagues borrowed at the casino for just one night.
Late that night, a colleague called Wu Ze's home.
— In fact, I owe a lot of money elsewhere...
The colleague said this, and apologized briefly to Wu Ze, and then hung up the phone.Wu Ze thought, this is his apology for spending money to drag himself to the casino, and signing the guarantor for the loan.But Wu Ze was wrong.
Colleagues are missing.
Completely disappeared.
The money he borrowed from the casino turned into money borrowed by Wu Ze.
The first domino fell down with a look of surprise.Next, with the crackling sound, Wu Ze, who was holding Shadai in his arms, fell down one after another.
Wu Ze finally borrowed money from Consumer Finance and repaid the debt owed by the casino.Then I suffered from the monthly repayment of consumer finance, so I had to borrow money from other consumer finance.In this way, he kept tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall, barely making ends meet.All kinds of loan companies got news from nowhere, and leaflets to persuade financing came one after another, all saying that the company can help repay the loan, but they only wrote ambiguous words such as "preferential", about the specific interest rate or repayment method And so on all without saying a word.However, one of them wrote an unbelievably low interest rate, which is said to be due to the "promotion period".Wu Ze jumped for joy.He thought that if he could borrow in full at this interest rate, he would be able to pay it off in full.So Wu Ze called the number printed on the leaflet, and there was a very enthusiastic male voice on the other side.However, after Wu Ze introduced his situation, the man's attitude changed drastically.
"In this case, unfortunately we are unable to provide financing."
Wu Ze was discouraged.But the man added that there is no solution.He cited the name of a well-known consumer finance company and explained: "Our company has a cooperative relationship with each branch of XX. Is it possible to confirm your credit through their review? If you can confirm your Credit, let's discuss financing again, what do you think?"
Censorship is of course no problem, Wu Ze replied.In short, being able to consolidate borrowings in one place at favorable interest rates is currently the top priority.
"Then trouble you to go to any branch of so-and-so to apply for a loan of 500,000 yuan today. Once it is confirmed that you have passed the review there,
Notes: We'll get back to you—” Wu Ze immediately went to the consumer finance company to apply for a loan of 500,000 yuan.Review passed easily.In this way, the repayment can finally be made easier, and Wu Ze is relieved.In the evening, the man's phone rang. "Congratulations, there is no problem with the review. Next, our company will combine your loans together for processing. First, please use the 500,000 yuan raised from XX today as a handling fee and remit it to our company's account." The next day, Wu Ze remitted 500,000 to the account the man said. However, it should have handled the loans in a unified manner, but the urging from Consumer Finance has not stopped.Strange, Wu Ze thought.He called the company, but the number didn't work. be cheated. This is the so-called "introducer fraud". Wu Ze later understood the key.The man claimed to have a cooperative relationship with a certain branch, which is actually a complete lie.That "so-and-so" was originally a bank with loose censorship.The man on the phone was just to defraud Wu Ze of the half a million that he borrowed from there.As a result, instead of consolidating borrowings at favorable interest rates, the amount owed increased.In the end, Wu Ze could no longer pass the review of general consumer finance, and had to find an underground channel - usury. Usury interest rates are ridiculously high.Calculated in terms of annual interest, the actual interest rate is above one thousand percent.It's like moving from the sand dunes to the desert. At first, the loan was only 800,000, which is not a lot, but it was far exceeded by the huge interest in a blink of an eye.I paid nearly 3 million in two years, and even so, it was still compound interest, and the loan continued to increase.Wu Ze was too stupid at that time.Didn't know about Victim Relief Organizations, or laws to protect consumers.Regardless of the legality and illegality, in short, they are lingering under the pressure of "borrowing money and paying it back".I pushed myself into a dead end.Every day, urging letters like threats are sent to the mailbox.Later, the letter of urging became a "letter of condolence", and the name of the deceased was Wu Ze.To this day, Wu Ze has a deep fear of the mailbox, fearing that once he opens the small door, he will see some letters of urging or condolence inside. When he came back from get off work at the company and saw an unfamiliar car parked in front of his house, Wu Ze would hold his breath and secretly turn back.Day after day, all the calls were roaring phone calls.Wu Ze told Sha Dai not to answer the phone calls from home.Later, those guys even contacted the company where Wu Ze worked and called out Wu Ze's boss to threaten him.Wu Zexia called the police cruelly, but the police's reaction was very cold. ——This matter, you borrowed the money yourself, and you didn’t pay it back... ——But if it goes on like this, it might end up being... ——Are you asking us to monitor you 24 hours a day? The police are also understaffed. The middle-aged police officer in charge of the reception said that his face looked tired.He heard Wu Ze briefly explain the whole story, and said some ambiguous words such as "civil non-intervention" and "failure to meet the elements of crime", and finally said, come back when something happens, and then stood up .Wu Ze held back the furious roar that came to his lips, and left the police station silently. The terrible coercion continues.In addition to letters and phone calls, there were obviously unordered sushi, pizza, etc., which were sent to the home or company, and even an ambulance came uninvited. Soon, the director of the company called Wu Ze out and announced in euphemistic terms that he had been fired from the company.Without arguing a word, Wu Ze packed up his personal belongings on the table, bought Shadai's favorite ebony chewing gum at the kiosk at the station, and returned home just as the sun was setting.Sadie was surprised when he saw him. "Why did you go home so early?" Seeing the happy expression on Sha Dai's face after he finished saying this sentence, Wu Ze couldn't help feeling sad. This morning after get off work, Wu Ze lied to Sha Dai and handed her the ebony gum.I've had dinner, Wu Ze said as he opened the refrigerator door, and fried Shadai's favorite fried rice with some vegetables and sausage left in it.When eating fried rice, whenever he found shredded ginger mixed in the rice, Shadai would deftly pick it up with a spoon and bite it with his front teeth.Speaking of which, Sadai's favorite food has also changed a bit. "Old iron...how do you say fried rice in English?" "It seems to be pilaf." "yes." Upon hearing the news of being fired from the company, the loan shark called with a proposal.It is said that the calculation of interest ends here, and in exchange, Wu Ze will go to work with them.This unexpected proposal surprised Wu Ze, but he later learned that developments like this were far from isolated.There are many examples of loan sharks hiring people who cannot pay them back.Those so-called "jobs" are things that people inside the organization cannot do, such as opening a bank account, buying a prepaid mobile phone, renting a house as a work base, and so on.In short, it is necessary to use the resident certificate. —Mr. Firemouth will tell you what to do later. The man who proposed to Wu Ze said so on the other end of the phone. ——Mr. Burner...who is that? —Well, you haven't seen him yet?Well, anyway, there is a man named Huokou. Anyway, the guy named Huokou will contact Wu Ze soon.Follow his instructions, the man told Wu Ze.When I was about to hang up the phone, I added something as if I suddenly remembered it. ——Never mention his front teeth... Wu Ze didn't understand what this meant at all. ——If you mess with him, you will die! The Huokou I saw a few days later was a tall man with a face that looked a bit like a lizard.I can't tell what it feels like, but Wu Ze feels that he doesn't look like a person who does specific work such as lending and collecting money, but more like a person in charge of coordinating work in an organization.Huokou would ask Wu Ze to meet him in a shady alley almost every day, and use his unique voice with a particularly pronounced sibilant to briefly explain the day's work content.Takezawa didn't know where the loan shark organization's office was until the end, but it was probably in Shinjuku.The places where Huokou and Wu Ze meet are basically in the Shinjuku area. The reason why the dental fricative in Huokou's pronunciation is particularly serious seems to be related to his front teeth.But because Huokou seldom laughed or spoke loudly, Wu Ze never saw it clearly.However, compared with other teeth, his front teeth are much shorter. It doesn't feel like they were broken later, maybe they were born naturally.So it is difficult to pronounce the "s" sound, and it will be emphasized when speaking in reverse. That's what the man on the phone was talking about, Wu Ze understood.Don't say what you shouldn't say, and try not to look at the mouth of the fire.Wu Ze kept this in mind. Wu Ze is busy every day according to Huokou's instructions.In the morning, he told Shadai that he was going to work in the company, put on a suit, and went out with a purse.Every time Shadai smiled and said "be careful on the road", Wu Ze felt that smile was like a lost item that could never be found.Every day I wish I could die. "Want to be liberated sooner?" One day, in a one-room apartment somewhere in the Valley of the City that Wu Ze had just rented, Kazuki asked him.Yatsushiro Aki's songs echoed loudly in the room, and it was a tape recorder brought by Fukuchi. "Do you want to do some work with a commission?" The so-called work of Huokou is called "gut pulling" in slang, which is the act of extracting the last bit of property from debtors who have exceeded the limit of repayment ability and can no longer pay.For debtors who have been stripped naked, their intestines must be pulled out. For ordinary debtors, even if they stop repaying, there will still be some money left in their bank accounts.Basically just enough to pay utility bills and put the kids to school.Huokou explained that Wu Ze's job is to coerce these people and force them to withdraw the life-saving money from the ATM in person.Because this kind of thing needs to meet the debtor face to face, people inside the organization cannot do it. Wu Ze accepted the job.All in all, he wants to pay off the money he owes as soon as possible, and wants to live a peaceful life with Shadai. The debtor was crying and begging at Wu Ze's feet, almost knocking his head to the ground.For such debtors, Wu Ze followed what Huokou taught him, if you don't pay back the money, your son and daughter will be in danger.A deadpan menace.In the end, when the debtor took out the money from the bank or post office in front of Wu Ze and handed it over to him, his fingers were basically trembling, wishing to kill the person in front of him who had snatched the money from him.Wu Ze decided not to treat them as human beings.He said to himself, these guys are obviously rich, but they just refuse to pay them back, they are really bastards. Realizing that he was the bastard was when Wu Ze learned that a certain woman had died. --Can not be done! That was the mother of a single parent family. ——It's already...to no avail! Her thin body trembled, and she knelt in front of the cold door of the apartment, kowtowing to Wu Ze non-stop.In the corner of the sanhe soil, there is a pair of dirty pink sneakers that look like children's wear. In the end, I still didn't receive the money that day.Wu Ze left the apartment, went to ask debtors elsewhere to collect money, and returned to Shi Zhigu's office with the money.The next day, when Wu Ze went to the woman's residence again, he found a police car parked at the door of the apartment, surrounded by crowds of people.Wu Ze pretended to be a passer-by, pricked up his ears to eavesdrop on the words of the onlookers, and only then did he know that the single mother committed suicide by cutting her wrists in her room. A thin girl—who looked to be in the upper grades of elementary school, who happened to be about the same age as Shadai—was standing in the hallway of the apartment.The policeman in uniform squatted down and was asking her something.But the girl didn't speak.The crystal-like eyes just kept staring at his toes.On those feet was a pair of dirty pink sneakers. "Hey, old man." Wu Ze stared at the transparent rain. "You still hate the guys who drove your wife to the brink—the usurers, the debt collectors, whatever?" "Oh, yes." Lao Tie was also in the belly of the swan looking at the raindrops. "But I was the one who forced Eri to commit suicide in the end. It was me who failed to support the family well. She died because I was worthless." "yes?" "yes." This is lying, Wu Ze thought.Of course, the old iron thinks that the worst is the loan sharks and debt sorters.But the reason why he didn't say that must be because of Wu Ze's mood.Lao Tie knew that Wu Ze had helped a loan shark and indirectly killed a woman.The guy who forced Lao Tie's wife to commit suicide was the same as what Wu Ze had done.But Lao Tie never mentioned this, and has been lying. "How do you say lie in English?" Wu Ze casually asked, and Lao Tie made a dolphin-like mouth into the mouth shape of "Hey", touched his chin with his dirty fingers for a while, and then nodded slightly. "Bullfinch." Wu Ze glanced at his partner's slightly smiling face.This guy made a mistake on purpose.The English of lying seems to be lie, and Wu Ze knows this level of words anyway. Bull or something, it should mean gray bird. "Whether it's lying or cheating, don't they all fly?" "Well——" Lao Tie rubbed his nose and stared at Yu Si and said, "It's all flying..." When he learned that the woman had committed suicide, something seemed to explode in Wu Ze's heart.There was almost a bang. Wu Ze didn't want to get away with the crime, nor did he want to escape punishment.The dead mother must have left a last word.The thin pencil words on the letter paper are to apologize to the children who were abandoned by themselves in this world, and at the same time denounce those who cursed and persecuted themselves in front of the gate, and accuse the absurdity of this world.Sadness, pain, regret, like a gray flood, poured into Wu Ze's heart together.But in the upper part of the chest, a different thought from those feelings gradually unfolded.Her apology, reprimand, curse, and accusation directly turned into Wu Ze's own apology, reprimand, accusation, and curse. Wrong - what finally emerged vaguely in Wu Ze's chaotic mind was such a simple word.This is wrong. Wu Ze left the apartment full of onlookers and walked on the road alone.Wrong, wrong, wrong.The word turned into one sound, two sounds, and countless sounds in the eardrum.The sound became louder and louder, like the endless sound of black flying insects beating their wings, filling Wu Ze's head.It deafens the ears, fills the vision, and paralyzes the limbs. ——Finally, a familiar male voice came intermittently from the opposite side, and Wu Ze gradually saw a blurred face.That face was saying something to Wu Ze.that face.Lizard-like face. crater. --so…… Wu Ze raised his head.Yashiro Aki's song was playing loudly in the room. At some point, I returned to Ichigaya's office. --Ugh. Just as Wu Ze said this, Huokou hit the stop button of the tape recorder heavily, and stared at Wu Ze with sharp eyes. ——Even if we do leave a suicide note or something, we don't have to worry about it.Calls to collect debts are all pre-paid phones, and they don't know the address here. So it has no impact on the organization, Huokou explained to Wu Ze. ——Well, I can't let you "pull out the intestines" anymore.You are too soft-hearted to do that kind of thing. Let me do something else for you, Huokou said. Wrong—the voice sounded again in Wu Ze's mind. He looked away dazedly.Eight stacks of rooms.Dusty carpet.There was just a table in the middle of the rug, the kind you might find in a typical corporate conference room.On the table are five or six prepaid mobile phones that Wu Ze had acquired before.Soon this place will become a stronghold for coercing debtors.There is a stack of A4 printing paper next to the scattered mobile phones.Wu Ze didn't know what was written in it, anyway, he carried it with him everywhere. With a seven star in the mouth of the burner, he took out a slender lighter from the pocket of the shirt without a tie, and lit it several times. Although sparks came out, it seemed to be out of gas, and it never lit.Huokou spat and walked towards the gas stove in the corner of the room. ——Almost subconsciously, Wu Ze approached the table, reached out and secretly flipped over the printing paper. The list of debtors, the principal and interest of the loan, and the collection status of each person.The following is the list of strongholds of the organization.Every place has the handwriting of the crater, with detailed notes.Among the characteristic handwritten words, there are many words and phrases with ambiguous meanings but enough to remind people of vicious behavior. "Rise interest rate every other day", "Homeland has land", "Pension is OK", "Household registration mortgage". There was a click.The burner bent over to light a cigarette, as if it was covered by a gas stove.Wu Ze's gaze shifted to the underside of the table.There was his purse.As if sleepwalking, Wu Ze opened the purse and stuffed the printing paper in his hand.Huokou turned around. "You go first, I will contact you later." "understood." Wu Ze left the room. The leather bag in his left hand feels heavier than his own weight. Wu Ze wanted to take these documents and surrender to the police.Give the police the list of debtors and strongholds, and tell the whole story of what the organization has done.What is wrong must be corrected.The vicious insects that live in dark and damp places must be driven away, and those who survive by devouring decent people must be eliminated.Even the police who didn't accept him at the beginning, as long as they have this document, they will definitely raise their noble buttocks and start to act.It will definitely be a force that can be used. The phone rang. The screen shows the number of the crater.Wu Ze felt his walking legs trembling.He stared blankly at the number.The bell rang for a while, then stopped, but immediately the same number called again.Wu Ze turned off the power of the phone with his sweaty hands. what to do? Wu Ze held the bag in his arms and walked among the crowd.This document must be given to the police.But Shadai must also be protected.Huokou was looking for himself.He will come home.Maybe he has already left the office and started looking for it.I can do whatever I want, but I can't let Shadai get hurt. In a daze, Wu Ze glanced to the side.There is a cigarette vending machine on the side of the road.Wu Ze walked over quickly, pretending to take cigarettes, bent over and quickly took out the documents from the bag, and threw them under the vending machine.I glanced around.Nobody noticed. Wu Ze stood up straight, hesitated for a moment, and started to walk.He chose the road with as many people as possible and walked towards the JR station.Tens of meters away from the station, Wu Ze walked to the stairs leading to the station, and a taxi stopped next to him. "Yo!" Opening the door from the back of the car is the fire port. "What are you going to do?" There was a sneer on Huokou's mouth.Wu Ze's legs trembled, his stomach was cold, his mouth was dry, and he had difficulty breathing. Huokou came to Wu Ze, stretched out a hand, and stared at Wu Ze wordlessly. "what?" Wu Ze asked.He himself was amazed at how natural the sound was. "Don't court death, idiot!" Harsh dentate fricative.The finger stretched out by Huokou was twitching slightly. "Looking for death... er, what do you mean?" An extremely natural voice came out of Wu Ze's mouth again.Huokou raised his eyebrows suspiciously. "Tell you to give it back to me!" Wu Ze pursed his lips, looked at Huokou's hand, and then looked back at his face, showing a confused smile. "Uh, what else?" "Documents!" The voice of the fire mouth is very anxious.But behind that restlessness, one can feel a vague question mark hidden. "document?" Anger suddenly appeared on Huokou's face.He stretched out his long arms and grabbed Wu Ze's bag at once.At the same time, Wu Ze held the bag tightly in his arms with both hands.But the fire mouth is more powerful.He snatched the bag to his side, opened the mouth of the bag like tearing it open and looked inside.First I squinted my eyes for a while, and then rummaged through it with one hand. "Uh, is there any ... important documents lost?" His own mouth is really weird.Before I thought about it, my mouth was already talking.And he spoke as if he didn't know anything. "Where did you hide it?" Cinder raised a piercing gaze.Wu Ze closed his mouth, blinked a few times, and shook his head slightly.Huokou stared at Wu Ze's face for a while. "Is there something wrong?" In this kind of place, he will not be beaten.Wu Ze is sure of this.This guy will never commit a crime while everyone is watching.It is precisely because such a delicate boundary is clearly grasped that such discussions can be established. "Okay, don't do anything inexplicable!" Fire mouth's hand finally left the bag. "The document itself is just a copy, and it doesn't matter if it's gone." Huokou slowly moved his face closer to Wu Ze, only moved his lips and said, "You have a daughter, right?" When the word "daughter" came out of Huokou's mouth, Wu Ze felt a violent anger.He seemed to see the hands of the crime-tainted crater stroking Shadai's body. "Just think about your daughter, you know what to do and what not to do, right?" I'll call you back.Huokou dropped this sentence, and got back to the taxi that had been waiting beside him. Wu Ze stared straight at the taxi and drove away.Coercion is coercion.It's the guy's only weapon.But that is a disembodied weapon.I already understand it very well.Killing and chopping, Wu Ze has been talked about by them until now, but he is still alive and well.Those guys can't do anything after all.Wu Ze turned around, walked back to the vending machine just now, and pulled the documents out from under the machine.He stared at the typeface and the characteristic lettering of the burner. Then, go to the police station. The file's effect was greater than expected. The police launched a large-scale search and dealt a devastating blow to the loan shark organization based in Shinjuku.This news was broadcast across the country in the evening after only two weeks.Wu Ze saw it at the TV corner of the home appliance sales center on the way back from the employment agency.During these two weeks, he told Shadai that he went to the company, but actually accepted the interviews of several companies through the introduction of the employment agency.The police car shown on the TV screen contained suspects suspected of intimidation and violation of financing laws.In one of the cars, Wu Ze could clearly see Huokou's face, which was whitened by the media flashlight.Through the car window, Huokou's emotionless gaze wandered around, but when it fell on the camera that was shooting, it stopped immediately.Wu Ze felt that those eyes seemed to see himself across the screen.Huokou's thin lips whispered in the unclear picture, as if to say something.The murmur, which was impossible to hear originally, echoed in Wu Ze's ears. "You have a daughter, don't you?" Wu Ze did hear this sentence. Back home, Shadai was lying in his bedroom reading a comic book.She has been reading the same book since days ago.I don't know if he realizes that the family has no money. Recently, Sha Dai never said that he wanted anything. "I am back--" "Oh." Wu Ze made a dinner with ready-made materials, and sat face to face with Sha Dai to eat.From now on, there will be better and better food for you to eat.Although he didn't say this, Wu Ze said this to Sha Dai in his heart while eating. The next morning, Wu Ze put on his suit and purse as usual, and left the house.Shadai also sent him to the door as usual.The morning sun shining into the entrance made Shadai's face glow with white light.In another twenty minutes, a friend will come to her, and she will lock the door and go to school with her friend. Wu Ze avoided the way Shadai and the others went to school and went to a park.A building cleaning company interviewed Wu Ze today, but it was still early to go there.He was sitting on a bench with one hand clenched in his lap.He has been thinking.That organization was disbanded and Huokou was arrested.I was finally liberated, and I didn't have to worry about anything anymore. From now on, start a new job and turn a new page in your life.He didn't expect to work for a big company.If the personnel system is well-regulated, the personnel manager will contact Wu Ze's previous company and ask him carefully about his work attitude, whether he has any problems, and so on.At that time, there will inevitably be a matter of borrowing money, so I am afraid that I will not even be given the opportunity for an interview.All in all, the biggest goal right now is to have a stable income, even if it is less.It is no longer possible to pick and choose about the size of the company.Once you have money, move quickly. After a while, the phone in the jacket pocket rang.An unknown number appeared on the screen.Wu Ze felt uneasy suddenly.The mouth of the fire on the TV screen was facing his lips, as if it overlapped with the unknown number displayed on the screen. This call can't be answered—his intuition told him so. Wu Ze turned off the power of the phone and put it in his pocket. The interview with the building cleaning company was over, and it was already one o'clock in the afternoon when Wu Ze returned to the station.武泽打算再去职业介绍所寻找新的招工信息。不过因为肚子有点饿，想要先回家一趟，他便径直向家里走去。然而远远就听见消防车的警笛声。 武泽的家在燃烧。 浓浓的黑烟从碎掉的窗户玻璃里冲出来，里面可以看见橙色的火焰。斑驳闪烁的灰烬在天空中飞舞，像是要把整个房子包裹起来一样。消防员们叫喊着什么，拼命向房子浇水。许多人站得远远的在围观。 武泽的全身没有半分力气。烧起来了。雪绘曾经忙得手脚不停的厨房，沙代得了银奖贴在墙上的图画，武泽珍爱的家庭三人合照，全都烧起来了。武泽发出无声的叫喊。与此同时，房顶的一处发出巨大的声音，向下面掉去。里面随即喷出迄今为止最为凶恶的黑烟。 “武泽先生！” 邻居家的主妇发现了武泽，赶了过来，双手像是抓着自己的胸口一样。 “还好啊武泽先生，沙代在学校——” 对了，沙代不在家里。真是不幸中的万幸。 武泽回望起火的房子。是那些家伙干的。无动于衷之中，武泽确信。这是那些家伙的报复。恐怕是火口下的指示，手下人放的火。说不定只是想放把小火。说不定是不小心烧大了。 武泽最担心沙代。不知道那些人会干什么。在学校的时候应该没问题，放学的时候就危险了。要和女儿取得联系。越早越好。武泽掏出手机。但直到这时候，他才想起自己不知道小学的电话。身边的主妇唿吸急促，好像一直无法冷静下来似的。武泽转头问她知不知道小学的电话号码，她的儿子应该也上同一所小学。主妇飞快点头，一路小跑离开，很快拿了一张记事贴跑回来了。上面急匆匆地写了一串电话号码。 胸口里心脏怦怦直跳。 武泽心中隐约对某件事很不安。但到底不安什么，自己也说不上来。带着这种奇怪的感觉，武泽用手机按照纸上写的电话拨过去。接电话的是个中年男子。武泽报了自己的名字，请他紧急去找女儿来接电话。男子应了一声，把电话设成保留走了。雪绒花的音乐声持续了很久，武泽望着燃烧的家，一直等待着。终于音乐声消失了，电话那一头传来安然的声音。 ——喂？ 不是沙代。是个年轻女性的声音。 ——是沙代的父亲吗？我是沙代的班主任野木。 --what! ——您现在是在公司吗？ 武泽怔了怔，不知道怎么回答这个问题的时候，对方继续说：——正巧我也在找您。实际上一个上午都在给您打电话…… correct.武泽终于想起刚才的感觉从何而来了。今天早上在公园里的时候，手机屏幕上显示的号码，和这个号码一模一样。 ——但是怎么都拨不通。沙代到学校之后不久就说头痛—— 武泽眼前一黑，有什么东西仿佛小小的烟花闪烁。 ——让她去医务室休息，但是又开始发烧。好像是感冒了。所以我想和您联系…… ——然后呢？ 武泽打断对方的话问。女教师似乎有点不太高兴，沉默了一会儿才接下去说：——让她先回去了。 周围的景色刹那间消失了。 ——沙代说她有钥匙，一个人能回去。她现在是在家里休息吧？ 周围的景色再度显现。围在左右的人群。火焰。接近的火焰。不断迫近的火焰。武泽跑起来，撞开前面的人。烟与火以及焦黑的家，在眼前上下颤动，越变越大。脸上吹来强烈的热风，顺着唿吸一直灼烧到咽喉。有人在旁边一把抱住武泽的腰，奋力拽住了他。 ——你要干什么？ 武泽拼死挣脱扑过来的消防队员，用灼烧的咽喉发出嘶喊。 ——放开我！ --no! ——里面有人！ ——冷静点！ 房顶又塌了一处。就像炸弹爆炸一样，闪烁着红黑色光芒的灰烬，一齐在家的周围飞舞，然后慢慢盘旋而下。那时的颜色，至今还在武泽的脑海里燃烧。抬头望着灰烬，武泽所感到的是恐惧。也许将要失去女儿的恐惧——不，是已经失去女儿的恐惧。 就这样，人形多米诺骨牌的最后一张倒了。空虚的两臂抱着空洞的胸口倒在地上，被身后倒来的无数自己紧紧压住，死了。 根据消防署的解释，因为房子完全烧毁，火灾原因很难调查清楚，不过可能是由于电线短路，或者插座冒出的电火花引起的。也可能是家里的沙代不小心引发的火灾。总而言之，不管怎么解释，原因还是“不明”。武泽去警局报案，认为火灾是组织的报复。但是因为消防署的解释当中没有包含故意纵火的可能，警察不接受火灾与高利贷事件有关的说法。 沙代下葬的那一天，一辆底盘很低的白色轿车停在葬仪堂前面。从车窗里窥探的，是一个和火口有几分相似的年轻男子。那双三角眼和武泽的目光接触的刹那，本来毫无表情的脸忽然笑了。然后轿车便那样开走了。 那天晚上，武泽的手机响了，屏幕上显示的是“公用电话”。按下通话键，把手机放到耳边，一个从没听过的男性声音低低地说：——还没完哟！ 然后便挂了电话。 沙代的吊唁结束之后，武泽在新宿街头找了一个倒卖户籍的人，从他那儿买了别人的户籍，然后和周围切断了关系。他厌恶所有的一切。他想逃走。从那些家伙的手中逃走。从更可怕的报复中逃走。从死亡的回忆中逃走。为什么自己会做那种事？像个白痴一样，一本正经地偿还超过借款数十倍的金额，还老老实实按照他们说的去做，直到逼死一个女人——最后还偷走组织的文件，由此导致自己最心爱的女儿死亡。太较真了，那种想要纠正错误的想法。那到底算什么啊？善良、正义、正直，这些玩意儿有屁用啊。 在这个拿正直当傻子的世界，武泽决定，转生化作新人，一切重新来过。但是这一回不傻了。这一回不输了。被失败和后悔压烂的人形多米诺骨牌的最后一张，捡起断掉的手脚安在身上，奋力重新站起来。 ——那是七年前的事。 我是无赖。我是无赖。我是无赖。武泽每天都这样告诉自己。他就这样活着。他知道，不这样的话，自己又会被丢到失败的一侧去。他知道，就像陀螺一样，一旦转得慢了，立刻就会失去平衡，倒在地上。 想飞啊，老铁曾经这么说过。虽然武泽不可能完全理解老铁说这话的意思，但在那时候，武泽确实也有同样的感觉。 “老武——这次的火灾，你觉得也是那个高利贷组织干的？那个，叫什么井口的，和他有关系？” “火口。” 武泽首先纠正了老铁的错误，然后长长吐了一口气。 “唉，我觉得没关系吧。” 武泽想这么觉得。 “但是刚才你说，世上到底还有万一。” “是啊，到底只是万分之一啊。” 从那之后已经过了七年。到了今天，那个组织的报复又开始了——武泽并没有把这个想法当真，不过看到公寓冒出黑烟的瞬间，那种强烈的不安猛然攫住武泽的胸口也是事实。那时候被逮捕的家伙，现在恐怕也该释放了吧。其中的某个人——说不定就是火口——找到了武泽的住处，然后便和七年前一样，纵火烧他的房子——这样的可能性并非绝对不存在。在豚豚亭的店主那边打听武泽的那个高个子男人，到底是谁呢？会不会就是曾经在那个被武泽一手颠覆的高利贷组织工作过的人？或者，就是火口本人？ ——还没完哟！ 那声低语，至今还在武泽的脑海中回响。 “对了老武，明天怎么过？” 老铁抬头望着白茫茫的天空。慢悠悠的声音，让武泽稍稍有些安心。 “怎么过呀……做生意用的衣服道具什么的，全都烧了啊。” “只能从头再买了吧，按照紧要顺序一点点来。还好西装咱们两个都穿在身上……啊，不对，买衣服之前先要找到住处。老武，首先得找个住的地方，然后才谈得上从头再来啊。” “从头再来吗……” 武泽轻轻叹了一口气，抽了抽鼻子。 “老铁，我是无赖吧？” 突如其来的一问，老铁用快要睡着般的眼睛看了武泽半晌，然后才说：“我觉得是。”
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Notes: We'll get back to you—” Wu Ze immediately went to the consumer finance company to apply for a loan of 500,000 yuan.Review passed easily.In this way, the repayment can finally be made easier, and Wu Ze is relieved.In the evening, the man's phone rang. "Congratulations, there is no problem with the review. Next, our company will combine your loans together for processing. First, please use the 500,000 yuan raised from XX today as a handling fee and remit it to our company's account." The next day, Wu Ze remitted 500,000 to the account the man said. However, it should have handled the loans in a unified manner, but the urging from Consumer Finance has not stopped.Strange, Wu Ze thought.He called the company, but the number didn't work. be cheated. This is the so-called "introducer fraud". Wu Ze later understood the key.The man claimed to have a cooperative relationship with a certain branch, which is actually a complete lie.That "so-and-so" was originally a bank with loose censorship.The man on the phone was just to defraud Wu Ze of the half a million that he borrowed from there.As a result, instead of consolidating borrowings at favorable interest rates, the amount owed increased.In the end, Wu Ze could no longer pass the review of general consumer finance, and had to find an underground channel - usury. Usury interest rates are ridiculously high.Calculated in terms of annual interest, the actual interest rate is above one thousand percent.It's like moving from the sand dunes to the desert. At first, the loan was only 800,000, which is not a lot, but it was far exceeded by the huge interest in a blink of an eye.I paid nearly 3 million in two years, and even so, it was still compound interest, and the loan continued to increase.Wu Ze was too stupid at that time.Didn't know about Victim Relief Organizations, or laws to protect consumers.Regardless of the legality and illegality, in short, they are lingering under the pressure of "borrowing money and paying it back".I pushed myself into a dead end.Every day, urging letters like threats are sent to the mailbox.Later, the letter of urging became a "letter of condolence", and the name of the deceased was Wu Ze.To this day, Wu Ze has a deep fear of the mailbox, fearing that once he opens the small door, he will see some letters of urging or condolence inside. When he came back from get off work at the company and saw an unfamiliar car parked in front of his house, Wu Ze would hold his breath and secretly turn back.Day after day, all the calls were roaring phone calls.Wu Ze told Sha Dai not to answer the phone calls from home.Later, those guys even contacted the company where Wu Ze worked and called out Wu Ze's boss to threaten him.Wu Zexia called the police cruelly, but the police's reaction was very cold. ——This matter, you borrowed the money yourself, and you didn’t pay it back... ——But if it goes on like this, it might end up being... ——Are you asking us to monitor you 24 hours a day? The police are also understaffed. The middle-aged police officer in charge of the reception said that his face looked tired.He heard Wu Ze briefly explain the whole story, and said some ambiguous words such as "civil non-intervention" and "failure to meet the elements of crime", and finally said, come back when something happens, and then stood up .Wu Ze held back the furious roar that came to his lips, and left the police station silently. The terrible coercion continues.In addition to letters and phone calls, there were obviously unordered sushi, pizza, etc., which were sent to the home or company, and even an ambulance came uninvited. Soon, the director of the company called Wu Ze out and announced in euphemistic terms that he had been fired from the company.Without arguing a word, Wu Ze packed up his personal belongings on the table, bought Shadai's favorite ebony chewing gum at the kiosk at the station, and returned home just as the sun was setting.Sadie was surprised when he saw him. "Why did you go home so early?" Seeing the happy expression on Sha Dai's face after he finished saying this sentence, Wu Ze couldn't help feeling sad. This morning after get off work, Wu Ze lied to Sha Dai and handed her the ebony gum.I've had dinner, Wu Ze said as he opened the refrigerator door, and fried Shadai's favorite fried rice with some vegetables and sausage left in it.When eating fried rice, whenever he found shredded ginger mixed in the rice, Shadai would deftly pick it up with a spoon and bite it with his front teeth.Speaking of which, Sadai's favorite food has also changed a bit. "Old iron...how do you say fried rice in English?" "It seems to be pilaf." "yes." Upon hearing the news of being fired from the company, the loan shark called with a proposal.It is said that the calculation of interest ends here, and in exchange, Wu Ze will go to work with them.This unexpected proposal surprised Wu Ze, but he later learned that developments like this were far from isolated.There are many examples of loan sharks hiring people who cannot pay them back.Those so-called "jobs" are things that people inside the organization cannot do, such as opening a bank account, buying a prepaid mobile phone, renting a house as a work base, and so on.In short, it is necessary to use the resident certificate. —Mr. Firemouth will tell you what to do later. The man who proposed to Wu Ze said so on the other end of the phone. ——Mr. Burner...who is that? —Well, you haven't seen him yet?Well, anyway, there is a man named Huokou. Anyway, the guy named Huokou will contact Wu Ze soon.Follow his instructions, the man told Wu Ze.When I was about to hang up the phone, I added something as if I suddenly remembered it. ——Never mention his front teeth... Wu Ze didn't understand what this meant at all. ——If you mess with him, you will die! The Huokou I saw a few days later was a tall man with a face that looked a bit like a lizard.I can't tell what it feels like, but Wu Ze feels that he doesn't look like a person who does specific work such as lending and collecting money, but more like a person in charge of coordinating work in an organization.Huokou would ask Wu Ze to meet him in a shady alley almost every day, and use his unique voice with a particularly pronounced sibilant to briefly explain the day's work content.Takezawa didn't know where the loan shark organization's office was until the end, but it was probably in Shinjuku.The places where Huokou and Wu Ze meet are basically in the Shinjuku area. The reason why the dental fricative in Huokou's pronunciation is particularly serious seems to be related to his front teeth.But because Huokou seldom laughed or spoke loudly, Wu Ze never saw it clearly.However, compared with other teeth, his front teeth are much shorter. It doesn't feel like they were broken later, maybe they were born naturally.So it is difficult to pronounce the "s" sound, and it will be emphasized when speaking in reverse. That's what the man on the phone was talking about, Wu Ze understood.Don't say what you shouldn't say, and try not to look at the mouth of the fire.Wu Ze kept this in mind. Wu Ze is busy every day according to Huokou's instructions.In the morning, he told Shadai that he was going to work in the company, put on a suit, and went out with a purse.Every time Shadai smiled and said "be careful on the road", Wu Ze felt that smile was like a lost item that could never be found.Every day I wish I could die. "Want to be liberated sooner?" One day, in a one-room apartment somewhere in the Valley of the City that Wu Ze had just rented, Kazuki asked him.Yatsushiro Aki's songs echoed loudly in the room, and it was a tape recorder brought by Fukuchi. "Do you want to do some work with a commission?" The so-called work of Huokou is called "gut pulling" in slang, which is the act of extracting the last bit of property from debtors who have exceeded the limit of repayment ability and can no longer pay.For debtors who have been stripped naked, their intestines must be pulled out. For ordinary debtors, even if they stop repaying, there will still be some money left in their bank accounts.Basically just enough to pay utility bills and put the kids to school.Huokou explained that Wu Ze's job is to coerce these people and force them to withdraw the life-saving money from the ATM in person.Because this kind of thing needs to meet the debtor face to face, people inside the organization cannot do it. Wu Ze accepted the job.All in all, he wants to pay off the money he owes as soon as possible, and wants to live a peaceful life with Shadai. The debtor was crying and begging at Wu Ze's feet, almost knocking his head to the ground.For such debtors, Wu Ze followed what Huokou taught him, if you don't pay back the money, your son and daughter will be in danger.A deadpan menace.In the end, when the debtor took out the money from the bank or post office in front of Wu Ze and handed it over to him, his fingers were basically trembling, wishing to kill the person in front of him who had snatched the money from him.Wu Ze decided not to treat them as human beings.He said to himself, these guys are obviously rich, but they just refuse to pay them back, they are really bastards. Realizing that he was the bastard was when Wu Ze learned that a certain woman had died. --Can not be done! That was the mother of a single parent family. ——It's already...to no avail! Her thin body trembled, and she knelt in front of the cold door of the apartment, kowtowing to Wu Ze non-stop.In the corner of the sanhe soil, there is a pair of dirty pink sneakers that look like children's wear. In the end, I still didn't receive the money that day.Wu Ze left the apartment, went to ask debtors elsewhere to collect money, and returned to Shi Zhigu's office with the money.The next day, when Wu Ze went to the woman's residence again, he found a police car parked at the door of the apartment, surrounded by crowds of people.Wu Ze pretended to be a passer-by, pricked up his ears to eavesdrop on the words of the onlookers, and only then did he know that the single mother committed suicide by cutting her wrists in her room. A thin girl—who looked to be in the upper grades of elementary school, who happened to be about the same age as Shadai—was standing in the hallway of the apartment.The policeman in uniform squatted down and was asking her something.But the girl didn't speak.The crystal-like eyes just kept staring at his toes.On those feet was a pair of dirty pink sneakers. "Hey, old man." Wu Ze stared at the transparent rain. "You still hate the guys who drove your wife to the brink—the usurers, the debt collectors, whatever?" "Oh, yes." Lao Tie was also in the belly of the swan looking at the raindrops. "But I was the one who forced Eri to commit suicide in the end. It was me who failed to support the family well. She died because I was worthless." "yes?" "yes." This is lying, Wu Ze thought.Of course, the old iron thinks that the worst is the loan sharks and debt sorters.But the reason why he didn't say that must be because of Wu Ze's mood.Lao Tie knew that Wu Ze had helped a loan shark and indirectly killed a woman.The guy who forced Lao Tie's wife to commit suicide was the same as what Wu Ze had done.But Lao Tie never mentioned this, and has been lying. "How do you say lie in English?" Wu Ze casually asked, and Lao Tie made a dolphin-like mouth into the mouth shape of "Hey", touched his chin with his dirty fingers for a while, and then nodded slightly. "Bullfinch." Wu Ze glanced at his partner's slightly smiling face.This guy made a mistake on purpose.The English of lying seems to be lie, and Wu Ze knows this level of words anyway. Bull or something, it should mean gray bird. "Whether it's lying or cheating, don't they all fly?" "Well——" Lao Tie rubbed his nose and stared at Yu Si and said, "It's all flying..." When he learned that the woman had committed suicide, something seemed to explode in Wu Ze's heart.There was almost a bang. Wu Ze didn't want to get away with the crime, nor did he want to escape punishment.The dead mother must have left a last word.The thin pencil words on the letter paper are to apologize to the children who were abandoned by themselves in this world, and at the same time denounce those who cursed and persecuted themselves in front of the gate, and accuse the absurdity of this world.Sadness, pain, regret, like a gray flood, poured into Wu Ze's heart together.But in the upper part of the chest, a different thought from those feelings gradually unfolded.Her apology, reprimand, curse, and accusation directly turned into Wu Ze's own apology, reprimand, accusation, and curse. Wrong - what finally emerged vaguely in Wu Ze's chaotic mind was such a simple word.This is wrong. Wu Ze left the apartment full of onlookers and walked on the road alone.Wrong, wrong, wrong.The word turned into one sound, two sounds, and countless sounds in the eardrum.The sound became louder and louder, like the endless sound of black flying insects beating their wings, filling Wu Ze's head.It deafens the ears, fills the vision, and paralyzes the limbs. ——Finally, a familiar male voice came intermittently from the opposite side, and Wu Ze gradually saw a blurred face.That face was saying something to Wu Ze.that face.Lizard-like face. crater. --so…… Wu Ze raised his head.Yashiro Aki's song was playing loudly in the room. At some point, I returned to Ichigaya's office. --Ugh. Just as Wu Ze said this, Huokou hit the stop button of the tape recorder heavily, and stared at Wu Ze with sharp eyes. ——Even if we do leave a suicide note or something, we don't have to worry about it.Calls to collect debts are all pre-paid phones, and they don't know the address here. So it has no impact on the organization, Huokou explained to Wu Ze. ——Well, I can't let you "pull out the intestines" anymore.You are too soft-hearted to do that kind of thing. Let me do something else for you, Huokou said. Wrong—the voice sounded again in Wu Ze's mind. He looked away dazedly.Eight stacks of rooms.Dusty carpet.There was just a table in the middle of the rug, the kind you might find in a typical corporate conference room.On the table are five or six prepaid mobile phones that Wu Ze had acquired before.Soon this place will become a stronghold for coercing debtors.There is a stack of A4 printing paper next to the scattered mobile phones.Wu Ze didn't know what was written in it, anyway, he carried it with him everywhere. With a seven star in the mouth of the burner, he took out a slender lighter from the pocket of the shirt without a tie, and lit it several times. Although sparks came out, it seemed to be out of gas, and it never lit.Huokou spat and walked towards the gas stove in the corner of the room. ——Almost subconsciously, Wu Ze approached the table, reached out and secretly flipped over the printing paper. The list of debtors, the principal and interest of the loan, and the collection status of each person.The following is the list of strongholds of the organization.Every place has the handwriting of the crater, with detailed notes.Among the characteristic handwritten words, there are many words and phrases with ambiguous meanings but enough to remind people of vicious behavior. "Rise interest rate every other day", "Homeland has land", "Pension is OK", "Household registration mortgage". There was a click.The burner bent over to light a cigarette, as if it was covered by a gas stove.Wu Ze's gaze shifted to the underside of the table.There was his purse.As if sleepwalking, Wu Ze opened the purse and stuffed the printing paper in his hand.Huokou turned around. "You go first, I will contact you later." "understood." Wu Ze left the room. The leather bag in his left hand feels heavier than his own weight. Wu Ze wanted to take these documents and surrender to the police.Give the police the list of debtors and strongholds, and tell the whole story of what the organization has done.What is wrong must be corrected.The vicious insects that live in dark and damp places must be driven away, and those who survive by devouring decent people must be eliminated.Even the police who didn't accept him at the beginning, as long as they have this document, they will definitely raise their noble buttocks and start to act.It will definitely be a force that can be used. The phone rang. The screen shows the number of the crater.Wu Ze felt his walking legs trembling.He stared blankly at the number.The bell rang for a while, then stopped, but immediately the same number called again.Wu Ze turned off the power of the phone with his sweaty hands. what to do? Wu Ze held the bag in his arms and walked among the crowd.This document must be given to the police.But Shadai must also be protected.Huokou was looking for himself.He will come home.Maybe he has already left the office and started looking for it.I can do whatever I want, but I can't let Shadai get hurt. In a daze, Wu Ze glanced to the side.There is a cigarette vending machine on the side of the road.Wu Ze walked over quickly, pretending to take cigarettes, bent over and quickly took out the documents from the bag, and threw them under the vending machine.I glanced around.Nobody noticed. Wu Ze stood up straight, hesitated for a moment, and started to walk.He chose the road with as many people as possible and walked towards the JR station.Tens of meters away from the station, Wu Ze walked to the stairs leading to the station, and a taxi stopped next to him. "Yo!" Opening the door from the back of the car is the fire port. "What are you going to do?" There was a sneer on Huokou's mouth.Wu Ze's legs trembled, his stomach was cold, his mouth was dry, and he had difficulty breathing. Huokou came to Wu Ze, stretched out a hand, and stared at Wu Ze wordlessly. "what?" Wu Ze asked.He himself was amazed at how natural the sound was. "Don't court death, idiot!" Harsh dentate fricative.The finger stretched out by Huokou was twitching slightly. "Looking for death... er, what do you mean?" An extremely natural voice came out of Wu Ze's mouth again.Huokou raised his eyebrows suspiciously. "Tell you to give it back to me!" Wu Ze pursed his lips, looked at Huokou's hand, and then looked back at his face, showing a confused smile. "Uh, what else?" "Documents!" The voice of the fire mouth is very anxious.But behind that restlessness, one can feel a vague question mark hidden. "document?" Anger suddenly appeared on Huokou's face.He stretched out his long arms and grabbed Wu Ze's bag at once.At the same time, Wu Ze held the bag tightly in his arms with both hands.But the fire mouth is more powerful.He snatched the bag to his side, opened the mouth of the bag like tearing it open and looked inside.First I squinted my eyes for a while, and then rummaged through it with one hand. "Uh, is there any ... important documents lost?" His own mouth is really weird.Before I thought about it, my mouth was already talking.And he spoke as if he didn't know anything. "Where did you hide it?" Cinder raised a piercing gaze.Wu Ze closed his mouth, blinked a few times, and shook his head slightly.Huokou stared at Wu Ze's face for a while. "Is there something wrong?" In this kind of place, he will not be beaten.Wu Ze is sure of this.This guy will never commit a crime while everyone is watching.It is precisely because such a delicate boundary is clearly grasped that such discussions can be established. "Okay, don't do anything inexplicable!" Fire mouth's hand finally left the bag. "The document itself is just a copy, and it doesn't matter if it's gone." Huokou slowly moved his face closer to Wu Ze, only moved his lips and said, "You have a daughter, right?" When the word "daughter" came out of Huokou's mouth, Wu Ze felt a violent anger.He seemed to see the hands of the crime-tainted crater stroking Shadai's body. "Just think about your daughter, you know what to do and what not to do, right?" I'll call you back.Huokou dropped this sentence, and got back to the taxi that had been waiting beside him. Wu Ze stared straight at the taxi and drove away.Coercion is coercion.It's the guy's only weapon.But that is a disembodied weapon.I already understand it very well.Killing and chopping, Wu Ze has been talked about by them until now, but he is still alive and well.Those guys can't do anything after all.Wu Ze turned around, walked back to the vending machine just now, and pulled the documents out from under the machine.He stared at the typeface and the characteristic lettering of the burner. Then, go to the police station. The file's effect was greater than expected. The police launched a large-scale search and dealt a devastating blow to the loan shark organization based in Shinjuku.This news was broadcast across the country in the evening after only two weeks.Wu Ze saw it at the TV corner of the home appliance sales center on the way back from the employment agency.During these two weeks, he told Shadai that he went to the company, but actually accepted the interviews of several companies through the introduction of the employment agency.The police car shown on the TV screen contained suspects suspected of intimidation and violation of financing laws.In one of the cars, Wu Ze could clearly see Huokou's face, which was whitened by the media flashlight.Through the car window, Huokou's emotionless gaze wandered around, but when it fell on the camera that was shooting, it stopped immediately.Wu Ze felt that those eyes seemed to see himself across the screen.Huokou's thin lips whispered in the unclear picture, as if to say something.The murmur, which was impossible to hear originally, echoed in Wu Ze's ears. "You have a daughter, don't you?" Wu Ze did hear this sentence. Back home, Shadai was lying in his bedroom reading a comic book.She has been reading the same book since days ago.I don't know if he realizes that the family has no money. Recently, Sha Dai never said that he wanted anything. "I am back--" "Oh." Wu Ze made a dinner with ready-made materials, and sat face to face with Sha Dai to eat.From now on, there will be better and better food for you to eat.Although he didn't say this, Wu Ze said this to Sha Dai in his heart while eating. The next morning, Wu Ze put on his suit and purse as usual, and left the house.Shadai also sent him to the door as usual.The morning sun shining into the entrance made Shadai's face glow with white light.In another twenty minutes, a friend will come to her, and she will lock the door and go to school with her friend. Wu Ze avoided the way Shadai and the others went to school and went to a park.A building cleaning company interviewed Wu Ze today, but it was still early to go there.He was sitting on a bench with one hand clenched in his lap.He has been thinking.That organization was disbanded and Huokou was arrested.I was finally liberated, and I didn't have to worry about anything anymore. From now on, start a new job and turn a new page in your life.He didn't expect to work for a big company.If the personnel system is well-regulated, the personnel manager will contact Wu Ze's previous company and ask him carefully about his work attitude, whether he has any problems, and so on.At that time, there will inevitably be a matter of borrowing money, so I am afraid that I will not even be given the opportunity for an interview.All in all, the biggest goal right now is to have a stable income, even if it is less.It is no longer possible to pick and choose about the size of the company.Once you have money, move quickly. After a while, the phone in the jacket pocket rang.An unknown number appeared on the screen.Wu Ze felt uneasy suddenly.The mouth of the fire on the TV screen was facing his lips, as if it overlapped with the unknown number displayed on the screen. This call can't be answered—his intuition told him so. Wu Ze turned off the power of the phone and put it in his pocket. The interview with the building cleaning company was over, and it was already one o'clock in the afternoon when Wu Ze returned to the station.武泽打算再去职业介绍所寻找新的招工信息。不过因为肚子有点饿，想要先回家一趟，他便径直向家里走去。然而远远就听见消防车的警笛声。 武泽的家在燃烧。 浓浓的黑烟从碎掉的窗户玻璃里冲出来，里面可以看见橙色的火焰。斑驳闪烁的灰烬在天空中飞舞，像是要把整个房子包裹起来一样。消防员们叫喊着什么，拼命向房子浇水。许多人站得远远的在围观。 武泽的全身没有半分力气。烧起来了。雪绘曾经忙得手脚不停的厨房，沙代得了银奖贴在墙上的图画，武泽珍爱的家庭三人合照，全都烧起来了。武泽发出无声的叫喊。与此同时，房顶的一处发出巨大的声音，向下面掉去。里面随即喷出迄今为止最为凶恶的黑烟。 “武泽先生！” 邻居家的主妇发现了武泽，赶了过来，双手像是抓着自己的胸口一样。 “还好啊武泽先生，沙代在学校——” 对了，沙代不在家里。真是不幸中的万幸。 武泽回望起火的房子。是那些家伙干的。无动于衷之中，武泽确信。这是那些家伙的报复。恐怕是火口下的指示，手下人放的火。说不定只是想放把小火。说不定是不小心烧大了。 武泽最担心沙代。不知道那些人会干什么。在学校的时候应该没问题，放学的时候就危险了。要和女儿取得联系。越早越好。武泽掏出手机。但直到这时候，他才想起自己不知道小学的电话。身边的主妇唿吸急促，好像一直无法冷静下来似的。武泽转头问她知不知道小学的电话号码，她的儿子应该也上同一所小学。主妇飞快点头，一路小跑离开，很快拿了一张记事贴跑回来了。上面急匆匆地写了一串电话号码。 胸口里心脏怦怦直跳。 武泽心中隐约对某件事很不安。但到底不安什么，自己也说不上来。带着这种奇怪的感觉，武泽用手机按照纸上写的电话拨过去。接电话的是个中年男子。武泽报了自己的名字，请他紧急去找女儿来接电话。男子应了一声，把电话设成保留走了。雪绒花的音乐声持续了很久，武泽望着燃烧的家，一直等待着。终于音乐声消失了，电话那一头传来安然的声音。 ——喂？ 不是沙代。是个年轻女性的声音。 ——是沙代的父亲吗？我是沙代的班主任野木。 --what! ——您现在是在公司吗？ 武泽怔了怔，不知道怎么回答这个问题的时候，对方继续说：——正巧我也在找您。实际上一个上午都在给您打电话…… correct.武泽终于想起刚才的感觉从何而来了。今天早上在公园里的时候，手机屏幕上显示的号码，和这个号码一模一样。 ——但是怎么都拨不通。沙代到学校之后不久就说头痛—— 武泽眼前一黑，有什么东西仿佛小小的烟花闪烁。 ——让她去医务室休息，但是又开始发烧。好像是感冒了。所以我想和您联系…… ——然后呢？ 武泽打断对方的话问。女教师似乎有点不太高兴，沉默了一会儿才接下去说：——让她先回去了。 周围的景色刹那间消失了。 ——沙代说她有钥匙，一个人能回去。她现在是在家里休息吧？ 周围的景色再度显现。围在左右的人群。火焰。接近的火焰。不断迫近的火焰。武泽跑起来，撞开前面的人。烟与火以及焦黑的家，在眼前上下颤动，越变越大。脸上吹来强烈的热风，顺着唿吸一直灼烧到咽喉。有人在旁边一把抱住武泽的腰，奋力拽住了他。 ——你要干什么？ 武泽拼死挣脱扑过来的消防队员，用灼烧的咽喉发出嘶喊。 ——放开我！ --no! ——里面有人！ ——冷静点！ 房顶又塌了一处。就像炸弹爆炸一样，闪烁着红黑色光芒的灰烬，一齐在家的周围飞舞，然后慢慢盘旋而下。那时的颜色，至今还在武泽的脑海里燃烧。抬头望着灰烬，武泽所感到的是恐惧。也许将要失去女儿的恐惧——不，是已经失去女儿的恐惧。 就这样，人形多米诺骨牌的最后一张倒了。空虚的两臂抱着空洞的胸口倒在地上，被身后倒来的无数自己紧紧压住，死了。 根据消防署的解释，因为房子完全烧毁，火灾原因很难调查清楚，不过可能是由于电线短路，或者插座冒出的电火花引起的。也可能是家里的沙代不小心引发的火灾。总而言之，不管怎么解释，原因还是“不明”。武泽去警局报案，认为火灾是组织的报复。但是因为消防署的解释当中没有包含故意纵火的可能，警察不接受火灾与高利贷事件有关的说法。 沙代下葬的那一天，一辆底盘很低的白色轿车停在葬仪堂前面。从车窗里窥探的，是一个和火口有几分相似的年轻男子。那双三角眼和武泽的目光接触的刹那，本来毫无表情的脸忽然笑了。然后轿车便那样开走了。 那天晚上，武泽的手机响了，屏幕上显示的是“公用电话”。按下通话键，把手机放到耳边，一个从没听过的男性声音低低地说：——还没完哟！ 然后便挂了电话。 沙代的吊唁结束之后，武泽在新宿街头找了一个倒卖户籍的人，从他那儿买了别人的户籍，然后和周围切断了关系。他厌恶所有的一切。他想逃走。从那些家伙的手中逃走。从更可怕的报复中逃走。从死亡的回忆中逃走。为什么自己会做那种事？像个白痴一样，一本正经地偿还超过借款数十倍的金额，还老老实实按照他们说的去做，直到逼死一个女人——最后还偷走组织的文件，由此导致自己最心爱的女儿死亡。太较真了，那种想要纠正错误的想法。那到底算什么啊？善良、正义、正直，这些玩意儿有屁用啊。 在这个拿正直当傻子的世界，武泽决定，转生化作新人，一切重新来过。但是这一回不傻了。这一回不输了。被失败和后悔压烂的人形多米诺骨牌的最后一张，捡起断掉的手脚安在身上，奋力重新站起来。 ——那是七年前的事。 我是无赖。我是无赖。我是无赖。武泽每天都这样告诉自己。他就这样活着。他知道，不这样的话，自己又会被丢到失败的一侧去。他知道，就像陀螺一样，一旦转得慢了，立刻就会失去平衡，倒在地上。 想飞啊，老铁曾经这么说过。虽然武泽不可能完全理解老铁说这话的意思，但在那时候，武泽确实也有同样的感觉。 “老武——这次的火灾，你觉得也是那个高利贷组织干的？那个，叫什么井口的，和他有关系？” “火口。” 武泽首先纠正了老铁的错误，然后长长吐了一口气。 “唉，我觉得没关系吧。” 武泽想这么觉得。 “但是刚才你说，世上到底还有万一。” “是啊，到底只是万分之一啊。” 从那之后已经过了七年。到了今天，那个组织的报复又开始了——武泽并没有把这个想法当真，不过看到公寓冒出黑烟的瞬间，那种强烈的不安猛然攫住武泽的胸口也是事实。那时候被逮捕的家伙，现在恐怕也该释放了吧。其中的某个人——说不定就是火口——找到了武泽的住处，然后便和七年前一样，纵火烧他的房子——这样的可能性并非绝对不存在。在豚豚亭的店主那边打听武泽的那个高个子男人，到底是谁呢？会不会就是曾经在那个被武泽一手颠覆的高利贷组织工作过的人？或者，就是火口本人？ ——还没完哟！ 那声低语，至今还在武泽的脑海中回响。 “对了老武，明天怎么过？” 老铁抬头望着白茫茫的天空。慢悠悠的声音，让武泽稍稍有些安心。 “怎么过呀……做生意用的衣服道具什么的，全都烧了啊。” “只能从头再买了吧，按照紧要顺序一点点来。还好西装咱们两个都穿在身上……啊，不对，买衣服之前先要找到住处。老武，首先得找个住的地方，然后才谈得上从头再来啊。” “从头再来吗……” 武泽轻轻叹了一口气，抽了抽鼻子。 “老铁，我是无赖吧？” 突如其来的一问，老铁用快要睡着般的眼睛看了武泽半晌，然后才说：“我觉得是。”
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