Chapter 14 Section VII

"Um... Excuse me, is there any feed for dolphins here?" In a corner of a medium-sized pet shop, Takezawa spoke to someone.The other party turned around all of a sudden, frowning and staring at Wu Ze. "what?" "Oh, this, I'm from the courier company, and I'm sending the dolphin feed to the aquarium in Ikebukuro, but something went wrong." "Ok?" "The air conditioner in the car is broken, and all the frozen feed is broken. It was only discovered because of a water leak along the way..." "and then?" "The aquarium said that their feed was out of stock. If they don't send it over quickly, I'm afraid the dolphins will have problems. When I was having a headache, I happened to see a pet store here, so I came here to see if there was anything I could do. No Do you know if there's any sardines here..."

"Want to play me?!" The sound made five or six customers around and the young male clerk behind the cashier all look over. "You're saying that because I look like a dolphin?" "what?" "I'm not a clerk, I'm just a customer! You can tell this by looking at the clothes. Did you do it on purpose? Are you kidding me?" "Oh, I'm sorry, I really—" The clerk behind the cashier rushed over, greeted Wu Ze and said, "I'm sorry——I'm a clerk. Do you need anything?" "Ah, clerk. Um... I wanted to ask if there were any sardines or something—"

"Sardines...?" The young man first said: "I'm very sorry," and then replied in a solemn tone, "We don't have these in our store." While he was talking to Wu Ze, Lao Tie left angrily.The eyes of the surrounding guests all followed his figure with interest—more precisely, they should follow his face. "Is that so... I'm sorry to trouble you." Wu Ze bowed deeply, walked out of the store, and walked along the sidewalk to the corner of the shopping street not far away, where Lao Tie and Shinhiro were waiting. "How about it?" When Wu Ze asked, Zhenxun opened the travel bag to show him.The bag looks heavy.

"One bag of cat litter for five kilograms. Two bags of solid feed for three kilograms. Three kinds of canned cat food with different flavors, three of each kind. There are also collars. I picked the red one." "I didn't expect you to be able to carry so much." Wu Ze praised. "Sure enough." Lao Tie also folded his arms and said. After zipping up the travel bag, Zhenxun turned his head and asked, "But why did you mention dolphins on purpose? Even I almost laughed." "It's a common way to attract attention by quarreling. In fact, most people watch it and don't watch it, so it's not a very good way. However, when they hear about such a topic, everyone will stare at the old man's face. gone."

"Ah, that's it." The three set foot on the way home. "It's heavy." Walking along the shopping street, Wu Ze held out a hand, but Zhenxun only handed over one of the two handles of the travel bag he was carrying.Wu Ze was stunned for a moment, and then realized that she probably wanted two people to carry it together. "Okay, please." Wu Ze snatched the travel bag from Zhenxun and carried it on his shoulder.Although Mahiro didn't say anything, his expression looked a little regretful.This girl is still elusive. "Let's drop by the game hall, over there."

Mahiro suddenly changed direction and walked towards an automatic door with a noisy sound coming from inside. "It's really a rare self-care." "Because I'm still young." There is no way, Wu Ze and Lao Tie can only follow behind. Passing through the automatic door, Zhenxun took out his wallet from his jeans pocket, looked around, then walked over to the claw machine next to him, threw a 100-yuan coin into the coin slot, and pressed the button with an unexpectedly serious expression. button.The robotic claw hooked Donald Duck's buttocks, but it failed to catch it.

"The robot claws don't seem to be proficient with hands." Shinzo suddenly showed anger, turned around and walked towards the place where the video game consoles were lined up.The young man who took her place threw in a hundred-yuan coin, glanced through the glass window, and skillfully manipulated the robotic claws to grab a Dumbo with ease. "Old Wu, is there any trick to that thing?" "Well, it's mainly based on experience." "That is to say, by rule of thumb?" "Eight Eluru Ofsam?" Wu Ze searched the poor knowledge of English in his mind.

"Who is Sam?" "Thumb. It's a proverb. Means, not proven by theory, but purely empirical." "Then how about we experience it once? It's rare to come here." "It's my first time." "me too." Wu Ze first tossed a hundred coins, and began to challenge a plush toy of a spaceman with a little anxiety, but unfortunately he didn't even catch his head. "It's really difficult." "Hey, let me let you go." Lao Tie squeezed Wu Ze away, threw in a coin, folded his arms and looked inside the glass window for a while, as if he had found the target, and then pressed the button as if he had made up his mind.His movements were clumsy, but what Wu Ze didn't expect was that the mechanical claws manipulated by Lao Tie caught a pretty animal doll and retracted into the square hole above.The doll fell from its claws and fell into the exit under the machine.It is a white kitten.

"Oh, the kid with the cockscomb! Lao Wu, it's the kid with the cockscomb!" Lao Tie held the plush toy in his arms and jumped up. Next, Laotie had a great time playing claw machines. He played five machines, spent a full 20 minutes, and dropped nearly 3,000 yuan in coins.But the first plush toy seemed to be just beginner's luck, after which nothing was caught except for a nondescript key ring with dice. "Ah, I caught it." I really got it back. "Zhenxun, look, friend of Jiguan." Lao Tie is very proud of the kitten's plush toys, but Zhenxun didn't show any interest. Instead, his eyes lit up when he saw the dice key ring.

"This is so cute." "Ah, is it? Here you go." "Might be nice on a cockscomb collar." Zhenxun's mobile phone received a message, just when the three of them were about to leave the game hall.Zhen Xun took out his phone and stared at the screen for a while.Lao Tie winked at Wu Ze, showing a questioning expression of "who is it".Wu Ze shook his head.Mahiro finally closed the phone. "Give it to me. I'll go back first. I want to feed the cockscomb." Shinzo said suddenly. Although Wu Ze was full of doubts, he still handed over the bag.Zhen Xun put the two bag straps on his shoulders, picked up the bag, left Wu Ze and Lao Tie, and left the game center alone.

"What's the meaning?" "who knows." Wu Ze and Lao Tie had no choice but to get out of the automatic door in a daze.Mahiro's figure just disappeared at the far end of the shopping street.She was running. "Well, when it comes to feeding, there are no bowls. Cockscomb bowls." "Ah, no. But I can't go back to the store just now and buy it." The two of Wu Ze decided to take a short detour and go to a small grocery store on the other side of the shopping street.As soon as he entered the store, Wu Ze's eyes were immediately attracted by the white Western-style cups placed on one end of the shelf. "Is this okay?" "But this seems to be a soup cup." "It looks good with a cockscomb. Here, lend me that plush toy just now." "Ah, here it is." Lao Tie put the kitten toy next to the soup bowl, and made a pose of eating. "It's really suitable." It was a pale white cup with a small handle like an ear.Wu Ze bought it with his pocket money. Out of the arcade of the shopping street, I saw the blue sky as if painted with watercolors, with a few white clouds floating on it, full of the breath of spring.What a reassuring sunny day.Tiny dandelions peeped out of the cracks in the sidewalk, with their little yellow flowers too pretty to be true. "Oh, there is singing..." After going down the stone steps, just as he reached the door of the house, Lao Tie suddenly looked up to the second floor. There was indeed singing coming from the wide-open windows.Did Mahiro bring a tape recorder?The singing voice was a bit familiar, as if I had heard it in a convenience store or something, it was a female voice.There was also a lovely voice humming along to the beat. "It turns out that Zhenxun doesn't only use that voice when he's working." "You should close the window anyway." The two of them listened to the singing that came through the screen window on the second floor.Although the melody is very clear, the lyrics are ambiguous in many places, especially the English parts, which are obviously all casually hummed.One song finally ended, and then another melody sounded. "I'm in a good mood." Wu Ze chuckled, opened the door and went in.He tried his best not to make a sound, so as not to interrupt the singing, but this cozy atmosphere disappeared without a trace the moment he saw the Sanhe soil in the entrance. "what is this?" There is a pair of men's shoes that have never been seen on the sand. Leather ankle boots in black. "Old Wu, don't block the door." The old iron urged behind him.Wu Ze crossed his body and gestured to the boots on the sanhe soil with his eyes.Lao Tie immediately straightened his neck, his face was stiff, and he asked Wu Ze, "Who?" "how could I know?" The two walked to the sanhe soil, closed the door quietly, took off their shoes, and tiptoed onto the floor.Wu Ze put the cup bought for the chicken comb on the ground, pricked up his ears and listened carefully, the singing on the second floor continued.He pressed his back against the wall and walked down the corridor.The old iron also followed behind.Peek into the living room.no one.Peek into the kitchen.Still nobody.Next to the sink, Cockscomb was pointing its small butt to the door, eating cat food in a tea bowl. "I'll go up and have a look. You stay here, old man." Wu Ze returned to the corridor and stepped on the stairs leading to the second floor.Singing on the tape recorder.Lovely singing to the beat.Wu Ze walked up the stairs.Inside the door next to the stairs is the room that Zhenxun lived in.The door is closed.No, it's not completely closed, there's a gap.Wu Ze landed on his knees, and slowly moved his face towards the gap.The singing gradually became louder.The air smelled of tobacco.Wu Ze looked inside from the gap in the door—— He couldn't believe his eyes. In the corner of the room was the back of a big man in a black T-shirt, chubby, moving busily.On the ground was a black leather jacket, which seemed to be men's clothes.And then there's the guitar case.Small CD player.The man's body is still moving.The back of the head with short hair is slowly moving down.The moving target is the bare chest on the opposite side.Her singing trembled slightly, intertwined with chuckles. "Hey..." Wu Ze's muttering was covered by the sound of CD music.Two slender white arms passed under the man's armpit, wrapped around his shoulders, and pulled him towards him.The man pinned her body to the ground.The singing finally stopped.The two sucked each other's lips as if they were biting each other, and their tongues intertwined. "As soon as possible... I'm coming back..." It wasn't the bird-like voice that Mahiro made at work, nor was it the real voice of the usual mezzo-soprano, but a voice that Wu Ze had never heard before.Bright female voice. "Of order," the man replied with honorifics, followed by a metallic sound of clicking.It was the sound of a man's trousers being unzipped.Wu Ze retreated quietly.The two figures disappeared from the field of vision. What do you mean, what do you mean - Wu Ze repeated this meaningless whisper in the back of his mind, and he went down the stairs in a daze. The sound of the CD gradually faded away.In that blank space, heavy breathing with a smile could be heard.Then, the next song started. It's work, it's real work.That man, maybe she was taken advantage of somewhere, and the next thing is to look for the opportunity to snatch that man's wallet.Wu Ze tried to think this way, but he knew very well that this was almost impossible.No thief would bring a victim to his home. "--What's wrong?" Hearing the whispers, Wu Ze remembered that there was still Lao Tie here.He shook his head silently, and urged Lao Tie to go outside the porch. "Nothing. Those are Mazoro's shoes." "Hey, but is that a man's style?" "It seems to be fashionable to wear men's shoes recently." "Old Wu, where are you going?" "Eat. Go out and eat ramen." "What is really looking for?" "She is practicing singing, but she doesn't eat." "Hey……" He led out of the porch with Lao Tie and Wu Ze, whose faces were full of surprise. Deep down, restlessness floats up like sticky methane bubbles.who are you?What are you doing in someone else's house? ! ——Should have yelled into the room.But sadly, I don't have enough reason to do that myself.Zhen Xun is not his daughter.Not only that, she was a girl who was forcibly dragged into an unhappy life by herself.If he hadn't helped the usury himself, Zhenxun should still be living a more ordinary life now.Therefore, no matter what Zhenxun did, he had no room to comment. "Hey, old Wu, what's the matter?" "nothing." "I went back to Mamating one day, how is it over there?" "Anywhere." How can I explain to the old iron what I saw?Talking about wearing men's shoes is not even a decent excuse at all.Do you talk while eating the noodles, or tell them before the noodles arrive?While thinking about it, Wu Ze suddenly realized a certain possibility, which could explain the possibility of the scene he saw just now. "Could it be..."