Chapter 20 Section five

"Sure enough, it's best if both parents are here, Ah Choo..." "No matter what kind of parents, it's better to be present than not to be. Ah Xie..." On the narrow floor that could barely be called a corridor, Wu Ze and Lao Tie sat side by side like an old couple and slowly sipped tea.In front of the screen, daphne leaves sway in the spring breeze. Wu Ze is telling Lao Tie what he heard from Ba Xun about their childhood. "I said Lao Wu - show me your hand." Lao Tie suddenly put the teacup aside. "Have you learned magic from Kantaro?" "No no no. Ah, one hand will do. I heard a thing said before."

Wu Ze didn't understand what medicine was sold in the old iron gourd, but he stretched out his right hand as he said. "Old Wu, do you know what each finger is called?" "You think I'm a fool? Thumb, index finger, middle finger—" "It's not this, it's another name. Here, it's the one adults teach children to call it." "Oh." Wu Ze gathered the palm of his right hand in front of him and counted them one by one. "Father points, mother points, brother points, sister points, child points—you mean this?" "Yes, this is it."

That's what Shadai called his fingers until he was in elementary school. "Can dad's finger and mom's finger stick together?" Hearing Lao Tie's question, Wu Ze put his thumb and index finger together to show him. "This is very simple." "Then, father refers to and brother refers to?" "It works, look." Wu Ze gently pressed the tips of his thumb and middle finger together. "Father's finger, sister's finger, and child's finger, they can also be pasted together." "It can be pasted." Wu Ze did so.It's all very simple.

"Okay, now do the same thing with mom fingers." "so……" Wu Ze put his index finger, middle finger, ring finger, and little finger in sequence. Hey, Wu Ze couldn't help snorting softly.Only the little finger is difficult to touch the index finger.Although it is not impossible, but the inclination angle of the fingers is barely enough, and the muscles feel tense. "Mother and child, it's not easy to get together, is it?" "Well, it's hard." "Then, take Dad's finger and help mom point it out." Wu Ze pressed his thumb against the middle of his index finger.

"Ah, it's posted." Borrowing the power of the thumb, the little finger, which was originally difficult to reach, can be reached with the index finger. Lao Tie picked up the teacup and let out a long, soft breath.It was like the sound of air leaking from a tire. "Sure enough, it's best if both parents are here." Wu Ze also took a sip of tea, lowered his head and stared at his hands, and once again asked his parents to stick to the child together.separate, paste.separate, paste.After doing it several times, Wu Ze gradually felt as if he could see a human face at his fingertips.The thumb is Wu Ze.The index finger is Yukie.The little finger is Shadai.And at the same time, the thumb is the face of an unidentified public, the index finger is the mother looking up at her in front of the apartment entrance, the little finger is Mahiro, and the ring finger is Hachiro.

Wu Ze used his fingers to simulate two families.The thumb and index finger are attached to the little finger.This was Wu Ze's home in the past.Later, one of the three fingers, Yukie, died.Wu Ze moved his index finger away from home.Thumb and little finger are still firmly pressed together.Then, Shadai was killed and Wu Ze removed the little finger from the thumb.The solitary one left is Wu Ze.The thumb on the knee is black and thick, and it looks wobbly—again, thumb, index finger, ring finger, little finger, all together.Make it a home for four.This time, remove the thumb at first, so that there is a small gap between the remaining three fingers.Then move your index finger away.Only the ring finger and little finger remain.Zhenxun and Baxun.These two fingers now live with the thumb that was left just now.

Wu Ze looked up at the sky.Across the low wall covered with moss, there are a few faint white clouds floating in the sky. "Ah, by the way, Takeshi, the people living in this house happen to be like fingers. There are five people in total. Counting from the little finger, Mahiro, Yahiro, Kantaro, and Takeshi—" "Hey, I said—" "Ok?" "I don't want to be a mother. I'm not gay." "Old Wu is the index finger." "I hate gays." The old iron laughed. "Don't be so serious." He smiled and stared at his palm.

"Just talking about fingers." Wu Ze also looked down at his palm again. "It means fingers." The sound of the two people talking intermittently, crossed the low wall and merged into the sky. That night, after dinner, Wu Ze muttered a few words, saying that the living expenses were not enough, and Lao Tie immediately pulled out his toolbox. "I'll start a small business nearby." Lao Tie secretly gave Wu Ze a look at the lockpicking tool in the toolbox. "Lock picking?" "Well, occasionally I do it alone. Old Wu, you can drink tea at home."

"but……" Wu Ze doesn't like "theft" very much, but there are so many tenants who don't have a job, it's hard to say this, anyway, there is no difference between fraud and theft.Kantaro said that "fraud is a gentleman's crime". In fact, if picking a lock is booger, fraud is nothing more than eye shit. "Oh, old man, you want to go out?" Kantaro who was washing clothes turned his head and asked, "I need your help with something, can you wait?" "Need me something? Hey, Kantaro—ah, bastard, the floor is wet again." Lao Tie took out a rag from under the sink, complained, and followed Kantaro to wipe the floor. Kantaro ignored Lao Tie and ran up to the second floor, and ran down again after a while.In his still wet hands, he carried an iron box the size of a tissue box, which looked very solid.There is no decoration on the box, it is a boxy black box.There is a keyhole in the middle of the front.Lao Tie asked what it was, and Kantaro said it was a magic prop.

"Help me open this box. The key is lost." "Open it yourself." "I can't open it." With a straight face, the old iron took out the lockpicking tool from the toolbox, sat cross-legged on the ground, and began to fiddle with the keyhole of the iron box.On the way, Ji Guan also leaned over to stare at Lao Tie's movements, as if watching his father's son repairing an electric fan.But in the end, it was unknown if the structure of the lock was different, and Kantaro's box could not be opened. "This thing is not an ordinary lock, it can't be opened. Give up."

Hey hey hey, Kantaro let out a blunt regretful sound.Lao Tie pushed the iron box to Kantaro's chest, waved his hands at the cockscomb, and went straight out of the house with the toolbox in hand. "What's inside?" When Takezawa asked this question, Kantaro grinned with thick lips. "It's a secret." Sure enough, he is still an incomprehensible guy. After about an hour, Lao Tie came back with 120,000 cash.Takezawa, Kantaro, Mahiro, and Hachiro all applauded Lao Tie and Cash, and Lao Tie looked shy and proud.It doesn't look very reliable, but it is actually very reliable. This is the old iron.