Chapter 21 Section VI

"Old Wu, I have something to tell you." When Wu Ze was watching a quiz show in the living room, Lao Tie came over and said seriously.This happened the next evening.Mahiro and Yahiro were listening to music on the second floor, and Kantaro took a crossword magazine and got into the bathroom, where he had been for almost an hour.Although Wu Ze really wanted to say that buying it is not as good as buying a job hunting magazine, but he is still holding back. "It's about Zhenxun and Baxun." Lao Tie lowered his voice and pointed to the ceiling with his index finger.In his other hand, he held a garbage bag designated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

"I just saw something extraordinary." "Something incredible?" "Hey, tomorrow is the day to throw out the trash, so I'll go to the second floor to collect the trash. Then the door of their room was just a crack open, and there was music coming from inside, and I could hear their voices—" Lao Tie put his palms on his ears and made a posture of listening attentively. "While they were talking, I heard something like 'money'. The two seemed to be talking very carefully, which aroused my curiosity. Then, as I said just now, the door opened a crack—"

"You peeped?" "Just for a look. I'll just sneak over—" "Isn't this voyeurism?" "Oh, don't interrupt." Lao Tie said, his upper body got closer, and he put a hand on Wu Ze's shoulder and whispered. "I peeked through the crack of the door, and it's incredible... I saw a lot of money." Wu Ze couldn't help staring at Lao Tie's eyes, and Lao Tie also kept his hands on Wu Ze's shoulders, staring back at him with a serious face.The two just stared at each other for a while, then suddenly there was an "Ah", Kantaro crawled out of the bathtub, holding a crossword puzzle magazine in one hand, steam was still rising from the shoulders of the T-shirt , standing at the entrance of the living room.He said "Sure enough" in a low voice, turned around and was about to leave, Wu Ze quickly stopped him.

"Don't get it wrong." "Gee, I wasn't thinking about anything. I just didn't want to bother you two." Kantaro turned his round face and said. "Then, can I stay in the living room with you two?" "Oh, of course it's fine...well, it's better not to." "Look, sure enough." Kantaro stomped the floor and went to the kitchen, took a glass from the sink, opened the refrigerator door, the cockscomb slipped past him, and was about to run into the living room, Kantaro picked it up with one hand, It whispered something like "can't pass" in its ear, but Wu Ze didn't bother to explain, and turned to ask Lao Tie again.

"—Then, how much money is there?" "Yes, there are many." Lao Tie lowered his voice so that Kantaro in the kitchen would not hear him. "It's in the travel bag that Zhenxun brought over. Just put it there. It's all 10,000 yuan in banknotes. I'm afraid there are two or three million. Maybe there may be more." "What's the name of a bird that doesn't understand conversational etiquette?" Kantaro came back from the kitchen.He put the steaming crossword journal on the tatami.About half of the grids are filled with neat words like lead type.

"Here, the twelfth vertical one. I can't understand this hint. 'A bird that will suddenly quack and fly away, so Edo people call people who don't understand conversational etiquette □□□□'." The old iron smacked his lips. "Isn't that talking about you?" "'Kantaro' has one more word. And it's not a bird either." "That's starling. Hurry up and get out." "Please speak Japanese. I speak English just for faking, but it's not really good at all." "Let's talk about important things now, don't bother us."

When Lao Tie said this impatiently, Kantaro tilted his head and said "Wow, the real murderer", and went out dejectedly without taking the magazines and pencils on the tatami. Wu Ze said to Lao Tie: "You read it wrong, right. They can't possibly have that much money." "That's a lot of money." Although Lao Tie's voice was low, he spoke firmly. "And those two were discussing something very strange. The money was placed between the two of them, saying 'throw away', 'don't throw away' or something like that." "Money... there is no reason to throw it away."

"Don't look so scary on your face. The two of them said that, and I can't help it. I said, Lao Wu, what do you think is going on? Those two people obviously have no money, but they still want to throw money? I originally I wanted to continue to listen, but I was peeping—uh, no, I was discovered by Zhenxun while I was watching, and she came over angrily and closed the door forcefully, so I only heard so much." "You made a mistake somewhere." Lao Tie seemed a little unhappy with Wu Ze's attitude of not taking his own words seriously, let out a long sigh of dissatisfaction, and stood up straight again with the garbage bag in his hand.

"Anyway, I don't know what's going on, and I might be involved in some inexplicable incident. Those two people must have concealed something. I've already told you, and it's none of my business in the future. If Whatever happens, you solve it yourself." Lao Tie finished speaking in one breath like an angry child, and left the living room.But he turned back immediately, emptied the garbage from the living room trash can into a bag, and went out again. Wu Ze lay face up on the tatami.The heavy emotion that has been suppressed slowly and viscously flows into the heart.

"Are you going to throw it away..." Sure enough... this is Wu Ze's real thought. Wu Ze knew where the money in Zhenxun's travel bag came from. That was exactly what Wu Ze himself sent.That was something I had given to two people during the past seven years.For seven years, every time Wu Ze got money, except for his own living expenses, the rest of the money would be sent to the residence of the two of them. There was no signature on the envelope containing the money, but a piece of paper was attached to the first letter, confessing that he was the one who killed their two mothers.Without such a clear explanation, the money will appear unclear, and they probably won't be able to use it.So they should know what the money has been received continuously for seven years.

But the two of them seem to have never touched the money Wu Ze sent, even when they were short of money and were about to be kicked out of the apartment-although Wu Ze knew in his heart that there would be such a possibility, but they really heard it with their own ears. When I arrived, I still couldn't help but feel extremely bitter.But then Wu Ze realized that there was a cunning opposite emotion hidden even in this feeling, and his heart was inexplicably painful. Wu Ze turned his head to one side, but saw Ji Guan lying on the tatami mat and looking at him, his expression seemed surprised. Compared to when I got lost and ran here, the rooster's comb is a bit bigger, and the whiskers and tail are a bit like a cat.Children grow up fast. Continuing to lie on the tatami, Wu Ze stared at the cockscomb for a while.Ji Guan turned around, turned his butt towards Wu Ze, and ran to the window.It slanted its body and began to scratch the window frame with the paws of its front legs.Are you going outside? "It's dangerous outside." On the tatami are the crossword puzzles and pencils left by Kantaro.Wu Ze pulled them to his side, and wrote the words "Pulsatilla" on the twelfth vertical line. There is also an unknown small tree in the place I rented before, and it will bear many red fruits every summer.And like the daphne here, it happens to be planted between the room and the outer wall.Wu Ze remembered that as soon as the tree bears fruit, a pulsatilla must come flying.While barking non-stop, while desperately pecking.In the second year after Yuki's death, on a certain summer Sunday, Takezawa and Shadai were lying in the room, watching the Pulsatilla pecking fruit in a daze, and there was still a faint remnant of Yuki's time of cleaning at the end of the year on the window glass. Stains left by rubbed glass. "They will all take one back with them in the end." Shadai said suddenly. Every Pulsatilla, after eating on the tree for a while, must finally fly away with a fruit in its mouth. It must have been food for the children in the nest.When the children of Pulsatilla grandiflora see the red fruit brought back by their parents, they will surely eat it happily while making inarticulate chirps.After eating, the pulsatilla will fly out of the nest to look for new food. If one day, the Pulsatilla was attacked by a bloody bird of prey, and then the raptor appeared in the nest with the dead body of the Pulsatilla in its paws and a red fruit in its mouth, would the children eat the fruit? Absolutely will not eat. There is no way that children will receive the fruit from the mouth of the hateful bird of prey that killed their parents. The sun was setting, and when the news program ended, Mahiro came to the kitchen and began to prepare dinner.Hachiro was smoking KOOL idly in the living room, and Kantaro was beside her waiting for orders at any time, waiting to light her new cigarette. After going to the bathroom, when Wu Ze was about to return to the living room, he saw Lao Tie waving at him from across the corridor.Wu Zetan revealed a questioning expression, but Lao Tie didn't speak, just kept waving. "What's the matter?" Wu Ze came to Lao Tie's side, and Lao Tie stretched out his index finger to point at it. "What happened just now. Didn't you say that I misread the money? Then please go and see for yourself. You should be able to see it now when everyone is below." Wu Ze suddenly didn't know how to answer.The money I gave away, no matter how I looked at it, would only add to the sadness. "But it's not good to peep into other people's rooms casually, and it's a young girl's room." "That room is also used by Kantaro. Aren't the three of us living in it together? And it's a house I borrowed from you." "Well, so to speak..." If you want to find an excuse, the old iron may become suspicious. Wu Ze secretly glanced back.Mahiro was facing the faucet, looking into the living room.Something funny seemed to be playing on the TV, and Yahiro and Kantaro were rocking back and forth with laughter. Old Tie nuzzled his mouth and signaled Wu Ze to go upstairs. "It's not about reading other people's diaries and letters, it doesn't matter." "Well, then..." Wu Ze had no choice but to walk upstairs slowly.The old iron followed closely behind.At some point, Cockscomb also ran over to follow Lao Tie, but Lao Tie turned around and whispered "Shhhhhh" to scare it.Cockscomb was frightened and ran down the stairs clumsily. The door to the room was open. "The travel bag is by that wall. Money." The six-fold room seems to be allocated from left to right in the order of Mahiro, Yahiro, and Kantaro, and Mahiro's things are placed on the opposite left.On the right are Baxun's clothes and utensils, piled up in a mess.Kantaro's guitar case was also inside, and the random clothes would cover the guitar case. "Well," Wu Ze raised his eyebrows.I don't know where there is a little nostalgic atmosphere, what is that?Slightly sour, artificial smell. "……Oh." A gum wrapper was thrown in the trash can in the left corner of the room.Crumpled silver paper and slim fuchsia wrapper.Plum gum.Shadai likes the taste.Is that really looking for food?The pattern on the fuchsia wrapping paper is very different from that of Shadai at that time, Wu Ze couldn't help kneeling in front of the trash can, reaching for the wrapping paper. "Old Wu..." Looking back following the sound, I saw Lao Tie was outside the room, looking at himself with unbelievable eyes.Wu Ze quickly withdrew his hand. "No, no, no, I'm not interested in trash, it's because I saw chewing gum..." Lao Tie's expression became even more astonished, and his eyes almost fell out.Wu Ze felt that if he continued to speak, he would only get darker and darker, so he closed his mouth and turned towards his original goal. "it is this?" After pulling Zhenhiro's travel bag, Wu Ze put aside hesitation and unzipped it.There is a tied up plastic bag on the top. "That's it. It's in that bag." "Which one?" Wu Ze untied the plastic bag while knowingly asking.There was indeed a lot of money in the bag.As the old iron said, it is really easy to put it. "Look, is it true? There are really two or three million in it?" "Ah, maybe there is." "What do you mean by 'maybe it'...Old Wu, why aren't you surprised at all?" Wu Ze became more and more ashamed.Looking at the unused money he sent, he felt bitter in his heart.Now that things have happened, it is too stupid to act in front of Lao Tie.Wu Ze exhaled lightly, stuffed the plastic bag back into the travel bag, and was about to zip it up—— His hands stopped. The little pouch was tucked into the corner of the travel bag.A bag with sticky notes and change.A bag containing the suicide note and all property of the mother who was killed by Wu Ze.Through the slightly dirty translucent plastic bag, the words on the sticky notes can be seen.It seems to be the three words "I'm sorry" written in pencil.A needle-like pain in his chest made Wu Ze close his eyes.Then, when he opened his eyes again, Wu Ze noticed that there was another plastic bag in the bag.Inside - what is it?Letterhead-like paper folded into thin strips.Wu Ze was shocked.Could it be that it is also a suicide note?Shinzo said that her mother's suicide note was just a memo sticker, maybe what she was talking about was just what was in that bag.Perhaps her mother left a long suicide note elsewhere.The mouth of the plastic bag was only twisted a few times, but it was not tied.Wu Ze opened the bag almost subconsciously.Reach out and remove the paper inside.It was letterhead in vertical number format, folded twice in the same direction. "Old Wu, what are you doing?" Wu Ze unfolded the letterhead.It seems to be written with a ballpoint pen, and the distinctive characters are spread out on the letter paper in long and short lengths. "This……" Not a suicide note. Wu Ze read the letter over and over, like cleaning a window.Liulijiang is the mother of Yahiro and Shinhiro.You can't go wrong.This is the name of the woman who was killed by Takezawa. In this way, this radiance—— "Is it their... father?" "Father?" The old iron is also peeking at the letter.After reading the above text, he let out a low sigh in his throat, with a bitter expression on his face. "It was written not long after I left home. There is always a sad atmosphere." Mahiro should carefully store this letter together with the post-its and change left by his mother.Perhaps, for her, this is also something like a relic.Her parents were the same in the sense of abandoning their daughter. Can't look at it for too long, Wu Ze quickly folded the letter paper again, and when he was about to put it back into the bag, he suddenly stopped.His eyes fell on the words written in the ballpoint pen again. "What's wrong?" "Ok--" A strange feeling arose in a corner of my mind.As if hooked to something.It was as if a poster stuck to the wall had a small hole.There was a little sweat stain left on the undershirt. Although it was a small place, once you noticed it, it was hard to ignore it.But why did that feeling come from? Suddenly, I really don’t know——no, wait, that’s right. "This word... I have seen it before." Wu Ze finally figured out where this feeling came from.I seem to have seen this handwriting somewhere before.Where is it? "It's your illusion. This is obviously written by their two fathers." "Well, oh... yeah." Maybe it was an illusion. Well, it's an illusion. Wu Ze folded the letter again and put it in a plastic bag. "I've known you for so long, this time is the most surprising thing for me... Ah, I'm sorry." "I've never had a chance to say... oh, sorry." In the dark kitchen, Wu Ze and Lao Tie sat directly on the ground, pouring wine into each other's glasses.The lights in the house were off, and the moonlight shining through the frosted glass made the one-liter wine bottle between the two of them pale. After the three people in the living room went up to the second floor and fell asleep quietly, Wu Ze took advantage of his drunkenness to tell a series of things - the pair of sisters who reunited with him and invited to live with him were actually forced to commit suicide by himself. Women's children——tell the old trainer one by one. "Then, the 'Liuli River' in the letter just now is—" Wu Ze nodded.Lao Tie let out a long breath and smiled clumsily. "Is that why you let the three of them live here? Well... Kantaro is buying two and getting one free." "Well, so that is to say, in order to atone for my sins, I dragged you in, too. Hmm... Kantaro is like buying two and getting one free." "The money in Zhenxun's bag was given by Lao Wu." Lao Tie held the glass in both hands, stared at the wine in a daze, and remained silent. The shadow of the moon dances on the ground. What is the old man thinking?I am the same as the person who killed Lao Tie's wife before.Although I have been repenting, the crimes I committed will not disappear.In order to atone for the past, this kind of self involved Lao Tie.Under the moonlight, there was no expression on Lao Tiexin's long face.Wu Ze drank the wine in the glass silently, but the wine seemed to have disappeared somewhere before it reached his stomach. The sound of a car engine came from outside.A slight sound came from far and near, followed by the sound of the car door, and the low voice of a man.Wu Ze was a little worried, and when he was about to get up, there was another sound of the car door, and the sound of the engine went away.