Chapter 34 Section five

The lights were still on in the shop.Opening the glass door with the sign "Enzawa Seal Shop", the man who looked up at us from behind the display stand and counter was the man who was in the yard yesterday.It appears to be the owner of the shop. I told him the name of the school and why. "Ah, a name stamp." At the end of the day's work, he was probably tired, and the owner's movements seemed heavy.Next to me, Dynasty looked curiously into the store. The man searched in the steel cabinet for a while, while confirming the order form and the like... The child's father...

There are voices in the store.I, who was next to the counter, looked back after hearing it, and Dynasty didn't seem to hear it. Sighing softly, the shopkeeper raised his head expressionlessly and said: "Can you wait a while?" I nodded, and he opened the cupboard and walked towards the direction of the sound. "Where did the store owner go?" Chao Dai came over and tiptoed to look in. "People at home call him." "Don't care about the guests?" "I can't help it. It sounds like a little girl's voice." This is fake.No, it might be true in some sense.The voice just now—the girlish voice was the voice of the old woman who sang "Red Dragonfly" in the yard last night.

"Is that man's daughter still very young?" "Looks like it is." "Maybe he remarried too. Because the age doesn't match." Chao Dai spoke the words of an adult, but smiled like a mischievous child at the corner of his mouth, and then looked around in the store again.Probably the owner of the shop became more courageous and reached for the stone seal displayed at the entrance of the shop.The lovely laughter of the old woman and the whispered words of the man can be heard in the shop. "What about remarriage, teacher?" Chao Dai tapped the seal with his fingertips, sounding completely convinced that the shop owner was remarried.I can understand her feeling that it coincides with her own situation.I still remember the period when my father just passed away. As long as I saw mothers walking together with their children on the street on Sundays, I would wonder if there was no father in this family.

"If you remarry a woman with children, you must like her very much, right?" "It must be like this." Chao Chao put the seal back to its original place and looked at the other one. "What about a daughter who is not related by blood?" Chao Dai stamped his palm with an uninked seal and asked ambiguously.Before I could confirm what she meant, she continued, "Will I be like that too?" "That's it?" "Call Dad at work. If only I could be like that. Even if it makes him angry." At this time, I felt the breath behind me, and when I looked back, the shopkeeper had returned at some point, staring blankly at the unaware dynasty.I wanted to stop her, but the shopkeeper quickly reached out and pressed my shoulder.I subconsciously stopped my voice.The owner's eyes tell me not to say anything.

"Maybe it's because Dad is kind. If Dad treats his own daughter like his own, the daughter can feel at ease. Besides, it may not be my own. My new dad also—" Turning around, Chao Dai finally realized it, and seeing the shopkeeper, she shut her mouth with a stiff expression. "Sorry, I said this..." I hurriedly apologized, but the shopkeeper quietly said "it's okay", and handed me the small paper bag in his hand, which contained the new name stamp of the dynasty. "Sorry for keeping you waiting." Thinking of something, the shopkeeper looked at his hand.

I saluted and left the counter, and when I was about to walk out of the store with Chao Dai, I heard a thank you for your patronage from behind.When I turned around to say hello, I found the owner looking at Dynasty.That look in his eyes was something I had never seen before.Although it was a little sad, but there was an indescribable meaning of joy, anger, sorrow and joy, and the corners of the eyes seemed to be a little wet. "Thank you too." Then he closed his eyes slightly. After leaving the store, I walked for a while and looked back, only to see four corner lights protruding from the darkness, and the counter where the owner was was no longer visible.