After getting off the bus and walking for about fifteen minutes, we reached the end of the trip after turning three intersections.
Zhang Heng looked at the small shop named Takeda Fisheries in front of him and asked, "Does your father live here?"
"Yeah, the smell inside is not good, you can wait for me outside." The closer the distance, the more disturbed the look on Ameko's face, but he was still very considerate.
"Come here, let's go in together." Zhang Heng didn't hesitate much, the two walked past the roll-up banners and the abandoned old freezers outside the store to the aquatic product store, and a unique smell of sea fish immediately It was tangy, and there were seafood such as fish, shrimp and shellfish everywhere, but there was no one in the shop, only moray eels running around in the foam box.
"おfatherさん~おfatherさん~" Ameko called out twice, but no one responded.
"Did you really go to the hospital?" The girl muttered, hesitated for a while or walked upstairs. Zhang Heng followed behind her. The wooden stairs hadn't been repaired for some time, and there were cracks in many places. , It creaked when stepped on it, as if it might break at any time.
Zhang Heng originally thought that the first floor was already packed enough, but he didn't expect that the second floor was really nowhere to go. Dirty clothes and beer cans were thrown everywhere, there were pornographic magazines, and a man with stubble all over his face. Lie on the floor naked and sleep soundly.
"I'm such a fool to believe the same lie over and over again." Ameko put his hand on his forehead and said.
"In a sense, this is a good thing, it's better than lying in the hospital."
"No, it's terrible. How can there be a man in this world who can even deceive his own daughter."
Having said that, Ameko still took the man's hands and tried to drag him to the side stack.
"Let me do it." Seeing that Ameko was struggling, Zhang Heng offered to help.
During the dragging process, something fell out of the man’s trouser pocket. Ameko picked it up and found it was a broken brown wallet. The man on the bed suddenly sat up, yelled and threw himself at Ameko.
The situation was urgent, and before Zhang Heng had time to think about it subconsciously, he used the self-defense trick that Bell taught him. An over-the-shoulder fall knocked the man to the ground. past.
At this time, Ameko shouted the word "don't".
"Ah, did he hang up?!" The girl was startled by the movement just now.
"Uh, no, but it may take a while to wake up. What did he yell at you just now?"
"Give me back the wallet..." Ameko murmured.
"..."
"I will continue to study Japanese when I go back." Zhang Henghan, and then the two of them moved the man who had fallen into a coma from drunkenness back to the stack.
Seeing that Ameko was still holding the broken wallet in his hand, Zhang Heng asked, "What, is there a huge sum of money in it?"
Ameko shook his head, "No, this wallet was a birthday present from his mother sixteen years ago. I didn't expect him to still carry it with him." The girl opened the wallet while talking, and only half of the transparent film was left on the left side. It was an old yellowed photo of a family of three.
Ameko pointed to the one-year-old baby who was held in his arms above and said, "It should be me, and the father and mother are behind. My mother said that my father hadn't been addicted to gambling at that time, and our family was still living happily. "
Zhang Heng's eyes fell on a cool-looking Nissan behind the man, and his expression changed, "You never told me that your father even played with modified cars."
"Modify the car? No, no, how is it possible? Don't look at him now. When I was a child, he was a model man. When the aquatic product store first opened, the business was very poor, and he couldn't compete with local competitors. In order to increase the turnover, he began to practice hard. In English, I go to those foreign customers, call them one by one, and even visit them. At the worst time, the seafood at home will be sold to London, Los Angeles, and even Peru... It is impossible for such a serious person to get involved with those gangsters .”
"...and he has never driven a car since I can remember, and the aquatic product store at home usually hires people to deliver the goods." Ameko recalled, and looked at the photo again, "This car is probably parked when the photo is taken. It's there."
"That's it..." Zhang Heng didn't ask further, but just said, "I'm quite interested in cars. This car should be an antique now, can I take a picture?"
"Okay, but don't take pictures of me. I was very ugly when I was a child." Ameko blocked his one-year-old self with his fingers and asked Zhang Heng to take pictures.
After that, the girl rinsed two teacups, boiled some hot water with the electric kettle on the table, and dug out a pack of dark tea leaves from the cabinet.
"This... probably is oolong tea." Ameko sniffed it under his nose, a little uncertain.
The two chatted while drinking tea, but Ameko was basically talking about her childhood. After about half an hour, the stubble man finally opened his eyes, rubbed his sore shoulders, and looked vigilantly. He looked at Zhang Heng who was on the side.
Ameko spoke quickly, probably explaining the relationship between the two.
Hu Chanan's gaze improved slightly, from hostility to ignorance, and the two were quickly communicating in Japanese.
In the end, Ameko took out 15,000 yen from the bag and put it on the table, but the bearded man didn't look satisfied. The more he talked, the more excited he became, and he stood up from the stack.
Zhang Heng frowned, and stood in front of Ameko. His recent fitness has been quite effective. Although he doesn't have much muscle, his body shape is not redundant. In addition, he just gave him an over-the-shoulder throw After seeing him, the stubble man's momentum obviously weakened.
At this time, Ameko also stood up from the ground, her mood was very depressed, and she said with red eyes, "Let's go."
On the tram back home, the girl stared out the window in a daze. Zhang Heng didn't bother her. After a while, he took out a box of mixed-flavored chewing gum from his pocket and said in broken Japanese, "If you don't eat it, I'll just eat strawberries."
"If you don't eat it, I'll eat all the strawberry flavored ones." Ameko corrected, took the gum, and at the same time relaxed her brows, and said in Chinese, "I'm sorry, Zhang Sang, I let you see happy thing."
"No, you have been helping me all the time, and it feels good to change me to help you once in a while... So what, did you finally reconcile?"
"No way, he said that the original employee in the store is going back to his hometown this month, and he can't find suitable people to drive and deliver the goods for him, so the store will not be able to survive, anyway, he can always find similar excuses, I I don't bother to tell the truth from the fake, so just give him this month's allowance, and it should be able to buy him a period of peace." Ameko said helplessly.