About half a month after the boss returned from Izu, gradually the river breeze would occasionally pass through the gaps in the summer sunshine, blowing up the small willow branches on the embankment, or setting off thin waves on the river.
On this day, when I was doing nothing in the entrance hall, my eldest sister came out.
"Where's Kanata?"
"I went out to do some errands. I said I would be back in the evening."
"Where to go?"
"I don't know that."
Since the boss came back, my eldest brother often goes out without telling me.
"Then let Bandai come over. The boss wants to talk about the Autumn Festival - I just heard him say he was thirsty, and he probably went to the milk shop on the side of the tram."
I trotted all the way to the "Xiaozhou" dairy store and looked through the glass at the entrance. Sure enough, Bandai was inside.
Because Bandai's shoulders are very broad, I didn't know there was a woman sitting opposite him until I got closer. The woman was about to say something to Bandai, but when she saw me approaching, she stared at my face. She has a bun and a round face. She is about thirty years old. The eyebrows are thin, but there is a stubbornness in the eyes. On the white skin, a pair of lips are particularly eye-catching. The bright red clothes hang on the sloping shoulders, looking quiet and natural.
The woman touched Bandai's sleeves, and he turned his head towards me.
"What's up?"
This is an angry tone. The approach came silently, as if it surprised him. "The boss is looking for you."
"I got it. Tell me I'll go back right away."
"yes."
I bowed, and the woman stood up at the same time.
"Then I'm leaving too."
Bandai pushed a small bag on the table towards the woman
people. The woman took it with a gesture of thanks.
"I'm so sorry. There will be no problem next month, but this month, there is really nothing I can do...Although I am the one who has been kicked out, my mother can still only rely on me in my hometown. one person."
"No, you don't need to worry about this."
The woman shook her head and said: "Brother Xiu, I shouldn't have asked you to ask me for help again, but this time, I really can't help it. I'm sorry, I will pay you back next month."
The woman put the small bag away and reached for the umbrella. As soon as it touched the umbrella, it fell to my feet. I picked it up and handed it to her. "Brother Xiu, this is..."
"He?" Bandai replied, "It was this spring.
The new face Tian Guantian picked up is called Ci Xiong.
Currently taking care of Kanata. "
"Where was the previous one?"
"That guy ran away after not staying for a month. This guy was very obedient, and Kanata seemed to like him very much, so that's why he stayed for so long."
"Um···…
..”
I was about to lower my head in greeting, but she had already looked away. Looking at her profile, it was as if she had forgotten about me.
"Then I'll take my leave."
She bowed to Bandai and walked out of the store. The road, which was scorched white by the last ray of summer light, was marked with a small shadow of a woman. Soon, the shadow disappeared under the shadow of the open umbrella. As she walked past me, a hint of fragrance emerged from her collar, which remained in my nose even after the umbrella shadow disappeared. I felt as if my whole body was swept by the fragrance, but it was only for a moment. It wasn't the scent of rouge or white powder, or the scent of the woman I held in my arms in the brothel.
"Listen, don't tell Kanata who I just met." Bandai paid for the milk, handed me the change, and hurried out of the store.
What Bandai handed to the woman seemed to be money. According to my guess, the woman's mother in her hometown was ill and needed a large sum of money, so she came to borrow it from Fandai.
What a trivial matter! I really don’t understand why I kept it a secret, but I still didn’t tell my eldest brother.
However--
Ten days later, Brother Guanda arranged for me to meet that woman again.
Occasionally, my eldest brother would go shopping in Flower Street, and he would take me there every time. While my eldest brother was playing with women, I would drink beer downstairs, or I could use the change my eldest brother gave me to go to other houses to have fun.
The eldest brother does not have an old acquaintance, and rarely goes to the same house. If he happens to be in a house he has been to before, he will definitely want another woman. It seemed like he was afraid of having a relationship with the same woman for more than one night.
Every time I go to Flower Street, my eldest brother always wears that coat. Normally, he always wears the rattan-colored coat with hemp leaf pattern like a monk's robe, but when he puts on this one, he looks elegant and suave. Even if the body is naked, it must be draped from the shoulders to cover the right hand without fingers. This is what I was told one night when I accidentally went to a brothel and met a woman who happened to have a deal with my elder brother. It is said that the eldest brother ordered a woman to take off her lipstick, but she was still uneasy and asked her to turn her face away while doing the work. The woman tried to joke with him and pretended to bite his shoulder, but was suddenly pushed away and slapped.
It seems that when facing a woman, the eldest brother doesn't want to leave any traces on his body. I also guessed that even when he was holding the woman, he still wished he could be alone.
"But something interesting happened!"
The woman opened her red lips, showed a mean smile and said:
"After I took off my clothes, he took out a large handful of thin flowers from his cuffs and sprinkled them on me... Later, there were traces like moles on my body, which made people wonder what to do."
"What kind of flower is it?"
"It seems to be tung flowers - I remember it was just after summer arrived."
September was almost over. One night, while walking through Flower Street, my eldest brother suddenly stopped and said:
"Aci, I want you to hug a girl
people···
This night, my eldest brother didn’t give me any change. I guess it was just for this reason!
Without waiting for my answer, the eldest brother walked to another road. The moon began to disappear, bringing with it the clarification of autumn. I stepped on my elder brother's shadow on the white night road and followed behind silently.
After walking up the Fayin River for quite some time and crossing the Niyuan Bridge, there was a maze-like alley opposite the adjacent Mariner Hotel, followed by a long terraced house. There is a street lamp at the entrance of the alley. The eldest brother stopped there, took off his coat, hung it on my shoulders and said, "It's the innermost family. No need to say anything, just go in." After being pushed by the eldest brother, I walked forward. That house also had lights in its lattice windows. When he came to the door, he looked back and saw that the eldest brother was covered in the shadow of the lamp. As he was accustomed to do, he stood there with his right hand hidden in his sleeve.
Gently pushing the glass door open, there is a pair of women's clogs at the entrance. The parasol standing in one corner seemed familiar, but I couldn’t remember where I had seen it.
There was no sound, and I peeked inside. It was a small room with four and a half stacks, and a woman's messy hair lay on the low table. The person seemed to be asleep, but there was a sound.
"Please come up!" The woman raised her face. Her hair was disheveled, but she was clearly the woman who talked to Bandai at the dairy ten days ago. I was slightly startled, but the woman didn't seem surprised at all. She stood up and turned off the light. In the dim light of the moon, the woman turned her back and began to untie her belt. Then, as if she remembered again, she turned her face and said:
"What are you doing? What can you do with your clothes on?" He seemed to be a bit drunk. He was completely different from what he was ten days ago. There was still a sense of self-abandonment in his voice.
I was naked and sat down on the bedclothes in the corner of the room. The woman wrapped the rope on her hand around my right wrist.
I was at her mercy. The woman bound my hands and tied the other end to the pillar, so that I could not move my right hand. I remembered what another woman told me: "That man always hides one hand in his sleeve..." I felt as if I was being tied up in a courtroom and being tried, lowering my head and remaining silent.
The strange aroma that passed my nose in the dairy touched my body before a woman's skin. In the dark night, the fragrance became stronger and dyed my whole body red.
"Just keep it as usual..."
The woman said that, as if to help my immobile right hand, she grabbed one side of her chest, pulled me over with her other hand, and lay down at the same time. This small movement caused the woman's fragrance, which was slightly white in the thin light, to suddenly stir up turbulent waves. That fragrance arouses me more strongly than a woman's soft muscles. I felt like I was melting into the fragrance, letting my hot blood flow into the woman's body.
When I noticed that the woman had her face turned sideways from beginning to end, the matter was over.
The man asked me to turn my face sideways - another woman's voice sounded in my ears again.
"You didn't ask anything..."
I got dressed and was about to go out when the woman said this. There was a slight smile on Feng Dan's face. I remained silent.
"It was Kanata who asked you not to ask anything.
?"
I shook my head. "Really? You'll understand anyway - just go ahead and walk softly."
I quietly pushed open the glass door. Suddenly, a figure flashed under the streetlight at the alley and disappeared. I know that's the big brother.
This means that during the half hour I hugged the woman in the room, he stood there silently observing what was going on in the room. Why was this? I felt like I was in a fog.
I vaguely felt that my eldest brother and this woman were connected by some dark bond that I didn't know yet, but why my eldest brother asked me to hug her, and why the woman didn't let me use my right hand, I couldn't figure out at all. As if I had hugged a demon in Asakuhara, I returned to my elder brother's house in Someya Town in a daze.
Not long after I got home, my eldest brother also came back. I stood up quickly and was about to turn on the light when my elder brother's voice came over.
"No need! Just turn your back."
I stood silently. The eldest brother came over and put his hand on my shoulder. Like an inexplicable monster licking me, a weird feeling spread throughout my arms.
I felt as if the darkness behind me had solidified. The moonlight dyed the tatami pale just like the woman's house just now. There were two overlapping shadows printed there. The big brother's broad shadow swallowed my shadow, and when it shook and then shattered, the feminine fragrance that had just been on my body suddenly surged up from my chest.
I only know what tung flowers look like from playing cards, but at this moment, for some reason, I feel that the fragrance is exactly like the floral fragrance of tung flowers.
