After getting off the bus, we walked for about fifteen minutes, turned three intersections, and reached the end of the trip.
Zhang Heng looked at the small shop called Zangyuan 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 is, the more nervous the look on Ameko's face becomes, but he is still very considerate.
"You're all here, let's go in together." Zhang Heng didn't hesitate much. The two of them walked past the roll-ups and abandoned old freezers outside the store and came to the aquatic products store. A unique smell of sea immediately hit them. As soon as you hit your nose, you can see fish, shrimps, shellfish and other seafood everywhere as far as the eye can see, but there is no one in the store except for moray eels scurrying around in the foam box.
"おfather さん~おfather さん~" Ameko shouted twice, but no one responded.
"Did you really go to the hospital?" the girl muttered. After hesitating for a moment, she still walked upstairs. Zhang Heng followed her. The wooden stairs had not been repaired for an unknown period of time, and there were cracks in many places. , it creaked when you stepped on it, as if it might break at any time.
Zhang Heng originally thought that the first floor was packed enough, but he didn’t expect that there was really no place to go on the second floor. Dirty clothes and beer cans were thrown everywhere, as well as pornographic magazines, and a man with a stubble on his face. He lay naked on the floor and fell asleep.
"I'm such a fool. I believe the same lies over and over again." Ameko said, putting her hand on her forehead.
"In a sense, this is a good thing. It's better than lying in the hospital."
"No, it's simply terrible. How could there be a man in this world who would even deceive his own daughter?"
Having said that, Ameko still took the man's hands and tried to drag him to the side.
"I'll do it." Zhang Heng saw that Ameko was struggling with his movements and took the initiative to help.
During the dragging process, something fell out of the man's trouser pocket. Ameko picked it up and found that it was a brown broken wallet. When she got the wallet, she was stunned. She didn't know what she was thinking. Then she folded the The man on top suddenly sat up, roared and rushed towards Ameko.
The situation was urgent. Zhang Heng didn't have time to think about it and subconsciously used the little self-defense method Bell taught him. He threw the man over his shoulder and threw him to the ground. The latter was suddenly hit hard and rolled his eyes. This time he was knocked unconscious. passed.
It was only then that Ameko shouted the word "no".
"Ah, did he die?!" The girl was startled by the movement just now.
"Uh, no, but it will probably take a while to wake up. What did he yell at you just now?"
"Give me your wallet..." Ameko muttered.
"…………"
"I will continue to learn Japanese when I go back." Zhang Heng sweated, and then the two of them worked together to move the man who had fallen into a coma from drunkenness back to the folding bed.
Zhang Heng saw that Ameko was still holding the broken wallet and asked, "Why, is there a huge sum of money in it?"
Ameko shook his head, "No, this wallet was a birthday gift from his mother twelve years ago. I didn't expect that he still has it with him." The girl opened the wallet as she spoke, and only half of the transparent film was left on the left side. It was a yellowed old photo of a family of three.
Ameko pointed to the one-year-old baby in his arms and said, "This one should be me, followed by my father and mother. My mother said that at that time, my father had not yet contracted a gambling addiction, 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 also played with modified cars."
"Modified car? No, no, how is that possible? Don't look at him like this now. He was a model man when I was a kid. When the aquatic product store first opened, business was very bad and he couldn't compete with local rivals. In order to increase his sales, he started practicing hard. English goes to find those foreign customers, calls them one by one, and even visits them. At his peak, his seafood will be sold to London, Los Angeles, and even Peru... It is impossible for such a serious person to get involved with those bosozokus. of."
"...and he has never driven a car as long as I can remember. The aquatic products store at home usually hires people to deliver the goods." Ameko recalled, and looked at the photo again, "There was probably someone in this car when the photo was taken. Just stop there."
"Is that so..." Zhang Heng didn't pursue the question, and just said, "I'm quite interested in cars. This car should be an antique now. Can you let me take a photo of it?"
"Okay, but don't take pictures of me. I was very ugly when I was a child." Ameko blocked her one-year-old self with her fingers, allowing Zhang Heng to take pictures.
After that, the girl rinsed two teacups, boiled some hot water with the electric kettle on the table, and took out a pack of dark tea leaves from the cabinet.
"This... is probably oolong tea." Ameko put it under her nose and sniffed it, a little unsure.
The two chatted while drinking tea, but basically it was Ameko talking about her childhood. After about half an hour, the stubbled man finally opened his eyes, rubbing his sore shoulders, and his eyes were alert. Looking at Zhang Heng aside.
Ameko spoke quickly, probably explaining the relationship between the two.
The bearded man's gaze improved a little, and turned from hostility to indifference. The two of them were communicating quickly in Japanese.
In the end, Ameko took out 15,000 yen from the bag and put it on the table. However, the bearded man didn't look satisfied. He became more and more excited as he talked and stood up from his folded compress.
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 doesn't have any extra points. In addition, he just gave the opponent a shoulder throw before. , the bearded man's momentum weakened significantly after seeing him.
At this time, Ameko also stood up from the ground. Her mood seemed very low, her eyes were red and she said, "Let's go."
On the train back, the girl stared out the window in a daze. Zhang Heng did not disturb her. After a while, he took out a box of mixed-flavor chewing gum from his pocket and said in broken Japanese, "If you don't want to eat, I will eat strawberries."
"If you didn't eat it, I would have eaten all the strawberry flavored ones." Ameko corrected, took the chewing gum, her brows widened at the same time, and said in Chinese, "I'm sorry, Zhang Sang, for letting you see that I can't Happy things.”
"No, you've always been the one helping me. It feels good to let me help you once in a while... So what, have you reconciled in the end?"
"No, he said that the person who was originally employed by the store will go back to his hometown this month. If he can't recruit suitable people to drive and deliver goods for him, the store will not be able to survive. Anyway, he can always find similar excuses. I I'm too lazy to tell the truth from the fake, so I just gave him this month's change, which should bring me peace for a while." Ameko said helplessly.
