Chapter 6 The Visible Boy (5)
"Inuyama! Why haven't the dishes at table 6 been served yet?"
"Come right away!"
" Hey, Inuyama, go rush to the kitchen. The customer at table 21 has been waiting for a long time.”
“Yes!”
In the popular Chinese restaurant "Shangaitou", Inuyama Hei was so busy that he could hardly breathe. Even so, he did not complain or slack off at all. Although the salary here was only at an average level, it was paid on a daily basis. And the people in the store are very nice. After knowing his condition, after every busy day, the kitchen will use the remaining ingredients to make some simple and delicious home-cooked dishes and rice for him to take home, which can be eaten by heating it in the microwave. This made Inuyama Hei, who was used to eating cheap bentos and bread, feel a feeling called "happiness" that he had not felt for a long time and wanted to cry.
A few days after visiting Qian Xiaoyi that day, Heita Inuyama went to the Lingkong Office again and used his salary to buy some Japanese desserts as gifts. Although he faced himself During the greetings, Qian Xiaoyi looked very afraid of trouble. After accepting the gift, he turned him away very rudely, but Inuyama Heita was still very grateful to him.
Coupled with Qian Xiaoyi's guidance, Inuyama Heita has basically been able to distinguish between dirty things and normal people, and can ignore each other normally. Life seems to be on the right track again and begins to move in a good direction. .
It wasn’t until several days later that there was another hiccup.
One day, Heita Inuyama had just finished his work at night. He was rushing to the station with the hot meals packed in the kitchen, trying to catch the last train home. When he took a shortcut through a residential alley Suddenly, I heard a quarrel. When I turned around, I saw three people arguing at the door of a house. The quarrel seemed to be a mother and daughter. The daughter seemed to be trying her best to stop her mother.
"Mom, you can't give money to this strange person! You have already donated a lot of things at home."
", let go of your hands, you don't need to worry about adults' affairs."
In this city, the deep-rooted belief in "not causing trouble to others" Social customs actually have another meaning, that is, "you don't want others to trouble you." Here, neither the neighbors nor the neighbors will care about such household matters. At most, they will only discuss them secretly the next day. Then he was cold-eyed and ostracized, and he was angry and angry, just like the cold-blooded bullying in school. Heita Inuyama, a passerby, naturally didn't care, but after hearing the voice of one of them, he stopped because he knew that voice and it was his classmate.
Heita Inuyama looked at the two parties in the argument from the corner as unobtrusively as possible, and found that the inconspicuous girl with glasses was indeed someone he knew. The girl's name was Suzuki, and the two of them were basically unknown in the class. What kind of intersection is there? One goes off to work as soon as school is over, and the other is also a little transparent. There is nothing special about this girl except that she is excellent in one or two subjects.
Due to the unexpected sight of an acquaintance, Inuyama Heita couldn't help but look around the corner. The curly-haired middle-aged woman at the door should be Suzuki's mother, and the third person present was a man wearing a black suit. , a man with a slicked back hair and a fake smile on his face, he is very He said politely, "Your love seems to have some prejudice against our Lucky Mutual Aid Association. Madam, you need to know this. Our Mutual Aid Association is not a shoddy religious group that requires forced donations from believers, so even if you don't donate to us, it's totally fine." of..."
"No, Mr. Matsui, please accept this money." The woman said in fear: "Don't listen to my daughter's nonsense. Since I have become a member of the mutual aid association, I naturally want to contribute as much as possible. Please Accept it, I already understand the greatness of the mutual aid association, please don't abandon me." She begged and wanted to push a thick envelope in her hand to the man named Matsui, but Suzuki held it tightly. Lived his mother.
While mother and daughter were in a stalemate, Matsui sighed and said: "I understand, Ms. Suzuki, I will continue to share my good luck with you, but before that, I will Let your daughter also feel our power. I want to check her fortune. Do you have any objection to me doing this?"
The woman's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she turned to Suzuki and said: ", Did you hear that? Mr. Matsui wants to help you check your fortune. This is a good thing that only a few people in the party can enjoy."
Suzuki asked with some fear, as if he didn't recognize the woman in front of him. : "Mom, what are you talking about?"
"Don't worry, it's just a small check." Matsui stretched out his hand to Suzuki, making her take a step back in fear. At this moment, she Instead, her mother grabbed her, and their positions were reversed. However, the man named Matsui did not touch Suzuki with his hand. Instead, he stopped an inch in front of her. He kept this action and put his hand down. in front of her. "You...what are you doing?" Suzuki widened his eyes and asked in confusion.
"Stop talking." Matsui said: "It will be fine soon."
Although he didn't know what the other person was doing, Suzuki could clearly feel that "there is something he wants." It’s coming.” The surrounding air seemed to have become much colder, giving people goosebumps.
“That’s it!” Inuyama Heita, who was hiding in the corner, opened his eyes wide. Unlike the mother and daughter who couldn’t see anything, he clearly saw a pale baby stretching along the stretch of the man in the suit. The arm slowly crawled towards Suzuki, and the small fingers were about to touch Suzuki's cheek with wide eyes.
"Pretend you didn't see it? Turn around and leave?"
This is Heita Inuyama's most instinctive thought. After staying in Tokyo for such a long time, he has gradually become infected with the indifference of Tokyo people. Faced with this kind of thing, of course, the first thing to consider is to protect yourself first. Besides, ordinary people cannot see this situation. , if I rush forward rashly, I will definitely be regarded as a lunatic. I still have to catch the tram, and it will be miserable if I don't catch it.
Tangled in his heart, Inuyama Heita used various ideas to convince himself not to mind his own business, and subconsciously wanted to take a detour to leave. But the moment he turned around, a dusty period of time flashed through Inuyama Heita's mind. The memory, the residual warmth of the warm meal in his hands seemed to warm his cold blood. Heita Inuyama didn't know why he did this. He gritted his teeth and rushed towards there with the plastic bag in hand.
At the moment when the baby was about to touch Suzuki, Matsui, the man in a suit, suddenly felt that he had been hit by something. The pale baby seemed to be frightened, crawled back to Matsui's body, and said with resentment looked at the perpetrator.
"Sorry, sorry!" Inuyama Heita said carelessly as if he didn't see it: "I was in a hurry to catch the train, so I didn't pay attention, so...eh? Isn't this Suzuki-san? Why are you here? ?" he asked with a surprised expression.
"I...I live here..." Suzuki didn't know that he had escaped, and asked: "Why...Inuyama-kun, are you here?"
"I work nearby." Inuyama looked at the man in the suit and frowned: "Who is he? This guy doesn't look like a good person. Do you need my help to call the police?"
The woman warned: "You Who is it? You don’t need to worry about our family’s affairs!”
At this time, Matsui took two steps back. Although he was still smiling, his eyes were extremely cold. He smiled and said: "It seems that I am not very lucky now. Then we will see you at the next party, Ms. Suzuki." , and Miss Suzuki." After he finished speaking, he turned and left.
"Wait, Mr. Matsui!" The woman wanted to rush over, but was held back by her daughter. Suzuki breathed a sigh of relief and turned to Inuyama Heita and said: "Thank you, Inuyama-san... But this way No need to call the police if you need to rush If you want to take the train, go quickly, otherwise it will be too late.”
“I understand, I’m going to go, I’m sorry.” Inuyama Heita bowed slightly, and then quickly fled this place of right and wrong. Just now, he was so scared that his legs were shaking.
After Inuyama Heita left, Matsui walked out of the corner of the alley and said to himself: "Well, it seems that he can see you? It seems that I am really lucky when I come out this time..."
(End of this chapter)