In the next few days, Mu Jingchi had been waiting for news from the Japanese side, and after waiting for three or four days, Assistant Yu received the news from that side and hurriedly walked towards Mu Jingchi's study, where he was sitting and playing chess with himself.

Seeing Assistant Yu coming over, he continued to fall there, and did not look back, but asked, "How is it." ”

Assistant Yu came to him and said, "That person has already given a sum of money to the art hall according to your instructions, and asked to rent the young lady, and the fee for the young lady is exactly the cost of her husband's needs, the mother of the art studio talked to the young lady, and the young lady agreed." ”

Assistant Yu's last words made Mu Jing's Chi Luozi's hand pause for two seconds.

However, after a long time, he continued to say, "Well, I see. ”

Assistant Yu didn't ask much when he saw Mu Jingchi, and he didn't know what to do for a while, so he could only pestle over there, and after a while, he asked again: "Do you want to continue?" ”

Mu Jingchi threw a piece on the chessboard and said, "Don't stop, continue." ”

Assistant Yu said: "After the young lady agreed, they set the time of the transaction in the evening of three days, that is, that night means that the young lady will pass." ”

Mu Jingchi hummed again.

Seeing his reaction, Assistant Yu didn't dare to say more, so he waited there.

He continued to drop there, and after several pieces fell in a row, he suddenly asked Assistant Yu next to him, "How about we make a bet." ”

Assistant Yu didn't know why he would say such a thing to him, Assistant Yu hesitated for two seconds, and then said, "What does Mr. want to bet on?" ”

He said: "Bet she won't go over that night." ”

Assistant Yu didn't think about it, and didn't ask what the gambling contract was, and immediately replied: "No." ”

When Mu Jingchi heard Assistant Yu's answer, he smiled, turned his head slightly to look at Assistant Yu and asked, "How can you see it?" ”

Assistant Yu said: "Miss is just desperate for a while, and when that time comes, she will naturally not really take that step, she should ...... Don't have that guts yet. ”

Mu Jingchi heard Assistant Yu's words, but he just chuckled and said, "I bet she would." He observed the situation in the chess game and said: "According to what I know about her, she has nothing, except for the courage she lacks, she has no courage except for not daring to kill me, for this kind of thing, she has always looked very lightly, she is not the kind of woman in China, chastity is very important, if the interests are needed, the situation is urgent, she will choose to go." ”

Assistant Yu said, "Why are you so sure? ”

Mu Jingchi said: "Because I know her. ”

Assistant Yu said, "What if she goes?" Give her money? ”

Mu Jingchi said: "No, don't give her any assistance, I have to let her understand how stupid she is to take this path, and besides, teach her a lesson." ”

Assistant Yu hesitated twice, and then said, "But if she doesn't give her money, she will definitely find another way to raise it." ”

Mu Jingchi landed the black chess pieces on his fingertips in a corner of the chessboard and said, "She will bow her head to me." ”

Mu Jingchi said something like this, Assistant Yu didn't know what it meant, and he was a little confused, but he still didn't ask much, just continued to wait there.

Mu Jingchi threw a piece of jade pendant and handed it to him and said, "If I win, this thing will be yours." ”

The jade pendant was incomparably exquisitely carved, and it was worth a lot of money at a glance, Assistant Yu stared at it for a long time and said, "Yes." ”

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In the evening, after Miss Tsuruta summoned me from the hall of the art hall to her private room, she handed me an envelope, I did not understand how to look at her, she smoked a dry cigarette, and said to me in Japanese: "I took over a business for you, this is the first money that the other party gave you, you count it first, and then answer me after you have counted it." ”

I opened the envelope, and it was a cheque with a considerable amount of money, almost one-third of Kimura's surgery.

I stared at the check for a long time, then looked at Miss Tsuruda.

She knocked on the table with the dry tobacco in her hand and said, "Originally, a newcomer like you needs to be trained in the art hall for a month, but because you are not from my country, and you have been socializing here for a few days, some guests have taken a fancy to you, so they have contacted me personally and are willing to give you a high price." She took another puff of her cigarette, and the thick smoke was coming at me, and though it didn't taste very good, I held back and looked at her.

Miss Tsuruta continued: "The guest came two days later and said that she would pay for the rest of your husband's medical bills as long as you served her well. ”

When I heard these words from Miss Tsuruda, I didn't move or react for a long time.

When Miss Tsuruta saw my expression, she put down her long cigarette gun and looked at me and said, "What?" At the beginning, you said to me that if you want to do this business, you can't regret it today, right? ”

I stared at her face for a long time, then I knelt down and saluted her, saying, "I'm sorry, Miss Tsuruta, I might ...... There is also a need to consider. ”

When she heard my words, her face changed, and her eyes were slightly dissatisfied, and she said, "The most hated thing in Japan is that you don't keep your word, Miss Nozawa, and you are a little unlikable like this." ”

I knew it would upset her if I went back and forth, but I insisted, "Please give me time." ”

It was because of my sincerity that the displeasure on her face did not continue, and she took another puff of dry cigarettes, and asked with smoke rings from her red lips, "How long?" ”

I said, "I'm three days." ”

She didn't seem to think three days was too much, so she said, "Three days is fine." At this point, she paused, then added, "But." ”

She raised her slender eyebrows and said, "As a foreign guest, the friendship of our country, I have to remind you that your husband, Mr. Fujiwara Kimura's medical expenses, do not allow you to hesitate, if you miss the best period, I will not be able to help you." ”

Hearing her say this, I still said thank you there, but I didn't immediately agree.

She didn't embarrass me anymore.

After I came out of Tsuruta, it was time for me to get off work, and now where I am is a geisha hall in Osaka, Japan, everywhere I go, all of them are ambiguous laughter seeking pleasure, and in the center of the art hall are some girls who accompany wine and laugh, some of those girls are only accompanied by wine and food, but it does not include sleeping together, but some people, if they want money, if the price offered by the other party makes her feel satisfied, they are also very willing.

At present, I have only been here for five or six days, and I am not very familiar with the people here, so when I pass by, I try to bend down and pass by carefully with my eyes down.

When I got out of the gallery, I didn't have time to change out of my kimono, but stopped a rickshaw and walked to Kobe Memorial Hospital in Osaka, where the attending doctor had been waiting for me for a long time, and as soon as he saw me coming, he immediately got up from his desk and called out to me, "Miss Nozawa." ”

I immediately walked over to him, gasped and said to him, "Sorry, something was delayed, so I was late." ”

The attending doctor of Kimura didn't care, but got up and poured me a glass of water and said, "I have seen your husband's condition today, and the situation is very bad. ”

As soon as he said this, my whole body instantly tensed.

The doctor came over with a glass of water, put it in front of me and said, "Your surgery may have to be prepared in advance, because your husband's surgery, our hospital has also advanced him." ”

After he finished speaking, he immediately reassured me and said: "Miss Nozawa, don't worry, the reason why we advanced the operation is that we found that your husband's body may not be able to support it at that time, the bullet occupies the most important position in his chest, and his current heartbeat is already dangerous, if it drags on any longer, no one can guarantee whether he will be able to wait until that day." ”

There were layers of cold sweat in my palms, but I tried to calm myself down, and then said to Kimura's attending doctor, "I know, I understand, I will try my best to find a way to money, but I want to ask you, if the operation is not successful, what will happen to him?" ”

The doctor looked at me and said two words: "Death." ”

These two words are inevitable, and I don't know how I could be so stupid as to ask such a question.

When the doctor saw that I didn't speak for a long time, he said, "But you have to understand that if you don't take out that bullet in time, he will face death." ”

Speaking of which, I said, "I understand. ”

After a while, I thought about it and asked, "Is there a date for the operation?" ”

The doctor said, "If you are not embarrassed, our side will set the operation on the 14th, and from today, there will be four days left, which is the cost of the operation......"

I stopped the doctor in time and said, "I understand, please don't worry. ”

The doctor comforted me a few words, and then I came out of the office, and then I walked towards the intensive care unit in Kimura, and I looked outside, and then I turned away, and soon I walked towards the art hall again, and when I arrived, my mother was still there, still sitting there smoking, and she heard my footsteps and asked who was there.

I replied, "It's me, Nozawa." ”

As soon as she heard my voice, she instantly seemed to anticipate something, and with a knowing smile on the corner of her mouth, she looked back at me and said, "You're back." ”

I walked over to her, reached her and said, "I need that money urgently, can you meet with that person early and give me the money?" ”

Tsuruta slowly put down the cigarette gun, then drank tea from a teacup and asked, "But your husband Kimura's condition has changed again." ”

I said bluntly, "Yes." ”

When Tsuruta saw that I agreed, she was not in a hurry at all, she said, "There is no problem with you here, and I will naturally ask the guests over there before I can give you an answer." When she said this, her voice paused for a few seconds and said, "However, if you agree this time, you can't go back." ”

I said, "I won't." ”

When she saw that I was so sure, she said, "Okay, then you go back and wait for my news." ”

Half a day after I got home, Tsuruta called my house, and she told me in a very hoarse voice that she had contacted the guest there, and the person proposed to mention the time to tomorrow night and asked me if there was a problem here.

When I heard this, my whole body loosened twice, but soon, I replied to Tsuruda, "No problem." ”

Tsuruta said on the phone, "You should prepare well. ”

Then she hung up.

I listened to the sound of a disconnected connection from the phone, and sat there for a long time before slowly putting the microphone on it.

Then I got up, got up and went back to the house, looking around in the cabinet for the clothes I was going to wear tomorrow, and before I could find a satisfactory one, the phone rang again, and I walked out, picked up the microphone again, put it in my ear, and said something in Japanese.

It was Chen Guohong's voice that came from the other side, and he said on the phone: "Miss Lu, I'm Chen Guohong." ”

I replied with three words on my face: "I know." ”

He said, "You need money? ”

I said, "Yes." ”

He said, "I can pay for you and all your husband's medical bills." ”

Hearing his words, I didn't even think about slapping the microphone down directly, Chen Guohong's voice naturally stopped abruptly, I was about to turn around and leave, the phone rang again, I stood there for three seconds, but after thinking about it, I simply sat down again, picked up the microphone again, and didn't allow the person over there to speak, I said: "Don't say anything, I won't accept any help from him, you let him go, how far will I get out!" ”