It can only be said that the scene was very embarrassing for a while

Huai Shi stood beside her dumbfounded, and didn't react yet. I don't understand why a kitchen demon in Fukatsu Keitendo would run to an izakaya in the inner circle of Tamba.

And before that, it seems that I have been asking for a long time......

Fukatsu Qing couldn't care about it so much, and moved to the front of the bar step by step, not noticing the existence of other people at all, and only the stunned woman was left in his eyes.

"Miss Tao, it's really you, it's really you......" He grabbed the hand of the proprietress and was already crying excitedly: "I'm finally, I've finally found you." ”

Ah Tao's hand stiffened, subconsciously retracted, and said dryly: "Mr. Fukatsu, please calm down, it's still business hours." “

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. ”

Fukatsu Qing finally noticed his gaffe, and hurriedly took a step back, raised his sleeve to wipe his reddened eyes, and showed a solemn and sincere expression.

He took another step back, bent over, knelt on the ground, and bowed his head deeply.

"I know it's bothering you to come to your door out of the blue, but I beg you to accept my apologies. He buried his head and prayed earnestly: "Please forgive me for not saying goodbye last time, and please ...... Please give me another chance. ”

"This is my request for the rest of my life, Miss Tao!"

He raised his head, stared into her eyes, and said loudly, "Please let us start over, Ah Tao, this time I will never let you leave me!"

Plucked up the courage and said what should have been said in my heart: "I've been in love with you since a long, long time ago, please, please marry me!"

Huai Shi felt that her hands were about to lose their grip on the cup.

The melon stuffed into his mouth was so big that he didn't react a little: What was this thing thinking? Suddenly, he came to the door, and there was no foreshadowing, so suddenly, he proposed?

Big brother, it's not unreasonable that you've been single for so many years!

Even the plot of childhood sweethearts is not like this! Where is there so many years of not seeing each other and wanting to let people marry themselves?

You wouldn't be so reckless if you didn't eat a single puffer fish, would you?

The first to react was not the proprietress but the angry fisherman Takahashi next to him.

"Bastard, what the hell are you talking about!"

This burly man could not restrain his anger, stretched out his hand, roughly pulled Fukatsu Kei up from the ground, glared at his face, so angry that his hair was stretched, and roared in a low voice: "I have heard for a long time, you are the stalker who asks about Ms. Omi everywhere!

Without waiting for Fukatsu to answer, Takahashi raised his fist and wanted to beat this scum who came to harass him here to death.

Huaishi, who reacted, hurriedly reached out and wanted to grab Takahashi's arm.

But faster than him was the proprietress of the proprietress .

I don't know whether I should call it Ms. Omi or Miss Momo, but she is in front of Fukatsu at the moment, blocking this imminent battle.

"Please don't do this, it's my own private matter, let me settle it. ”

"I, I...... I'm not ......."

Takahashi was stunned, Tie Qing's face gradually froze, and he noticed the sincerity in her expression, as if he understood something, and his expression suddenly turned gray.

Let go of your hand.

He returned to his place, bowing his head and drinking his sullen wine. Dejected, like a defeated fighting dog.

"Miss Tao, I know...... I knew it!" Fukatsu looked at her in surprise: "You have mine in your heart, right?"

"I'm sorry, Fukatsu-kun. ”

In front of Fukatsu, the proprietress opened her mouth several times to say something, but in the end she lowered her eyes and politely refused: "Thank you for coming to me so hard, it's great to be able to reunite with the old man."

But alas, I don't agree to your request, so please go back. ”

"Why? Don't you know my feelings for you? Is it because of the child? I don't mind, it doesn't matter! I will treat her as my own daughter! We can raise her together......

"You don't deserve his child!"

This sentence was made up by Huai Shi next to him - he couldn't stand it anymore, the operation of one or two was simply not the level of eating, it was simply planting rice directly in his mouth......

He slapped himself on the forehead and couldn't stand it.

Rushed to death.

Ah Tao didn't speak, just looked at him silently and shook his head slightly.

Fukatsu's face turned pale a little.

"It doesn't matter if the child doesn't change his surname, really, I, I ......" he pleaded humbly, almost crying: "Don't you understand my sincerity?"

I couldn't hold back the tears and choking anymore.

"I just want to spend my life with Miss Tao!"

"I'm sorry, Fukatsu-kun, I can't promise you"

Ah Tao bent down and didn't have any euphemistic refusal: "But I'm already married, have a new family, and have a new family...... So, please don't come to me in the future. ”

As she spoke, she looked back at Takahashi, who was drinking behind her.

Takahashi was holding a wine glass in his hand, but before he could react, he looked at her blankly, not understanding what she meant.

In a short silence, Ah Tao's eyes gradually pleaded.

Huai Shi sighed and kicked the dog under the table, so that he finally got excited, suddenly realized, and glared at Fukatsu.

"Bastard, didn't you listen to her!"

Slapping the table on the table, Takahashi raised his voice: "Don't let me see you again here!"

In the dead silence, Fukatsu Qing's figure fell down little by little.

The sparkle and expectation in his eyes gradually faded.

The face is like ashes.

"Sorry, sorry, it's me, it's me who bothered ......"

He turned around in embarrassment, staggered away, and disappeared into the dark night without looking back.

Only the sound of mourning could be heard from afar.

Ah Tao stared quietly in the direction he left, didn't say anything, for a long time, for a long time, lowered his head and wiped the corners of his eyes, turned around, and reluctantly squeezed out a smile towards his guests.

"Sorry for making you laugh...... It also caused trouble for Mr. Takahashi. ”

"No, no, I don't have anything to do with it......!

Takahashi patted his chest, his eyes widened, his face flushed and he wanted to say something, and he was so anxious that even the dialect came out. But looking at her calm appearance, she couldn't speak.

Slowly lowered his head.

"Please bring me another beer. ”

Huai Shi sighed, handed over the beer glass in his hand, looked back at the direction outside the door, and said helplessly: "If you want me to say that guy should be a good person." ”

Tao shook her head and didn't speak.

Takahashi glared at him and motioned for him to say less, if it wasn't for Huai Shi reminding him just now, he might have to curse by now.

"It's not good to just drink, and there is a little octopus and tofu, so I should apologize for the trouble. ”

Behind the cooking table, the proprietress cooked neatly and quickly served two points of appetizers.

While she was busy, Huaishi looked up and looked at the photo next to the business license on the wall behind the cooking table - the silver prize of the Kyoto Middle School Drawing Competition, Rina Omi

The little girl in the photo is holding the trophy and smiling brightly.

But his face was slightly pale, and the sleeves that were deliberately pulled down still did not block the bruised color on the back of his hand, which was the trace left by too many hanging needles and swollen blood vessels.

"That kid, what's wrong?"

Huai Shi asked curiously, and then Gao Qiao next to him glared at him, signaling that this thing should not be opened and mentioned.

The proprietress paused, shook her head and sighed: "It's nothing, that kid, just like you, guest." ”

Huai Shi subconsciously touched the horn on his forehead, he forgot to cover it when he was drinking in the private room just now, and only now did he react.

"Actually, you don't have to worry about it, it's just a thing of the past. ”

The proprietress had calmed down, took out the cigarette case from her pocket and asked the two, and after seeing that the two did not object, she said a faux pas before tilting her head and lighting it.

"In the past, when I was under pressure, I got a bad habit, and when I got older, I wanted to change it, but I couldn't change it. She smiled helplessly, "It's all over anyway, isn't it?"

Huai Shi hesitated for a long time, and asked curiously: "Single mothers are not uncommon, isn't it good to start over?"

In the silence, he noticed that the two of them looked at him strangely, like looking at a child who didn't understand anything.

It's like asking - are you really from Yingzhou?

Huai Shi had nothing to say, raised his hand and slapped it on the door of his head.

Forgot the people of this hellish place......

It's not easy for a single mother to live anywhere, let alone with a mixed-race child.

Ms. Omi, or Ms. Momo, does not shy away from the past.

After the age of a little girl, she can already see everything.

In her words, it was nothing more than a stupid thing she did when she was young.

When he was young and ignorant, he was deceived by rhetoric, and after discovering that he was pregnant, the other party continued to disappear overnight with everything he had.

"When the hospital found out that the child was mixed, the father was very angry at the time, after all, it was insulting and ordered me to beat it off, but I was stupid, what is the child's crime?"

She smoked a cigarette and sighed softly: "Actually, everyone knows that Fukatsu-kun likes me, and he won't care." My father was his master, and as long as there was an order, he would not refuse, but that would be too unfair to Fukatsu-kun, right?

After cutting off contact with my mother's family, I worked everywhere by myself, and I was embarrassed, but Fukatsu-kun often came to help me, and I never disliked it...... It really makes me feel ashamed. ”

When she said this, after being silent for a long time, she shrugged her shoulders self-deprecatingly: "Some ages, some things, if you miss it, you miss it." He's already a three-way chef with a bright future, and people like me will only drag him down. ”

Fukatsu, who has already achieved fame, marrying a woman with mixed-race children will only become a laughing stock in the eyes of others.

Huai Shi shook his head and persuaded: "As long as you want, he won't care." ”

"I care. ”

Through the candlelight, her eyes were calm and silent, like stones.

The last vestiges of dignity whispered softly.

I care.

Then Huai Shi didn't say anything more, put away her self-righteous kindness, fulfilled her duty as a guest, and turned to go upstairs after drinking.

Takahashi was already drunk, crying and shouting, talking nonsense, staggering away alone, and when Huaishi and them came down again, there was no one in sight.

Only the calm proprietress politely sent the group out of the door.

After walking a long way, Huai Shi turned around and saw the proprietress standing behind the door, picked up the bamboo pole, took off the lantern at the door, lowered her head and blew it out, turned around and returned to the store, and closed the door.

The lights inside gradually went out.

It's closed.