The beautiful ginkgo tree spreads its leaves on the ground, and the smell of ginkgo wafts in the air, which can be smelled with a slight inhalation.

The black shade of the trees swayed slowly in the wind, and Jiang Yuan carefully followed the punctuation points on the navigation to find a row of longhouse-style buildings with low eaves located next to the community center of the Zhiniao Public Hall.

In front of me is a closed brick building, and the fence in front of the door is tied with a rusty sign that reads "Nakano Second-hand Electrical Appliances".

Next to the name, there is an arrow that says "→".

"Yes, right?" Jiang Yuanshen muttered in a low voice.

It looks suspicious, not at all like a shop.

In the setting sun, a thin, poorly colored kitten lay on the iron mailbox at the door, sleeping soundly in the sweet wind.

There is silence everywhere, and just standing here makes me feel like I'm going to fall asleep.

Seeing that it was so thin and couldn't help but feel distressed, Jiang Yuanshen opened the zipper of the bag, looking for nothing to give it to eat.

"I'll bring it next time."

He whispered an apology and walked to the door, trying to find the doorbell, only to find that there was no button at all.

Knocked on the door, no response, tried to turn the doorknob, locked it.

"Excuse me, what's the matter with you standing here?"

A thick voice came from behind him, Jiang Yuanshen came back to his senses, and the kitten was also awakened.

A familiar face was staring at him, a man carrying a shopping bag.

He looked to be in his forties, and he seemed to have seen him somewhere.

On the street, a small car was parked, and the body of the car was spray-painted with the words "Zhiniao TAXI".

"Well, is this a place that sells second-hand electrical appliances?" Jiang Yuan pointed to the house cautiously.

The man's head leaned forward slightly, and his eyes suddenly widened and said, "Huh? Aren't you the guest I pulled before? ”

"Guests? You're talking about Azusa, right? I've never been a "guest". ”

"No, when you came to the island with a man, I drove you."

Jiang Yuanshen picked him up from his memory, and he was the driver when he came back that day.

"Oh, hello uncle, I want to ask if there are second-hand electrical appliances sold here?"

"Well, but it can't be said to be for sale." His chest rose and fell with his breathing, and he didn't seem very happy, "If you really want to sell, you can't open a shop here." ”

Jiang Yuanshen nodded, and his eyes were aimed at the shopping bags he was carrying, which seemed to be the most basic daily necessities.

"I'm looking for a machine that can read tapes and audio tapes, is there any room here?"

"Yes, but I don't think I can buy it, so I can lend it to you."

The man walked to the door and pulled out the brass key to open the door.

When the door opened, you were greeted by a wooden counter surrounded by books, newspapers, documents, cardboard boxes, refrigerators, and small items. Although there are many varieties, they are all neatly arranged.

The air was filled with the smell of "old things", Jiang Yuanshen couldn't help but shrug his nose, and casually picked up the old newspaper on a large cardboard box.

When I was surprised that my thumb was not even stained with dust, I looked at the time in the newspaper and it was August 2005.

It has an extremely eye-catching title on it -

"Crisis! The 7.2 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale caused the Fukushima nuclear power plant to spill nuclear waste!"

It is news about the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

At the time of the publication of this article, rumors were rife that any product labeled "Fukushima" would be unsalable, and every day you could see negative news when you opened your eyes.

However, when I look at it now and eat Fukushima's products, I don't have many mood swings, and I think that's it.

This thing is like a cigarette butt blown by the wind to a street canal, and soon it will only hide in a dirty corner that no one can see.

At the bottom of the newspaper are the 2008 Fukushima cooling water leak, the 2011 earthquake that caused the reactor failure of the nuclear power plant, and the 2013 Fukushima nuclear power plant that began discharging sewage into the ocean

To this day, old newspapers here have been carrying information about the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Jiang Yuanshen kept rummaging in the large cardboard box and found that the newspapers were all placed in an orderly manner according to the period.

Some of the newspapers were stained with yellow stains that could not be erased, and although they were dirty, they realized how small their age was.

"It's better not to mess up, or I'll be scolded by my father, who doesn't have a good temper."

The driver's uncle put the shopping bag on the old sofa next to him, and began to bury his head in looking for it.

"Radio Radio."

Jiang Yuanshen nodded, there are several large boxes of newspapers here, at first they were the newspapers of Zhiniao Newspaper, but after 2008, most of the newspapers were published by Tianyuanshe.

It was Kurosawa's beloved father's newspaper, one of the best newspapers in the whole of Toying.

"Hey! Silver, what are you messing around, you kid! A scolding sound of wind blowing wood rot came.

Jiang Yuanshen thought he was scolding himself, so he immediately put down the newspaper and stood obediently in place like a child.

It turned out that out of nowhere, an old man wearing a thin lining appeared at some point, and he was scolding the driver's uncle at this time.

"You're just trying to mess up all this stuff of mine, aren't you? What a birth of your son for nothing! Restless and kind all day long! ”

The thin fingers pointing at Nakano Baiyin, and the two slightly open purple lips, were still trembling slightly.

"That. That's not true. I'm here to buy something, and he's looking for it for me. ”

Jiang Yuan was cautious, he was as thin as a shrimp about to be put in the pot, and he felt that something would happen when he spoke so loudly.

Nakano Baiyin's face turned red suddenly, and he pulled out of a pile of electrical appliances like a sulk, and said angrily:

"Am I messing with all this of yours? Are you kidding! You don't want to sell these things for scrap! ”

"What do you say?! You boy! ”

The old man was said to be gasping for breath, he looked left and right, picked up a feather duster and was about to pull it over.

But when he swung it into the air, the slender pale arm stopped again.

"What are you doing here?"

"I shouldn't have come here!"

Nakano Baiyin snorted in disgust, but like a child who has not been praised for his good deeds, he pursed his lips aggrievedly, and shook the door and left with a breath of breath.

"A lot of people can't analyze problems calmly when they're old! You're going to die here alone! ”

Looking at the back of him leaving, Jiang Yuanshen felt that his breathing had stopped, and he felt restless in the tight space.

"Hey, what do you want to buy? If it's something I like, I won't sell it to you. ”

The voices of the elderly were noticeably softened, but there was still a heavy atmosphere in the space.

"Do you have a radio that can be on tape?" Jiang Yuan said cautiously.

"Yes."

He whispered, turned to the counter, crouched down, and took out a box, still the box of the original tape recorder.

"Do you want to buy or borrow this?"

"Can I buy it?"

"I can't."

"Then I'd like to borrow it for a day or two."

"Knowing the Bird Island?"

"Hmm."

"I'll lend it to you for free."

Jiang Yuanshen was a little surprised, he thought that the other party would open his mouth, but he didn't expect to lend it to him directly.

"Aren't you afraid that I won't pay it back?"

The old man's eyes suddenly narrowed, and his eyelashes formed a shadow under the collapsed eyes:

"The old man thinks that the people of Zhitori Island are not bad, even if he really doesn't pay it back, it is my poor vision."

Jiang Yuanshen wrapped his hands around the box of the radio, and it was probably the first time in his life that he had heard the comment that "no one on Zhitori Island is bad".

It's inexplicable.

"I would venture to ask, can this machine really work?"

"I take care of them more than I take care of my son, so I can rest assured." The old man walked to the sofa and fiddled with the shopping bag with his fingers, "This kid buys expensive again"

The atmosphere emanating from the old man's body was too viscous, and Jiang Yuanshen bowed slightly to him and immediately turned to leave.

As soon as I walked out of the house and onto the street, I found Nakano Shiyin squatting beside me.

His hands covered his face and he kept taking deep breaths, his jaw trembling slightly.

"Are you alright?" Jiang Yuanshen asked in a low voice.

"Whew-"

Nakano Baiyin's tone was very uneasy, and his fingers kept pressing the corners of his eyes,

"Do I want to stay on Chitori Island any longer? I wanted to leave after the earthquake, but I couldn't worry about him alone, but staying here couldn't fill his stomach and give him a better life, I was really useless."

A suffocating silence descended suddenly, and the sound of the wind blowing through the ginkgo trees seemed extremely lonely.

There are so many things in the world that don't go as planned.

When I looked at the minicab parked on the side of the street, the only thing that said "500 yen for 2 kilometers" on the window was very eye-catching.

The sunset was as red as blood, like the flush on the face of a delicate girl, and the first star lit up in the sky.

"Just because of their mother, they died in the ruins. He kept the place and refused to move."

It was as if a thunderbolt fell on Jiang Yuanshen's head and flowed through his body along his nerves, and at the same time, he grasped the source of the sense of disobedience.

"He is the garbage father, just guarding those old things without thinking about the present, the mayor promised us that after we developed the ruins, he would give us compensation first, and then give us a good stall after the square was built, and he didn't even charge rent in the first year, so that life can be better."

“.”

"It's obviously not easy, but as the former mayor, does he want to make it more difficult for everyone to live with his own will? Why don't you even have the slightest bit of rationality?"

Jiang Yuanshen's breathing slowed down by half a beat, and he said, "So you keep arguing?" ”

"Hmm."

Nakano Silver nodded, and stood up with his hands on his knees,

"I'm sorry, I just wanted to find someone to complain, obviously an adult, but I said these frustrating things to you as a minor."

"No, it's fine."

"I'll send you back." He staggered to the taxi, his voice bitter.

Jiang Yuanshen shook his head and said, "Thank you, I'm very close, just walk back." ”

In fact, there are still a few bus stops to go back, but Jiang Yuanshen doesn't want to bear that weird atmosphere anymore, and he doesn't want to do it for a second.

"In that case, I'll see you next time." His lips closed one by one, and he smiled bitterly at Jiang Yuanshen.

"Okay."

He got into the car, and Jiang Yuanshen turned around and walked towards the bus stop.

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When he got home, as if nothing had happened, Jiang Yuanshen carefully took the radio out of the box.

The length of the radio was square, and the font inlaid on the plastic case was no longer legible.

The thought of being able to hear the contents of the tape made Jiang Yuanshen feel like a thorn in his back.

Since there was no prompt, he put the cassette tape he had brought from the abandoned iron works, and he pondered which button corresponded to what.

Zizizi——

There was a sound on the radio.

She jumped into Lake Kamo, and the sudden earthquake killed many people. If only I had stopped her, I. Woo woo."

It was just one sentence, and all that was left was crying, which lasted for more than thirty seconds, and the content of the tape came to an abrupt end.

Click-

As if accompanied by a crisp sound, a piece of glass in my heart unexpectedly shattered from the corner, turning into dazzling fragments in an instant.

This sad voice is really very similar to the current Asakura Masamune, because I have heard it.

Jiang Yuanshen suddenly came back to his senses, and he panicked and replayed this sentence.

"Seeker, she jumped into Lake Kamo—"

With just one sentence, Jiang Yuanshen could feel his heart beating wildly, and there was a colony of ants crawling in the cerebral cortex.

So far, he has never known how the queen of Chitori Island died, not even the cemetery where she is located, and there is no news on the island about how she died.

Does Jinghai Shenyue know about this?

As soon as he thought of this, Jiang Yuanshen couldn't wait to take out his mobile phone and wanted to send a message to Jinghai Shenyue.

As a result, I looked through it and found that there was no contact information for her on the phone and LINE.

He turned on the recording on his phone, recorded the contents of the radio, and immediately went out and rode the bicycle that had once lived and died.

The fields were shrouded in a hazy pale cyan, and the reeds swaying in the wind were like clouds planted in the sky.

In the distance, the sea was a little bright and moving, and when I looked closely, it was a departing passenger ship.

Jiang Yuanshen rode through the streets, the quiet twilight constantly coming in all directions, the crows replacing the noisy cuckoos, and the disturbing mania passed through the twilight and kept coming to the ears.

The siren sounded at the level crossing, and flashes of red light illuminated Jiang Yuanshen's cheeks.

The wind pressure of the tram whistling through him blew his bangs, and when the fence was raised, he pedaled again, leaving pedestrians behind.

When I came to Jinghai Shenyue's house, it was still a magnificent and elegant door, as well as a very delicate courtyard.

It was here that Shizumi Fukatsuki said to herself for the first time, "Let's go out of the island".

When the bicycle was parked at the door, Jiang Yuan was thinking carefully about how to avoid Jinghai Yaren, and on the balcony on the second floor, there was a sudden sound of Jinghai Yaren scolding.

The double doors of the balcony were open, and a man seemed to be out of breath, holding his head in his hands and coming to the balcony, breathing heavily.

"Am I not good enough for you!"

Jiang Yuanshen suddenly shrunk his body against the wall and leaned out to look.

Masato Shizumi was still wearing a high-sounding suit, but the expression on his face was extremely angry, and he kept walking back and forth on the balcony.

"I could have not been mayor on this island! Why do you think I'm coming back! Just because you're Xun's daughter! ”

"I take care of you more than anyone else! I don't care how many people died in the earthquake at all! Who do you think I'm fawning in front of those presidents! Could it be those stupid islanders! No! I'm here for you! ”

Jing Hai Yaren's hand kept groping for his hair, and from time to time he said to the people in the room with excitement,

"As long as the ruins are developed and the economy is on a higher level, the island will become richer! I want to build not only a plaza, but also a university in the future! As long as you want, I can give you anything, even if you kneel down to those presidents! ”

Jinghai Masato took a deep breath and spread out his hands, his tone suddenly becoming gentle.

"Deep Moon, what else do you want to leave? Leave it to me, and I'll make you live better on this island than anyone else. ”

"The only one who cares about you is Yaren and me."

After thinking about it, thank you all tomorrow.

(End of chapter)