Yoshida-Ina is a small rural town with no high-speed trains or subways, and it takes an hour by bus to get to Tokyo.

The town is full of pick-up trucks with elderly driving signs, rice paddies swaying in the wind, and low-family houses that are old in the old days.

Half of the shopping street has roller shutters, and half of it is full of grocery stores and old stores, and the most popular ones are probably the only one in town, the 711 convenience store and the Don Quixote supermarket chain.

Most of the young people in this down-and-out town go to Tokyo or other secondary cities to develop, and even the cashier at the 711 convenience store is an old man with a rickety back, and his hands are shaking when he counts the change.

"This town will soon be left with only old people, and then all of them will die, and finally become a ghost town~"

Coming out of the convenience store, Liang Gong Chu raised his head and took a sip of mineral water, and sighed helplessly: "Obviously it was quite energetic more than ten years ago." ”

Yoshida Rice is the hometown of Suzumiya Tsubaki. Back then, she couldn't stand her parents and ran away to Tokyo, but when she came back after many years, she suddenly had a feeling that things were wrong.

Makoto Kyushu was holding a steaming roast beef bento, and Yujin was holding a tuna sandwich, and the two walked out of the convenience store one after another.

After signing the entrustment contract yesterday, Xishen Key made a set of plans:

The first is to go to Suzumiya Tsubaki's hometown and take her mother to Tokyo for refuge. Although she only has a small rented apartment in Tokyo, it is better than being harassed here.

This was followed by the gathering of evidence and the search for a lawyer, suing the underground bank and taking them to court. If they're lucky, the one million yen they paid them before will be returned.

The last step is for the mother and daughter to be in charge of 24-hour security work to prevent the people from the underground bank from coming to retaliate against them.

Sunset rented a pickup van and took her client to the country town this morning to pick up her mother.

Considering that they might face up to the debt collectors of the underground bank, Xishen had planned to hire a few more retired underworld to come with them - of course, it must have been another price.

Hearing this, Kyushu Cheng simply asked for a day off from the school and accompanied Liang Gongchun over, which was considered to have saved her a bodyguard fee.

The three of them soon came to a remote house in the town.

The white-painted house looks old, and the sign at the entrance reads "Hoshino House".

"Is that the address?" The god of the night key is repeatedly confirmed.

"Yes, this is it." Liang Gong Chu nodded, and showed a look of emotion again.

Yesterday she wrote her real name when she signed the commission contract, and it was also the first time that Makoto Kyushu knew her name: Hoshino Tsubaki.

In exchange between friends, Makoto Kyushu also reported her real name. However, she still wanted to be called "Xiao Chunchuan", and asked Kyushu Cheng to continue to call her "Sister Hazuko".

Makoto Kyushu finished eating the roast beef bento, threw the lunch box into the car trash can, opened the door and jumped out of the car.

"Is your mother in there?" Makoto Kyushu asked.

"I called her this morning and said I wanted to go home." Lianggong also stepped out of the car:

"She said she would wait for me at home, but I didn't tell her about the move."

"What if she doesn't agree?" Xishen Jian asked uneasily:

"I've heard that some elderly people are very stubborn and don't want to leave their homes even if there is a natural disaster."

"I'll ask her for good." Suzumiya Chu also seemed worried: "If she still doesn't want to, I'll have to forcibly take her into the car." ”

"Yes, life is the most important thing." Makoto Kyushu reached out and pressed the doorbell.

"Ding-dong-ding-"

A bell rang from inside the closed wooden door, followed by a series of faint footsteps on the floor, far and near.

A moment later, the door opened, and an old woman stepped out against the wall.

The old woman was gray-haired, her thin face was full of wrinkles, and she was dressed in clothes that had been washed to white but were neat, and her mental state was obviously not very good.

"Tsubaki, you're back." Seeming to be tired, the old woman's eyes were glazed, and she only greeted in a slightly trembling voice:

"Are the two next to you your friends?"

"Hello Ms. Hoshino, I'm a friend of Hazuko-san." Makoto Kyushu nodded lightly and greeted politely.

"My name is Yujin Key, and I'm a detective hired by Miss Hoshino, so please take care of me." Xishen subconsciously took out his business card and handed it to the old woman.

"Mom, what's going on lately?" Liang Gong Zhen's face was angry, and he couldn't wait to ask:

"Is that dead ghost daddy still gambling? Did he fight again?! ”

"Hmm." Hoshino's mother was silent for a moment, then nodded and admitted, "After you left, he was still the same. Drinking and beating people every day, taking money to bet on horses. ”

"Then Mom didn't think about divorcing him?" Liang Gong Chu eagerly grabbed her mother's arm and rolled up her sleeves, and sure enough, she saw many scars that could not be healed:

"That bastard who kills a thousand knives. Even if you can't get married, you have to find a way to escape, right? ”

"I," her mother just shook her head and said softly:

"He's not that bad. It's okay to live like this."

After hearing this, Xishen Jian and Kyushu Makoto on the side invariably shrugged their shoulders and regretted.

Lianggong's mother is obviously a typical country woman - conservative, cowardly and fearful, but also stubborn, no matter how much she persuades her, she refuses to let go of her stereotypes.

"So Mom, you're a coward!" Liang Gong couldn't listen to it anymore, and hurriedly shook his mother's arm:

"Listen to me, those people from the underground bank have borrowed money from bastard dad again, they must be sure to take you as a hostage!"

"Eh, is that so?" Hoshino's mother's reaction was more flat, more like she was numb: "He's in trouble again."

"Stop talking to that bastard daddy!" Liang Gong grabbed his mother's arm angrily and said:

"Hurry up and pack your belongings and go to Tokyo with us!"

"Why did you leave?" Hoshino's mother didn't understand the situation a little, and she froze in place and refused to move.

"Because those people from the underground bank are threatening you!" Liang Gong Chu was so anxious that he stomped his feet:

"I've said that I'm going to harvest your organs, why don't you run? Do you want to stay here and wait to be killed by them?! ”

"But. . . I don't want to leave" Hoshino's mother shook her head a little stubbornly: "I'm used to living. ”

"Oops! I'm thinking about my mother's safety! Liang Gong grabbed his mother's arm tightly, dragged her aside, and waved his arm sharply.

Afterwards, Liang Gong said to the two:

"Please go and move your things first, and I'll persuade her!"

Xishen Jian and Kyushu Makoto didn't talk much nonsense, and walked in directly with a large cardboard box.

A hint of surprise flashed in Hoshino's mother's eyes, and she obviously wanted to reach out to stop it. But her perennial submissive personality made her unable to say a word, and just watched them walk through the door in a daze.

"This family is really poor." This was the first sentence of Makoto Kyushu after entering the door.

The interior of the house can only be described as "four walls", except for some necessary furniture - even the furniture is quite worn and damaged.

However, Hoshino's mother is quite hygienic, and she usually cleans very carefully, and the floor is almost spotless.

Makoto Kyushu first went to the kitchen to move some pots and pans, while Yujin Jian removed all the small potted plants on the windowsill that were not yet dead.

Liang Gong Zhen was still trying to persuade his mother, and the two of them never stopped moving things.

Anyway, I'm here today, and this family has to move if I don't want to.

About an hour later, the two had emptied the house quite a bit. Together, they lifted a table of better quality and prepared to move it to the pick-up truck.

At this moment, there was an exclamation from Liang Gong Zhen outside the door:

"Yikes! Who are you? Why barge in without permission! ”

(End of chapter)