The wedding ceremony ended successfully.
Well done! I really want to treat myself. However, the bride is not Peach, but Peach's colleague Li Hui. She was a year younger than Peach and a twenty-nine-year-old bride. Peach plays the role of the bride's best friend. Because I have acted many times, for this role, Peach was familiar with it, but today it is a little wrong. Because, sitting on the bridal table, it could have been a peach.
"Groom Sekiguchi has always been the second in command in our editorial department, but is the most popular among girls. Graduated from a second-rate university, he is the second son in the family, and he is low-key and humble, which is just right. Not a beautiful man, which also makes women full of confidence. The female colleagues of the new society are young, the girls whose parents are close, and the family has land and housing have fixed assets, and I am really sad that what I have left is really uncomfortable.
It's not shameful to say, I was very hopeful before. That's right, on the way home from overtime that night, the drunken pass held my hand tightly at the door of the Lover's Hotel. But I cried out, 'Wow, that's a lot of strength!' 'Fool past. Otherwise, sitting on the bridal table in a white veil today, it may be me..."
If Peaches gave such a speech at this moment, what would happen to the wedding ceremony? As soon as she thought about it, Peach's body "roared" and the temperature rose, of course, she only rehearsed this speech in her own mind before preparing the congratulatory speech last night.
In fact, Peaches practiced with the three-minute hourglass they won at the supermarket lottery at the end of last year. She carefully prepared the speech, pretended to be a loyal supporter of the bride and groom, and gleefully tongued the lotus in front of everyone, winning a lot of applause. The happy emotions of the speech infected herself, and she really became happy, and her words trembled at the end. At this point, Peaches herself felt strange.
The bride's eyes were red, as if she had cried. Seeing that he was about to reach the age of thirty, he finally crossed to the other shore, and when he drank a glass of wine, he was already in tears. There are not a few guests who think this way, but it is their own sentimentality. In fact, there was just a commotion in the dressing room.
After the ceremony, I took off the white dress to change into a kimono, although it was also a rented kimono, and the long blouse could not be less. Wig sets and buns were given to the hotel's powder room, and they no longer asked for makeup. This is Peach's suggestion, and the bride Li Hui is actually a little unhappy.
"The cost of makeup is not more than a thousand yuan, once in a lifetime, people want to hire a professional makeup artist."
"It's because once in a lifetime that you should come by yourself." Let others come, it is not your own face. "How it should be, is Peach's mantra.
"Is it?"
"Your face is the most familiar to you." It is not okay to accompany your own face for thirty years and give it to someone else on this most important day. ”
"Twenty-nine years, people know it is."
"You can become a bride with a thousand faces in the wedding advertisement, and I will never do it."
When worrying about others, Peach often regards herself as a person in charge, which is particularly strong. Li Hui has no female relatives, and for her sake, Peach goes to accompany and take care of her early that morning. In the makeup room, with a white cloth wrapped around her neck, Li Hui, whose hands and feet could not stop, shouted "Ah", and one hand swung like an Apo dance.
"Oops, forgot!" She forgot to bring her eyelash curler. Peaches grinned and took the curler from her bag and placed it in front of the mirror table. "I thought you might forget, but I'm good to be able to help." Li Hui, whose face was painted like a white lamb, looked at the peach: "It really depends on you from head to toe!" ”
"Okay, hurry up." Half-opening his mouth, his face was about to stick to the mirror and curled his eyelashes, Li Hui shouted "Ah" again, this time even more tragic than before.
Li Hui's eyelashes, one eye had become bare. The eyelashes were completely glued to the curler that Peach had lent her. The rubber pad of the curler is not known whether it is aged or oxidized, and it is sticky. Li Hui rolled her eyelashes vigorously, and the eyelashes stuck directly to them.
"What to do, how do you go out and meet people like this?"
Li Hui was crying on the mirror table, and Peach "snapped" and patted Li Hui's back. "I don't apologize, I have to apologize, it's better to go to the underground shopping street and buy fake eyelashes." She ran out of the makeup room, when the man should scold "deserve it". It seems that God still exists, and if the knife snatches the beloved, God will punish her.
This thought only flashed in her mind for a moment, and then she ran with all her strength. Peaches learned for the first time that false eyelashes are divided into left and right. Peach and Li Hui usually only wear light makeup, and do not know how to put fake eyelashes. In the end, it was the makeup artist in the makeup room who helped them.
"You said earlier, false eyelashes, we have them here too." The makeup artist said. In the end, Peach had to stuff a thousand yuan red envelope to the makeup artist. Peaches are always like this. She always did someone else a favor. Originally, it was desperately for the good of others, but in the end it often backfired. The more this happens, the more she wants to make up for it, and in the end she always suffers losses. Take this back and say that the eighteen hundred yuan for buying false eyelashes is the peach.
"At night, no problem, right?"
"What?"
"False eyelashes, won't you be unable to take them off?"
"It's a special glue sticking on, no problem." Moreover, they are already husband and wife, and frankly tell him, isn't it better? She could have told Li Hui to let her decide for herself, and the couple closed the door at night, but she came to herself in a serious way to ask for advice.
It's a silly thing to say. Fortunately, in short, Peach did not leak out her innermost emotions. At Tokyo Station, the bride and groom were sent off for the bridal trip without incident.
Colleagues in the editorial department, get ready to go to karaoke next.
"I'm going to quit and go somewhere else." Deliberately lowering the voice and pretending to announce it in a casual manner works best.
"It's Warblers valley again."
"After attending the wedding ceremony, I went to my boyfriend's house on the back foot."
Peach did not say no, seemed to squint his eyes deeply, and broke up with everyone, which was also recently learned. Now, Peach is sitting on the platform of Uguisudani Station. When she can't think of it, or when she feels that the tight string is about to break, Peaches will come to sit on the bench at Uguisudani Station.
She certainly doesn't have a boyfriend. Here, a ten-minute walk away, was the father who lived with the young woman.
Three years ago, Peach's father ran away from home. My father worked diligently for decades at a medium-sized pharmaceutical company. There is also a mother, Peaches, a brother and a sister. A family of five, never tasted luxury, but life is not stretched.
One day, however, my father went out to work as usual and never returned. He's not the kind of guy who plays mahjong all night or doesn't come back all night. Worried that something had happened to her father, my mother called the company the next day and found that the company where my father had worked a month ago had closed down.
Dad never showed a weak side, and even if he had a hangover, he would cover his mouth and go to work the next morning. The company has gone out of business, and it is difficult to say it. ”
"It's all mommy bad, just say look at your dad at every turn, so that dad has no way to retreat."
The mother and daughter are now arguing, and to no avail.
My father had not heard from him for three months. Seeing that her mother is getting thinner and thinner, the desperate Peaches goes to visit her father's former subordinate Duzhu. "There is also a possibility of suicide, should we apply for a missing search?"
It's a deserted coffee shop. A film is formed on the cold coffee. DuZhu was a round younger than his father, and he was about to turn forty years old, and he kept smoking a cigarette.
"Minister Mitamura is still alive." Finally, he seemed to have something indescribable, and a sentence was squeezed out between his teeth. He said his father lived in a tattered apartment in Warble Valley. How could they get there—like they were trying to block the mouth of a peach who cried out, they all spat out a string of smoke rings and whispered, "Not alone." ”
Behind Duzhu hangs a painting of Rayano. It's a cheap replica. The young woman with her bare breasts looked at this side with a dull face. The picture frame is a bit crooked.
"Thirty-five or six years old. Saying that it is a tenant shop, it is actually a little better than the open-air stall, the hostess there. ”
It was as if Rayano had married a maid as a wife. Is it the maid in the painting? The painter with the bald head and the old world sneaks into the maid's room late at night, and the picture seems to be vividly remembered. The old painter's face was unconsciously exactly the same as his father's.
Momoko asks Toku to take her to her father's apartment.
"I see or not as well. Men want face, and Minister Mitamura cares more about face than others. Wouldn't it be smarter not to tear your face and wait for a good time? ”
Peaches clung to it, repeatedly promising that she just wanted to know the address of the apartment and would never break in. "Dad has high blood pressure, one of the thousands, and when he is dying, he still wants to send it." Du Zhu showed a helpless expression and wrote the address on the bill.
This wooden mortar apartment is old, and Peach is standing in front of the apartment, it is already dusk. At the gate were the large shoe boxes of the elementary school, and the land was littered with children's sneakers and sandals.
Okay, let's go, all pat Peach on the shoulder. Peaches threw off Duzhu's hand and walked to the clearing in front of the building where only one person could pass. The glass window of the first room opened. A man's wrist reached out and removed the woman's bra and panties hanging from the window.
"Dad—" The wall covered his face, unable to see, and Peach didn't know why he still called out. The hand pulled down the panties, and the glass window closed loudly. "Excuse me, please—" Peach cried out, tapping the wall. Tokuichi grabbed her and said, "Go back today." ”
Peach threw herself into Tokuzuki's arms and pressed against the door of her head to calm herself down. When I went back, I looked back and saw that the faded curtains inside the glass window were closed. Once something happens, Peach is always on the verge of a great enemy and nervous. This was even more so that night, when she was "in a state of war."
After getting off the bus at Meguro Station, Momoko hung up on her home on the public phone. The call was answered by her sister Yoko, a third grade in junior high school.
"Did you eat dinner?"
"Wait for my sister." I was hungry and was getting ready to eat. ”
"Exactly. One happy thing, my sister asked you to eat eels, waiting for me. "What's the pleasure?" "Talk while eating."
Since my father stopped sitting at the table, the dishes on the table have become easier and simpler, and even the eels are rarely eaten. "Have wages gone up?" The mother muttered, "Mom don't want it, it's a waste." While slowly chewing the dish.
Kentaro, the younger brother who failed the list twice in a row, wolfed down the rice into his mouth and burped on his stomach. My sister joked, "It gives me goosebumps." The suicide of a family in the middle of the night is really sensational. Peach pretended to be cheerful and said loudly, "Daddy, I'm very energetic." ”
Everyone stopped chopsticks.
"I should be ready to come back when I find a job."
The mother put down the eel box lunch. "Where is he?"
"In the shantytown."
"Shantytown?"
"Dad, not alone." Peach chewed on the dish and laughed. "With a woman. Dad has always been squinting and following the rules. The company went out of business, couldn't stand the blow all of a sudden, and went astray. After setbacks, cheating, people have resistance, our dad, but there is no immunity. ”
Peach couldn't go on, and in this silence, she was most worried that her mother was diligent and earnest, had no hobbies of her own, and dedicated everything to the housework, her husband and children, and was about to usher in menopause. Even if it is not menopause, when encountering this kind of thing, everyone will be full of complaints and emotional instability.
Eels are a mother's favorite. As long as she can eat a mouthful, then don't worry. She always got out. "Mom should be very angry." However, it should be a holiday for Dad. If you can't hold your breath, you lose. Let's get up and wait for Dad to come back. Later, I thought that this was just self-deception, but at that time Peach really thought so.
"Let's have some tea?" Suddenly, the mother said that her voice could not hear any fluctuations. The eels have been eaten.
"Huh? After eating eels, you can't drink tea. ”
"Stupid, eels can't be served with dried plums." The mother smiled, suddenly got up and walked quickly to the kitchen. There was a sound of vomiting, the sound of peaches rushing away, and the mother grabbed the sink and was panting heavily, and everything she had just eaten had already spit out.
"Is it necessary to say this kind of thing in front of Kentaro and Yoko?" The corners of her mother's mouth drooped and stared at the peach. Peaches noticed for the first time that her mother was on three white eyes.
"I'm sorry, I thought they'd know one day." Peaches knew she should tell her mother first, but in that case, the atmosphere would surely become miserable. Maybe my mother would be stimulated and say, you know where he is, take me, and the result will be worse.
From now on, sad things must be said out loud and happy, otherwise they will not last--Peach thought so, stroking her mother's back to comfort her. As if to avoid Peach's hand, the mother whispered, "Your mother and I have given everything, is there anything your father is dissatisfied with?" ”
Peaches would like to say that maybe she shouldn't give everything without reservation.
"In this family, some people don't understand humor at all."
I forget when, at dinner, my father had said this. Father himself, is a person who has nothing to do with humor, has neither interest nor can let go, Peaches felt strange at the time. The mother who took the soy sauce bottle from the kitchen listened, couldn't hold back, and got angry.
"Are you talking about me?"
"Didn't say you."
"Who is that talking about?"
"Don't say anything, right?"
"No, let's be clear."
"It's annoying, it's just that I don't understand humor."
Peach looked at it coldly, which is also a kind of irony, the frustrated father began to escape home, perhaps because of these bits and pieces.
Mother is a woman who has to worry about everything. I like to clean up my home the most, and I remind everyone every day that who pulled the fight and didn't close it, is it not ashamed? The ledger at home is also clearly remembered, and it is not bad at all. Daily chores should be divided into black and white curves, and the most annoying words should not be made clear. Even when wearing a kimono, the neckline is always tight and never loose.
The lady who lived with her father in the coffer house would not show her breasts like the woman in the painting of Reno in the coffee shop, but the neckline would certainly not be neat, and it would not look serious.
In the living room, my brother and sister were uneasy.
The mother vomited again with a broken voice. Peach rubbed her skeleton's protruding back while drawing a stop in her mind. One more breath can see the fruit of the love, delicate and fragile woman. Like the book of accounts at the time of settlement, on this day, she drew a red line.
My brother had to be sent to college. His father only had a night school education, and he suffered a lot, even if he was a stone, he had to let Kentaro enter a serious university. Yoko, who is in high school, can't let her worry about money.
It's okay, there's a sister here. Peaches imitated the antics of the orangutan leader and pounded his chest.
Happiness doesn't come on its own
Then I'll walk over on my own
Momoko had never heard a song from Kiyoko Mizumaeji before. She had always felt that the singer was dressed outdated and singing rustically. However, they must move out of the company dormitory immediately. I applied for a public house, but I couldn't get the turn, so I had to find a cheap house and open a seal to prove it, and at this time, debussy or inoue Yangshui's music seemed weak.
Change into flat shoes, stand up your chest and walk bravely, at this time you will know the benefits of Kiyoko Mizumaeji.
Three steps a day, three days
Take three steps, take two steps back...
It went on for three years. There is a way for lions to forge ahead (to go forward) and pigs to forge ahead (to bury their heads and work hard). Peaches are lions one day and wild boars one day.
She didn't tell anyone in the company about her father's run away from home.
She smiled happier than before. Smiling and acting neatly, the colleagues in the editorial department are discussing behind their backs: "What good thing has happened?" "When you go skiing or the beach, when you want to stay outside, only Peach always doesn't go." I'm a little..." She smiled meaningfully and stuffed everyone with chocolates, but she didn't go herself.
So there is also a rumor: "Miss Mitamura seems to have an object." "A girl with a lover pretends to be on a company trip to her parents, but secretly goes skiing with her lover or goes to the beach to bask in the sun. However, this is only Peach's little vanity and weak self-esteem.
When wearing an old sweater with a hairball, you must show a happy smile so that you don't look so miserable. Even if it's not funny, she has to laugh out loud when she can, and she has to laugh and encourage herself. She can't travel with a fake smile, it's a pain in the cost. If you have to play, it is better to build a handle for your mother, help her do odd jobs, and sew the skirt.
It's really hard to walk, and it hits walls everywhere.
After waiting and waiting, my father still did not come home. Peaches comes home every day, sees the window of her apartment in the distance, and always feels that the light in her home is the darkest. She took a deep breath in front of the door and made a mental cry of "I'm back" before walking in the door.
Sometimes, she would come home with a cheap cake or a bag of sugar-fried chestnuts, and her mother liked to eat sweets. If you can't bring back good news, go home with something warm and sweet. Only when it was time to eat would the mother stop complaining. Eating could not shut her mouth, but her mother was still becoming more and more greedy.
My mother actually didn't have much of an appetite, but she always muttered, "I really can't swallow this breath," while turning on the refrigerator, "Your father won't come back and pull it down." ”
At night, she would also open a small bottle of beer. A year later, my mother began to mutter, "The belt seems to be getting shorter." "It's not that the belt is getting shorter, it's that the mother is fat."
His younger brother Kentaro put earplugs into his mother's sewing machine and concentrated on the exams, and he was admitted to the engineering faculty of a university, although it was only a second-rate university. In addition to physics and chemistry, Kentaro knows nothing. When eating grilled Xitaigong fish, it will be fussed and said:
"Is this the West Taigong fish?" I thought it was a little heron. (1)”
(1) "Nishitaigong fish" is pronounced the same as "little heron" in Japanese.
"It's not the first time I've eaten it."
"I thought it was a little sardine growing up."
If there is anything to talk to him about, it is like playing the piano to the cow.
Outside of class, he squeezed out time to work part-time. There is no cleverness to help her sister, but it is also not related to student sports, wind and snow, which saves Peach a lot of trouble. Sister Yoko can't count on either. She was still a high school student, and Peaches had no hope, but this sister could not take it lightly for a moment.
It would be too much to say that it was incurable, but this child is really not a system. If you want something, you can't control yourself. When I was a child, I used to steal two or three from the ice cream box in the snack shop and take them home. Mothers always have to take money to apologize. She also lost her head after the ass of a goldfish seller, had to tire the police to get it back, and her grades in school were even more messy.
"If anyone is willing to marry her, it is a blessing." Before any catastrophe could be caused, marry her off as soon as possible. ”
My father had said such a thing to my mother. In order to set an example for this sister, Peach must also be of good character. The only thing that could give Peaches a breather was when she inquired about her father's recent situation every time she went.
"What are you going to do over there?" In the first year, she also called him father. The second year became "the man", and in the third year, it became "Uguisudani over there".
"Over there in Uguiya." Tokuku no longer mentions "Minister Mitamura". He was unemployed for more than half a year, found a job at a foreign-owned pharmaceutical company, and settled down. When Peaches mentioned his father, he always took out a cigarette and lit it.
"With Momotaro here, he feels very relieved." My father used to call Peach "Momotaro". Perhaps, in his heart, he wished that Peach was a boy.
"What Momotaro, weird..."
"It's really Momotaro." With dogs, monkeys, pheasants, it was hard work. ”
"Wearing a white turban—"
"It's been hard work, it's amazing."
Hearing Duzhu's praise, Peach's heart was like drinking a cup of boiled water, hot.
"You've also thought about letting go of everything and not caring about anything." There is a kind of thermos bottle that can produce water as long as it is pressed lightly, and it is the finger that is pressed. A soft word of comfort can make peaches gush with infinite hot warm currents.
At the end of each month, Tokuku calls the editorial office.
"Are you free tonight?" If you have time, talk about that. ”
The message on the phone, every time is this sentence.
"That thing" refers to the father's business. But only in the first year, Peaches needed to consult with him. Where is my father's apartment, at first the two of them discussed it, and said that Peach didn't know. Mother wanted to know anyway, she had found a new company for a job, and in the first year, there had been a scene of emotional loss of control. Momoko herself had asked Toku to ask him to go around and let his father see him, but in the end he didn't succeed.
"I don't see you."
"I'm sorry, just think I'm dead." Father just brought back these two sentences to Todotsu. If you are afraid that your family will come to you, you can move away, but your father still seems to live in the old place in Uguisugaya. The coffer house owned by the woman we lived with was not far from there.
It was probably half a year after my father ran away from home. Momoko, determined to negotiate with her father in person, hides from Duzhu and goes to Uguisudani alone. It was nearly dusk, and she was about to turn the main road in front of the station when Peaches met her father. Father came out of a small supermarket with a shopping basket in his hand.
Peach stood still, and in front of her, her father, who was wearing a sweatshirt, also stopped. In the old honey-colored shopping rattan basket, green onions and toilet paper protruded. In the past, when my father was at home, he didn't even buy his own underwear. Peaches almost jumped up and pulled over the shopping basket.
"I'll get it." Father would not hand it to her. His eyes seemed to be about to cry, but his face was wooden, and he hugged the shopping basket tightly. He shrugged off the peach, ignored the traffic lights that were turning red, and ran across the crosswalk. In the middle of the road, he dropped a slipper, but did not look back to pick it up.
Slippers are rouge women's slippers. Seeing that the slipper was rolled under the wheel by two or three cars, Peach took a step. At Uguisudani Station, she called Tokuku's company and called him out. Peaches offered to call him, not before, not later, only this time.
That night, she drank with both of them for the first time. They used to drink coffee in cafes. From that night on, Tokusatsu would invite her to dinner and drink. Not only was she drinking, but that night, she shed tears for the first time in front of Toku.
"Dad, have you found a job?"
"Saying it went to a fire extinguisher company should be fake."
That is, to be raised by that woman. Peaches felt that her father would not come back. When her daughter saw herself like that, unless her body finally failed, it was impossible to come back.
"I did it wrong."
"There is no such thing, Miss Peach is always right."
"But, it seems to backfire, after I did this."
Du Zhu smiled, and Peaches also laughed. She smiled and smiled, and the figure of her mother with her back hunched over the sewing machine appeared in front of her, and large tears fell like sun rain.
Once he revealed his fragile side, he became familiar with the road, and he did not feel shy when he shed tears in front of him later. Every month she looked forward to meeting him once and shedding tears in front of him.
Sitting in front of Duzhu, she felt her mood soften and removed her sturdy armor. At this time, she is no longer a brave officer who insists on the castle with the consciousness of defeat, and she can turn back into a useless hated married woman with dogs, monkeys, and pheasants who cannot help against the ghost retreat.
"Order whatever you like."
Knowing that Peach's salary is to support the family, Duzhu always pays for guests out of his own pocket. "It looks like it's doing pretty well. At this point, we can only wait and see how it changes. ”
Peach nodded, they had nothing more to say about it. "What happened to the thing I mentioned earlier?" Have a man who does a translator ask you out. ”
"That... I won't mention that. I wasn't a good fit, there was a girl who was more suitable for him, and I introduced him to it. I happened to have two tickets for the game in my hand, so I gave them a hand. ”
"What, matching someone else again?"
"It's better that way, I'm very talented at that. As long as I matched, even if there were twists and turns in the middle, it all went smoothly in the end. ”
They all stopped making a sound and refilled the peach cup with beer.
This man sees everything in his eyes. Dragging a heavy burden on your own, if you end up with a tragic end, it is better to avoid it at the beginning. She warned herself in this way, pretending to be relaxed on the surface, and slowly she was convinced of it herself.
"Because the peach conditions are generally not good."
"What do you mean?"
"If it is a great beauty in the world, no matter how Xiao Tao escapes, even if the father chases after him to kill people, the man will not give up."
"That's true, too."
"If it's really ugly, it will be more low-voiced and do your best." Ordinary people like Xiao Tao are the most difficult to deal with in the end. ”
He was hit by him, and Peaches grinned and laughed.
Ordinary people, DuZhu is also an ordinary person. Whether it is appearance, talent, or money, it is all ordinary.
"Mr. Toku, have you ever had a nickname?"
"No, I haven't since I was a kid."
"It's boring."
"People with nicknames are still a minority. Take a look at the train during rush hour, grabbing the bracelet and dangling around, all of them look like office workers who don't even have nicknames. ”
"Speaking of, my family—" Peaches almost uttered the word "Daddy" and changed her mouth again. "No one in the family has a nickname." She poured a glass of wine for Duzhu and asked casually, "Mr. Duzhu's wife, do you have a nickname?" ”
"Nothing."
Ordinary wives without nicknames, two ordinary children without nicknames, ordinary commercial houses. In three years, the fragments of words and phrases that have been built intermittently can probably be put together to produce such a picture.
"Only Peach you have a nickname."
"Momotaro?"
"It's getting more and more appropriate." Peach agrees.
"No way, when I eat, I'm sitting in the chair where my dad used to sit."
I don't know when it started, and now Peach can't remember. Around the round table, only the father's seat was lonely and empty, and Peach could not look at it, so she naturally filled the vacancy and sat on her father's seat. When the meal was served, the peach also became the first. No matter how big or small, when you want to make an idea, everyone naturally looks at the peach's eyes.
When she heard the news that the typhoon was coming, she would order her mother: "Replace the battery of the flashlight first." "When deciding how much money is wrapped in the red and white celebrations, it is also peaches." Not only to her brother and sister, but also to her mother, she also began to point fingers.
"Crying and crying, people who don't come back still won't come back." With this work, it is better to go to sleep and work! "It's better to do this, it's better to do that, it's the mantra of a father who ran away from home."
When her younger brother Kentaro was admitted to college, Momoko invited her brother to dinner alone. She took her brother to the high-end steakhouse she had visited once at work. He ordered only salads, ordered a thick steak for his brother, toasted, and prepared to take him to the bar for a drink after eating.
If you bring the whole family, the cost cannot be afforded. But at such times, if you don't celebrate like your father in the past, it's too pitiful. However, Kentaro said he did not want to eat steak. "My stomach is not very good, let's eat hamburgers." Kentaro was very persistent. If you eat hamburgers, you don't have to go to such an expensive restaurant. Peach held her breath. The dish came up.
Burger with omelette. Peach suddenly remembered what she had seen in the cafeteria of the department store. The father and middle school boy, who looked like a young worker, ate a hamburger. After the plate was served, the father squarely cut out the yolk part of his fried poached egg and put it on his son's plate.
"That's Father." Peaches, like the father, cut the yolk into a square quadrilateral shape and placed it on Kentaro's plate. Kentaro was taken aback, looked up at his sister's face, and was afraid that his sister would see his wet eyes, so he quickly lowered his head, and like the teenager at that time, silently ate the egg yolk for two people.
Probably because of her role as a father, Peaches would take off her shoes and throw them in the middle of the hallway. When walking, I gradually became a bit out of the box.
She said to Duzhu to listen, and Duzhu laughed out loud.
"I've never heard of Momotaro with the characters in the inner eight."
"It's not funny at all..."
The two laughed and their shoulders touched together. Probably warm wine into the intestines, Both Chiku and Peach did not immediately retract their bodies. That night, Tokuchi was rarely drunk and sang the song of "Momotaro". It was the song of the former elementary school students that my grandmother used to sing.
Momotaro, Momotaro
Carry glutinous rice balls around your waist
Give me one
Duzhu gently tapped the fingernails of the peach on the bar and sang with the beat. "Give me one", singing here, his hand remaining on Peach's hand. Peach gently withdrew her hand. DuZhu began to sing the second paragraph.
To you, to you
Follow me to fight monsters
Just for you
After singing, Duzhu grabbed Peach's hand again.
Let's go, let's go
When your entourage
Talk to you at the end of the world
Peach felt that her body was hot. The sticky rice balls that All Tsukiji wants, that's me. Give me rice balls, and I will follow you to the ends of the earth and become your servants, is this his confession?
Seeing each other once a month, in addition to sympathy for the daughter of the old boss, she quietly breeds another kind of feeling. In this way, every few days when Tsukusa will call, Peach will also change into freshly washed underwear. The two have been using the excuse of "discussing their father's affairs" to deceive themselves, which should be regarded as a date between men and women.
In these three years, once the bud of love protrudes, peaches will cut it off with their own hands. She has always pretended to have another lover, pretending to easily give up her love to others. Pretending to have seen the world, he introduces other girls to the man who shows his affection, and even acts as a mediator when the two quarrel.
Peaches has survived strongly until now, for her family, for her mother, brothers and sisters, and perhaps for the sake of Duzhu who can reveal her heart once a month.
Duzhu closed his eyes and returned to the first paragraph, humming lowly. What if Peaches pounced into his arms and pressed her forehead against his chest, as she had done when she first went to Uguitani's father's apartment? Will Tokuki just pat himself on the back like he did then, or will he take me somewhere else?
I've been Momotaro for three years and I'm a little tired.
She wanted to turn back into a peach and lean against the man's chest. Unconsciously, she seemed to see the pattern of his home. As soon as I entered the door, I saw a restaurant with eight bunks, which was a six-storey couple's room, a bathroom and a toilet, and on the second floor was a children's room with four and a half mats. Where the piano was played, where the gas pipe that had not been flowing well recently, she seemed to have seen it somewhere.
This man has a wife and children. The face of the mother who stepped on the sewing machine as a side job appeared in front of Peach's eyes. The eldest daughter she had been counting on had gone so far as to marry a man who had a wife—and that would be tantamount to forgiving her father who had run away from home and forgiving the woman who had taken someone else's husband. The mother would have been furious—perhaps, as my father had done when he had just run away from home, clutching the gas pipe and making a big fuss.
Peaches withdrew her hand and removed her body.
There is still a year to go until Kentaro graduates. Du zhu, who had been singing the same sentence, seemed to remember the lyrics of the song and then sang it down.
Okay, forward, well, forward
With a thud, he attacked the monster island
It's funny, it's funny
The monsters are defeated
Harvest a full of loot
Hooray, hooray
Buddies, dogs, monkeys and pheasants
Hey yo hey yo pull chariot
The days of victory seemed hopeless, but Momotaro could not escape alone.
The Hachiman Palace is solemnly silent. It was a Sunday afternoon.
This shrine has a long reputation, but it is neglected and desolate. On the dirty glass windows of the uninhabited social office were paper appealing for donations. Peaches went shopping and went out with her mother, who had gone to hand over her clothes. On the way, passing by HachimanOmiya, Momoko also accompanied her mother inside.
My mother threw a hundred yen coin into the incense box and clapped her hands loudly. The mother was already thrifty, and after the father ran away from home, his income was gone, and he was even more stingy. Peaches was taken aback and thought that the maximum amount of incense thrown in by her mother was ten yen coins.
The mother prayed for a long time. Peach also clasped her palms, and she wondered what her mother was praying for. Is it to pray for the father to come back? Or is it a curse on the misfortune of a young woman who lives with her father?
There is one thing, Peach does not want to repent to the gods, but wants to ask for her mother's forgiveness. She had secretly seen the woman in the cooked house where her father lived without her mother and Duzhuo. She did not tell her mother where the shop was, and told her mother not to go, she would lose if she went to her mother, but she couldn't help but secretly look at the face that disrupted the fate of her father and her family.
It was a small shop in a small alley behind the station. The fuzzy glass door opened a small slit, and a spirited voice was heard shouting, "Welcome!" ”
Against all odds. Standing on the inside of the bar, it must be the woman. Not like a hostess, more like a cleaning lady. She has no fat powder on her face and looks older than her actual age, like a funny female comic talent. The dimly colored tunic was draped over a plain cardigan, and the turban tightly wrapped around the hair.
Seeing only one woman, the other party was also a little surprised. "I'm sorry, the shop is full..." There was no place for seven people sitting at the bar. The workers-like men were packed one by one.
"It's okay, next time..." Peach muttered vaguely, without saying a word, and was about to close the glass door when the woman suddenly cried out: "Ah! With a serious look on her face, she ripped off her turban and bowed to Peach. The cooker was going to touch her head, and she looked very sincere.
This shows that she knows who Peach is.
This woman, she is neither the woman in Rayano's painting, nor a charming beauty, nor a bad girl, Peaches returns home with the wonderful mood of being attacked behind her back. This incident made her feel sorry for her mother, but she had already made up for her mother in the matter of Watoku.
At that time, if you indulged in love, the most painful thing was your mother.
Du Zhu went home that night without a word. If he is therefore far away from himself, it is helpless.
For the sake of your family, you must not take a wrong step. When the mood is low, as I have always done, I will calm down when I sit on the bench at Uguitani Station. Anger and resentment towards his father have weathered most of the three years, but the curse has not been lifted.
The mother slapped her hands twice. My mother was much fatter than she had been three years earlier, like a different person. After gaining weight, the skin becomes delicate. When she leaned down, her neck was particularly moving in the sunlight between the shadows of the trees.
For a while, her mother's face and every move were written with frustration and resentment, which made Peaches feel unable to look at it. In the past six months, my mother seems to have looked away.
"Dead heart, stamp on the divorce book, start a new life, isn't it good?" Persuade your mother when she is in a good mood. Peach looked at the back of her mother's neck and thought so. I don't know what my mother asked for, but the incense of one hundred yen had no effect at all.
His younger brother Kentaro moved out of the house. In the past, Kentaro thought that the sewing machine was too noisy, and ran to a friend's house to review and prepare for the exam. Saying that it was a friend, everyone thought it was a boy, who knew it was a girl. Review all night, just live outside.
"Can't you wait until you graduate?" Mother said.
"Saved me food, isn't that right?"
I heard that he moved out with only books and a change of clothes. Peaches trembled with anger. She ambushed in front of the university classroom, grabbed her brother, and dragged him to the cafeteria in front of the school. Probably before dinner, the shop was empty. Peach said to the waiter who ordered, "I want two burgers with fried poached eggs on top." ”
Her gaze met Kentaro's.
"Have you forgotten that day?"
She didn't go through the old accounts, only said what was in front of her. She wanted to yell at Kentaro: I can't afford to wear it, I can't talk about love, when your father was three years, do you think it's easy?
Here comes the burger with the fried poached egg. Kentaro picked up a knife and fork, and like his sister two and a half years ago, cut the square egg yolk and put it on his sister's plate.
"Give it back to me?"
Kentaro silently cut the hamburger into small pieces.
"I'm not asking you to repay your kindness, nor am I asking you to pay back the wages I've spent on you." You're happy, Mommy's so pathetic. ”
"Yes."
"Really? Don't you think? ”
Putting down his knife and fork, Kentaro looked at his sister's face.
"Instead of worrying about others, it's better to think more about yourself, isn't it?"
"Everyone is living their own lives." He meets in front of the Shibuya Hachiko statue, and Kentaro is surprised to see his mother's waiting face in the crowd. Even more surprising was that the figure of the father appeared. The father didn't say anything and walked ahead up the Road Xuan slope. The mother took two or three steps slower and followed him.
"Even though it wasn't good, I followed suit. Then..." Kentaro couldn't go on and lowered his head.
The two men entered the hotel one after the other.
"When did that happen?"
"Half a year ago or so."
Like a balloon punctured by a needle, Peach felt that all the air in her body had leaked out. Peach's back foot went to the beauty salon and cut her hair. She was so upset about money that she had been afraid to perm her hair since three years ago, and it had grown to the shoulders.
Without doing something, she can't settle her emotions. In this state, I questioned my mother, not knowing what she would say. She lay on her back and asked the clerk to wash her hair, and anger rose again.
Half a year ago, she remembered. During that time, the mother began to pay attention to dressing, saying that it was a friend who was doing a side job and introduced divorced people to talk about, and often went out. It turned out to be a meeting with my father outside. She was more feminine and charming than when her father was at home. In this way, didn't the mother become a third party? What have I done in the past three years?
Life must know how to punch, but also to know how to close.
A woman, but she thinks of herself as a father, like an officer, giving orders - it is so funny, the tears will come out of laughter. Hide her daughter's heart deeply, and put on a solid armor on her body and mind, these three years.
The walnut shell is cut open, but the shell is empty. (2)
(2) The author of this haiku is HawkBak.
Forgetting where she saw it, Peaches read this haiku. The author is unknown, but he plucked the secret strings of Peach's heart.
She loves jealousy and pampering, and her emotions are even stronger than others, but she has to pretend that she is not born with these feelings. However, behind a thin layer of membrane, there are real emotions that you are not aware of. Now it's too late to realize it, right? The fruit has shrunk? Wrapped in the inner skin, the walnut kernels, as white as jade fat, are the back of the mother's neck.
If the father had not run away from home, the mother would have been a dry and thin woman for the rest of her life. The fat, bulging mother, who hurried to meet her father, had stepped into the room where she had never stepped.
The barber's scissors pressed against peachy wet hair. Peach made up her mind and let him cut it under his ears. The child's head clinging to her scalp is exactly the same as Momotaro that Momoko saw in picture books when she was a child.
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