15 years in business

When Li Yu passed the Tama River, he took a picture of the pile of rubbish on the bank with his mobile phone, sent it to Shang Yixuan via MMS, and left a message "I can't imagine that this is also Japan."

Shang Yixuan quickly wrote back: Where did you go?

Li Yu stood on tiptoe and looked at the street signs in the distance, then bowed his head and typed: Terada Town.

Shang Yixuan lived in Japan for a year, and was deeply impressed by Terada Town: Hey, you are quite courageous.

That is, don't even look at who I am.Li Yu talked loudly, but he had no idea in his heart. Before he set off, many people advised him that it would be nice to go shopping in the city center and soak in hot springs, why risk his life in a slum in a foreign country.

However, Li Yu promised Shang Yixuan to take pictures for him to see, but now he can't do it anymore. When he turned into an alley, the crows above his head knew how to bully foreigners, and started calling out in a hurry.

Ninagawa has long been used to the days of fighting for food with the crows, and skillfully waved them away, continuing to look for something to eat in the garbage dump.

"I didn't marry you to pay off your gambling debts!" ​​Kunio Ninagawa hit Shiho again, and the sound of utensils being overturned came from the room.

Ren Ninagawa glanced indifferently in the direction of home, sighed silently, and continued to bury her head in her own business.

"Why are you smoking marijuana again? Have you forgotten everything you promised me? Troublesome woman!", Kunio Ninagawa was so angry that he was dizzy, ignoring his wife's pleading, snatched the marijuana from her hand, broke into the kitchen, lit it Gas stove, throwing bags of marijuana into the flames.

When Li Yu passed by Ninagawa's house, the back door was not closed tightly. He didn't intend to spy on other people's private affairs, but the door was too big to have to look. Ninagawa Zhifan lay on the gas stove, his eyes were blue, and his complexion looked like a dead person. She stuck her fingers into the fire as if she was not afraid of pain, and shouted a few broken words.

"Please! Please don't, I will die if I don't smoke this! Do you want me to die?!"

Shiho Ninagawa cried until his face was covered with snot and tears. Kunio was unmoved, dragged her off the stove, and gasped, "Marijuana... Marijuana is something that the poor can afford!"

He grabbed Zhifan's hair at the back of his head: "You spent 10,000+ on marijuana, and spent all the money I won, and you still have the face to beg me here, apologize to me!"

Zhifan sat slumped on the ground, his hands curled up in front of his chest like chicken feet, Kunio refused to let her go, and roared an order: "Say you're sorry for me!"

Zhifan didn't say a word, his whole body twitched more and more violently. Kunio hated her so much that he simply pushed her out of the door.

"Useless woman." Kunio groped for a while on Zhifan, only found a few coins, spat on the ground, put the coins into his pocket, and left without looking back.

Ren Ningagawa found a barbecue bento that was barely touched, and thought she was lucky today. After bouncing home, she saw this scene.

"Mom!" Ninagawa put down the lunch box and threw herself on Shiho.

Zhifan had hallucinations due to drug addiction, and even a little weight on her body could make her unable to lift her head.

In a daze, she recognized her child and shouted: "Why are you? It would be fine if I didn't have you... It would be fine if I never gave birth to you..."

"It's so painful, Lian, my mother is in so much pain." Zhifan held Ninagawa's hands, "Xiao Lian, please, do my mother a favor, you are such a useless child, in the end, please help me One thing."

Ren Ningagawa was so frightened that she couldn't keep her wits about her: "What... what?"

"Strangle me!" Zhifan's eyes suddenly widened.

She took Ninagawa's hand and put it around her neck: "Kill me!"

Li Yu had seen too many ugliness when drug addiction broke out, and was about to stand up and help, when Zhifan screamed again.

"I'm in so much pain, my whole body is itchy, like ants are crawling, I want to die, Lian, I want to die." Zhifan grabbed Ninagawa's thin arm, "Hurry up! I can't take it anymore, I I really can't take it anymore, what's the point of living like this...Ah!"

She screamed hysterically and rolled on the ground, Ninagawa was brought to the ground and scratched her knee, blood mixed with sand and stones, Shiho's face was also dirty.

Ninagawa endured the pain and got up, while Shiho was still kneeling on the ground.

"Xiaolian...", Zhifan raised his chin, like a sad sacrificer, "I beg you, Xiaolian."

Ningagawa was stunned, really listened to Zhifan's words, took a breath and slowly exerted force, not long after, Zhifan started to roll his eyes, and kept calling: "Xiaolian, Xiaolian..."

"mom!"

When Ninagawa heard his name, he let go of his hand. Realizing that he almost killed his mother just now, he threw himself into Shiho's arms, crying loudly with lingering fear.

Before the tears flowed down his cheeks, Zhifan, who escaped from death, pushed his son away and stepped on his leg: "Incompetent! I can't do anything well!"

Growling wildly, she picked up a sharp stone.

Worried about that child, Li Yu no longer cared about hiding his tracks, came out from behind the door, and snatched the stone from Zhifan's hand. The woman screamed, startling a flock of crows watching the excitement not far away.Li Yu's appearance made Zhifan sober for a while, and during the few precious seconds of waking up, she begged the stranger eagerly: "Kill me! Let me die! Please, let me die! Otherwise I will hurt you." My child! Come on! Come on!"

Li Yu had never seen someone who wanted to die, so he asked again in surprise: "Do you want to die?"

"Yep!"

Zhifan kept nodding until his pupils were covered with a layer of whiteness again, Li Yu didn't dare to do anything, she seized the opportunity to snatch back the stone, and stabbed Ninagawa's neck with the sharp horn.

Blood gushed out, Ningagawa cried loudly holding his throbbing artery, children and women's screams were mixed together, Li Yu was almost driven crazy by the noise, at this moment, Zhifan threw a stone at him again.

The stone was not stained with the blood of the second person. This time, Zhifan's neck was pinched by a big hand, and her face turned from red to white, and finally turned purple. At a certain point, Zhifan grabbed Li Yu. The hand on the wrist loosened, and with a "snap", it hung to the side of the body.

The Japanese woman didn't say a word, she suddenly became quiet, her lower body was completely relaxed, and while dying a little bit, her distorted face stretched out, as if she had turned back into the mother who told the child a gentle story the night before.

In the end, Zhifan tilted his head and fell to the ground completely out of breath, with foam oozing from his mouth.

After that day, the residents near the Tama River never saw Ninagawa Shiho dancing again.

"You asked about my past, and now I'll tell you everything. This is my past." In the dark room, the white light on the camera screen faintly projected onto Ninagawa's cheeks.

Shang Yixuan remembered that Li Yu had been to Terada Town in the past and had exchanged text messages with him. Unexpectedly, it happened at that time, so he let out a "tsk", without any obvious emotional ups and downs.

Ningagawa was confident, and smiled a little nastyly: "The statute of limitations has passed, even if you go to the police, you won't be accepted, otherwise I won't say anything."

Shang Yixuan waved his hand: "Don't worry about that."

"When Li Yu was young, he was a group performer in Yihengdian, with no background and no talent," Shang Yixuan wiped his face with his hands, "When he is in this position today, I can see how much his hands are. ruthless."

Many years later, Ninagawa actually doesn’t remember much about what it was like to be almost killed by her mother, and what it was like to watch her die. Life is the most unbearable thing in Terada Town, and 30 to [-] years is enough for a People are going to run out of oil and lamps dry up.Shang Yixuan asked: "Then after she died, how did you feel?"

Ninagawa thought for a while, her lips moved slightly: "Lonely."

Totally lonely.

"Okay, I just need to be alone." Shang Yixuan said seriously, "Remember this feeling, if you forget it, watch the video."

He doesn't give a damn about the pain of repeatedly uncovering old scars, and pushes the camera forward.

Ninagawa scratched the lens with her nails anxiously: "Do you have to watch it?"

"You are not an actor with a professional background. You can only follow the path of experience. Gao Yang and you have a lot in common. Digesting emotions is very important for you to understand the role."

"Enlighten it well." Shang Yixuan got up and wanted to leave.

Ninagawa stopped him: "Wait."

"what happened again?"

"Actually, it's not just loneliness." Ninagawa restarted the camera, found a good angle, placed it on the window sill, and let the curtains pass by the lens naturally, so the image on the screen was also covered with a layer of faint blue. color.

"No matter what it is, record it on it." Shang Yixuan pointed behind Ninagawa.

Ninagawa turned around abruptly, startling a large group of black crows.

Li Yu waved to him wearily, "Come here."

Li Yu is used to living a life of luxury and money, and the poor boy from a poor background eventually wears out a bit of extravagance. Ninagawa is a child born in a slum, and has a natural sensitivity to money and status, so he immediately judged that this person is not good. I dare not get close to it.

"I asked you to come here, don't you understand?" Li Yu took out a thousand-yuan bill from his wallet and threw it on the ground.

This trick really worked, Ninagawa took a step forward, picked up the money, held the banknote tightly, and looked at him with fearful eyes.

Li Yu threw another one: "Do you like singing?"

"Well, mom likes it, and I like it too." Ninagawa concentrated on picking up the money with her head down.

Li Yu threw the third one at his feet: "Then follow me?"

Ninagawa walked up to Li Yu little by little, and the latter looked at his immature face: "If this kind of thing happened, you can no longer live here,"

What Li Yu said was referring to Ninagawa Zhiho's death: "It's better to go to another place."

Ninagawa recognized his foreigner's accent, and thought that Tokyo is the place with the most foreigners, so she naturally asked, "Is it Tokyo?"

"No, it's China."

"is it far?"

"Yes, very far."

Li Yu is a big man, and he doesn't even have the habit of bringing a tissue when he goes out. He searched all over his body, but couldn't find anything that could be used to bandage Ninagawa. Tie a tight knot: "But you are there, at least you don't have to be afraid anymore."

"きょうはんしゃ (accomplice)", Ninagawa said this word slowly facing the camera. Under the blessing of light and shadow, he looked thinner than usual, with dark eyebrows and eyes, like a world without makeup.

"Li Yu is my accomplice."

"And the only one who saved me."