Be Dazai's mother

"Where is this lady going? If you want to go to another city by train, I suggest you..." Before the man who spoke finished, I interrupted him rudely and said, "No need, I My husband is waiting for me there."

The man glanced at the back in the direction I pointed, and there stood a slightly burly man with an expression that seemed to be waiting for someone.

The man glanced at the big man suspiciously, and when he saw me stretching out my hand to call him over, the man smiled a few times and said, "I didn't know your husband was right next to me, so I'm leaving."

Looking at the other party's figure who simply left, I breathed a sigh of relief, looked at A Zhi who was holding my hand, and said helplessly, "Fortunately, he doesn't intend to continue entanglement."

"Yeah, fortunately." Azhi also said with some headaches.

If a strange man suddenly came in just like before and grabbed my hand and said that I was his wife who ran away from home/the maid who abducted his child/the sister who sneaked out with other people behind my parents' backs and got pregnant and gave birth to a child, Then I really have nowhere to cry.

Although it is very clear that the outside is very chaotic, I did not expect the chaos to become like this.I looked at several people lying on the side of the road, not knowing whether they were dead or alive, and I felt a little bit sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox in my heart.

Of course, I didn't know the big man who I said was my husband at all, and I just used him as a shield to block the man who just saw that he was scheming.Fortunately, the big man I pointed at didn't notice us, otherwise things might be a little troublesome.

If you want to go to Fuyuki City, you must at least come to the train station.I took the little money with me, asked for directions and kept calculating how much money I could use along the way, and finally arrived at the train station after stumbling.

Regardless of the hardships and difficulties encountered on the road, I was already out of breath after just this trip, and it turned out that I had to be wary of all kinds of malicious people, which was really a headache.

I took a look at Azhi, whom I was holding. I held him very tightly along the way, and I was afraid that he might get lost or be taken away.In fact, my vigilance was not wrong. There were five or six people who wanted to take Azhi away along the way.

Not only Aji, but I am also a big fat sheep in the eyes of others. I am sure that Mei looks like an ordinary girl. In order to avoid trouble, I also wore a dusty dress and my face I wiped some dust, but I didn’t expect that there were quite a lot of people who came to chat with me. They hinted that I am in a difficult world now. It is much better to accompany the wine or even go to Yoshiwara than to take care of the child alone. They also said that I am a young girl. It's too pitiful to have to bring a child alone at such a time. They are willing to introduce me to a good place. The bosses are definitely gentle and open-minded good people.

They all spoke sweetly one after another as if they had the mouth of a devil. To be honest, I couldn't resist it.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but glanced at Azhi worriedly, and said, "Are you okay?"

He has always been weak and sick, and even I have been complaining about this journey. I am really worried that he will hold back because he is worried about me.

"I'm fine." Saying this, Azhi's lips turned pale.

The train didn't come back for a while, and seeing Azhi's face was really bad, I took him by the hand to the open space on a street next to the train station, took out a bottle of water for him, and said, "Drink some water first." Moisturize your throat."

The street next to the train station is much quieter than that of the train station. I want Azhi to rest here for a while.

Azhi didn't hold back, he nodded, took the water I handed over, and raised his neck to take a few sips.Distressed, I took out a towel and wiped the sweat off his face, and said, "Why don't you sleep for a while?"

Azhi shook his head and said, "No need, the train is coming in about 10 minutes, right? We have to catch this train, or we will be in trouble tonight. I'm fine, just take a rest, You can sleep in the car later."

I have to admit that Aji's words are correct.We don't have much money on us, so we save as much as we can.What's more, even if you don't want to save money, it is not easy to find a room to stay for one night according to the excitement near the train station.If you stay outside, you don't know what will happen in the middle of the night. You may be forcibly dragged away when you are awake, let alone when you sleep at night.

"If you can't hold it anymore, you must tell me?" I said seriously and worriedly.

Aji pursed his lips and gave me a shallow smile: "Well, I see, Sachiko."

I sighed, before I could say anything, I suddenly heard a childish female voice: "Hello!"

I followed the voice and found that it was coming from the dim sum shop next to the train station.There stood a girl who seemed to be a little older than Azhi, with soft short black hair, eyes like jewels, and a kind of vitality and cleanliness that was incompatible with the surrounding scene.

"Give him this!" the little girl called to me, holding out a beautifully wrapped candy in her hand.

"Jingzi!" Another man in the pastry shop said with some dissatisfaction, "Why do you always give candies to children?"

"Because he looks like he's going to faint!" the girl named Akiko said with a puffy face.

"You child is really..." The man who seemed to be Akiko's father muttered a few words, but he didn't forcefully stop Akiko's behavior.

Seeing me standing still, Akiko repeated: "He seems to have hypoglycemia, give him a candy, don't worry, I won't charge you."

Looking at Akiko's serious eyes, I really couldn't say anything to refuse, so I subconsciously responded, took the candy and handed it to Azhi.

I didn't peel off the candy wrapper and gave it to him, but just put the candy on Azhi's palm, presumably he can understand what I mean.Even if the person who handed this candy was a little girl who seemed to be only eleven or twelve years old, I couldn't trust Azhi to eat the food handed over by others.

You must know that it is not unheard of for children and their parents to commit crimes and trafficking together.What if there is something wrong with this candy?

Of course my actions did not escape Akiko's eyes, she looked a little angry, stared at me - and then ate another candy in her hand.

Akiko chewed the candy vigorously, making a "crack-crack" sound. After chewing all the hard candy, she swallowed it with a "gulu". She looked at me and Azhi and said, "Nothing strange, The candy wrapper is also sealed, so hurry up and give it to him to eat."

Saying that, Akiko pursed her lips, and said in a low voice, "Really, pay attention to your health. You should bring some high-sugar food with you."

Before I could react to Akiko's awkward and childish gentleness, Aji blinked, peeled off the candy wrapper and ate it.

Seeing Aji's complexion improved, Akiko heaved a sigh of relief.

A man who seemed to be a regular customer in the pastry shop laughed and said, "Oh, Akiko is still the same as before. I can't let someone get sick in front of me."

Jingzi's father smiled wryly, and said, "This child has such a stubborn temper."

The man who was a regular customer joked: "Speaking of which, it seems that I heard that Akiko wants to be a nurse?"

"How can it be?" Jingzi's father's complexion became visibly ugly, he laughed a few times, glanced at Jingzi, and said in a bad tone: "When the time comes, I will find a reliable husband for Jingzi. , and let him inherit the shop."

"Father!" Akiko looked angry again.

Seeing that Akiko was really just kind-hearted, and that Aji looked a little more energetic after eating the candy, I said to her, "Thank you!"

Akiko ignored her father, turned to look at me, and said: "He needs to rest more, you should try to reduce running around as much as possible."

I thanked Akiko for her kindness, and it was almost time, so I said goodbye to her and left here with Aji.

"...There seems to be something special about that girl." After we left the pastry shop, Azhi stretched out his finger to his chin, showing an expression of thinking.

I blinked blankly and asked, "A special place?"

"Yeah." Azhi responded, and said, "Judging from what the guest said and the girl's behavior, she seems to be a very responsible and enthusiastic person. But when her father talked about letting the girl be a When she was a nurse, her complexion was very bad."

"Maybe it's because nurses are in danger too? It's normal for a father to worry about his daughter," I said.

Nursing is not the safe profession that everyone thinks.During the war, doctors and nurses from all over the country often went to the battlefield with soldiers.

"He is indeed worried about his daughter, but it's not that simple. His expression is not so much worried that his daughter will be in danger as a nurse, but rather..." Azhi pondered for a while, and said: "The girl's body There is a powerful special ability, probably a healing ability, and it will be very troublesome if someone finds out, he is afraid that his daughter's ability will be exposed and put her in trouble."

I didn't expect Azhi to be able to detect the secret that others wanted to hide through such a little thing, and said in surprise: "Azhi is really smart."

Azhi, who was thinking seriously, was taken aback by my unexpected compliment. He touched his nose in embarrassment, and said as if he remembered something: "Of course, the most important thing is that I never There was something about her."

"What?" I asked.

"Hmm...something similar to myself?" Azhi said with some distress, as if he didn't know how to describe it.

I suddenly remembered a sentence, people with the same special ability can perceive that the other person is not an ordinary person like myself, I joked: "Could it be that Aji, you have the same special ability as that girl named Akiko? "

"Maybe." Aji smiled.

While we were walking and chatting, we suddenly heard crowds piled up in the train station in front of us, and there were loud noises coming from there.

What happened?As I was thinking this way, I heard someone say in a fearful voice, "I heard someone lying on the rails ahead?"

"Oh, that's terrible."

Having said that, their voices revealed a secret excitement, and they began to discuss what kind of person was lying on the rails.

I frowned, and before I could say anything, Azhi next to me said with a headache, "Oh, this is troublesome. Wouldn't the train stop after this?"

The two who were discussing the deceased with a bit of excitement exclaimed, and began to complain: "This is terrible. I was going to sleep on the train, but I didn't even book a room."

"Me too! Hurry up and see if there are any vacant houses."

Watching the two walk away, I sighed.Noticing the worried look in Azhi's eyes, I gave him a comforting smile, and then said distressedly: "In this case, we have to stay tonight. No way, let's see if there are any houses nearby." ?”

Then I took Azhi's hand and walked back, just walking back to the dim sum shop I saw just now, the dim sum shop owner's daughter Akiko waved her hand when she saw us, and asked, "Oh! What happened at the train station? Is it? Why does it feel like a lot of people are going back?"

I blinked, remembering what Azhi said, and for some reason I felt a little close to Akiko, so I told her what I just heard at the train station.

"...I see." Akiko became silent, she lowered her eyes, showing a sad expression, and said, "What kind of person is that?"

Seeing that Akiko was really concerned, I hesitated for a while, and told her the news I just heard, I said: "I heard that it is a man named Kitamura Yota, because I really can't bear the current life. so..."

"Yota Kitamura." Akiko murmured: "I remember this name. Last time he came to my house to buy some snacks and said that his illness was finally cured. Why is it suddenly..."

Seeing Akiko bowing her head and looking extremely sad, I sighed inwardly.

After all, he was only a child, the kind of child who would almost shed tears when someone else died.

I just remembered what Azhi told me that this child might have special abilities, and I felt that I had to tell her something.

I said, "Because people's hearts have limits."

Akiko looked up at me in bewilderment.

I looked at the cup filled with water on the cupboard of the snack shop and said, "It's like a cup. Once the water in it is not drunk or poured out in time, if you keep adding water to it, the water in the cup will disappear. Spill immediately."

"And the human heart is far more fragile than a water glass. There is still the possibility of healing physical injuries, but once the inner scars are left, it is difficult to recover. When a certain "extreme" is reached, the heart that completely collapses It will kill the flesh, body and soul. At this time, people are no different from walking dead."

Akiko said sadly: "It is really difficult to save others."

I smiled wryly and said, "Yes. After all, we are not gods but just human beings."

"You're right." Akiko raised her head and smiled as if she was about to cry.

The pastry shop owner, who had been watching for a while, sighed, stretched out his hand and rubbed Akiko's head.

Looking at her depressed appearance, I always feel helpless and embarrassed that I accidentally made a crying child. I exchanged glances with Azhi, and Azhi looked at me with that kind of mocking condemnation. It seems to be saying: "Why did you accidentally make the little girl cry?"

Fortunately, before I could think of anything to comfort her, Akiko cheered up again. She looked at Azhi and me and asked, "So, do you have nowhere to go tonight?"

When I mentioned this, I got a headache, and I said distressedly: "Yeah, I want to see if there are any rooms nearby for us to live in."

"No, you don't need to go see it." Akiko said with certainty: "The train station itself has been crowded with people these days, and this kind of thing is happening now, even if you ask one by one if there is any place for you to live, you must Can't find it."

"What can I do?" I muttered in distress.Could it be that we really want to pack up with Azhi and find a relatively remote open space to spend the night?But that's too dangerous.

"If you don't mind, you can come to my house to stay for one night." Akiko said, and she said sweetly as if she remembered something: "You can help me at the snack shop to cover the accommodation fee."

Probably out of consideration for our self-esteem, Akiko did not directly say no money like when giving candy, but instead expressed it in this way.

"That's right." The dim sum shop owner seemed to have put down his guard against us because of the conversation we had with Akiko just now, he said: "It's not safe for you orphans and widows to stay outside, if you don't mind, go to my house first Sleep over there. Tonight, I’ll just sleep on the floor in the shop.”

"How is this possible?" I hesitated, but Azhi said, "Then I will trouble you."

I looked at him worriedly, Azhi shook his head, and said silently: They are not bad people.

Azhi, who is good at trying to figure out people's hearts, has said so, and I naturally believe it.And even if Azhi doesn't say anything, I can see that the father and daughter of the dim sum shop are not bad people.

"Is this going to bother you too much?" I said.

"Where? I'm still worried that no one will help to look after the shop when there are too many people!" The dim sum shop owner said with a smile.

Seeing that they didn't care at all, I felt relieved and thanked them together with Ah Zhi.

In order to repay the father and daughter of the dim sum shop, I asked Azhi to sit aside, and I picked up the broom and mop beside me and started working.

The dim sum shop owner chatted with me from time to time. When he saw me working, he said, "Sachiko, you look really skilled and you clean very well."

I smiled at him embarrassedly, and said, "Probably because I have experience as a servant?"

"If it weren't for you guys leaving here, I really want to hire you to work. You can see that you are a hardworking and hardworking person. It is really profitable to hire you." The owner of the pastry shop joked.

Akiko's full name is Yosano Akiko, and the pastry shop owner is her father.Although it looks unassuming, their family is actually quite wealthy.A person who can run a long-established dim sum shop on the street next to the train station, which is crowded with people and full of all kinds of malicious people, is not a poor person.

Not only do they have servants at home, but the pastry shop has also arranged for the police nearby. Anyone who comes to make trouble will be arrested immediately.

It's just that the owner of the pastry shop is already planning to close the shop and leave here.

"Why?" I asked suspiciously.

Such time-honored dim sum shops are generally passed down from generation to generation and run for a lifetime. It is not an easy task to close down directly.They also don't look like they're running out of money.

"It's a mess around here." The pastry shop owner glanced at Akiko who was chatting with customers over there, and said in a low voice: "That child Akiko is too gentle, she is the kind of person who can't just sit back and watch her life die. It will be very sad to see similar things. So I plan to take her to a remote and quiet place, just to dispel her desire to go out and become a nurse."

The dim sum shop owner sighed, and said: "As long as she doesn't become a nurse, she does other things, or does nothing at all. We parents just want our children to live in peace and happiness." life?"

I nodded, understanding the mood of the dim sum shop owner, and said, "Yes."

No matter what, I only hope that Azhi can be happy.

We didn't chat for a while, because the people who came to the dim sum shop quickly got busy again, and by the time everyone left, several hours had passed.

The tired shop owner looked at me and said, "Oh, I'm even more regretful that I can't keep Sachiko here to help. You are more diligent and agile than the people I hired before."

I'm not good at facing compliments from others, so I just smiled shyly.

"So tired~" Akiko was so tired that she lay down on the table, took a deep breath, and shouted, "Dad! I'm so hungry!"

"That's right, it's already past the time for dinner." The pastry shop owner looked a little embarrassed and said, "It makes you starve with us. I'm really sorry. Let me treat you and Azhi to dinner." .”

"Thank you!" I said happily.After I finished speaking, I subconsciously looked at Aji. He was not in good health. The coat was put on him.

"The child is not in good health, right?" The pastry shop owner followed my gaze to look at Azhi, and said, "You have to pay more attention, it would be very troublesome if you suddenly fell ill at this time. .”

"I know." I looked at Azhi with soft eyes and said, "Obviously he is in poor health, but when he followed me all the way, Azhi didn't complain at all. He really worked hard."

The owner of the pastry shop took a look at my expression, laughed, and said, "He is very hardworking and very lucky. You must know that a frail and sick child like him is easily abandoned by his parents when he is put outside. Especially you It must be very hard for a woman to carry him alone."

I shook my head, and swallowed the sentence "Actually, I am not his biological mother, but a woman who wants to be his mother." I just smiled and said, "I didn't feel hard, but I felt a little guilty. , There is no way to give that child a better life."

The dim sum shop owner sighed, patted me on the shoulder, and said: "Parents often do this, worrying about whether they are not doing well enough or whether they will make their children's lives bad. Maybe this is what parents must do. Trouble to go through?"

Seeing that we were still chatting here, Akiko waved her hand in dissatisfaction and said, "What are you talking about? Go and have dinner!"

"Here we come!" The dim sum shop owner responded, but before he could say anything else, there was a loud "bang" outside, thunder flashed, white light pierced the sky, and it rained heavily in an instant.

Akiko glanced at the weather outside, and muttered, "Why is it raining all the time?"

"Spring is when it rains." The pastry shop owner shook his head and said, "Hurry up and put away the leftovers."

"I'm here to help too!" I said, helping him collect things together.

At this moment, footsteps were heard not far away. I followed the sound of footsteps stepping on the rain and looked into the rain curtain suspiciously, and saw a man appearing there.

The man had black hair and was wearing clothes that should be a specific uniform. His whole body was wet by the rain, and he looked quite embarrassed. He said with some distress: "Excuse me, can you borrow me to avoid the rain?" ?”

"Oh." The pastry shop owner said in surprise, "Isn't this Military Doctor Sen?"

The man called Military Doctor Mori showed a polite smile.