Tokyo people don't talk about Wude

Chapter 104 101. The Expeditionary Force of Yoshida Inaichi
Yoshida Rice City is a small rural town without high-speed rail or subway, so it takes an hour by bus to get to Tokyo.

Pickup trucks with signs of senior drivers, rice fields swaying in the wind, and single-family low houses that have passed the age can be seen everywhere in the town.

Half of the shopping street has its shutter doors closed, and the other half are also grocery stores and old shops that no one cares about. The most lively ones are probably the only 711 convenience store in the town and the Don Quixote chain supermarket.

Young people in such a down-and-out town will basically go to Tokyo or other secondary cities to develop. Even the cashier of the 711 convenience store is an old man with a hunched back, and his hands are shaking constantly when counting change.

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

Coming out of the convenience store, Suzumiya Kai raised his head and took a sip of the mineral water, sighing helplessly: "It was quite energetic ten years ago."

Yoshida Inaichi is the hometown of Suzumiya.Back then, she couldn't stand her parents and ran away to Tokyo. When she came back after many years, she suddenly felt that things were right and people were wrong.

Kyushu Makoto was carrying a steaming roast beef bento, while Xi Shenjian was holding a tuna sandwich, and the two came out of the convenience store one after another.

After signing the entrustment contract yesterday, Xi Shenjian made a plan:
The first is to go to Suzumiya Kaoru's hometown and take her mother to Tokyo for refuge.Although she only had a small rented apartment in Tokyo, it was better than continuing to be harassed here.

Then it was to collect evidence and find a lawyer, sue the underground money house, and take them to court.If you're lucky, you can get back the 100 million yen that Suzumiya Kai paid them before.

The last step is that Xishenjian is responsible for the 24-hour security work for the mother and daughter to prevent people from the underground bank from coming to retaliate against them.

Xi Shenjian rented a pickup truck, and drove the client to this rural town this morning, planning to pick up her mother.

Considering that they might meet the debt collectors from the underground bank, Xishenjian originally planned to hire a few more retired underworld gangsters to come with them—of course, this must be a different price.

Hearing this, Kyushu Cheng simply asked the school for a day off and came with Suzumiya Kai, saving her a fortune in bodyguard fees.

Xi Shenjian drove a pickup truck, and the three of them soon came to a remote family in the town.

A white-painted house looks very old, and the sign at the door says "Hoshino House".

"Is this the address?" Xi Shenjian repeatedly confirmed.

"That's right, it's here." Suzumiya Kaoru nodded, and showed a look of emotion in his eyes again.

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

As an exchange between friends, Kyushu Cheng also reported her real name to her.But she still wanted to be called "Xiao Chunchuan", and let Jiuzhou Cheng continue to call her "Sister Yuzi".

Kyushu Cheng finished his roast beef bento, threw the lunch box into the 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 and have a look." Suzumiya Kai 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 disagrees?" Xi Shenjian asked worriedly:
"I heard that some elderly people are very stubborn, even if there is a natural disaster, they will not leave their residences."

"I'll beg her well." Suzumiya Kai seemed worried too: "If she still doesn't want to, I'll have to force her into the car."

"That's right, life is the most important thing." Makoto Jiuzhou reached out and pressed the doorbell.

"Ding dong—— ding dong—"

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

After a while, the door opened, and an old woman came out holding on to the wall.

The old woman was gray-haired, her thin face was full of wrinkles, and she was wearing neatly washed clothes that turned white, and her mental state was obviously not very good.

"Xiao, you're back." Seemingly tired, the old woman's eyes were dull, and she just greeted with a trembling voice:
"Are the two next to you your friends?"

"Hello, Ms. Hoshino, I am a friend of Sister Yuzi." Makoto Kyushu nodded gently and greeted politely.

"My name is Xi Shen Jian, and I am a detective hired by Ms. Hoshino. Please take care of me." Xi Shen Jian subconsciously took out his business card and handed it to the old woman.

"Mom, what happened recently?" Suzumiya Kai asked impatiently:
"Is that dead ghost still gambling? Is he cheating again?!"

"Well." After a moment of silence, Hoshino's mother nodded and admitted: "After you left, he is still the same. He drinks and beats people every day, and uses the money to bet on horses."

"Didn't mom ever think about divorcing him?" Suzumiya Kai eagerly grabbed her mother's arm and rolled up her sleeves. Sure enough, she saw many scars that could not heal:
"That bastard who killed a thousand swords. Even if you can't get a divorce, you have to find a way to escape, right?"

"I..." Her mother just shook her head dully, and said softly:
"He's not that bad either. It's okay to live like this"

After hearing this, Xishenjian and Jiuzhoucheng shrugged in unison in regret.

Suzumiya Koji's mother is obviously a typical country woman—conservative, cowardly and timid, but also stubborn, and she refuses to let go of stereotypes and bad habits no matter how much she persuades her.

"That's why you are a coward, mom!" Suzumiya Kai couldn't take it anymore, and quickly shook her mother's arm:
"Listen to me that those people from the underground bank borrowed money from the bastard father again, they must be sure to take you as a hostage!"

"Is that so?" Hoshino's mother's reaction was relatively flat, more like numbness: "He got into trouble again."

"Stop helping that bastard father!" Suzumiya grabbed his mother's arm angrily, and said:

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

"Why did you leave?" Hoshino's mother didn't understand the situation, she froze on the spot and refused to move.

"Because those people from the underground bank are threatening you!" Suzumiya Kai stomped anxiously:

"You've already said that your organs are going to be harvested, why don't you run away? Stay here and wait to be killed by them?!"

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

"Oh! I'm thinking about my mother's safety!" Suzumiya Kai tightly grasped her mother's arm, pulled her aside, and waved her arm vigorously.

Afterwards, Suzumiya Kai said to the two of them:

"Please go and move things first, and I will persuade her later!"

Xishenjian and Jiuzhou Cheng didn't talk nonsense, and walked in with a big cardboard box.

A trace of surprise flashed in Hoshino's mother's eyes, obviously wanting to reach out to stop her.But her submissive personality all the year round made her unable to say a word, she just watched them walk in the door in a daze.

"This family is really poor." These were the first words of Makoto Kyushu after entering the door.

The inside of the house can only be described as "a house with four walls", except for some necessary furniture, there is basically nothing - even the furniture is quite worn out and damaged.

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

Jiuzhou Cheng first went to the kitchen to move some pots and pans, while Xi Shenjian removed all the small potted plants that were not dead on the windowsill.

Suzumiya Kai was still persuading her mother earnestly, but the two of them never stopped moving things.

Anyway, I have come here today, this family has to move if they don't want to.

About an hour later, the two had already emptied the house a lot.They worked together to lift a relatively good dining table and prepared to move it to the pickup truck.

At this moment, Suzumiya Kaoru's exclamation came from outside the door:

"Ah! Who are you? Why did you break in without permission!"

(End of this chapter)