Work calls generally do not come to home. If the call fails, a pager will be called. Shinichi Iwahashi took out his pager to confirm that no relevant information had been missed.

He thought about it in his mind and walked to the phone, only to see that the message light was on. He picked up the receiver and pressed the play button.

"Excuse me, my surname is Yamada."

There was a strange male voice in the receiver. The voice sounded like that of a young man, and his tone was somewhat pretentious and polite.

Iwahashi Shinichi couldn't remember meeting such a person.

The young man named Yamada explained in the phone message that the phone number was copied from the contact book of the real estate management center. However, it was not the management center of the apartment where he lived now, but the one and a half square meters of land he lived in in Shinjuku.

of.

That one and a half square meters of land used to be a cigarette shop. After he bought it and took out a loan, it has been idle there. The cigarette shop built on top of the palm-sized place is also dilapidated and cannot be rented out, especially for personal use.

There is no use for it.

Iwahashi Shinichi's plan was to defuse this small bomb as soon as possible.

However, Imai told him last year that the area where this land was located was going to be redeveloped. After that, he also received related calls and probably knew about this.

In the past few years, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government planned to move the headquarters building from the original Chiyoda Ward to Nishi-Shinjuku. This matter has been on the agenda since 1983. By last year, the dust had settled and the construction of the new headquarters building had officially started.

As early as when the Shofu Building was scheduled to be relocated, this news led to an increase in land prices in the Nishi-Shinjuku area. Now that construction has officially begun, it has once again benefited the prices of surrounding land.

The land that Shinichi Iwahashi bought is close to Nishi-Shinjuku. During this period, land prices also increased.

However, as long as you don't sell out, it will be useless no matter how much it rises.

The land is too small, and none of the surrounding neighbors have plans to expand. These days, no one would buy a square meter and a half of land to open a takoyaki house here. If he really wanted to take action, the target group would probably be people with the same idea as him.

This kind of thing is rare, so Iwahashi Shinichi was prepared to keep the land in his hands.

He originally bought this piece of land as a temporary measure. Even if he failed to sell it, the benefits brought by this piece of land made him feel that it was worth it.

He even plans to demolish the cigarette shop and build another building if it cannot be sold. Or, when the bubble bursts and the land price becomes cheaper, he will find a way to take over the neighbor's land and expand it.

In short, there are many ways to adapt to circumstances.

However, with the construction of the Zhengfu Building, land prices have risen again, and various development plans surrounding the relocation of the new Zhengfu Building have also been put on the agenda.

A real estate company called "Tachikawa Kosan" took a fancy to the block where his one and a half square meters of land was located, and wanted to buy it entirely.

The demolition households with one and a half square meters of land have no hope of getting any benefits from the demolition.

However, this redevelopment plan is the best way for Shinichi Iwahashi to solve the small piece of land in his hand, saving him the trouble of how to deal with the land in the future.

Iwahashi Shin made up his mind and put the piece of land there first.

Compared with that small piece of land, Shinichi Iwahashi is mainly concerned about whether the Ministry of Finance will issue any relevant policies. Fortunately, there is Akihito Takenouchi who is the bankman. If there is a change, he can inform him.

But he didn't expect that when he put this matter aside for the time being, he would receive such a strange phone call.

"I took the liberty of calling because I want to discuss with you about your piece of land in Nishi-Shinjuku." In the phone message, a young man named Yamada explained to him that he wanted to buy his one and a half square meters of land at a high price.

"If you are willing, please call this number, I will be waiting for you at any time."

At the end of the phone message, the young man named Yamada said this. However, although he said all the honorifics, it left a strong feeling of "pretending to be polite" to Shinichi Iwahashi.

When he originally bought this half-square meter land, Iwahashi Shinichi learned from Imai that the land ownership in this block was messy and scattered, making it difficult to develop.

Otherwise, it would not have been delayed until now before a real estate company wanted to take over.

Shinichi Iwahashi didn't know the strength of Tachikawa Industries, but anyone who dared to take on this hot potato must be an ignorant fool - the probability of which was extremely slim. In this case, he was by no means an ordinary person.

For a real estate company that dares to take on such a job, Iwahashi Shinichi knows where they are coming from, and they are 100% related to the Yakuza. Either they are involved with the Yakuza, or they are simply the front company of the Yakuza.

The so-called front-end company is a way for the Jida to whitewash their reputation. They first pretend to break into the company, that is, they find a reason to sever ties with the cadres in the group and kick them out, and then use the kicked-out cadres to help manage related matters.

industry.

This is done in response to the police's increasingly severe crackdown on the Yakuza. If a company is opened by someone with a well-established reputation in the Yakuza, it will be subject to strict police surveillance and will have to deal with frequent inspections.

However, as long as the manager severs ties with the Yakuza in name, then there is nothing the police can do.

Such a real estate company will never just give polite persuasion when it comes to demolition. It is the kind of real estate company that will intimidate people, harass residents who refuse to demolish, and force them to move out.

During the bubble era, land prices soared and conflicts surrounding real estate were numerous.

In an era when families and relatives could have disputes over the sale of land, leading to estrangement and even fatalities, forced demolitions by the Yakuza were commonplace.

Intimidation, blackmail, and harassment are common tactics.

Furthermore, because Japan has the same right to rent a house, even if the owner of the house agrees to sell the land, if the tenants who have signed the contract do not agree, they cannot be asked out.

Therefore, in order to invade the land and drive out the residents, the Yakuza will even burn down the building. If the building is destroyed, the rental contract will be canceled and all that will be left is to deal with the owner of the land.

In today's Japan, there are very few groups who will seriously abide by this extreme rule of "not attacking the common people." The cadres of the Delu Group are so tyrannical that they would break into people's homes and beat them up.

Precisely because the Yakuza threaten the lives of ordinary people, in recent years, the Japanese police have increasingly cracked down on the Yakuza.

Shinichi Iwahashi had no intention of becoming a permanent resident, or rather, the demolition was just what he wanted.

Therefore, he had planned early that as long as the "Tachikawa Industrial" company found him, he would hand over the money and the land without saying a word. But now, someone called and claimed that he was interested in this small piece of land and wanted to build it.

I want to buy it from him.

Demolition is imminent, but a stranger who doesn't know where he came from wants to buy this land from him. It doesn't feel right no matter how you think about it.

Shinichi Iwahashi put down the receiver, thought for a while, looked through the call records, and found that the call was made twice in a row. The call was not connected the first time, but he called again and left a message.

As he flipped through the records, he recalled the words of the young man who claimed to be named Yamada in the message.

"Shinichi-kun——"

At this time, I heard Akina Nakamori's call from the bedroom.

Shinichi Iwahashi came to his senses and walked to the door of the bedroom. Akina Nakamori was still lying on the bed. When she saw him coming, she called out again: "Shinichi-kun~~"

"What's wrong?" Shinichi Iwahashi walked over.

Nakamori Akina couldn't say anything, so she stretched out her hand from under the quilt, grabbed his hand, and said, "It's so cold." Her hands hidden under the quilt were hot, and her palms were covered with sweat.

into his hands.

After hearing Akina Nakamori say that her hands were cold, Shinichi Iwahashi tried to pull her hand back, but she refused to let go and held on tightly. Shinichi Iwahashi sat down on the edge of the bed, "I bought toiletries, bath towels and disposable underwear."

I bought them all too.”

She said "hmm".

The first time she came to Iwahashi Shin's house, she lay down on his bed, and then asked him to help her go shopping. She felt embarrassed to take out any item by itself.

However, when these things happened one after another, her mood subtly became cheerful and she no longer cared about it.

"I also bought vegetables, mushrooms, beef..." Shinichi Iwahashi reported his battle situation to her.

Akina Nakamori said, "Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah", let go of his hand, and gave him orders, "Bring the other one too."

Iwahashi Shinichi complied and handed the other one over to her to hold.

"Shen Yijun, is there a pot for hot pot here?" she asked.

"Yes." Iwahashi Shinichi replied.

Brother Nakamura and Miwa-chan sometimes come to his place to eat hot pot, and all the tools for eating hot pot are quite complete. He asked: "Do you want to cook hot pot for dinner?"

"Eat some hot pot to keep warm." Akina Nakamori said.

Iwahashi Shinichi agreed, "Then I'll go and process the ingredients... By the way, I also bought strawberries, do you want to eat them?"

As I spoke, I thought of the impressive price of strawberries in Japan.

"I want to eat!" she said happily.

Shinichi Iwahashi withdrew his hand, patted her across the quilt, and urged her to get up. As soon as he mentioned getting up, Akina Nakamori changed the topic and asked him: "Is the phone call just now okay?"

"Um?"

"I didn't let you miss anything, did I?" Nakamori Akina turned over in bed and raised her face to look at him.

Shinichi Iwahashi denied, "It's nothing."

"Hmm..." She nodded and rustled the pillow again.

She was so small, with only her head exposed under the quilt. Shinichi Iwahashi looked at it and thought it was funny and cute. He stretched out his hand and touched her head.

Akina Nakamori behaved obediently under his hands and smiled.

"Shen Yijun." She called him again.

"Um?"

Akina Nakamori couldn't tell what she wanted to do, so she just called him with a smile: "Shinichi-kun~"

Shinichi Iwahashi couldn't do anything to her, so he leaned over and kissed her lips where she didn't know what to say. Only then was Nakamori Akina satisfied and calmed down. She hooked his neck and was carried up by him.

"Ah." Iwahashi Shin put a hand on her back and remembered something.

This time, Akina Nakamori said "Huh?"

"I forgot to prepare your pajamas."

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To be continued...