With the mood of throwing a drift bottle, when I sent the letter, I didn't expect that I would get a response. It was a miracle like throwing the drift bottle and getting a response.
When she received the reply from Akina Nakamori, Miho Koyama already felt it was incredible. However, the next development of the matter was even more unexpected. After receiving the reply, at the beginning of the new year, Akina-san
Someone from the office contacted me.
After receiving such a call, Miho Koyama’s first reaction was: Liar?!
But, what is there about me worth being deceived about? Moreover, the call is still in the name of Akina-san Firm.
To use such a reason, the other party should at least know that she is a fan of Akina-san. So, is it someone she knows who is playing a prank?
...For example, the currently popular teasing variety show has reversed the routine of only pranking artists. Even ordinary people have begun to have the opportunity to be teased. If I get the call and go to the scene excitedly, maybe
There are five cameras waiting there, waiting to take pictures of your expressions.
How could any producer be so evil as to want to prank ordinary people?
Not only that, colleagues and friends around me like to watch this show, and even joke that they want to be screwed. It is said that such a show will soon be moved to prime time due to its rising popularity.
But Miho Koyama is definitely not the kind of person who wants to be seen losing control of herself. If someone signs up for such a program on her behalf, she will definitely break up with this so-called "friend".
However, this was just her wishful thinking. In fact, she sent a letter to Akina-san. This was a secret that only she knew and she had never told another person.
When people feel overwhelmed, they will subconsciously look for a reason that at least seems reasonable.
The person on the phone seemed to have taken her concerns into consideration and said he would call back later and suggested that she check the phone number.
...It is true that the phone number of Yanyin Office is correct.
Miho Koyama got the answer and felt confident. She was not targeted by scammers or stalkers, nor was she accidentally betrayed by her friends. However, immediately after, a wave of confusion replaced these thoughts and filled her heart -
Akina-san's office, why did you call me again? -
It was because of that letter that the name Miho Koyama came into Akina-san's sight.
The answer to this question is so obvious.
After a while, the same number called again. Miho Koyama hesitated, but immediately chose to take the receiver in her hand.
The same person who called just now conveyed to her on the phone that Akina-san wanted to meet her.
Mingcai-san...
Want to meet her?!
Miho Koyama stood in front of the phone, trying hard to digest the information conveyed on the other side. However, it was not so much that she was overwhelmed by the sudden invitation, but rather because, in her heart, about that letter
Things kept coming up, making her feel a little uneasy.
In fact, during this New Year, she might have gotten some news about Zhang Zi.
…
During the New Year holiday, Miho Koyama returned to her hometown as usual and spent a lively New Year's Eve with her extended family.
Her hometown is quite traditional, although this tradition seems very annoying when her parents always urge her to go on a blind date quickly and then resign and get married, so as not to depreciate rapidly and become unable to get married after the age of twenty-five.
.However, when the large family happily enjoyed the New Year's dinner carefully prepared by her mother and went to the shrine, Miho Koyama felt proud that she was born into a big family.
After parting ways with Akiko, Miho Koyama realized that she knew nothing about her.
What is Zhang Zi's hometown like, and what kind of family she grew up in. When she is in trouble, if she asks her family for help, will she be able to get help from her family?
Or, even if Zhang Zi knew he would fall into hell, he would rather do so than ask for help from his family.
Xiaoshan Miho remembered what Akiko once said about her adolescence. A fat girl with acne on her face was caught by a bad boy in school, who pushed her face to the ground and humiliated her. Akiko cried and begged her mother to take her.
When I went to see a doctor to treat acne, my mother felt that she was making a fuss out of a molehill. Isn't it the right time to get acne at this age?
When Zhangzi needed help, her family didn't help her, her friends didn't help her, and the school didn't help her either.
...Zhang Zi's life could have been different.
In the first month of the first month, Miho Koyama's family returned to her father's hometown. Her father's hometown was a fish shop, and the shop and land were inherited by her uncle. As the third son, her father became an ordinary office worker. His hobby was fishing and he was very fond of fishing.
He unsentimentally compared his biological daughter to a mackerel.
When the big family got together in their hometown, the relatives drank happily and the atmosphere was warm.
The sons and daughters of the fish store family all have little future. They live a down-to-earth life and have never made a fortune or fallen down. Although in the past few years, when watching others fly into the sky, they would feel a little unwilling, however, Xiaoshan
Miho's family simply believed that she was born ordinary, just a mackerel, without the ability or luck to fight the waves.
In the first month of this year, when the adults gathered together and drank wine, there was a strange sense of relief in the spirit of Miho Koyama.
The world's downturn has reached a point where even ordinary people like them are aware of it.
While some people are trying hard to find evidence that "it's not the case" and are not willing to over-interpret something as mysterious as "Japan helped the United States", the Oyama family has always believed that "mackerel cannot defeat the waves".
"This matter has finally been confirmed. When the clouds of recession are shrouded, I have gained an inexplicable peace.
This is probably the life wisdom of ordinary people with a little cunning and no hope at all. When Xiaoshan Miho noticed this, she felt that the elders were funny in her heart.
The entire Koyama family is a bit optimistic and silly, just like the Ino Taro family in "Chibi Maruko-chan".
But in fact, not everyone in the Xiaoshan family, which has gone through this era smoothly and calmly, accepts the ordinary fate of mackerel.
Miho's second aunt was once full of ambitions about this era. A few years ago, when the stock market was booming, she encouraged her husband to invest his savings in it. When she saw financial products such as golf membership certificates, she also felt that she could make a lot of money, and she came up with one idea after another.
A. However, regarding his wife’s ambition, the husband only thinks that she is out of her mind.
My aunt, who could only use her personal money, quietly opened an account at a securities company. Not only that, but very cleverly, she escaped from the stock market before the turmoil and made a small profit. As a wife, she felt a sense of accomplishment for her success.
The husband only thought it was a fluke. In the end, the aunt's ambition and dream came to an end.
During this first month, when the rest of the family felt relieved, I didn't know what my aunt was thinking.
...could it be possible that my aunt's life could have been otherwise? Was that possible alternative better or worse? Or, whether it was good or bad, she had no choice at all.
These thoughts flashed through Xiaoshan Miho's mind, but she was unwilling to think deeply about them.
After the lively New Year, Miho Koyama returned to Tokyo.
At the party at the beginning of the new year, the section chief spent his own money to invite everyone in the department to have a meal together. After the dinner, they went to karaoke together. The drunk men, taking advantage of the alcohol, behaved wildly, and the section chief even more
It was bluntly said that these female employees "caught up with the best times of the market".
"It may not be like this next!" The section principal's words were like drunken rants.
Of course, when the party is over and you leave the karaoke box, everything will be wiped out naturally. Whether it is a female employee who is ridiculed in person, or a male employee who says that it is not easy for him, those who have lost their composure will not feel guilty for their loss.
Embarrassing, people who have witnessed such a gaffe must try their best to forget everything they saw at that time.
The section chief said that they caught up with the best market times, and perhaps he was right. However, they were not the only female employees who caught up with this good market.
The section chief's words reminded Miho Koyama of the big mackerel family in her hometown, and of the elders who felt relieved during the first month of the year because of a sense of joy and a little bit of schadenfreude.
She couldn't help but wonder, are there really people who have nothing to do with this era?
At the beginning of the new year, new employees will be recruited into the company soon. When Miho Oyama joined the company, even a clerk like her who was doing odd jobs received a small gift from the company when she was confirmed to join the company.
A small perfume gift certificate.
In the second year after Miho Koyama joined the company, the new employees who joined the company received more entry-level gifts.
This year's new employees will no longer have such benefits.
There are no entry benefits, and the initial salary is not that high. Even for office workers who are already employed, this year's salary increase is not even 5%.
When times are good, even if you don't make a big splash in this era, you still feel the dazzling light of the times sweeping over your face. If times are good, even you can feel a part of it,
Then, Miho Koyama can't help but think about what will happen when the recession comes.
Before the New Year, Miho Koyama bought a dozen postcards and sent them to her relatives and friends. At the beginning of the new year, after returning to Tokyo from her hometown, her mailbox would be filled with New Year's postcards from her relatives and friends.
Last year, when preparing New Year postcards to send to her friends, Miho Koyama couldn't help but think of Akiko again. If anyone knew that she thought of Akiko so frequently, they might find her annoying and pretentious. However, when she cares about someone in her heart,
When I was a human being, it seemed that everything I did should have a place for another person.
Before meeting Akiko, although Miho Koyama had so many friends, she had never experienced this kind of worry.
Miho Koyama took out the postcards she received from the mailbox and looked at them one by one. After thinking about it, she put them in a box and sent them back to her hometown...
Among the postcards with familiar names written on them, one of them was signed only with "Zhang Zi".
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A very ordinary postcard that can be seen everywhere in convenience stores. It only has a simple sentence: "Happy New Year." There is no address of the sender, and no additional information is disclosed. It can only be identified by the postmark.
Postcard sent from Nagoya.
Akiko...are you in Nagoya now?
Apart from this bit of news about Mohu, Miho Koyama still knew nothing about Akiko. And such a postcard that revealed nothing, did it bring a kind of comfort to Miho, or did it bring her
More questions?
However, Zhang Zi is still alive at least.
When this idea came up, Miho Koyama shuddered and blamed herself for this terrible idea. However, deep in her heart, there was another voice telling herself that this was not an exaggeration on her part.
Such an idea was actually a real possibility that could happen, a possibility that she had never dared to think about.
If so, this postcard is of course a comfort to her. It is both a comfort and a question.
…
The time that she had decided with the staff at Kenyin and met Akina-san was getting closer and closer. In Miho Koyama's heart, the tension that made her restless continued to grow.
What will happen when I see Akina-san? What can I say to her, and what will Akina-san say to me? Until that moment comes, there is no way of knowing how things will develop, which makes Miho Koyama feel uncertain.
Originally, she wanted to send the letter to Akina-san like throwing a drift bottle. But not only did she get a response, but now, there is even such an unexpected development.
However, Miho Koyama did not feel happy about this meeting.
No matter what reason Akina-san wanted to see her, the reason why she attracted Akina-san's attention was that letter. When Miho Koyama felt uneasy about what Akina-san would say to her, it was not that she didn't feel something.
Such an ugliness that deceives oneself and others.
Besides Akiko's matter, what else could happen? However, even if she imagined that letter as a thrown bottle, when she sent the letter, didn't she think about getting Akina-san's response?
If she really wasn't qualified to talk about Akiko to Akina-san, she shouldn't have sent that letter in the first place.
That New Year's postcard sent from Nagoya without revealing any information.
Is it Zhang Zi?
If that possibility exists, is it possible that because of meeting Akina-san, I could reunite with Zhang Zi?
However, when this thought came to Miho Koyama's mind, she suddenly felt ashamed.
On this Sunday afternoon, the day came to meet Akina-san.
Before leaving, Miho Koyama opened the drawer, looked at the New Year's postcard sent by Zhang Zi, and put her hand into the drawer.
