Chieko Nakamori made an appointment at the beauty salon on Friday afternoon to have her hair colored and permed.
She had been patronizing this shop for a long time. After the barber became familiar with her, he knew that she was Akina Nakamori's mother and asked enthusiastically: "Are you going to see Akina-san's concert?"
"Yes."
Chieko replied, "But I just went backstage to have a look."
"Then you should dress up carefully."
"That's right, that's right." The barber's words deeply touched Chieko's heart. She closed her eyes and replied, "I'm going out for a trip anyway, so I can't be careless at all."
She thought that if she went to the backstage of the concert, she would see the staff around her daughter, so she would take care of herself first.
Chieko is a person who just hopes to be decent at all times. Even when she was young and brought a group of immature children to work as a salesman in order to make a living, she would not let herself be seen as being at a disadvantage, like a
Rustic country woman.
If people don't have that kind of spirit, they will be defeated by themselves first.
Chieko looked at herself radiantly in the mirror and was satisfied.
After coming out of the beauty salon, I made a special trip to the record store. First I put my daughter Akina's new single into the shopping basket, then I listened to a few records displayed in conspicuous places in the store, and bought the one I liked.
After buying the record, I had dinner outside again, and then I started home after the lights came on.
After getting off the train in front of Kiyose Station, Chieko walked towards the conspicuous new building in front of the station. The restaurant run by her husband, son and daughter was all deserted.
She walked into the store owned by her son. When the little Heita saw her grandmother, she ran to her side cheering and poked her head around, curious about what was in the bag her grandmother was holding.
"It's a record." Chieko said.
It wasn't a cake. Heita was dejected and a little disappointed. However, as a child, he began to wonder what record it was. He put his little face to the mouth of the bag and looked at it, "Akina-chan!"
"Did you go to buy Akina's single?" Pingtai's mother came over.
"You should always support your daughter." Chieko said cheerfully.
As soon as he said this, an awkward word came from the door: "It's like you are the only one who loves Akina."
When Chieko heard this voice, her expression softened a little, but she turned around with a smile and looked at her husband who walked in, "If you think I'm pretending, then use actual actions to love Akina."
She is very generous, but her husband is very narrow-minded.
Nakamori Akio looked at his radiant wife and was so calmed by her energy that he did not dare to talk nonsense anymore.
All three stores were deserted. Nakamori Akio saw his separated wife entering his son's store and came to take a look. As soon as they met, he was choked and speechless.
"The concert is on Sunday, right?" Pingtai's mother quickly changed the subject.
Chieko smiled and said, "Yes. I'll take Pingtai to play backstage, is that okay?"
"Go backstage, go backstage!"
Before her mother could speak, little Heita had already cheered. Backstage at the concert, still in Yomiuri Land, Heita was already ignited with enthusiasm just by hearing what his grandmother said.
"When we enter the park, we will take the cable car." Chieko made plans with her grandson.
Nakamori Akio was furious when he looked at his wife who had begun to enjoy life. He was struggling with the unsustainable business every day. How could she live such a leisurely life and still feel so refreshed?!
Thinking about this, he wanted to mess up his wife's carefully permed and dyed hair.
"On Sunday morning, I will come here to pick up Heita and go to Yomiuri Paradise with him." Chieko made an agreement with Heita's mother.
After finishing the business here, he looked at his husband who was standing aside, still smiling, "You have worked hard too."
"...Hmm." Akio Nakamori was speechless.
Chieko recalled the conversation she had with Akina Nakamori about this building a few days ago when she came home to see her in order to give her an internal pass for the day of the concert.
She seemed to have mentioned it casually, "Kyoze was originally a small town, and now the whole family is doing the same business. There is not so much business to do. It is better to spread out and have more opportunities."
What's the point of wasting time guarding a shop that has no business...
When Akina first built this building for her family, Heita's mother was also happy about it and felt that she was being cared for by her big star sister. But as her husband quit his job and opened a store in this building, his father-in-law and aunt also opened a store in this building.
Here, things take a different turn.
Unknowingly, the brothers and sisters who were originally trying to make a living on their own outside suddenly gathered under the same umbrella.
Although she knew her idea was unreasonable, Heita's mother would sometimes argue with her husband and blame Akina for building the building.
It is because of this building that the "family" is bound together.
"What do you know..." Akio Nakamori held on and argued with his wife.
But Chieko did not fight back. She was at ease from beginning to end and was not affected by her husband at all. When they were young, the couple would argue and fight, but to this day, only Akio Nakamori keeps pounding his fists on the cotton.
Heita's mother looked at Chieko from the side and was shocked to realize that her mother-in-law had a strong heart.
What unites the entire Nakamori family is not the building built by the daughter who became a star with tens of millions of yen in loans. It is Chieko's tough but gentle heart.
When Chieko refused to move into this new building and stayed alone in her hometown to rest, today was destined to happen.
…
It was a flowery Friday, and at night, the whole of Tokyo seemed to be ignited with excitement. After eleven o'clock, Iwahashi Shinichi and Takenouchi Akihito met at the small bar they had arranged.
We haven’t seen each other for a while, BANDMAN Iwahashi Shinichi is making a lot of money, and BANKMAN Takenouchi Akihito is still in high spirits.
"Amazing, Shinichi-kun!"
Takenouchi Akihito had already had two rounds of drinks with his colleagues at the bank. He didn't have to wait for the new drink to be drunk, and his face was already glowing when he came over.
When we first met, he was just a nightclub waiter, and he never imagined that he would be where he is today. The more he knew about Iwahashi Shinichi, the more Takenouchi Akihito looked at him with admiration.
"Aren't you also prosperous?" Iwahashi Shin said.
Hearing what he said, Takenouchi Akihito smiled, "But compared to you, it's nothing."
What he said made it difficult for Iwahashi Shinichi to continue.
Takenouchi Akihito observed his reaction and was happy, "I was joking."
Although it was not funny at all, Iwahashi Shinichi still grinned in response. This reaction made Takenouchi Akihito laugh, "Is that intentional?"
"It was intentional." Iwahashi Shinichi readily admitted.
The two drank two drinks happily. Takenouchi Akihito remembered something and told him, "The Bank of Japan is going to raise interest rates, Shinichi-kun."
The Bank of Japan refers to the central bank of Japan.
"Really?" Shinichi Iwahashi pricked up his ears.
Takenouchi Akihito said with a smile, "It's incredible, how long has it been since we raised interest rates? In my impression, it seems that since the 1980s, interest rates have only been cut continuously."
However, when he said "terrible", looking at his reaction, it had nothing to do with "terrible" at all.
"It's not good news." After all, this is an era where the bubble is as big as the sky, with real estate and stocks sitting on top of the bubble.
When Iwahashi Shinichi first heard the word "rate hike" from Takenouchi Akihito, he had a strange feeling of "Is it coming soon?!"
This kind of mentality is not just to watch the fun, after all, he himself is living in this era. No one in this era can truly have nothing to do with this bubble era.
To be honest, it is the so-called anxiety and a little excitement of "witnessing history".
"That's what it is supposed to be, but if you just add a little bit, there's no need to be nervous." When Takenouchi Akihito said this, he paused and showed an expression as if he was about to tell some gossip.
"Actually, the Bank of Japan and the Ministry of Finance are fighting for power. It is just a necessary means."
"Struggle for power?" Shinichi Iwahashi was confused.
The Ministry of Finance is the official financial agency of Japan.
Takenouchi Akihito explained in a few words, "In short, the president of the Bank of Japan is a bureaucrat of the Ministry of Finance, and the vice president is a direct descendant of the Bank of Japan. The international faction represented by the Ministry of Finance insists on implementing the current loose policy, and the vice president of the Bank of Japan is a direct descendant of the group.
, but want to cool down the current economy and suppress expansion.”
"After the Liculud incident, the Minister of Finance stepped down, and the backer behind the current President of the Bank of Japan fell. The direct lineage of the Bank of Japan is fighting for power with the Ministry of Finance, intending to regain control of the Bank of Japan."
Takenouchi Akihito smiled and said, "There are many ways to fight openly and secretly at the top." But the "top" in his mouth can make ordinary people stand on the roof of the building and make dumplings with just a twitch of their little finger.
"This time, 80% of the time the Bank of Japan's direct descendants will win." Takenouchi Akihito guessed, "The Ministry of Finance is seriously injured and may lie dormant for a while."
"Then it will cool down the economy." This is a conceivable result.
Takenouchi Akihito nodded, "However, whether it is raising interest rates or cooling down the temperature, even if the group of vice presidents who advocate cooling down the situation have power, they cannot do it all at once, and the Ministry of Finance cannot really let them do whatever they want."
He repeated his old words, "Now the whole of Japan is running a red light, Shinichi-kun." Takenouchi Akihito didn't believe that after the Bank of Japan won the power struggle, it would dare to step on the accelerator and rush over. The most it could do was make corrections.
If he really steps on the accelerator, the consequences will be disastrous. Even he, a gangster in the bank, thinks so.
The bubble will burst, something terrible may happen, and people with a little sensitivity can smell such a crisis.
Among them are ordinary people who were forced to get involved in the bubble era, working hard to live in this era, and then waiting to suffer the pain after the bubble burst. There are also ignorant people who were involved, like gambling that tasted the sweetness, and in this era that seems to never last forever.
Ordinary people who can't help themselves at the gambling table.
In addition, there are people who have not participated from the beginning to the end, but are also forced to swallow the bitter pill. They enter this era with great ambitions and try their best. If they get on the car at full speed, they will not stop and cannot stop.
people.
There are 120 million people in Japan, and in the bubble era, they have 120 million kinds of lives.
"If I were Takenouchi-san, I would first get rid of the stocks and real estate I have." Iwahashi Shinichi said.
Takenouchi Akihito laughed at him, "You're really cautious."
"I just kept calm because I didn't have anything on hand," Shinichi Iwahashi said honestly.
There is no burden to point fingers at other people's affairs.
"No, don't you have a cigarette box?" Takenouchi Akihito teased him, "You even exchanged it for 12 million yen."
Takenouchi Akihito jokingly called the one and a half square meters of land a cigarette box.
"It's a loan." Shinichi Iwahashi corrected, remembering the strange phone call he received earlier from someone who wanted to buy his small piece of land.
After answering that phone call that day, he received no further relevant information. Tachikawa Real Estate, which was planning to develop that block, did not contact him either.
That phone call was like a pebble thrown into a pond, making people wonder if it was a prank.
But thinking of the polite and uncomfortable voice on the phone, Iwahashi Shinichi felt that it couldn't be a prank.
"After all," Takenouchi Akihito said eloquently, "even if interest rates are raised, it is nothing to be afraid of. Even if there is any impact, the interest rate hike will not be reflected that quickly. Maybe stocks and land will be affected.
It will rise even more. Although it is safe to be conservative, being conservative will also miss a lot of opportunities... Moreover, I am a BANKMAN who can get in touch with gossip in advance."
"I'm so envious, 'I can get access to gossip in advance.' I want to say this again." Iwahashi Shinichi deliberately made a joke.
Takenouchi Akihito laughed loudly and said a little bit thiefly: "But you can reveal the gossip in the entertainment industry in advance."
Iwahashi Shinichi probably understood what his plan was, so he didn't say anything more and just made a joke to bring the topic to an end.
Beat the drum and spread the flowers, and you don’t know whose hands the bomb will explode. But no matter what kind of person you are, you won’t believe it, and you will persuade yourself not to believe it.
A bomb will not explode in its own hands, the government will not throw away the destiny of the country, and will not push the country and its people into hell.
He went out to drink in the middle of the night, and ended up listening to Takenouchi Akihito chatting about the palace battle between the Bank of Japan and the Ministry of Finance. While he was drinking and digesting these things, he suddenly thought of the building Akina Nakamori built for his family.
Before, Nakamori Akina told him about the building, and Iwahashi Shinichi encouraged her to discuss it with her mother.
Chieko Nakamori is not only the last thread between Akina Nakamori and the Nakamori family, she can also communicate calmly with both parties at the same time.
Problems between family members should still be resolved internally.
On the contrary, for an outsider like Shinichi Iwahashi, it is best not to show his face in such an internal family issue, lest he be regarded as the evil person who seduced Akina Nakamori——
Akina didn't have such an idea originally, it was all because of this person talking nonsense next to her!
That would have the opposite effect and turn the already chaotic relationship into a pot of porridge. Nakamori Akina is a peach star again, and if things really get serious, there is no need to worry about not having a weekly magazine to go to that building to collect information.
…
Sunday came as scheduled.
For today's concert, Shinichi Iwahashi had reserved this day's schedule in advance, just waiting to bring the tickets for his connections so that he could watch the show from the best location.
Although the plan has changed slightly, he has to bring not only the votes of connections, but also nepotism.
The concert was held in the afternoon. In the morning, Shinichi Iwahashi didn't go anywhere. He took advantage of his day off to relax at home. After noon, when he was about to leave, he went to find the clothes that Akina Nakamori had chosen for him when he came last time.
After changing clothes, I picked up the skirt strap again and made gestures in front of the mirror for a long time, endlessly tangled.