Shinichi Iwahashi looked at the puppy that was grinning at him in protest.
The puppy shook its head, waggled its tail, lowered its body, and demonstrated to him. The puppy was as big as a palm and had a lot of momentum, as if it was looking after the home.
As soon as he entered the house, he was threatened by the puppy as an intruder. Although this threat was not intimidating and even a little funny, the atmosphere of Shinichi Iwahashi breaking into a private house filled the atmosphere.
Fortunately, it's a small puppy, so it won't disturb the neighbors if it barks.
Shinichi Iwahashi stood under the entrance hall, looking in, waiting for the hostess to come to the rescue. As a result, he saw no figure of Akina Nakamori, only the puppy with its teeth and claws showing, eager to pounce up.
He bent down slightly, and the puppy shrank back in fear. Just like that, he continued to bark without forgetting his bluff. This look reminded Shinichi Iwahashi of a certain paper tiger who was accustomed to bluffing.
...It's probably true that people keep different dogs.
"Kenta!"
The hostess came late and called out. The puppy immediately changed its appearance and ran to her feet quickly, wagging its tail. While wagging its tail, it did not forget the strange man and barked at Shinichi Iwahashi a few more times.
Voice.
Akina Nakamori smiled, knelt down and told the puppy, "This is Nissan~" She picked up the puppy and went to Shinichi Iwahashi and greeted him, "Good evening, Nissan~"
She also didn't forget to show off her voice acting skills by dubbing the puppy.
Just now, she deliberately wanted to tease Iwahashi Shinichi. She deliberately hid it so she could see him helpless with the puppy. As a result, when she came out, she didn't see him helpless, but she saw him looking thoughtful.
expression.
However, Nakamori Akina's little thoughts came and went as quickly as she started talking, and she forgot them again.
As if the puppy understood, it bared its teeth at him and barked twice. Nakamori Akina lowered her head and smoothed its fur, "Because it is a small dog, its nerves are relatively sensitive..."
Yorkies are very good, but they are very timid. They start reporting at the slightest sign of trouble, and they are very nervous.
After she explained the puppy seriously, she raised her face and looked at him with a smile, "It's cute, isn't it?" This was the first time Shin Iwahashi saw the puppy she raised.
"Um……"
Akina Nakamori disliked his vague response, "It was perfunctory."
Iwahashi Shinichi couldn't do anything to her, "Cute."
"Really?" She glanced at him.
Iwahashi Shinichi guessed that she was deliberately looking for trouble and deliberately wanted to tease her, "I'm going to outshine you."
As a result, the paper tiger answered as it should, "Of course puppies are cuter." After saying this, he slowly settled the score with him, "Besides, these are not things that can be compared together, right?"
She complained casually and put the puppy on the ground with a smile. The nervous puppy ran around twice, stopped at her feet, and gently bit her trouser legs to act coquettishly.
Iwahashi Shinichi was then "allowed" to come up. Nakamori Akina pulled his hand and acted coquettishly at him.
He couldn't help laughing.
"What are you laughing at?" Nakamori Akina looked at the smile on his face, and intuitively felt that he was not thinking about good things, so she glared at him.
Shinichi Iwahashi stretched out his arms, held her in his arms, and touched her hair. Akina Nakamori let him hold her for a while, then suddenly mentioned, "Didn't you say that you would bring snacks and toys to Kenta?"
She said nonchalantly, "If you bring a gift, it won't deny you entry."
Iwahashi Shinichi said deliberately: "Then I haven't prepared any gifts or toys for you." His tone was innocent, "You won't let me in, right?"
Nakamori Akina was speechless, touched him with her forehead, and said disgustedly: "Why are you so petty?"
...who is so petty?
Akina Nakamori, who rakes the earth every day, is completely unaware of this matter.
Iwahashi Shinichi changed the subject, "So, have you decided to name the puppy 'Kenta'?"
The two of them said "Kenta" to each other, and the puppy ran to their feet, spun around, barked twice, and ran away again.
Nakamori Akina rested her head on his shoulder and agreed, "Yeah, yeah", "Because it's too small, and I really hope it can grow up healthily. So, I used Takakura Ken-san's 'Ken' and Sugawara Bunta-san's 'Tai'
, I hope it can also grow into a man."
Both of these two are big stars in Toei's Rogue Movies, and they both play tough men.
As for "Kenta", although he weighs less than 500 grams, and will probably weigh only 2 kilograms when he reaches adulthood... he is still a little man.
"It's too old-school." Shinichi Iwahashi laughed at her.
Akina Nakamori groaned, "I'm just an old-fashioned woman...can't you?" She became more energetic, left Shinichi Iwahashi's arms, left him where he was, and walked in first.
Looking like this, I don't know what she is thinking.
Iwahashi Shinichi looked at her back and followed her in. The puppy Kenta, who had shown off his power just now, was just sitting on the sofa recuperating his energy.
Knowing that this strange man was not an intruder who broke into the house without permission, the puppy's grinning aura disappeared. Iwahashi Shinichi tried to call its name, and the puppy wagged its tail at him.
A puppy with a friendly personality will become familiar with it in a short time.
However, when Akina Nakamori came over, the puppy immediately forgot about Iwahashi Shinichi and ran to nest next to her. Judging from its arrogant appearance, it probably didn't teach it any rules.
Nakamori Akina took everything from the order, like a doting mother.
Iwahashi Shinichi drank the tea prepared by Nakamori Akina and watched her pinch her throat to play with the puppy. He found it funny.
"Let me tell you." She teased the puppy while talking to Shinichi Iwahashi, "My second brother and second sister-in-law's child was born. It's a girl."
Iwahashi Shinichi vaguely remembered hearing her mention that her second brother was going to have another child at home.
"It's very cute, and the cry is very loud. My second brother said that he might have a talent for singing." Nakamori Akina continued to tease the puppy. When the puppy got impatient and started to avoid it, she stopped and went to see Shinichi Iwahashi.
"When you were a baby, did you cry loudly?" Shinichi Iwahashi asked.
Akina Nakamori shook her head, "He is an ugly child who is weak and sick, and cries like a kitten." Her second brother's beautiful vision for his daughter would be difficult to achieve if he applied the template of the big singer in the family.
However, this also shows that her second brother, who has such expectations for his daughter, showed simple love and expectations for his daughter when he said these words.
"My mother told me that my second brother and sister-in-law decided to move out of that building and go elsewhere." Akina Nakamori confided to Shinichi Iwahashi, "My eldest sister doesn't seem to be planning to continue opening the store.
Already."
On the day when I went back to my hometown to see my newborn niece, I also heard my mother Chieko explain this matter. Even though I saw my second brother and second sister-in-law, I still had to hear this matter from my mother.
But rather than saying this to Nakamori Akina personally, it is more suitable for her mother, Chieko, to convey it to her.
Nakamori Akina's eldest sister and second brother use the store in the building she paid for. If they take the initiative to tell Nakamori Akina this, it would be like admitting to her that they have received her favor. But in the same way, they should not talk to her face to face.
Opening this store also means that this failed store opening experience is not blamed on Nakamori Akina.
A subtle, "neither owes anything to the other" state.
However, ultimately, this was the seed that was planted when the brothers and sisters of the Nakamori family wore the same clothes prepared by Chieko, blurred into "children of the Nakamori family", and followed their mother out together.
Because they are all "children of the Nakamori family", it doesn't matter if they wear exactly the same clothes. It is also appropriate for Akina Nakamori to build a building for her family after she makes money.
"I think it must be my mother's fault."
Akina Nakamori knew in her heart that the only person in the Nakamori family that still had weight in the hearts of her brothers and sisters was her mother, Chieko. Only Chieko's intervention could she persuade the children of the Nakamori family.
However, the biggest resistance to selling the building comes from his father, Akio Nakamori. This timid father treats the building like a piece of driftwood in the arms of a drowning man. If he wants him to let go and agree, he must either forcefully remove the piece of floating wood.
Either let him sink into the water, or send him ashore so that he no longer needs this piece of driftwood.
Neither Akina Nakamori nor Chieko would choose the first option.
It is precisely because mother and daughter are in the same mind that Chieko can help Nakamori Akina. But there is also a third option, which is to make Nakamori Akio realize that what he is holding is not a life-saving driftwood, but will accelerate his sinking into the water.
of stones.
"The operating conditions of the building are not good, and the rental business of the apartment upstairs is getting worse and worse. If this continues, sooner or later, we will go bankrupt." Nakamori Akina muttered.
Shinichi Iwahashi listened obediently, and looking at her dejected look, he guessed that the matter of selling the house had probably been decided.
In this process, Akina Nakamori did not tell how much effort Chieko exerted and what she did, and Shinichi Iwahashi could not know. Or how Chieko cleared the obstacles for her, she did not tell Akina Nakamori.
Being able to sell the building, Iwahashi Shinichi secretly breathed a sigh of relief for Nakamori Akina in his heart. He knew that the bubble would burst sooner or later, and when the time came, this building, with the loan still unpaid, would become Nakamori Akina, and even the Nakamori family.
Trouble. If it really comes to that situation, not only will Nakamori Akina suffer a huge financial loss, I'm afraid her family will turn around and feel that she shouldn't be so strong-willed that she should build a building.
However, Shinichi Iwahashi breathed a sigh of relief for her, not just because she disposed of the building before the bubble burst. She also felt from the bottom of her heart that selling this shared building would cut off the ties that tied the family to their feet.
The beginning of the chain.
"Father said it was all because I built that building that made no money and wasted everyone's time." Nakamori Akina blinked hard and looked at Iwahashi Shinichi.
When Iwahashi Shinichi heard this, he felt that these words were ridiculous and excessive. The cowardice of Nakamori Akina's father was fully exposed in this complaint.
"So, it's a good time to sell it now." Akina Nakamori said, "If it's sold, everyone will breathe a sigh of relief." She didn't say this out of anger.
At the beginning, I built that building with a beautiful vision in mind. But in the end, because of that building, the family became even less like a family. After the building was built, the family fell apart.
Now that I have finally reached the stage of selling the building, I have lifted off the cloth that maintained the appearance, revealing that it had long been smashed to pieces and in a mess - the beauty I once imagined.
In fact, it has nothing to do with "beautiful" from beginning to end.
"I'm relieved too." Nakamori Akina said this with a confused expression. She stretched out her hand to Iwahashi Shinichi as if seeking support.
Iwahashi Shinichi held her hand. Nakamori Akina asked him, "Why is this happening?"
"It's because I did something appropriate." Iwahashi Shinichi replied.
"Appropriate thing?" Nakamori Akina looked at his somewhat convoluted words and showed a confused expression.
Iwahashi Shin nodded, "Isn't the thing that makes you feel relieved, the right thing to do? If you do the inappropriate thing, your heart will be heavy. It will never be because of doing something bad,
On the contrary, you feel relieved, right?"
"Hmm..." Nakamori Akina blinked.
Shinichi Iwahashi encouraged her, "It's a good thing if everyone can relax."
"If selling the building is a good thing, then wouldn't it be a wrong thing to build that building in the first place?" Akina Nakamori got into trouble with him.
"Selling the building is a good thing, and building the building is not wrong either."
Akina Nakamori laughed after hearing this, "Anyway, Shinichi, you just have to speak for me no matter what."
"I'm not kidding you, I really think so." Shinichi Iwahashi said, "If I hadn't built that building, I wouldn't have known that selling the building was a good thing."
Nakamori Akina patted him gently and said with a smile: "Aren't you trying to coax me?" She moved a little wider, startling the puppy Kenta who was nesting next to her. The puppy barked twice,
Finding that nothing was wrong, he jumped down from the sofa and nestled at the feet of Akina Nakamori. Such a small size made people worry that they would step on it when they got up.
The originally serious topic was suddenly interrupted by this puppy, and the two people couldn't help but look at each other and smile.
Before actually taking the puppy home, Nakamori Akina had not considered the possibility of being interrupted by the puppy. Now, it can be said that it is the first time to experience such a small accident, which may happen from time to time in the future.
.
However, after laughing, the topic was not dismissed. Nakamori Akina looked at Iwahashi Shinichi, as if she wanted to get the answer from Iwahashi Shinichi, and waited for him to continue talking.
This stubborn pursuit may also contain some kind of expectation.
Iwahashi Shinichi felt this to some extent and continued, "It's true."
They would rather open three restaurants next to each other in the same building than get together as a family and work together to run one restaurant. This approach certainly exposed the cowardice of Nakamori Akina's father, brothers and sisters, but from another perspective
Said that he was the brother and sister of Akina Nakamori, and gradually realized that he was not a general "child of the Nakamori family", but a specific person.
