Chang Hongling came out of the bathroom, tiptoed to the bedroom door and listened for a while, but there was no movement inside.
She gently opened the door, only to see Hattori Hikoo sitting on the tatami, looking at her expressionlessly. She couldn't help being startled, stroking her chest and saying, "I thought you were asleep."
Hattori Hikoo: "Do you want me to sleep, or do you want me to be awake?"
Chang Hongling pretended to be angry and said: "Why are you acting weird all of a sudden? I don't understand what you are talking about!"
Hattori Hikoo picked up the tea bowl and took a sip, and said: "I take a shower every day, why does it take so long? Do you not want to sleep with me?"
"Hattori-kun, what's wrong with you today?" Chang Hongling glanced at a bottle of Shibantong on the coffee table.
Hattori Hikoo followed her gaze and said calmly: "I was worried that you had run out of medicine, so I asked someone to buy a bottle."
Chang Hongling picked up the medicine bottle and sat there for a long time. She sighed and said, "This matter... you finally discovered it!"
Hattori Hikoo said coldly: "Ayako, I hope you can give me a reasonable explanation!"
"I...I don't know how to tell you..."
"I don't know how to say it, or I don't dare to say it!"
Chang Hongling suddenly raised her head and said, "Hattori-kun, what do you mean by that?"
Hattori Hikoo said with a serious face: "You know what it means!"
"I'm sorry, I don't know. Please make it more clear!" Chang Hongling showed no sign of weakness.
"Brother, Ayako, what's wrong with you?" Hattori Mina's voice came from outside the door.
Hattori Hikoo said in a deep voice: "Mina, go to bed quickly, it's none of your business!"
"You woke me up, why don't you have anything to do with me..." Hattori Mina opened the door and walked in.
She looked at Chang Hongling and said, "What's the reason this time?"
Chang Hongling pretended to be aggrieved and said: "I don't know, don't ask me!"
Hattori Mina sat next to her brother and said, "Brother, you are a grown man. If anything happens, you can't... Hey, what is so hard?"
While she was talking, she touched her buttocks and found a southern-style pistol!
Hattori Hikoo took it over and said with a straight face: "Children, please stay out of adults' business!"
Hattori Hikoo's eyes widened and he said in surprise: "Brother, how could the gun be placed under the mat? What if it goes off?"
"I forgot, I just stuffed it down there. Who would have known that you would sit here without even saying hello!" Hattori Hikoo said in a cover-up manner.
Chang Hongling: "The safety of the pistol was turned on. I'm so lucky that Mina didn't misfire just like that!"
Hattori Hikoo: "You really know a lot!"
"My father often brings a gun home, and my husband never leaves his side with a gun. Tell me, in such an environment, what can I do not to know!" Chang Hongling became more and more excited as she spoke, and she shouted the last sentence loudly.
Hattori Hikoo said sternly: "Ayako, you are so rude!"
Chang Hongling said with tears in her eyes: "Am I rude? Yes, I am rude! Hattori-kun, since the gun is ready, shoot me to death!"
Hattori Mina advised: "Ayako, don't say hurtful words..."
Chang Hongling wiped her tears and said: "Hattori-kun, since you care so much about this matter to the point of using a knife or a gun, okay, then I will tell you why I take this medicine!"
Chang Hongling's reaction was so intense that Hattori Hikoo was quite unexpected. In the past, when two people quarreled, they would only argue for a few words. There had never been a loud quarrel like ordinary people.
"Brother, what are you two talking about?" Hattori Mina was anxious and helpless.
Hattori Hikoo held the pistol and said: "Don't interrupt, let her speak!"
Chang Hongling: "Hattori-kun, don't think that women don't understand anything. I have read books and know what is right and what is wrong. When my parents were alive, they also taught me by words and deeds."
Hattori Hikoo said word for word: "I respect women very much. You should be able to feel it when you have been married to me for so long!"
Chang Hongling nodded and said: "Yes, compared to most Japanese men, you have indeed done a good job! If you were not too suspicious of me, I would even think you are perfect enough!"
Thinking of what happened in the past, Hattori Hikoo said with some embarrassment: "If I hadn't discovered that you were taking this drug, how could I have suspected my wife for no reason!"
Chang Hongling sneered: "So, you asked Yamamoto Yujo to pretend to be a neighbor to test me!"
Hattori Hikoo was shocked and said: "What are you talking about!"
Chang Hongling: "Yamamoto Yujo said that he has a very good relationship with my father and often comes to his house for dinner. If that is the case, no matter how young I am, I will not have no impression at all. The most important thing is that he said that I There is a scar on my head, but I don’t have one!”
Hattori Hikoo: "Then why didn't you expose him then?"
"I don't want to expose it, I want to see what kind of game my husband is trying to play!"
"Do you think I ordered him?"
"Is not it?"
"Tell me why!"
"Hattori-kun, you never go to the military club, and you even told me that it was a waste of time! That day, you suddenly had to take me to a party, and then I met an inexplicable neighbor. I heard what he said With those words, I understood everything!”
Hattori Hikoo remained silent. Originally he was still doubting the cause of Yamamoto Yujo's death, but now it seems that it has nothing to do with Ayako.
Because even if Ayako is a spy, since she guessed that Yamamoto Yujo is an impostor, there is no need to kill someone who poses no threat to her!
"But you still haven't explained clearly why you need to take that medicine!" Hattori Hikoo closed the safety of the pistol, turned around and put it in the drawer.
Seeing this move, Chang Hongling knew that Hattori Hikoo believed at least half of her!
Hattori Mina was confused when she heard this and said: "Brother, Ayako, what on earth are you talking about?"
Chang Hongling wiped away her tears and said with a smile: "Mina, that's what happened. Have you seen this bottle of medicine? This is a contraceptive pill that can prevent women from having children."
Hattori Mina picked up the medicine, looked at it over and over, and said, "You mean... you haven't been pregnant because you took this medicine?"
Chang Hongling: "Yes."
Hattori Mina was so surprised that she opened her mouth from ear to ear and said, "Why...why do you do this?"
Chang Hongling said proudly: "Hattori-kun, Mina, my idea is actually very simple. I don't want my child to be born in a war-torn era!"
Hattori Hikoo snorted coldly: "What kind of reason is this? Yanjin is the rear area, prosperous and stable, where is the war!"
Chang Hongling shook her head and said: "Hattori-kun, don't lie to yourself. I often listen to the radio. The imperial army suffered many defeats on the front line. Even Tokyo was bombed by American planes. I heard that four houses were damaged.
Three out of three..."
"Stop talking!" Hattori Hikoo slammed the table angrily and said, "The empire is only temporarily frustrated. It won't be long before the imperial army is still the invincible and invincible iron army!"
Chang Hongling sighed and said: "Yesterday I was chatting with Mrs. Shimomura. She said that the domestic conscription age has been relaxed to fourteen years old... Hattori-kun, fourteen-year-olds are just children. Can they go to the battlefield to fight?"
"
Hattori Hikoo was speechless. This situation will become the norm in the future. Multi-front operations consume a huge amount of soldiers. In the past, all 16-year-old soldiers were added to the B Division or the D Division.
It's different now. There are also a large number of fifteen or sixteen-year-old soldiers in Class A divisions. Retired soldiers have also been recalled and picked up guns again to be incorporated into the so-called elite ace division.
"No matter what, you should at least tell me!" Hattori Hikoo said a little discouraged.
Hattori Mina understood it more or less and rushed to say: "Brother, I don't blame Ayako for this matter. If she told you, would you agree?"
Hattori Hikoo thought for a while and said: "Mina, it's okay, go to sleep!"