Chapter 305: Compared to Men, Women Are Indeed a Lot More Attentive.
Old man Kitagawa sat in front of the counter with a disappointed look on his face. He raised his head and drank a cup of burning wine.
"I'm really sorry. I even asked you to accompany me." Old man Kitagawa gently looked at the wine cup in his hand, "I also know that my request is very excessive, but for an old man like me to be able to fool around I am already very satisfied."
"It's okay, it's okay," Kawaki quickly replied, his face full of a bitter smile, "We should be the ones to apologize. I'm really sorry for not being able to help with this."
As he spoke, Kawaki lightly knocked on Kagura's head who was still eating, and reminded her in a low voice, "Hey, you also apologize!"
"It hurts!" Kagura put down the bowl and chopsticks, rubbed her head, and complained. Then, she looked at Old man Kitagawa reluctantly, "Sorry, grandpa."
"Hahaha, no need, no need," Old man Kitagawa smiled, "After all. I forced you to accept my commission."
Otose, who had been standing in front of them and observing all this while, suddenly said, "Hey, old man, so what's going on? Between you and your wife?"
Kawaki held the cup and glanced at Old man Kitagawa.
"To tell the truth, I might just feel lonely..." Old man Kitagawa smiled self-deprecatingly, and then slowly talked about the past, "That was a long time ago. At that time, I was just an ordinary newspaper deliveryman. Young, shy, and even ignorant of the world."
"One day, a beautiful little girl suddenly came to our company. She was really beautiful. I still found it incredible when I thought about it now. I didn't even have the courage to look at her. She was so understanding and exuded a light that was completely different from us country bumpkins."
"To be honest, I can't remember why I talked to her for the first time. The only thing I can remember is the laughter she made from sitting behind my bicycle and the sound of her harmonica blowing The silver bell-like laughter and the song that I can't name. Even now, I think it is the most beautiful voice in the world."
"I seem to have done many silly things to make her laugh, but I can't remember all of them. The only thing I can remember is the smile on her face and the hand she stretched out... The two of us got together in a daze under the blessings of the surrounding people."
Old man Kitagawa did not speak quickly, his words full of emotion.
"However, an accident caused us to cut off our hopes of being parents. But even so, the two of us made it through by supporting each other. Thirty years had passed. Recently, the two of us had just retired from the company. Then, for some reason, we suddenly felt disturbed."
"Sometimes I think [Why is she with me?] [Is it because she likes me that she is with me?]"
As he spoke, Old man Kitagawa, whose face had already started to turn red, scratched the back of his head and smiled embarrassedly, "I'm sorry, I let you hear all these indifferent complaints. I'm already so old, what am I saying? Am I a virgin? Ahahaha..."
As he spoke, Old man Kitagawa glanced at the watch on his wrist. Then, he stood up from his original spot, took out a note, placed it on the table, and turned around, "She's almost done cooking. Sorry, it's time to go. Also, thank you for being patient enough to listen to this old man nagging for so long..."
Looking at Old man Kitagawa's somewhat lonely back, no one spoke.
However, just as Old man Kitagawa walked to the door and opened the sliding door, Kawaki suddenly stood up and said, "Wait, Old man."
"What's wrong?" Old man Kitagawa turned around and asked.
"Kagura," Kawaki looks at Kagura and asks, "Do you understand?"
"Understood!" Kagura stood up, gave a salute, and then rushed out the door and disappeared into the night sky.
...
Kawaki, Otose, and Old man Kitagawa stood at the entrance of Otose's store, looking at Kagura, who was holding a large bag of shopping bags and sweating all over her face, rushing over.
Kawaki was instantly furious, "Hey! Didn't I say that you only need to buy that one?! Why are there so many big and small bags?! What exactly did you buy!"
Kagura walked up to him, wiped the sweat on her forehead, and then put the shopping bags on the ground. She took out the empty wallet from her pocket and put it in Kawaki's hand.
"Your wallet."
"Why is it empty?!"
"Because I saw the vinegared kelp in the supermarket is on sale. If I buy 2,000 pieces, you can get a 9.99% discount." Kagura explained confidently.
"That's too much! You don't need to care about that little discount at all! How long are you going to eat so much vinegared kelp?!" Kawaki complained crazily, "If you continue like this, your youth will be full of vinegared kelp!"
Kagura picked her nose and then rubbed her finger against Kawaki's clothes. Then, she took out a rusty-looking harmonica that looked very old and was obviously second-hand from the shopping bag on the side and handed it to Old man Kitagawa.
"I'm sorry..."
"Why are you apologizing?"
"It's all because of my body that you can't be a mother..." Uncle Kitagawa's eyes were somewhat evasive.
"Is it because of this reason that you've become so anxious lately?" Mrs. Kitagawa burst out laughing, "Are you an idiot? Hahahaha..."
"Eh?"
"I never thought about that kind of thing," Mrs. Kitagawa explained with a smile, "Maybe I did, but I gradually put it down later. Moreover, even if we have children, when they grow up and leave home, there will be only the two of us left."
"I thought you gradually became cold to me recently because of this..." Uncle Kitagawa said a little bitterly.
"Oh, do you still remember this?" Mrs. Kitagawa show the harmonica, then covered her mouth and smiled, "At that time, you were the only one who said I played well."
"This is..."
"Do you still want to listen? Although I almost forgot the score."
Old man Kitagawa nodded.
Then, Mrs. Kitagawa leaned on Uncle Kitagawa's shoulder and gently placed the harmonica on her lips.
The melodious sound of the harmonica sounded. Old man Kitagawa closed his eyes and quietly listened to this distant memory...
What the two of them did not know was that in the grass not far behind them, there were two little heads that were constantly swaying with the sound of the harmonica.
"Let's go, Kagura." Kawaki reminded Kagura in a low voice. Then, he quietly stood up and quietly turned around to leave.
"Oh," Kagura responded in a low voice, then turned around and followed.
...
Yorozuya.
Looking at Kagura who had just returned, Gintoki casually asked, "How is your commission?"
"Of course, I have completed it! Who do you think I am?" Kagura patted her chest and said.
"Is that so..." Gintoki was obviously not interested.
"But it was done together by everyone!" Kagura continued.
"Yeah! I won!" Shinpachi clenched his fists, "Gin-san! Give me 300 yen!"
"Tsk!" Gintoki took out a coin from his pocket and threw it to Shinpachi.
"Hey! Isn't the bet 300 yen?! Why is there only one yen?!" Shinpachi said unhappily, "And this isn't even a coin! It's just a game coin, right?"
Gintoki chose to ignore it.
"As I already said, Kagura is not yet old enough to complete the commission by herself." Shinpachi held the game coin and said smugly, "She is different from someone like me who can complete a commission independently!"
"Shut up! Four eyes! You're just a glasses!" Kagura held her hands and snorted.
"Hey! That's too much!"
"You're so noisy! Four eyes!" Kagura directly rushed forward.
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