After rebirth, I became Tokyo Sentimental

Chapter 44. I don't want this money
The sky was gloomy, and purple lightning flashed faintly in the clouds, accompanied by a rumbling sound that came from far away.

Tokyo is getting increasingly hot and humid.

Harano Tsukasa originally planned to go to a nearby real estate agency to look at houses, because his apartment was indeed not very comfortable to live in, but the rainy weather and the traffic jams near the weekend made him give up the idea.

You don't have to go see it in person, there's not much difference if you look at it online. After all, in Japan, the real thing is basically consistent with the picture.

The truth was just as he thought.

It was cloudy in just a few minutes.

With several bursts of roars in succession, the rain, which was originally just in the form of threads, suddenly became heavier. Within a few seconds, the raindrops densely covered the entire windshield, making a crisp popping sound, and I was dizzy and completely unable to see the road conditions.

Yuanye Si turned on the windshield wipers, turned on the front and rear fog lights in turn, and slowed the car down to less than thirty yards.

Showers, expressways, Mercedes-Benz cars.

Although it is a low-end version of the viaduct and Maybach on a rainy night, it is also a scene that many ordinary people will never be able to experience in their entire lives, without having to rush around on rainy days.

He has always believed that having money is not the goal.

What matters is life experience.

Of course, Harano Tsukasa never sang the praises of suffering; he preferred to regard enjoying life as his supreme principle.

But this presupposes that you have money.

Although money cannot solve all problems or eliminate worries, as long as you have money, you will find that worries come from various things that lead to happiness.

For example, if you want to make more money, you have to sacrifice the time you originally planned to spend traveling with your family.

For example, you may want to buy a country villa in Hakone to breathe fresh air, but you don’t have time to go there due to work or other reasons, so you can only live in a large apartment of 600 to 700 square meters in Minato Ward, overlooking half of Tokyo.

In short.

The troubles of happiness always come in many forms.

There is only one cause of misfortune.

That means no money.

Just as Yuanye Si's thoughts were spreading like weeds, his cell phone suddenly rang.

Because it was connected to the car's Bluetooth, the source of the call was displayed on the central control screen. Yuan Ye Si took a look and was slightly startled before returning to his senses and answering the call: "Mom, why are you calling?"

"Do I need to report when I call my son?"

"Of course not. I'm just worried that something might happen to you." Yuanye Si said helplessly.

"You guessed it right. I really have something to do."

"You say." Yuanye Si was a little surprised.

"Well... Actually, there's nothing else to do. I just wanted to ask you how the favor I asked you to do for Yuko went. Are there any other problems later?"

"It's no trouble, it's been resolved."

"It shouldn't be..."

The mother on the other end of the phone muttered to herself.

Yuanye Si's heart moved when he heard this, realizing that perhaps something new had happened, so he asked, "What happened? Is there another incident?"

"An accident... I guess." The mother's voice was a little hesitant, and after a while she explained: "Ever since I talked to her on the phone that night, she never answered my calls. It was as if Yuko had disappeared from the face of the earth. But when I asked other people, they said she was fine. I wondered if something had happened again..."

"You never answer? Didn't you block me?"

"No."

"That's really strange."

Yuanye Si couldn't help but frowned when he heard this.

Since he has not been blocked and others have confirmed that he is living a normal life, he should not ignore the call.

What's more, it was her mother who helped her.

As a normal person, even if I didn't invite my mother to be my guest out of sincere gratitude, I should at least thank her verbally a few times and contact her more often to maintain the relationship, but she just kept kneeling and refused to answer the phone...

Unless there is something unspeakable.

So what is Yuko Shimizu's secret?
A word suddenly popped up in Yuanye Si's mind.

Guilt.

Through his interactions with Harano Tsukasa, he found that although his mother's friend had a habit of drinking, her personality and conduct were very good. And most importantly, at this age, she had not yet completely transformed, which really shocked Harano Tsukasa.

Even if drinking was the cause of this incident, it could not escape the intentional guidance of Harano Tsukasa.

As an adult with normal moral values, let alone being with a man who is half her age, even dating someone a few years younger than her is a challenge. The gap in generations and ages may make her feel difficult.

So according to common sense, if the other party intentionally avoids his mother, it is most likely because he does not know how to face it. After all, he does not know how to deal with it.

Yuanye Si frowned in thought. After pondering it over in his mind, he understood the whole process, but he couldn't tell his mother directly. After all, if he really told her about this, he would probably be scolded to death. So he could only lie with his eyes open: "Maybe Aunt Qingshui is busy recently. After all, he has a lot of things to do after he gets rid of the trouble, such as loan procedures and recruiting employees."

"What kind of trouble did your Aunt Yuko get into?" Chitsuki Fujitani naturally didn't know what happened to them, but she was now curious about the reason.

There was nothing to hide about this matter, so Harano Tsukasa said directly: "There is a civil servant from the Financial Services Agency who has been pursuing her recently. Aunt Yuko's loan approval was blocked because that person contacted the bank. That's about it."

"Is the Financial Services Agency...very powerful?" "Not bad."

"Will you offend people, Xiao Si?"

"probably not."

"Of course I won't. Although I also want to help your Aunt Yuko, I'm worried about you being alone in Tokyo. Now you've offended someone. I heard that people in Tokyo are very narrow-minded. What if they want to retaliate against you..."

"Mother, we are also half Tokyoites."

Yuan Ye Si responded with some amusement.

Yamanashi Prefecture is very close to Tokyo.

After all, they are all places in the Tokyo metropolitan area, but their geographical location is not as good as Saitama, and there is little national resource support. Overall, it is still the Kinki region.

"That doesn't count. We are farmers and people from Tokyo are fishermen." My mother rarely retorted.

“…That’s true.”

"I'm going to Tokyo next week, is that okay?"

Mother said suddenly.

"Of course." Harano Tsukasa was stunned for a moment, then agreed immediately, and at the same time asked, "Or I can drive to Yamanashi to pick you up, it's not far anyway."

There would be no kidnapping without morality. This sentence is directed at green tea. He himself is certainly not so immoral. Not to mention that he has to take responsibility for all the implications after taking over this body, just the fact that when he came to this world, only Fujitani Chitsuki cared about him and asked about his well-being. This real maternal love that he felt was enough for Harano Tsukasa to be filial to him.

From a management perspective, he is still at the conventional level of just following the crowd and not forgetting a favor in a blink of an eye.

If survival is difficult, perhaps things like family affection will be diluted a lot by being busy, but now that we have money, family affection and friendship are no longer hard-to-obtain luxuries. After all, who doesn't want relatives and friends to live well?

The mother on the other end of the phone was slightly surprised when she heard this, and asked hesitantly, "Did you buy a car?"

"Yes." After hearing this, Yuan Ye Si realized that he had revealed the information that he had bought a car. After a moment, he added: "It's for work."

It is not necessary to own a car to live in Tokyo.

In fact, the price of cars abroad is very low, because maintaining a car is the bulk of the cost, especially in big cities with convenient transportation networks. Apart from comfort, there seems to be nothing worth mentioning about the car.

In his impression, his mother is a very frugal person. If he didn't say it was necessary for work, she might blame him for buying a car as a waste.

That's why Yuanye Si added this sentence.

However, his mother did not blame him for the waste as he thought. Instead, she said with an inexplicable feeling:
"Xiao Si has really made progress..."

"But don't come to pick me up. I can take a bus directly from home to the mountains, then transfer to the Fujikyu bus to Shinjuku. It will be very convenient if I change to the train."

"I'll pick you up." Yuanye Si rejected his mother.

"no!"

"If you don't let me pick you up, you have to go to Ozu-cho, Kofu and take the Chuo Shinkansen. Otherwise, I'll drive back right now. Don't blame me for not listening."

"You kid! It's still raining now. It's so dangerous to drive back. How can you say such a thing!"

"Then I'll start going."

In the end, Fujitani Chitsuki still couldn't get over her son's stubbornness. She could only sigh in her heart that her son had grown up while whispering, "Don't come! Okay, okay, Mom will listen to you this time. Let's take the Shinkansen. Anyway, the distance is short and it's not too expensive."

"Then tell me the exact time, and I'll buy the ticket for you and pick you up at Shinagawa Station in Minato that day."

Yuan Ye Si said with a smile.

Chitsuba Fujitani on the other end of the phone glared at her son when he said that, and said in a dissatisfied tone: "I know, kid, are you still afraid that your mother will lie to you?"

"If I don't buy it, you might take the bus again."

"How could that be! Mom would never lie to you!"

"You used the same tone when you took the Nianyu from me when I was a child, but you haven't given it to me yet."

"Well, it's been a while..."

Harano Tsukasa was chatting with his mother on the phone, listening to her rambling about how the grapes and plums planted in the fields of his hometown had not accumulated enough sugar because the rainy season lasted too long. At the same time, he was thinking about Aunt Shimizu's matter, and wondered if the problem had been completely solved after he asked Congressman Asada for help last time.

Moreover, he has not had time to use the 100 million yen investment quota rewarded by the achievement card. He was so busy these days that he almost forgot about it. It is time to think about its use. After all, resources must be fully utilized.

The only problem is who to spend it on.

Since Hoshino Ryuka doesn't want to open a store, her idea of using the investment amount instead of cash payment will naturally fall through, and the final recipient of the money has to be found again.

After all, not everyone is ambitious.

It is the nature of a gold digger to make money without doing anything.

But when it comes to career ambition.

It seems that Aunt Qingshui seems more suitable...

Harano Tsukasa drove his car slowly along the traffic ahead to the vicinity of Senkawa-cho in Ikebukuro. After hanging up the phone with his mother, he walked towards the apartment building while thinking about this matter. However, when he went upstairs to his apartment floor, he saw two figures arguing in the distance.

This is nothing strange. People always say that Japanese people are polite and courteous, but that is just a superficial illusion. In fact, as long as the neighbor accidentally leaves garbage at the door, they can quarrel with each other as if they have a deep hatred. But when I approached, I heard a familiar female voice with a crying tone:
"I don't want this money! I don't want it! It's my fault. Please don't tell other people in my school, or I really won't be able to survive!"

(End of this chapter)