After rebirth, I became Tokyo Sentimental

Chapter 54. What happened to them

Even though a whole night had passed, yesterday's events still made Fujitani Chitsuki feel strange everywhere.

There's even a sense that something's wrong.

First, when she was on the Shinkansen from Yamanashi to Tokyo, Shimizu Yuko called without any warning after being out of touch for many days, saying that she had heard from Kaneda Yuki and Ando Mika about her trip to Tokyo today, so she was waiting at Shinagawa Station.

The arrival of her son was not surprising, but after Yuko herself saw the blood-stained bed sheet, everything became strange.

In the past, Yuko Shimizu, who had never been shy about matters between men and women and always loved to make dirty jokes, has become like a newlywed wife. Her open, enthusiastic and generous personality seemed to have disappeared without a trace in the few days of no contact. Even at her age, her face and ears can become so red that they are hot to the touch.

Especially at the end.

Because she saw a suspicious area on her son's neck and asked a question, Yuko Shimizu, the aunt who had only met her son once, reacted more strongly than his biological mother.

It's even more exaggerated than the scene in a soap opera where a wife who deeply loves her husband finds out that her husband has seven mistresses outside.

Is this normal?

Of course it's not normal.

Although Fujitani Chitsuki is old, her eyesight is still relatively good. Moreover, anyone who is not blind can see the panic on Shimizu Yuko's face and know that something is definitely going on between her and her son.

But Fujitani Chitsuki couldn't understand why something outrageous could happen between them when her son was just doing the other person a favor for work. It didn't look like she had made things worse and ended up making enemies, otherwise Yuko wouldn't have come to pick her up yesterday morning. But to say that the problem was solved happily, it didn't seem like it.

So what happened between Xiao Si and her?
Asking the person involved is definitely not a wise choice. After all, it can be seen that Yuko is deliberately concealing the truth, and it is probably useless to ask further.

As for asking Yuanye Si?

Considering that I kept silent and pretended to know nothing when I called a while ago, I'm afraid I don't have an answer.

Although I don't know what happened.

But Chitsuki Fujitani always had a bad feeling.

I have a feeling this is not a good thing!
So when she arrived at Enoshima in Kamakura today with Harano Tsukasa, Shimizu Yuko and two friends they had made an appointment with earlier at the scheduled time, she thought about finding a chance to ask others. Now, when she saw Shimizu Yuko going to the toilet and her son going to a nearby convenience store to buy fast food, it was undoubtedly a good time.

"Yuki, Mika, do you feel that Yuko...seems to have suddenly become strange recently?"

"strangeness?"

“It seems to be a little bit.”

"What's so noteworthy about this? Yuko had a lot of trouble setting up a company, but it went bankrupt because of that kind of thing. If it were me, I'd be lucky not to go crazy." The person who spoke was Mika Ando. She wore a pair of black-framed glasses and was a junior high school teacher. She said this with a sigh in her tone.

Not getting any specific information, Fujitani Chitsuki continued to ask, "What's so strange about it? Are there any unusual behaviors?"

"Yes, there is... but is it important?"

"I'd really like to know."

"Chitsubaki, we are not children. In two months, my grandson will be one year old. Let Yuko heal the trauma on her own. If we ask too many questions, we will only open up the wound and make her sad."

Yuki Kaneda, who was sitting next to the bench, seemed to realize that she was not simply trying to pry into Yuko Shimizu's privacy, but might be trying to comfort her, so she explained.

"I was just gossiping, not being nosy. It's just that a woman like you, an old lady, thinks too much." Fujitani Chitsuki looked at Ando Mika and used a joking tone to reduce the seriousness just now.

If you want to get information inadvertently, your purpose cannot be obvious. Chitsugi Fujitani understands this.

She was a little anxious just now.

Therefore, you should change the subject first, briefly chat with these two old friends about the past, and then casually bring up the matter in a relaxed tone, so that you will not easily arouse suspicion.

No matter what age they are, women love beauty and want to solidify their age to eighteen.

When Ando Mika heard this, she became anxious.

At the same time, the attention was diverted.

"What do you mean by old lady? I am only in my forties. I get angry when I talk about this. My son's misconduct turned me from a young woman into an old woman. When I first found out that he got me pregnant, I was so angry that I couldn't sleep all night."

"Aren't you very happy now? Shunya was only three days old and you already manipulated such a little kid's mouth to make him call you grandma in a proper accent." Kaneda Yuki covered her mouth and laughed secretly, exposing her shortcomings without mercy. "That was prenatal education!"

"Is it still called prenatal education when the baby is already in the womb?"

"Out-of-birth teaching, what's wrong?"

"I really can't argue with you. Although you have a disobedient son, the daughter-in-law you married is extremely filial. I never thought that an old woman like you would have a day to enjoy happiness. It's really not right."

"Ando Mika! What do you mean by an old woman like me? Come here! Believe it or not, I will tear your mouth apart!"

Mika Ando and Yuki Kaneda have loved bickering with each other since high school, and this situation has not changed even when they are about to become grandmothers. With the instigation of Chitsuki Fujitani, the two of them kept exposing each other's dark history, and the two mouths kept fighting for a while.

It was in this atmosphere that Fujitani Chitsuki tried a few times without leaving a trace and finally got the information she wanted, but her heart sank instantly.

Chitsuki Fujitani took a deep breath.

Forcefully suppress the shock in your heart.

He looked around and found that his son was nowhere to be seen. After struggling for a moment, he decided to go find his son first to see if he had anything to do with it.

But her mind was still constantly turning over what her two friends had just said, connecting what had happened before.

"Yuko has been going to the hospital a lot recently. I ran into her last time when I went for a gynecological checkup. She seemed to be doing an ultrasound. Could she be sick?"

"What's wrong? Yuko loves drinking so much, she should go to the hospital to check her stomach. Could she be pregnant?"

"That's impossible. She hates men the most."

"How is it impossible? Come to think of it, I went to give her the honeydew melon my husband brought back from Hokkaido a few days ago, and I found a used ovulation test strip in the toilet!"

"What's so strange about that? I would have used it if I had delayed it for a few days. You're making a fuss."

"What if there are traces of men in her house?"

"real or fake!?"

"How could I lie to you? I saw something like a refrigerator sticker on Yuko's bedside table, and it said something like "I'm sorry... This is my fault... Maybe you can't accept it for the time being." It looked like a post-event message! "

"Oh my! It can't be that Yuko, who has been single for over 40 years, finally has a man? My husband also wrote it when we were really together, and it was super sincere and touching, but he wanted to ask me out that night!"

"Why did I ask you out again tonight?"

"What can you do?"

"what?"

"Of course it's literal!"

Mika Ando and Yuki Kaneda described the incident vividly, and for a while they were talking enthusiastically about the speculation that Yuko Shimizu might have really had a relationship with a man, but Chitsuki Fujitani felt cold all over.

Thinking about the blood-stained bed sheet she found yesterday and the look on Shimizu Yuko's face at the time, she felt that perhaps the joke she made was the truth, and the timing of Yuko's drastic change in personality was also very coincidental.

This reminded Chitsugi Fujitani of the time when she asked Harano Tsukasa to help Shimizu Yuko, the strangeness of her phone call the next day, and some guilty words she said.

"I watched him sleep last night."

"I owe you too much, Sister Tsubaki."

"Xiao Si is a capable person"

Did you watch him sleep last night?

Why do you owe me so much?

What on earth can Xiao Si do?

(End of this chapter)