Chapter 2 2. First acquaintance with Rinko

The two came to this hotel in Kamakura yesterday evening. After three o'clock on Friday, Hisaki left the company in Kudan, met Rinko at Tokyo Station, took the Yokosuka Line and got off at Kamakura. The hotel is located on a small high hill by the Qili River. In summer, this is a coastal passage where young people come and go. As soon as September comes, the traffic drops sharply. It takes less than 20 minutes by taxi to arrive at the hotel. Jiu Mu chose this hotel to have a tryst with Rinko because it is less than an hour's drive from Tokyo, and it feels like a short trip away from the city.The hotel room can see the sea and enjoy the tranquility of the ancient capital Kamakura.Moreover, the restaurant has only just opened, and there are still few regular customers, so it is not easy to be seen.

Of course, even though Jiu Mu thinks so, there is no guarantee that the two of them will not be seen together.Although the modern study where Jiu Mu works is a publishing house, and he is more open about the relationship between men and women, but it is known that he goes to restaurants with women other than his wife, which will have some negative effects after all. It's best to avoid this kind of trouble if possible, he doesn't want to be pointed behind his back.In fact, Hisaki has been paying attention to this so far, and has been cautious about dealing with women. But after getting to know Rinko, Jiu Mu lost the patience to avoid being noticed.

The reason is that after getting to know Rinko, his favorite woman, he felt helpless to take some risks in order to meet her.The opportunity for him to be more open-minded was after he was dismissed from his position as a minister a year ago and demoted to the investigation room. Indeed, for Jiu Mu, the personnel change a year ago hit him too hard.Originally, Jiu Mu, like ordinary people, hoped to rise step by step in the mainstream of the company.A year ago when he was fifty-three years old, people around him said that he was the candidate for the next director, and he thought so himself.

But the fact is so sudden, not only was he not promoted, but he was dismissed from his position as the head of the publishing department, and relegated to the investigation room, which everyone seemed to be idle.Behind this personnel change, of course, is his unclear understanding of the situation after the president was replaced two years ago, a group of so-called new forces in the club who are the president's confidantes have risen. However, since the change is a foregone conclusion, it is useless to investigate the reasons No supplement. More importantly, Jiu Mu deeply understands that he missed the opportunity to be promoted to director this time, and he will be fifty-five years old in two years, and he will never be promoted to director.Even if the position is transferred again, it will either be changed to a more unpopular position, or it will be dispatched to a subsidiary company.With this level of cognition, a new perspective on life is opened.

From now on, I can live freely and unhurriedly.No matter how hard you struggle, a lifetime is just a lifetime.Once the concept changes, things that were considered important in the past are no longer so important, but things that have never been considered too precious suddenly become precious. After being dismissed from the post of minister, although the title is editorial committee member, in fact, there is almost no decent job.Because working in the investigation room requires the collection of various materials, and sometimes it is necessary to sort out themes such as albums and provide them to relevant magazines. Although these are his main tasks, none of them has a clear delivery deadline.

After being in a free and idle position, Jiu Mu realized that he had never really been infatuated with or fallen in love with someone from the bottom of his heart. Of course, he had a good impression of his wife and other women he had been with in the past, and had affairs, but they all ended in nothing, and he never had the real feeling that his whole body and mind were burning. If this continues, the biggest regret will be left in his life. Rinko Matsubara appeared in front of Jiumu just at this time. Encounters in love are always accidental, and it is also entirely by chance that Jiumu met Rinko.

At the end of last year, he was transferred to the investigation room. One day three months later, his good friend Yi Chuan, who worked in the cultural center of the newspaper, invited him to give a lecture on the writing method of articles. There were nearly 30 students. Yi Chuan hoped that he would talk about writing topic of the article. Hisaki is not the actual creator, but only edited and published books in a publishing house, and refused because he felt incompetent.But Yi Chuan said that there is no need to think so seriously, just talk about the experience of reading various articles in the past and compiling them into a book. Moreover, Yi Chuan's words that you are not idle now moved his heart.

Yi Chuan came to him not only for the speech, but also seemed to want to cheer up him who was relegated to idle work. He and Yichuan were college classmates. After graduating from the Faculty of Letters, Yichuan joined a newspaper office, and Hisaki worked in a publishing house. Although they work in different places, they often meet and drink.Six years ago, Hisaki was promoted to be the Minister of Publishing, and Yichuan was not far behind as the Minister of Culture, but three years ago, he was suddenly released to the cultural center in the capital.Jiu Mu didn't know whether Yichuan liked this change, but judging from his saying that I should also release it, he still has some nostalgia for the head office.In any case, Yichuan has experience in being excluded from the mainstream, so he can understand Hisaki's feelings and give comfort at the right time.

Seeing his intention, Jiu Mu readily agreed.I went to the cultural center that night, and had dinner with Yi Chuan after giving a lecture for an hour and a half. There was also a lady at the table that night. Yi Chuan introduced that she was a lecturer who also taught calligraphy at the cultural center, and she was Rinko. If Yi Chuan hadn't accepted Yi Chuan's invitation at that time, and Yi Chuan hadn't invited Rinko to dinner, there wouldn't have been the encounter between the two and the unusual relationship they have now. Every time he thinks of the encounter with Rinko, Jiu Mu always sighs that love is incredible, and it feels like an arrangement of fate.

From the moment Yichuan introduced him to Rinko, Jiumu felt an inexplicable excitement in his heart. To be honest, it's not that Jiumu has never had sex with other women before, needless to say when he was young, he also had a romantic confidant after middle age.One of them said that he liked Hisaki's dullness, and the other said that he was fascinated by Hisaki's youthful spirit that did not match his age.Jiu Mu didn't think there was anything dull or childish about him, and thought it was just a unique compliment.But it's strange to say that when he approached other women later, he felt more or less this self-awareness.

Even so, the way he approached Rinko did have a childlike focus, which even he couldn't understand. Yichuan only met her once, and a week later, he took the initiative to call her according to the business card he wanted to come. It's not that he hasn't paid attention to women in the past, but it's the first time he's been proactive like this. Although he's surprised at what he's doing, he can't stop the unbridled desire.