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Makiko Morita was a little surprised, but still told the truth: "There is a problem with this car, and now the engine can't start."

The middle-aged man responded enthusiastically: "I work in an auto repair shop in Akita Prefecture, so if you need it, I can help you repair this car."

He looked at the situation of the car and asked again, "Is there a flashlight?"

Makiko Morita looked for it but couldn't find it. After all, the car didn't belong to her, so she didn't know it very well, so she explained: "This is my sister's car. I don't know if it is there."

The middle-aged man had no doubts, so he turned back to his car to get a flashlight, and then started testing.

"It seems that the problem is with the starter." The middle-aged man said after checking, "If you agree, I can tow your car to my house for repairs. After all, there are no repair tools here."

Morita Makiko became vigilant subconsciously, but she soon realized that if the maintenance personnel did not come for a long time, she would have no way to pick up Nobuyuki Sugo in time.

She thought about it, and then asked, "How long will it take?"

The middle-aged man thought for a while and replied, "About 2 hours."

After weighing it, Makiko Morita accepted the other party's help and bowed to express his gratitude.

Immediately afterwards, under the operation of the middle-aged man, the black car drove to the middle-aged man's home with the luxury car through the tow rope.

On the road, the two chatted again.

Worried about the previous accident, Makiko Morita forged her identity, saying that she was from Yokohama and had an older sister who taught in Hokkaido.

In addition, I am engaged in bookstore work.

The middle-aged man nodded and talked about himself.

He said he had a wife and son, and that his wife had cancer.In order to allow his wife to spend the rest of his life, he moved to the countryside on the Akita side.

During the chat between the two, the car quickly arrived in front of the middle-aged man's house.

The middle-aged man stopped the car, went into the garage, took out the tools, and began to repair the luxury car.

At the same time, the wife of the middle-aged man also came out.

After seeing Morita Makiko, she politely introduced herself and entertained Makiko.

From her mouth, Morita Makiko learned that the middle-aged man was called Yamazaki Ryu and his wife was called Yamazaki Saeko.

"Your palm is bleeding, doesn't it matter?!" By the light, Yamazaki Saeko found blood on Morita Makiko's right finger.

Morita Makiko immediately realized that this was probably left when she moved the corpse.

She waved her hand immediately, "It should be the blood of the stray dog ​​I bumped into. I'll just wash my hands."

After saying this, she smiled apologetically, and walked over after asking where the bathroom was.

After washing off the blood on his hands and carefully looking at himself in the mirror, Morita Makiko came out.

"Have a sip of hot tea." Yamazaki Saeko came over with the tea.

Morita Makiko took the tea with a smile, and sat on a chair in the restaurant under the greeting of Yamazaki Saeko.

At this time, she relaxed a little, and chatted with Yamazaki Saeko.

During the chat, Yamazaki Saeko took the initiative to talk about her family and handed a group photo to Morita Makiko.

Morita Makiko put down her teacup and took the photo with a smile.

But she was immediately surprised to find that besides the couple in the photo, there was another person she was extremely familiar with.

The young driver who died in the accident was the other party's son!

……

The story came to an abrupt end at this point.

Oshiro Lixiang, who was holding the manuscript, had a puzzled and surprised expression on his face.

What is puzzling is that the style of this work does not quite match the current mainstream reasoning works.

Benge?society?Suspense?What exactly is it.

She couldn't see it for a while.

But what surprised her was that Hiroto Akihara's work actually used a lot of memories and inquiries to describe the plot of the scene.

This means that all words may be true or false.

For readers, it is necessary to find clues of existence in these true and false words to restore the facts.

Interesting, so interesting!

Thinking of this, Oshiro Lixiang raised the corners of his mouth slightly...

[Chapter 174.173 The Polarization of Reader Opinions]

Time passed quickly. After Hiroto Akihara submitted the manuscripts for the next two issues, the second and third issues of "April Youth" were also released in the next two weeks.

In the second week, the sales of "April Youth" increased from 10 copies to 12.By the third week, it had grown from 12 to 13.

Although the overall trend is still upward, according to the data, the growth rate is shrinking every week...

On Tuesday morning, Chiyoda District, the headquarters of the Kejiao Museum, the editorial department of "April Youth".

Akihara Hiroto sat in Oshiro Torika's office and discussed sales issues.

Oshiro Torika brought a statistical form and placed it in front of Akihara Hiroto.

"Teacher Akihara, this is the daily sales report for the previous week from the statistics class."

Hiroto Akihara took the statistics sheet and began to read it.

But when he looked at it, he couldn't help feeling a little puzzled.

Judging from the data of the previous week, the sales volume on the first day was about 3 copies, and then decreased at a certain rate every day. By Sunday, the sales volume was only about 6000 copies.

Why is this data not in line with the previous "New" daily sales data curve, and the decline is a little faster, right?

Is it a book review question?

He thought for a while, and then asked: "Editor-in-chief Dacheng, is there any report on the book review of "April Youth" recently?"

Oshiro Toshika nodded, then made an internal call and ordered Awazu Hideki to bring a bunch of newspapers.

Hiroto Akihara took the newspaper and read it carefully.

He was surprised to find that the book reviews on the pages of these newspapers were basically publicity projects invested by the teaching center itself, and they were basically released on Mondays.