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The young boss said this, took out the takoyaki and put it on a plate, then after thinking about it, sprinkled it with bonito flakes like sawdust.

The takoyaki is so hot that the bonito flakes, as thin as sawdust, dance like butterflies.

Bring it to Hanakami Junko.

"Here, a plate of takoyaki, topped with spicy tomato sauce, and more bonito flakes and sawdust."

Looking at the takoyaki in front of her that was sprinkled with a large amount of bonito flakes and sawdust and topped with spicy tomato sauce, Hanakami Junko was stunned.

She raised her head, with doubts in her eyes:

"Boss, how did you know I like to eat like this?"

Takoyaki is a specialty of Japan and is sold in almost many places in Japan. Just like the Shaxian snacks in China, it is basically available in every place.

Hanakami Junko likes to eat takoyaki very much. There is a stall selling takoyaki on the way from her home to high school.

Every Friday when she comes home from school, she will buy takoyaki to eat.

When she eats takoyaki, she is different from others in that she likes spicy tomato sauce and asks the boss to add a lot of bonito flakes and sawdust.

This is her unique way of eating.

She didn't understand why this takoyaki boss knew her preferences. This was Okinawa far away from Arakawa District, and the boss was not a takoyaki boss who often ate it.

The young boss glanced at Junko Hanakami, pulled out a chair at Junko Hanakami's table, and sat down.

As if talking to himself or telling her, he said leisurely:

"There is a person, she is probably in her thirties or forties. Every day she walks on the streets, highways, and vegetable markets, walking around the streets and alleys, holding a photo of a female high school student and asking people everywhere. .

Apart from working, I spend most of my time asking people for photos.

Once, I met this man on the road.

She took the photo and asked me, 'Excuse me, have you seen this little girl?'

I glanced at it and shook my head to express that I hadn’t seen it.

After getting my answer, the man's eyes were red and he looked very sad.

I thought this person would leave and move on to the next person. After all, I had never seen the little girl in the photo, so I couldn't be of any help to this person.

As a result, this person did not leave. He pointed to the photo and said to me, 'If you see her, she may have no money. Please help me buy her some food. I have money here. You can call me. I will give you more money. ’

Later, I heard from neighbors that this person had been looking for the person in the photo for half a year. I almost walked through the entire area, and every day I met people who repeated what they said to me.

This society itself is very bad, and there are many people who are greedy for petty gains. In order to gain some petty gains, some gangsters once lied to this person and claimed that they had seen the person in the photo and treated the person in the photo to dinner. They wanted to ask this person for something. Pay back the meal.

This person actually knew that these gangsters might be lying to her, but she was afraid that it was true, and that these gangsters would go out and talk nonsense, causing other people to encounter the people in the photos, but because she would not tell them Money, it is said that he deliberately used the person in the photo to defraud him of food money.

So she gave the gangster money, hoping that someone would actually meet the person in the photo and help the person in the photo eat a meal when he was hungry.

In the past six months, she had been looking for the person in the photo for a long time and spent a lot of money.

The person who has been looking for someone with photos for half a year is the same person who told me your preference for eating takoyaki. "

The young boss said this and pointed to the takoyaki.

"Eat quickly. It won't taste good when it's cold. Eat it while it's hot. If you eat it cold, be careful of getting a stomachache."

The tears never stopped the moment the young boss told this story.

Feelings of hunger, fatigue, complaints, anger, etc. were all replaced by the emotion called guilt at this moment, filling Junko Hanakami's body and mind.

It seems that the grievances and sufferings I have suffered in the past six months have reached a critical point today, and they have all turned into tears, all vented.

Tears fell from Hanakami Junko's eyes.

She cried, her heart was broken. Although the takoyaki was very spicy, she only felt it was salty. Tears had already fallen on the takoyaki before she knew it.

She didn't care that the takoyaki was dripping with tears, and she ate it one mouthful at a time. The tears were like opening a floodgate, and she couldn't stop or wipe them away no matter what.

With every bite of takoyaki, memories from the past appeared in her mind.

…

It was every morning, Yuchiko Hanakami would get up early, make breakfast and lunch for Junko Hanakami who was lying in bed, and then wake Junko up.

"Junko, it's time to get up. If you don't get up, you'll be late for school."

Hanakami Junko got up complaining.

I feel like my mother is the one who sleeps in.

Because every time she comes home from school, she sees her mother Yuchiko Hanakami lying on the sofa sleeping.

Because of this, she envied adults who could sleep when they wanted without worrying about others waking them up.

In fact.

Hanakami Junko only saw her mother asking her to get up and eat every time she got up early.

But they ignore that every time her mother gets up early to make breakfast, she yawns. In fact, her mother is also very sleepy, but if she doesn’t get up early to make breakfast and lunch, her daughter will be hungry and there will be no lunch at school. She has to get up to make it.

I have to get up no matter how sleepy I am.

…

That was Hanakami Yuchiko taking Hanakami Junko to the vegetable market to buy vegetables.

Hanakami Junko felt that her mother was always picky about picking vegetables. She picked very slowly and carefully. Every time she bought a vegetable, it took a long time and she had to chat with the sellers for a long time.

She was impatient and complained to her mother:

"Mom, I have to leave. My friends are waiting for me."

Hanakami Junko only saw her mother picking vegetables slowly and carefully choosing.

But he ignored why his mother Yuchiko Hanakami was so slow in picking vegetables.

Because Yuchiko Hanakami didn’t want to give her daughter bad food, she wanted to cook the best food for her to give her enough nutrition and health.

Hanakami Junko only saw her mother chatting with the vendors.

But he ignored the chat between his mother Yuchiko Hanakami and the seller.

"My daughter is about to take an exam and needs to eat well."

"My daughter won a prize this time. Boss, please buy more of the good meat here. My daughter likes to eat the pork you sell here the most."

"Boss, this dish isn't fresh. Why does it smell like pesticides? Children won't get sick after eating it."

…

That was when Junko came home late from playing with her friends and classmates.

After entering the door, Yuchiko Hanakami asked her.

"Why did you hang up on me?"

Faced with the question, Hanakami Junko choked and said, "I've already rushed home, haven't I?"

"What time is it now? Do you want to rush home?"

"I'm at home now, otherwise?"

When her daughter lost her temper, Yuchiko Hanakami responded: "I'm very anxious! How do I know if you hang up on me? You have to at least tell me."

Hanakami Yuchiko's words only made Hanakami Junko even more angry.

"Mom! You have to give me some space of my own!"

She was very angry, why did her mother always call her when she was playing with her friends and tell her to go home quickly? She felt that this was very embarrassing in front of her friends, as she would be thought of as a child.

She feels that she is already a high school student and her mother should not do this. She is no longer a child and does not need to be afraid of bad people.

But she never thought that Yuchiko Hanakami called her just to get in touch with her, fearing that something might happen to her when she came home so late.

In quarrels again and again.

During the last quarrel, Hanakami Junko could no longer bear it and ran away from home.

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