The owner of the credit bureau didn’t say a second word on the phone and agreed flatly, instead making Megumi feel even more embarrassed.
After the dinner hour, Megumi would take the leftovers and have a few of the neighborhood hobos, as well as low-income households, pack them back. Compassionate Megumi, knowing that meat is usually not left over, would often silently take out a few pieces of bad-looking meat from the kitchen and pack it for them. How could Megumi have chosen such poor-looking fish and meat when she went to the market early in the morning to buy it herself? In fact, those are specially asked by Huimei to stall vendors and wholesalers to keep, although verbally said “to help her keep”, but in fact it is Huimei to help buy those originally will be slow-selling, or even out of the substandard products, the market merchants are quite grateful to Huimei.
After everyone washed and cleaned the dining table, tables and chairs, kitchen, and took out the garbage, it was already after nine o’clock, two fellows were counting the daily wages with Megumi due to personal economic factors, Megumi settled the bill to them before pulling down the iron roll-up door, ending this day’s work. She didn’t have time to think about it, and she didn’t have time to change her clothes first, so Megumi drove the small truck directly to the credit bureau, not realizing that the smell of grease on her body didn’t make her feel very comfortable to other people.
“Megumi, we found your husband.”
Xiangting, the owner of the credit bureau, placed her hands on her desk and rested her chin, smilingly looking at the uneasy-looking Megumi. The kraft paper bag in front of her, containing the results of the company detective’s investigation.
Ever since her marriage, Megumi has taken over this poorly run buffet restaurant, and with her excellent cooking skills, she has been able to support her family and raise her children. Her idle husband, instead of helping with the business, often asked Megumi for money, saying that he had to go on business with a friend, and often disappeared for months, only to come back with a smile on his face after he had spent all the money. Huimei knows that her education is not high, cooking is her only skill, and she does not blame herself for marrying the wrong man, but quietly does her job, but in the eyes of her neighbors, they all feel sorry for Huimei and do not want to give up.
And her husband went out this time, no news, it has been almost a year, Huimei think something is wrong, and then asked this credit agency to find people. Initially will find this credit agency, because the slogan of a female boss, female detective, office decoration and furnishings are bright, clean, from the boss to the staff to treat her very kindly, so that Huimei feel at ease, but in the traditional concepts, always feel that to come to this kind of place will not be for anything good, so still feel a little uncomfortable.
“Just wait, don’t look yet.”
“What’s wrong?”
“Megumi, you have to be prepared for what’s inside to be bad for you first.”
Xiangting pressed her hand on the back of Megumi’s hand that was about to reach for the paper bag, and a seriousness permeated the forced smile.
“Boss, I’m okay, you don’t have to worry about me.”
As if she already knew something from Xiangting’s tone, Megumi directly opened the paper bag.
From the paper bag took out a photo, the scene is in Dongguan, the mainland, the detective attached the investigation report, pointed out that the person and friends of the partnership opened a shoe factory, the person all day long, in addition to drinking, but also with a shoe factory female workers are close, living together. The hidden camera recorded several times they had sex, the CD-ROM shows the husband and his female partner between the pleasurable physical intertwining, as well as the woman’s moaning sound.
“Okay? No more looking?”
“Uh-huh.”
Xiangting pressed the remote control a few times and turned off the TV and the video player, at which point a long silence began to fall in the office. Playing her cell phone game with her head down, Xiangting deliberately didn’t pay attention to Huimei, wanting to give her some time to adjust.
Since opening the store, she has been busy day and night, and the number of times she has sex with her husband has become fewer, and later she almost stopped having sex. With low self-esteem, Huimei still feels that it is her fault that her husband cheated on her, that she was unable to satisfy his needs. Seeing her husband’s contented appearance on the TV screen, she feels both sad and relieved. Xiangting sees for the first time a client who is so calm when she finds out that her spouse is cheating on her, and wonders what kind of repressed life this woman in front of her is leading.
“Megumi, are you okay?”
“I’m fine, thanks for helping me find him.”
“Megumi, if you’re looking for someone to talk to, all these sisters in the company can keep you company.”
Originally, Huimei seemed to be fine, but when she heard Xiangting’s words, she couldn’t help but cry out in pain. Seeing this, the staff of the credit bureau hands her a box of tissues, and Xiang Ting comes forward to comfort her.
Because of her closed life style, the handkerchief friends that Megumi used to know in school have become estranged one by one, and after opening her own store, all she faces every day is the market and the people in the store, and there is no one she can talk to properly.
“Cry! Have a good cry!”
“Boss! I’m so sad! So sad!”
“That’s for sure, you don’t push yourself too hard, for crying out loud!”
After Megumi had vented her emotions, she realized that the tear stains she had left on Xiangting’s clean white shirt, as well as the greasy dirt on her face, were visibly yellowed.
“Boss, I’m sorry, why don’t I wash this shirt for you?”
“Ugh! Megumi! You shouldn’t care about this kind of small matter. On the contrary, you shouldn’t keep calling me boss, just call me Xiangting directly.”
“Xiangting, I’m so embarrassed.”
“Don’t be embarrassed! I opened this credit bureau for the purpose of ‘women supporting women’, just relax when you come here, your sisters and brothers will support you.”
“Uh-huh.”
“It’s late, do you want to sleep over here today? My house is upstairs.”
“I can’t! The wholesale market is going to open in a little while, and I have to go shopping!”
“I say, Megumi, why don’t you just take a day off?”
“How can I rest! A lot of people are waiting for me to open my store for dinner!”
“There are a lot of restaurants, and if you’re not open for a day, they can go somewhere else. But you’re in a bad place right now, and it’s not a bad thing to give yourself a day off and tune out.”
Xiangting finished cleaning up, closed the office door, and dragged Megumi to the elevator. When she reached the front door of Xiangting’s house, Megumi kept on excusing herself, saying that she was sorry to disturb others. It was only after Xiangting persuaded Megumi to come inside.
The suite, located on the sixth floor, looked out from the large floor-to-ceiling windows onto a lit-up night view of the city. Megumi’s mood relaxed as soon as she entered and saw such an open view.
“Megumi, that’s a nice VIEW, isn’t it?”
“What ‘fallacy’?”
“Ha! I’d say that’s a nice view!?”
“Yeah, yeah!”
Xiangting said as she took off her clothes and threw them into the laundry basket.
“Megumi, come on, why don’t you wash it together?”
“Huh?”
“Ouch! Coming!”
Huimei couldn’t resist Xiangting, so she also stripped naked. Xiangting then realized that although Huimei was already in her forties, she still had a good figure because she kept up with her labor. Underneath the cheap T-shirt that she bought at the night market, there was a pair of majestic and firm breasts, as well as a waist that was free of flab, and in the lower half of her body was a pair of long and slender legs, which had been hidden by the baggy work pants. Compared to herself, there was unflagging femininity.
“Ouch! Megumi! Look at you, you have a great body!”
“Xiangting’s is the best!”
Xiangting is indeed an angel face and devil body. Unlike Megumi, Xiangting pays attention to her dressing and knows how to utilize the right outfits to show off her curves.
Luxurious bathtub full of water, put in the hot spring ingredients imported from Japan into the bath agent, the whole tank of water white cloudy piece of water vapor also diffuse in the whole bathroom, Huimei eyes become hazy, the whole person trapped in the soothing situation created by Xiang Ting.
The two women washed each other’s hair first. Megumi felt that Xiangting’s hair washing technique was as professional as a hair salon’s, and she had just scratched Xiangting’s scalp a little bit. Just when she was thinking that she would like to help Xiangting wash her hair again, Xiangting’s hand which was smeared with shampoo bubbles slowly slid down, swept over her ear, came to her collarbone, and then gently slid over her nipple, Megumi couldn’t help but shocked her body, and she let out a very deep gasp.