In Tokyo, I just want salted fish

Chapter 86 Apologize
"What does Hanabi think I'm looking at?" Uesugi Kai smiled and looked at her eyes shining brightly in the sun.

Ahead, there was a thin girl wearing round glasses standing behind the crowd.

Hanamaru Hanabi found her legs tightly wrapped in white silk under the plaid skirt, her little hands involuntarily clenched, and she turned around and said, "Kai-kun, do you like that?"

Kai Uesugi had been paying attention to the urgent task just now, but he didn't notice this bright spot.

He glanced at it and felt his little hand squeezed tightly.

Men, sometimes you have to be straightforward.

"Yes, that's right, I like it very much." Uesugi Kai said to her with a smile.

Hanamaru Hanabi stared blankly at him with a smile on his face, and murmured, "Actually, Hanahi's family also has this kind of socks."

Kai Uesugi was in a daze for two seconds, and suddenly wanted to pinch her cheeks that were flushed by the sun:
"Huahuo, do you want to wear it for me to see?"

Hanamaru Hanabi lowered her head, holding the food box with one hand.

"It's not right now"

"I know."

Uesugi Kai led her through the green light that had just turned on, and walked together on this bustling Ome Street.

Soon, I saw the building of the Shinjuku Police Station.

There are several 14th-generation Toyota Crown police cars parked in front of them. The reflective black and white paint is shocking.

"Which floor does Dad work on?" Hanamaru Hanabi looked up curiously at everything around here, and the apology still made her a little uneasy.

"It's on the fifth floor, the biggest office." Kai Uesugi took out his mobile phone and called his uncle.

seconds to connect.

Hanamaru Hiroki: Arrived?
Uesugi Kai: Well, I just arrived at the street opposite the gate.

Hanamaru Hiroki: Don't enter through the main entrance, enter from the back of the building.

Uesugi Kai: No problem.

beep--

Hanamaru Yuki hung up the phone decisively.

Uesugi Kai didn't know why he couldn't enter directly from the main entrance, but since it was his father-in-law's request, he wouldn't bother asking so much.

"Will Dad come out?" Hanamaru Hanabi asked.

"It will come out," Uesugi Kai said, while holding the paper tube, she clenched her tender little hands, "Let's go to the back of the building."

"Yeah." Hanamaru Hanabi nodded, following her little hand that was being held.

Arriving at the back door of the Shinjuku Police Station building, Uesugi and Hanabi waited for a while, and then saw Hanamaru Hiroki in blue-gray police uniform coming out.

When he walked in, he saw the box in the little padded jacket's hand at a glance.

Seeing her father, Hanamaru Hanabi suddenly lowered her head and looked at the bow on her neckline.

Her strangeness was naturally noticed by Hanamaru Hiroki, and he didn't even say the reminder of "today's skirt is a little short".

He gestured to Uesugi Kai with his eyes and asked what happened.

Kai Uesugi could only respond with his eyes, it wasn't my fault.

Hanamaru Hiroki felt strange when his daughter suddenly wanted to come to him, "Forget it, come to my office first."

Along the way, in the huge building, I met very few people.

When the police officers met Hanamaru Hiroki, they all bowed at 45° and greeted the chief inspector.

And when the few people left, they curiously looked at the two young men behind him, talking about something.

Five floors of spacious offices.

The two cups of tea were already steaming, Hanamaru Hiroki sat back in his armchair, put his hands on the desk, and said to the two people in front with a smile:
"Why did Huahuo suddenly think of coming to Dad's place today?"

"Hanabi. I'm here to apologize to Dad."

"apologize?"

Hanamaru Hanabi lowered her head, picked up the food box with both hands, and handed it out seriously, speaking in a very serious voice:

"I'm sorry Huahuo made Dad unhappy"

unhappy?
Hanamaru Hiroki glanced at Uesugi Kai who was sitting next to her, and he, who was thoughtful, already understood what the little padded jacket was talking about.

It must have happened yesterday morning.

Was she aware of the strange mood she felt when she was leaving?

He took the lunch his daughter prepared for him with both hands, and stroked the temperature on the food box. In fact, he didn't pay much attention to what happened yesterday morning.

He looked at the guilt-ridden Hanamaru Hanabi, and said softly, "Hanabi thinks, Dad will be very sad because of that incident?"

"Flowers."

"I still will." Hanamaru Yuki asked and answered himself, interrupting the little padded jacket who was about to speak.

"sorry"

Hearing her father's words, Hanamaru Hanabi lowered her head lower and lower, and her weak voice became weaker and weaker.

Full of apology spread in the air, even Uesugi Kai who was sitting next to her could clearly feel it.

"However," Hanamaru Yuki changed the subject and said calmly as a father, "Dad actually had this kind of preparation a long time ago. Watching you grow up day by day, I am happy but also worried that one day you will grow up. stay away from me."

As a father, the appearance of his daughter growing up will inevitably occupy an area in his heart that is difficult to invade.

He took out a silver-white pocket watch in his inner pocket, opened it, and there was a photo of the young Mrs. Hanamaru holding the young Hanabi.

The pocket watch is very simple. Although it is well maintained, the yellowed dial inside still has traces of time.

Kai Uesugi knew the origin of this watch.

At the elementary school’s autumn cultural festival, a kind wife bought an extremely youthful painting by Xiao Huahuo at that time.

One thousand yen.

Although one thousand yen was not worth much to the Hanamaru family, it was enough to encourage the little Hanabi at that time.

She happily used the money to buy a very cheap pocket watch.

The first money I earned in this life, the first gift I bought with my own hard work.

At that time, Hanamaru Hiroki was very happy to accept the cheap and extravagant kindness of his daughter.

and preserved until now.

As for why Uesugi knew, it was because he was next to Hanabi when he bought this pocket watch.

Holding the pocket watch with his right hand, Hanamaru Hiroki looked at the apologetic little padded jacket, and couldn't feel any disgust at all.

"Uncle, and this." Uesugi Kai handed the small paper tube to Hanamaru Hiroki.

"A painting of Hanabi?"

Hanamaru Hanamaru took a peek at her father, and said in a low voice, "Oi Oo-kun said that you have to be sincere when you apologize. So Hanabi drew a picture for Dad."

She paused.

"So... can Dad forgive Hanabi? Hanabi won't say that to Dad again in the future"

"I accept the apology." Hanamaru Hiroki understood that at this time, accepting her apology was the best choice to take care of her mood.

He looked at the exquisite food box and the unopened painting in his hand, "I have conveyed my intentions very clearly, and I have prepared so many things for this, I know, I must have put my heart into it."

he went on.

"In fact, I have never been angry with Hanabi, and I will never be angry with Hanabi. To have such a well-behaved daughter like you, and to be able to see you from birth to growing up with my own eyes is already the happiest thing in my life. "

"I can see you who are very happy and happy every day. This is what I am most proud of as a father."

(End of this chapter)