"Boss, give me more...I'll have a bottle of wine."

"Guest, you have drunk enough. If you drink from afternoon to now, something will happen to your body."

"Isn't it enough to just give me money? There's so much nonsense!"

"Okay, okay, I'll give you another bottle."

This conversation was between the owner of an izakaya in Tokyo and his guests. There were not many guests in the store at this time, only three or two, and one of the guests seemed out of place with the other guests.

Hidden under the slightly messy bangs are a pair of eyes that are obviously drunk and dull. Because of the drunkenness, a blush appears on the dark face.

The man held the wine bottle in one hand and poured a large sip into his mouth from time to time. As soon as the slightly bitter wine entered his mouth, the expression on his face suddenly distorted. After holding back for a while, he swallowed the wine.

This situation lasted for a long time, and the sky outside turned from a light blue to a dark blue, with twinkling stars hanging in the sky emitting a faint light.

"Guest, your wine." The owner of the izakaya put a bottle of juice in front of the man and persuaded him, "You really can't drink any more. If something happens, my small business cannot afford to pay for it."

"Boss, you are so... so verbose. If something... happens to me, I will never involve you..."

Compared to before, the man seemed more drunk, so the movements of his hands became extremely slow. Fortunately, the boss had already removed the bottle cap, otherwise he would probably not be able to open it for half a day due to his current condition.

"Eh? Why is this wine so sweet? Boss, did you get the wrong one?" The man closed one eye and looked inside the bottle, "Why does it look like juice?"

"This is just another kind of wine. You have already finished the one you drank before." The owner of the izakaya obviously did not encounter this situation for the first time, and he answered very skillfully, "This has no bitter taste, but the alcohol content is not as high as

It was lower before.”

Because he was already drunk, the man didn't doubt it. He drank another drink and said, "Don't tell me...this wine is much better than the one just now."

"That's not true." The izakaya breathed a sigh of relief when the man didn't notice him. He had seen people who wanted to get drunk before, but he had never seen someone who drank to death like this.

Fortunately, he prepared this juice in the store. It smelled slightly of alcohol but did not contain alcohol at all. The consequences of drinking too much were just more trips to the toilet, which was much better than alcohol poisoning.

The customer in front of me has been drinking at his place since the afternoon, and he has never stopped drinking. Except when he goes to the toilet, his butt has never left the stool.

"Boss, what would you do if your wife cheated on you?"

The man's sudden question made the single izakaya owner in his twenties fall into silence.

The prerequisite for his wife to cheat on him is to have a wife, but he doesn't have one...

It was really difficult for him to answer this question as he had never been in love before.

But the moment he heard this question, the boss understood that the man in front of him was probably a love-struck guy, and it must have been because his wife cheated on him that he got drunk in the store.

As if feeling the sympathetic look in his boss's eyes, the man waved his hand and said, "It's not me, it's my friend..."

Yes, now people are starting to make friends out of nothing.

The boss shook his head helplessly. He really wanted to ask, "The friend you are talking about is not you, right?"

However, seeing the man's current state, he forcibly resisted the urge to ask questions. If it was because of him that the man had an emotional breakdown, it would be a big sin.

"If it were me, then I would have a good talk with my wife." The boss was going to enlighten the man in front of him, lest he do something crazy because he was drunk later.

He didn't want to read in the newspaper one morning that a body had been found somewhere.

The man poured a big sip into his mouth. The "wine" in his mouth was sweet, but the smile at the corner of his mouth was full of bitterness: "But she betrayed you, can you still have a good talk with her?"

"Grandma once said, a couple can be kind to each other for a hundred days, and a couple can be as good as the ocean for a hundred days."

While cleaning the table, the boss said, "Grandma also said that people who have cultivated for a hundred years can cross the same boat, and those who have cultivated for a thousand years can sleep on the same pillow."

"Even if she betrays her, it can't erase the beautiful memories the two of them spent together."

"If you deny the past because she betrayed you, wouldn't that seem a little heartless?"

The man suddenly laughed after hearing these words: "You haven't experienced it, so you don't understand. She has betrayed me, so why should I be so affectionate? It's her who is ruthless! It's her!"

Yes, now it’s no longer a matter of making friends out of thin air.

"Hey, it's true that she is heartless, but the two of them can solve the problem with nice words, so why do they have to fight to the death? Of course, you are right."

The boss stopped what he was doing and continued, "But since she betrayed her, forget her. Why cry loudly, get drunk, or even seek death because of someone who doesn't care about you?"

"Look, my guest, you are quite young. You have many good days ahead of you. Why do you have to hang yourself on a crooked tree?"

Of course, he knew that these were easier said than done. Normal people would lose control of their emotions when encountering this kind of thing, but this kind of words were not suitable to be said to people who were already drunk and delirious.

Otherwise, it would be too late if this man did something to hurt his wife.

But what the boss didn't know was that the man had already finished the job.

"What you said makes sense. Since he...has no feelings for me, then why should I cry for her and get drunk for her..." The man's bitter smile was mixed with self-mockery, "You tell me...Am I guilty?

...cheap"

The boss comforted him: "That's because you value friendship, I don't blame you."

"I work hard outside to make money every day, and I don't even have time to stop and rest. Isn't it just for them?"

The man suddenly started talking to himself, "I originally wanted to make enough money to retire early and spend time with her, just like she did with me back then, but she actually betrayed me..."

As soon as these words came out of his mouth, the boss had some vague guesses in his mind.

Obviously, the man in front of him didn't go home much throughout the year in order to make money, so his wife betrayed him, and in the end he found a place to get drunk.

It just so happened that the place where the man got drunk was his izakaya.

"You don't spend much time with her, do you?"

The boss carefully observed the man's expression and said cautiously, "If the two of them really have feelings, then most women will hope that their husbands can always be by their side. Money is enough for them."

"Is this still my fault?"

Seeing the change in the man's expression, the boss quickly said: "Of course not, you two are both right. One wants to accompany you, and the other wants to make money to make the other happy. This is not wrong. It's just that you two lack communication, which leads to..."

"Okay, it's not good for me as an outsider to say so much. You go back and think about it yourself." The boss looked at the time and quickly continued to clear the table and said, "It's getting late now, so I should close the door and go home.

"

In fact, there are still several hours before closing time. He closed the door early just to let the man go back and have a good talk with his wife, and maybe save a relationship.

Anyway, there weren't many customers today, so it would be a good deed to close the door early, and he could rest at the same time.

The man didn't stay too long in the izakaya. When he heard the boss gave him an order to be kicked out, he took the bottle of "wine" and staggered out of the izakaya.

The cool evening breeze blew by, making him sober up: "Go home? Where is my home? I destroyed everything with my own hands... Tetsuya will hate me..."
Chapter completed!