Beishan Jinghuang stared blankly at the streets passing by outside the car window.
The extremely prosperous and densely populated urban scene of Tokyo is gradually being replaced by the sparsely populated rural scene. However, when Kitayama Kageho thinks about returning to the ancestral home of the Kitayama family, she will feel a strong sense of uneasiness.
At this moment, my mother was sitting aside, holding lipstick and touching up her makeup in front of the mirror, and sitting in the driver's seat were her uncle Kitayama Shinji and her cousin Kitayama Toichi.
Although she and Yuichi are of the same age, they have few topics in common. Yuichi has a boring personality and is immersed in research all day long. He is currently studying Japanese history at university. Kitayama Kageho has no knowledge of history.
Interest, as a member of the relaxed generation who grew up in the lost twenty years (now perhaps said to be the lost thirty years) when Japan's economic bubble burst and fell into depression, it is difficult for her to imagine the kind of life where top academics study hard all day long.
This group of people, the relaxed generation, also struggled in today's highly competitive society because they studied too easily. They were called Heisei abandoned houses. Finally, with the advent of the Reiwa era, the educational policy of the relaxed generation was also abandoned.
However, as a person who grew up in a relaxed era, Beishan Jinghuang has more time to do what she wants to do. Although she is usually introverted in school, she also always focuses on her own things, most of the time.
Playing games. When she was a child, she played Mario on a handheld game console, and later started playing Kanchanashi after smartphones became popular. As time goes by, she becomes less and less interested in the real world, and recently she is more obsessed with Fate Grand Order.
You can't get out of the game.
Of course she knows that in the eyes of the people around her, she is an outlier. She does not participate in club activities, does not go with anyone after school, and even when she eats in the cafeteria, she sits alone at a table. No one is too lazy to look at her. When others say that she
When she talks bad words, she will plug in her headphones, turn up the volume of the game on her mobile phone to the maximum, and immerse herself in the game character she plays. Only in this way can she feel fulfilled. Anyway, her parents never care about her studies and will
She was left alone in Japan, and the Kitayama family didn't care about her studies. They only cared about whether she could become a qualified shrine maiden candidate for the Kitayama family shrine. Anyway, in Japan, women's status is already low, and professional women often resign as soon as they get married.
At home, it seems that getting married and having children are the most important things.
"Mom." She suddenly turned her head, looked at her mother, and said, "When will you give me the phone? Maybe my brother will contact me."
"I will keep it for you, and I will convey any contact from your brother on your behalf." Yuriko Kitayama made sure that her face in the mirror did not show any signs of illness, then she put the mirror away and said: "What's in your cell phone?"
, there are too many useless games.”
"Mom, give me your phone."
"Remember what I said to you. What to say when you see your grandfather. My grandfather is not in good health now."
Beishan Jinghuang took a deep breath. She slowly rolled down the car window.
Just hearing these three words "grandfather" made her feel severe physical discomfort.
"Don't go against your grandfather's words."
"Otherwise...will you be like Aunt Xingzhi?"
As soon as the name came out, uncle Beishan Jinsi who was driving in front said immediately: "Jinghuang! You can't mention this name! In the entire Beishan family, your aunt's name is taboo!"
"Taboo"...
Beishan Jinghuang slowly stroked her forehead. She felt a physical aversion to this word.
After she was seven years old, she was unwilling to go back to her family's shrine even during holidays. Even if she was alone, she would rather go to a shrine in Tokyo to celebrate the New Year.
"Your grandfather is the patriarch of the family that spans Taisho, Showa, Heisei, and Reiwa. No one in the family can disobey your grandfather." Mother also added: "You have to remember this."
"So you would rather abandon your biological daughter and leave me alone in Japan for so many years, right?"
Mother was stunned.
"Jinghuang, you can't say that..." The uncle even turned around and said to her, regardless of whether he was still driving: "No matter what..."
"I speak Chinese better than Japanese." Beishan Jinghuang said: "I am half Chinese. In fact, I don't mind if I go to China to study and live. But for me, there is
There is no difference between having parents and having no parents. It’s just because I am the only one who can replace you, mother, and inherit the miko title.”
At this time, she completely stuck her head out of the car window.
The Nissan sedan was driving on a country road. Even on this rural road, you could still see various businesses celebrating the upcoming Tokyo Olympics from time to time. However, she didn't care at all about all this.
None of this has anything to do with her.
She didn't want anything to do with any of this.
The car gradually became extremely dull as it traveled along the road.
At this moment, suddenly, Kitayama Yuriko said: "Brother, stop the car!"
Kitayama Jinji immediately stepped on the brakes, and Yuriko said: "I want to go to the bathroom, brother, please wait for me."
"You... don't look good?" Beishan Jinsi looked back at his sister, but the latter showed a reluctant expression and said: "It's okay, it's okay. There is a restaurant nearby and there should be a restroom. I'll just go there.
Return."
There happened to be an izakaya nearby. Yuriko quickly rushed out of the car and entered the store. She couldn't help but enter the women's restroom, found a private room, opened her bag, and took out the injection.
As a patient with advanced colorectal cancer, she was forced to leave the hospital. Using this newly developed imported injection, she could barely suppress the pain of the spread of advanced cancer cells in her body. The doctor told her that the cancer cells had spread rapidly to the liver and would inevitably
It can lead to liver failure and life is in danger.
She skillfully found a vein in her arm, picked up the injection, and injected herself.
"It's getting harder and harder to suppress..."
Big beads of sweat appeared on Kitayama Yuriko's forehead, and she felt sincere fear.
"I can't die...I definitely can't die outside my family's ancestral home..."
She knew that her life was in jeopardy, and the frequent use of this injection also caused her life span to be shortened even more than the doctor expected. The medical principle of this injection is the most cutting-edge genetic technology in the United States. Most terminally ill patients
, actually died of organ failure. Because the proliferation rate of cancer cells far exceeds that of normal cells, their diffusion process will compete with normal cells for nutrients, causing the normal cells of the organ to no longer maintain normal functions. This injection can
The process of cancer cells infiltrating organs and grabbing nutrients is slowed down, delaying the rate of organ failure as much as possible, and barely maintaining a state that can ensure normal human survival.
So far, she has concealed everything. Everyone thought that her previous colorectal cancer surgery was very successful, and they had no idea that the cancer had fully recurred. If she wanted to survive, the doctor proposed a further chemotherapy plan. But there is no doubt that the quality of life has deteriorated.
You can imagine what it would be like. For Yuriko, she knew very well how painful it was. And you can also imagine how desperate her husband, children, father, brother and others would be when they found out about this.
"I must go back...go back..."
She sat on the toilet seat, and her consciousness began to drift away a little bit. In her mind, only her father's repeated warnings to her when she was a child were left.
"Remember, Yuriko, if you grow up in the future and find yourself in a situation where your time is running out, you must return to our ancestral home to die. Remember, you must not die outside. You cannot have a car accident or be killed by others.
Killing, not suicide. You must die here!"
At this moment, her cell phone ringing interrupted her memories.
She subconsciously took out her mobile phone, but found that no one called her.
Looking at her son's call on her cell phone, Kitayama Yuriko answered the call.
"Hello……"
"Mom, we have arrived in Tokyo. We will leave for our ancestral home soon."
"So fast?" Kitayama Yuriko couldn't help but be a little surprised.
"I have a surprise for you! Mom, do you want to listen to your daughter-in-law's voice?"
"Let's talk about it when we meet..."
Kitayama Yuriko gradually began to feel that the pain in her body began to subside. She pulled off the roll of paper on the side, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and threw it into the trash can next to her.
"Also, have you brought what I asked you to do?"
"Do you want the pre-marital physical examination report? Bring it with you."
"You must have that, and you must let your grandpa see it." Yuriko Kitayama said secretly in her heart: You must let your grandpa confirm that your wife has no disease and will not die suddenly one day outside the ancestral home...
