mc-med Chapter 217 Leave
Chapter 217 Leave
Chapter 217 Leave
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"Father." Shio Uesugi knocked on a backlit door barrier of Uesugi's house.
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After a long silence, the sound of a wine bottle being put down came from inside the room.
"You go, today you go, tomorrow I will go."
Uesugi Shio's hand that knocked on the door stiffened in the air, and murmured softly, "Do you still want to be together?"
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After the rain, the sky cleared and the sky was clear and blue.
Drops of water hanging from the green pine leaves dripping with dew.
The greenery is everywhere here, the path is wet, and the Uesugi family and his family are walking slowly in the Sakura Hill.
Grandpa Uesugi also returned home early this morning, walking in the front to lead the way, walking like flying.
"Jiro. Is he still not here?" The old lady Uesugi looked up and asked.
"It doesn't matter if that kid comes or not, anyway, he'll just keep it like that! It doesn't matter!"
Because of the incident a few days ago, Grandpa Uesugi was very disappointed in him, and even what he said was sullen.
Playing a card can bring a dozen inexplicable and very dangerous people to the house.
It just doesn't make sense anymore.
——Ben is a guy who can only be decadent every day.
Uesugi Kai and Hanamaru Hanabi walked behind shoulder to shoulder.
"Grandpa, you seem very angry." The girl's summer white dress swayed in the cool breeze on her slender legs, she poked her head and said.
"Aren't Hanabi angry? If those people were attracted by uncle." Uesugi Kai asked her.
In fact, Hanamaru Hanabi still doesn't understand the cause and effect of this period, but only knows a general idea.
"Even so, uncle, he probably didn't do it on purpose, right?" She said in a low voice.
Uesugi Oki looked at Uesugi Shio who was supporting grandma in front of her. The cousin seldom spoke these days.
"It's true that it wasn't intentional, but sister Xi will be very sorry for what her father caused."
"But everyone didn't blame her."
"It's not everyone blaming her, but she is blaming herself."
"Sister Xi is fine."
Hanamaru Hanabi remembers that Shio Uesugi took care of her when she was a child.
I often smile and encourage her, and often write letters to enlighten her.
But since Sister Xi's mother passed away, she has rarely seen that kind of soft smile in the letters between the lines.
Hanamaru Hanabi stared at Kai Uesugi's profile for a long time again.
"What?" he asked back.
"No, it's nothing." The girl lowered her head and stepped on the moss and gravel on the mountain road one after another.
On the mountain path, the ground is muddy, the green valley is secluded, and insects and birds sing together.
The lush weeds covered the clear spring flowing from the mountain. When I looked around, I could only hear the trickle, but I couldn't see the gurgling water hidden in the forest.
The crowd continued on.
Passing through a small pavilion and passing rows of stone lanterns, the field of vision widens, and the surrounding green weeds begin to recede, replaced by clumps of gorgeous crimson amaryllis.
Red brightened the field of vision.
That kind of deep red, hot red, like burning blood, renders the path ahead as a "road of fire".
"It's blooming much better this year." The old lady Uesugi stopped and looked at the sea of flowers.
Hanamaru Hanabi also immediately stopped on the bluestone, holding down her hair that was blown by the wind, her eyes were full of bright red novelty.
"Hana flower." Uesugi Kai glanced at it, "I didn't remember it before."
"I planted it two years ago," said the old lady Uesugi kindly. "Originally there were only a few clusters of wild flowers here."
"This bright red piece is really amazing." Mrs. Hanamaru and Mrs. Uesugi stood together.
"The growth is very good, grandma, have you considered transplanting a few plants back home?" Kai Uesugi said, then squatted down and stared at the bright red umbels.
"It's not that I want to move it back to plant, but Ah Kai thinks about it." The old lady Uesugi smiled, and then followed her grandfather and continued to walk forward.
"It's good to make garden flowers."
Uesugi Kai didn't rush to follow, but plucked a Bigan flower, held the green stem and walked in front of Xiao Huahuo.
Under the gaze of her clear eyebrows like spring water, I helped her pin it on her hair.
The breeze blew by, driving the girl's pure white skirt to sway in the sea of bright fiery red flowers.
Her soft short hair, and the hair on the temples hanging down in front, also danced along with it.
Ethereal, beautiful and fresh.
Admiring her face, Kai Uesugi couldn't help but smile slightly.
"Your Majesty."
"what happened?"
"If, if Hanabi is gone for a long time, will Kai-kun still miss her?"
"Why are you asking this suddenly?" Uesugi Kai knelt down again, picked another flower and put it in the palm of his hand.
"That's right. I want to ask." Hanamaru Hanabi's hands were clustered together as white as jade.
Uesugi Oki stood up, and Uesugi Shio supported her grandma in the distance, walking slowly with her back, with an indescribable feeling.
"I will miss her, and I miss her very much. For me, isn't Huahuo the world?"
Hanamaru Hanabi lowered her head: "Kai-kun is so good, in fact...you can live well without Hanabi."
Kaoru Uesugi never thought that he was outstanding, so he decorated the girl's short hair with the Higan flower that he picked just now.
On the forehead, the flower balls rustled and the inflorescences swayed.
The girl standing on the bluestone is embellished in a youthful and moving way.
"My efforts are only for Xiao Huahuo to live a better life in the future."
"Mr. Kai!"
In the scorching sea of flowers on the other side, the girl raised her head, the white dress, flower ornaments, and the breeze all catered to her beauty.
"Hanabi. Maybe I really have to leave."
Uesugi Kai was stunned, looking at the dreamy but real girl in white dress in front of him.
"why.?"
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In the cemetery, many people came back from the city to pay homage to their ancestors the day before the Obon.
In front of the desolate stones, there are all kinds of fresh flowers.
Passing by one after another stone tablets engraved with names and brief introductions, the ancestors of the Uesugi family are at the far left corner of the cemetery.
Kaoru Uesugi scooped the water from the small wooden barrel into a small groove called "Shui Shou" in front of the stele.
Grandpa Uesugi presented the wild flowers picked on the road, and took out a glass of prepared wine and put it in front of his father.
Then there is no other action.
"Sagawa, it's been so long, are you still angry?" the old lady Uesugi said with her hands clasped open slightly.
Grandpa Uesugi just looked at his father's name on it, and after being bored for a long time, he said: "I will not forgive this man. No, he is not worthy of being called a man if he abandons his family."
"When Rina and I were wearing coir raincoats in the snow and crying with our mother in our arms, we had never seen this guy before, and we didn't even know where he was."
Grandpa Uesugi didn't even want to see the name again with sharp eyebrows, and clenched his fist with the food box.
"Heh, maybe he's drinking happily somewhere."
Grandpa Uesugi's real name was Sagawa Uesugi, and Rina Uesugi was his younger sister who unfortunately died in the earthquake.
The two children were raised by their mother alone. They ate sweet potatoes every day and lived a poor rural life.
The three of them, mother and child, can be said to depend on each other for life.
"But he still came back." Old lady Uesugi said.
"If you run away, you run away. If you say you won't come back, I can give him a glass of wine and a bunch of flowers every year, which is already the best of my benevolence!"
"grandfather."
Uesugi Kai made a bow to the stele, and stood up from the squatting state, "Speaking of which, do I still have a grandparent?"
Uesugi Sagawa was very kind to his grandson, Ah Kai, and smiled and waved his hands: "It's all old things, there's nothing to talk about."
Seeing that his grandfather was unwilling to speak, Uesugi Kai didn't continue to ask.
He had never heard his grandfather mention anything about his grandmother before.
But from the fragment of words exposed just now, he can also infer that grandpa has deep feelings for grandma and aunt.
The hardships of a single-parent family are unimaginable.
Tomb-sweeping actually doesn't need to be too cumbersome.
Cleaning up, receiving water, handing flowers, paying homage, paying tribute—that’s the whole process.
The flowers to be handed over can be selected from the favorite flowers of the ancestors.
But also pay attention to details, such as roses with thorns, need to cut off the thorns.
For example, other shore flowers and daffodils are poisonous plants and are not suitable for sweeping graves.
Compared with his own father, what Grandpa Uesugi gave to his mother is much more important.
Whether it is the carefully selected camellias, or the tribute meals prepared by hand in the morning, they really put their hearts into it.
"It's been another year." Grandpa Uesugi sighed at the death words on the stone tablet, every word was a summary of his mother's life.
"Frustrated?" Mrs. Uesugi put down her clasped hands and said unhurriedly.
"If you say no, it must be a lie."
Grandpa Uesugi's well-proportioned face was already covered with wrinkles, "When I met Takashiko, I still remember it vividly, as if it was yesterday. In a blink of an eye. Hahaha, my hair is all white."
Speaking of that summer festival, old lady Uesugi could not help but smile on her kind and amiable face.
"Old man, you haven't changed in the past few decades, and you only have this stubborn temper. You are in your seventies, and you still want to fight against those guys."
"I also want to thank my bad temper!"
"Your temper is nothing to praise."
"At least it made me go for the goldfish that day."
Memories always have the background color of black and white photos, but only the color of the day when we first met is hard to fade away.
"At that time, Rina was still there too," the old lady Uesugi said with emotion.
"Yes, it's still there, it's still there, it's still there. It's still there." Looking at his mother's grave, Grandpa Uesugi, with gray hair, kept muttering to himself.
When people are old, they just like to recall the past, because the road ahead has come to an end.
The only thing left is the nostalgia for the people and things that have passed away.
When losing the person who accompanied him for half his life, the children also have their own families.
That is when the old people are the loneliest.
A room, a chair, a person who looks at the sky and recalls the vague memories of the past.
full of melancholy.
The grandparents have been chatting, and they seem to want to stay in the cemetery for a while.
Shio Uesugi also stood alone in front of a tombstone, with his head down, silent.
Uesugi Kai and Hanamaru Hanabi walked over and saw "Tomb of Uesugi Chikako" written on the stone tablet.
"Speaking of which, my mother's death has something to do with me." Shio Uesugi said to the two people behind him, his voice was normal, but not as lazy as before.
"Didn't my aunt die of illness?" Uesugi Kai said.
"It died of illness, but since I was born, she has not stopped taking the medicine every day."
Uesugi said these words calmly, "In other words, my birth further aggravated her condition, and finally led to the tragedy of her mother throwing herself into the river."
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"Ah, Xiao Huahuo, I'm really sorry for what my father caused two days ago."
"Don't, don't say that, sister Xi and us" Hanamaru Hanabi glanced at Uesugi Kai secretly, "Aren't sister Xi and us a family?"
"Ah."
After a while, Uesugi Shio didn't continue talking except for an answer.
Hanamaru Hanabi can tell that the cousin is in a bad mood recently, and she also wants to help this sister who has taken good care of her since she was a child.
But she herself is a 15-year-old girl with heart disease since she was a child, and she doesn't know how to enlighten these things.
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August 8th is the Obon Festival.
Although this is the biggest festival except the New Year, Kai Uesugi couldn't be happier.
Looking up at the drizzle falling from the sky, I feel extremely melancholy.
"Are you sure you want to go?" He turned his head and asked.
Hanamaru Hanabi, who was arranging the clothes of the two of them yesterday, paused her hands, and looked at him with her delicate face: "If Kai-kun doesn't want Hanabi to go, then Hanabi won't go."
"Still. Follow your own ideas."
Girls are always like this, they have been listening to themselves since childhood.
Even if it is an important decision, she will follow her own suggestions to change it.
Kaoru Uesugi didn't want to affect her.
"Fireworks."
"Yeah" replied weakly.
"What if we don't go to the same university after graduation?"
"Hanabi. Support Kai-kun's dream."
"I want to read with you." Uesugi Kai put his hands on the window, and the orange orchard was quietly located on the cherry hill in the distance.
"Hanabi's grades won't get you into the University of Tokyo." The girl's voice was weak.
"I'll go to your place to read."
"But." Hanamaru Hanabi looked up at him again, "Kai-kun, there is no need to give up such a good condition for Hanabi.
"If Kai-kun does this, Hanabi will feel even more sorry."
The girl doesn't want to drag him down who has a better future because of her uselessness. Sometimes it is her biggest wish that she can silently support her behind.
Just like the kendo competitions and bow competitions he participated in.
Even though he didn't understand this at all, Hanamaru Hanabi would still take the thermos bottle with ice cubes in it in the morning, and hand it to him as soon as possible after his break.
Every game will not be absent.
(End of this chapter)