Chapter 19 Chapter Two
Guan Genxuejiang stood in front of the table, dazed for a long time.
She looked at the clock on the wall. There were still fifteen minutes before the mediation started.In order to calm herself down as soon as possible, she sat on a chair.
According to the rules, if it is an acquaintance, the mediation committee should avoid it.Small cities are different from big cities. Those who work as mediation committee members in small cities all the year round have met acquaintances once or twice.
Guan Genxuejiang met once last year.After graduating from Xuejiang University, he worked as a librarian in the county library for many years. At that time, there was a place name research expert who often went to the library to check information. The two became acquaintances after coming and going.The toponymy expert filed a complaint seeking the dissolution of his relationship with his adopted son.
Guan Genxuejiang explained the situation to the clerk and replaced a mediation committee member.
But, Kikuta Komi, and her mother Tokizawa Noko, can they be considered acquaintances?I haven't said a word to them, if I say I know them, Guan Gen Xuejiang knows who they are, but they don't know who Xuejiang is.
Guan Genxuejiang closed his eyes, and the scene of twelve years ago, no, thirteen years ago, immediately appeared in front of his eyes.
At that time, Guangen Xuejiang's family lived in a county-run residential area, which was a very large residential area.At that time, Sekigen Xuejiang's eldest daughter, Ruixi, had already worked in a food wholesale company, and her youngest daughter, Najinko, was in the second grade of a county high school.My husband is an elementary school teacher. After two years of suspension due to illness, he resigned three months ago and recuperated at home.He was previously diagnosed as autonomic nervous disorder, and finally diagnosed as psychosomatic disorder, requiring regular psychiatric treatment.
At that time, Guan Genxuejiang's eyes were completely dark, and he almost lost the courage to live.
Sekigen Xuejiang was hit hard enough. Unexpectedly, just after the rainy season, the youngest daughter Najinko suddenly stopped going to school.
"I'm not feeling well." Nazuko said these words every morning, wrapping herself tightly in the quilt.
Guan Genxuejiang asked her what was wrong, but Najinko didn't speak, and she didn't give in when she took her temperature.What a trivial matter!At first Xuejiang encouraged Nazuko in this way, but it didn't work.
Guan Genxuejiang suddenly became worried and wanted to take Najinko to the hospital, but Najinko resisted crying and yelling, but refused to go.Xuejiang thinks the problem is serious. Najinko is not in poor health, nor is she playing truant, but the dreaded "not going to school".
Sekigen Xuejiang was very confused, she couldn't think of the reason why Nazuko "not going to school".
Nazuko's academic performance is not bad, and she also finds it interesting to attend classes. She also joined the school's mandolin club, practiced playing the mandolin enthusiastically every day, and served as the secretary of the baseball team. Sometimes the boy even called Come home.Xuejiang always believed that Nazuko was happily spending her youth.
Sekigen Xuejiang vaguely realized that Nazuko might have been bullied at school, because Nazuko never told Xuejiang about things in the class.When I asked Nazuko, the answer I got was: "Nothing!..." Xuejiang also went to school to ask the head teacher.The head teacher tilted his head and thought for a long time, but he couldn't think of who would bully Najinko.
At the same time, Guan Genxuejiang discovered that the pottery piggy bank collected by Naijinzi was missing.Naizuko likes to save money since she was a child. She puts the lucky money she gets every year into the piggy bank.Xuejiang asked her to deposit the money in the bank, but she said she didn't want to drop the piggy bank.In that piggy bank, there might be 100,000 saved, no, more than 100,000.
What did Nazuko do with the money?When Sekigen Xuejiang asked, Nazuko said at first that she didn't know, and then said, "Maybe a thief came in, or my sister stole it."
After the summer vacation, Nazuko's situation began to improve.First of all, I am not always suffocating in my own room, and my expression has become more cheerful.Sekine Xuejiang believes that this is due to the changes brought about by the school holiday, so he is even more suspicious that Nazuko was bullied at school.
In addition, Guan Genxuejiang still couldn't let go of the piggy bank in his heart. Did Nazuko take out the money under someone's threat?Newspapers and TV often reported that vicious intimidation incidents in schools, could it be that Nazuko was also intimidated?
Guan Genxuejiang waited for Naijinzi with anxiety and suspicion. As long as Naijinzi got better, she would be thankful. As for the reason, we will investigate later.Gradually, Nazuko no longer worried Xuejiang. During the Obon Festival in mid-August, Xuejiang asked her to go shopping together, and she followed suit.
One day, Sekigen Xuejiang took Nazuko to buy things in a nearby supermarket.Nazuko said that she wanted to eat sashimi, so Xuejiang took her to the special price to choose sashimi.Suddenly, Xuejiang felt that someone was looking this way.Turning his head, he found a tall girl standing on the other side of the aisle, wearing the same school uniform as Nazuko, holding a tennis racket in her hand, and carrying a special bag for athletes on her shoulder.
The girl's eyes were terrifying—this was Guan Genxuejiang's first impression.The girl raised her chin and looked at this side provocatively, not at Xuejiang, but at Nazuko.Sekigen Xuejiang still can't forget Nazuko's reaction at that time.Nazuko lowered her head, her face was pale, and her lips, which turned livid in an instant, kept trembling.
Guan Genxuejiang lowered his voice and asked in a low voice, "Who is that person?" Naijinko didn't answer.When Xue Jiang looked back, the girl had already taken a bag of snacks, turned her head and walked towards the cashier.A woman who looked like the girl's mother was waiting for her at the cash register.The woman's hair was dyed brown, and she was wearing a light blue summer sweater and a printed flounce skirt. In short, she was a well-dressed and gorgeous woman.
From that day on, Nazuko didn't go out again.Sekigen Xuejiang simply asked Nazuko directly: "Is that girl the one who bullied you?"
Nazuko's eyes almost popped out: "Leave me alone!... If you want to meddle in my business, I will die for you!..."
What saddened Guan Genxuejiang the most was that he and his husband had no way to discuss it.For Xuejiang, having two children who "do not go to school" at home is equivalent.The husband stayed in his own room, did nothing, said nothing.The name of psychosomatic disease also caused Guangen Xuejiang a lot of pain.
The mother-in-law is a very face-saving person. She repeatedly told Xuejiang not to tell others about her visit to the psychiatric department and seeing a doctor. She said that this was not just about her son, but about Guangen Xuejiang's husband. If it spread, Lian Ruixi Neither Natsuko nor Nazuko could find her husband's family.
This is what Guan Genxuejiang is most afraid of.
Alienation and contempt for people with mental illness is a common prejudice in society. Guan Genxuejiang was implanted with this prejudice by his grandfather, grandmother, and even father and mother since he was a child. It is also difficult to eliminate this bias.
Guan Genxuejiang quickly found out about the mother and daughter pair seen in the supermarket through the street committee.They live in Building K, the southernmost part of the county-run residential area, and their surname is "Shize".The only daughter's name is Haomei. Like Nazuko, she is also in the second grade of high school, and she is in the class next to Nazuko.
Several times, Guan Genxuejiang wanted to go to Tokizawa's house and questioned their mother and daughter: "What the hell is going on with Haomei, who bullied our family Nazuko?"
Due to various reasons, Guan Genxuejiang never found Shi Ze's house, and she still regrets it to this day.Nazuko said, "Don't mind my own business, I'll show you!" The daughter was in such pain, but the mother failed to knock on the door of Tokizawa's house in order to relieve her daughter's pain.
Guan Genxuejiang was afraid and didn't want to make things big.If there is a commotion in the county-run residential area, everyone will know about Nazuko's "not going to school", and maybe even the fact that her husband is mentally ill will be known.Therefore, Guan Genxuejiang did not take any action in the end, and lived in fear all the time.In the world, the human mouth is more terrible than anything.
Guan Genxuejiang opened his eyes, and returned to reality from the memories of the past.
The thought at that time was deeply buried in the bottom of my heart, and it has been aching.
Glancing at the clock on the wall, it was three minutes before the mediation started.Guan Genxuejiang was still hesitating.Not an acquaintance, but it is undeniable that I have a special feeling similar to hatred for Shi Ze's mother and daughter.Although I am an external mediation committee member, I can be regarded as a national civil servant.
Or avoid it.Guan Genxuejiang closed his eyes again.A bright red Toyota STARLET suddenly appeared in Sekigen Xuejiang's mind.
Tokizawa's life seems to be very happy.Although Toshizawa's family lived in the same residential complex as Sekigen Xuejiang's family, Toshizawa Nobuko always wore high-end clothes, bought high-end food, and drove a bright red Toyota STARLET to visit beauty shops.
Guan Genxuejiang was riding a bicycle. When she went to the supermarket to buy something, she had to go up a big slope. When she was sweating profusely and desperately climbing up the bike, she was often overtaken by the bright red Toyota STARLET.Sekigen Xuejiang's bicycle basket has always contained many advertisements selling cheap things.
In order to take care of her husband, Xuejiang left the library where she had worked for many years. It is impossible not to save money.Although the mother-in-law gives money every month, it is only enough to pay her husband's medical expenses. The family of four has four mouths, all relying on the meager salary of the eldest daughter Ruixi who has just started working.
What is this little thing—such a mantra is actually often said with tears in my eyes.
In autumn, the bright red Toyota STARLET suddenly disappeared from the county-run residential area.It turned out that Shi Ze's family had built a big house with a single family in the suburbs, so they moved.It is said that because Notoko Tokisawa's husband is the section chief of an air-conditioning equipment company, the new house even has the most modern air-conditioning equipment.
But what happened to the Shize family?
The Tokizawa Nokiko I saw on the stairs just now looked much older.She has gray hair and a figure that is exactly that of an old woman.Sloppily dressed in a pair of elasticated trousers without a belt.Ordinarily, her age is three or four years younger than Guan Genxuejiang, but she looks to be in her sixties.No matter how you look at it, she doesn't look like the wife of a wealthy family who lives leisurely in a high-end house with a single family in the suburbs.
A smile appeared on Guan Genxuejiang's face unconsciously.Although Nazuko hadn't been to school much because of "not going to school", she finally got a high school diploma.After graduating, she obtained the qualification of a dental hygienist and was employed by a private dental clinic. She was favored by the young master of this clinic and soon married her.
At the wedding, there was a sentence in the groom's speech that still echoes in Sekigen Sekie's ears: "Take this opportunity, please allow me to express my gratitude to the parents who raised such a kind, honest, and virtuous Nazuko. My sincerest thanks!…”
The year before last, Nazuko gave birth to a son. Every month, they would drive her red German car to visit Sekigen Xuejiang with her son.Natsuko lives happily.
Kikuta is so beautiful, no, how about Tokizawa so beautiful?Married to a young but not very serious man, had three children, and in the end had to go to the family court to cry for divorce.
Won!Our Nazuko won so beautiful!A blatant emotion welled up in my heart.
At this time, the door of the mediation room opened, and Kunihiko Watanuki walked in.
"Huh? Why haven't you come here yet?"
Guan Genxuejiang raised his wrist and looked at his watch.Ten o'clock sharp.
"Shall I call her?" Guan Genxuejiang wanted to nod, but he didn't move.
"What's wrong? Can't call yet?" Kunihiko Mianguan felt that Sekigen Xuejiang's expression was a little strange.Xue Jiang raised his head: "Can you go over and call me?"
"Of course. It's not a big deal, I'll call." Kunihiko Watanuki closed the door and went to call Kikuta Komi.
Not wanting revenge, but wanting to know how Shi Ze's mother and daughter lived afterwards.Guan Genxuejiang wanted to see with his own eyes and hear with his own ears how Shi Ze's mother and daughter fell into misfortune.
Ten years in Hedong, ten years in Hexi!Xuejiang is not guilty.
She stroked her right wrist with her left hand.It seems that when the red Toyota STARLET passed me from behind, a gust of wind was blown up.
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