Chapter 3 chapter 2

After watching TV and newspaper reports, I learned the facts of Gangzhi's crime.He broke into the home of an old man living alone and stole one million yen in cash. When he was about to escape, he was discovered and stabbed to death with a screwdriver. However, he did not run away because of his waist disease and was discovered by the police on duty.Takeshi Takeshima focused on Ogata's house because he had been to Ogata's house when he was working for a moving company, and he knew that the old man lived alone and had certain assets.The tone of the newscaster, as well as the tone of the news report, seemed to describe Takeshi Takeshima as a cruel murderer, and Naoki couldn't think of it as his brother at all.

Few of the reported facts were wrong, though, and the only thing that was wrong was about motive.Most of the news and reports used the expression "lost job, need money to live", presumably the police did not publish more details.That's not quite right, but it's not wrong either. However, during the several times of investigation and questioning, the "real motive" that the police said pierced Zhigui's heart like a sharp gun.The motive is very simple, just want to get money for my brother to go to school. Why he did such a stupid thing, he didn't understand, but at the same time, he felt that if he did that, he would understand.There is only one reason for that elder brother to lose himself even in an instant: to protect his younger brother.

"I said, you can go to college for me! Be obedient!" While talking, Gangzhi made a gesture of please. Naoki has seen it many times, and it can be said that he always does this when talking about the future. "I want to go too! But I have no money, so I can't help it!" "So I said I'll figure out a way, and there is a scholarship system, if you can use it, you can just study hard in the future." "I am very grateful for my brother's mood, but I don't want to make my brother work hard all the time." "What are you talking about? For me, it's nothing to suffer. It's just helping others with luggage and furniture. It's very simple. As for you, don't think about it, just do what I tell you. If you want to say that hard work is due to you, look at the people around you. There are also cram schools and tutors. There are many people helping. You have no one, so you can only work hard on your own. But I still hope you Work hard, didn't my mother always want you to go to college. As for me, I'm just like this, I'm confused and I can't help it, so please!" I made a gesture of please.

Gang Zhi has a very strong sense of inferiority complex for lack of education, which may be influenced by his mother.Mother Jiajinzi has always believed that his father's early death had nothing to do with his education. When his father died, Zhigui was only three years old. He was an employee of a small and medium-sized enterprise dealing in fiber products.On the way to deliver the newly developed trial product to the customer, a traffic accident occurred because of dozing off, and he died on the spot.I heard from my mother that in the three days before that, my father hardly slept and kept staring at the scene.The casual agreement between the boss and the client brought about such a result.However, the company did not provide any compensation.The boss was younger than his father, and usually blamed his father for all troubles, and went home as soon as he got off work. Of course, he was not held accountable.

Therefore, Gatsuko said to the children: "If you don't go to college, you can't do it. They say that now is a powerful society. That's all nonsense. Don't be fooled by that. If you don't go to college, you won't even be able to find a wife!" After her husband died, Gatsuko worked several temporary jobs at the same time to support her two children.Zhigui is still young and can't remember clearly.According to Goshi, just like her father, Kazuko is also busy from morning till night.Therefore, Zhigui has almost no memory of the three of them eating slowly together, but the impression of sitting at the dinner table with Gangzhi.Gangzhi was going to work to deliver newspapers, and was reprimanded by her: If you have that kind of time, spend it on your studies!

"As for me, my brain is not good. Instead of studying, I'd rather go to work. If I go to work part-time, our mother will be less tired." Gangzhi often said this to Zhigui. It's not clear whether his brain is good or not, but Gangzhi is really not good at studying.Although he entered a public high school, his grades were not very good.For Gatsuko who wholeheartedly hopes for his son to study well, it is really anxious. "Why is Mom working so hard, have you ever thought about it? Please, work harder and study hard! Did you hear what I said?" She reprimanded Gangzhi with tears in her eyes.

He always failed to meet expectations, and Gangzhi was also having a hard time, so he chose to escape from reality.If you don't go home right away after school, you hang around the busy streets and play with bad kids, and you need money to play. One day, Gatsuko was called by the police, saying that Gangzhi had been arrested.He was discovered while intimidating others, because it was an attempt and he was only with the young man who was the principal offender, so he was released immediately, but it was a big blow to Gatsuko. Next to Gangzhi who was lying upside down and pretending to be asleep, Katsuko kept crying.Repeatedly, what should I do in the future?Why don't you listen to your mother?Gangzhi didn't answer anything, unable to answer.

The next morning, when Zhigui came up together, he saw his mother collapsed at the door, with the pockets of work clothes thrown beside her.At that time, she was working in the canteen of a company's single dormitory, and she had to go out at five in the morning every day.It seems that I fell down when I went to work as usual. Naoki quickly woke up Gangzhi, and called the ambulance.The ambulance arrived soon, but by then Jiajinzi's heart had stopped beating.Sent to the hospital, she never opened her eyes again. The doctor gave a lot of explanations, but they didn't listen to anything, only the words "Your mother is too tired!" remained in their ears.It is said that the intertwining of high physical and mental fatigue is the direct cause of death.

Beside his mother, whose face was covered with a white cloth, Naoki beat his brother.It's all you!You killed mom!asshole!You too go to hell! Gangzhi didn't resist.Zhigui kept crying and beating him, and he also cried and was beaten by Zhigui. Shortly after Gatsuko's death, Tsuyoshi dropped out of high school.He went to several places where his mother had worked and begged to be allowed to take over from her.Those people are not easy to refuse.As a result, in the cafeteria of the single dormitory, he could not cook like his mother, but washed the dishes, and in the supermarket, he could not work as a cashier, but carried things in the warehouse.

Although he didn't say anything, Gangzhi seemed to have made up his mind in his heart to take over from his mother, support his younger brother, and let his younger brother go to college. He felt that these were his obligations.Seeing this, Naoki worked harder and was admitted to the local public high school with the highest competition rate. However, Zhigui also knew that if he wanted to enter university, he would need quite a lot of money.Therefore, he also wanted to do some part-time work to relieve his brother's burden to some extent, but he was firmly opposed by Gangzhi. "Just study hard and don't think about anything else!" That tone sounded like my mother somehow.

Zhigui clearly saw that his brother worked too hard and had already broken his body, making it very difficult to find a job.He secretly considered taking office.You can go to college even if you work, and he plans to tell his brother about this idea in the near future. Probably Gangzhi was aware of his younger brother's concerns, and wanted to stop him from doing this, so as to get the money as soon as possible, so he committed that incident.Naoki understands this very well.