Chapter 28 Chapter Twenty Eight

The values ​​on the monitor can also be seen in other rooms, so they must have come over there after discovering the change in the situation.In other words, Longzheng's life is coming to an end. "Brother, brother." Ke Zi began to call out.The doctor stood beside the hospital bed, measuring Longzheng's pulse. The number of heartbeats dropped again, as if it was accompanied by the digital number of the timer, and it was actually decreasing according to a certain time ratio. Why?Matsumiya thought.Why is Kaga there?Why doesn't he come in?He wanted to call him, but this would not be the end for Longzheng.

The number on the monitor dropped below forty, and the rate of progress became faster after that.The number kept decreasing until it finally reached zero. "Well," the doctor whispered, "he died." His tone was businesslike. Tokiko Kanemori began to take down Takashi's face photo, and Kiko looked at the face of her dead brother. Songgong left the ward, he didn't have a real feeling about Longzheng's death, so he wasn't sad either.He just felt that an important period in his life was coming to an end. He came to the first floor, walked to the front door, and looked at Kaga's back through the glass door.

Song Gong walked out the door and greeted him, "Brother Gong." Kaga turned to him slowly, he didn't look surprised, and even smiled slightly. "Xiuhei-kun, you walked out of the hospital... This means that everything is over." "Yeah." Song Gong nodded. "Really." Kaga said, looking at his watch. "Five in the morning...is he in pain?" "No, I just walked away quietly as if I fell asleep." "That's good, I have to ask the department for leave." "But what are you doing here? Why don't you go into the ward?"

"There's some reason for it, even if it's a boring one." "Let's go." Kaga said as he walked into the hospital. They walked to the door of the ward and saw Kezi sitting there alone, her eyes widened when she saw Kaga. "Ah Gong...you were outside just now?" "It's really troublesome for you to take care of me." He bowed his head to her and saluted. "Where's my uncle?" "The nurses are helping him clean the body now, and they also said that they need to sort out the medical equipment." Kezi said, looking back and forth between his son and nephew.

Kaga nodded, and sat down on a chair a little far away, with Matsumiya sitting beside him. "About the Ginkgo Park case, why do you think the old lady of the Maehara family pretended to be demented?" Kaga asked. "Well... there should be many reasons." Matsumiya replied, he didn't understand why Kaga thought of asking this now. "for example?" "It's conceivable, because you don't want to have normal contact with your family, isn't that the case?" "That should be the main reason, but I think it's more than that." "How to say?"

"I once met an old gentleman who wanted to use them for no reason when he was packing up his wife's things after her death. One day the old gentleman put on his dead wife's clothes, Not content with that, he also put on her underwear and put on makeup. He hadn't had such a hobby before, and it wasn't a gender problem. It can be proved that, in addition to his wife's things, He has no interest in other women's products. I asked him if it was because he would have a nostalgic feeling when he carried his wife's things with him. The old gentleman told me that was not the case, he said that although he himself Not very clear, but by doing so, he seems to be able to understand how his wife felt when he was dying."

After hearing Kaga's words, Matsumiya couldn't help being shocked. "You mean that the old lady of the Maehara family pretended to be demented in order to experience the feelings of her dead husband?" Kaga tilted his head noncommittally. "I don't know if her purpose is really that clear, maybe she doesn't know it herself, just like the old gentleman in women's clothing. Because even if she pretends to be demented, she won't understand the mood of the demented old man, but she Might be able to look back objectively at how I treated my demented husband. What we can't forget is that even old people, no, old people have indelible heartaches, and there are different ways to heal them. Although It's hard for people around us to understand, but the important thing is that even if we don't understand, we should respect it."

Kaga reached into his jacket pocket and took out a photo.It was an old photo with a family of three on it.Matsumiya took a deep breath. "This is Brother Gong, uncle and..." "The one next to me is my mother. I think I was in the second grade of elementary school. It was probably taken in a park near my house. This is the only family portrait of a family of three. I want my father to bring it into the coffin, so I will bring it coming." "Brother Gong's mother... This is the first time I've seen her." It was a woman of thirty-five or six years old with an oval face, she looked very quiet.

"Did you hear about when my mother died?" "I heard that someone found her in her apartment in Sendai..." Kaga nodded. "She lived alone, with no one to take care of her, and she died so alone. My dad always cared about it. He said he would tear up when he thought about how much my mother wanted to see her only son when she died. The feeling of being heartbroken. So he decided that he would die alone. He told me, before he dies, never appear near him." "That's why Brother Gong..." Songgong stared at Kaga's face. The door of the ward opened, and Tokiko Kanamori poked her face out.

"It's all done, please come in." "Go see him." Kaga stood up. Long was lying there with his eyes closed, his expression was very serene, as if he had been relieved from all troubles. Kaga stood by the bed, looking at his dead father's face. "He seems content," he said to himself. Then he shifted his gaze to the shogi board on the table beside him. "That was the last chess game my uncle played," Matsunomiya said. "This nurse was his opponent." He looked at Tokiko Kanemori. But she looked at Kaga with a troubled expression. "Excuse me, can I tell the truth now?"

Kaga scratched his chin: "Well, that's right." "What's going on?" Matsunomiya asked Kanemori Tokiko. "It wasn't me who played chess with him, I just placed the chess pieces according to the content of the text message I received." "Short message?" "Then Mr. Kaga... I mean old Mr. Kaga. After he makes his move, I will send it out via text message." Just when he was about to ask who the other party was, Song Gong already understood. "So the opponent is Brother Gong." Kaga smiled wryly. "A game of chess has been played for two months... No, it will take longer. Unfortunately, the winner is about to be decided." Matsumiya didn't know what to say, he was ashamed that he thought of Kaga as a fickle person.It turned out that he was trying to connect with his father in his own way. "Well, please take a look at this." Kanemori Tokiko stretched out his right hand to Kaga, and she had a chess piece in her hand, "This is what he held in his hand when he was dying." Kaga took the chess piece over, "It's Guima." "I think your father should know who the real chess player is with him." Kaga silently listened to Tokiko Kanamori's words. "Is it uncle's turn next?" Song Gong asked. "Well, he probably wanted to play here." Kaga said as he put the pieces on the chessboard, and then looked back at his father, "It's very beautiful, Daddy, you won, congratulations." He said with a smile on his face. A knowing smile.