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In this way, he acted as a microphone between the two.

But the good times didn't last long. After building a dialogue through the little boy, conflicts broke out between the father and mother again, and they began to quarrel continuously.After a quarrel, the father learned from the little boy that his mother had left the living room, and he immediately asked the little boy to convey, "It's great that you're not here."

After the little boy heard it, he conveyed this sentence to his mother in a daze.

After the mother heard it, she shed tears sadly, and then said a hurtful word for the little boy to pass back. Sure enough, the father was furious, and said another vicious word for the little boy to pass on.

In this way, the little boy acted as a microphone for the quarrel between the two. After such back and forth, he finally couldn't bear the pain of the quarrel between his parents, collapsed and fainted on the living room floor.

After waking up, he found his mother by his side. He said he wanted to drink juice, and his mother got up and went to the kitchen to help him get it.But as soon as his mother left, he found his father sitting on the sofa beside him. Seeing his reaction, his father frowned and said, "I called you several times just now, but you didn't even look at me."

Dad was silent for a while, and asked the little boy to ask his mother about tomorrow's arrangements. He nodded and walked into the kitchen, but unexpectedly found that he didn't see his mother. He turned around and saw that the person sitting on the sofa became his mother, but his father disappeared.

He glanced suspiciously again, and found that the person sitting on the sofa had turned back to his father. Amidst the anxiety, he realized the seriousness of the matter. He could no longer see his father and mother at the same time—when his father was around, his mother will disappear, and he won't be able to see Dad when Mom is there...

He has to make a choice between two people.

After struggling painfully, the little boy apologized to his father in his heart, and he finally chose to live with his mother.

After this, he never saw his father again.

A few days later, the mother took the little boy to the hospital for an examination. The doctor asked the little boy, "Did Dad really die in the car accident? Who is this person standing behind you?"

The little boy turned around, and his father was right behind him, but he saw nothing.

The mother and father looked at each other. The mother told the doctor that the little boy seemed to be unable to see his father, and he didn't even feel his father holding him.

It turned out that the parents did not have a car accident at all before, because of the endless quarrel between the two, the two sides decided to pretend not to see each other, and the little boy was forced to live such a life, but he did not expect that it would affect the little boy...

Another period of time passed, and that day, my mother was watering the flowers in the yard, and my father was repairing the bicycle. Dad tried to wave his hand at the little boy, but the little boy didn't respond.

Mother looked at the lonely father and felt a little sympathetic to him, and father also turned to see mother, and the two looked at each other and laughed.

When they didn't pay attention, the little boy watched this scene and quietly raised the corners of his mouth. He saw his mother's smile and knew that his parents had reconciled.

Unfortunately, he still couldn't see his father.

……

After reading this article, Akemi Igawa's eyes turned red unbearably. She is a very emotional person, and it is hard not to be moved by this kind of story.

In the end, she couldn't help feeling sorry for the little boy.Obviously his parents had stopped arguing, but he could no longer see his father.

Why can't there be a happy ending?

Having said that, this story is really touching...

[24.Chapter 24 Parents and Children]

While Akemi Igawa was moved, the book reviewer Toshihiro Yadai also closed the magazine in his hand. After reading the story about the little boy, he had different feelings in his heart.

In his opinion, compared with the previous article "Xiaoshi and Yoko", this "So far" is not so profound in terms of portraying human nature, but from the perspective of exposing the society, it far exceeds former.

It depicts the impact of domestic violence on a child's heart. From the perspective of the story, first the child mistakenly believes that his parents cannot see each other because of an accident, and in the conflict between the parents, his mind is greatly affected. The torture made him really lose the ability to see his father.

This approach may seem exaggerated, but it also has a certain rationale and is full of strong irony.

To be honest, he thinks it might be better to call it a social novel than a speculative novel.

The purpose of social novels is to reflect social issues like "the influence of parents on children".

Regarding this issue, sociologists have long proved that children are very sensitive to the outside world because of their immaturity.The words and deeds of the parents in the child's childhood will subtly determine the child's character.

Once parents cannot make their children feel safe, the children will inevitably experience anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive, bipolar and other emotions, and to an extremely serious level, they may even give up their lives.

This is not alarmist talk, there have been related news reports before.

Last year, an 8-year-old child in Iwate Prefecture disappeared after writing a suicide note to apologize to his parents.After receiving the report, the police immediately dispatched relevant police forces to search the surrounding area, and finally found the dying person in a nearby mountain forest, and sent him to the hospital for emergency treatment.

After the rescue was successful, the hospital found that the child was suffering from extremely severe emesis, which is a mental illness. Once someone around him spoke loudly, he would vomit continuously.

This incident has attracted the attention of the local media. After interviewing the neighbors, a reporter learned that the child's parents often quarreled with each other, and would spread their anger on the child, such as denying food and confinement.

In the constant pain, the child's heart was severely traumatized.

Once the news was reported, it aroused great repercussions from all walks of life, and many people publicly criticized the child's parents.

Unexpectedly, the couple divorced immediately after being criticized, and neither of them planned to have children, and they are still fighting in court... As for the poor child... Maybe he will have a serious psychological shadow in his life... …

Thinking of this news, Yadai Toshihiro involuntarily cast his eyes on the magazine in front of him. He wondered in his heart whether this teacher Akihara wrote this article to appeal to parents not to cause harm to their children because of the news. harm.

However, the circulation of "New Novel" is too small, no matter how much he appeals, the number of people he can influence is probably limited.

No, I have to help him, I can't waste such a good article.

After making up his mind, Yadai Toshihiro spread out the manuscript paper, picked up the pen and began to write.

……

While he was writing hard, Takei Kohei, the deputy editor-in-chief of "Tokyo Literature", was a little surprised when he saw the sales data of literary periodicals sent recently.

He didn't expect that the last issue of "New Novel" sold 3 copies, which was much higher than the estimated 7 copies in the statistics class last Friday.

Especially in the last two days of Saturday and Sunday, there was a wave of small outbreaks, which directly drove up the overall sales.

Is the effect of book reviews that cost money so good?

He pondered for a while, then turned his head, and told the female assistant who was pouring coffee next to him, "Bring me these two issues of "New Novels."

The latter stopped what he was doing, stepped on high heels, and walked quickly to the editorial office of "New Novel" next door. After a while, he quickly walked back with two magazines.

After he took the magazine from his assistant, he first opened "Footsteps of Search" and read it carefully.After reading it, he frowned and pondered.

What does Kikuchita mean?This kind of boring article can be placed in the first column, and it has such a large-scale written promotion?As far as the budget of their editorial department is concerned, it can be regarded as a hemorrhage.

He stood up and took two steps in place, frowning and thinking.

No, it seems that the article by Hiroto Akihara has also appeared in the newspaper, although the page is very small.

He picked up the magazine again, turned to the column serialized by Hiroto Akihara, and began to read the article seriously.

While he was reading, time passed slowly, more than half an hour passed in a flash, but he didn't realize it.It wasn't until he put down the magazine that he realized that so much time had passed.

After all, he is a person who has achieved the position of deputy editor, and he can see the quality of the article at a glance, not to mention that Akihara Hiroto's article is far beyond the average level, and it is not enough to describe it as excellent.

This kind of excellence is inseparable from the social significance conveyed by the article. For example, "Little Jewelry and Yoko" explores the choice of human nature, and "So far" explores the influence of parents on children.

But this kind of discussion on social significance is not as boring as ordinary articles. Instead, it is conveyed through two very ingenious stories, so that readers can experience it from the stories themselves.

He was a little regretful, why he didn't read the other party's article at the beginning, just read it briefly, and he would definitely hire him on the spot.You know, if these two articles are published in "Tokyo Literature", he will not only arrange the cover, but also make a series of tweets in the newspaper.