Chapter5

Because there was something he wanted to confirm, Jiuji went to Huajian Restaurant again after school. Although he really wanted to use the coupon, he still only ordered a bowl of vegetarian soup under the watchful eyes of Kaneki's old mother. Drink slowly.

When Kaneki got off work and sat across from Jiuji, Jiuji acted as if he wanted to talk about important matters, which made him a little nervous.

"Golden Wood."

"I'm here!" Kaneki subconsciously sat up straight.

Kuki said a name and asked, "Kaneki, about your mother..." He said, "Is that the name?"

Jin Mu froze in place, slowly opened his eyes wide, and uttered two meaningless monosyllables. "Ah, hey?"

"Really?" Jiuji looked at Jinmu, wondering if it was because of preconceived notions, the more he looked at Jinmu now, the more he looked like the gentle woman in his memory.

"...Yes, that's the name, but why do you—" Kaneki couldn't help standing up, leaning close to Jiuji with his hands on the table, feeling agitated. "How did I know my mother's name...""

"When I was still in elementary school, your mother worked in my house." Jiuji got a definite answer, and while he was relieved, he felt a strange feeling spontaneously.

"When I was in elementary school... Ah, could it be that time!" When Jiuji said this, Kaneki also had a little impression.When he was in elementary school, one day my mother happily told me that when she came back from a part-time job, she happened to see a house recruiting short-term workers.She went for a trial interview and passed.The work is not very hard, but the salary is quite good.

"Actually, the stomach problems of the Yaoshiji family were not born with it. My father and brothers came out because of their busy work, and I had anorexia because of it." Jiuji lowered his eyes and said softly, nostalgic: "When I was in elementary school , I was kidnapped once. At that time, because I was fed food mixed with sleeping pills and tranquilizers, I got anorexia after I came back. I was very hungry, but I didn’t want to eat, and I couldn’t help throwing up when I ate. Come out. This kind of psychological anorexia cannot be treated with drugs, so my family took me to Tokyo to see a doctor and temporarily stayed in the Tokyo branch house.”

At that time, my father had negotiated a big business with Suzuki's family in Tokyo, so he planned to host a banquet in the branch house to entertain his partners. Because of the shortage of manpower, he hired many short-term workers to help.

Although the memory of that kidnapping was not good, it was not so unbearable to look back on. It was just that when I thought about it, I felt my stomach twitching non-stop.He couldn't help but put his hands on his stomach, took a deep breath and continued: "No matter which psychiatrist it is, they can't do anything about my anorexia. If it weren't for your mother, I would have to go to the hospital and live on transfusions." Yes. She is my savior."

Jin Mu scratched his head in embarrassment, but the corners of his mouth kept rising, and two blushes flew up on his cheeks.His mother has always been his pride.

At that time, my mother said that there was a child who was about the same age as her in the family where she worked. Unexpectedly, that child was the Yakushiji Hisaki in front of her.

Kaneki still remembers that when he was a child, he was once jealous of the child in his mother's mouth.They are obviously the same age, but their living environment is completely different.But the mother said that the child was also very poor. Although he came from a wealthy family and had everything, his parents were not around.

He has abundant material resources, but still tastes loneliness.

Jiuji looked at Kaneki. Strictly speaking, his appearance was not very similar to that of his mother, but their smiles were very similar, their eyebrows and eyes were soft and unbelievable, and no amount of warm sunlight could match their smiles.

"...Your mother is a helper in the kitchen. After learning about my situation, she volunteered to cook something to eat. The chef was at a loss, thinking of using a dead horse as a living horse doctor, so she asked her to do it. There are... ..." Jiuji hesitated for a moment, as if he was thinking about adjectives. After a while, he narrowed his eyes and said, "It smells like a mother."

His mother lived the life of a rich wife who never touches the spring water.Of course, it doesn’t mean that she doesn’t cook. Ever since she blew up the kitchen with a microwave oven and tried to make curry, the fire brigade called by the neighbors thought it was a poison gas attack and evacuated all the houses within a radius of 200 meters. The wife approached the kitchen.

So it is true that Jiu Ji has never eaten the food cooked by his mother.

"She cooked porridge for me, and when I gradually started to eat again, she cooked me all kinds of dishes. The first one was hamburger steak, which she said was her child's favorite food. I can swear it was me. The most delicious food I have ever eaten in my life. No matter whether I return to Kyoto or go abroad, no matter how powerful the chef is, no matter how high-end the ingredients are, I can't make her kind... that kind of gentle fragrance."

"I remember she told me that her son was the same age as me and had the same name as Ken, the pastry chef in the family at that time." Jiuji made no secret of his envy towards Kaneki. "She told me about you more than once, saying that you are smart and sensible, you have always been at the top of the school, never let her worry, she is proud of you...you have a good mother."

"...Yes." Kaneki only felt his nose sore, he quickly lowered his head and rubbed his half-wet eyes with his hands, not wanting to shed tears. "I too... I have always been proud of my mother."

After returning to Japan, Jiuji immediately wanted to find that gentle lady and invite her to continue working at home, but only got news of her death.His son was adopted by his sister, and there was no follow-up.

Fate is so wonderful, her only son became her classmate.

Jiuji took out a tissue from his bag and handed it over. Kaneki whispered thank you, keeping his head down, not wanting his classmates to see his embarrassment.

After he breathed steadily, Jiu Ji said softly: "Kinmu, can you take me to see your mother?"

"Of course." Jin Mu's eyes were still a little red, but there was still a smile on his face. "Mother will be glad you went to see her, too."

Blink, it's the weekend.Kaneki takes Kyuki to the cemetery as agreed.When meeting Kyuki at the agreed place, Kaneki almost didn't recognize him.He was dressed in black, and his slender figure was completely outlined by the suit.The hair is also combed up, revealing a smooth forehead.He was holding a bouquet of white roses with no expression on his face.

But thanks to his outfit of going to the grave, the girls on the side of the road only took a sneak shot with their mobile phone at most, and didn't come up to talk to him.

"No, there's no need to be so formal..." Jin Mu put on a bag in his casual clothes, but felt a little embarrassed.

Jiu Ji shrugged, smiled and said nothing, the two came to the bus stop ten meters away, chatting while waiting for the bus.

Jiu Ji raised the flowers in his hand. "I remember that my aunt likes white roses." During the time when she took over Suyagawa's work to take care of herself, she would put a bouquet of white roses in her room every day.

"Well, the white rose is her favorite flower." Jin Mu couldn't help laughing as if he remembered something.

"what happened?"

Jin Mu said: "Mom likes Bai Qiangwei because of Dad. When Dad proposed to her, he used Bai Qiangwei."

"It's so romantic." Jiu Ji also smiled, without the cover of bangs, Kaneki could better distinguish his expression.His eyebrows and eyes were curved into crescents, revealing a nice smile. "You know, when my father proposed, there wasn't even a dog's tail."

"Hey? Isn't it?" Jin Mu was very surprised.After all, Yakushiji is a big chaebol who has controlled the lifeline of Japan's economy since the founding of Japan. It makes no sense that the head of the family can't afford flowers when he proposes.

At this time, he suddenly remembered the Jiuji life experience that Yongjin had told him before: he and his two elder brothers were not born to the same mother, but his mother was Suxian.So Kaneki immediately filled his brain with a hundred thousand words of grievances from the wealthy family.

"...Sorry." He said sadly, "I didn't mean to."

"Pfft..." Seeing Kaneki suddenly wilt, Jiuji guessed what he was thinking.Although it wasn't the first time he was misunderstood, every time he found it super funny.The Japanese really like brain supplements.

"No! Where are you thinking?" Jiu Ji patted Kaneki's shoulder. "My parents are very loving, and my brother and I have a very good relationship. When I proposed, there were no flowers because the hardware conditions did not allow it. Well, I remember that there seemed to be... help me." Jiuji asked Kaneki to take the flowers , he took out his mobile phone from his trousers pocket, flipped through the photo album for a while, found a photo and handed it to Kaneki.

"It's a photo... Wow, what is this?!" Kaneki glanced over unpreparedly, before he had time to see what the people inside looked like, he was shocked by their blood-covered appearance.He took a step back, not wanting to look any further.But he found that Jiu Ji was looking at him jokingly, as if he was waiting to see his surprised expression of biting his tongue.

"Medicine Temple!!"

"I'm sorry, sorry, I was wrong, hahaha!" Jiuji cut off the photo, put his phone back in his pocket and took his flowers, before explaining: "This is what they call a 'love photo'. It is said that my father I met a woman who was very similar to my wife who had passed away for three years, and I was fascinated by it, and I was invited to a remote bar for a date, and it turned out that the woman was a ghoul..."

Of course, Jinmu is no stranger to this word, and you can see related news almost every day when you turn on the TV.It is a monster that stands at the top of the food chain and feeds on humans.

"Well, then?" Kaneki became nervous, as if he had imagined the critical situation at that time.

久纪瞥他一眼,淡定地说:“我母亲刚好路过,于是随手揍了那喰种一顿,然后父亲就一见钟情了。”

"You, you, your mother is..." Yes, 'you'.Kaneki subconsciously used honorifics.

Although he doesn't know what kind of creature the ghoul is, since it can eat people and has not been wiped out by the government so far, it is definitely not something ordinary people can deal with.Thinking of the lady who "beat up that ghoul casually", and then facing her son, Kaneki showed admiration on his face, and infinite reverence arose in his heart.

Jiuji said lightly: "Oh, she used to be a ghoul investigator, and later went to the investigator training school to become an instructor, nicknamed 'Tyrannosaurus'. I happened to be in a bad mood that day because of resignation, so I went to that bar to get drunk."

"..."

Kaneki's dumbfounded expression entertained Jiuji very well, and he continued with a smile: "Well, my father fell in love with my mother at first sight, and proposed marriage on the spot, because he was chased by ghouls in a mess, and he was injured, and he had nothing on him. Just dryly propose...then they register the next day."

"So casual?! No matter uncle or aunt!" Kaneki didn't know where to start complaining.Is it love at first sight?Propose on the spot?Or did his mother just agree?

Jiuji was accustomed to his reaction, waved his hand indifferently, and explained: "At that time, my mother was already a well-known older leftover woman in the neighborhood, not to mention her nickname was 'Tyrannosaurus', men only need to know her occupation and appearance. No, or if I saw her beating someone, I would stay away from it. My father thinks she is so handsome when beating someone." Jiuji laughed, "It can only be said that it is destined, the two of them."

While the two were talking, the bus to the cemetery had already arrived.They got on the bus, and because there were so many people on the bus, they didn't have a chance to say anything, and the silence lasted until the bus stopped at the terminal.

Mr. Kaneki passed away long ago, and was buried in the same cemetery as Mrs. Kaneki.Kaneki went to his father first, Jiuji didn't disturb the conversation between the father and son, and waited for a while, and then followed Kaneki, who had red eyes, to Mrs. Kaneki's place.

Mrs. Jinmu's tomb is relatively outside. Although I am not familiar with this cemetery, judging from the crowded distance from the nearby tombstones and the specifications of the tombstones, it should be relatively low-grade. There is not much space for people to visit the tomb. Individuals are at their limit.But the simple tomb was cleaned up very clean, and the tribute was still fresh, it seemed that Jin Mu had been here last week.

Kaneki swept away the dust, picked out the wilted fruits, and re-arranged the newly brought fresh fruits.

The white rose brought by Jiuji was soon placed in front of the tombstone together with the tribute.He squatted down, lightly brushing the name engraved on the tombstone with his pale fingers.

It's a beautiful name, and it feels sweet to the lips and teeth after reading it again, just like its owner.

The world is still unfair.A beautiful person like the madam passed away early, but her vampire-like sister is still alive.

Thinking of the investigation materials that Suyagawa gave him two days ago, Jiuji's stomach churns with nausea.From the corner of his eye, he looked at Kaneki who folded his palms and prayed. Perhaps Mrs. Kaneki was just a little effort at the beginning, but she was undoubtedly one of the softest parts in Jiuji's memory.She went early and her son seemed to be in dire financial straits...

Jiuji rolled his eyes and thought about it.

Like when he came to visit the grave every weekend, he silently reported to his mother what happened every week in his heart. Kaneki opened his eyes and let out a sigh of relief.

He looked at Jiu Ji beside him, and found that he had also closed his eyes and clapped his hands together, praying quietly.

… Well, Mom, this is someone your tenderness and kindness unwittingly saved.

……my new friend.

TBC

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PS: Kaneki here is still under self-hypnosis, thinking that his mother is a good person.Jiu Ji didn't know the truth, but he had a good impression of Kaneki's mother.This is just to give Jiu Ji a reason to show goodwill towards Kaneki.Kyuki will know the truth in the future.

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