Beishan Jinghuang looked at the street that kept shuttling outside the car window with a blank expression.

The bustling and densely populated downtown area of Tokyo is gradually beginning to be replaced by the sparsely populated countryside. However, when Beishan Jinghuang thought of returning to the ancestral house of the Beishan family again, she felt a strong sense of unease.

At this moment, her mother is sitting on the sidelines, touching up her makeup in the mirror with lipstick, and sitting in the driver's seat are her uncle Kitayama Jinji and her cousin Kitayama Yuanichi.

Although she and Yuanyi are considered to be the same age, the two have little in common. Enichi is a person with a boring personality who spends his days researching, and he is currently studying Japanese history at university. Kitayama has no interest in history, and as a relaxed generation who grew up in the lost 20 years (or now the lost 30 years) when Japan's economic bubble burst and fell into depression, it is difficult for her to imagine the kind of life that Xueba studied hard all day long. The group of people of the relaxed generation, because they studied too easily, led to the difficulty of today's competitive society, and was called the Heisei abandoned house, and finally with the advent of the Reiwa era, the educational policy of the relaxed generation was also abandoned.

However, as a generation that grew up in the loose generation, Kitayama Jinghuang also has more time to do what he wants to do. While she is introverted in school, she is always focused on her own things, and most of the time she plays games. When I was a child, I played Mario on a handheld game console, and later after the popularity of smartphones, I started playing Ship Girl. As time passed, she became less and less interested in the real world, and more recently became more obsessed with the games of Fate Grand Order.

Of course, she knew that she was an outlier in the eyes of the people around her, she didn't participate in club activities, she didn't walk with anyone after school, and even if she ate in the cafeteria, she sat alone at a table, and everyone didn't bother to look at her. When others say bad things about her, she will plug in her headphones, turn up the volume of the game on her phone to the maximum, and immerse herself in the game character she plays, only then will she feel fulfilled. Anyway, her parents never cared about her studies, and put her alone in Japan, and the people of the Kitayama family didn't care about how she studied, they only minded whether she could become a qualified witch girl at the Kitayama family shrine. Anyway, in Japan, the status of women is already low, and working women often quit their jobs and stay at home as soon as they get married, and it seems that getting married and having children are the most important things.

"Mom." She suddenly turned her head, looked at her mother, and said, "When will the phone be given to me?" Maybe my brother will contact me. ”

"I'll keep it for you, and I'll relay any contact from your brother on your behalf." Yuriko Kitayama confirmed that her face in the mirror did not show any sickness, so she put the mirror away and said, "There are too many useless games in your phone. ”

"Mom, give me your phone."

"Remember what I said to you, what to say when you met your grandfather. My grandfather's health is not very good now. ”

Kitayama Jinghuang took a deep breath. She rolled down the window.

Just hearing these three words from her grandfather made her seriously physically unwell.

"Don't disobey your grandfather."

"Otherwise...... Will it be like Aunt Koeda? ”

As soon as this name came out, his uncle Beishan Jinsi, who was driving in front, immediately said: "Jinghuang! Can't mention the name! In the entire Kitayama family, your aunt's name is taboo! ”

"Taboo" ......

Beishan Jinghuang slowly stroked her forehead, she simply had a physiological aversion to this word.

After the age of seven, she was reluctant to return to her family's shrine even during the New Year's holidays. Even if she was alone, she would rather go to a shrine in Tokyo to celebrate the New Year.

"Your maternal grandfather is the patriarch of the family spanning Taisho, Showa, Heisei, and Reiwa, and no one in the family can disobey your grandfather." The mother also added: "You have to remember that. ”

"So you'd rather abandon your own daughter and leave me alone in Japan for so many years, right?"

The mother was stunned.

"Jinghuang, you can't say that......" Uncle even turned to her and said to her, "No matter what......"

"I speak Chinese better than Japanese." Beishan Jinghuang said: "I have half Chinese ancestry, in fact, let me go to China to go to school and live, I don't mind." But for me, there is no difference between having parents and not having parents. It's just because I'm the only one who can inherit a shrine maiden in place of you, my mother. ”

At this point, she stuck her head out of the car window.

The Nissan sedan was driving on a country road. Even on these rural roads, you can see a variety of businesses celebrating the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. However, she didn't care about all of this in the slightest.

None of this had anything to do with her.

She didn't want to have anything to do with it either.

The car gradually became extremely dull on the road it was traveling.

At this moment, suddenly, Yuriko Kitayama said, "Big brother, stop!" ”

Kitayama Jinji immediately stepped on the brakes, and Yuriko said, "I want to go to the bathroom, big brother, you wait for me for a while." ”

"You...... Don't you have a good face? Beishan Jinsi looked back at his sister, but the latter showed a reluctant expression and said, "It's okay, it's okay, there is a restaurant near here, there should be a bathroom." I'll go back as soon as I go. ”

There's a pub right around here. Yuriko quickly rushed out of the car, entered the store, and involuntarily entered the women's bathroom, found a private room, opened her bag, and took out the injections from it.

As an advanced colorectal cancer patient, she was forcibly discharged from the hospital, and with this newly developed imported injection, she barely suppressed the pain of the spread of advanced cancer cells in the body. The doctor told her that the cancer cells had spread rapidly to the liver, which would inevitably lead to liver failure and put her life in danger.

She expertly found veins in her arm, picked up the needle, and injected herself.

"It's getting harder and harder to suppress ......"

Yuriko Kitayama felt beads of sweat on her forehead, and she felt a heartfelt fear.

"I can't die...... I must not die outside my family's ancestral home......"

She knew that her life was already in the middle of the wind, and that her frequent use of the injections had also shortened her life even more than the doctors had expected. The medical principle of this injection is the most cutting-edge genetic technology in the United States. Most terminally ill patients actually die of organ failure. Because cancer cells multiply much faster than normal cells, their spread process will rob normal cells of nutrients, resulting in normal cells in organs that can no longer function normally. This injection can slow down the process of cancer cells infiltrating organs and seizing nutrients, delay the speed of organ failure as much as possible, and barely maintain a state that can ensure the normal survival of human beings.

So far, she has hidden everything, and everyone thinks that her previous colorectal cancer surgery was very successful, completely unaware that the cancer has completely recurred. If you want to survive, doctors suggest further chemotherapy regimens. But there is no doubt that the quality of life will be conceivable. For Yuriko, she knew exactly how painful it was. And husbands and children, as well as fathers, brothers and others who know about this, can imagine how desperate they will be.

"I have to go back...... Go back ......."

She sat on the toilet seat, her consciousness began to drift a little, and all that remained in her mind was her father's repeated warnings as a child.

"Remember, Yuriko, if you grow up in the future, if you fall into a situation where time is running out, you must return to our ancestral house to die. Remember, you must not die outside. You can't get into a car accident, you can't be killed, you can't kill yourself. You must die here! ”

At this moment, the ringing of her cell phone interrupted her memories.

She subconsciously took out her mobile phone, but found that no one was calling her phone.

"Not this ......"

Only then did Yuriko remember,

"By the way, it's Jinghuang's mobile phone. Well...... It's Jinglong. ”

Looking at her son's call on her phone, Yuriko Kitayama answered the call.

"Hey ......"

"Mom, we're already in Tokyo. Soon we set off for the ancestral house. ”

"So fast?" Yuriko Kitayama couldn't help but be a little surprised.

"I'm a surprise for you! Mom, do you want to listen to your daughter-in-law's voice? ”

"Wait to meet...... Let's talk about it. ”

Yuriko Kitayama gradually began to feel that the pain in her body began to ease. She tore off the web next to her, wiped the sweat off her forehead, and threw it into the trash can next to her.

"Also, did you bring what I ordered?"

"Premarital medical report? With. ”

"There has to be that, you have to show it to your grandfather." Yuriko Kitayama secretly said in her heart: I must let your grandfather confirm that your wife does not have any illness and will not die suddenly one day outside the ancestral house......