Chapter 17 A sudden awakening
Chapter 17 A sudden awakening
"I'm sorry, I screwed up. It's all my fault for being impulsive."
Akagawa Aoi looked very self-blaming.
Qinghai Chuantang shook his head. "You didn't say anything wrong. It's just that I don't know what to do now. I contacted the principal, but he didn't answer the phone and even avoided me on purpose."
According to the normal script routine, shouldn't he meet the other party in the principal's office and then use hypnosis to make the other party change his mind?
"Maybe, it's possible."
Qinghai Chuantang looked up at him with a hint of curiosity in his eyes.
Akagawa Aoi smiled and explained, "I have made private cakes before, and one of my customers was someone from the Ministry of Education. Maybe he can help us."
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology is one of the administrative agencies of the Japanese central government. It is responsible for coordinating education, science and technology, academics, culture, and sports in Japan.
The other party's confident look made Qinghai Chuantang believe it a little more, and at the same time he sighed in his heart: No wonder a cake is so expensive.
He returned to the cake shop with Akagawa Aoi, and with his careful preparation, a cake was finally made and put into a cake box.
Because the baking was done inside, she had no idea what the cake looked like. But when she asked curiously, the other party raised his index finger, made a silencing gesture to her, and said with a smile: "It's a secret!"
Well, maybe the principal is a big sweets addict and just happened to be captured by Akagawa Aoi.
No wonder he looks so confident.
Akagawa Aoi brought her to the principal's house.
Qinghai Chuantang hid behind the wall and watched quietly.
After ringing the doorbell, a response came from the other side. "Who is it?"
It was a female voice, probably the principal's wife.
"Excuse me, is the principal here? I'm Aoi Akagawa."
The door was opened, and the woman who came out looked very familiar. Qing Hai Chuantang remembered that she was Hui Tai's mother. It seemed that she had also thought of this step, so she had arranged the relationship in advance.
Hase Ikumi glanced at them, said nothing, and left.
"come on!"
Qinghai Chuantang said softly and made a "come on" gesture.
Akagawa Aoi smiled and nodded, then walked into the house.
The next day, in Chengchuan Primary School——
"Hase Keita has excellent academic performance and a very good relationship with alumni. Based on the results of considering school rules and all the circumstances of the case."
The Hase couple and Genta were all feeling a little nervous, waiting for the principal's verdict.
"Hase Keita and his parents will be volunteering at the hospital we designate, four hours a day for ten days, and we will close the case."
Hase Xunguang was a little unhappy when he heard this, "What can a child do there?"
Hase Yumi felt the same way, and was even a little confused: "There is no rule that parents have to do social volunteer work, until yesterday."
The principal interrupted her in time.
"This is the decision made by the committee. Because this matter has been widely spread outside, please consider the reputation of the school. Besides, we can't let Keita go there alone, right?"
Hui Tai looked at his mother and whispered, "Mom, I don't want to go."
After he finished speaking, he lowered his head. Although he was still young, he knew that the matter was a foregone conclusion.
After the meeting, the three stood in the corridor, seemingly thinking about something.
"Why did the principal suddenly change his mind? Did we offend him?"
Hase Ikumi said unhappily: "How should I know, suddenly..."
Her voice stopped abruptly because she seemed to realize that there were other people standing in the corridor.
She took Hui Tai a few steps forward and said to the two of them, "As the saying goes, spilled water cannot be undone. What good will it do you to let the child get hurt?"
"Because people must learn to take responsibility. Blindly indulging will only lead to greater crimes."
Hase Ikumi was very dissatisfied with this statement and said sternly: "Don't treat children as criminals!"
“I don’t agree to the settlement.”
Hase Xunguang looked calmer, but his attitude was also very firm: "I will fight to the end."
Akagawa Aoi questioned: "Don't you feel any guilt at all?"
"We all make mistakes, and it was just an honest mistake."
"So, if someone made the same unintentional mistake against you, would you choose to forgive that person?"
Hasegawa Ikumi's face was filled with anger, "Are you cursing me?"
Finally, Hase Ikumi glared at her, then turned and left with Keita, and her husband immediately followed.
"They think that this kind of thing will never happen to them."
Akagawa Aoi spoke softly, looking at the other person's receding back, as if she was thinking about something.
Before a disaster occurs, everyone feels that it will not happen to them. So the word empathy is actually very rare.
The confession was obtained, the steering committee was convened, and the matter seemed to be over.
Standing on a tall building and looking down, the pedestrians on the road look like ants, so Huitai probably doesn't feel any guilt.
Screams, tears, pain. No matter how much compensation is given, money cannot heal the pain.
What makes people even more sad is that no one wants to take responsibility.
On the third day, Hase Ikumi took her child to the hospital.
All they have to do is to take good care of each other during these ten days: feeding, dressing, bathing.
Yuzu's mother is a woman, so Hase Kunihiro naturally can't take care of her personally, so this matter naturally falls on Hase Ikumi and Keita. As a mother, Hase Ikumi naturally won't let him do anything, not to mention that she is just a child of a few years old.
But he would still take Keita with him and let him wait in a seat outside the door to finish the homework left by the cram school.
Hase Ikumi walked into the ward and looked at the person lying on the bed, who was wrapped in bandages. Suddenly, she didn't know how to face him, so she turned her head away.
"If you do that, it will cause harm to the patient."
The nurse reminded quietly.
"Right now, it should be more painful than giving birth."
The doctor said, looking up at her.
"Grapefruit."
Mao Shiozawa opened her mouth, her voice was so hoarse that it was even hard to tell whether she was male or female.
"Your daughter is fine."
The doctor's tone was very gentle.
Mao Shiozawa made an unclear sound, as if she wanted to say something, but finally gave up. Every time she opened her mouth, her throat felt like it was being torn apart.
Hase Ikumi slowly looked at her, and an emotion called "guilt" arose in her heart.
My child's unintentional mistake really destroyed a family.
Hui Tai did not stay quietly outside the room, but came to the hospital courtyard, found a chair to sit on, and played with his mobile phone.
Yuzu was also in the courtyard, but she was walking with her head down, as if she was worried about something, and didn't pay any attention to the person in front of her.
Keita heard the footsteps, looked up at the other person, and called her name.
"My mom is doing volunteer work, so I'm waiting for her here. What about you?"
Yuzu stopped and looked at him.
"I came here because I missed my mother. My mother is there."
She pointed somewhere, which was the ward where her mother was.
Hui Tai looked back and then looked at her: "Then why don't you go in?"
"I am afraid."
Yuzu's voice was tearful, "Mom's face is so scary."
"Then you stay here and play with me! My mom even brought me some snacks."
As he spoke, Keita took out a lunch box from his school bag, and opened it. It contained some fruits: grapes, cherry tomatoes, pineapples, strawberries, and a disposable fork.
An expression called "fear" suddenly appeared on Yuzu's face.
She couldn't help but take a few steps back in fear, her body trembling.
The sound of a lighter was heard.
She looked in the direction of the sound and saw the fire.
Yuzi was so scared that she fell to the ground, holding her head and crying.
Qinghai Chuantang was originally asking the doctor about the condition of Youzi's mother, but unexpectedly he heard a child crying, and it sounded somewhat familiar.
She immediately ran over, hugged Yuzu in her arms, and continued to comfort her.
Hui Tai stood aside, watching the scene in front of him: fear, tension, fear, worry and regret.
He couldn't quite remember how he ended up back at the chair in the hospital corridor. He only remembered his complicated emotions.
After a day of nursing, Hase Ikumi saw her child sitting there in a daze, so she sat aside and asked, "Keita, what's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"
Keita didn't look up.
"The auntie who takes care of my mother every day cries every day. She has a scary face."
"You can't say things like that. It's not scary, it's sick."
Huitai's voice was trembling, and there was a hint of tears in it. He looked up at his mother, hoping to find the answer in her eyes: "That auntie is sick, is it because of me?"
Hase Ikumi pursed her lips and said, "Who said that? It was just an unintentional mistake."
"That auntie is Yuzu's mother." Huitai lowered his head again, "Yuzu always smiles when she sees me and loves to joke, but now..."
Keita remembered what Yuzu had said at that time: I want to grow up quickly and take revenge on the person who threw fire on my mother.
"What should I do if Yuzu finds out that I did this, mom?"
His voice became a little choked up, "What if you never talk to me again? What if you hate me? What if you don't forgive me when you grow up? Mom, I'm so scared."
Tears flowed from the corners of his eyes to his cheeks.
Hasegawa Ikumi held his hand and held it in her arms. Looking at her child's current appearance, coupled with her original emotions, she felt that she was wrong, wrong from the beginning. Although the mistakes of the past could not be corrected, at least they could make up for it from now on and compensate each other well.
Ten days later——
Qinghai Chuantang brought Yuzu to visit her mother again.
Outside the door, Qinghai Chuantang squatted down and said softly: "Mom is sick now, and I can't hug you for the time being, but you don't have to be too sad, okay? When your mom recovers, she can accompany you. So during this period, you must be good and don't fall behind in your studies, okay?"
Yuzu nodded obediently.
Qinghai Chuantang stood up and was about to push the door open, but found that the door was ajar with a gap.
She looked inside curiously and saw the Hase couple and Keita staying inside.
Strange, didn’t it end a long time ago?
"Gently, gently! Really, how can you not be as gentle as Hui Tai? Burn patients will feel extremely painful if they are touched even a little bit."
"Y-really?"
Hase Kunihiro looked nervous, like a child being scolded, and his movements became much gentler afterwards.
Yuzu finally couldn't help it and pushed the door open and ran in.
"mom!"
Although the pain was unbearable, Shiozawa Mao still tried her best and hugged her.
Qinghai Chuantang is standing outside the door, and this kind of warmth is enough.
On the table, the carnations in the vase are in full bloom.
I have something to do today, so I will update it later.
(End of this chapter)