Diamond Ace Takanono

Chapter 42 Let's go to the countryside with me
"Lang Zhi, what you did just now was not up to standard, let's do it again." Gao Zhiye ordered while sitting on the chair without raising his head.

"Huh? Did you really watch it just now?" Lang Zhi was so exhausted that he finally reached the end of the training menu. was pointed out.

"Hehe, who do you think I am, who dared to release water secretly and punish you to do three more." Gao Zhiye patted his conscience and said that he did not avenge himself, "Who do you think this is for? If you don't exercise hard , how can I enter Qingdao through recommendation."

"Cut—" Lang Zhi also understood very well that this training menu was specially requested from Coach Nigong, mainly for muscle training.

"Takano opened the door, I came in." It was the voice of her mother, and she brought the extra meal herself.

"Mom, just tell us to go down." Lang Zhi who was lying on the ground jumped up and opened the door.

I don't know if it was affected by the hormones during pregnancy. Shen Qing has recently started to like to get close to the two children, especially when they practice together at night. She always wants to watch them interact with each other. She smiles and doesn't know what she is thinking. The dressing style has also changed, and the short hair that was originally capable is now a little longer.

"Don't work too hard, just put it outside the door after eating." Gao Zhiye nodded, finally moved his butt off the chair, took the plate, and held Lang Zhi down, "Be careful going up and down the stairs."

"Hey——" sending Shen Qing away, Langzhi finished all the punishments before sitting down at the table again, "I always feel that you are a little alienated from your mother now, what are you thinking, and now you are not doing well?" Are you used to it?"

"What are you thinking? It's just that her maternal nature is a bit overflowing, which makes me very uncomfortable."

"Isn't this a very good thing?" Lang was puzzled, Gao Zhiye was obviously very mature at the beginning, like an adult, and took care of Shen Qing to pay attention to various things of the elderly mother.

"That's why you are a child." Gao Zhiye's words made Lang Zhi furious again, and he didn't understand why a very common topic turned into an immature whiplash against him. immature.

"Have you ever thought that after April next year, the focus of the family will no longer be us, but the newborn. All the extra maternal love she has now is for that child. This is a feeling that needs to be transferred. One day, I will lose it." Lang Zhi stopped talking when he heard the words, he also knew that in society, the youngest children are usually the most favored, especially the middle-aged children.

'No, didn't it mean that among the three children, the one in the middle is generally the most neglected? The food in Langzhi's mouth tasted bad in an instant.

"...don't want this expression, just think what I just said is nonsense." This guy's facial expression is really easy to see through.

"You don't need to say it specifically."

On the second day, with the usual training schedule, Gao Zhiye proposed to learn a new change ball, but was ruthlessly rejected by Coach Fujii, "You have improved a lot at the fastest speed now, you need to stabilize the straight ball first, and then consider the new change ball."

"All right--"

"Rejected?" Hayakawa Akiaki knew the conclusion, and wanted to ask it again. Who made Gao Zhiye not give up when he was stopped, so he insisted on asking the coach.

"Isn't it obvious?"

"By the way, I may leave early today. You can practice with Nakajima-kun later. He just joined the team, so you have to cooperate with him."

"Okay—I always feel like you are as long-winded as my mother."

Today's pitching practice is over, Takano and Shibasaki ran to practice batting, and saw a group of people gathered in the bullpen, and the batting shed was a bit deserted.

"Shibazaki-kun, what's the matter, where are they going?" Takano recalled what Hayakawa said, and he wanted to leave early.

"Ah, former hitting coach Maeda, you remember."

Takano nodded. It was Coach Kinoshita who had been on vacation for a long time after he came back as a batting coach.

"His wife passed away a few days ago and there is a memorial service going on today, so they planned to go together."

"Ah, so we don't have to go?"

"Because we are not very familiar with Ms. Liangzi. Ms. Liangzi was also a support staff in the team two years ago. She was in the hospital after repeated cancers. Those who were going to go were already in the hospital at that time. I'm already in the team, I just came here on the first day of junior high school, so I wasn't called over."

"Cancer?" As soon as Takano heard about cancer, he didn't take Shibasaki's rambling words into his head.

Gao Zhiye is very clear about the horror of cancer. It is like a blood-sucking worm that clings to the bone marrow of patients, sucking them to pieces and making them restless day and night.

In the cancer ward, he could see the process of everyone going to death. First, he refused to accept it and felt that he was cut off from the real world. Then he went to other hospitals and made various diagnoses, hoping that he was misdiagnosed. When he was sure that he was After cancer, they will sink into deep fear and finally accept it slowly. In the process of receiving new treatments, their money and hope for life will be consumed. Finally, one day, their voices and smiles will be replaced by The world wipes away.

Bed No. 8 dared not accept his illness, and he also had some dementia. He was arguing all day to be discharged from the hospital. There was a curtain between Grandpa’s bed and No. 8. One day after school, Gao Zhiye came to Grandpa’s ward and saw Grandpa was like a child, shed tears whenever he saw Gao Zhiye, "Takano, grandpa will die like this sooner or later."

He grabbed Gao Zhiye with his withered hands, and the trembling came over. He wiped his tears with toilet paper in a panic, and said intermittently: "Yesterday, bed No. 8 screamed in pain for a long time, which made us unable to sleep. ...Running the bell, Nurse Gao gave him a painkiller injection, but it was useless. After he was quiet for a while, he screamed again... His son was sleeping outside and snoring, and I fell asleep like this Who knew that he would leave with his eyes open in the morning, and he died of pain all night long."

Gao Zhiye hadn't experienced anything at the time, but felt a soreness welling up in his chest, and held his grandfather's hand tightly with both hands. The grandpa and grandson hugged their heads and cried together, until they were stopped by Shen Qing, who delivered the meal later.

"Dad, you are still a party member. Tomorrow, the leaders of your school will condolences to you. How can you receive them like this?" How could Shen Qing not be sad, but how could she have time to cry now? Even if you suffer, you have to endure it.

Grandpa quickly wiped away his tears, like a primary school student, he was manipulated by Shen Qing and changed out of his pajamas.

Then, not long after, several people went to this ward one after another. Shen Qing changed her grandfather to another ward. After inquiring, the previous patient in that ward was successfully discharged from the operation. What can be stopped, after a few months, grandpa will never move again.

Gao Zhiye thought about the grandfather who was put into the ice coffin at the funeral, and his eyes were wet a little uncontrollably.

"Taka-kun..." Seeing Takano's appearance, Shibazaki immediately understood what was going on, and stopped talking.

At this time, Takano said instead: "Shibazaki-kun, please come with someone else today, I'm going to the memorial service too."

"Okay..." Shibasaki saw Gao Zhiye walking towards the group of people in the bullpen, and immediately told Lang Zhi.

"Thank you, then I'll go too." Lang Zhi immediately put down his bat and followed the group of people who had already gone to the preparation room.

Lang Zhi vaguely remembered that Gao Zhiye's grandfather also died of cancer.

"Where will the memorial service be held? I'll go too." Lang Zhi moved to Hayakawa Qiu's side, looked at Gao Zhiye who was trapped in his own world, and didn't dare to step forward.

"Are you going too? Over there in Kanagawa, what about your school uniform, you can't go in your training uniform."

Kanagawa is still very close to West Tokyo, and when the two brothers came back, it was less than 9 o'clock.

"I'm sorry to trouble you, Lang Zhi, maybe it's because his grandfather's death day is coming soon." Shen Qing patted his head, "Gao Ye will be fine in two days, don't worry too much."

But Langzhi felt that what the adults said was too light, so that night, he sneaked into his parents' room, took Mr. Sasaki's mobile phone, sent text messages asking for leave to the school and the club, and destroyed the body disappear.

The next morning, the two ate normally and went to school with their schoolbags on their backs. When they walked near the station, Langzhi grabbed Gao Zhiye: "Hey, let's skip class today."

Takano said without much energy, "Where are you going?"

"Let's go to Gunma, my grandma's ochazuke is very delicious."

"Huh?" Gao Zhiye didn't understand what the child was thinking all day long, but he thought of this because of the observation and hard thinking last night?
"Go ahead, take the Shinkansen and you'll be there in 2 hours."

Gao Zhiye's head was dizzy, and he fell asleep as soon as he got in the car. Lang Zhi boredly looked at the scenery that passed quickly, thinking about what Shen Qing had a long conversation with him last night, and fell asleep after a while .

After an unknown amount of time, the two of them were shaken awake: "Two passengers, the terminal is here. Are you here?"

Lang Zhi wiped his saliva, and his confused eyes widened instantly: "It's over, what time is it now, we have to get off at Takasaki, and turn to cross the line to go to Qunma."

Gao Zhiye didn't look at the guy who was in a hurry, stretched his waist, pulled Lang Zhi out of the car, and bought a ticket for the next trip back. The next car will take half an hour, and it will arrive at Gaoqi Station at about [-]:[-] pm.

"Are you hungry?" Both of them were attracted by the special products.

"I don't have any money." Lang Zhi replied honestly, all his pocket money was used to buy handicrafts.

"I invite you." So the two bought something and finished eating quietly. The station was filled with various sounds, the conversations of passers-by, the sound of the station broadcast, and the sound of the train arriving at the station. Amidst the noise, Takano There is a sense of tranquility.

At Takasaki Station, they bought two more bento boxes and ate them in the car. After getting off the Shinkansen, they had to transfer to a bus to reach the countryside where Lang Chi's grandparents lived.

The scenery passing by gradually changed from high-rise buildings to a bungalow, and then to the fields on both sides. Because the winter is coming, the fields on both sides are bare, which makes people feel uninspired.

"We'll be here soon. Look, the lit room in front of you is where my grandparents live."

But Gao Zhiye stopped in his tracks: "Lang Zhi, let's go back."

"Eh? But it's coming soon, and I want you to try my grandma's ochazuke."

"Okay, but wait until the New Year. Your grandparents live with your aunt. It's not good for us to go there without saying hello to them." Lang Zhi wanted to say something, but Gao Zhiye pressed the button Nodding, the force is very light: "That's it, Lang Zhi, today you took me shopping for a day, I'm already much better, I'd better go back now."

"OK..."

　The next holiday is the Spring Festival, I really want to take a vacation

　　
　
(End of this chapter)