They all pushed me!

In a sense, the two of them are almost the same.

They were all like hungry children, treating Beichuan Liang as their father, or mother, and demanding things from him.

Endlessly asking for his love.

"You passed."

Gotanda Yasushi's words interrupted Kitagawa Rumi's thoughts.

"This role is yours."

Beichuan Liang also nodded and praised with a smile:

“A very powerful performance.”

Arima Kanae calmed down and bowed to the two of them one by one. She was even somewhat thankful that her mother could not actually enter the audition room, otherwise, just based on Kitagawa Ryo's words, she would have wanted the media all over the world to report it.

"Because time is tight and the task is heavy, you can come to the set tomorrow."

Yasushi Gotanda reminded him that there are only three main characters in this play. The actors for the mother and brother have already been decided. With Kana Arima successfully winning the role of the sister, the cast of the main actors is finally complete.

"I see."

Completely different from her demeanor during the performance, Arimaka displayed a calmness beyond her age. She said goodbye to the two politely, showing no surprise at being chosen, and left the room with the same light steps as when she came.

"I remember that her mother seemed to have gone to my agency last month to promote this child, Magana."

After Arima Kana left, Kitagawa Ryoya propped up his head and looked at Gotanda Yasushi.

"A person who can do such a thing seems to be a parent who wants his daughter to become a successful person."

Yasushi Gotanda stroked the messy stubble on his chin:

"But after all, it's someone else's family affair, as long as it doesn't affect the filming of the movie."

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“First scene, first shot, Action!”

With the crisp sound of the clapperboard, the film "Spider" directed by Yasushi Gotanda finally officially started shooting.

In a seemingly small house, the steam from the Sukiyaki pot was rising, and a family of three seemed to be sitting around the table, creating a warm and cozy scene.

Beichuan Liang took a piece of enoki mushroom from the pot with chopsticks and was about to put it into his bowl when his mother suddenly said:

"There's spicy radish paste here. It's delicious when dipped in."

"I know, Mom."

"Dip it later. I want to have a couple of light bites first."

Beichuan Liang nodded and put the enoki mushroom into his mouth and chewed it.

"Although this shredded radish looks spicy, it's actually not. I added more vinegar on purpose, and it tastes great."

"Yeah, Mom."

He had no choice but to pick up another piece of enoki mushroom with chopsticks, dip it in the spicy radish paste, and put it into his mouth to eat under his mother's eager gaze.

"These radishes were sent from my hometown. Your grandfather grew them himself. Homegrown food is healthy and doesn't cost money. You rarely eat oden outside. I don't know how many days those radishes have been left."

Beichuan Liang nodded, and he carefully picked up a piece of beef roll from the pot.

"Oh, this must be eaten with raw eggs. I was taught to eat it this way when I was a child. But the pot you have now is much richer than mine, but now you are still picky and won't eat this or that."

After barely rolling the beef roll in the raw egg liquid, Beichuan Liang swallowed it whole without chewing it.

Then, whenever he picked up the beef roll, he learned to dip it in raw egg liquid.

"That's right. You have to taste something yourself to know it. I told you that it tastes good with raw eggs, but you didn't believe me. Now you know how it tastes, right? Can I harm you? Can my family harm you? Aren't all the good things given to you?"

After eating some dishes, Beichuan Liang reached out and scooped some soup.

The thick soup that was scooped out from the pot was a little hot. He couldn't hold it with both hands, so he put it on the table, bent his body slightly, put his mouth to the edge of the bowl and drank it in small sips.

"Don't hunch your back. This is the time for you to grow up. If you don't pay attention now, will you be happy if you become a hunchback when you are old?"

Beichuan Liang straightened his back and stared at the soup in the bowl in a daze. He had no choice but to stretch out his chopsticks and reach into the pot again.

"Don't be so picky! Think about what dish you see before you pick it up with your chopsticks. It's okay if you're at home, but if you do this in front of outsiders when you go to your classmate's or girlfriend's house, how will others look at you?"

Being interrupted like this, Beichuan Liang, who hurriedly took back his chopsticks, just picked up a piece of green onion that he didn't like at all, but he could only put it into his mouth without saying a word and forced it down his throat.

Now Beichuan Liang didn't dare to pick up his chopsticks casually. As a result, within two minutes, his mother spoke again:

"I don't know what you kids are thinking about every day. It's the critical time for you to go to school. You should focus on studying. Otherwise, what are you going to do? Do odd jobs for others like me, or be a confinement nanny?"

Then, she frowned and looked at Beichuan Liang who seemed a little impatient:

"You turned your face away after I said a few words to you. If you don't know, you would think I was abusing you. You just dislike my nagging, right? My nagging is for your own good."

"I have to look at other people's faces outside every day, and when I come back I have to look at your two faces."

While my mother was mumbling to herself, she quickly cleared the dishes and then washed them herself.

"First scene, first shot, pass!"

Chapter 34: If I were an ignorant child

After the initial foreshadowing and the appearance of all the main characters, the movie "Spider" also ushered in the first major conflict event in the play.

Although his family is poor, his elder brother, who has outstanding talent in baseball, wants to change his family's current situation by becoming a professional baseball player. To achieve this, he must enter Koshien (National High School Baseball Championship) and make a name for himself.

As the absolute main force in his baseball club, Kitagawa Ryo has been waiting for the county's selection competition since junior high school and even elementary school. He has been working hard for it for several years and has a considerable degree of self-confidence.

But an accident completely destroyed everything.

"Scene 13, first shot, Action!"

Beichuan Ryo was crossing the intersection with his mother. His mother, who worked at a convenience store, called him over half an hour ago. There were more than a dozen bento boxes left that had not been sold out today. As if to share this surprise, his mother called him over on the phone. She held the bicycle and he carried a plastic bag full of cheap bento boxes, and they walked towards home together.

Because he was still thinking about the selection competition in a few days, Beichuan Liang, who wanted to return home to practice as soon as possible, was a little distracted, and stepped onto the crosswalk just before the street light turned from red to green.

But unfortunately, from his left, a car was coming, seemingly hesitating whether to rush through this side during the last one or two seconds of the yellow light.

Seeing Beichuan Liang already walking onto the crosswalk, the driver of the car seemed to give up his idea and slowly began to slow down.

Just when his car was about to get stuck at the edge of the pedestrian walkway, ready to let pedestrians go first, a shrill scream suddenly came from the side.

Beichuan Liang only heard the sound of the bicycle falling to the ground. He turned around in confusion, and then was knocked away by the powerful force coming from behind.

The plastic bag in his hand flew out in an instant, and the next moment, Beichuan Liang rolled twice on the ground and hit the teeth on the roadside heavily.

When he raised his head to see the situation clearly, he saw his mother lying in the middle of the crosswalk, on the right side of the stalled car, trying to lunge forward.

In an instant, a crowd of people gathered around. The driver of the car opened the door and hurriedly explained that he had not hit anyone.

Beichuan Liang didn't care about the throbbing pain in his wrist. He climbed up almost awkwardly and rushed to his mother's side in two steps.

"Mom, how are you?"

"Are you okay? Don't scare me."

There seemed to be a scratch on the forehead, and blood flowed down the cheek to the nose. The mother held Beichuan Liang's hand and said earnestly:

"I'm fine, are you okay?"

"You're not injured anywhere, are you? Luckily I pushed you away. It was really scary just now."

She touched the wound on her head as if she were touching some medal of honor:

"Oh, luckily I reacted quickly and managed to get out of the way... Fortunately."

After a traffic accident occurred on the road, traffic police and ambulance quickly arrived.

After being sent to the hospital for examination, it was found that the mother only had two scratches on her head, but Kitagawa Ryo's condition was much worse than hers.

"The degree of the sprain is relatively serious, and there may be minor fractures and bone cracks."

"Stay in the hospital for observation for a while, and don't do strenuous exercise in the next few days."

The doctor's advice hit his ears like a bolt from the blue.

Then came the determination from the traffic police. According to the driver's dashcam, the car did not hit either of the two people at the time.

To be specific, it couldn't even be considered a traffic accident, because it was simply the mother pushing Kitagawa Ryo from behind, and then she fell to the ground.

"In fact, I saw a news report abroad before, which said that a mother could lift nearly half a ton of weight for her child. I felt it at that time..."

The mother, who was lying there getting bandaged, was telling the nurses what had just happened.

In order to protect her children, the mother pushed them out from under the wheels and took the risk herself.

Such a story, or a beautiful anecdote, perhaps the mother has already immersed herself in her own cognition.

"elder brother."

Just when Beichuan Liang was almost unable to control his emotions, a timid call from the side interrupted his thoughts.

Because she was afraid that if the two of them returned too late, the younger sister would worry or something else might happen, the mother begged her neighbors to take the child to the hospital.

The arrival of his sister made Beichuan Liang gather all his emotions, like a basin of cold water poured on a spark that had just been ignited. He bent down and touched his sister's head with his left hand, which was more flexible.

"Does it hurt?"

Arima Kana looked at Beichuan Ryo's temporarily suspended right hand, and she blew twice at the white cloth:

"It hurts~ All——fly away."

Amused by his sister's action, Beichuan Liang raised the corners of his mouth unconsciously.

But soon, the mother, who had also received the accident description and handling results from the traffic police, began to argue hysterically with the traffic police in charge of the incident.

She waved and called Beichuan Liang over.

Mingming had never paid attention to his baseball games before, thinking that academic performance was the most important. But now, his mother pointed at his injured right hand and started complaining.

She did her best to exaggerate and emphasize the importance of the selection meeting that would take place a few days later, and from time to time she would mention the famous competition "Koshien", as if she was piling up some chips of incredible value for her side so that the balance would tip in her favor.

Beichuan Liang just stared blankly at the various groups of people attracted in front of him. The more people came, the faster his mother's mouth opened and closed. He seemed to have been unable to hear any sound. He just watched this pantomime with an expressionless face. The old people, young people and children in front of him seemed to have all turned into the black and white garbled characters on the screen before the TV programs in his childhood were broadcast. There was no interest at all.

"Stop embarrassing yourself, okay?"

Then, he finally said this to his mother.

Beichuan Liang pursed his lips and walked out of the hospital without stopping.

He left with a resolute step, as if he would never come back.

Even though Beichuan Liang himself didn't know where he was going, he still walked into the deep night in a huff, and secretly vowed never to come back.

Outside the field, Yasushi Gotanda twirled the pencil in his hand and turned his gaze towards Kana Arima.

The following plot is the scene depicted by the topic he was assigned during the audition.

Then he nodded with satisfaction.

Kana Arima proved to him with her actions that her acting skills at that time were not a short-lived burst of inspiration. Facing Kitagawa Ryo who wanted to leave the family, Kana Arima once again showed the same wonderful crying scene as before.

When Beichuan Liang was brought back home by his sister's crying, he saw his mother sitting there, looking a little uneasy.

Suddenly, he unconsciously remembered that when he was a child, he had looked up at this person who now looked short countless times, and Beichuan Liang felt inexplicably uncomfortable.

For most children, expressing their love to their parents directly is a difficult task.

But in fact, hatred, or dissatisfaction, is also so arduous and extraordinary.

Especially for sensible children.

They ate and washed quietly as if nothing had happened.

Because she was still young and had cried so much, the younger sister was the first one to be sent to the room to sleep by the two of them.

The shadows of Beichuan Liang and his mother were cast on the wall under the dim light. In addition to their shadows, there was also a black-and-white portrait hanging on the wall. The photo was of their father who passed away shortly after his sister was born four years ago.

As if she felt the man's gaze, Beichuan Liang saw her mother stand on tiptoe with some difficulty to take down the photo frame, and then hold it in her arms.

Then, Beichuan Liang heard the cry of an aggrieved middle-aged woman. Different from his sister's cry, it was a more tired voice. He watched his mother crying so quietly but violently, and watched her curled up into a small ball, twitching almost all over.

During this period of time, Beichuan Liang couldn't say a word.

He felt as if he had become the perpetrator and culprit of everything that happened before his eyes, and then this unprecedented sense of guilt swept over his whole body.

Every organ in his body seemed to be in a dull but clear pain, as if a very dull saw was cutting his internal organs from the inside out.

Maybe he is really a piece of shit, maybe he is deeply sinful, maybe he should die here.

Beichuan Liang stood there speechless, like a bug that had strayed into a spider web. The neurotoxins were injected into his body through his tears and the air here.