About the fact that I unintentionally raised my sister to be a cripple - Chapter 116 Even if you are as strong as Jiuliuli, will you be moved to tears by food one day?

Tian Hai Jiu Liuli.

In Sakakihara Raku’s impression, glass is a colorful object.

Just like the brilliance it diffuses, it always brings people a positive and optimistic attitude.

The same goes for Tianhai Jiuliuli. She is serious, gentle, and has an outgoing personality but also has her own introversion.

Well, such a generous girl also has unhappy moments.

She also has something to hide inside.

The real Liuli is not as perfect and excellent as she appears.

While listening to her talk about her mother, the plum rain in June was still falling gently and slowly outside.

“When I was young, Nanami Mingzuki and I lived most of the time at home in Chiyoda District. I still know that home very well. There were crooked trees, weeds peeking out from the road stones, and ivy and ivy trees. Painted iron door.

“My home is big, but it’s also the only place Qi Mingyue and I can move around in this world.

“Because we couldn’t leave home, Qi Mingyue and I would always sit together after practicing piano in the morning, looking at the window higher than us, seeing the blue sky and the chirping birds standing on the branches. We would quietly We watched for a long time on sunny days, rainy days and cloudy days, and the fewest birds stayed in windy weather.”

Tianhai Jiuliuli smiled lightly.

“Qi Mingyue would often point to the birds and say to me, that one is called a sparrow, that one is called a white wagtail, that one is a starling, and that one is a thrush. She also told me that thrushes generally only appear in autumn and winter, so they are very common most of the time. It’s rare to see them.”

Sakakibara noticed that when Jiuruli was talking about this paragraph, there was a smile on his face.

Watching birds during the break. This kind of thing is particularly boring for children who are naturally active, but in Jiuliuli’s mouth, it is as happy as getting a favorite toy.

“Uncle asked you to learn a lot of things before, right?” Sakakihara thought of Jiu Liuli’s piano performance that day at the dinner.

“Well, etiquette and calligraphy, literary skills, sitting and standing postures are all things that need to be learned. Each thing takes a long time to learn, and many times it takes a whole day to learn.”

“Would you feel bored?”

“Are you bored? I can’t put it into words, maybe I am. I practice piano for a day, a week, a month, a year, and I insist on it every day. Well, I think there is boredom, but I also know that this is what I have to learn. Something, you have to hold on even if your finger hurts, it’s probably because it’s numb.

“However, although my parents are very strict, Qi Mingyue and I don’t blame them because we know they are for our own good. In fact, I have benefited a lot now.”

Now Jiuliuli has excellent grades, excellent sports, excellent piano, and is truly the number one in the school in kyudo.

It must have been influenced by my childhood.

“At that time, I was very tired and had almost no time to rest. I played piano in the morning, calligraphy in the afternoon, and etiquette in the evening. My father arranged many teachers for Qi Mingyue and me. At the same time, in order to avoid reporters inquiring about my mother from disturbing us, most of us I spent all my time hiding in that room and couldn’t come out.”

Sakakibara still remembers what Jiuruli told him about his mother.

A popular star in the UK was suddenly revealed to be pregnant, and the entire entertainment industry was tracking her husband’s identity.

Uncle Tianhai’s identity was later found out, and everyone knew that he was the first heir to a traditional Japanese family pharmaceutical group.

After learning about the husband, the reporters then turned their attention to their children, who had never been seen.

Everyone wants to know what the secret child of a big star is like.

The family at that time was unbearable, which indirectly led to the failure of the uncle and aunt’s marriage.

“Before I was five years old, my mother spent most of the time with me Qi Mingyue. When I was about to reach my sixth birthday when I was five years old, my mother and father divorced. Although I don’t know the reason, they had a big fight at that time. The content was that I I don’t quite understand it, and I can’t remember it clearly now. But I vaguely sense that it’s about the future development direction of Qi Mingyue and me.”

Sakakibara held the teacup and frowned: “Is it your aunt’s idea to take you and Nanamigyue abroad?”

“Yeah.” Tianhai Jiuliuli nodded, “I can’t remember the content clearly, but my father and mother have different opinions. Because of our musical talents, my mother wants Qi Mingyue and me to develop abroad. Study abroad.

“Her arrangements – she participated in the Liszt International Piano Competition at the age of 10 and won first prize, the Ettlingen International Piano Competition in Germany at the age of 11, the Tchaikovsky International Young Musicians Competition at the age of 14, At that time, Qi Mingyue won the Chopin International Piano Gold Medal again, just like me.

“My mother said to me and Qi Mingyue, you are outstanding, and as twin sisters, if you appear on the world stage with such a young attitude, the next road, whether it is in the music festival or the entertainment industry, will be great. Get the attention of the whole world.”

This is the pressure Aunt Bertha put on Jiu Liuli and Qi Mingyue.

At a young age, he has to travel to various international competitions.

Tianhai Jiuliuli continued: “My father had the opposite opinion. He couldn’t let my mother take Qi Mingyue and me abroad. I didn’t understand it at the time, but I know it now. He didn’t like those foreign media reporters. He thought that I He and Qi Mingyue have been harassed by those guys, and now they actually run over to greet them?”

Uncle did a good job.

Although my aunt is a bit radical, considering Jiu Liuli’s talent at the piano, she will definitely have a smooth career.

No, given Aunt Bertha’s top influence in the European entertainment industry, the future achievements of her twin daughters, Jiuliuli and Qi Mingyue, cannot be described as “smooth sailing”.

It should be “unstoppable”.

Both parents can only say that they have different starting points.

But what matters most is the opinions of Jiuliuli and Qi Mingyue themselves.

But for adults, they really don’t consider their children’s feelings when making big decisions.

“What do children know?” This is a common refrain among all parents.

“What did you think about Jiuliuli yourself at that time?”

This sentence made Tianhai Jiuliuli silent for a long time.

“I was too young at that time, and I just ignorantly knew that my parents were going to separate. I didn’t really understand the reason, but I just knew that for Qi Mingyue and I, Qi Mingyue and I had always been the only ones in that family. Because my father had always been They are all busy with work and have no concern for us other than arranging rules.”

“.Jiu Liuli?”

“Sorry, brother, I was a little distracted.”

Tianhai Jiuliuli smiled at him again.

Raku Sakakibara was feeling knotty at the moment. It was understandable to get divorced because of differences of opinion, but it was the children who were hurt.

As a child, you will always look forward to your parents’ response.

It was a long time ago, but Sakakihara Raku also vaguely remembered the time in his previous life when he was still a little kid crying and looking for his mother. This is nothing to be embarrassed about, it’s just human nature.

Although I didn’t find my mother in the end

Jiuliuli must also feel this way.

A five-year-old girl, helpless, watched her mother, whom she had been with and relied on since childhood, fly to England thousands of kilometers away on a plane. That little figure was watching by the window, missing her mother. Thinking about it makes people heartache.

Thinking back to the photo of Jiu Liuli with her mother when she was a child that she had seen on Qi Mingyue’s mobile phone before. When Jiu Liuli was a child, she showed a cute scissor-hand smile to the camera, and Sakakihara Raku felt a sense of boredom in her chest.

After all these years, Jiuliuli is still very happy and smiling generously.

The smile did not mean that she was relieved of the matter, but as Qi Mingyue said, “My sister has been hiding it all this time.”

The quarrel between mother and Uncle Tianhai probably brought back memories of Jiuliuli’s past.

It made her feel uncomfortable.

“Because it was a divorce case accepted in a Japanese court, the custody rights of Qi Mingyue and I were awarded to my father.

“On the day we parted, my mother smiled and said hello to Qi Mingyue and me. She smiled and touched our heads, then left with her suitcase and went back to England. At that time, Qi Mingyue and I watched our mother go up On the plane, I remember she was wearing a beautiful long white dress and a summer straw hat with white flowers on it. As she was leaving, she turned around and waved to us.”

“Kuriuri, don’t say anything if you feel uncomfortable.” Sakakihara gradually realized that something was wrong with her.

“It’s okay, brother. It’s been so many years.” Tianhai Jiuliuli smiled again, her eyes were very beautiful.

He said so and passed.

In fact, I still care about it very much.

For the first time, Sakakihara Raku deeply understood the difficulties in Jiureli’s heart.

After Tianhai Jiuliuli took a sip of tea, he held the cup with both hands, looked at the reflection in the cup and continued:

“Before this, although I was very tired every day and busy studying every day, my mother would still secretly take us out of the house that was half occupied by ivy, and secretly take Qi Mingyue and I out to eat some delicious food. See you. There are some entertainment facilities that I have never seen before and children I have never met.

“Even though there was a possibility of being photographed by some strange strangers, she still took Qi Mingyue and me out. I still remember that the question most asked by children at that time was ‘Why do you look the same?’. I couldn’t answer it. Qi Mingyue can also simply say that she and her sister are twins.

“Mom left, and my father rarely took us out. He wanted to protect us more. Because when my mother took us out secretly, we were secretly photographed. At that time, many people suddenly gathered in front of my mother and asked some very complicated questions. I couldn’t understand the words. Qi Mingyue and I could only hide behind our mother, not knowing what to do.

“In the days that followed, in order to replace my mother’s time with me and Qi Mingyue, my father began to take some time to take Qi Mingyue and me to his study. There were many books in my father’s study. I could read some books, but I couldn’t understand them. Books. Usually my father would let Qi Mingyue and I learn to write, and there were etiquette requirements. In the study room, he had no restrictions. Even Qi Mingyue wouldn’t mind if he put his books on the ground casually. He would occasionally Tell us stories, even though they are stories we don’t understand well.”

“Because Qi Mingyue learns Chinese characters faster than me, she reads more and more seriously than I do. I am more easily distracted and often look at the iron gate of the front yard behind the glass window of my father’s study in a daze. I imagined my father telling us that my mother was back from England, and I imagined my mother getting out of the car at the door, carrying a bag, and bringing many delicious British snacks to Qi Mingyue and me.

“That was the only good time. After that, my father became busier and busier due to family reasons. The only one who could come to visit us and give us a sense of family was my mother, who would come back to visit us once in a while. “

“Is there no servant at home?” Sakakihara asked.

“It was there at the beginning, but then it disappeared.” Tianhai Jiuliuli didn’t seem to explain the reason. “After my mother got divorced, she would come back to visit us every other month at first, but the time became farther and farther apart. Month, two months, three months, half a year, one year.

“Since then, I haven’t waited for my mother for more than a year. Every night when I fell asleep under the bright moon, I would sneak into my father’s study with my mother giving me gifts, sit quietly in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, and watch The rusty iron door outside. I think, if I wait a little longer for my mother, she will come back to see me and Qi Mingyue, right? What will she bring to see us this time? Qi Mingyue should also be very happy. Are you happy?”

In this misty rainy weather, Tianhai Jiuliuli’s tone became more and more depressed.

It’s really uncomfortable to hear Sakakihara Raku.

From today’s perspective, it may not matter.

But try to think about it, two ignorant little girls have stayed in that empty home since they were young.

The mother only comes back once every six months, maybe even once, and the father is busy with his career because of the suppression of him at home, and ignores the two little girls.

For them, the only thing left in that home is each other.

You can always only get happiness by looking at the children outside.

Every time her mother returns home, it is hope for Tianhai Jiuliuli.

Therefore, Tianhai Jiuliuli relies on, trusts and likes her mother very much.

In the middle of the night, a little girl secretly got up and came to the window, hugging her legs, waiting quietly for her mother to come back to visit her and her sister, hoping that she would bring novel toys and snacks again.

The look of someone waiting quietly made Sakakibara feel very distressed.

How long had she waited?

Missing my mother will probably wait forever, for a few hours or a whole night, or for another year, it’s possible.

But Jiuliuli is a very sensible child and will not take the initiative to tell her parents what she wants. This means that she can tolerate everything in her heart.

Indirectly, Sakakihara Raku couldn’t help but question Aunt Bertha.

Why haven’t you come to see your daughter for a year?

Do you understand how uncomfortable it is for her to wait?

This should be the injury Jiuliuli suffered from childhood, right?

Even if you can’t empathize with her, as your brother, you should understand her lack of love since she was a child.

In the air of seemingly endless silence, Sakakibara saw her uncomfortable mood and subconsciously put his arms around her petite shoulders.

So that she could lean on his shoulder.

Tianhai Jiuliuli showed no resistance.

Instead, after leaning in, I felt a little relieved and looked at Tokyo in silence outside the transparent floor-to-ceiling windows.

If Jiuliuli and Qi Mingyue were half a pair of caged birds in their childhood, then in their lives, their mother was the window through which they went out to observe the world, the novelty of realizing things they had never seen before, the happiness of knowing other children who had never known them before, and the joy of eating. Something I’ve never eaten before.

Not unimportant.

My beloved father and mother suddenly separated. I can no longer see the mother I loved before, and the tired but still complete and happy family is no longer there.

Jiuliuli was burdened with these things in her heart.

Sakakibara understood this and looked at Tianhai Jiureli’s little face, feeling a little more understanding.

No matter how mature Jiu Liuli is and how responsible she is as a gentle sister, she is still fifteen years old. Feeling uncomfortable inside, she did not choose to cry or pray, but kept her feelings silently in her heart.

As a sister, Jiu Liuli must have known her very early.

I know that I can’t show my weak side in front of my sister, so I make myself strong and become good enough to gradually take over everything.

Sakakibara glanced at the clock in the living room. It was already six o’clock in the evening.

What you can see from the huge living room and the huge floor-to-ceiling windows is the high-rise scenery of Tokyo. The gray rain seemed to have soaked everything, making the edges of the city cold and gloomy.

“Kuruuri.” Sakakibara breathed out, as if to help her relax, and shouted to her with a smile.

“Yes.” Tianhai Jiuliuli gently left his shoulder.

“Is there anything you want to eat?”

“now?”

“Yes, it’s already six o’clock, you must be very hungry. I can understand your unhappiness, but it’s not your fault that your parents quarreled. I also know how you felt when your parents divorced when you were a child. Haha, if I say To say that I can completely comfort you and take you out of the sadness is definitely an exaggeration. But as an audience, I can still help you share some of your unhappiness.”

Sakakibara said with a smile.

I felt that this was not enough, so I talked about my own affairs again:

“Although I don’t own the story you told, it doesn’t matter to me that my father suddenly disappeared. But I can completely understand your mood. It’s funny to imagine your expectation and waiting. When A Ling and I were young, what we were looking forward to was In addition to money and bread, Ah Ling also needs one more toy.

“I remember it was on a snowy day, as if it was like a fairy tale. At night I took A Ling back home from my mother’s house and walked to the commercial street. She was attracted by a doll. The doll’s eyes and smile were very beautiful. It was cute, and A-Ling fell in love with it at first sight. I still remember that she was standing on the snowy day, with her feet on the display window, looking inside, and then turned around and said to me, I want this.

“Her tone was pleading, even expecting, but I could only smile bitterly in return.

“5800 yen. If you don’t eat meat and choose tofu or other dishes, this is equivalent to half a month’s meal expenses. Where can I afford it?

“I told A-Ling very realistically that we can’t afford it now, and we can’t buy it for you. After A-Ling heard it, she was very sad, but I then told her that we can’t afford it now, but we will definitely buy it in the future. If you can afford it, trust me, and I will buy it for you in the future. I smiled at her and held out my little finger, and she especially trusted me at that time, and smiled at me, and we made the agreement between brother and sister.

“I said those words because I always firmly believe in a truth.

“When we reach the bottom of the valley, the only path left is “upward”. The scenery at the bottom of the valley is not completely black. If you keep your feet on the ground and raise your head, there will be hope shining ahead.

“Just work hard and try harder. Complaining can’t change the status quo, and this is what my mother has always done.

“And the fact is the same now. The mother who has come out of the bottom has a better job and a better life. A Ling can also afford to buy what she wants. Although I no longer need to go under the vending machine to pick up coins to buy snacks. Well, it can be seen that it is a good thing to see her living comfortably.

“Haha, having said all that, I actually hope you won’t dwell too much on the past, Jiuliuli! Your mother is very important to you, and Qi Mingyue and Uncle Tianhai are also very important to you. They don’t want you to be unhappy, Jiuliuli. As a brother, I don’t want you to be unhappy because of what happened in the past!

“So, be happy, I can cook for you!

“Haha, would Jiu Liuli be surprised if he calls himself his elder brother so seriously?”

“No, my brother is a really good brother. I usually receive a lot of care from him.”

“Well, that’s good if you think so. I always believe that in a family, feelings are far more important than blood ties. Feelings are the bond of the family, and blood ties. Haha, won’t you abandon them when it’s time to abandon them? So, now everyone has Jiuliuli, who cares, shouldn’t stay in the past!”

“elder brother.”

Tianhai Jiuliuli shouted softly, this shout of “brother” had a special feeling.

Because she could carefully observe that Sakakihara was using his smile to help her get rid of her sadness and the boredom of rainy days.

“I’ll get you something to eat.” Sakakibara said with a cheerful smile at her.

“Um.”

“Sit down and don’t come to help! Let me make you a meal alone. It is a brother’s care and care for his sad sister.”

“.”

When I came to the kitchen, I found that the only ingredients were potatoes and bread.

Just keep it simple, buttered bread and baked potatoes.

Fry the bread with butter, cut the potatoes into cubes, add the processed onions, rosemary, salt, black pepper, and cheese, then bake in the oven at 190 degrees for half an hour. During this period, I made some appetizers that I had made for Jiu Liuli before and heated up a glass of milk.

Tianhai Jiuliuli silently watched his neat movements throughout the whole process.

In order to ensure that there is no problem with the smell, Sakakihara washes everything very clean.

When everything was done, Sakakibara brought the things in front of Jiu Liuli.

“It’s ready. The baked potatoes can be sandwiched with slices of bread and butter. I originally wanted to cook you some meat, but I went home and went for a run today, haha, and I forgot to buy groceries.”

“.”

Tianhai Jiuliuli looked at the food he enthusiastically brought to her and stared at it for a long time.

The potatoes are hot and have the unique aroma of baking.

Familiar scent. But completely different

Her mind seemed to drift back to the past.

Sakakihara Raku found that she had been looking at such food for a long, long time.

Then, she said, she picked up the spoon and took a bite.

“How about it?”

Sakakihara Raku blurted out the habitual question. She originally thought she would say thank you to her brother directly, but unexpectedly, the corners of her eyes had a little sparkle.

Something is wrong, why are you still crying?

Is the food you cook so delicious?