Chapter 129 Vegetarian
Before Riko became a vegetarian, Kamei Yuta didn't think she was a special person.
To be honest, when they first met, Yuta Kamei was not attracted to this wizened woman. She has an old-fashioned bob haircut, yellow skin, prominent cheekbones, thin lips, and a mean look on her face.
The reason why he married Riko was because she had no special charm and no intolerable shortcomings.
Because of this, Kamei Yuta felt comfortable. He didn't have to feel inferior because of his appearance, and he didn't need to talk sweetly to please her - getting along with a beautiful woman would make him uncomfortable.
But in the eyes of outsiders, Riko has an intolerable shortcoming: she is too controlling.
From her husband's tie to the family's expenses, she has to take care of everything.
If Kamei Yuta works overtime, she will keep calling the company to urge him until Kamei Yuta comes home.
The colleagues in the company were very annoyed. They all felt that Kamei Yu was too pitiful. Although her husband worked diligently in the company just to make money to support the family, his wife did not understand him at all. Every time Yuta Kamei answered the phone, they would yell and sneer at him. Even if Yuta Kamei covered the phone and begged them to stop talking, they would think they were standing up for their "honest and cowardly" colleagues.
‘Kamei-san is meticulous in his work and never makes mistakes’, ‘Yuta is very hard-working and often works overtime until late at night’, ‘I feel relieved that he is in the company’… Yuta Kamei has always listened to such comments. Gradually, he also thought that he was such a person.
But in fact, he only worked two hours a day and spent the rest of the time pretending to work. He sat at his workstation and his only entertainment was crossword puzzles. He never tired of doing this. Sometimes he would think about it for two or three hours, and others thought he was racking his brains to process work documents.
As the evening dragged on, Kamei Yuta deliberately stayed away just to get more overtime pay. When his superiors saw him, they praised him for his diligence.
Recently, he really didn't want to go home and felt more comfortable being alone. Riko's urging became more and more frequent, and her colleagues said that she was being messy and thought Kamei Yu was too cowardly.
How could a hard-working man marry a strict wife?
Kamei Yuta thought so too. In the past two days when Riko called, he always said in a cold tone, "I'm working overtime, too busy" and hung up the phone; tonight he didn't even answer the phone. , and asked the operator to help hang up.
He is not fooling around outside, but is busy with work, so it is natural for him not to answer the phone!
When everyone clocked out, Kamei Yuta also finished filling out the crossword puzzle in that day's newspaper.
He held the newspaper under his arm, closed the doors and windows of the company, and walked downstairs in a leisurely manner. He was not in a hurry to go home. Instead, he went to the post office and mailed the answer to the riddle to the newspaper... If all the puzzles were correct, the newspaper would give him a mysterious gift. Usually it's a hot spring travel voucher or something.
After mailing the newspaper, Yuta Kamei went to a convenience store and bought a vegetarian bento.
He knew that Riko had cooked at home, but none of the dishes were to his liking. He sat on the curb, clasped his hands, and recited "Amitabha", and then he was able to waste food with peace of mind, and shaved out the meat jelly that added flavor to the lunch box. Wild cats rushed to lick it. It was another day of doing good deeds and accumulating virtue. .
Yes, Yuta Kamei doesn’t like to eat meat, he prefers vegetarian food.
But Riko only caters to her son's taste when cooking, and the latter prefers raw and cold meats, such as raw beef, live beads, sashimi, wasabi squid... During family banquets, Kamei Yuta spent a long time fussing with his chopsticks, picking and choosing. If you don't pick up the food, you will inevitably get Riko's eyes.
As time passed, he no longer liked eating at home and often went to the Kimura house next door to eat.
The meals prepared by Mrs. Kimura were very light, mostly vegetarian, and Kamei Yuta felt particularly comfortable eating them.
Riko cooked a table of dishes and couldn't wait for her husband to come home every day. She couldn't bear it anymore and visited the Kimura family next door during the meal, wanting to see what kind of delicacies they were eating... But when she walked in, she saw stir-fried cabbage, cold tofu, seaweed and miso soup, and several stacks of side dishes were not as good as hers. Making a beef stew is troublesome. "Your wife is really good at cooking. I really envy you for marrying such a wife." Kamei Yuta smiled and praised other people's wives in front of her while eating.
Riko couldn't bear it any longer, so she turned over the dining table and turned around to leave.
In fact, Yuta Kamei used to eat meat, he just didn't like the fishy smell. He had told Riko before, but Riko never took it seriously.
She often said: 'Everyone else can eat, why can't you?', 'You're such an old person, what's the point of being a partial eclipse', 'I have a hard time cooking every day, please be considerate of me'... As time passed, Kamei Yuta became too lazy to talk anymore.
Logically speaking, their relationship as a couple would not have reached this point.
Ask yourself, Kamei Yuta still has feelings for his wife. That kind of relationship is very weak, but very tenacious. Even though they hate each other now, Kamei Yuta has never thought about divorce.
When did his life become so decadent?
Kamei Yuta chewed the rice numbly. He watched the traffic passing by, and memories always came to him inadvertently.
He still remembered that rainy night when his son Youliang came back.
From that day on, something began to break and become unbalanced.
Riko asked Yuliang why he sneaked back, but Yuliang didn't answer and just smiled at them. They questioned him several times, but Yuliang never responded. Riko couldn't help but slap her son several times - but Yuliang was still laughing, which made the two of them feel cold in their hearts.
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The next day, they took Youliang to see a psychiatrist. The family members needed to stay away. The two sat in the corridor and waited for about ten minutes. The doctor finally gave the result that "the child is mentally normal."
"How is it possible? Don't I know my son yet?"
Riko didn't believe it, so she argued with reason. The doctor had no choice but to ask her what she thought was wrong with Youliang. Riko hesitated and couldn't answer. She turned to her husband for help, but Kamei Yuta looked away and chose to remain silent.
In desperation, Riko had to confess: They beat and scolded Yuliang last night, but the latter had no reaction and only smiled strangely at them. The doctor's face changed slightly and he asked her: "What reaction do you hope the child will have?"
Riko choked on her words.
She glanced at her husband again, but he remained silent.
Riko said bravely that children should cry and make noises, not be like a laughing piece of wood. So the doctor asked again: "Then why do you beat and scold the child?" At this time, Riko had nothing to say. She ignored him, and Yuliang didn't talk back or quarrel, he was just laughing.
The doctor turned to Youliang and asked him why he was laughing. Youliang said that he wanted his mother to be happy and stop beating and scolding him, so he forced a smile... After hearing this, the nurse in the hospital looked at Riko with a look that implied condemnation.
Riko left the hospital as if running away.
Later, Kamei Yuta thought for a long time before he figured out that Riko was angry because of being ignored. But when he figured it out, it was too late. The embankment of a thousand miles collapsed in the ant nest, and his life was already riddled with holes.
(End of chapter)