In the mountain village in the evening, the sunset is yellow everywhere.
Reiko was bullied again at school, the corner of her mouth was bruised by the group of children, and she hid in a small corner of the kitchen without saying a word, looking at her mother who was gobbling up food with terrified eyes.
The mother held chopsticks and kept picking up rice in her mouth, and the black hole was really like a bottomless abyss.
After a while, the rice bottoms out.
The beautiful words "beautiful and gentle" seem to have nothing to do with the mother, who has a face full of flesh, a big and strong body, and does not have a bit of a woman's charm, but has more of a man's majesty.
The mother swept her eyes over Reiko in the corner, and Reiko trembled with fear.
"Do you think I'm going to comfort you? I'm telling you! Don't tell me if you encounter something in the future, if you are beaten, you will be beaten, and if you die, someone will collect the body! ”
There was no trace of warmth in the vicious words, and under the dim light, the mother's face was particularly hideous.
"What a howl! You know howl! Every day is the same as howling and mourning! I get angry when I see you looking so stupid! ”
Spit flies, ignoring Reiko who is sobbing on the side.
Loneliness is accompanied by helplessness, which is how Reiko is wrapped, and the coldness that penetrates into her bones.
Reiko didn't dare to speak, just curled up in the corner.
Seeing that no one was talking, the more she talked, the more angry she became, and with a snap, she slammed the bowl in front of Reiko, and the fragments flew sideways in an instant, and it was not only the bowl that was torn apart, but also Reiko's broken heart.
This is how Reiko has been listening to her mother's reprimands, listening to them for hours, cursing, fierce, ruthless, but there is never a little warmth.
After eating, Reiko took out her homework book and wrote the word hatred on the homework book.
She didn't know how to escape from this family, from her mother, whether she was born by her mother, why did her mother hate her so much?
The whole person is alive and dead.
Grandma said that when a person dies, if he is pious, he will enter Elysium, where there is no suffering, only freedom.
Reiko fell to her knees, grief and despair.
The teacher said that only reading can get out of the mountains and out of this closed place.
Reading, a light flashed in Reiko's eyes.
She must escape from here, and she must study well.
The little man, holding a half-cut pencil, wrote and read carefully.