Chapter 2: Philosopher Nakaji Sonoko
The Suzuki family's dying struggle only lasted about half a year.
It’s not that Suzuki Sonoko is really a piece of useless wood, nor is it that she herself is uncooperative. Her performance, or at least her attitude towards learning these courses, is completely worthy of recognition.
Don't complain or feel tired, just do whatever you are asked to do.
She didn't say she was tired, but the three elders of the Suzuki family were afraid that she was tired.
At the age of fourteen or fifteen, still at the tail end of puberty, everything was fine when Yuanzi lived a heartless life in the first few years. But when she started to study hard, it was already much late, so she was much busier than usual. Maybe she had been too relaxed before and her body could not bear the fatigue, so she began to get acne frequently.
As for acne, everyone will have it more or less. She might have eaten too many good things (Pengzi was afraid that she would be tired) and over-supplemented herself, so she has always had a high fever. The acne has not gone away yet, and she has started to have mouth ulcers.
When her uncle Suzuki Jirokichi traveled around the world a few years ago, he worked as a barefoot doctor in the mountains for a while. When he saw her like this, he said: Is there something wrong with your endocrine system?
So Tomoko called a doctor to see her.
The causes of endocrine disorders are nothing more than those few. Considering the family background of the Suzuki family, the cause is definitely not physiological heredity or sudden deterioration of the environment - then it can only be caused by mood factors.
Shiro Suzuki and Tomoko Suzuki sat together and studied it for a long time, and they felt that this matter could no longer be put on the second girl: she had endocrine disorders in the past six months, and who knows how much psychological pressure she must be under!
So her uncle Suzuki Jirokichi proposed a second alternative.
Just find a live-in son-in-law.
The Suzuki family gave up on letting Sonoko shoulder the burden so easily and chose to marry in without hesitation. This was actually a historical issue.
Suzuki Sonoko is actually a time traveler, so she was born knowing clearly that she is not, or at least not just Suzuki Sonoko.
But apart from the word "traveller", she couldn't remember anything else. So, Miss Suzuki Sonoko, who was born with doubts, was born between her ego and her true self, and began to philosophize uncontrollably.
In a sense, philosophy is equivalent to metaphysics, but logical ability requires the development of the brain.
Before the age of four, Suzuki Sonoko's consciousness was filled with inexplicable and profound questions such as [past and present], [previous life and present life], [the two-way influence of body and soul], and [the interactive choice of fate and ants].
Because her brain is not fully developed, she often thinks so much that she falls asleep.
After a long time, her mind still couldn't get round it, and she naturally formed a knot in her head. She further began to doubt her own existence, and the direction of her thinking expanded further to become: How to distinguish between fantasy and reality?
Why am I me?
Am I a four-year-old child with hallucinations, or an older time traveler with amnesia?
These questions were not as vague as the ones at the beginning, so there were more details to think about, causing her brain to be overloaded for a long time.
But during infancy, she can go to sleep directly when she is tired. When she reaches toddlerhood, most children will become noisy. What's more, she has a qualified older sister who will never let her be alone and will always pull her to play together.
The following situation will then occur:
Suzuki Sonoko was playing with a ball with a dead look in her eyes while trying to explore her true self. As she thought about it, her mind became tangled.
The logic doesn't make sense. The whole person's facial expression is frozen as if the computer suddenly crashed. When Miss Ayako caught the ball and threw it back to her, it either missed and no one caught it, or it hit Sonoko and she didn't react at all.
——In fact, in Miss Suzuki Ayako's memory, her sister Sonoko has always been intermittently mentally retarded. The reason why she was able to grow up to be a normal person was definitely because her parents really paid a lot of medical expenses.
Therefore, Suzuki Tomoko raised her daughter from childhood to adulthood, and the core purpose of cultivating Sonoko was to maintain her absolute happiness in life.
When she was a child, she saw a toy she liked and didn't even have the chance to hesitate whether she wanted red or blue. Tomoko directly said she wanted both, leaving her absolutely no chance to worry!
Not even for a second!
So although Suzuki Sonoko is a very philosophical person, the thinking mode she has developed since childhood can only be single-line - after all, she has lived for more than ten years and has never encountered a situation where she needs to think about two things at the same time.
Therefore, endocrine disorders may seem like a trivial matter to Sonoko herself, but in the eyes of her three elders who have always believed that she is underdeveloped, it may be a trigger that will stimulate her intermittent mental retardation attacks again.
So the question is: Is daughter more important or family more important?
Shiro Suzuki thinks they are all important.
So they decided to hire a live-in son-in-law to take care of the hard work and get up early to work for their daughter.
In this situation, when the Suzuki family wanted to marry into the family, they certainly didn't just want a male vase to please their daughter. To become the agent of the Suzuki family, there were a lot of conditions that needed to be examined.
At this time, we definitely can’t wait for Yuanzi to fall in love freely. The most reliable way is definitely blind dating!
So on her fourteenth birthday, Suzuki Sonoko met her first blind date, the second son of the Ximen family, whose full name was Ximen Sojiro.
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Choosing a son-in-law is actually a two-way selection process. At least an only child is not an option. Her uncle Suzuki Jirokichi had already prepared a dozen pieces of information, and Ximen Sojiro stood out under such circumstances.
Sonoko was still unaware of this until the day of the birthday party.
The order of her birthday celebrations is usually quite complicated, and the process is particularly tedious. It's called a birthday party, but in fact it's more like a large social occasion. When she was a child, Shiro Suzuki was afraid that she would be sad if she couldn't celebrate her birthday, so he postponed her birthday for half a month. He would celebrate her birthday before the party, and on her actual birthday, only her family would have dinner together, and even if he invited others, it would only be her own friends.
For example, Mao Lilan.
Another example is Kudo Shinichi.
In fact, from Ge Yuanzi's point of view, these two people are not her friends.
Suzuki Sonoko was not yet four years old when she first met Mouri Ran. She could not remember the specific circumstances, but it must have been Ran who took the initiative to find her.
Ran Mao Li was probably a relatively precocious type, and was very obedient. The teachers taught her to "take care of each other" and "love her classmates", and she remembered it carefully. Sonoko sat next to her in the paper-cutting class, so she naturally began to pay attention to Sonoko, who was still in the philosophy period at the time.
It's the philosophy period, or in other words, the second-year syndrome. Her sister has long suspected that she is mentally retarded, let alone other children?
Children in kindergarten do not have much patience, and if they want to play, they will definitely play with other enthusiastic and generous children. So among the fifteen children in a class, only Ran Mouri would talk to Suzuki Sonoko.
This may be an inexplicable sense of responsibility. Anyway, Ran Mouri began to take care of her like an older sister.
Yuanzi was squatting by the garden, thinking about why the flowers bloomed. Xiaolan ran over with a small fan, took off her straw hat and put it on Yuanzi's head to block the sun, then found a nearby place to squat, staring at Yuanzi in a daze, humming a song and fanning her.
At the beginning, Sonoko was absorbed in philosophy [her main train of thought could only follow a single line, and she had no ability to think of anything else]. Compared to paying attention to what the other dumpling did, the blooming and falling of flowers, the cycle of life and death, etc., she liked it more.
During that time, she mainly studied the growth and decline of life, and her main object of observation was a tulip in the flower bed.
Because it was very persistent in not blooming, the gardener not only lamented that it was really ungrateful, but also wrote half a notebook of observation report in a serious manner.
One day, a sudden thunderstorm hit. Sitting in the car on the way home, Yuanzi recalled his tulips. Thinking that they would be destroyed by the wind and rain before they even bloomed, he felt that life and death were determined by fate, success and failure were in the hands of God, and that nothing could escape the arrangement of destiny (…). With great regret, he took out the notebook and wanted to add a note in the observation report: "The subject of observation has died."
I searched for a long time but couldn't find the notebook.
One of the characteristics of a middle school student is self-centeredness, and she has never learned to be "patient" or "suffer grievances", so Sonoko patted the partition of the car and asked the driver to turn around and go back to the kindergarten to get the notebook.
Because of the sudden shower, there were signs of traffic jams on the road. When Yuanzi walked into the kindergarten again, the school bus was still refueling nearby. A large group of children gathered together with umbrellas, and the rain could not cover up the high and shrill children's voices.
At that time, Mao Lilan was standing by the flower bed with a small red umbrella.
Suzuki Sonoko still hasn't remembered Xiaolan's name. She only knows that she is the person who helps her get snacks during lunch break every day. This time she nodded when they met, and only then did she see her face.
She didn't plan to say anything, and turned back to concentrate on looking for her "deceased observation object".
Xiaolan didn't get angry seeing her like this. She smiled and made some space for her, sighing, "The garden really likes this flower very much."
Yuanzi was just about to say what the hell she liked, but her observation process was very serious. The cycle of life and the growth and decline of all things - can that be summarized by the word "like"?
The next second she caught a glimpse of the flower pot hidden behind Xiaolan's umbrella.
Compared to the rose in the flowerbed, which had most of its flowers knocked off, this ungrateful tulip was obviously treated much better.
Xiaolan must have been born with some kind of magical intuition. Seeing her stunned, she seized the opportunity to ask her to talk more: "You've been looking forward to it blooming for a long time, right? It took so much effort to grow the buds. It would be a shame if the heavy rain destroyed them today."
Mao Lilan turned the umbrella handle boredly: "The school bus will take some time to be repaired, and the thunderstorm will stop soon. As long as I protect it for a while, Yuanzi will not be sad tomorrow. Isn't this great?"
At this point, she scratched her cheek and avoided Sonoko's gaze somewhat embarrassedly: "Actually, because Sonoko and I have been taking care of it for a long time, I am also beginning to look forward to what color it will bloom!"
I said...
Suzuki Sonoko took two steps back with a serious expression, covering her chest in shock: Where did this angel come from?!
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