[Tutor] Who's Story

Cao Bi was holding a box of melons, looking at the busy middle-aged woman, he hesitated: "Mom..."

"Ah, why are you still here, kid? Didn't I tell you to send it to the neighbor next door?" The middle-aged woman scolded, "Why are you procrastinating? It's not like you!"

"No, I want to ask... Grandpa Tanaka next door lives alone, can he finish eating so many melons?"

The middle-aged woman put her hands on her hips and said inexplicably, "Oh, don't you know? There is a person who often goes in and out of Grandpa Tanaka's house, his adopted son..."

"Huh? When did the old man adopt an adopted son?" Cao Bi was very surprised. You must know that their family and Old Man Tanaka have been neighbors for more than ten years. Knowing that Old Man Tanaka's wife passed away a few years ago, they have a son who died young. There are no other children.

"Really, since you went to middle school, you have found late returnees, and you don't even care about Grandpa Tanaka who loved you so much when you were young..." The middle-aged woman put her face in a sad state, and explained helplessly, "It's been two years. What happened before! The child lost his family in a car accident, so the old man decided to adopt him until he became an adult. It seems that he is in middle school, right? I heard that the old man Tanaka said that he was admitted to high school a while ago, but it seems that he is not going to school now. Although recently he I don’t live there, but I go to honor the old man Tanaka almost every day, and work hard, he is a good boy!”

"Ha..." Cao Bi responded hastily, and was about to leave when his mother started talking again.

"Azhe, you have to learn from that child to honor your parents. You spend less and less time at home recently. Although you are contributing to Bingsheng, you still stay at home occasionally. Like that child... By the way, it seems to be called Tanaka Taro... learn from him..."

Caobi was at a loss for words, he didn't know how to complain about the name.

Seeing what her mother was about to say again, Cao Bi decided to act first.

"I, I'll send things there first." Cao Bi ran out of the house, why did he feel that his mother was more verbose than before... Is it menopause?

Kusakabe rang the doorbell of Tanaka's house, stood at the door and waited quietly.The puppy in the yard stuck its head out of the kennel and wagged its tail at him.

Soon Cao Bi heard footsteps, and it was a young man who answered the door.

The boy was obviously stunned when he saw Cao Bi again.

Wasn't he frightened by the nose of my plane?Kusakabe guessed.

"Hi, I'm Cao Bi next door." Cao Bi said in a gentle tone, "My mother asked me to bring some melons...these were brought by my aunt in the country, there were too many for us to eat, so we just... "

"Can I accept it?" the boy asked.

"Of course." Cao Bi nodded, and he looked at the boy.This is an ordinary-looking boy, his skin is very fair, except for the black hair that is a bit too long.

A shy smile appeared on the boy's round face. He took the cardboard box and said, "Thank you, grandpa likes melons very much...ah, I like it too."

Kusakabe could tell that the boy was very happy, not just because he received his favorite food.

The young man stared at Cao Bi, turned his eyes, and said, "Mr. Cao Bi lives next door? Is that a house with a light red roof? I... the first time, um... the first time I saw you here. "

"Haha, I'm usually very busy." Cao Bi laughed twice, "Speaking of which, are you Taro? Are you still in school?"

The boy was like a cat whose tail was stepped on, and instantly exploded: "Don't call me Taro!"

"Uh, I'm sorry..." Cao Bi didn't expect such a big reaction from a boy who was just called by his name.

"Ah, isn't this Ah Zhe? Long time no see~" At this moment, an old man came out slowly from the house, "The name 'Taro'...is it really outdated?"

"It's not outdated... Anyway, don't call me Taro." The boy pouted, and he said to Cao Bi, "You can just call me Tanaka, Tanaka."

Kusakabe smiled, exchanged some pleasantries with the old man Tanaka, and was about to leave. Before leaving, Kusakabe noticed that the boy had been staring at him, so he asked, "Well, is there something on my face?"

"No, no!" The young man hurriedly denied, and he hurriedly replied, "Well, I, I'm just curious about where the grass in your mouth went today..."

Cao Bi laughed dryly, and hurriedly bid farewell to Tanaka's children and grandchildren.It was only when he returned to his home that he felt strange. Today was the first time he met Tanaka... How did he know that he had the habit of holding grass in his mouth?Go back and ask him carefully, Cao Bi thought.

Although Tanaka doesn't live with the old man, he often goes to the old man's house to have a meal and chat with him before or after the part-time job.They are not related by blood. Elder Tanaka adopted him, gave him a name, ate with him, and gave him a sense of family, for which Tanaka was very grateful.

"Taro, you are a very strange child." The old man Tanaka said to him that day, "Why did you give up your name? A person who gives up his name is equivalent to losing something very important. Even if You want to start over, but I can tell... you don't have a sense of identity with your current name. You still miss the past, don't you? So why..."

Old man Tanaka was right, he didn't refute, how did he answer back then?By the way...he only said one sentence: "There is no way to do that."

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Tanaka looked at the flyer in his hand, summer festival...is it already this time?

"Wow, woof!" The dog at his feet barked. Tanaka squatted down to stroke its fur. The dog purred comfortably. Tanaka chuckled lightly. He patted the dog's back, "Abu, let's go play."

The dog licked the boy's palm, and ran away in a hurry.

"Summer festival, is Taro planning to go?" Elder Tanaka asked when he saw the flyer in the boy's hand.

"Well, there will be a fireworks show, it's very beautiful." The boy nodded.

"Hehe, if you want to watch the fireworks, it's best to go to the Nishiki Shrine." Old Man Tanaka said with a smile, "By the way, come with me, I'll show you something good."

"What?" Tanaka followed and saw the old man took out a dark bathrobe with a simple pattern from the cabinet.

"This is the clothes my son wore at the funeral. Unfortunately, the child passed away at a young age... If you don't mind, wear this to the summer festival." Old man Tanaka said, "I'll wash it for you. Wash it, and you can wear it that day."

Tanaka picked up the clothes and looked at them again and again, he liked it a lot, but...

"This...is it really okay for me to wear it?" Tanaka asked carefully, "This is your son's..."

The old man Tanaka tapped the young boy's forehead lightly with his folding fan: "I regard you as my grandson... besides, I really want to see my child play at the memorial ceremony in a bathrobe... bring the fox Mask caught the goldfish and came back, ate a lot of delicious food, and looked happy."

"Grandpa..." Tanaka lowered his head, "I understand, I just wear it that day."

So on the day of the summer festival, the boy came to the old man's house early, put on a bathrobe and clogs, was pulled by the old man for a long time, and finally tied his long hair into a pigtail with a ribbon.

"Hehe, if you wear a women's kimono, you must look like a girl." Tanaka commented.

Tanaka stood at the door shyly, clutching his sleeve shyly, and asked, "Is grandpa coming with you?"

"No, I'm getting old and my legs are inconvenient...you can go by yourself, I'll just walk around." The old man politely declined the boy's invitation.

The dog Abu circled around the boy's feet, wagging his tail at him.

"Hey, Abu... come here, I'll take you for a walk." The old man beckoned Abu.

The young man bowed slightly to the old man: "Then I'm leaving."

"Ah, have fun."

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Tanaka put on the fox mask he just bought and wandered around a snack street.

"It's so lively..." Tanaka sighed, and when he saw a shop selling octopus balls, he went up and bought one, and ate it while walking.

There was a father and daughter in front of the shooting shop. The father was holding a gun and the little girl was shouting for cheer.

"There are still three bullets...Listen, if you don't hit the Barbie doll after these three shots, forget it...Dad will buy it for you later."

"Hey~ But I want it now!" the little girl hugged her father's thigh and said coquettishly, "Daddy will definitely hit it!"

"Okay, look at me!" The father concentrated his attention and pulled the trigger. He screamed, "Ah! Missed again!"

The little girl tearfully looked at the box containing the Barbie doll, it seems that she has given up hope in her father.

At this time, Tanaka, who had been standing on the side watching the father and daughter, stepped forward and said to the father, "Well, can I try? I mean... hit the Barbie doll."

"Huh?" The little girl's father was a little confused.

"I'm pretty good at this, and I can help you get a Barbie doll." Tanaka explained patiently.

"Really, brother?" The little girl's eyes sparkled.

"Well, really." Tanaka smiled at the little girl.

The little girl's father made room, Tanaka hung the fox mask on his head, stared at the Barbie doll with one eye, and aimed at——

"Thank you, big brother!" The little girl smiled brightly while holding the beautifully packaged Barbie doll box.

The little girl's father also praised: "You are so good, you hit it with one shot!"

Tanaka rubbed his nose in embarrassment: "It's nothing... By the way, there's still a bullet here..."

"Oh, we don't need it, what else do you want? You can fight yourself!" said the little girl's father.

"Yeah!" The boy looked at a plush teddy bear on the target, his eyes sparkled, "I want that bear!"

"Brother, this is not easy to fight..." the store manager kindly dissuaded him.

"No problem." Tanaka was full of confidence. Who is he? It's a joke to beat a teddy bear!

The rubber stopper hit the teddy bear on the head, and it fell straight down.

"Oh, brother is amazing!" The little girl clapped her hands in praise.

Tanaka hugged the teddy bear and smiled childishly.

It's just that the store manager wants to cry, he has lost a lot of money!If there are more such shooting experts, he will lose money! (Afterwards, the store manager really cried, because the big devil Libaoen took all his prizes mercilessly, of course, this is a later story.)

"Please give me a chocolate banana." Tanaka hugged the teddy bear and walked to an empty shop to buy food.

"Ah, please wait a moment!" It was a brown-haired boy who held the shop.

Tanaka stared at him for a while, paid for the chocolate banana he handed over, and asked, "Are you Sawada Tsunayoshi?"

"Huh? You know me?" A Gang was a little surprised.

"Well, you are very famous, waste material gang!" Tanaka licked a mouthful of chocolate, and said with some evil intentions.

Ah Gang shrank in an instant, is his waste material already famous?

"Ah, but even if you are a waste material, you will become great after working hard. You have this talent." Seeing this, Tanaka quickly added, "As long as you work hard, you will gain something."

"Thank you...but who are you? Are you a student in our school?" A Gang asked.

"...No, I only heard about you from others." Tanaka blinked, "For me... you can call me Tanaka."

"Oh...that's it." Ah Gang wanted to say something to Tanaka again, but soon an accident happened—the money was robbed.

A Gang hurriedly chased after the thief, but Tanaka was stunned—he just left?What about the shop!

Tanaka finished eating the bananas in a few mouthfuls, stood in front of the shop, and looked around.

Soon there will be guests.

"Give me two chocolate bananas, please."

"Ah...a total of [-] yuan..." Tanaka started buying and selling for no apparent reason in a panic. He was very nervous at the beginning, but he was also very happy in the end.

"Oh!"

Tanaka looked up and saw fireworks.

The fireworks are extremely bright and colorful. Tanaka watched the fireworks, and bright flowers bloomed in his pupils.

"Do you know why fireworks are colorful?" Tanaka remembers the man telling him, "It's because the metal powder burns with different colors, so it's so colorful."

Tanaka clenched his fist unconsciously, he looked down and saw no one around him.

The world seems to have turned gray tones.Fireworks are certainly beautiful, but their brilliance lasts only for a moment, and the next moment it disappears and ceases to exist.

Tanaka suddenly lost interest, he put down the money he just received for chocolate bananas, turned around and left.

When everyone was attracted by the fireworks and stood still with their heads up, Tanaka, who was the only one walking with his head down, seemed particularly out of place.

The fireworks show was still going on, and Tanaka could feel the twinkling in the sky. He looked down at the road under his feet, and he walked silently on the empty road, aimlessly.

"Taro."

Tian Zhong raised his head abruptly, and he saw the old man standing at the intersection, and the dog sitting quietly at his feet.

Are you waiting for me?Tanaka opened his mouth, but said nothing.

The old man walked up to Tanaka and stroked his hair.

Tanaka didn't speak, he knew he must look bad.

"Okay, Taro." The old man didn't ask anything, just took the boy's hand and said softly, "Let's go back."

The dog rubbed against the boy's feet and wagged its tail at him.

The boy was silent for a while, the stiff expression on his face eased a little, and he nodded.

If only I could go back to my old life.

But the boy knew that this was already impossible.

The author has something to say: The protagonist of this article, Tanaka boy

Also, Kusakabe is an important figure (more appearances?)