Traveling through time as a goblin, just wanting to live a leisurely life

"Come, sit down."

The customers who ordered the casual menu looked like a pair of brothers. Compared to the older brother who was decisive and direct when ordering, the younger brother seemed a little shy.

He waited for his brother to sit down before he sat down, and waited for his brother to order drinks. He didn't offer any ideas at all.

Just sitting quietly opposite my brother.

"How have you been these two days?"

My brother spoke first.

"good."

The younger brother answered.

"Are your classmates' families treating you well?"

My brother asked again.

"very good."

My brother nodded and said.

"I can rest assured that."

After my brother finished speaking, he fell silent. The originally relaxed atmosphere instantly dropped to freezing point, and the two of them drank the drinks that had just been brought to them in silence.

"I have a proposal."

My brother spoke again.

The younger brother said nothing and just looked at his older brother.

"How about you come back every weekend? At least have a meal?"

My brother said.

The younger brother looked at him, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

"I don't think so. I have cram schools and reading clubs on weekends. Now everyone in the third year of high school is sprinting towards their studies. This is the only time I can rest. Mom is asleep by then."

My brother still refused.

"You can't not go home until the college entrance examination is over, right?"

My brother asked.

"Can't you?"

The younger brother asked back.

"I really plan not to go home until the college entrance examination is over."

My brother added another sentence.

"But what about your money? Where to stay? Where to eat? You can't just stay at your friend's house for a few months, right?"

My brother asked.

"Do you remember Akai? That classmate whose family was rich. He had an empty room for me to stay in, and he could also help me with my meals. In exchange, I had to help him with his homework."

My younger brother said.

He has excellent grades, knows how to take care of himself, and can live independently away from home. The elder brother feels very relieved to see his younger brother become so independent.

The brother felt guilty when he thought that he only realized that his younger brother had grown up after he ran away from home.

I feel even more embarrassed at this moment.

Because the elder brother's main task today is to bring his younger brother home. The younger brother had already made it clear on the phone that he couldn't study at home, so he wanted to find another place where he could concentrate on studying and do well in the college entrance examination, so he ran away from home.

My brother couldn't argue with that.

Obviously, their parents are divorced, and the two brothers depend on their mother for support. There are only three people in the family, but their unhealthy communication style has made the family restless and the two brothers are almost suffocating.

My brother couldn't help but smile as he recalled his mother's emotionally blackmailing remarks and hysterical crying when she got off work tonight.

The reason I went out for a midnight snack was not entirely to persuade my brother to go home. It was more like an excuse.

It was only after his younger brother ran away from home that he had to bear the emotional pressure from his mother alone, and there were times when he needed to vent and leave temporarily.

Thinking of this, he had even less confidence to bring his brother home.

What to say?

"Go home and see your mother once in a while."

This sentence can touch most people, but it will only make the two brothers feel like a nightmare.

"After all, she's your mother. It's not too much to come home for a meal once in a while, right?"

This kind of emotionally oppressive words is exactly what the mother often uses. How can the elder brother bear to let his younger brother suffer more of his emotional oppression?

"Mom missed you so much that I cried again tonight."

This sentence only appeared in my brother's mind for a moment, and then he firmly avoided it.

Thinking of his mother's hypocritical howling and crying, he felt like vomiting.

"Ugh!"

My brother could only sigh.

"It's up to you to decide. If you don't have enough money, tell me. Just make sure you do well in the exam and go to a good university in the future."

It would have been fine if he had failed the exam in the past, but fortunately his salary is still decent now, and he can afford to support his mother and pay for his brother's college tuition.

At this moment, he only hoped that he could help his brother break free from the shackles of family affection that no one could escape, and let himself shoulder the gratitude of his mother's upbringing.

"Brother, don't be like this. I don't want you to bear everything, but I have to do well in this exam so that I can share your pressure in the future. So help me carry it for the next six months, and then I will go back."

The younger brother started to comfort his older brother.

His brother raised his head and looked at him with tearful eyes.

The younger brother spoke again:

"Two years ago, I saw with my own eyes how you spent the year of the college entrance examination. When you helped mom with things, you were told that you didn't study hard. When you studied, mom told you that you didn't help with things. Whenever you refused mom once, she would cry and make a scene, threatening to kill herself. That year, I was actually very afraid that you would go crazy or commit suicide."

When my brother thought back to the year he took the college entrance exam, he could only remember some vague things.

It is unclear whether it is because his brain actively blocked the pain, or because he was oppressed like a walking corpse during that time, so that he has no memory of it.

He only remembered that the moment he finished the exam, he began to look for a job desperately, filling himself with various jobs every day and then sending money back home.

Although his grades were very bad when he saw the report card and his mother scolded, scolded, and beat him like a madman, he felt inexplicably relieved and then worked even harder.

"In fact, your grades shouldn't be like this. It's all because of your mother's influence. You couldn't study well that year. Your whole life revolved around your mother. But she didn't realize your difficulties at all. She still treated you as one of the objects she could control. She used you in different ways every day to show off her control over you."

The elder brother felt a pain in his heart when he heard what his younger brother said, and seemed to remember something.

"Well, let's not talk about the past anymore. Aren't we living a good life now?"

My brother said.

My brother worked very hard in the past two years and finally achieved an annual income of 20 yuan when he was only 10 years old, allowing our family to live a pretty good life. This is my brother’s greatest sense of accomplishment and source of security.

"Yes, you live well. You spend 1 yuan of your 9000 yuan salary on my mother and me. You only have 1000 yuan a month for living expenses. How are you going to save money, get married, have children, run your business, and enjoy your happiness in the future?"

But the younger brother poured cold water on his older brother and brought up the thing he least wanted to mention.

He recalled the love that had just sprouted last year, and the rare dates they had to make time for, which were ruthlessly interrupted time and time again by his mother's series of life-threatening calls.

The girl said that he was like a mama's boy, but her brother said that the relationship was reversed and that it was the mother who was like a "child's boy". She found it hard to accept knowing that her son would most likely share more time with other people in the future.

Family love is sometimes the deepest love between people, but sometimes it degenerates into the most stubborn desire for control in the world.

No one can escape unless the controller dies.