Keigo Higashino was born in Osaka, Japan, and became famous for "After School", winning awards for many of his works. Keigo Higashino's novels always have unexpected reversals at the end. "Lakeside", which we read together this time, is a novel with complex intersections of education and emotion. Let's walk into a different world that Keigo Higashino has brought us.
Chapter I. Section 1
Shunsuke Wagi (hereinafter referred to as Shunsuke) is an artistic director who, in order to prepare for the entrance examination of his children Shota, Shunsuke and his wife Mikiko took the child to a study camp, in addition to them, there are three groups of families, at the "Himejin lake" villa in Sakazaki. Shunsuke drove his high-end motorhome to the villa at the end of the tree. After getting out of the car, I saw my wife Mikiko and her friends playing tennis, and it was a men's and women's doubles. Shunsuke dialed a number signed "et" from his mobile phone, and hung up immediately after switching voices.
Shunsuke came to the side of the tennis court, and everyone on the field stopped playing and walked toward him, and Mikiko was surprised to see Shunsuke's arrival. Teamed up with Mikiko is Yotaro Sakazaki, who provides the villa, and their opponent is another group of families who have come to participate in the training camp, Fujima and his wife Kazuki. After a few words of greeting, a few people returned to the villa to prepare dinner.
After returning to the villa, several people discussed the topic of the child's study, it was now four o'clock in the afternoon, after asking a few and then knowing that the child's learning time would end at six o'clock in the afternoon, Shunsuke did not seem to be satisfied. Teacher Tsukumi, who learned that the study time was here to make up lessons for the children, did not continue to say anything. During the chat, I also learned that the place where the children learned was not the villa they were in now, but in the roundhouse building a few steps away from the villa, so that the children could concentrate on studying well and avoid being spoiled with their parents.
During the chat, Shunsuke is more aggressive, and there seems to be a dispute with Fujima, the scene was once very awkward, and Mikiko has been reconciling in the middle. Shunsuke expressed his views on children's learning and future, and Shunsuke believed that both learning and the future should follow the children's inner thoughts and let the children grow up freely. Fujima believes that children are still young, and only parents who have been honed in society can help their children choose the future path and be a guide. The more we talked, the more Shunsuke questioned the concentrated study. Shunsuke felt that if he read, it would not be enough to attend classes at school. Finally, the beautiful vegetables broke up and scattered. After Shunsuke left, Fujima continued to chat with his wife, and learned from the chat between the two that Shunsuke's child, Shota, was not Shunsuke's own child, and Mikiko also complained to Fujima that Shunsuke always looked laissez-faire, and Fujima felt that Akita's affairs should be handled by Mikiko.
Obviously, Fujima has a very bad impression of Shunsuke, feeling that a person who is engaged in art is a bit rigid, and his evaluation of Junjie is "typical ordinary person". In the next section, the arrival of "et" raises a new topic. Who exactly is "et"? What happens after that? Let's read Keigo Higashino's novel "Lakeside" together and slowly "dive into the bottom of the lake" with curiosity.