Lovers (novella) Zhang Baotong

My poor sister was even more tragic than my mother's fate, so to speak, a continuation of our family's tragedy.

My sister and I grew up together, but I really didn't care about her, I paid attention to her, she was all caring about me and paying attention to me. Because she is an older sister, I feel that it is natural for her to care about me and pay attention to me, and it is also natural for me not to care about her and not to pay attention to her. However, I am particularly concerned and concerned about my sister's marriage and love, because it is related to her happiness in life. At that time, my sister had become a young and beautiful girl, and her figure and appearance inherited the virtues of my mother, tall, well-proportioned, strong and beautiful. Speak straightforwardly, do things quickly, no matter what she does, she will never complain about being tired, so she is rated as advanced at the department level or even the bureau level every year.

She fell in love with a talented and good-looking officer in their engineering section. The young man was dignified, intelligent and capable, and very talented in both speech and writing. The two have been in love for almost two years. However, after my sister transferred to my stepfather's side in the material factory, their relationship was soon discovered by my stepfather. Because that young man is not from our Miluo, my stepfather doesn't know or know much about him. Although my stepfather has been working in his rural hometown for twenty or thirty years, his thoughts and concepts are still old-fashioned in the countryside, and he has never seen young men and women holding hands or kissing, so when he saw my sister and her lover holding hands or kissing together, he thought it was immoral and embarrassing.

However, my lover loves my sister very much, and inevitably has to have that kind of affectionate behavior with my sister. So, my stepfather was very annoyed with the young man, thinking that he would ruin my sister's reputation by doing this, and that it was his duty as a stepfather to protect and defend my sister's reputation. So, he warned and threatened the young man not to approach my sister. However, two people who love each other cannot be separated casually. My sister was also very angry at my stepfather's arrogance and interference, saying that everyone else was in love, why can't I fall in love? However, my stepfather stalked his neck and said, "Other people are others, I can't control other people, I can't ignore you." As a result, the relationship between my sister and my stepfather began to strain.

Once, the young man came to my sister's dormitory, and it happened that there was no one else in the dormitory, and the two hugged and kissed because they hadn't seen each other for a long time. At this time, my stepfather suddenly broke down the door, carried a wooden stick and scolded shameless words and something like that, and hit my sister. When the young man saw this, he was scared away as if he had done something unseemly. My sister stood there gritting her teeth and hating her stepfather. My stepfather had never beaten us before, but this time he swung his stick at my sister in a fit of rage, as if he could not remove the humiliation and anger she had inflicted on him without killing her. Until someone heard the commotion and pulled my stepfather away, but my sister had a lot of scars on her body. My stepfather didn't stop there, he went to the people's section again, found the young man, and scolded them for squirting blood, and the wooden stick in his hand almost fell on the head. Since then, the young man has not dared to come to my sister again.

At that time, we were not in front of me, and if my mother, my brother, or I were in front of me, I would definitely stand up and fight for my sister's grievances and seek justice. However, my poor sister was incapable of preventing this from happening, and could not resist her stepfather's will and stubbornness. So, it turned into a tragedy. My sister watched as her lover was forced to leave her helplessly and become someone else's. Later, the young man was transferred to the department as an officer, and soon he was transferred to the bureau as a section chief. He is a very promising young man in the Agency. You can imagine what a blow this must have been to my sister.

I wasn't with my sister, and I didn't know how sad she was at the time. However, I can perceive my sister's sorrow from many literary stories and historical events. For example, when Juliet saw the dead Romeo, she did not want to live alone in the world, so she did not find the poison, so she pulled out Romeo's sword and stabbed herself, and fell on Romeo's body to die. For example, when Liang Shanbo walked outside the door of Zhu's house, he looked up at the balcony of Zhu's house, but saw Yingtai wearing a woman's dress and standing in the attic, looking at him with tears. When he returned to the inn, he tossed and turned and could not sleep, his heart was broken, he contracted the wind chill that night, and died of illness within a few days. On the day of Zhu Yingtai's wedding, she put on a red wedding dress and dressed up beautifully, and she sat on a sedan chair. When the sedan chair walked to Liang Shanbo's tomb, Yingtai pushed open the sedan door and jumped out of the sedan chair, she threw off her embroidered shoes and ran barefoot towards the tomb. When Zhu Yingtai ran to the grave, he only heard a loud bang, and the grave cracked, Zhu Yingtai jumped into the tomb through the crack, and the tomb immediately closed.

If someone thinks that these are just literary stories, then, when Wu Zetian was forced to give way, he heard that his two beloved little lovers were killed and their hair turned gray overnight. Originally, Wu Sangui was going to prepare to surrender to Li Zicheng, but when he heard from the secret agent sent to the capital that the Wu Mansion had been copied by Liu Zongmin. Wu Sangui said it didn't matter, after I went back, they would naturally return me. When the spies said again, the old lady was arrested by Liu Zongmin. Wu Sangui said that it doesn't matter, he will definitely release it after I go back. However, when the spy said that her favorite concubine Chen Yuanyuan was occupied by Liu Zongmin. When Wu Sangui heard this, he gritted his teeth, rushed to the crown in anger, immediately beheaded the envoy, surrendered to the Qing court, and then led the Qing soldiers into the customs. In Chinese history, there are many cases of Xia Wei because of his sister, Di Xin because of Daji, King Zhou You because of Bao Xi, and Wu Wangfu because of Xi Shi and lost the country. In order to marry Mrs. Simpson, Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor, in order to avoid their marriage problems triggering a constitutional crisis in Britain, he did not love the country and loved beauty, and resolutely chose to abdicate and became the only king in the history of Britain and the Commonwealth who voluntarily abdicated. The reason why I quote scriptures and repeat this theme endlessly is to emphasize that no one will give up and give up their beloved, and that the beloved is our lovers, our lovers, our sweethearts, and our own other half.