Comfort Women's Japanese Aberdeen (novella) Zhang Baotong 2017.12.22

That night, my mother was not at home, and after dinner, my father asked Xiao Shanxue to wash the dishes. However, he accidentally dropped a bowl on the ground and shattered. Hearing the noise, Dad went into the kitchen, saw the broken bowl on the floor, and scolded, "You can't wash the dishes well, see what you still have to use." So saying, he grabbed the broom by the door and was about to hit him. He knew that he had caused a big disaster, and his father would definitely not spare him, so he was so frightened that he ran away from the door and ran out of the house. Dad chased after him with a broomstick. He ran desperately towards the threshing floor. However, somehow, after running for about two or three hundred meters, Dad couldn't run, panting in the back, and scolded him angrily, "Look at you run away and the monk can run to the temple, wait for me to catch you, don't peel your skin." ”

Because it was dark, he ran and left his father far away. When his father saw that he couldn't catch up with him, he went back to the house in a rage. He came to the threshing floor and sat down on the haystack. It was almost the only place where he could find peace. Only by staying here does he feel free and happy.

It's a spring evening, and it's a little cool at night, and it doesn't feel cold. He sat on the haystack and looked at the night sky and the horizon, thinking of all kinds of wonderful scenes. He seems to have seen his own father. His own father, a big man with a horse and a gun, had returned from a long place and wanted to take him and his mother away from here and go to a far away place to live that good life.

However, when he was woken up by his grandmother, he found himself asleep on the haystack. Grandma pulled him and told him to go back to the house to sleep. However, he resolutely refused to go back, fearing that his father would beat him severely. But his grandmother said to him, "Go back, don't be afraid, your father is already asleep." Hearing this, he followed his grandmother back to the house, but he did not dare to go back to his own house, and wanted to sleep in his grandmother's house. Grandma and Grandpa's house is right next to theirs and is also a three-room bungalow. So, Grandma let him sleep in her own bed.

However, when he got up at dawn, Luo Shanxue began to be scared again, because his father would not let him go, so he kept hiding outside and didn't dare to go home, and he didn't dare to go home for breakfast. It was his grandmother who brought him the food to her room and let him eat.

At noon, I heard that my uncle was coming. He was secretly happy in his heart, thinking that there were relatives at home, and his father would not beat him anymore. So, he boldly went home. However, at this time, the brother-in-law was already gone. Mom and Dad were discussing something in the back room. From what they said, he knew that his brother-in-law had come to tell them that his grandfather was going to celebrate his 50th birthday and asked them to go back to his parents' house to celebrate. However, Dad said that he would not go to celebrate Grandpa's birthday. This made my mother very embarrassed. Because this kind of thing is usually the whole family has to go together, but if Dad doesn't go, it will make Mom very shameless. And the two of them quarreled over it. In the end, no one paid attention to anyone.

The next day, because my father refused to go, my mother took Xiao Shanxue back to her parents' house together. In order to give a gift to my grandfather, my mother put ten eggs and two catties of glutinous rice accumulated at home in a small basket, which was considered a birthday gift for my grandfather. Originally, grandma asked my mother to catch the chicken that laid eggs at home and send it to grandpa. But my mother was angry because my father refused to go, so she didn't catch the chicken. In fact, Xiao Shanxue knew that his mother didn't want to go back to his parents' house, but Xiao Shanxue looked forward to following his mother back to his parents' house, because every time he went there, he could eat meat. Because he can only eat meat during the New Year, and being able to eat meat is the same as the New Year.

My grandfather's house is in Linxi Village, more than ten miles away in the mountains, and the village is very small, with only one or twenty families, all of whom live on the edge of the mountains and forests. But the scenery here is beautiful, with a large pond and many pine forests and mountain peaks. But it was also poor, the houses were built low and low, and the clothes worn by the people were tattered and tattered. Many of the boys his age were naked, and the girls were almost barefoot. I heard that the girls in the mountains are all beautiful, docile and virtuous, so the people in the mountains are counting on marrying off the girls in the family so that they can get some money for the family. Probably mom is the same.

Mom has a brother and a brother and a sister and a sister. This time my grandfather celebrated his birthday, and neither my uncle nor my brother-in-law gave my grandfather any birthday gifts, but my aunt and aunt sent a lot of birthday gifts to my grandfather. Because the aunt and aunt are married to the same family on the edge of the river as their mother, their living conditions are relatively wealthy. The aunt sent two chickens, two salted fish and ten yuan. My aunt gave me 20 yuan and a few catties of soybeans. Originally, my mother's family was not poor, but because the family had been treating my mother for many years, the money had been spent, so the family really couldn't get some decent gifts. It is precisely because of this father that he refuses to come with his mother, afraid that he will not be able to get a decent gift, and will be looked down upon by his grandfather and others. When Grandpa saw the ten eggs and two catties of glutinous rice sent by his mother, his face was very gloomy, and he said with a displeased face, "Why didn't Chan Xian come?" Grandpa said angrily, "It's time for me to celebrate my birthday, and he's sick." ”

Mom looked even more embarrassed, so she took Xiao Shanxue to the next room. In the next room sat the eldest uncle and the eldest aunt, and they were playing together and telling jokes, and their favorite topic was nothing more than whose family had the ability to live well, and whose family had not been able to endure it. If they are doing well, they will be red-eyed, and if they are not doing well, they will laugh. Maybe it's because my parents' family is not doing well, so my parents don't like to chat with them.

In the middle of the room was a small table with two plates, one with a southern paw and the other with a sunflower seed. These things are very rare, and if they are not for the New Year or the Great Birthday, these things will not be seen. Auntie's youngest son, Shunshun, and Auntie's eldest son, Rainbow Dash, sit at a small table, playing with the corners in their hands while eating Nanpaw and Sunflower Seeds. When she sees that Zen has come over, Shun Shun says to Rainbow Dash, "Let's go, let's not play with him." With that, the two ran out of the house together.

When Xiao Shanxue saw the melon seeds on the table, he came to the table, grabbed the southern paws and ate them. However, before he could eat a few, the eldest aunt came in, saw that he was eating his paws, and without saying a word, she put away the two plates and left.

Xiao Shan Xuedao didn't feel anything, and felt that adults wouldn't let him eat it, but his mother immediately changed her face, she stood up from the stool at once, and said loudly to Xiao Shanxue, saying, "Let's go, let's go home." With that, he took him by the hand and went out the door. At this time, grandma, aunt and aunt, and uncle and uncle all chased after them from behind, trying to persuade them to stay and have lunch before leaving, but the mother didn't listen, and said, "It depends on the owner to beat the dog", and pulled Xiao Shanxue away.

Walking on the way home, Xiao Shanxue felt very disappointed and discouraged, in the past he has always regarded his grandmother's house as a shelter in his heart, thinking that grandpa and grandma like him, he will forget all his troubles when he comes here, and feel that everything is very beautiful. However, now he realized what his mother said to him that day: This is our home. When you leave your home, you have to look at people's faces everywhere.

Moreover, he blamed himself very much, thinking that if he hadn't eaten that plate of melon seeds, he wouldn't have upset his mother, so he left his grandfather's house without eating. But he can understand why his mother is so angry, and why his father insists on refusing to come to celebrate his grandfather's birthday. It's not because my parents don't have the ability to do it, or because my mother is not beautiful or smart, I heard my mother say that my mother was the most beautiful and smartest girl in my grandmother's family. The real reason is that he is not born to his father, not only does his father dislike him, but even his aunt doesn't like him, and even Shun Shun and Rainbow Dash don't like him. He may be just a puppy, otherwise how could his mother say, "It depends on the owner to beat the dog"? However, he thinks that even a puppy is loved by someone and loved by others, but why is no one who loves him? Thinking about it like this, he feels very sad and sad in his heart, and feels that he is so bored by people in the world that he is alive and is hated by others.