Sisters (short story) Zhang Baotong 2016.4.26

2. After lunch, she couldn't bear the anxiety and worry, and went to the market to find her sister with the child. On a winter afternoon, the sky is overcast, and the cold wind blows through the quiet market. In a remote corner of the market, a tricycle has a board on it. The board is full of rolled noodles. And the older sister stood in front of the tricycle with her hands in her pockets, expecting the patronage of the customer. Maybe it's because there are too many laid-off people in the city, and business is very light. So, there was no one in front of my sister's stall. In this cold day, my sister was still wearing thin clothes, standing in the market on the street and being blown by the cold wind, which made her feel very unbearable to look at. So, she asked her sister to collect the stall and go back to the house.

But my sister said, what should I do if I don't sell so many noodles? My sister said, take it back and eat it ourselves. My sister said that after coming out for a day, I paid a few yuan in rent, and I couldn't just get nothing. She knew that her sister was stubborn, so she didn't say anything more, so she bought her sister a bowl of cold skin and brought it, because her sister hadn't eaten since morning. She wanted to spend more time with her sister, but her sister said that the weather was too cold, so don't catch the child cold. Just let her take the child back quickly.

When my sister returned to the house with the child, she found that the child really had a cold, a runny nose, and a sneeze. She wanted to take her children to the village health center, but she only had a few dimes in her pocket, so she had to wait for her sister to come back from selling noodles. However, it was not until it was dark that my sister returned.

However, my sister was still as usual, and as soon as she entered the door, she had to pick up the child and hold her for a while. However, the child does not like to laugh and move like usual, and he keeps sneezing and running a runny nose. My sister blamed my sister for not going to the health center. My sister lowered her head and didn't say anything, holding back her tears so that the tears didn't roll down. Seeing this scene, my sister didn't say anything more, and went out with the child in her arms. When she arrived at the health center, her sister was holding the baby and playing a hanging bottle. The money for the medical treatment was borrowed by my sister.

One day, someone came to my sister's village, and she was asked by her brother-in-law to go home immediately, saying that there was an urgent matter at home waiting for her to go back to do it. He also said that his brother-in-law had come to the door to remarry his sister, because the girl who was his brother-in-law's little lover had already left him. Moreover, his car also overturned in a field on the side of the road during a drive, not only was he injured and hospitalized for half a month, but the car also had to spend a lot of money to repair.

Listening to these words, my sister said that he had only woken up now, and that it was too late! My sister felt that he was suffering from evil retribution, so she said, "He deserves it!" Although this incident made her finally breathe, her heart still could not be clear, because she was worried that her sister would leave, leaving her and the child here. But then she thought about it, her sister was an older sister after all, and she still had a big family and a room of things to deal with.

After the man left, my sister said to my sister, "Sister, go back, there is something for you to take care of at home." My sister sat on the edge of the bed and was silent for a long time, and then took my sister's hand and said, Yaru, you are in danger, how can I leave you like this? If I leave you and the child here, I am afraid that my parents will not be at ease if they find out.

My sister sighed and said, "But there is something wrong with your family, and my brother-in-law wants you to go back quickly." My sister smiled disappreciatively and said, "If you don't go back, I'm afraid it's not that the roof is going to fall." Even if the roof collapsed, your brother-in-law was on top of it. My sister put her arms around my sister's neck gratefully, and said with tears in her eyes, my sister's kindness is like a mountain, and I will remember it in my heart for the rest of my life.

These days, they almost live on borrowed money. Borrowing money from others is tantamount to owing them a favor. People say that you can only smile at everything. That day, I somehow offended the owner's family. The woman of the owner's house asked her sister very unhappily, "If you go on like this, when will you have the money to pay off your debts?"

My sister hurriedly said with a smiling face, sister-in-law, don't worry, we will definitely have to repay the money we borrowed from you, and we will be given a few more days? Obviously, they can't borrow money anymore, they are at the end of their rope and have no way out. Seeing that her sister was wronged like this, her sister's tears rolled in her eyes. She sighed and said to her sister, I am the one who has caused you, otherwise, let's go back, even if you suffer with the bastard surnamed Lin, I don't want you to suffer this kind of anger with me.

When my sister heard this, she suddenly became irritable and scolded, "You haven't had enough of that scoundrel surnamed Lin, are you? Are you so cheap? Are you so willing to follow him to be beaten and scolded? My sister's angry scolding made her face blush, and she didn't dare to raise her head. In fact, she just wanted to express the guilt in her heart to her sister, not really wanting to remarry her ex-husband. Because this marriage is a nightmare that she doesn't even want to think about now, full of humiliation and sorrow.

She is a cowardly, modest and tolerant woman, if it weren't for the man's deception too much, she would not have divorced. She brought up the divorce, and she was very resolute and had no room for manoeuvre. For this reason, except for the three or four months baby in her arms, she gave up all the other qiē, and she did not even ask for child support. She felt that this was the only way to get rid of the man she hated all her life.

In fact, like other married women in Shangluo Mountain, she really doesn't have high requirements for marriage. She only wanted to live a peaceful and secure family life, and for this reason, she was even willing to endure hardship and poverty with her husband. However, the husband did not endure hardship, could not stand poverty, bought a car for transportation with money and debts, and the money he earned was not in a hurry to repay the debts, but he often gathered a group of wandering idlers to eat, drink and play cards, and also took a girl from a distant relative's family who was engaged to him all day long, like a pair of little lovers. In this regard, she did not know how many times she persuaded him, so that he would know that he would be lost and the prodigal son would turn back. However, he was already a ghost, and he often did not return home for several days. Once in a while, when I go home, I either look for scum and find trouble, or I have heard my mother's malicious instigation and beat her up severely.

His mother is a well-known right and wrong spirit in the four villages and eight towns, and her heart is not good, she loves to stir up the rights and wrongs of her daughter-in-law in front of her son, and what is even more puzzling is that the son is obedient to his mother, because if the son does not obey the slightest, the mother will cry to him. In the two years after her marriage, she endured the bullying of their mother and son on the one hand, and on the other hand, she had to deal with debt collectors who almost broke the threshold. Every day is spent almost in the torment of worries and worries. Sometimes she was really sad and wronged, so she went to her mother's house for a few days. However, as soon as her husband heard that she had returned to her parents' house, he wanted to go there and make a big fuss. Even at that time, if her husband could admit his mistakes to her and change his ways, she would still give him a chance to repent. However, instead of expressing remorse, the husband filed for divorce from her to marry the girl from the distant relative's family. She was so angry that she almost fainted. These things, when she thinks about them now, she can tremble with anger.

Originally, her life was peaceful and peaceful, and it was marriage and this man who brought her into the whirlpool of tragedy. Can she respect this man again? Besides, this divorce was because her sister helped her make up her mind to die, and she went through all kinds of formalities for her single-handedly. How can she not make her sister sad and sad when she says such a thing?