Chapter 1: Sister's Sky
When my father married another, I was only seven years old, and my sister cried every three or five days, and as a result, I annoyed my stepmother, and was tied to the locust tree at the entrance of the village by my stepmother, and in front of the whole village, I was beaten with thorny rattan and slapped, and my father wanted to save face, but I didn't show up at all, and I was too young to hide in the corner and dare not come out, almost peed my pants, and watched my sister being tortured by my stepmother for a whole afternoon. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
My sister has never spoken since that day, and her intelligence is also impaired, only at the level of three or four years old, and she is afraid of life, except for me, she hides when she sees people, especially her stepmother.
My sister was originally one year younger than me, but after dementia, she couldn't go to school anymore, and her stepmother disliked her even more, beating her every day, giving her cold rice scraps, and forcing her to wash the family's clothes in the winter.
Every time my sister was beaten, I was afraid of being affected, so I didn't dare to stop it, but occasionally when it was my turn to be beaten, my sister would stand in front of me without hesitation, and repeatedly ended up with bruises all over her body, and finally she didn't care, grabbed my sleeve, and laughed stupidly.
My sister was the most clingy to me, and my stepmother wouldn't give her enough food to eat, but she would always take some of her own food to share with me, and it was another beating when she was discovered, and then she learned to secretly put food in my school bag. But this still did not escape the eyes of my stepmother, after beating my sister to the corner and not daring to get up, I also warned me not to stay with my sister anymore, otherwise I would be beaten together, and I could only avoid my sister from then on, although I didn't want to, but I would deliberately ignore her at home, and even when she was beaten, she would say a few bad words.
My sister was not only beaten at home, but also bullied by the children of the same village outside, and no one wanted to play with her, so she had to take the trouble to draw rock-paper-scissors in front of her own reflection in the river by the small river not far from her home. The only thing she had on her was a rag doll that her mother had bought for her, and she carried it on her back, swept out a clean place by the river, and started a house.
That day, she didn't know where to find a broken plank, which was tied with rope at both ends and hung from a nearby branch to make it a simple swing.
From then on, although my sister could not speak, she would laugh, and she would swing on the swing alone, and her silver bell-like laughter would be heard from the riverside. Except for me, the riverside is all she has, her sky, the only place that can make her happy.
But since I went to junior high school, I don't know who spread the matter of having a demented sister, some classmates in the class who don't have a good relationship with me will taunt my sister in front of me, saying that she will run a family in her teens, nervous or something, I want to refute a few words every time, saying that my sister is not stupid, she understands very well, but every time the words come to my mouth and I swallow it back, I am afraid, afraid that my classmates will laugh at me.
In the first semester of the second year of junior high school, I had a crush on Liu Xiaoyun, the class flower, and secretly stuffed a love letter in her drawer, not only did I get a reply soon, but there was also a line on the letter: Wait for me in the classroom after school in the afternoon.
This made me so happy, I thought that Liu Xiaoyun had agreed, who knew that after school in the afternoon, Liu Xiaoyun found me, only one sentence: "My tutor is very good, and my family background is also very good, and you have a demented sister, which will disgrace my family, so I won't associate with you." ”
The first confession failed miserably.
A large group of eavesdropping classmates gathered outside the classroom door, and I don't know who shouted: "The toad also wants to eat swan meat, Ye Yang's turtle grandson must have been kicked by a donkey!"
Everyone burst into laughter.
I clenched my fists, bowed my head through the crowd, and ran briskly towards the school gate. There was still staccato laughter behind me, and I wanted to find a crack in the ground.
When I got out of the school gate, I saw my sister standing not far away waving to me, holding a tattered umbrella in her hand, and when I looked up, it was dark and dreary, and it was about to rain, and she was here to pick me up.
But I didn't get her affection, and for no reason I got angry for the first time, knocked down the umbrella in her hand, and shouted at her: "Didn't you tell you not to come to school to look for me? Look at what broken umbrella you were holding, and which garbage heap you picked it up from? You garbage goods, why didn't you get hit by a car on the road and die!"
I walked home with a belly full of anger, and my sister followed behind, holding the broken umbrella in her arms, and gently pulled my sleeve several times, as if trying to comfort me, but I knocked it off with all my might.
As I passed by the river, the more I thought about it, the more angry I became, so I pulled up a stick from the side, smashed the simple "stove" that my sister used to run the house, wiped the charcoal marks from the square with my foot, and finally tore off the rope of the swing, leaving the broken plank far away.
My sister's whole life was destroyed by me, and her sky seemed to collapse, and her face turned pale, and she stood beside her with her head bowed.
On the way home, it was raining heavily, and my sister opened the broken umbrella and put it on my shoulder, but she didn't dare to come up, and followed me with her head down, drenched and soaked, curled up like a kitten, shivering. I felt a little unbearable and wanted her to come and hold an umbrella with me, but as soon as I thought of the rejection of my confession, I dispelled this idea again, and thought angrily, let's get drenched, it's good to drench to death, and save things that hinder me.
Needless to say, when I got home, I couldn't avoid a curse from my stepmother, and my sister was even worse, and when I was changing clothes in the bathroom, I could still hear the crackling sound outside. My sister couldn't speak, so she couldn't vent all the pain and grievances.
I went to school early the next morning, because I knew that Liu Xiaoyun also came early, so I was going to explain to her when there was no one.
As I passed by the living room, I didn't see my sister, whose bed was in the corner under the stairs, with only a shabby straw mat and a thin sheet.
Out of the door, I saw something written on the pile of sand next to the threshold, I looked down carefully, and it took me a long time to recognize it, these are crooked six words, probably "Brother, yes, heaven, no, down, me." ”
I just thought it was my sister scribbling here, and I didn't think too much about it, so I came all the way to school.
But what I didn't expect was that Banba Wang Kai had already been waiting for me at the door with five or six younger brothers.
It turned out that because Wang Kai also liked Liu Xiaoyun, he was very unhappy with my confession yesterday, so he led someone to block me at the door, and without saying a word, he began to let a few of his subordinates beat me, no matter how much I begged for mercy, it was useless. At this time, my sister didn't know where to run out, she protected me, bit on the arm of Wang Kai, who was the most hateful in her opinion, Wang Kai screamed in pain, slapped his sister in the face, and scolded: "This dead madman, how dare you bite me? Come, drag her over to me!"
Several of Wang Kai's subordinates dragged my sister up from me, all the way to the grass next to me, from time to time there would be one or two muffled sounds of fists and kicks to the flesh, I lay on the ground, I didn't have the courage to stop it, but I was a little glad to have escaped, they finished beating my sister, I shouldn't have beaten me.
Thinking like this, I heard my sister's frightened and desperate screams from the grass, and a vague voice: "Brother... Brother!"
After so many years of absence, my sister actually spoke again in this situation.
After a while, they dragged my sister back in front of me, and I found that my sister was all soaked and angry, it turned out that Wang Kai, these bastards, actually urinated on her collectively!
I was so scared that I trembled, but fortunately it was my sister who suffered, and if I was urinated, how could I have the face to come to school in the future?
was thinking wildly, and suddenly saw Liu Xiaoyun coming to school, and she walked here, but after she saw it clearly from a distance, her brows furrowed, and she glanced at her soaking sister beside me, and immediately took a few steps back, with a disgusted expression on her face, and turned around and left. Wang Kai and his younger brothers were gloating and snickering beside them.
Liu Xiaoyun didn't say a word, but the disgusted expression on her face made me more uncomfortable than slashing me.
I lowered my head and didn't speak, but my fists were clenched tightly, they were all demented garbage, and they made me embarrassed again, especially in front of Liu Xiaoyun, how can I face her in the future?
At this time, my sister came over, sobbed softly, took out a red plastic bag from her arms, opened it carefully, and then handed it to me, and said bluntly: "Brother...... Rice, eat ......"
In the plastic bag, there are two hard steamed buns, some of which are black, and they smell a little rancid, and they look overnight.
Wang Kai laughed exaggeratedly, and said Ye Yang, do you eat this kind of thing at home? You are so poor that you can't even afford to eat, and you still want to chase Liu Xiaoyun? Why are you so thick-skinned? Hahaha!
Ugly in front of Liu Xiaoyun, coupled with extreme vanity, the anger in my stomach finally broke out, knocked off the steamed buns in my sister's hand, and yelled at her: "What to eat, you garbage will only come to embarrass my face, get out of me!"
Hearing this, my sister's face immediately turned pale, and the only glimmer of light in her eyes disappeared, and she stood dumbfounded, her face that had always had an idiot smile in the past, full of tears, but she pursed her lips tightly to prevent herself from crying, and let the tears slide down and splash on the back of her dirty hand.
My sister timidly squatted down, picked up the two steamed buns, patted the dust on them, put them back in front of me, and then stepped back step by step, trotting all the way out of the school gate.
In just a few tens of meters, she staggered and fell three times in a row, and the thin figure disappeared from my sight.
Wang Kai smiled gloatingly, kicked the steamed bun in front of me away, and scolded from the lines in the movie: "A trash, a fool, go to death!"
Until everyone left, I sat down on the ground, and the place where I was beaten just now was still faintly painful, but what came to my mind was my sister's desperate and gloomy little face before leaving. I knew I was going too far. The only thing my sister is close to is me, but I always don't show her a good face, I was beaten by Wang Kai, compared with those who beat her every day, what is it?
I suddenly remembered the six words I saw on the sand when I went out in the morning: "Brother, yes, heaven, no, down, me." ”
"Brother is my God, don't leave me. ”
It wasn't until this moment that I realized that my sister's grievances had been endured for eight years, and for her, even if she was beaten and scolded, and was laughed at countless times outside, these were nothing, what she needed was actually my brother, even if it was a little love.
That's all.
I grabbed the two steamed buns on the ground in my hands and chased them in the direction my sister had left.
My sister has not eaten enough at home for a long time, and her meal for a day is just two steamed buns overnight, so she has been malnourished and emaciated, but she knows that my brother has not eaten breakfast, so she packed her daily meal in a plastic bag, carried it in her arms, and carefully brought it over.
But I was thrown away like garbage.
Thinking of my sister being beaten by my stepmother day and night, suddenly my nose began to pantothenic, and my vision blurred, compared to my sister's suffering, my vanity is nothing.
I ran to the river, and there was silence all around, and the traces of my destruction here yesterday were still there, and under the roots of that tree, I picked up the rag doll that my sister had always regarded as a treasure, but only my sister was missing.
"Xiaobei!"
I tried my best to call my sister's name, and all I could answer was an empty echo.
I sat by the river with the dirty rag doll in my arms and cried bitterly.
I skipped class that day and sat by the river for an afternoon, and my sister still didn't come back.
Not only that, but my sister didn't come home until the evening.
For the next three days, I was a little distraught, and ran to the bank of the river as soon as I got out of school, but my sister disappeared like the world, and did not go there or go home, and my intuition told me that my sister had completely despaired of this home, and that she would never return.
I called her name over and over again by the river, but I was disappointed again and again, and the past came to my senses, remembering that she was alone, drawing rock-paper-scissors with her reflection in the river, remembering that she was carrying a rag doll on her back, gently sweeping the floor with a banana leaf, and doing a house, thinking of her jumping back and forth by herself, remembering that she was swinging with her feet, babbling in her mouth, and the little happiness on her face......
For her, her father's indifference, my stepmother's bullying, and my deliberate avoidance, she had nothing at home, the rag doll, and the swing by the river, were all she had, but my brother, because of his vanity, ruined the only place that could give her happiness.
Because of my cowardice, she was bullied by the children in the village for three whole years, and because of my cowardice, she was pissed all over by Wang Kai's bastards, because of my cowardice...... She finally left.
During the time when my sister disappeared, whenever I remembered the six twisted words on the sand, I would cover myself in the quilt and cry.
My father and stepmother were indifferent to my sister's disappearance, and I asked them to go out to look for her again and again, but they were all refused. Once, my father was annoyed by me, and scolded and said: "What are you looking for, it's not biological anyway, just that dementia, it's a waste of food to find it!"
I found out that my sister was picked up by my mother when I was two years old. When my mother was still there, although the family was poor, my sister was very happy, but after my mother died, my patriarchal father naturally didn't take my sister seriously, anyway, it was not biological, and it was better to die.
I was completely disappointed in this family, especially hated my stepmother who abused my sister, and I didn't say a word to my stepmother until I graduated from junior high school.
On the day I got my high school acceptance letter, I didn't take anything from home, only my sister's shabby rag doll. There are more than 100 yuan that I have saved for so long, and I went to the city by car. In the car, I suddenly relaxed a little, and silently thought in my heart: Xiaobei, wait for me, my brother is coming to you.