Past Life - The Eldest Sister's Monologue (Four Watches)
It's not over, it's not over, it's just a change, and tomorrow the five sisters' previous lives will be over. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Maybe it's because I'm the first daughter in the family, but also because I'm the eldest.
My parents don't love me too much, and I don't even pay much attention to it, in short, after having a younger sister, I have been educated by my parents, I am the eldest sister, and I have to take care of my sister. This is a responsibility, and this is the responsibility that should be borne as the eldest daughter in the family.
Later, there were second and third sisters one after another, I took them with me, I cook and let them play with mud on the side, I feed the pigs, let them play with pigweed, I do housework, let them sit aside and play with their noses. It doesn't make a difference to take care of one and two younger sisters like this.
But then I had a little four, which is my fourth sister; She was born with many disasters and was sent away by her grandmother and mother. Dad chased it for a day and a night to get it back. Dad also got into a fight with someone for this matter, not to mention the broken bones, and Dad also used the radio that is rarely used in the village to shout big things in a year.
Dad named Xiao Si and gave him a name that could be on the family tree.
Our daughters are going to marry outside, and according to the regulations, they are not allowed to go to the family tree. At that time, my father knelt in the ancestral hall and kowtowed to my grandfather, uncle, uncle, and uncle one by one, and broke my head before agreeing to give Xiaosi a name on the family tree.
It was taken by the oldest old uncle himself, Qinghe, which means that the green river will never dry up.
Because many people say that the fourth child is a child born eight months pregnant, and he will not live long, he will not grow up, and his life will be short. For this matter, Dad is a fortune teller and a helper for the fourth child. But fortunately, Xiaosi is really well-behaved and sensible, never like his younger brothers and sisters in other families, who will cry and make trouble in the middle of the night.
Xiaosi is really well-behaved, it's only been more than a month, and he doesn't cry or make trouble. If you are hungry, you will hum twice, if you pull, you will hum twice, if you are wet, if you wear too many clothes or if you are cold, you will hum three times; If you are sick and have a fever, your whole body will be red, and you can see it with a clear eye, so it is especially easy to take care of.
But since she went to kindergarten at the age of four, she has changed, and she has gradually become less fond of being close to our three sisters, and she has begun to lose her temper with us. At the age of five or six, she often had more homework than those of us in elementary school and junior high school.
Sleeping and dreaming at night, she often falls under the bed, and when she is found, she still has pinyin letters such as a, o, and e in her mouth. We all thought that it was because of too much pressure that the fourth child would slowly become less lively and not very close to his family.
It wasn't until one day that I saw Xiaosi crying miserably, and I realized the truth of the matter.
It was the first grade of primary school, and in the afternoon of the mid-term exam, the teacher gave the score in the afternoon, so they had an early holiday in the afternoon. Xiao Si hadn't eaten for a day, and there was no sugar and soy sauce at home that she loved to eat, so she didn't want to eat rice, and our three sisters were busy with housework, so she asked her to go to grandma's house to see if there was anything to eat.
She took an empty bowl to her grandmother's house to pick up vegetables, and happily willing to go for half an hour, and when she came back, she was crying and wrestling at the same time, and she didn't know whether she was crying unsteadily or angry. An adult saw it and ran back to inform us that we should hurry up and have a look.
Our three sisters, halfway through the run, saw Xiao Si, covered in mud and dirty water, and the empty bowl in his hand didn't know where to throw it. When she went to her grandmother's house that day, it rained a little bit, and she didn't even have a tool to shelter from the rain, and she cried so badly that our three sisters couldn't help crying when they saw it.
Really, since I was a child, I knew that my family was poor, and taking care of my sister was also a kind of responsibility as an older sister. Dad always taught us that we can't blame the government for our hard lives, and it's better to ask for others than for ourselves. No matter how bad I eat, I am willing to let my sisters eat well and eat well, especially the little four, except for my mother, our family of five is a treasure in our hearts.
Seeing Xiaosi so pitiful and crying miserably, it was really heartbreaking to death.
At that time, I learned that she had finished the exam that day, and as soon as the scores came out, she was laughed at by the whole class. The Chinese language is all reading and writing Chinese characters, and I scored zero points in the direct test, and I scored 100 points in the mathematics test directly, and the question is good. The teacher criticized him on the spot, saying that the fourth child should not be too biased.
When she arrived at her grandmother's house, she was really hungry and saw that her two cousins and the little cousin were eating meat around the table at her grandmother's house. Grandma stopped her at the door, saying that there was no food at home. Xiaosi exposed his grandmother's lie on the spot: I obviously saw my cousin and cousins eating meat, why did I have no vegetables.
Grandma was just stunned for a while, and immediately gave Xiao Si a mouthful: They are all sons, you are just a money-loser, what qualifications do you have to eat meat? What qualifications do you have to call me grandma.
It was only then that I learned that the fourth child went to kindergarten for three years, and he didn't learn pinyin at all, and he couldn't even spell out his own name. And none of them knew about these things.
I don't know that Xiaosi is often bullied in private, scolded as an idiot, and scolded as a stupid.
By the time I was ready to go to the second year of junior high school, my fifth sister was also one year old, and my mother's meaning was to let me go out to work with others, because the family was too poor and the burden was too heavy. If I study alone, it costs one or two hundred yuan a semester. I thought about the scene that day, and I immediately said yes.
I wanted my lovely sisters to have a good life and no longer be looked down upon by my grandparents' patriarchal mentality, so I followed the villagers to work in a factory, working 12 hours a day. At that time, children under the age of 15 could only be regarded as child laborers, with a monthly salary of less than 300 and no day off.
Occasionally, when the power goes out at the factory, I go outside to pick up scrap that can be recycled and resold. I send 250 a month home, and I only have a few dozen dollars on me. Fortunately, I heard that the grades of the fourth grade came up, and after going to the third grade, there were only Chinese characters, and occasionally a few new words with pinyin, and there was no damn pinyin to embarrass her.
In the first semester of primary four, she won the second place in the class and the top ten in the school, and in the second semester, the school gave her a place for poor students, deducting half of the tuition and miscellaneous fees. I thought that my burden would be lighter, and my parents also asked me to send less money home, and the second sister had to come out to work before graduating from junior high school, and the third sister also said that she would not go to high school.
In the future, it will only be for the fourth and fifth sisters. The fourth child is very competitive, and the fifth sister is reluctant to take the high school entrance examination after graduating from junior high school, so she directly studied technical secondary school, and I heard that she could introduce a job.
And the fourth child won everyone's high hopes all the way, and was admitted to the county key middle school, and was an excellent three-good student until high school, and a well-known child with good grades in the village. (To be continued.) )