Chapter 20: Decision
The doors of all the shops in the city were tightly closed. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 The wind occasionally swept the ground, bringing up dust but not the boards that smashed on the ground, and the blood that stuck to the ground. Zhou Huan came out of Chen's mansion and looked around the street.
He wasn't sure if Chen Lan would be able to come back.
Then he saw a small man staggering not far away. He was confused for a moment, then walked over briskly and found that it was a five-year-old girl. The girl may have cried just now, and her face was dirty. The clothes she was wearing were beautiful, and she was supposed to be a child of a rich family.
"Whose child?" Zhou Huan screamed loudly, leaned down after receiving no response, and spoke to the girl as gently as possible: "Girl, where is your father?" ”
"Gone......" the girl whimpered and said these three words.
It looks like he died when the rogue came. Children don't know about death, they only know that it's normal to be gone. Zhou Huan wiped her face and said in her heart: "It's pitiful, I have no father and mother at such a young age." ”
Zhou Huan continued: "Girl, are you hungry?" Shall I go buy you something to eat? ”
The girl shook her head and said, "I don't want to look for food, I'm going to find someone." ”
Zhou Huan thought that it seemed that the child still had relatives, and he was a little relieved for a while, and hurriedly asked:
"Tell me who it is, uncle will help you find it."
"Chen Lan." The girl raised her dark eyes and said the two words firmly.
Zhou Huan's heart moved. Isn't that the name of his grandfather? What is the relationship between this girl and the master? He went to ask the girl what her relationship was with Chen Lan, but the girl would only say this: "My sister asked me to find him before leaving." ”
The child's voice is immature, the expression is innocent, and there is no hint of fakeness, which makes people have to believe it. Zhou Huan decided to take her back first, even if she had nothing to do with the master, he couldn't let this girl live on the streets. He asked the girl's name, and the girl said her name was Kuju.
Zhou Huan asked the maid at home to help Jiuzhong take a bath. After the nine washes, she sat on the bench, and Zhou Huan personally helped her tie her head rope. He looked at Kuju lovingly, as if looking at his own child. He said, "If my daughter could grow up, she would be as beautiful as you." ”
Kue stayed in the house. She asked Zhou Huan when Chen Lan would come back, and Zhou Huan took her hand and stood outside, looking at her day by day, saying that if we wait, he will definitely be able to come back.
"My sister said that he was the most important person in Kue. So, little bunny, you must bless him! Jiuzhong picked up the rabbit raised by Chen Lan and made a wish sincerely. The rabbit has now been raised so fat that it takes a lot of effort to move. Jiuzhong touched it, thinking of his kitten, and also thinking of Sanniang. Sanniang is a very good woman to her, she misses her very much now, and she is also afraid that this person will not come back.
"Little rabbit, little rabbit, you must let Chen Lan come back quickly."
On the ninth day, a group of refugees came to the city, and they had also been harassed by the bandits, and they came to the city. Somehow, Kue was led by a servant to buy candy on the street that day, and he met two of them, who were none other than Kue's parents.
Kuju's parents saw that she was covered in silk and satin, and her whole person was a little fatter, and her eyes were red. The mother said to the father, "Look, if we hadn't sold her, she would have lived such a good life!" ”
The father then thought of his son, sighed and said, "Why is our son so miserable, he can't eat well and wear good clothes, there are too few girls in the neighborhood recently, and the price of the bride price has risen again, you say that if he can't marry a daughter-in-law...... Then I'm really sorry for our son! ”
The couple quickly saw that something was wrong, and that Kuju should not have been sold to this family, but was only temporarily taken in. The mother had a bad idea and whispered to her husband, "Why don't you ask her back!" Sell it again, and it's another sum of money! ”
The two made up their minds and went to Chen's house early the next morning, crying so much that they alarmed the neighbors. Zhou Huan looked helplessly at the two people who were crying, not knowing what to do.
"Oh, daughter, I've been looking for so long, and I've finally found you, so my mother will take you back!"
Zhou Huan took Jiuzhong out and wanted to send her back, but after seeing his parents, Jiuzhong immediately hid behind him, just like seeing the plague god.
"Kuju!"
"Uncle, I'm not going back, I'm going to stay here and wait for Chen Lan!"
Zhou Huan said in embarrassment: "Look, look at this ......"
"What Chen Lan Li Lan, you don't even recognize your own Lao Tzu! I have not done you any wrong when you were with me. At a young age, I didn't learn anything else, but I learned to run with a man first! "My father was angry and went straight up to arrest him. This next week, Zhou Huan was annoyed and slapped his hand: "If you have something to say, what are you dragging the child for!" ”
"What do you have to say, I can't get my own child? Neighbors, look at it, this family has robbed the child! The mother began to cry again. Zhou Huan saw that there were more and more onlookers and pointing fingers, and he really had no choice, so he persuaded Jiuzhong: "Or you can go back." When Chen Lan comes back, I'll tell you, okay? ”
When Jiue was dragged away by his mother, he kept looking back, his dark eyes were covered with moisture, and he looked at Zhou Huan in a daze.
That night, the parents began to discuss with great interest where to sell Kue. The mother said, "Don't gamble blindly this time, all the money from the last sale is all for you to spend!" ”
The father smiled, "Got it, got it." After that, he beckoned to Jiuzhong: "Cui'er, come here, come to Daddy." ”
The child holding the leg of the table glared at him: "I'm not Cui'er, I'm Jiuju." ”
"Hey, you kid! Under-beaten, right? "My father had already drunk, but now he was angry and couldn't control it. The mother didn't care, but let her husband strip her daughter of her clothes and beat her there. Kue held his breath and didn't make a sound. In the middle of the night, when her father had had enough, he threw her down and went to sleep by herself.
He didn't know that a child couldn't fight to death like that, and he was too heavy tonight. Kuju took his last breath and stared blankly at the moon outside the window.
I really want to wait for Chen Lan to come back.
But where is that man?
She looked down at the bruises on her wrists. In fact, the jade plate has always wanted to come out to help her, but she pressed the jade plate down. To respect your parents, to listen to your parents, what your parents do is right, she knows, she understands.
But in my heart, it really hurts.
If there is no father and mother in my life when I am a human being in the future, if I can cut off the relationship with my parents, will it not be so painful?
Then again, boys don't think so. They never have to think about whether their parents love them or not, but girls have to think about it from time to time. Parents have reservations about how much they love girls.
Kue doesn't want to hurt his parents, but Kue really doesn't want to have parents anymore.
Kuju don't want parents, don't. Even if you are frozen to death and starved to death after birth because you have no parents, it is better than being raised like a pig and a dog.
I really don't want to.
Kue shed the first tears of the night. The tears fell to the red thread on the wrist. Jiuzhong stretched out his fingers tremblingly, picked out the red one among the threads wrapped around his two arms, and pulled it fiercely.
The parental relationship is broken.
Kue looked at the broken thread and smiled. Laughing and laughing, she fell asleep on the broken straw mat. Jiuzhong was tired, but he was so tired that he fell asleep.
If parents mean harm, then what does she want them to do?
The next day, the beheaded prisoner was dumped with his body. When the man went to the mass grave, he also saw the corpse of a girl covered in bruises.
He turned away as usual.
PS The first stage of the story is over here, please collect