Chapter Twenty-Three: The Eldest Sister Is Like a Mother
Trotting all the way to the county office, Shen Huan couldn't wait to confirm his omissions, but at this moment he suddenly learned that someone had come to identify the body!
Passing through the county office to the vicinity of the morgue, Shen Huan heard someone crying from a distance, and when he entered the door, he saw that a scholar dressed as a Confucian was crying on the already mutilated corpse......
Shen Huan didn't bother him, and after the scholar's mood gradually calmed down, he stepped forward and asked, "Dare to ask who Brother Tai is?" What is the relationship with the deceased? β
The scholar wiped the tears remaining on his cheeks and replied: "In Xia Fan Yizhi, I have seen Brother Shen, and in Xia is the brother of the deceased Fan Hongshuang, today I heard from the neighbors that my sister was killed, so I came to identify the body."
"Hello Brother Fan, I don't know who Brother Fan is?" Shen Huan asked with a salute.
"In Xia Nai Jiangyin locals ......"
As soon as Fan Yizhi's words fell, he heard Song Shi, who came with Shen Huan on the side, shout in surprise: "I'll go!" The local people didn't come to recognize the body until now? Isn't it stupid to read at home? Don't even know that a loved one has been missing for two or three days? β
"Less nonsense! Brother Fan, don't be surprised, my brother lacks a root in his brain......" Shen Huan glared at Song Shi and apologized to Fan Yizhi.
Although Shen Huan scolded himself, Song Shi was not angry at all, because he saw it very clearly just now, and the glance that Shen Huan glared at him just now clearly contained a hint of "well done"!
"Where...... In fact, what this little brother said is right, I am indeed stupid in reading, and the person who is really missing the roots in my brain is actually me...... If it weren't for the fact that I didn't understand my sister's hard work and ran away from home in a negative mood, my sister wouldn't have suffered this catastrophe......" Fan Yiyi said with a painful face.
Seeing him blame himself like this, Shen Huan then asked, "Brother Fan, can you tell me what happened to your sister and brother that day?"
"Alas...... This is about to start a long time ago...... Our Fan family used to be a scholarly family, and a few generations ago also went out of Jinshi, but unfortunately in the middle of my generation, my parents died early, and only our sister and brother were left to rely on each other. After the two Gao Tang left, my sister treated me like a father and mother, and raised me single-handedly, so that I could study hard, she even sold the dowry left to her by my mother......"
Quietly listening to Fan Yizhi's narration, although the expressions on Shen Huan and Song Shi's faces were calm at this time, this calm was like the sea, although the appearance was not shocking, but the heart was stormy and vicious!
In fact, Fan Yizhi's story is a very clichΓ© story, which tells the story of a pair of sisters and brothers who suffered from the eyes of their relatives after losing their parents and struggled to survive and depend on each other. In order to be able to support her younger brother as an adult and gain fame in the future, my sister has been silently supporting him behind the scenes......
My younger brother studied hard, and in order to ensure my brother's nutrition, my sister has been frugal on weekdays and kept the best things for her younger brother......
However, when the manpower is finally exhausted, the younger brother is still young and can barely do it, and when the younger brother grows up, how can a single woman afford the rations of two people? In desperation, the elder sister could only take her younger brother to find relatives for help, but what they never expected was that the departure of their parents also made them lose their so-called family affection, and almost no one was willing to help this pair of sisters and brothers in trouble! There are even some people who have already started to play with the idea of their own property!
After suffering humiliation, the elder sister returned to her home with her younger brother, and seeing how little property had been left of the land, the elder sister finally made up her mind to sell the dowry left by her mother...... At the same time, he sold himself......
It was the only thing she had left, and it was also the most precious thing in her own life, and it was something that a woman regarded as her life! That's her own body!
Putting the food home in severe pain, looking at the smile on her brother's face, my sister felt that it was all worth it! As long as her brother can grow up safely and get ahead, she feels that everything she has done is worth it......
Due to the efforts of my sister, the conditions of the family have gradually improved, and many books that my younger brother wants very much have also bought them with the "support" of my sister...... As the days passed, as the younger brother grew up day by day, my sister also reached the age of marriage, but every time my brother urged her, my sister always smiled and shook her head, saying that she would not remarry in her life, and would always guard her younger brother alone......
The younger brother knows that in the eyes of his sister, the younger brother is always the younger brother who doesn't grow up, and the younger brother also "knows" that the elder sister just doesn't want to worry about her life's events, but the younger brother hopes that the elder sister can find her own happiness! So on that day, the younger brother found a person who looked good and took him to meet his sister, but what he never expected was that it was this person who looked good, but it was the culprit who took away his sister's first time!
For the first time, a quarrel broke out between the two siblings, and the younger brother didn't listen to his sister's explanation at all! The younger brother who thinks he is full of poetry and books thinks that his sister is so shameless that she will sell herself for these things outside her body! At that moment, the younger brother also seemed to understand why after he had passed the state examination and had obtained the qualification to enter the Beijing entrance examination, the relatives at home still looked at him with that kind of contempt! It's all because my sister did such a shameless thing!
That night, the younger brother left the house in a rage, not thinking about the feelings of his sister, who was already scarred, both physically and mentally...... At that moment, he felt that his sister was so strange...... Even the voice that kept calling his name behind his back sounded so harsh......
"You think your sister's voice is harsh?!"
Song Shi interrupted Fan Yizhi's words, his red eyes were full of anger! Before Fan Yizhi could react, he stepped forward and punched him!
The left side of the face was punched hard, and Fan Yizhi, who was already powerless, was immediately beaten, but Song Shi didn't intend to let him go, and rode on Fan Yizhi's body and slapped him left and right, and said coldly: "Do you think your sister is dirty?" Do you think your sister is shameless? Do you think your sister has dishonored your family's reputation? Do you still think that your sister is not worthy of being your sister at all! Do you know how much your sister suffered! How many sins have been suffered! For a brother like you, she gave everything she had! How many rolls of the eyes she suffered for you! What humiliation she endured! For a brother like you, she buried everything in her heart! When you resent your sister, have you ever wondered who your sister is doing all this for! I'm telling you! The person who put your sister on this path is none other than that! It's your brother! Your sister is tormented, but you are still reading your sages at home! You're not a man! Do you know that your sister was killed by a dog like you! β
Looking at all this in front of him, Shen Huan didn't stop it, in fact, he knew that Song Shi was scolding Fan Yizhi and scolding himself at the same time. Many years ago, Jiangyin's generation suffered a very serious locust plague, and the entire Jiangyin and surrounding areas were almost unharvested! The same is true for their village......
Under the catastrophe, manpower is always limited...... In order to survive, many families began to sell their children and daughters to barely survive, and the Song family also faced such a dilemma.
Shen Huan's father had just passed away that year, and in the face of a family of four plus Shen Huan, Song Yi had to make a choice, which one should he give up...... In the end, he chose Song Shi's sister...... Song Mei......
In this feudal society, the status of women is far less than that of later generations, and most of the world is owned. Here, in addition to having children, they are often bought and sold as commodities, and they have no choice at all......
However, Song Mei is different, she willingly accepted this unfair fate, or rather, she chose this fate herself...... That night, she took the initiative to find Song Yi and asked her father to sell herself in exchange for money and food. At that time, Song Mei was only a teenager, but she had been taking care of Song Shi like a mother, and she could do anything for her younger brother without hesitation!
Many people who have an older sister in the family may have this feeling that their older sister may be very nagging, may seem to hate their younger brother, or may be impatient at times. But whenever my younger brother is in trouble and asks my sister for help, my sister will definitely do her best to help! There is no hesitation, no regrets, even if she will be talked about by her in-laws, she will never mention half a word to her younger brother! Hide all these grievances deep in your heart! The so-called eldest sister is like a mother......
Regarding this point, Shen Huan doesn't want to judge more, maybe everyone's opinion is different, and the mother-in-law thinks that his daughter-in-law eats inside and out. And if the mother's family sees that their girl is unwilling to help, they may think that it is the water spilled by the married daughter. And all of this is nothing but the human heart, and this is probably the most difficult thing in the world to understand......
Although it is difficult to understand, Shen Huan only knows one thing, if it weren't for Song Mei, he would definitely not be standing here now! He and Song Shi's lives were exchanged for Song Mei's life! If you don't repay your kindness, it's no different from a beast! And...... He, like Song Shi and Fan Yizhi, once had a woman who sacrificed herself for him......
After a few mouths were pumped down, Fan Yizhi's face was already swollen undecently, Shen Huan pulled Song Shi away from him and persuaded: "Forget the stone, Brother Fan didn't mean it, seeing him so sad, I think he should know that he was wrong......"
"He knows it's wrong, and the dog won't eat!" Song Shi replied coldly.
Listening to Song Shi's words, Fan Yizhi laughed at himself, "Hehe...... What Brother Song said is actually right, until now I have not been able to forgive my sister for those things...... She shouldn't have betrayed herself for me...... But what I can't forgive even more is myself! My sister treats me like a sister and a mother, but I have never been able to appreciate my sister's hard work, and I only know how to read the sage book! In the end, my sister was allowed to embark on such a path! It's really a man in vain! I hate me even more that I shouldn't run away in a bad mood, otherwise my sister wouldn't have been poisoned that day for going out to look for me! β
Fan Yizhi's words made Shen Huan have a general guess about the situation at that time. On the fifteenth day, after Fan Yizhi and Fan Hongshuang quarreled, Fan Yiyi ran away from home in anger. The younger brother left like this, and as an older sister, Fan Hongshuang naturally couldn't rest assured, so she went out to look for him, but she didn't expect to encounter a murderer.
According to the circumstances of the case at that time, Shen Huan speculated that the murderer was likely to lie that he knew Fan Yizhi's whereabouts, and lured Fan Hongshuang to Wutong Lane, and made her drink the anesthetic there, and then killed her!
A few days later, Fan Yizhi woke up from his anger and realized that everything his sister did was actually for herself. However, after Fan Yizhi returned home, he couldn't find his sister at home, so he asked the neighbors about his sister's whereabouts, but he didn't expect to hear bad news! His sister has left him forever......