Chapter 11: The Vortex
"You stop." The cold voice of the eldest brother sounded behind him.
I stopped and turned back to face him.
"He's only been back for a few days, and you're going to tell him everything? It's just a joke on weekdays, and you say it to him too? He stared at me.
I said, "I didn't say anything. He himself has eyes to see. ”
The eldest brother said, "For this, he actually wanted to kill me yesterday!" He almost killed me! ”
I said, "He won't." You're obviously intact, too. ”
"Sister, a word of advice for you: don't trust him. No matter how credible he may seem, never trust him. "He is an unpredictable person, and since he was a child, he has always thought differently and behaved in a perverse manner." You are still young, and you have been living in a mansion, you have never seen all kinds of men, and you do not understand the tricks and disguises of men. He comes back and brings you a feeling that you have never felt before, makes you yearn for a life you have never experienced and a world you have never seen, plus he saved your life, and you have a good impression of him, which is normal. However, remember the words of the eldest brother, if you believe in him and want him to be the support of this life, you will not end well. ”
The words of the eldest brother made me feel cold in my heart. I said, "How can the eldest brother say that about him." You are brothers. ”
Jing Yun sneered and said, "Just because we are brothers, I understand him better than others. He has been a man of great ambition since he was a child, and in order to achieve that ambition, he can sacrifice anything, including himself, and the people he likes the most, all important interests. When he does so, he doesn't blink an eyelid, and he doesn't give his victim a chance to resist at all. ”
Jingyun said: "Don't be deceived by his kindness to you now. You will understand in the future that you cannot be the most important person in his life, and playing with you and making you happy is never the most important thing in his life. He's bound to break your heart. The more you trust him, the more you will be doomed in the future. ”
Jingyun said: "Sister, whether it is good to you or not, sometimes it can't be seen from the surface, there are some things, maybe you don't like it, but you really want to be good to you, and want to give you a good fate and a suitable choice." And some things that can make you happy now, in the end, will lead you to the same pain as the abyss, and there will be no hope of escape. He said: "That person, he came back for so long, but we have been together for more than ten years since childhood. In the past ten years, you have asked yourself, has your eldest brother treated you badly? Don't take care of it? Isn't it that he is defending you everywhere and has never been so attentive to other people? He said, "I am very sad that he came to me so violently yesterday, not because he treated me like that, because he never treated me like a brother, but because he was sad that you acquiesced in his treatment of me like that." ”
Jingyun said: "Qin'er, from the time you were still breastfeeding in swaddling clothes, day and night, it was my mother and son who took care of you. What haven't I done for your pleasure? From playing around on your back, wiping your tears, to giving you all the good stuff. I've done everything, but you have never had any real feelings for me. ”
I bowed my head. I have real feelings for him. It's just that he doesn't have the kind of feelings he wants.
With an inner pain that could not be concealed, he said to me: "Just for this little joke, you will send rescue troops to him, and let him insult me and intimidate me by virtue of his identity as the young master of his sister-in-law." A woman's heart is really cold. ”
Although I think there is something wrong in his words, I can't help but admit that his words are not completely unreasonable. There are some things that I can't refute.
Big brother walked a few steps around me. He looked at me and looked down silently.
He said, "I can forgive you, though. It's like growing up, countless times, no matter what you do, I will forgive you. You have only been deceived by him, and you have lost your heart. ”
I said, "Big brother, I haven't forgotten the kindness of my aunt and eldest brother to me over the years." I've always been grateful to you. I didn't ask anyone for help. I'd like to believe that it was all intimate jokes. I never thought about hurting Big Brother and making you sad. All along, I've been thinking, don't let my eldest brother get hurt, don't make my aunt feel sad. ”
I said, "I don't know what happened yesterday between your brothers." But he will never hurt you, and he will never want to harm you. The eldest brother may have misunderstood him. ”
"Misunderstanding?" Jing Yun said hatefully: "You are still speaking for him until now!" He picked up the bright boning knife and slashed at me repeatedly, saying that he didn't mean to harm me? Is this what a younger brother should do to an older brother? ”
"He didn't even cut you a single hair. If he really wanted to cut you, couldn't he have done it at that time? ”
If he hadn't been afraid of his father, he would have done that! Do you think he doesn't want to? ”
I was tempted to say, "If my father knew why, and knew that you had been joking with me for so long, he wouldn't have ......," but I held back. Jing Yun is the most sensitive to this, he strongly feels that his father's love for his two sons is obviously partial. I can't say that he was all wrong.
I was silent for a moment. I said, "Anyway, the family should live in harmony and not treat each other like enemies." ”
Jing Yun's eyes looked me up and down. He said, "It's really ink-nearer black." The look and tone of your voice now are becoming more and more like that woman, like his mother who died early. It's annoying to watch. ”
I said, "Big brother! Madame is also your mother-in-law. She doesn't feel bad about you either. You can't say Ma'am. ”
"Shut up! Didn't she feel bad about me? You haven't seen her, how can you know what she's doing to my mother and son. You're just listening to those snobbish people chewing their tongues, saying how virtuous and gentle she is, and how she is knowledgeable. If she was just a concubine, would they still say that about her? ”
I don't know what to say. Indeed, I have never met your mother. My impression of her is indeed the portrait from the second hall and the sporadic descriptions of various people in the family. However, Jingyun has seen your mother.
Seeing me standing there in a daze, Jingyun seemed to be a little soft-hearted. He felt that this lesson for me was almost enough. He took the initiative to end the conversation.
"Seeing that you are so confused, I can't bear to say anything to you anymore." He said, "Don't get involved in things you don't understand." You will not understand the grievances and hatreds between our brothers. You don't have to get involved. You are you, he is him. No matter how close you are, I always have a clear distinction in my heart. It's just that you remember my words. I never lied to you. Sooner or later, what I say will be fulfilled. Don't like him. That day, my eldest brother said to me, "He is a very unlucky person, and wherever he goes, he will only bring misfortune and pain to people." He is a demon at heart. ”
After he finished speaking, he looked at me deeply again, and finally, turned and walked away.
I was standing alone in the hallway.
Big brother's words made me feel cold from the inside out.
Am my feelings all wrong? Is it really possible that things are something else?
The image of you reaching out to me from the cliff comes back to me again. I said to myself: No. It can't be wrong. At the moment of life and death, one person's intuition about another person cannot be wrong. You won't be the kind of person Big Brother says you are. Resoluteness means that goodness can be traded-off, which is not the same as ruthlessness. What the eldest brother said is nothing more than his long-term prejudice against you. You've never scared me. You've always made me feel so warm. Do you really become someone else's fear?
I stood there for a long time.
I intuitively felt like I was at the center of a maelstrom. I know that sooner or later, this vortex will engulf everyone, and possibly swallow all of them.
But at that time, I was so young that I could do nothing but watch it expand, but I didn't know how to stop it.
I never thought it was good to be young.
A person, when he is young, may be the strongest, but this strength is often wasted. Many young people are not wise enough to know how to stop the tragedy and help those who are caught in it.