Because of his sister's death, Zekuan's childhood came to an abrupt end in the summer of that year.

It was 1991, he was 7 years old, and he was supposed to be the age to go to school, but because his family was poor, he had to postpone it.

Children in rural areas are in charge of the household at an early age, and children who are not yet in school have to do housework and help in the fields.

The reason why I didn't have to go to work in the fields that day was because of my sister.

The weather was too hot, the sun was like fire, and his father felt sorry for his sister, so he let him stay at home with his sister.

Patriarchal ideology is deeply ingrained in the countryside, but his father is an exception.

Because my sister is so cute.

Everyone who saw her said that they had never seen such a cute child.

The father often hugged his sister in front of and behind the village, just to hear others praise his child for being cute.

In contrast, his father didn't like him, saying that he was stupid and stupid, like a piece of wood.

He admits that he is not as good as his sister, who is simply an angel, and he also hurts and loves her.

The younger sister is the pride of their family.

The child is playful by nature, and he really wants to wait for his sister to fall asleep and sneak out to play, but maybe the screaming is too noisy, or the house is too stuffy, and the 2-year-old sister just refuses to sleep.

So he took her outside to play.

The well platform at the west end of the village is a good place, the well is said to have been born with the village, has given birth to the village people for hundreds of years, is paved with old bricks, there are big trees such as banyan trees and locust trees in the open space next to the trees, grasshoppers and dragonflies can be caught in the wasteland grass next to the trees, and lantern plants and sweet and sour raspberries can be picked, which is a place that children like.

It was the height of summer, and the ground was full of locust flowers, which was beautiful and interesting.

Since the village received tap water from the mountains, no one has come here to fetch water, only a few elderly people in the village have come here to wash clothes and things in order to save a dime for water.

There are no other children here today.

He caught a big grasshopper, folded his hind legs, pulled out one of his big teeth, gave his sister to play with, and picked some raspberries for her to eat.

The breeze blows lightly, the branches of the trees sway, and the sunlight shines through the treetops, dappled on the ground, like jumping gold.

The younger sister stretched out her fat little hand to pick up the sunlight on the ground, and the sunlight jumped on her little hand, she put down the grasshopper and grabbed it with her other little hand, but the sunlight jumped on the other hand.

The babbling sister asked him for help, "Brother, run, catch it." ”

He was amused by his sister's cuteness, and said with a smile, "Sister, are you wood?" ”

He looked up at the tree, he had already found that there was a bird's nest in the tree, and now the bird had hatched, and he just caught it for his sister to play with, and then brought it to her to make porridge to eat, but it was fragrant.

He said to his sister, "Sister, you are playing here, and my brother is going up to the tree to catch a finch for you, okay?" ”

My sister clapped her little hands and said yes.

So he climbed up and dug up the bird's nest, which was about ten meters above the ground, but it was not difficult for a rural child who was used to climbing trees.

The golden curls of fallen leaves on the trees swirl and flutter in the wind, colliding with the dappled sunlight in the shade of the trees.

The younger sister raised her clumsy little hand to grasp the fallen leaves, which floated cunningly past her fingertips and flew straight into the well, gliding like a boat on the water. The younger sister curiously leaned on the edge of the well, which was more than a foot high, and looked into the well.

Zekuan had already gotten the bird's nest, looked down and saw his sister lying on the side of the well, and hurriedly called: "Sister, don't lie there, get up quickly, look, my brother has caught a finch for you, get up quickly." ”

The younger sister turned around and looked up, saw the bird in his hand, smiled and stretched out her hand to him, and was about to stand up, but the little hand that was propped up on the edge of the well slipped, and the chubby body fell into the well upside down.

Zekuan was so frightened that his soul flew away.

"Sister!"

threw the bird's nest and climbed down the tree trembling with his hands and feet.

He rushed to the well crying, only to see his sister struggling in the clear well water, the sun shining on her pitiful weeping face, there was no crying, only bubbles in her mouth.

The well water is more than a meter high from the edge of the well, the wall of the well is smooth, the well water is more than two meters deep, and he cannot swim.

He was so anxious that he cried and screamed and jumped, completely frightened, and did not know what to do but cry.

Then I thought of asking someone to help.

"Help! Save my sister! My sister fell into a well. ”

He ran and shouted in the village alleys, but during the busy farming season, the adults in the village went to work in the fields, the older children went to school, and those who did not go to school had to go to the fields to help.

"Grandpa、、、 woo、、、 grandpa、、、"

A child in front of the village told him that his grandfather was herding cattle on the hillside behind the village, and he ran like crazy to the back of the village, crying as he ran, and when he fell, he broke his hands, and when he got up, he ran and screamed again.

I had already seen my grandfather, but far away on the hillside, my old grandfather couldn't hear him behind his ears. By the time he arrived, he was so tired that he couldn't speak.

When Grandpa finally heard him, he ran back to the village like crazy.

The grandfather, who was on the verge of collapse, fished his sister up from the well, grabbed her little feet and put her on his back, then staggered around the well, fell down and got up and continued to run. While running, he shouted breathlessly: "Come back quickly、、、 go back to grandpa、、、 back to brother、、、 my obedient 、、、"

Zekuan also cried and ran after him, staring at his sister's bloodless face.

Slowly, some cloudy liquid flowed from my sister's mouth and nose.

But in the end, my sister still couldn't be saved.

The parents who rushed back after hearing the news hugged their sister's corpse and cried bitterly.

The father was crying and crying, and suddenly he jumped up and rushed to his side, kicking him with his foot until the neighbor pulled him away.

"I'm going to kill you brute, why didn't you die!"

His father yelled at him with a fierce voice, his blood-red eyes like he was about to breathe fire.

In the middle of the night, Zekuan dreamed that his sister stretched out her hand to him in the cold well water, and called out pitifully: "Brother, I'm cold." ”

He woke up suddenly, got out of bed and ran barefoot out of the door, ran until the well, a bright moon was reflected in the cold well water, the night wind blew, he woke up and knew that his sister was dead, so he lay on the edge of the well and sobbed and shouted: "Sister 、、、"

Suddenly he heard the sound of footsteps, he was startled, and when he turned around, he saw his mother's thin figure in the moonlight.

The mother came over, and the mother and son hugged each other and cried.