For as long as I can remember, I know that I have a daughter-in-law named Xun Qianling.

The first time we met was at my grandfather's funeral.

At that time, we were both only 10 years old, she was wearing a flower dress, she came from the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, she was very smart, and she was a picturesque little beauty.

She grinned in the crowd, not caring about the occasion.

I wore linen and filial piety in front of the coffin, cried very sadly, and when I saw her appearance, I got angry, and I scuffled with her in anger.

It turned out that I didn't fight.

The girl develops earlier than the boy, and I really couldn't beat her at that age, scratched by her kitten paws with several bloody marks, and her face was painted and pulled away by the adults.

Of course, it's normal to be ignorant when I was a child, and I won't blame her for that unpleasantness, after all, the living environment is different, after all, she is my distant cousin who was born in the same year and month.

All in all, I had a good impression of her.

I thought she would marry me when she grew up.

Unexpectedly, at her 18th birthday coming-of-age ceremony, she was engaged to my brother.

At this point, I have to talk about family relationships before I can move on to the main topic.

Back then, my grandfather and Boss Xun made a contract:

"It is God's will that the score is divided into two halves, and the Xun family has married the owner for generations, and this act is to pay tribute to the suffering couple who regretted their lives thousands of years ago."

So when my father was still in his mother's womb, he married Boss Xun's youngest daughter.

However, my father is a soft bone, and he has not inherited my grandfather's hardness at all, on the contrary, my mother has inherited the domineering spirit of Boss Xun, plus her sweet and charming appearance, and her family status can be imagined.

My father was literally defeated under the pomegranate skirt.

Ignoring my grandfather's opposition, he insisted on leaving the mountains, and willingly went to the south to be a son-in-law, enjoying the glory and wealth given by the Xun family.

In the first year, she gave birth to a daughter, who was my eldest sister, named "Xun Donglan".

A few years later, another boy was born, my elder brother, named "Xun Donghao".

Although the name has the word Dong, in fact, it is the surname Xun, which is the price of the son-in-law.

My father is a single lineage, but he doesn't think about this kind of self-cutting incense, and hides under the umbrella of the Xun family to live an upper-class life, which is beautiful.

So after I was born, I was forcibly carried back to my hometown by my grandfather before I was weaned, and since then there have been few contacts between the north and the south, and only during the New Year's holidays will we see each other, and my brothers and sisters are not as good as neighbors.

In this generation, only my surname is Dong.

So my grandfather handed over the marriage to me, asked me to set up a baby kiss with Xun Qianling, and taught me from a young age to be a man who stands up to the sky.

……

My name is Dongyang and I was born in the 90s.

My grandfather and grandfather died on the same day when I was 10 years old, and after my grandfather's funeral, I followed my parents to the south to attend my grandfather's funeral.

That was the first time I saw my grandfather's appearance, which was not the same as the characters in the story my grandfather told me, perhaps because the years erased the roughness of youth, and Boss Xun looked very kind.

He and my grandfather have one thing in common, they are both dead and blind!

I can't close my eyes!

That kind of unwilling look is like seeing something but not touching it, or touching something but not being able to grasp it, or having an epiphany but it's too late.

I don't know what else they went through when they were younger, but I do know it must have something to do with the bone flute, and I remember the last thing my grandfather said to me the night before he left was:

"Yang, no one plays the flute under the moon......"

At that time, I was too young to understand the literal meaning, let alone the deeper meaning.

So I didn't take it to heart.

After my grandfather's funeral, I stayed at my parents' house, lived in a large air-conditioned room for the first time, slept in a Simmons bed for the first time, and ate delicacies from the mountains and seas for the first time.

But I wasn't happy.

I am like a wild seed from the mountains, living humbly in the circle of the Xun family, without a common language with my peers, alienated, isolated, teased and ridiculed, and naturally inferior.

My elder brother Xun Donghao also regarded me as an outlier and made things difficult everywhere.

My future daughter-in-law, Xun Qianling, ignored me and turned a blind eye, but played well with my brother.

I often see them playing around and giggling in front of me, even lying on the couch.

At that time, I foolishly thought that the marriage made by my ancestors could not be changed, and she would be my wife after all.

I thought that they would slowly accept my existence and let me integrate into this big family and grow up happily.

However, I was wrong.

Miss by a mile.

That humble and humiliating time wasn't the worst, what really stung me happened when I was 12 years old.

That year, the elder brother had a conflict with his classmates, and he actually hit the child's head with a steel pipe, hitting the temple right now, and the child fell to the ground without moving, and died on the spot.

My brother inherited my grandfather's physique, but he didn't inherit my grandfather's wisdom, and he was a simple-minded bastard with developed limbs.

When he saw that the situation was not right, he turned around and ran away.

I happened to be there at the time, and I wasn't sure how serious it was, so I went up and shook the child, and as soon as I was out of breath, I quickly ran home and informed my parents.

In fact, according to the strength of the Xun family, it is easy to settle the dead.

The point is that the child is the only child of a certain director!

My brother was 3 years older than me, he was 15 years old at the time, and according to the law, after the age of 14, he would bear criminal responsibility.

Speaking of which, many people may have already guessed the ending.

I am 12 years old, and I don't need to bear criminal responsibility, of course, I'm an "alien" to top the bag, and the Xun family still has the means to fake the scene!

The adults said to me that day:

"Yang, have you memorized everything I taught you? Don't be afraid, it's going to be fine, we're all family, and you don't want to see your brother spend the rest of his life in prison, right? ”

Don't be afraid......

Can I not be afraid?

I was only 12 years old, faced with a group of armed men, faced with a night of interrogation, and under pressure that I could not bear at that age, and the only thing I could do was repeat what the adults taught me:

"I didn't mean to hurt him...... Not intentionally ......"

In the end, I was put in a juvenile detention center and sentenced to the heaviest sentence, far beyond the punishment that a 12-year-old should have!

Before I went in, the adults said to me:

"Yang, it's okay, you can go to school in it, and you can meet a lot of new friends."

If I had to describe my mood at that time in two words, it would be hehe......

A wry smile of helplessness, helplessness, and hopelessness.

If my grandfather was still alive, he would never let me suffer such a grievance, and with his violent temper, he dared to go to the police station with a troll to ask for someone.

If my grandfather was still alive, he would definitely not let me carry the black cauldron.

It's a pity that the predecessors have all left, and morality has not continued.

I was under the eaves and had to bow my head, I was born from the same root, but I was treated very differently because of the different circumstances in which I grew up.

In the juvenile detention center, one stay is six years.

exchanged my six years of youth for the peace of my brother's life.

used the stain of my life in exchange for Xun Qianling's righteous repentance and walking with my brother openly.

……

……

The sky is so clear at the age of 18.

When I walked out of the gate of the juvenile detention center, I felt a little reluctant in my heart, but I had to leave to take back what should have belonged to me.

It's like grandpa's domineering when he took away the score from five people.

I was greeted at the door by a long-legged, sunglasses-wearing elegant older sister who leaned in front of the rearview mirror of a sports car and waved to me, say-hello!

I didn't know her very well.

But I know that she is my eldest sister, Xun Donglan.

The eldest sister has been studying abroad since she was a child, and rarely returns to China, I only saw her once at my grandfather's funeral, and my memory has long been blurred.

The eldest sister pulled the car door open and smiled at me:

"Get in the car, sister will take you home!"

is worthy of being a returnee studying abroad, and he doesn't recognize life at all.

She and I were strangers at all, and it was only fitting that my family would send her to pick me up, so as not to bring back memories and topics from six years ago.

"You're the eldest sister?"

Before getting in the car, I casually asked like this, which belonged to the lack of words to find words, so as not to be embarrassed.

Unexpectedly, the eldest sister was very humorous, took off her sunglasses and blinked, and said, "What's the matter, do you want to drop blood to recognize your relatives?" ”

So the atmosphere was instantly relieved.

I sat in the co-pilot, looking at my big sister who was 8 years older than me, and I felt inexplicably cordial and warm.

Maybe in this family, only a stranger like the eldest sister will make me feel at home, what a sick psychology this is.

On the way, the eldest sister said, "Go to my house, there is a party tonight, everyone is here, celebrate!" ”

Everyone she said must include her brother and Xun Qianling.

The eldest sister knew about our contradictions, so she hurriedly added: "Don't worry, with the eldest sister in charge, no one will dare to bully you in the future!" ”

To be honest, I kind of want to cry.

Tears poured into my eyes all at once, and I forcibly suppressed them, if this sentence had come six years earlier, I would have felt that I was the happiest child in the world.

I turned my head to look out the window and replied, "Don't celebrate me, can I stay at your house?" ”

The eldest sister is happy:

"I was supposed to pick you up and go to my house, I want to live as long as I want, anyway, my sister is also alone, and I'm usually bored after work. However, tonight is not just for you to celebrate, but also to see everyone off, they are going to do a big thing! ”

"Big deal?" I asked casually, not curious.

Unbeknownst to me, the eldest sister's next words shook my heart.

The eldest sister said to me very mysteriously:

"Dongyang, I told you, don't be afraid! You were young when you went in, so you probably haven't heard of the family secrets, right? They're going to steal the bone flute tonight, a flute made of human bones......"