Chapter 31: Lin Zhichuan (I)

My name is Lin Zhichuan, my father died not long after I was born, and I lived with my mother and grandfather until I was three years old, but when I was three years old, my mother died early in order to give birth to my sister, leaving me and my grandfather and my sister who were waiting to be fed.

I like my sister very much, my sister is soft and small, and she always sleeps, but I think my sister is the cutest person in the world.

People in the village said that my sister was a wild child, I didn't know what a wild child meant, so I ran to ask my grandfather, and when my grandfather heard my question, he cried with his sister in his arms, and I saw my strong grandfather cry for the first time, and since then, I have never asked this question again.

In order to feed my sister and me, my grandfather got up early and went out to pick up garbage and collect rags.

Once, when I had to go with my grandfather to pick up garbage, my grandfather had to carry my sister on his back, pull me, and carry the hemp bag containing the garbage out together.

We picked up a lot of bottles and paper shells along the way, and we were all very happy, and I was jumping and running, but I accidentally bumped into someone.

The man dragged me unrelentingly, and my grandfather kept apologizing to her, but she said that I had soiled her new clothes, and forced my grandfather to pay money, and my grandfather begged her to give her all the sacks that had just been picked up, but she kicked them open without looking, and the paper shells of the bottles were scattered all over the ground.

Later, she saw that we really had no money, and said that she wanted her grandfather to kneel down and kowtow to her, she would not pursue it, and her grandfather could only kowtow to her desperately and apologize, I struggled, crying, and the man seemed to be very satisfied with our appearance, 'hum', let go of my hand, twisted and left.

After she left, my grandfather took my sister behind her with his hand, struggled to get up, bent down to pick up the sack, and picked up the garbage scattered all over the ground little by little, and I stood aside and cried.

Since that day, I have noticed that my grandfather is getting old, hunched over, and his hair is getting grayer.

When I was eight years old, my grandfather said that he was going to the mountains to throw some wild vegetables back for me and my sister to eat cabbage buns, my sister and I were very happy, but from day to night, we waited for a day, my grandfather never came back, my sister cried and said that she was hungry, so I had to boil some batter porridge for her to drink.

The next day, I heard from the people in the village that someone had fallen into a ravine and died.

They carried the body to the top of the village, saying that it was going to be burned, and I was so frightened that I ran to the head of the village like crazy.

I saw my grandfather, my grandfather was sleeping on the ground, I ran over and shouted to my grandfather to get up and go home to sleep, but I was pulled up by the adults around me, they were going to burn my grandfather, I cried and shouted to prevent them from lighting the fire, I told my grandfather to get up quickly, I told my grandfather that it would be too late if I didn't get up, but my grandfather didn't hear it.

They lit the fire, I wanted to rush over to extinguish the fire, but I was dragged to death, and I could only watch my grandfather being burned to black coal, I didn't understand, my grandfather was obviously asleep, why did they burn my grandfather.

Later, I packed my grandfather's ashes with clothes and carried him home.

My sister asked me what I was holding in my arms, and I said it was my grandfather, but she didn't believe it, and she asked me how my grandfather was like this, and I said I didn't know.

yes, how could grandpa be like this?

I buried my grandfather's ashes in the yard.

Since then, my sister and I have been the only ones left to live with.

The people in the village didn't like me and my sister very much, they said we were broom stars and nemesis.

My sister asked me what a broom star and a nemesis were, and I said, I don't know.

That day, the children in the village were bullying my sister again, and I was very angry, and I ran to fight with them, but they couldn't beat me, so they cried and called all the adults in the house, and the adults saw that their children were being beaten, and beat me indiscriminately.

Let's fight, I'm used to it anyway.

When they were done venting their anger and leaving, I found that my sister was gone, and I knew that she must be hiding in a broken house on the hill.

I found the tiled house when I went to the mountains with my sister to dig wild vegetables, and my sister would go there whenever she was not happy.

I ran to the tile house, and my sister was there, looking at my face full of scars, my sister cried and said to me, brother, let's leave, leave this place, go to a place where no one knows us, I said okay.

We went home, got what little money we had left, and left.

I had never been out of the village, and after leaving the village, I dragged my sister around, and soon all the money was spent.

My sister was lying in my arms crying out that she was hungry, but I was hungry too, but I didn't know what to do.

At this time, a big brother came, and the big brother said let us go with him, and bought us a lot of delicious food.

You see, there are still a lot of good people in this world.

Big brother brought us into town, and it was the first time I saw such a bustling place, so beautiful.

The eldest brother took me and my sister to a big square, and he made us kneel there, and he said that someone would give us money, and sure enough, someone would give us money.

The money was taken away by the eldest brother, and he said that all the money was saved for us to buy food.

Later, I overheard my eldest brother talking to a friend, and he said that he was going to sell his sister.

I was so scared that I ran away with my sister overnight.

Along the way, when he was hungry, he knelt on the ground and begged for food.

Until one day, two men in uniform took us away, and they asked us where our family was, and I said that we had no family, and my sister kept crying, and I kept coaxing my sister, and they took us to buy some food and beautiful clothes.

They took us to a big house, where there were a lot of children, and my sister seemed to be scared, and I put my arm around and looked around vigilantly.

The two men came out, followed by a beautiful sister, and they put us in the hands of the beautiful sister, and told us that this would be our home from now on.

Family? We have a home?

I didn't believe it, but my sister seemed happy and nodded timidly.

Well, since my sister likes it, let's stay.

The beautiful sister asked us what our names were, and I said, my name is Lin Zhichuan, and my sister is called my sister.

She smiled and said, how can my sister not have a name, then my sister will be called Lin Yanxin from now on.

She smiled so beautifully, I looked at her blankly and nodded.

The beautiful sister asked us to call her the dean mother, and the younger sister asked me what 'mom' meant, and I said 'mom' meant that she could take care of us, and my sister was very happy to hear it, and called mom several times at the pretty sister.

Then we started learning to read and write......

I see, the place where we live now is called the orphanage, and the two uniformed people who sent us here are called policemen.

They are good people, and so is the dean's mother.

People often come to see us with toys, good food, and clothes.

Every time they came, we were so happy.

Until one day, the dean's mother called me aside alone, she told me that someone wanted to adopt my sister and asked me if I would like to, I was angry and refused, and the dean's mother persuaded me that if my sister was adopted, she would be able to live a good life, I hesitated.

The aunt who often came to see us came again, she came to take my sister away, I hid aside and watched secretly, my sister didn't want to go with her, crying and shouting brother, I rushed out, hugged my sister, cried and begged the dean's mother, don't drive my sister away, I said I would study hard, I would earn money to support my sister, I said a lot......

In the end, the aunt left on her own.

The dean's mother looked at us and sighed.

I think the dean's mother may have hated us.

Since then, I have been studying hard and hard.