Chapter 5: Escape (7)
Although the truth is intricate, at least literally, Serenin's words are not false.
Mom left too fast, and the family didn't have the money to buy a cemetery. Seren's deceased husband left her a small fortune and a grocery store, and she was anxious to establish a kind and beautiful image in front of her father, so she generously bought a cemetery plot for her mother in the cemetery in Port City. Because my brother was buried with my mother later, she said that she was right to buy both of their graves.
Although she has ulterior motives, Sha Ting's ability to go to school, study medicine, and go to Jinwu Courtyard does have her credit.
After her mother's death, Gülen came to her house with five silver rings from her mother-in-law. She said that if her father allowed her, she could be apprenticed to her mother-in-law, who would take care of her diet. But if Sha Ting wants to continue her education, her mother-in-law cannot afford the tuition.
The father snatched the silver ring and kicked Gülen out of the door, and Gülen left under his vicious curse. When she got home, her father stared at Sha Ting and asked her viciously, "You don't want to go back to that damn school, do you?" ”
Sha Ting was too frightened to speak.
Before she was seven years old, her father had only beaten her once, but she often saw her brother being beaten. Having lost her mother's protection, she is sure that her fate will not be much better than that of her brother. She didn't dare to say what was in her heart.
It may have been his daughter's frightened appearance that made Wota feel guilty, after all, he had pampered the poor little thing in front of him, so his expression softened.
"Sha Ting, the road of studying is not for poor people like us, and I can't afford your tuition. Child, forcing yourself to do things that you can't do will not end well, your mother is an example, I hope you don't want to be like her. ”
Sha Ting wants to argue with him, his evaluation of his mother is too unfair! But she just bit her lip tightly, letting the tears roll down silently.
She and her brother watched as her mother burned to ashes in the furnace, and they put her in the urn and buried her in the mound in front of the tombstone. Mommy will never come back! But now, her father's hand was clenched into a fist and placed on the table in front of her, with thick joints and exposed tendons.
Sha Ting felt that if he got angry, he could punch her to death!
Arguing doesn't help, it only makes things worse.
"You can finish this semester. It's only twenty days anyway. ”
As his father spoke, Sha Ting stole a glance at the bruise in his left eye. It was Wota who was beaten by the martial arts teacher the day before when she was noisy and noisy at school asking for a refund of tuition.
"You're only seven years old, not old enough to go out to work. I don't want you to send someone to the fence as an apprentice at such a young age, then my little daughter will be too pitiful. Just stay at home as soon as the summer vacation starts. Wota reached out and touched Satine's head.
Before Sha Ting could taste anything from this seemingly pitiful gesture, Wota's words tore her heart apart.
"Serenin is pregnant and needs to be taken care of."
The father took the five silver rings that Gülen had sent and prepared to go out. That was the funeral expenses that Granny Dai gave to her mother. He might have a couple of good drinks with two silver rings. Use two silver rings to buy some beautiful things like dresses and shoes for Serenin to please her, and one silver ring for two months' rations for Satine and her brother.
Before going out, the father turned back to Sha Ting and said, "You are going to call Mother Serenin." She's a kind woman, and you're sure to get along well. ”
Sha Ting didn't understand what her father was thinking. He thought the seven-year-old girl was too young to work and should not be an apprentice. But he left a seven-year-old girl alone to take care of her dying mother! Let a seven-year-old girl and a thirteen-year-old boy take care of all the aftermath of Mommy! Let a seven-year-old girl who has just buried her own mother call another strange woman her mother, and take care of her and the new baby in her womb!
A seven-year-old girl is old enough to appreciate all the humiliation and sorrow in it!
A sense of powerlessness over the present and fear of the future gripped Sha Ting, who sat in despair in her empty home, wondering if she would be happier if she died with her mother.