That day, Yu Cai didn't know how she spent it, and the next day, her mother treated her slightly better than yesterday, although she was still expressionless, but she still helped her get dressed and washed her face.

But the next day was much more uncomfortable than the day before, because her brother no longer slept in front of her, and would no longer appear in front of her like a hero who could take her out to play, because he was put in a wooden box, which they said was called a coffin, and they buried the coffin with his brother in the ground.

Yu Cai wanted to go up to stop them, but she didn't dare, her mother told her, "Today, you will obediently stay in the corner for me and not be allowed to come out!" Don't speak! Otherwise, be careful that I discount your legs! ”

Yu Cai could only nod his head to show that he understood, and reassured his mother in the self-protection that he could barely hide.

All the rituals were saying goodbye, but there was no place for them all, and she watched painfully as she watched as it began, and watched it all end, until the twilight was gone.

My brother has been buried in the ground for a week, my mother is still cold, and my father has not changed much, if I have to say anything, it is that my father has forgotten her existence more than before, and there is no occasional cry.

In the past week, Yu Cai became more and more afraid to go out by herself, and the children in the neighborhood bullied her and scolded her:

"Yu Cai is a broom star, and it won't pay for his brother's death!"

"Yu Cai is an unlucky ghost, and he lost his brother's shame!"

......

Whenever this happens, Yu Cai will innocently run home and cry to his mother, but his mother's answer is always silent, and in the silence, Yu Cai is more and more tormented by the thought that 'my brother was killed by me'.

Gradually, Yu Cai rarely went out, basically hiding in a corner of the yard, not to let others bully, and not let her mother see it, she was four years old that year.

As the days passed, the haze of Yu Cai's brother's death began to gradually dissipate, Yu Cai's younger brother was two years old, and Yu Cai was six years old.

Yu Cai's mother would inadvertently show a smile to Yu Cai, but Yu Cai knew that it must be smiling at her brother, she could only envy her brother on the side, thinking that her brother's skills were so great that she could make her mother laugh, and so big that she knew that her mother, who treated her so indifferently, had another gentle face.

Yu Cai thought that the nightmare of her brother's departure could be stopped, but fate did not have the slightest intention to let her go.

That year, Yu Cai was seven years old, her younger brother was three years old, and her younger brother, who could already walk, began to be her follower, just like when she followed her brother.

Yu Cai also likes her brother's slimy, at least so that she can feel that she is not alone.

"Sister, hug."

"Sister, drink water."

"I want my sister, I want my sister..."

"Hello sister, hello sister..."

"Sister come, sister come..."...

However, suddenly one day, this familiar 'sister' never appeared in Yu Cai's life again.

Yu Cai's dream stayed in the frame that was most impressive in her memory, there were people everywhere, she didn't know why those people poured into her house, no, it was her parents' home, this was what her mother warned her again and again.

That day, Yu Cai squatted in the corner of the courtyard as usual, the sun did not bring warmth, but raised dust to announce his arrival.

A few days ago, Yu Cai found that his younger brother had a lot of red acne on his body, he was itching uncomfortably, he picked the places he could pick with his hands, and where he couldn't pick them, he would ask Yu Cai to help him pick them, "Sister, itchy." ”

Yu Cai didn't know what it was, she didn't think to tell her parents about the red acne on her brother's body, but after hearing her brother's words, she felt distressed and tickled for her brother.

On the third day, Yu Cai never saw his younger brother get up again, he was like a very sleepy person, lying on the kang all the time, hot and hot.

Yu Cai wanted to use water to relieve her brother's fever, but from the moment her brother was lying on the kang, her mother sat on the edge of the kang and stared at her with a fierce face, "Get out, you broom star!" ”

Yu Cai, whose eyes were closed, felt the pain of her mother taking off a shoe from her foot and smashing it on her in a dream, she wanted to cry and seek comfort from her mother, but she knew that she couldn't, just like her brother fell asleep, for her brother's current state, her mother must think that she caused her brother to fall asleep.

Since then, Yu Cai has been hiding in the corner of the yard every day except for the time when he sleeps at night.

Listening to her parents' voices in the corner, watching the sun and sunset, in the corner, time will forget her, and she waits and prays for her brother to wake up.

The bad news came on the seventh day, when the smoke filled Yu Cai's home, and after the smoke cleared, the originally deserted courtyard suddenly became noisy, and those relatives and friends who didn't seem to have been here for a long time came.

Those so-called relatives and friends will always peep at the door for a while before entering the house, like weasels who want to greet the chickens.

Until Yu Cai's mother said, "It's already smoked." "The sneakiness of those relatives and friends will become just right, and when the time is right, they will walk into the house, and there will be the younger brother who Yu Cai has been thinking about in the house.

In the noisy chatting of this group of people in and out, Yu used his only knowledge to piece together what he could know: his younger brother left forever like his elder brother.

Yu Cai, who was squatting in the corner, couldn't feel any of the warmth of life, and the dead silence permeated the hustle and bustle, and she couldn't find a dark place where she could hide.

After the crowd left, Yu Cai was trembling by her mother's eyes, she didn't dare to look up, she didn't dare to face the demonic mother again.

Life will never stop the breeding of evil events because you dare or don't want to, it is a competent soil.

Yu Cai's brother was buried on the eighth day, the day after the group of friends and relatives came.

Yu Cai followed behind the coffin, and the vague memory of her four-year-old age found a gap, and the scene of sending her brother and the scene of sending her brother overlapped in some kind of mental space, except that the memory of a six-year-old was better than that of a four-year-old.

After Yu Cai's younger brother was buried, Yu Cai's relationship with his parents became even more stiff, especially in the gossip.

Yu Cai's mother at the dinner table didn't look at Yu Cai, and slapped the chopsticks she had just picked up on the table, "Get out!" ”

The sound of chopsticks and the tabletop 'snapping' was the fear in Yu Cai's heart, she couldn't control the shaking of her body, and she didn't even dare to make a sound.

Yu Cai felt something hard hitting his body, and the tears in Yu Cai's eyes occupied the sight of being able to see the time little by little, Yu Cai's mother roared angrily, "Get out!" ”

The stiffness of his body made it take Yu Cai a lot of strength to lift his feet and walk outside the house. She stood in the doorway, not daring to leave a single step, her ears betraying the numbness of her body, and she listened sensitively to the movements in the house, and for a moment she wished that the parents in the house would call her name with compassion, and let her know that everything was just a joke on her.

The sky outside the house is more lively than inside, at least there are white clouds playing in the sky, they seem to be telling each other each other's little secrets, Yu Cai wonders if his parents don't have any little secrets? Silence is perhaps their biggest secret.

Yu Cai is more afraid to go out than before, because those gossips are even worse than before, and they are like the truth, and even Yu Cai's parents are more and more convinced that Yu Cai is the reincarnation of the broom star.

Yu Cai didn't know that it was the first few nights after her brother left, she was trembling after eating dinner in the corner to help her mother clean up the dishes and chopsticks, today's mother is a little different from the past, her mother's eyes seem to be dodging something, and her father's silence seems to have given birth to strange flowers, but what it is, for seven-year-old Yu Cai, she can't see it.

After a short period of darkness, Yu Cai felt a chill that pierced her spine, and she curled up, trying to retain a trace of warmth, but the more she curled up, the more the cold drilled into her body.

Yu Cai opened her eyes, wanting to see why she was so cold, everything in front of her made Yu Cai sit up with a spirit, she hugged her knees, tears burst out of her eyes to warm her, but they could only leave cold residues on her cheeks.

"Mom..."

Yu Cai didn't know why she wasn't at home, let alone where she was, the night darker than a dream swallowed all her strength, and the sound of rustling beat all her courage.

"Mom..."

Something seemed to be approaching Yu Cai in the distance, she didn't dare to sit in place and cry anymore, she got up tremblingly, her young body was supported by two short legs and went to a darker place, the road under her feet was bumpy, she tripped over a stone, the ground was enthusiastic, but its warmth was the hot pain wail from Yu Cai's body.

"Mom..."

Yu Cai wanted to stop, she wanted to find her mother, she wanted to find the person who brought her into this world, this was her only hope, and in this hope she was swallowed by darkness.

When she felt it again, she saw the two side faces of her parents who hated her, and they seemed to be plotting something, like a gang of wicked people who wanted to do something bad beforehand.

"I told her to die outside, if you don't listen, you have to go and get it! What do you want her to do? Will we continue to kill you? Yu Cai's mother looked at Yu Cai's father with a complaining face.

"That's it! Don't you think you're ashamed enough? Yu Cai's father pulled his eyebrows with his hand, "She has crawled to the door of the village party secretary, can I say half a word?" ”

"We'll throw it again tonight, throw it farther away, so she can't climb back." Yu Cai's mother gave advice driven by hatred in her heart.

Yu Cai's father glared at his daughter-in-law, "Enough!" This is the end of the matter, and there is no further mention of it. With that, Yu Cai's father turned around to look at Yu Cai lying on the kang.

Yu Cai quickly closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep after noticing, no one knew that her heart was about to jump out of her mouth, but she could only pretend to be asleep, in her small cognition, only in this way, her parents would not throw her into the darkness that could engulf the world again, she didn't want to experience the fear of being there again.

In his sleep, Yu Cai drilled into the quilt, and then touched his newborn child with both hands, but fortunately the child was still there.

Before his consciousness disappeared again, Yu Cai muttered, "Let's just get through it, even if it's a difficult life." ”