The sky was clear and cloudless, and a little girl of eleven or twelve years old was washing her clothes neatly by the brook, and while she was beating her own clothes, she took a child's clothes from the wooden basin and put them on her own clothes and beat them.

This dress used to be hers too, but now it's my sister's clothes.

All the things she had when she was a child were given to her sister by her father and aunt, and even her happiness as a child was given to her sister.

"Wanwan, now you are the eldest sister in the family, if you want to let your sister, you know?" Daddy touched Chen Wan's head and hugged a crying baby, "This is your sister, Chen Xi." ”

Seven or eight-year-old Chen Wan stroked Chen Xi's face, and he was no longer a child.

Chen Xi grew up quickly, he was three years old at this time, and he was extremely naughty and often bullied the children who played together. Chen's mother was busy taking care of Chen Xi and had no time to take care of housework, so she could only give Chen Wan simple housework to do.

She carried a wooden basin and looked at the carefree and laughing girls on the street, and couldn't help but stop and watch with envy.

The girls noticed Chen Wan's gaze and stopped playing, hiding far away and whispering.

"Isn't she the eldest daughter of the Chen family?"

"That's her! Her father seems to have strangled a lot of baby girls in order to give birth to a son, and I don't know why he stayed this time. ”

"Look at the poor and sour appearance of his family, he has no money to support his son after giving birth, maybe he will sell her to Squire Wang as a little wife in a few years, and exchange a large sum of money for his son to keep to marry his daughter-in-law."

"You have some virtue, Squire Wang is over sixty years old and blind, Chen Wan is only eleven!"

Chen Wan's eyes were red when she listened to the gossip, she secretly wiped her tears and pretended that nothing happened and returned home, and as soon as she entered the door, she saw Chen's father kneeling on the ground to worship his son Guanyin.

"Guanyin Bodhisattva, you manifest your spirit, let our Chen family stay behind." He reverently folded his hands together and knocked three more times.

"Alas, I don't know if the fortune teller Guanyin Niangniang cares. The fortune teller let me keep this daughter, pampered, and I will have a son when I have enough blessings, but it's been three years, and there is still no movement!

Look at it, you take care of it, let my mother-in-law conceive a son! ”

As soon as Chen's father's words fell, Chen Xi climbed onto the table and deliberately pushed Guanyin down.

The statue of Guanyin was shattered on the ground, and the three-year-old Chen Xi laughed as he looked at the broken porcelain.

Father Chen was about to go crazy, when he suddenly remembered the words of the fortune teller, and touched Chen Xi's head with a smile: "Good fall!" It's really exciting! ”

Chen Wan couldn't hear it outside the door, but her tears still flowed.

She wiped her face, dried her laundry on a rope, and turned over the pickles that had been drying on the wooden rack.

Chen's father had no job to go to, so the family relied on selling pickles to make a living. Chen Wan looked at the radish strips in the basket and felt tired.

Three-year-old Chen Xi ran out of the house and saw Chen Wan, and said in a milky voice: "Sister, I want to eat one." ”

Chen Wan looked at Chen Xi, who was like a milk dumpling, and took the basket down: "You pick one." ”

Chen Xi grinned, raised his hand to knock over the basket, and shouted, "Dad! My sister got the pickles on the ground! ”

Father Chen really came out angrily, and without saying a word, he beat Chen Wan with a broom. Seeing the situation, Chen's mother came over to pull the rack, and the broom whipped fiercely at the two women without long eyes.

Only Chen Xi stood quietly in the house where the chickens flew and the dogs jumped, and she watched for a while and then went to play with the mud by herself.

Time passed, and the Chen family lost two people.

Out of the dilapidated hut came a girl with apricot eyes and thick lips with a red mole on her cheek. She walked over to the wooden shelf and clumsily flipped through the pickles.

An unkempt, thin man followed her, and when he watched the woman's movements, he picked up a broom and threw it at her thin body.

"What will you do?! It costs me so much money to raise you, but my son doesn't have one, and you won't be able to do the work! Your sister was so much stronger than you when she was your age! ”

As he spoke, he squatted down and cried: "Wanwan, where have you been?" Daddy needs you......"

Chen Xi looked at Chen's father's remorseful appearance coldly, touched the smashed back, rolled his eyes and entered the house.

Outside the door, a fat man in a splendid suit got out of the carriage and was followed by four or five guards.

As soon as Father Chen looked at the person, wiped his nose and tears, and quickly greeted him, putting on a smiling face: "Zhang Shanren is here." ”

Zhang Kaiyuan took out the smallest ingot of silver from his purse and gave it to Chen's father, who repeatedly invited him to come into the house and sit down.

At this time, Chen Xi pushed open the broken wooden door and came out, and Bai Yu's skin was particularly dazzling in the dirty courtyard.

Zhang Kaiyuan looked at Chen Xi intently: "The longer the love is, the more it looks like ......"

Chen's father turned his ears back: "What did Zhang Shanren say?" ”

Zhang Kaiyuan came back to his senses: "Oh! It makes love grow more and more beautiful, don't you say? ”

Father Chen's ear vest was not on his back, and he nodded immediately: "Yes, it's a pity that it's the best-looking one in the neighborhood, more beautiful than her sister." ”

He approached Zhang Kaiyuan and lowered his voice and said, "If Zhang Shanren is optimistic, this number will be fine." ”

Zhang Kaiyuan looked down at the gesture hidden in Chen's father's elbow and laughed: "Hahahaha!" Brother Chen still understands me, come and give him fifty taels of silver. ”

"Tomorrow happens to be a pity for her fifteenth birthday, why don't you pick her up tomorrow?"

"Brother Chen, my identity ...... You say yes, right? You ask her to go to the path next to the incense courtyard tomorrow, and there is a person who sells rock sugar gourds when she goes out, she knows, and I will send someone there to pick her up. ”

……

"It's a pity, in a few days it will be the seventh year of your sister's disappearance, today you go to the rock sugar gourd stall to pay respects."

"My sister is not dead, what is the memorial?"

A crisp slap was slapped in the face: "Why didn't you die?" Wanwan died because of you! I'm such a sensible girl, just because of you! I have nothing left, and I still have to raise you money-losing goods! ”

Chen Xi covered his face, and tears fell like rolling beads: "It's you who are greedy, it's you who always want your son!" It doesn't work to kill many baby girls, you don't have this life!

If you had raised me well, I wouldn't have fallen to this point. Since I was a child, only my sister has treated me well, and you and A-Niang are holding me for their sons.

Now that the son doesn't have it, A-Niang is dead, and her daughter is also compensated, you are the one who loses money! I've been pouring mold for eight lifetimes to have you as a father! ”

Chen Xi rushed out of the door, and no one in the world loved her anymore. She misses her aunt and misses her sister, even if there is a clue, let her look at her sister again.

Thinking like this, she walked to a path next to the incense courtyard.

A brand new purse lay quietly on the ground, bulging inside. Chen Xi had never seen such a beautiful purse, and when he saw that there was no one around, he squatted down to pick it up.

A stuffy stick smashed precisely on the back of her head, and Zhang Kaiyuan came out of the shadows and ordered a few strong men: "Take it away, send it over." Hahahaha, your sister made me a murderer, don't think about it, your sister owes you, you have to pay it back. ”

In the courtyard of the Chen family, a young man knocked on the broken wooden door.

Father Chen, who looked sad, opened the door and said weakly: "Who is it?" ”

The young man pulled out a copper plate from his hair and put it up and down with his hand: "Is the old man in trouble?" I can help you and make all your wishes come true. ”

"Heh, wish-fulfillment? Go monkey show on the street, you. ”

The young man was not annoyed, but stood up and said, "I can indeed realize all your ideas, and you will have whatever I want here, and you will know with me." Uncle, don't you want to see your eldest daughter? If you come with me, not only will you be a big girl, but your wife will also come back, and you can have a big fat boy with her. ”

Father Chen looked at the young man and was silent for a long time: "I know, I'm going to die, you take me away." ”

The young man stuffed the copper coin back into his hair and led the way: "Uncle, you will not die, you will only feel happy." ”

"Really?"

"yes, you'll find out if you try."

Father Chen nodded, trembling and walking into a thick white mist.