The editor in charge of Nathan Books' contact with new writers is still Pan Yi.

After receiving the manuscript, Pan Yi sent it to the deputy editor-in-chief as soon as possible.

The deputy editor-in-chief said that in the future, he will personally participate in the review of Mr. Wuyehou's works.

"Doesn't the night Hou send two short stories this time?"

The associate editor-in-chief was a bit surprised that under normal circumstances, writers would only contribute one story per issue.

I thought about it.

The deputy editor-in-chief said: "I'll read "God's Spell" first, and you can look at the quality of the other one." ”

"Okay."

Pan Yi nodded hurriedly.

Back at the desk, Pan Yi rubbed his hands in anticipation.

It's really not night, last month's "Human Chair" was so exciting, so wonderful that Pan Yi has been looking forward to the other party's new work.

The short story that Pan Yi is going to read is called "Ornaments and Yoko".

is the same as "The Chair in the World", listening to the name is the Chu Zhou background used.

The story begins.

Pan Yi saw such a sentence:

[Suddenly, something fell from the upper floor, and I heard an exclamation from my aunt. Dressed in dirty clothes, he lay on the ground with a face identical to mine.

There is nothing to doubt about Yoko's suicide. 】

Well?

Pan Yi was a little surprised.

This sentence does not have a clear cause and effect, but people can't help but diverge their thinking and associate with the follow-up content.

Very special writing technique.

I will tell the reader that a man named "Yoko" committed suicide.

Keep watching.

This turned out to be a subject about domestic violence?

The story is told in the first person "I".

My name is Yoko.

I have a twin sister named Ornament.

We both shot at the same time and looked exactly the same.

My father left the house when my mom was pregnant and never returned.

We are abandoned.

My mother treated me badly, beating and abusing me at every turn, but she was very good to my sister, and she was treated like a little princess in food and clothing.

"Yoko, you're a sister, you have to let everything go a little more."

"You were born by me, and it is my freedom to live or die!"

These are the consistent words of moms.

It's normal for mom to like trinkets.

The ornaments are beautiful and lively, and when you laugh, they look like flowers suddenly blooming.

She was also very popular with her classmates and teachers at school, and sometimes she would leave leftovers for me to eat, so I liked her too.

Once.

I accompanied Xiao Ornament to dinner with two classmates, and they bought three burgers.

Xiao Dian took a few bites, spit it out again, and shared it with me, and she told her classmates that I was willing.

I was really willing to eat it happily.

Just like at home, the ornament will share the leftover food with me,

If I can get a delicious burger, I can trade my kidneys for it.

Then I met an old woman.

My mother-in-law's dog was lost, and I helped her find it.

My mother-in-law thanked me and invited me to her house and treated me to a lot of delicious food, such as my favorite burger.

"If you can't change others, try to change yourself."

My mother-in-law once said to me.

……

Pan Yi frowned tightly.

The story is told in the first person of her sister Yoko.

Obviously, the tone of the person concerned was ordinary, but Pan Yi felt heavy and dark, and there was a feeling of depression with a chill in his back, one was from his mother's abuse of Yoko, and the other was from Yoko's habit.

Yoko didn't seem to think about resisting at all.

She is like a domesticated dog, and she thinks that all this is normal, and she is also a mother and daughter, but she doesn't deserve to have those beautiful things!

This moment.

Pan Yi thought of the sentence at the beginning of the story, Yoko committed suicide by jumping off the building.

"That's not right."

Pan Yi suddenly found a problem: "The opening paragraph does mention Yoko's suicide, but the perspective is in the first person!" ”

Pan Yi also went back to the beginning to confirm.

The sentence was "a face exactly like me lying on the ground".

It won't be ......

Pan Yi thought of a possibility, his heart beat faster, and his eyes widened to continue looking.

There are still a lot of descriptions of mothers abusing Yoko.

The mother seems to have an inexplicable hatred for Yoko, even if it's just that she's in a bad mood, she will vent it on this sister, and then leave the smile to her sister.

Is this foreshadowing?

Why does mom hate Yoko so much?

It has something to do with the mother and son being abandoned by their father?

Pan Yi was curious, and the plot entered a turning point at this time.

My mother-in-law had borrowed three books from Yoko, but those books were confiscated by my mother.

Mom thinks the books were stolen by Yoko.

But the mother-in-law also gave Yoko the key to the house, and she sandwiched it in those books!

Helpless.

Yoko sneaked into her mother's room to get the books back, but her sister also sneaked in.

Originally.

My sister wants to get a CD from her mother.

Mother was reluctant to give it before, so Xiao Ornament thought about taking it secretly.

Yoko was afraid that her sister would find out, so she quickly hid under the bed and peeked through the dressing mirror.

The younger sister seems to be nervous, and accidentally breaks the vase, and the water inside is all spilled on her mother's laptop.

The ornament immediately put the vase back in place, but it was too late.

In the dressing mirror, a white face was reflected in the ornament, as if she was afraid of being beaten by her mother after she found out.

[Looking down at the wet computer, Xiao Zuo hurriedly looked around the room, and soon a smile appeared on her face, she took a few steps and stopped in front of the three books that had been placed.

That's the book my mother-in-law lent me to read.

Ornament's hand grabbed the books.

Trinkets then put the CD on the table back on the shelf, as if he didn't want to take it anymore.

She walked out of the room with only the book that her mother-in-law had lent me.

I quickly understood why Xiao Dian was leaving with the book that my mother-in-law had lent me.

When my mother came back, she saw the broken vase and the water-soaked laptop, and she would have wondered who had done it, and if the books she had taken from me were missing, she would have thought that I had gone into the room to retrieve them and had overturned the vase. 】

Yoko was terrified.

Both the vase and the notebook were extremely cherished by her mother, and she had no doubt that her mother would kill herself!

She could only pray that the kind mother-in-law would take her in.

But who knows.

When she arrives at her mother-in-law's house, Yoko gets the news that her mother-in-law has died.

Finished!

Yoko sat on the swing, listening to the laughter of the children in the distance, and shouted in her heart:

It's too much!

……

That's not just too much!

Pan Yi was so angry when he saw this.

My sister's ornament is too vicious, and she wants to blame her sister!

Although Yoko's first perspective did not mention her resentment towards her sister, her sister has always been very vicious, especially when she spit out the food she chewed before and let her sister eat it as a charity.

And this time.

Yoko finally tries to resist.

"Hey, Ornament, what you did in your mother's room, please make an honest amendology to your mother!"

"You know that?!"

"Yes, so please tell your mom that you did it!"

"No! I don't want to make mom angry! ”

Xiao Ornament shook his head vigorously and said, "Let's let her be angry with her sister!" Aren't you used to making her angry? It's so unpleasant for me to make her angry, I don't want it. ”

Yoko suddenly felt breathless.

"But you knocked over the vase, didn't you?"

"Alas, what a man with insufficient brains! What I'm saying is, just think it's your sister! Wait for Mom to come back, or do you apologize to her, understand? ”

"I ......"

Yoko's hand gripped the key in her pocket tightly, as if blood was about to be pinched out.

Pan Yi also hated itchy.

But the description in the following text made Pan Yi stunned for a few seconds:

[I like her, from the heart. But that was ten seconds ago. Thinking of this, the things that were blocked in my chest before that made my breath difficult melted and flowed away, and my breathing became smoother.

"Then please listen to me......"

"It's a pity that your mother already knows what you're doing. It's true. You took the book away and tried to make it look like I did it, but you couldn't hide it from your mother. You go to the convenience store to buy something and your mom comes back after you go out. I was standing in the hallway and heard my mother's roar coming from the room. Then I fled to the park, and my mother seemed to see that you had knocked the vase over. ”

Xiao Zuo's face turned pale, "It's impossible to see it!" ”

"I can see that I heard my mother's voice in the hallway. She said that the CDs were placed in the wrong order, and that they were done by the trinkets! I heard my mom shouting. So she's waiting for you to go back and apologize to her honestly. So please, be honest. ”

Ornament looked at me confused, "It's all exposed?" ”

I nodded.

"But I don't want to make her angry like my sister and get beaten!"

I pretended to be confused, and then said to her, "So be it." I apologize to her on your behalf. ”

"How?"

"We changed our clothes for the night. I wear the clothes of the trinkets, and the trinkets wear mine. Until tomorrow morning, I pretend to be a trinket that walks with my head bowed like I do. ”

"Won't it be exposed?"

"It's okay, we look exactly the same. It's just that the ornaments should pretend to be as sullen as I usually are. Then you'll be safe. Whether it's making your mother angry or being beaten by her, I'll bear it for you. Trinkets don't worry about anything. ”】

Pan Yi stood up suddenly.

The opening sentence of the novel resurfaced in his mind, and suddenly he felt that his breathing was a little unsmooth, as heavy as an exhaust fan.

Xiao Dian did not doubt his sister's words.

Because my sister has never deceived the ornaments.

My sister Xiao Ornament and my sister Yoko change clothes with each other.

The elder sister pretended to be the younger sister, the younger sister pretended to be the older sister, and made an appointment to go home one after another, anyway, the two sisters looked exactly the same.

The end echoes.

Pan Yi saw the opening sentence again.

[Suddenly, something fell from the upper floor, and I heard an exclamation from my aunt. Dressed in dirty clothes, he lay on the ground with a face identical to mine. 】

There is nothing to doubt about Yoko's suicide.

There is nothing to suspect about Yoko's suicide?