Chapter 70: Heather

Ji Si'an flipped out the phone book and dialed out after several hesitations.

"Hey, hello, are you Zhang Wenwen? I'm Ji Si'an. ”

"Ah...... You're Xiao An. It's been a long time since you've been in touch, how are you doing? Where do you work? Has your mother's case been solved? ”

Ji Si'an bit his lip, he knew that there would be such a greeting, so he wouldn't make this call. She has been away from home all these years, but she doesn't want to be asked about those past events.

"Wenwen, I'...... Don't want to mention this. Ji Si'an's voice was low and depressed.

Wen Wen heard the sound and knew what he meant, and no longer mentioned the old case.

Ji Si'an breathed a sigh of relief, and after briefly chatting with her about the current situation of the two, he went straight to the topic and asked her if she knew Shi Nan.

"Heather? How big? Male or female? Zhang Wenwen asked.

It seems that she doesn't know, Ji Si'an is slightly deflated, if Zhang Wenwen, who is known as 'Bao Inquire' among his classmates, doesn't know, the others don't know.

"She's supposed to be older than us, and then she seems to be a little ......silly," Ji Si'an said, sorting out the information he heard during the hypnosis.

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while, and just when Ji Si'an was no longer hopeful, Zhang Wenwen called.

"Ah, I remember, are you talking about that stupid girl, the old people in the village call her stupid Nantou."

Hearing this, Ji Si'an's spirit perked up: "Yes, yes, it's this person." How is she now? ”

"She's dead...... She's nearly twenty years older than us, and I wouldn't have known about her if it weren't for the extraordinary way she died. Zhang Wenwen said with a sigh.

"By the way, what are you looking for her for?"

Zhang Wenwen's question woke up Ji Si'an, who was in shock.

She asked tremblingly, "When did she die?" ”

"Things that happened a few years ago have to look like 5 or 6 years." Zhang Wenwen recalled.

Hearing the time of her death, Ji Si was relieved to be lucky, does this mean that the thing that her mother did not stop did not cause direct harm to the heather. Thinking like this, Ji Si'an's heart felt slightly better.

"I've been working on the law on women's protections lately, can you tell me about her?" Ji Si'an panicked casually.

Fortunately, Zhang Wenwen himself had a desire to talk, and he didn't delve into her lame excuse, so he told her about the heather.

Heather is the eldest in the family, with two older brothers. She was also a smart and clever child when she was a child, but then she had a serious illness, and when she recovered, her brain burned out and she became a fool in the eyes of everyone.

She often walked around the village with unkempt hair and disheveled clothes, and when she met someone's fruit tree, she would eat it regardless of whether it was ripe or not. The people who have suffered losses come to the door every now and then, and Shi Nan naturally has to be beaten severely.

In order to get rid of this problem, her mother sewed a bag on the placket of her clothes, which she filled with some food, and took it out to nibble on when she was hungry. I don't know if it was my father's beating or my mother's tears that played a role, and since then she has really stopped picking fruit from the trees by the roadside.

But even so, her behavior was disliked by the neighbors, and the children of the bears chased after her and threw stones, and made up to laugh at her. Every now and then she would stop, look down and pick up a bigger rock as if she was going to fight back, and the bears scattered in all directions.

People who saw it said that in fact, Nan Yatou was not so stupid, except that she couldn't speak and reacted slowly, she still knew it in her heart.

But later, as Shi Nan grew up, her condition seemed to be getting more and more serious, and things often happened when she stripped in public. Her actions gradually attract the attention of ill-intentioned people.

Female neighbors secretly alerted her mother to the situation. The mother's repeated advice had little effect. Once, Shi Nan went to the field naked to look for her mother, and kept wiping the blood dripping from her lower body......

The mother was terrified, thinking that her daughter was being bullied, and her spirit almost collapsed. Later, after following the kind-hearted grandmother who protected her daughter all the way, she learned that it was a false alarm.

The daughter has menstruation, but the mother is worried. She looked at her daughter, who had grown into a big girl, but she was not happy at all. She didn't want the people in the village to look at her daughter with that kind of obscene gaze.

In order to protect her daughter, she decided to reduce the number of times she went to the field to take care of her. But this has left the already not wealthy family with one less laborer. Since then, the family has been full of complaints, and the father and brothers have disliked Nan even more. They saw her as a burden, and taking care of her became a matter for the mother alone.

Later, in order to reduce the burden on the family, my mother took care of Nan Ya during the day, and worked in the field by moonlight at night...... This went on for ten years. On this day, my mother was so tired that she accidentally fell asleep while taking care of Nan girl.

Shi Nan took the opportunity to run out, she walked down the street to see everything novel, this touch that bumper soon walked out of the village. When the mother woke up to find that her daughter was not there, she hurried out to look for it, but accidentally fell into a deep ditch. Years of hard work and lack of sleep have already taken her body to a devastation. When the crowd found her, she was no longer dead. But she held on and didn't close her eyes, just waiting for them to get her daughter back.

In fact, she was afraid, she was afraid that as soon as she died, they would not look for her daughter and take the opportunity to get rid of her. In the end, under the joint search of everyone, Shi Nan was brought back to her mother.

Looking at her mother, who had been holding on to her face, she seemed to sense something. She whimpered and pounced, howling like a beast. It was primitive, pure emotion, and even though she couldn't express it in human language, everyone understood her sadness and despair.

The mother took the hands of her father and brothers, but her eyes were fixed on her daughter. Her husband understood what she meant and promised her that he would take good care of her daughter, and she slowly closed her eyes.

Since then, Heather has been much more honest, and she sits on the big rock in front of her house all day in a daze, and no one knows what she is thinking.

Later, her father also died, and her brothers started their own families, and she became more and more a burden. Although she was very well-behaved at this time, she no longer ran around; Although she only needs three meals a day to be quiet all day, the sisters-in-law still dislike her and discuss marrying her to an old bachelor with a very bad reputation in the next village.

When he was young, he had been imprisoned many times for indecent assault, rape and other crimes, and it was impossible for such a person to treat heather well......

Ji Si'an listened to Zhang Wenwen's narration with tears in his eyes, and guessed that his mother should have quarreled with his father and grandmother because of this. An intellectually deficient woman, like a child without any protection, loses the protection of her family and becomes a lamb to the slaughter.

Everyone knew what Heather was about to face, but they all stood by for various reasons. The mother despaired of their indifference and numbness, but it didn't stop it from happening......

After she got married, she lost all contact. The people of the village also quickly forgot about her existence. This silly girl, who had lived in the village for more than 20 years, disappeared silently.

(End of chapter)