At the age of
26, I married a divorced man and became the stepmother of his 10-year-old daughter. After two years of
marriage, the child scolded me for two years. On New Year’s Eve, she ruined
my face in front of the whole family. She took a video of me and posted it on the Internet. I put up with it for her father’s sake.
I thought she was not educated at most, but I didn’t expect that she would suffer the consequences before we could discipline
her. As the
season entered midsummer, I had a hard time. I was sleepy all day and had no appetite
. Holding a round watermelon in his hands
, Chou Kai-an called to me at the bedroom door,
“Cut the watermelon right away and come out to eat.”
I put down my cell phone, got up lazily and went to the living room to see that Zhou Yan was sitting on the tea
table, stretching her neck and biting off the watermelon one by one. When she saw me coming, she rolled her eyes
and showed a provocative smile. Not annoyed,
I reached out and grabbed the other half of the watermelon that Zhou Kaian had not cut, and took the spoon
back to his bedroom.
A 12-year-old rebellious girl, even with her own mother, will be at daggers drawn, not to mention my stepmother, as long as she does not brazenly provoke me, I am too lazy to mind my own business.
I ate half a watermelon with a spoon and burped. Then I saw Chou Kai-an come in in his bathrobe and say,
“After washing, you’ll feel comfortable. Go and wash, too. After washing, you can have a good sleep. I see you seem very tired recently.” Then
he turned on the computer beside the bed, ready to deal with some company affairs. I got up lazily, took my bathrobe and went out. In the
living room, Zhou Yan is hanging herself upside down on the sofa, holding up her cell phone and chatting:
“Don’t worry, this cell phone that my mother just sent me the day before yesterday, the pixels are so high.” Without stopping,
I walked quickly into the bathroom, closed the door, and began to adjust the water temperature facing the bathroom wall. In the middle of
rinsing, I found that the bath milk was used up, so I had to turn around and go to the back niche to get a new one. It was this time that I realized something was wrong. The crack in the
bathroom door seemed to be bigger than before, and the frosted glass near the floor was black. What was not a figure?
What’s going on? Doubtful, I stepped over and pulled the door open. Unexpectedly, the group of people did not have the ability
to stand up, so I caught them holding their mobile phones.
It’s Zhou Yan! She, she took pictures of me in the shower?
My brain couldn’t react for a moment, so I just stood there in a daze and looked at Zhou Yan, who was also
stunned.
Suddenly, a male voice came from Zhou Yan’s cell phone:
“What the hell? I just went to the toilet. How come the screen is black and
I can’t see anything?”
Like a thunderbolt, Zhou Yan and I changed our faces at the same time. Zhou Yan was in a hurry to turn off her cell
phone, and I rushed to grab her without wrapping myself up.
Hearing the noise, Zhou Kaian ran over in panic. I suppressed Zhou Yan and shouted at him at the top of my voice
:
“Quick, grab her cell phone, she took a video of me taking a shower!”
Zhou Yan grinned and fluttered her hands and feet to keep Zhou Kaian away, but she was still a child
after all. Under the siege of Zhou Kaian and me, her mobile phone finally fell into my hands.
She was so angry that she jumped up and pointed at the balcony and threatened me:
“If you dare to go through my cell phone, I will jump out of the window!” Then
he made a gesture and rushed to the balcony, where Chou Kai-an scooped him up and pressed him down on the sofa
: “Tell me, why are you taking pictures of your aunt taking a bath?”
This is my cell phone, and I can take pictures of whoever I like! Shoot it and sell it for money!
Her answer gave me a sudden chill in my heart. I walked up to her quickly, broke
her fingers strongly, and pressed the lock on the mobile phone. The
screen of the mobile phone still stays in the chat interface between her and that person, with few text messages, basically
based on voice, in addition to voice, there is also a video link.
I first clicked on a few recent voice plays:
“The recent quality is not very good, the number of clicks is not high, the pixels are too blurred, and
when you take pictures secretly, try not to shake your hands, once you shake, the picture will be blurred.”
“Shoot more of the kind with dew. That kind has a high number of clicks. If the number of clicks is high, I’m sure
I’ll give you extra money.”
I clicked on the link again. It was a short video. The person in the video was changing clothes
. Although it was only the back, who else could I be in the familiar indoor scene? Holding back my trembling hands,
I found his homepage according to the name of the publisher, and I was really dumbfounded after
reading it. There are three or four hundred videos and pictures on the
screen, and two-thirds of the main characters are me, when I take a nap, when I take
a shower, when I change clothes, and even when I go to the toilet.
I think I usually pay great attention to privacy, she is not my own, I can
not be honest with her, so such as changing clothes and bathing, I always close
the door behind me, although not locked, just gently.
I thought the sense of distance was enough, but I didn’t expect that she took advantage of my trust in her to take so many pictures of me.
Those photos and videos, from the angle, without exception, look up and take pictures from the crack of the door.
I was so angry that my whole body trembled and my temper went up like a flame. I couldn’t hold it down. I raised my cell phone and fanned half of her face.
Zhou Yan was stunned by me. After she reacted, she struggled like a madman and tried to break away from Zhou Kaian’s control and hit me. Zhou Kaian held her down desperately and scolded her at the same time:
“Where did you learn such a devious way as a child? Can’t you go to school well?”? You will go to junior high school in September. Can you take the right path? Are you short of money? Have we wronged you?
Zhou Yan’s eyes were red, her teeth were clenched, and she roared. I have no doubt that if Zhou Kaian let go at this time, she would immediately come over and bite me to death.
I, the stepmother, and Zhou Yan, the bear child, had a grudge as early as two years ago. When I married Zhou Kaian
two years ago, I was 26 and Zhou Yan was 10 years old. I was so naive that I thought I must have a mother-daughter relationship with her.
However, I never thought that in the past two years, not only did we not kiss each other, but we had fought countless battles. The most brilliant time in the history of
our fight was probably the New Year when Zhou Kaian and I went back to our hometown after we got married.
It was the night of Chinese New Year’s Eve. The whole family gathered around the Kang to watch the Spring Festival Gala after the reunion dinner. I was a little sleepy after a day’s ride, so I told Zhou Kaian that I would go back to my room to sleep for a while. Unexpectedly, Zhou Yan answered and said that she would also go to sleep.
At that time, my mother-in-law’s house still had the kind of earth heating. There were only two bedrooms with heating. One of my parents-in-law lived in it, and the other Zhou Kaian kindly left it to me and Zhou Yan. He slept in the cold west room by himself.
At the very beginning, Zhou Yan and I were at peace, each wrapped in a quilt, and the well water did not interfere with the river water. The
bad thing is Chou Kai-an’s voice through the window before going to bed:
“My daughter-in-law should go to bed early. Don’t play with your cell phone. When you wake up tomorrow, let them see how beautiful my daughter-in-law is.” Before
I could talk to her, Zhou Yan replied in a hollow voice at the other end of the Kang, “What a beautiful fart! It’s not as beautiful as my mother!”
The provocation was a bit sudden, but considering that it was Chinese New Year’s Eve after all, I didn’t speak, but Zhou Yan didn’t seem to want to give up:
If it weren’t for you, my mother would have made up with my father long ago. Do you know what you are? It’s the kind of mistress that they talk about on TV. There are so many videos of mistresses on the Internet. Why doesn’t my mother find someone to beat you up?
That’s a bit too much! But I still didn’t want to quarrel with her, and I had to take care of my face in front of my mother-in-law, so I just symbolically kicked her gently through the quilt and motioned her to shut up.
Who would have thought that my kick would make her succeed in finding the vent point of her emotions.
She got up from the opposite side of me and rushed over with bared teeth and claws. Her two little paws went straight to my face and scratched:
“Call you beautiful, call you beautiful, I’ll scratch you rotten, see how beautiful you are!”
Sharp fingernails scratched my cheek, several places burning pain, I angrily pushed her off my body, and I put on my shoes.
I looked at the mirror on the wall. There were seven or eight red marks, and a round drop of blood was hanging on the one near my nose.
She lay on her back and looked at me triumphantly, her eyes full of provocation.
I took a deep breath, pretended to be calm, turned around and plugged the bolt on the bedroom door, blocked the only two stools in the room behind the door, then pulled out my suitcase from under the table and began to rummage.
“It’s no use looking for anything. I’ve scratched it. I’ll see who will say you’re beautiful tomorrow!” Before
she could finish speaking, I pulled down the quilt and wrapped it around her, then rushed to press her. She was wrapped in the quilt and could not move. I watched as I conjured up an electric hair clipper from my pocket.
I pressed the switch to turn on the hair clipper and began to shave her black hair.
“I told you I wasn’t easy to bully!”! Is it because I can’t see anyone? Let’s go together. I’ll shave your head and see how you see people tomorrow.
She screamed and struggled and spat at me, and I pressed her desperately, holding the hair clipper left and right on her head. Less than
three minutes later, her thick hair was shaved uneven by me, and there were several shiny scalps. The inquiries of Zhou Kaian and her mother-in-law
outside are getting louder and louder.
I released Zhou Yan and put the hair clipper back into the box without saying a word. It was originally given to Zhou Kaian’s newborn nephew, but I didn’t expect it to come in handy in advance, but it was impossible to give it away again.
I moved the stool and pulled out the bolt. Zhou Kaian and her mother-in-law saw my face and exclaimed in unison what had happened. I flashed. They saw the scene in the room and exclaimed again.
Zhou Yan held the strands of hair picked up from the ground in her hand and cried so hard that her voice was almost hoarse.
My mother-in-law asked me to help Zhou Yan. Zhou Kaian held my face and kept blowing on me.
Unexpectedly, from the beginning to the end, my mother-in-law did not blame me. I was deeply confused. Later, I learned that Zhou Yan’s bastard was famous in his hometown. Every time he came back with Zhou Kaian, he had to find a reason to be restless.
I breathed a sigh of relief and pulled the box to follow Zhou Kaian to the West Room. The next morning, I found Zhou Kaian’s sunglasses from the car and put them on, then pulled the scarf
up hard, covering myself so that I couldn’t see my true face. When she came out
of the house, Zhou Yan was covering her
head with a blue square scarf that her mother-in-law had worn yesterday. The square scarf tied a knot in her chin, wrapped the whole messy head, and
then put on a down jacket hat outside. Zhou Yan and
I went through the streets to celebrate the New Year with this makeup. On the way
back, I heard my mother-in-law whisper to Chou Kai-an,
“Your daughter-in-law is good. She can cure that girl. She’s better than you.”
That is to say, from the beginning of this incident, she realized that I was not easy to mess with, and gradually did not
dare to provoke me brazenly. I thought that I could live in peace like this in the future. Who knew
that she had made such a big move to sell my photos for money! Holding Zhou Yan’s cell phone,
I was thinking about how to communicate with the person opposite so that he
could delete the photos and videos, when suddenly the other person sent a new link and made
a “yeah” gesture. Then came a voice message:
“Today this video is good, especially clear. It’s only been posted for ten minutes and already has more than
10,000 hits. If you have time, you can help forward it.”
I was shocked and realized that something was wrong, so I clicked on the link consciously.
It was a video of me taking a shower just now, accompanied by the sound of water, from head to foot, my
naked back was clearly presented in the picture. The video was posted 13 minutes ago, with 10300 views and thousands
of comments:
“This girl has a good figure. I haven’t seen enough. Are there any more?”
“I want to look ahead.”
“At the last second, I turned my head and almost saw my face. Why didn’t I cut it a
little longer? Am I the one who lacks that little traffic?”
“Let’s send out a crowdfunding. Who can get the information about this girl from human flesh? Who will get the money? Will you come?” Shaking my hands,
I tried to hold my phone steady and sent a voice message back to the man:
“You have three minutes to take the video off the shelf and destroy it. Not only the video, but everything on
your homepage is taken off the shelf, or I will call the police!”
I took a deep breath and tried to tone myself down:
Listen to your voice. You are not very old. You should be in junior high school or high school. Since you
can surf the Internet, I suggest you check what legal consequences you will bear for this kind of behavior. I’m
only giving you this one chance. Three minutes is up. If those things are still there, I’ll call the police immediately
.
I said in one breath, turned on the stopwatch on my mobile phone, tick-tock,
tick-tock, and gradually merged with my heartbeat.
“Ding,”
the new message came in, and the other side sent two short words: “deleted.”
I quit and refreshed the next page, and the video was gone, and when I got to the home page, it was empty.
“OK, but I’d like to remind you that I have made a backup of your chat records and website homepages. If I find something like this posted on the Internet in the future, I reserve the right to continue to pursue you. The Internet is not an extrajudicial place. I hope you can take care of yourself.” After
sending these, I finally breathed a long sigh of relief. The news that
Zhou Yan was beaten by me was known by her mother Xin Ping the next day. She came to me in a threatening manner to argue with me. When the arrows were at daggers drawn, Zhou Kaian came back from the company to be a peacemaker. He suggested that Xin Ping take Zhou Yan to live with her for a few days, and he would pick her up when school started in autumn. He also gave Xin Ping twenty thousand yuan in front of me. When
Xin Ping and Zhou Yan left angrily with a small suitcase, Zhou Kai and I felt very relaxed, as if we had removed a time bomb from our chest.
However, after only five days of this comfortable life, the trouble came.
It was a weekend. Zhou Kaian and I were in the hospital for a physical examination. It was already 11 o’clock at noon when we were in line. Zhou Kaian was sitting at the window of blood drawing. As soon as he rolled up his sleeves, the phone rang in a hurry.
It’s a strange number.
Are you Zhou Yan’s parent? Come here quickly! Someone’s going to die. Hurry up! The supermarket on the left at the gate of the Dendrobium Community.
Zhou Kaian stood up from the stool, rolled up his sleeves and said sorry to the nurse, then pulled me downstairs.
Dendrobium Community is on the outskirts of the city, nearly half an hour away from our present location, and it is a big weekend, so the road is crowded.
Zhou Kaian was obviously a little impatient and clapped the steering wheel while waiting for the red light. By the time
we arrived, the entrance of the small supermarket on the left side of the community had been surrounded, and ambulances and police cars were parked outside the crowd. Zhou Kaian and
I spent a lot of effort to squeeze in, where healthcare workers were carrying a two-year-old child on a stretcher after a simple nursing, and a woman of about 30 years old was crying with her bleeding head.
Zhou Yan and Xin Ping stood in the middle of the crowd, their hair was disheveled, their faces were red and swollen, their clothes were covered with gray shoe prints, and they were arguing with the police with ferocious faces.
Zhou Kaian stepped forward and explained his identity to the police. I came forward and heard the whole story about the fight.
Zhou Yan always likes to eat cold drinks in summer. In the past, when she was at home, the whole layer of the refrigerator was full of her ice cream and popsicles of various flavors, which never stopped from June to October. After
she moved to Xinping, Xinping could not provide her with this convenience. If she wanted to eat ice cream, she had to go to the supermarket at the entrance of the community to buy it. In
September, it was the time for the autumn tiger to show its power. The heat was no less than that in midsummer. Zhou Yan was afraid of the heat, so she was greedy for the cold ice cream. She didn’t want to walk in the hot sun, so she begged Xin Ping to buy it for her.
Xin Ping was having a video with her new boyfriend at that time. She didn’t have time to take care of her. She probably said some complaints, which made Zhou Yan slam the door angrily and go downstairs to buy it. Co
incidentally, when Zhou Yan passed by, the shopkeeper was holding the child in the shade of the tree at the door to feed the egg custard, so the shopkeeper asked Zhou Yan to open the freezer to choose.
Zhou Yan rummaged for a long time, but she didn’t find the flavor she liked, so she asked the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper said, yes, yes, it’s probably at the bottom. Wait a minute, I’ll help you find it right away.
Zhou Yan just stood there watching the shopkeeper slowly teasing the children to eat spoonful by spoonful. As she watched, she became bored and clapped the lid of the freezer loudly with her hand:
“Hurry up, can’t you? Who likes to wait here on a hot day?”
The shopkeeper knew that the customer was getting tired of waiting, so he put down his spoon and walked this way. Unexpectedly, the child was unwilling, waving his little hand and crying:
“No, I want to eat, I want to eat.”
This cry drew out the fire that Zhou Yan pressed in the bottom of her heart, and she felt that children were really annoying!
She walked up to the child angrily, coughed hard, and then spat a mouthful of phlegm into the bowl of egg custard impartially.
Eat! You eat!
Such a disgusting scene was seen by the shopkeeper who was rummaging through the freezer and holding the ice cream.
She was so angry that she threw the ice cream in her hand on the ground and pushed Zhou Yan fiercely:
“How can you be such a child? How can you spit in other people’s bowls? Are you still educated?”
Zhou Yan was pushed down and rubbed a layer of skin on the ground. She was so angry that she looked around and picked up a fist-sized stone from the green belt and smashed it on the shopkeeper’s forehead.
On the other side, Xin Ping and her boyfriend found that Zhou Yan had not come back after the video, so they put on their clothes and went down to look for her. As soon as they turned to the gate of the community, they heard Zhou Yan shouting and scolding. Their hearts tightened and they quickened their pace.
Xin Ping saw that Zhou Yan was being grabbed by a woman with blood on her head and face, and she slapped her face hard.
Xin Ping was so angry that she threw the woman down and fought with her. Zhou Yan felt her red, swollen and painful face behind her. She was so angry that she felt that she had to get this bad breath. The shopkeeper, whose face was
covered with blood, had been pressed to the ground by Xin Ping and could not turn over. The crowd of onlookers all went to pull, only the child in the shade of the tree, staring at a pair of frightened eyes, crying out, “Mom, Mom.”. Does the culprit still have the face to cry? Do you have to wait for me to buy ice cream
when you don’t pick the time to eat?
The more he looked at it, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that he needed to clean up, and the evil fire in his heart finally had
a source. While everyone’s attention was focused on the fighting adults,
she slipped quietly to the
boy’s side and kicked him far away.
The child was kicked in the stomach, and his body flew far away in the shape of a bow. Finally, he landed in the green
belt, and his head hit a street lamp pole. With a hum, there was no movement.
The shopkeeper, whose face was covered with blood, showed a frightened light in his eyes. He did not know where the strength
came from. He overturned Xin Ping and screamed and rushed to the small body in the green belt. Feeling relieved
, Chou Yan clapped her hands and said to Hsin Ping,
“Mom, let’s go. No more ice cream.” As
cold as if he had just thrown away a doll. The people
around them finally could not bear to watch and spontaneously surrounded them, the other homes of the children. They
also arrived and kicked Chou Yan and Hsin Ping several times. They were pulled away:
“We’ve already called the police. Let the police handle it. Don’t worry. We can’t spare them. It’s too crazy
.”
Zhou Kaian asked the company for a week’s long vacation to deal with this matter.
In those days, Zhou Kaian and I took turns to go to the hospital and accompanied the boy’s family outside the ward to wait for the results, while Xin Ping and Zhou Yan did not show their faces once.
Fortunately, after some examination, the boy belonged to head trauma, and no organic lesions were found in brain CT. We and the patient’s family were relieved.
However, concussion caused by trauma can cause certain functional damage to the nervous system, which can only be repaired by time, and the boy fell on the green belt when he landed, with multiple soft tissue injuries on his body, which also requires hospitalization.
Zhou Kaian actively cooperated, let the doctor use the best medicine, must ensure that the child will not leave sequelae.
His actions won the favor of the patient’s family, and he also knew the special relationship of our family. After a week of hospitalization, the other party agreed to settle privately.
Zhou Kaian undertook all the medical expenses of the adults and children, and compensated the other party for 50,000 yuan. When he was discharged from the hospital, he bought a lot of nutrients and stuffed them in their car.
Zhou Kaian kept bending down to apologize to the other side, sorry, sorry, let you suffer.
My eyes are moist, and it’s not worth it for Zhou Kaian. On the way
back, I asked Chou Kai-an, “Are you sad?”? Because I have such a child that I can’t worry about.
Chou Kai-an sighed, “It’s me who didn’t educate well. It’s all my fault.”
The next second, he suddenly choked up:
“But I tried my best. I don’t know how to discipline her anymore. I feel more and more unable to communicate with her. I’m a failure as a father.”
I put my arms around him, and an idea began to germinate in my heart. In the second week after the
incident, Zhou Kaian took Zhou Yan back. Tomorrow is the first day of junior high school. Zhou Yan is about to officially start her junior high school career.
Junior high school students eat in the school canteen at noon, only need to pick up in the morning and evening. Before school starts, the teacher reminds parents in the class group that the standard of lunch in the canteen is 12 yuan a day. Parents can prepare living expenses for their children according to this standard, not too high, causing comparisons.
Considering that she was a girl, Zhou Kaian set a standard of 700 yuan for Zhou Yan in January. Unexpectedly, less than two weeks after the start of school, Zhou Yan began to ask Zhou Kaian for money.
Chou Kai-an asked symbolically, “Don’t you have enough money?”? That should be enough. Before the
words were out, Zhou Yan threw her chopsticks and said,
“Enough! Enough!”! The standard for a meal at 12 yuan is to get rid of beggars. There is a private room on the second floor of our school. The food there is delicious. At least 15 yuan a meal. All my classmates go there. What else did
Zhou Kaian want to say? I stopped him. I motioned with my eyes that Zhou Kaian should take money to buy a quiet place.
Zhou Kaian had no choice but to take out another five hundred yuan from his wallet and hand it over.
Zhou Yan borrowed money, and the corners of her mouth turned up, and she did not hide her arrogance after she succeeded. As soon as
September is over, the National Day holiday is coming. My cousin in
my hometown has already sent an invitation in the group. Last year, he contracted a dam and
several acres of land. He raised fish in the dam and built a farmhouse in the land. Now it is the season of fish fat. He specially
invited us to go back for vacation.
Not only fishing, but also farm food to eat, Zhou Kaian rubbed his hands, full of expectations for the upcoming short and
long vacation.
We left early in the morning on October 1 and planned to stay for 10 days to give ourselves
a complete break. On
the first day, tired of the heavy traffic, we were full
of novelty in every part of the farmhouse, so after a short rest, we wandered around the fish pond and the farmhouse together. There is a peach orchard between
the farmhouse and the fish pond. It is said that the famous Qingzhou
honey is planted, and the fruit will not be fully ripe until the middle of October. As
we strolled to the peach orchard, we happened to see workers spraying pesticides on the orchard. Chou
Yan wanted to go inside as if no one was watching, but the workers stopped her in time:
“Little girl, don’t get so close. Pesticides are poisonous.”
“Is it poisonous, too?” Zhou Yan rolled her eyes.
“Look, of course it’s not poisonous, but if you’re too close, the pesticide will be blown on you by the wind
, and if it gets into your eyes, you’ll be in trouble.” Unconvinced, Zhou Yan curled her lips at the man, who seemed amused and raised her
voice to say to us:
“You city people, don’t believe it. This small bottle of pesticide can kill all the insects
on this three mu of land. If you pour it into the dam, the whole fish pond can be served by a nest.”
“Do you believe it, little girl? And stay away from it.”
Zhou Yan did not speak, she was not far away a few people of the same age to attract the eyes,
those people seem to be playing some kind of game, chirp how very lively.
Chou Kai-an encouraged her: “If you want to play, you can go. They’re all about the same age, and you’ll soon get together
.”
Zhou Yan hesitated for a moment, but still walked slowly.
Chou Kai-an watched for a long time until Chou Yan in the crowd looked up and laughed. Then he withdrew his gaze
and said to me,
“It looks all right. I hope she can change herself after this trip.”
I couldn’t resist, so I replied, “I’ll be lucky if I don’t get into trouble.”
Chou Kai-an is a little unhappy: “She’s still a child. She’ll change. Be more
patient.”
However, within a few days of saying this, Zhou Yan made a big mistake. The day of the
accident was the afternoon of October 6, half of the holiday. In fact, that morning, I noticed something was wrong with Zhou Yan. I had been playing well with those children a few days
ago, but now I was squatting under a tree and scalding
ants with boiling water. While scalding, I muttered: “Kill you, bastard!”
I told Chou Kai-an, who was fishing by the fish pond, about Chou Yan’s abnormality and asked him to ask about the
situation. Chou Kai-an was busy setting up the net and said to me perfunctorily,
“I think I had a quarrel with someone. It’s all right. It will be all right after a while.” Since
he said so, I was not at ease, took a book and sat on the hanging
chair in the pavilion to play.
I don’t know how long it took, but when I looked up, Zhou Yan, who had just squatted on the ground to burn the ants, disappeared
.
I stood up and looked around, and there was no Zhou Yan in the group of children playing.
Where did you go?
When I was confused, my cousin ran over breathlessly and asked me if I had seen Zhou Yan.
“No, what happened?”
My cousin kept patting his thighs with both hands and said hurriedly that Zhou Yan might have taken the pesticide from the tool room in the orchard
.
“I’ve been giving the fruit trees a drip in the garden at noon today, and I’ve seen this child Zhou Yan always hanging around
the tool room. When I hang up another bag, I’ll look up and disappear.” “After all the fruit trees were finished, I thought about asking the workers to continue spraying the pesticide
that had not been sprayed last time. As a result, I went with the workers to look for the pesticide, but it was all gone, all three bottles were gone
.”
I’m just worried that this kid hasn’t seen it before, and if he drinks it as a good thing by mistake, he’ll be in trouble.
Ah, it’s my fault, too. I’ve been so busy these days that I forgot to lock the tool room.
My heart suddenly missed a beat, a 12-year-old child, the instructions can be understood, certainly
not as a good drink, then what does she do with pesticides?
Just as he was thinking, his cousin suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed to the fish pond in the distance and shouted,
“There it is!”! I saw her. She had a medicine bottle in her hand. Why did she go to the fish pond? It’s
broken, broken..
All of a sudden, my cousin’s figure darted out and ran in the direction of the fish pond,
shouting as he ran:
“Girl, girl, put down the things in your hands, but you can’t pour them into the water!”
However, Zhou Yan turned a deaf ear and quickened her pace.
She walked to the place where no one was fishing, stood on the stone, opened all the bottle
caps, and turned upside down to the fish pond.
“Oh, my God!”
My cousin’s howling startled the sparrows on the branches. By the time
I trotted over, the fish pond was already full of people. My cousin pointed at Zhou Yan and could hardly speak:
“You, you, you, you little beast!”! If you quarrel with them, why do you pour medicine into the fish pond? Isn’t that killing me?
Zhou Yan stood on a stone slab at the lowest point of the fish pond. At her feet were three empty white plastic bottles with four big red characters printed on them: “Fenpropathrin.”
I opened the web page and quickly searched for the name:
fenpropathrin, poisoning, is a widely used insecticidal pesticide, which is highly toxic to fish and can bring disaster to aquatic animals. In my heart
, I realized that something big had happened. Three bottles of medicine went into the 15-mu fish pond, which was not only a disaster for the animals in the water, but also for my cousin’s family. Even me and Zhou Kaian were not spared. The workers
here have been ordered to be busy, lifting pumps, erecting pipes, and racing against time to pump out the water contaminated by pesticides in the fish pond, so as to minimize losses.
But it was too late, on the clear surface of the water, a, a, and soon there was a large belly of the dead fish.
My cousin was so sad that he broke down. He had to mortgage all the properties in the city to raise the capital to contract the fifteen acres of fish ponds, not to mention the hard work all the year round, all in vain.
Zhou Kaian was so angry that his face was out of shape. He broke a tree stick from the tree next to him and beat Zhou Yan to death. Zhou Yan was so anxious to be beaten that she began to speak freely. Pointing at the group of children watching the scene of bustle on the side, she shouted:
“They forced it all!”! They don’t play with me! Isolate me! Say I have no quality! Bah!
She pointed to her cousin’s son again:
And you! You have been against me since you were a child, and I really beat you lightly before! This time you joined them to bully me! Don’t you rely on this to be your home? What’s so great about your place? If I say I’ll destroy it, you’ll destroy it!
The voice did not fall, Zhou Kaian ear scrape son fan past, Zhou Yan just covered the face resentfully to shut the mouth. The expected
wonderful National Day holiday finally ended in this way.
Zhou Kaian counted all his savings overnight, and then took me to apologize to my cousin, saying that all the losses were borne by us.
The cousin did not speak, but lowered his head and smoked sullenly. The son of the cousin sitting beside him suddenly slapped the table and ran away. A
few moments later, a worker ran in, pointing to the outside and panicking:
“Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up. Your son tied up that girl, threw her on the dung truck, called someone, then grabbed my key and ran away. I think something’s going to happen.” Chou Kai-an and his cousin stood up hurriedly and rushed out. The man ran after them and shouted,
“It’s going south that way. Hurry up and catch up.” I had butterflies in my stomach
. When
Zhou Kaian came back, it was already 3 o’clock in the morning, and there was no Zhou Yan. Tired,
he sat on the sofa and hugged my waist. His voice was hoarse and weak.
“Wife, do you know how terrible it is? They were three half-grown boys of 13 years old.
They punched and kicked Yanyan. Their bones were broken and their faces were swollen as big as steamed bun.”. When I rushed
over, she was lying on the dung heap of the farm, a
person who usually loves to be clean.
“I shouted several times, but I couldn’t wake her up. After I was sent to the hospital, the doctor said that her ribs were
broken, her coccyx was broken, and the synovial membrane of her knee was damaged. If the prognosis is not good, she will
limp in the future.”
“Where is the person who hit her?”
“I ran away. I ran away and disappeared. The car was left on the side of the road.”
Zhou Kaian’s voice faded and he soon fell asleep on my shoulder.
I sighed, looking out of the window, the fish pond was still brightly lit, and the workers from the odd job market
were working overtime to change water and clean up pesticides for the fish pond.
I wish this man-made disaster had never happened again.
Zhou Yan was seriously injured and needed special care. Seeing that the holiday was coming to an end, Zhou Kaian had several cases that needed to be dealt with urgently. He had no choice but to call Xin Ping and ask her to take care of them for a few days.
Hsin Ping’s scolding almost never stopped from the moment she got out of the car. She scolded Chou Kai-an for making trouble and bringing Chou Yan to such a place where birds don’t shit. The people who scolded and beat Chou Yan were a bunch of little animals who had a mother but didn’t have a mother to raise them. Even in the end, she even scolded the nurse:
“Won’t you be gentle?”? Can’t you see my daughter is crying with pain? How do you serve people as a nurse! Be careful that I complain about you!
A month later, Zhou Yan was discharged from the hospital, and Zhou Kaian took her home.
She didn’t recover well. She couldn’t straighten up when she sat down and walked with a limp on her left foot. She was laughed at by several boys on her first day of school. When
Zhou Yan got home, she cried and asked Zhou Kaian to drop her out of school.
She even blamed me for her lameness:
“If you hadn’t said you wanted to relax and travel every day, could I have been taken to that place by my father?”? Can I meet such a bunch of hooligans? Can my legs be lame?
She madly smashed everything in the house, and I saw her waving a baseball bat in the living room with a ferocious face, and for the first time, I felt desperate.
She will not change for the better, she will only become more and more perverse and ruthless, perhaps in a few years, Zhou Kaian and I will become the target of her stick. Zhou Kaian was finally at his wits’ end and let Zhou Yan vent and throw the stick back to the house. Then
he squatted down and cleaned up the mess in the living room little by little.
I said, “Chou Kai-an, this is not the way. I live in this house now and I’m afraid every moment
.”
Chou Kai-an stopped and rubbed a piece of white porcelain in his hand. After a long time, he said to me,
“Wife, I know what you mean, but I hope you can understand me. No matter how bad she is,
no matter how bad she is, she is my own. I am her father, and I can’t leave her.” My
breath stagnated and I felt that something in my heart was breaking rapidly.
I bit my lip. “Okay, I got it.”
Then he turned and went back to the bedroom. When
it was getting dark, Zhou Kaian went downstairs to dispose of the last bag of garbage and bought some lunch boxes on his
way back.
He knocked on the bedroom door and called me out to eat. I was so angry
that I didn’t want to talk to him.
Zhou Kaian saw that I did not speak and did not persuade much. He turned around and greeted Zhou Yan. They
opened the bag and chatted while eating.
“My mother said she would come to see me tomorrow. I want her to stay here for a few days.” All right, your bed is big enough to sleep in. But for one thing, don’t make your aunt angry
.
“That depends on my mood.”
Be obedient! Or don’t let your mother come!
“All right, what you say is what you say. I really don’t know what’s good about her, but she can
still see her face!”
I grabbed the quilt to cover my head and stared blankly at the darkness in front of me, trying
to find a ray of light.
With a lot on my mind, I didn’t fall asleep until the wee hours of the morning, but I was soon
awakened by a violent knock on the door.
Zhou Kaian pulled his slippers to open the door, and Xin Ping stood at the door with big bags and small bags.
“Where is Yanyan? Hasn’t she got up yet?”
Then he went straight into Zhou Yan’s room.
I put on my clothes and sat in front of the bed. Chou Kai-an searched for a reason to comfort me:
“It’s all right to let her come. If Yanyan has a companion, she won’t take her temper out on
you all the time.”
I looked at him incredulously.
“Aren’t you afraid that the two of them will take their anger out on me?” I sighed and took the cup to the kitchen to get
water. As soon as it was full, the phone rang. I had to put down the cup and run to answer the phone. After
talking on the phone for half an hour, I was thirsty and went back to the kitchen to look for a cup.
Looking up and drinking a big mouthful, the salty and bitter taste made me frown and sprayed
Zhou Kaian’s head and face on the spot.
I ran quickly to the kitchen to rinse my mouth.
Zhou Kaian came after me and asked me what was wrong. I looked at him and then at the cup. My eyes were cold
and I wanted to kill someone. Confused,
he took a sip from the cup and immediately turned around and spat into the sink.
“So salty?”? Who put it there? From the bedroom next to the
kitchen came the unbridled laughter of Zhou Yan and Xin Ping.
I slammed the door and stormed back to the bedroom, shouting
at Chou Kai-an, “Chou Kai-an, you’d better get rid of her now!”! If she won’t go, I will! After more than two years of
marriage, I had never shouted at Zhou Kaian like this. Zhou Kaian realized that he had
really angered me. He hesitated for a moment and ordered Xin Ping to leave.
When Hsin Ping’s bags were thrown out by me, Zhou Yan was so angry that she stamped her feet:
“You can do it. You’re awesome. I tell you, I won’t go to school anyway. I’ll fight you at home every
day!” I turned my head and asked her,
“Are you sure?”
“OK!”
“Good.”
Then don’t talk about morality. When Zhou Kaian took Zhou Yan to the hospital for rehabilitation treatment,
I asked someone to install
a set of monitoring equipment at home.
Unexpectedly, Xin Ping’s figure was photographed on the third day after the installation.
She snuck into my house while I was out talking to the publisher.
I sat in the hall on the first floor of the publisher, watching the surveillance pictures and listening to what they said
, and my teeth trembled with hatred.
Are you sure this will work? When I posted a question on the Internet, a lot of people said that when sulfuric acid was poured
, how much could this bottle or can be poured into it?
Mom tells you, we don’t throw acid on her. It’s too loud. It’s against the law
. Let’s make a little noise. Let’s pour sulfuric acid into her bottles and cans. If she uses
the same rotten face, it won’t be on us. “Then you can pour more into each bottle, so that she can use it once and her face will rot. I
hate her face. Sometimes I want to boil a pot of hot water and pour it on her.” In the
picture, Xin Ping opened all the cosmetics on my washstand, poured the big ones directly
into it, sucked the small ones with a needle and then injected them, followed by Zhou Yan, who unscrewed the lid from
time to time and added more.
“If you put more, it will be rotten. Let my father kick her out early!”
I was so angry that I trembled all over and clenched my teeth. This kind of person can
‘t be tolerated if he doesn’t clean up.
I sat until there was no Xin Ping in the picture, and then I got up to go home.
Passing by the mall, I ran to the counter to buy a new set of pocket cosmetics, easy to carry
and hide, and bought a box of facial masks.
I’m going to let them suffer the consequences. When
I got home, Zhou Kaian also arrived. He was busy cooking in the kitchen. Zhou Yan
uncharacteristically did not stay in her bedroom. She sat on the sofa and kept changing
the channel with the remote control. When
she saw that I had changed my clothes and shoes, she said to me in a strange way,
“You are an old woman. Look at your face. How oily it is. I
suggest you go and wash it quickly. I have no appetite when I see you like this.” With
a sneer in my heart, I turned into the bathroom and washed my face. If you let me wash it, I will wash it for you. After
washing my face, I came out and deliberately walked closer to her so that she could observe. There was a brief moment of disappointment in
her bell-like eyes, then she lowered her head and
muttered what she had said.
For the next half hour, Zhou Yan was chatting with her cell phone, with an angry “hum”
and a long sigh. After dinner
, Zhou Yan lay down on the sofa and then picked up her cell phone and pressed it.
I took out the new box of facial mask from my bag. In front of Zhou Yan, I said to Zhou Kaian,
“Husband, this is the new facial mask I bought when I went out today. Please help me open it. Let’s
try it later. It’s new and very expensive.”
I deliberately said the words “newly bought” twice more so that Zhou Yan could put down her guard
.
Zhou Kaian was very happy to open it for me. I first took out one and applied it to myself.
Then I called Zhou Kaian to lie on the sofa and applied one to him.
I carefully pasted Zhou Kaian and asked him if he was comfortable. Zhou Kaian nodded repeatedly.
I pretended to ask Zhou Yan casually:
“Do you want one?”
Zhou Yan gave me a white look, did not speak, bowed his head and continued to play with his mobile phone. I gently pushed Zhou Kaian, pursing my lips with a look of being wronged. Zhou Kaian
took the hint and said to Zhou Yan:
“Yanyan, aunt means well. Can you stop pulling a face like this every day?”? I’d say
you should put one on, too. It’s very comfortable. Well, Dad will go and get it for you, and he’ll put it on for you himself
.
Without waiting for Zhou Yan’s response, Zhou Kaian got up from the sofa and walked to the washstand.
I sighed, so many years he has not changed, always so hard to try to
ease my relationship with Zhou Yan, in fact, he knows it is useless.
I followed him to the sink, took out a new mask, spread it out, and after teaching
him how to stick it on his face, I took a bottle of essence water from the cosmetic box.
The bottle had a large caliber, and it seemed that they poured a lot of sulfuric acid into it during the day.
“Add this, this is pure plant, no hormones, and it’s suitable for a teenager like
her.”
As I spoke, I took the bottle and poured some essence water near the middle of the mask.
“Hold on to the corners and don’t touch the inside. It’s all the essence.”
Zhou Kaian happily held up the mask to stick to Zhou Yan in my exhortation. As I shuffled my hands
at the shampoo table, I listened to the voices of the two
men in the living room:
“Oh, Dad, I can’t do enough.” “Let’s do it, let’s do it. Look at dad. Let’s do it together. Come on, it’s all ready for you.
Don’t waste it.” In
a few seconds.
“Oh, how can this facial mask burn my face? It hurts!”
“No, it’s cold, isn’t it? I just put it on and it’s cold, too. It’ll be all right in a minute.”
“Oh, my face hurts, it’s killing me!”
I slowly turned off the tap in Zhou Yan’s increasingly exaggerated screams and stood at the door
looking at her calmly.
Zhou Yan had torn the mask off her face, covered her face and howled in pain. Through her
fingers, she could see that her left and right cheeks were red, and her nose and upper lip were spotted with red.
Chou Kai-an was at a loss:
“What’s going on? Why is there such a big reaction to applying a facial mask?”
I picked up the car keys and threw them to Chou Kai-an.
“Go to the hospital.”
An hour later, Xin Ping suddenly broke into my house. It was
really a rush. She took Zhou Yan’s key to open the door, rushed into the bedroom, and pulled me out:
“You poisonous woman!”! Such a little child, you put sulfuric acid on her face! Are you still human! The child is crying in pain in the hospital, and you still have the leisure to sleep here!
Sulfuric acid? What sulfuric acid?
You’re still pretending! The doctor said that Yen-yen’s face was corroded and burned, and that it was very likely that she had been exposed to sulfuric acid. She didn’t go out all day, so she used one of your facial masks at night. You can’t deny that!
I chuckled and quickly put on my clothes.
“I’m not cheating. Don’t worry. As long as the police say it’s my responsibility, I dare to give you my life. Do you dare?” There was a momentary flicker in
her aggressive eyes, but she soon recovered. She pulled a shopping bag from my closet and said,
“I’m not going to argue with you. You definitely tampered with your cosmetics. I’m going to take it all to the police. You’re going to be in prison.”
Is it? Then you’d better look at this first.
I slowly took out my cell phone and found the video I had recorded in the afternoon. I held it up to her.
Hsin Ping only glanced at it. Her face suddenly changed. She looked up and looked around: “Don’t look. I installed it very covertly.”. Are you going to give it to the police now?
Xin Ping did not speak, and as soon as the previous momentum was released to the end, she threw the bag in her hand to the ground
and turned away.
After more than hour, Zhou Kaian came back with Zhou Yan. Zhou Yan’s face
was covered with a lot of gauze, and she was not alive.
But neither of them mentioned a word more about sulfuric acid, as if Zhou Yan’s
face was really a skin allergy.
Everything seems to be calm.
But only I know how much
Zhou Yan hates me after this incident.
Her face would never recover, and she would live with such a scarred
face for the rest of her life and be laughed at by the world.
Her hatred turned into a small flame burning fiercely, hidden in her bottomless eyes.
Have you ever seen a cat in the dark? Eyes burning like a cheetah, Zhou Yan is like
this now, she is always ready to kill me.
The clue first appeared in the change of her routine. In
the past, Zhou Yan could stay in the bedroom
for a whole day with her mobile phone and tablet. But since her face was destroyed, she rarely went out, even though she was wrapped
in rice dumplings from head to toe, she also went out every three or five times. There must be
something important that can’t be done or plotted at home,
but must go outside.
But why can’t I do it or plot at home? Because Xin Ping already knows that I have installed
a camera.
So I locked the target on Xin Ping. No matter how bad Zhou Yan is, she is still a child, and
she can’t do it with her own strength.
I bribed a security guard in Xinping community with several Yellow Crane Tower and asked him to help me keep an eye on Xinping
‘s whereabouts.
The security guard told me that Xin Ping seemed to want to rent a car. She had come to the security booth and asked him who was driving a taxi in
the community. She wanted to rent someone else’s car for a day or two.
Then the security guard told me that one time when he was on his shift, he rode an electric bicycle to the main
road of the community and saw Hsin Ping bargaining with a taxi:
“When I took a taxi, I only charged 100 yuan. This time I’ll give you 100 yuan.”
“Elder sister, that’s not what you said when you called the taxi. Besides, I took such a
big detour to pick you up at that stupid place on Liangcun Slope. You have to let your brother earn some hard money
.”
I asked the security guard if he could watch the surveillance and find the driver’s license plate number. The security guard was a straightforward man, and after adding my WeChat, he sent me all the videos
of that day that night.
I called the taxi company as a passenger, falsely claimed that I had lost something
while riding, and successfully got the driver’s contact information.
I asked the driver to meet me, and the driver looked at me for a long time and said, “It wasn’t you who took the bus that day
, was it?”
I said, “Yes, that’s my sister. She’s a little out of her mind. She sneaked
out while she was away from home. She happened to be in your car. I want to ask you where she went that day and
what happened.”
The driver was suddenly enlightened and said
, “What’s wrong with her?”? No wonder she
goes to places as remote and hard to find as Liangcun Po.
“Did she tell you what to do?”
“She said that her hometown was here, and she used to play in the reservoir when she was a child, but this time she had time to
come back and have a look.”
“Is there a reservoir over there?”
“Yes, there’s nothing but the reservoir. It’s all mountains and trees.”
I thanked the driver and walked back thoughtfully.
A week later, when I was drawing at home, Chou Kai-an called:
Wife, Yanyan said that there was an express that was paid on arrival, and parents had to sign to get it. I
didn’t understand what was going on. Why don’t you go with her? The courier was in a hurry to leave. I’m
really too far away to make it. As soon as
I turned around, I saw Zhou Yan staring at me sadly at the door,
like a cheetah staring at its prey.
I pointed to the bathroom. “Go to the bathroom first. Wait a minute.”
I sat on the toilet and took out my mobile phone, edited a few messages, and then cleared all
the chat records.
Then she came out, put on her coat, and said to Zhou Yan, who was waiting impatiently,
“Let’s go and lead the way.”
Into the elevator, out of the lobby, out of the community, Zhou Yan led me around, and finally
stopped at the entrance of an alley.
I asked her, “Where is the express?”
The words had not finished, suddenly stretched out a hand behind me, covered my mouth
and nose with a towel, and I suddenly lost consciousness.
When I woke up again, I found myself in the car with my hands and feet tied. Before
I could ask a question, Zhou Yan slapped me and said, “Are you awake?”? Just waiting for you to wake up and slap you in the face! Then
he said, “Pa Pa Pa,” and a few more slaps.
I looked at her coldly.
“What are you doing with me? Murder and kidnapping are illegal.”
“I’m not afraid of breaking the law. I’m less than 13 years old. I’ll be fine if I kill you.”
I stretched my neck, raised my voice, and said to Hsin Ping, who was driving in front of me,
“As a mother, if you don’t lead your child to the right path, what a bastard
you are!”
The voice did not fall, Zhou Yan slapped again:
“You dare to scold my mother!”! If you scold me again, I’ll slap you. Do you
believe it?
Hsin Ping also sneered,
“a bastard is a bastard!”! I only know that in my heart, everything my daughter does is right
. I will teach her whoever she doesn’t like, and I will help her kill
whoever she wants to die! What is the right way? Don’t use those to kidnap me, I won’t accept that!
Then she suddenly came to a screeching halt.
“This is it. Get her down.” Zhou Yan got out of the car first and tried to move me, but she didn’t move me. She called Xin Ping to help.
Xin Ping came from the rear of the car, holding a rope in her hand. First, she checked the tightness of the rope
in my hand. She felt that it was not safe. Then she tied my arm and my upper
body together with the rope she had just taken out. Then she was relieved to loosen the rope on my feet.
“Come down and go by yourself. I tell you not to play tricks. I know this place all over.
There’s no one here.”
I slowly approached the reservoir under their push.
Yu Guang skimmed the road when he came. It was very quiet and there was no sound of cars.
No one came to save me.
I remembered the text messages I edited in the bathroom before I went out. They were my distress
messages. I set them to be sent regularly. Not surprisingly, Zhou Kaian should come in 10 minutes
.
I tried hard to delay time, but even if I took a small step, I was pushed to the edge of the reservoir by them
. The
sparkling water, like an abyss, is watching me covetously. Holding one end of the rope in one hand and pushing me with a stick in the other
, Hsin Ping asked Zhou Yan,
“Have you had enough?”? When you’ve hit her enough, push her off quickly to avoid complications. Before Zhou Yan nodded,
I suddenly shouted at her: “You ugly bastard, I tell you, even if you are not punished by the law, with your
disgusting dead appearance, lame and ugly, your life is no
different from living in hell!”
“The happiest thing in my life is that I turned you into this ugly monster, and you
still want to hurt me. It’s really stupid!”
“And your lame leg. When I heard that those kids had beaten you, I
was really relieved. How could they not have killed you?”
Zhou Yan was so angry that I scolded her. She angrily pulled the rope
from Xin Ping’s hand, and I was far away from the shore.
Before she stood still, Zhou Yan opened her bow according to my face.
“You’re a dead woman. I didn’t think you were a good person from the beginning!”
“You foul mouth, I must be slapped to pieces today!”
One slap after another, I was slapped with Venus in my eyes, my mouth was salty and wet, and my face
was burning without pain.
But I still tried to keep my eyes open, staring at the path when I came, and I believed that Zhou Kaian
would come to save me.
If I don’t come, I will admit it. It has beautiful scenery and is very suitable for a long sleep.
Finally, after I don’t know how many times I was fanned by Zhou Yan, the sound of a car
came from the road. Hsin Ping obviously heard it too. She stood up and looked around. She
ran towards Zhou Yan in a panic:
“Hurry up, hurry up, push her down. Someone is coming!” After all,
Zhou Yan was young, and she was fanning me vigorously. When she was urged by Xin Ping,
she was in a hurry. She pushed me and called Xin Ping to come and help quickly, and
I bit her sleeve while she was looking back.
Zhou Kaian got out of the car and ran this way at a high speed while roaring.
I pulled my neck and bit Zhou Yan’s sleeve. No matter how Xinping pinched me, I didn’t
let go. The three of them had reached the edge of the reservoir. Xinping was frightened to let go when she saw that she was unable to save
the day.
I looked at Zhou Kaian who was getting closer and closer, smiled at Zhou Yan, and fell back
.
Zhou Yan screamed and fell down with my body. In less than
three seconds, Zhou Kaian jumped with him.
Hsin Ping shouted hoarsely from the shore,
“Save Yen-yan! Save Yen-yan!”
Cold water poured into my mouth and nose. My hands were tied and I couldn’t
struggle. I raised my head as hard as I could and shouted in the direction of Chou Kai-an,
“Husband, help me!” Zhou Kaian struggled to swim towards me. He pulled me out of the water and untied the rope with one hand and
teeth.
Zhou Yan was still flopping beside her. She wanted to call for help, but as soon as she opened her mouth, she was filled with water.
She could not call for help.
On the shore, Hsin Ping kept shouting,
“Hurry up and save Yen-yen, she’s dying.”
Chou Kai-an dragged me to the shore and let Hsin Ping pull me up. There was resistance in Hsin Ping’s eyes
. Chou Kai-an was so angry that he shouted,
“Hurry up, don’t waste time. There’s another one in the water!” Only then did
Xin Ping, as if waking up from a dream, stretch out her hand to me. I pretended to grasp it. When Zhou Kaian was
about to let go of her hand, she suddenly scratched Xin Ping’s palm. Xin Ping was so excited that I fell off from
her hand and fell into the water again.
Zhou Kaian had to lift me up again and let Xin Ping meet me. The third time
this was repeated, Hsin Ping’s face suddenly changed.
“Where is Yanyan? Yanyan is sinking!”
“Why don’t you pull someone up quickly? All the time wasted is Yanyan’s life!”
This time it went well, and I was pulled ashore by Xin Ping.
Xin Ping was about to cry and faint. Zhou Yan could not be seen on the surface of the water. Zhou Kaian took a deep breath and plunged in.
I counted the time silently in my heart, and seven minutes later, Zhou Kaian dragged the unconscious Zhou Yan out of the water.
Xin Ping shook her hands and dialed 120 again and again, but in the wilderness here, the fastest 120 would take 20 minutes to arrive.
Zhou Kaian learned the native method of his hometown and hung Zhou Yan upside down on his shoulder, constantly bumping and trembling, really like a doll. After a
long wait, Zhou Yan was finally pulled to the hospital by an ambulance, but because of the lack of oxygen for too long, doctors said that her cranial nerves and brain cells had caused permanent damage, and people might be in a persistent coma.
“Vegetative?”
Hsin Ping slumped on the ground, then suddenly got up and pounced on Chou Kai-an like crazy.
“It’s all your fault!”! You bastard! Why didn’t you save her first! She’s your own daughter. Why didn’t you go and save her first? As
she cried and kicked her legs, she lay down straight, and the nurse rushed over to help her pinch people.
Hsin Ping leisurely woke up and kept silent. After a while, her shoulders suddenly trembled and she uttered a few eerie “Hey, hey, hey.”. I followed the sound, and Xin Ping half lowered her head, rolled up her eyes, grinned, and looked strange.
She pointed to the empty space in front of her eyes and teased,
“Yanyan, my little Yanyan, you are the most lovely and well-behaved. Mom loves you the most.”
As she spoke, she got up from the ground and ran out laughing. When she got to the door
, she stopped and said to us ferociously,
“Go away. My Yanyan only plays with me. Go away, all of you!”
Then he laughed and ran out. Zhou Kaian and
I looked at each other. The cleaning lady in the
corridor sighed,
“Hey, you’re a good person. You’re crazy when you say so.” Zhou Kaian and I were the only ones left in the
ward.
Chou Kai-an looked at me with bloodshot tired eyes. After a long time, he spoke
with difficulty:
“You asked me the other day who I would save first if you and Yanyan fell into the water at the same time. My answer
was to save my wife first. I did it.”
“You said you wanted me to remember the words Liangcunpo Reservoir, and you forced me to mark the location on my mobile phone
map. I asked you at that time if Liangcunpo Reservoir had any special meaning. You said it should be an unforgettable memory. So that’s what it means
.”
“When I received your distress message, I was in a daze. I couldn
‘t believe that the two people closest to me were killing each other.”
“You know everything, but why don’t you tell me? Tell me, and I’ll stop
them, so that this will not happen today.”
I sighed,
“You can’t stop it forever.”
I got up and walked out. When I passed Chou Kai-an, I whispered to him,
“Thank you for choosing to save me first.”
Thank you, Zhou Kaian.
Goodbye, Zhou Kaian. In the
quiet ward, Zhou Yan was lying quietly in bed with a tube in her body.
She finally returned to her nature and would never make trouble again.
