My name is Zhou Bin, born in 1948.
When I was a child, my mother often scolded my father in front of me. Influenced by her, I disliked my father.
But when I was ten years old, we encountered a mountain flood on the way to the market. My father protected my brother and me at the first moment, but in the end he was swallowed by the flood in order to save my mother.
My father may not have loved my mother, but he shouldered his responsibilities as a husband when facing danger. I don’t know how to evaluate this. Afterwards, my mother cried and laughed, fell ill, and died a year later.
From then on, my brother and I depended on each other for survival.
My brother is two years older than me. He is very quiet and learned all the skills from my father, which he later passed on to me.
Although we have the same father but different mothers, we have a very good relationship. When I was a child, I often followed him around and chattered, but he didn't find me annoying and would even use his slingshot to shoot birds for me to eat.
When I was fourteen, the things left by my father were almost used up, so my brother took the initiative to join the army and went to where his grandmother's relatives lived. He fought in the army and sent me food coupons and money every month.
I didn't want to rely on him for support all the time, so after repeated practice and experience in the mountains and waters, I acquired a set of sophisticated hunting skills.
In addition to being able to support myself, I can also send meat to my brother who lives far away, and the extra can be sold.
In 1968, I met Lin Momo, an educated youth from the city. She pestered me and boldly said that she liked me and asked me if I was willing to marry her.
I was moved by her straightforward words and married her. After marriage, she soon became pregnant with our baby.
She stayed at home to take care of the baby, and I went out to earn work points. I thought we would be very happy, but reality slapped me in the face.
For some reason, Lin Momo always gets involved in the Sun family's affairs.
I have no good feelings towards the Sun family. The reason is that our houses are next to each other. After my father died, the Sun family bullied my brother and me because we were young, and tried to occupy our house and land more than once.
But my Zhou family is not someone to be trifled with. With a single order from the clan, all the Sun family's belongings were smashed to pieces.
I still remember what Sun Dahai said at that time. He was only fifteen years old.
"You Zhou family is bullying my Sun family because they have no one. I will give birth to many children in the future and let my descendants bully you back!"
Tsk, who is bullying whom? How shameless.
After mediation by the village chief, the relationship between us eased a little, but it was limited to not quarreling when we met. We didn't go to give gifts to Sun Dahai when he married twice.
I told Lin Momo about this past event, hoping that she would have less contact with the Sun family, as they were not good people.
But Lin Momo didn't care. She often invited the Sun family's children to our house to play, and she took the initiative to help look after the children when the Sun family went out.
But she doesn't really like those children, which often leaves me confused.
The Sun family was very noisy every day. Sun Dahai's second daughter-in-law was a quiet person and was often bullied by her five stepchildren. I could often hear her screams of panic.
Being close to me, I know the reason.
Things like spilling dog blood in the quilt, locking the door to prevent her from coming out while she was taking a bath, releasing poisonous snakes and centipedes in the middle of the night, putting nails in her shoes, etc.
These are the Sun family's affairs, I won't get involved.
But I told Lin Momo about this, saying that the children of the Sun family were born bad. I asked her to stay away from the Sun family, but she said that they would change sooner or later, and this was the only way for them to grow.
I have never seen anyone grow by hurting others.
I thought I would never have anything to do with the Sun family's affairs, but what happened later dragged me into it.
Lin Momo pushed Yun Yuan down and she got a big wound. She was bleeding and looked like she was about to die. I was shocked and rushed her to the hospital.
When I held her in my arms, I noticed a fragrance all over her body, even her blood was fragrant, which was very different from that of ordinary people like us.
Because of this curiosity, I slowly began to pay attention to Yun Yuan.
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