This was probably the meal that everyone had the least appetite for. No one had the appetite to eat. After cleaning up, none of the Su family members felt sleepy at all.
Everyone sat in the yard and looked up at the sky. It had been raining for the past few days and the sky was dark at night, but today the sky was full of stars for the first time in a long time.
Li Xiulian looked at the stars in the sky and murmured, "Do you think that after he left us, he turned into a star in the sky?"
"It must be." Wu Guixiang nodded firmly.
Her eyes, swollen like walnuts, pointed to the brightest star in the sky and said, "Look, that's it."
?After death, people will turn into stars in the sky and will always watch over you. This sentence is actually used by many adults to coax children, but at this moment, they sincerely hope that this sentence is true, and he really turns into stars in the sky and will always watch over them and this land.
Su Qingyun sat next to Wu Guixiang and gently wiped her tears, "Grandma, don't be sad."
Wu Guixiang looked at the brightest star in the sky and said softly, "Yunyun, your grandfather and I are old, and old people seem to like reminiscing about the past."
"When I think about the past, I feel scared. When I was young, there were four sisters in my family. We were all very close in age. I was the second oldest. My mother couldn't even hold her head up at home after giving birth to four of us girls."
"During her fourth pregnancy, the doctor said her belly looked like it was a boy. My father was so happy. But the doctor said my mother was weak, so he went to the city to buy some nourishment for her. But he was drafted into the army and never came back. I don't know where he died on the battlefield."
The whole family was stunned when listening to Wu Guixiang's story, because she had never said these things before.
Wu Guixiang didn't know what was wrong with her. She didn't want to mention those difficult days before, but today, she just wanted to talk about it.
"After my father passed away, my grandmother thought my mother was unlucky and treated her even worse. When she was more than seven months pregnant with my fourth sister, she even asked her to wash clothes in an icy pond, which was even more harmful to her health. My fourth sister was born prematurely and my mother suffered a heavy hemorrhage. She only had time to see my fourth sister once before she passed away. Before she died, she discovered that my fourth sister was not a boy and she didn't even close her eyes."
"With both our parents gone, my grandmother had to take care of the four of us sisters all by herself. She was old too, so she had no choice but to send my fourth sister to be raised by another family. She also arranged for my eldest sister to marry off hastily and brought back the money for the bride price. Only the third sister and I grew up together."
"When we were about the right age, my grandmother sent me and the third child to work as maids in the landlord's house. The landlord had a stupid son who drooled all day long. His brain was worse than that of a two or three-year-old child. Not only was he stupid, he was also a pervert. He saw that the third child was pretty and kept touching her."
"The third child was afraid that if she lost her job, she'd get beaten to death by her grandmother, so she kept silent and didn't say anything, not even to me. Until the very end, that idiot attacked her again. When the two of them were pushing Sangsang, the third child was pushed directly into the well by that idiot, and died. The idiot's father was afraid that the matter would be exposed, so he gave me some money and kicked me out."
"I went to the official, but he was a jerk. He'd been bribed by the landlord. It was clearly that idiot who killed the third child, but in the end it turned out that the third child wanted to become a phoenix and climb into their family, so she seduced the idiot. She refused, and in the end she slipped and fell into the well and died. Isn't that ridiculous?"
"I couldn't do anything but go home. My grandma was mean all her life, but when she looked at me, she cried so hard she couldn't breathe. I knew she was suffering too. She lost her husband in middle age, her son in old age, and her daughter-in-law soon after. She had four granddaughters, and in the end, I was the only one left. She suffered more than anyone else."
"Later, she seemed like a completely different person. She treated me very well. I knew she was afraid that she would eventually lose me too. We, grandma and granddaughter, began to depend on each other for survival. In that chaotic world, we tried hard to survive. But think about it, how could an old man and a young girl live a good life in that kind of world? We were lucky if we weren't bullied."
At that time, I felt that this world was too dark, and that God was too blind. People like us were no better than ants on the ground. People could just step on us and no one would care. It was like the night sky, the days were dark.
"I often hear the schoolchildren in the village shouting about how they want to defend their country when they grow up. Even young people who have only been in school for a few years keep saying that the country is sick and must change. I laugh inwardly. Who can change? Who can transform this society? No one."
"Later, no one could have imagined that the light would actually come. Soldiers carrying guns came to rescue us, freeing us from the dire straits we were living in. I still remember that among the first group of people who came to liberate us was a teacher. He stood at the entrance of our village, holding a charcoal pencil and writing on a large stone slab, explaining to us what the new society and new life were."
"Those who had been terrified by suffering wanted to believe but dared not. Then I watched as the landlords were overthrown, the old society became a thing of the past, and everyone stood up, no longer needing to bow to anyone. My third sister, who had died unjustly, was finally cleared of all charges."
"Later, I finally recognized his name and saw his face. I knew it was him. He led us to stand up and live a new life. There would be no more landlords, no more conscription, and no more living in fear of bombs falling from the sky."
"I see my life getting better day by day, and there's not a single day that I don't feel grateful. Those ideas have influenced all of us, so I think you should read more. Reading is always useful, and this society needs people who read books."
"We all went through the most difficult days, so the feelings we had for him are simply unimaginable to those who haven't experienced it. Everyone is born, grows old, gets sick, and dies. But this day has finally come, and he's gone. My heart feels empty."
"Today, I kept thinking about the past over and over again in my mind. It was as if I was back to that day, the day when so many people set foot on our land, and the day when that gentleman told us about our new life."
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