This is how my sister died.
I was 7 years old and my sister was 17 years old.
That day was my sister's birthday.
During that time, the atmosphere at home was very strange. Although I was still young, I was not stupid. My mother secretly cried behind my back, my sister stayed in her room all day long, and it was rare for my father to stay at home for so long.
And grandma, she no longer criticizes mulberry trees and mulberry trees, she reprimands her mother more righteously than ever: "How much money a woman can make is of no use, and her daughter can't be taught well. You are making me, Liu's family, Shame on you."
She would also unabashedly sneer at her sister: "Pearl, Pearl, self-love is a pearl. Failure to love yourself will only make the name Pearl useless."
When grandma was away, mom and dad would quarrel behind closed doors. They would howl and cry in the room and not even eat.
My sister just silently cooked the food, silently threw away the food that only I had touched, and washed the dishes silently with her back to me.
She hasn't had a good conversation with me for more than ten days. She is pale and thin, her school uniform has become empty, and her whole figure is like a doll hanging in her clothes.
This is all very abnormal, but everyone hides it from me.
On my sister's birthday, I used my saved pocket money to buy a light purple birthday card with dark purple flowers on it. I didn't know what the flower was at that time, but I only knew that my sister liked it.
After school, I didn't wait for my grandma to pick me up. I carried my schoolbag in front of me, just like my mother would do when she went home after withdrawing money from the bank. After all, I was also carrying a huge sum of money.
There is a stationery store in front of the school. There are many beautiful greeting cards in it. I felt that my sister would like it at a glance.
I wrote my blessings one stroke at a time, using pinyin for the Chinese characters I couldn't write.
There was no one at home, including my sister who hadn’t been out all day recently. I quietly sneaked into my sister’s room and hid in her closet. Just like my sister did when she wished me a happy birthday on my birthday, I would jump out of the closet to scare me. Give her a jump and then give her a gift to make her happy.
I hid carefully, but when the door was pushed open, someone walked in. It was my sister. I saw it through the gap.
Suddenly someone was banging on my sister's door.
Dong dong dong, dong dong dong...
I beat one song for a long time.
My sister taught me that it is rude to knock on the door like this.
So I saw my sister covering her ears and lying on the bed.
But I heard my father’s voice shouting outside: “Niuniu, let’s forget it and stop suing. Dad will take you to Hangzhou, okay?”
My sister didn't answer.
"You will go to school in Hangzhou from now on. Dad will take you to see the West Lake. Don't you want to see the White Snake the most?"
"There are also Broken Bridge and Leifeng Pagoda. Let's take a boat ride together."
My sister didn't say anything. I saw her put down her hand. Apparently she heard her father's words, but she bit her lip tightly, and a dull whimper came from her throat.
I saw my sister holding her breath like a sick person, so she would open her mouth to breathe heavily from time to time, and when she was about to cry, she would cover her mouth tightly, and tears would fall from her eyes. rolled down her pale cheeks.
I didn't dare to scare her, I was too scared.
So I quietly came out of the closet and crawled onto her bed.
"Sister," I hugged her neck, "sister, I wish you a happy birthday."
My sister put her arms around me and buried her head on my shoulder. Her head was heavy and it made me uncomfortable.
But I didn't want to move, because my sister was on my shoulder, crying like a tearful person.
I can still hear my father and mother arguing and complaining to each other.
"It's all your fault. You make money all day long. You only go home once every six months. You throw everything at home..."
"Can you blame me? It's not because you, as a mother, didn't treat others properly as a mother, so someone deceived Niuniu..."
"Niuniu said that she was not friends with him, it was him who was lying..."
"Niuniu said, Niuniu said, then why did the lawyer take out the love letter written by Niuniu?"
"That's not a love letter, that's the homework he asked me to write silently. That's not the love letter I wrote to him. He lied..." My sister stopped crying at some point. I didn't realize that she was sitting up and listening to my parents. quarrel.
I leaned into her arms and hugged her, "Sister, what's wrong with you?"
"Sister, believe me or not, I am not telling lies, he is lying..." My sister's eyes were like burning flames.
"Sister, I believe you. You never lie. I know best..."
"What should I do? How could this be? What should I do?" My sister hugged me tightly.
Later, there was a chaos in the house. Because my grandma didn't pick me up, she ran back in a panic. Everyone was noisy and looking for me in the living room and at home.
I wanted to shout and tell my parents and grandma that I was at home, but my sister slept soundly in her arms with me, and her hands held me tightly, so I fell asleep with her.
When I woke up, it was already the next morning. My sister was not in bed or at home, and my parents were not at home.
Only my neighbor Aunt Huang told me that my sister had died just last night in that small pond.
