The moon is bright and the night is still young

Chapter 36

After Rong Yu finished telling this ups and downs story, Jiang Ruohua couldn't accept the heavy truth for a while.She slowly let go of the hand that was holding Rong Yu's skirt and took several steps back, and said with a wry smile, "It turns out. So that's how I came here." Rong Yu sighed, "It's rumored in the palace that Concubine Chun committed suicide in cold palace. At the time of the news, my father was busy with other affairs. At first, my father also thought that Concubine Chun had really died in Lenggong. Later, my father's eyeliner told my father that there was something wrong with the body sent to the mass grave by Lenggong, so my father started to investigate. Gradually find out the clues, what happened to Concubine Chun was only known to my father later."

Jiang Ruohua's expression was sad, and her childhood memories were overwhelming.

From the beginning of Ruohua's memory, the impression of her family is that she is poor. How poor is it? The house is completely bare, leaking rain and wind, cold in winter and hot in summer.Mother only wears patched coarse cloth clothes all year round. Although her skin is rough, Ruohua always thinks her mother is very beautiful. If she can wash and dress well, she will be a beauty like a fairy.

However, the mother has no money to dress up and dress up. During the day, she has to set up a stall and sell handicrafts to support the family. At night, she has to do the housework and take care of the young Ruohua. Day after day, she has carved a scar on her face. Another deep wrinkle.Ruohua has been sensible since she was a child. She loves her mother dearly and will do her best to help her with work, help her mother set up stalls, and make funny faces to make her laugh.In Ruohua's eyes, her mother is always the most gentle and kind existence, she will be reluctant to eat and save money to buy Ruohua new clothes, she will buy Ruohua the sugar man she always misses, and will pat Ruohua every night to coax Ruohua to sleep .

Contrary to her mother, Ruohua has never felt her father's love.Father never cared about his mother and Ruohua, he used all the money he earned to drink, and threw all the burden of family life to his mother.He himself only comes home every day when he is drunk in the middle of the night. When he is in a good mood, he will sleep peacefully. When he is in a bad mood, he will throw things and kick his mother. He was severely beaten by his father.

The father's behavior has caused a great psychological shadow on the young Ruohua, so that every time he hears his father's movements, Ruohua can't help being nervous and afraid.Seeing his mother being beaten, Ruohua was afraid of his ferocious father even though he himself was, but every time he rushed forward without hesitation, defending his mother like an old hen, crying and begging his father to stop beating.The father may think that Ruohua is too young, and he is afraid of accidentally killing her by mistake, and the remaining rationality prevents him from attacking Ruohua.At such times, he often kicked his mother unwillingly, and then went to sleep cursing.

Every time my mother was beaten, her nose was bruised and her face was swollen, and sometimes she even vomited blood. Ruohua was scared and distressed, but she was weak and could do nothing but cry and wipe the tears on her mother's face.Although the mother will cry, but seeing Ruohua's frightened look, she will forcefully hold on to the pain and smile to comfort Ruohua not to be afraid.

Time has passed, Jiang Ruohua, who has grown up at this time, looks up at the snowflakes flying outside the window, recalling the painful memories that have been hidden in her heart for many years, she can't help frowning, holding back the tears lingering in her eyes, choking Said: "When I was six years old, because of the continuous rain in the rainy season, the roof leaked, and my mother's legs hurt again. She barely supported me and cooked dinner for me and lay on the bed and couldn't move. At night, my father came back drunk again, yelling I insisted on asking my mother to get her something to eat. The mother said that her legs hurt from the rain, and she asked her father to find something to eat. The father became furious, cursed, picked her hair, dragged her to the ground and started beating her again. I was so scared Crying loudly, I rushed to protect my mother, but this time, before I could plead for mercy, my father slapped me, grabbed my collar and threw me out. I fell heavily on the ground, with stars in my eyes and pain I couldn’t cry anymore. It was the first time I was beaten in my life. When my mother saw that my father was attacking me, she went crazy and tore at my father. However, my mother’s thin body couldn’t beat my father. I fell to the ground. My father beat my mother almost and came towards me again. I had nowhere to hide, so I could only let my father beat me. The more I cried and begged for mercy, the harder he beat me. Suddenly, my father stopped fighting. Instead, she fell straight on the ground with her eyes wide open, and a lot of blood flowed from her head. I saw my mother standing behind my father holding a stick, and the stick was still stained with bright red blood.

(End of this chapter)