Freelance Artist

  Chapter 45 Ornaments and Yoko

  Pan Yi is still the editor in charge of contacting the new writer Bu Yehou at Nathan Bookstore.

  After receiving the manuscript, Pan Yi immediately sent it to the deputy editor.

  The deputy editor-in-chief said that he would personally participate in the review of Mr. Buyehou's works in the future.

   "Bu Yehou posted two short stories this time?"

  The deputy editor-in-chief was a little surprised. Under normal circumstances, writers would only contribute one story per issue.

   thought about it.

  The deputy editor said: "I'll read "God's Spell" first, and you can look at the quality of the other article."

"OK."

  Pan Yi nodded quickly.

  Backing to the desk, Pan Yi rubbed his hands expectantly.

   It is true that Bu Yehou's "The Chair in the World" last month was so wonderful, so wonderful that Pan Yi has been looking forward to the other's new work.

  The short story Pan Yi is going to read is called "Little Decoration and Yoko".

  Same as "The Chair in the World", the name is based on the background of Chuzhou.

  The story begins.

  Pan Yi saw this sentence:

  【Suddenly there was a plop, something fell from upstairs, and I heard auntie screaming. Wearing dirty clothes, a face exactly like mine was lying on the ground.

  Yoko's suicide is beyond any doubt. 】

Um?

  Pan Yi was a little surprised.

  This sentence does not have a clear cause and effect, but people can't help but diverge their thinking and associate with the follow-up content.

   Very special writing technique.

   When it comes up, it tells readers that a person named "Yoko" committed suicide.

  Keep watching.

   This turned out to be a topic about domestic violence?

  Bu Yehou uses the first person "I" to tell this story.

  My name is Yoko.

  I have a twin sister named Xiaoshi.

  We were both born at the same time and look exactly alike.

  My father left the family when my mother was pregnant and never came back.

  We were abandoned.

  My mother was very bad to me, beating and abusing me at every turn, but she was very kind to my sister. She was treated like a little princess.

   "Yoko, you are an older sister, you should give way to everything."

   "You were born by me, it is my freedom to live or die!"

  These are mom's usual sayings.

  I think it's normal for mother to like small accessories.

  Xiaoxiu is beautiful and lively. When she smiles, it looks like a flower suddenly blooms.

  At school, she is also loved by her classmates and teachers. Sometimes she will leave the leftover food for me to eat, so I also like her very much.

once.

  I ate with Xiaoshi and two classmates, and they bought three burgers.

  Xiaoxiu ate a few mouthfuls, then vomited it out again, and shared it with me. She told her classmates that I was willing.

  I am really willing to eat it happily.

  Just like at home, Xiaoxiu will share the leftover food with me,

   If you can eat delicious burgers, it’s okay to exchange my kidneys.

   Later I met an old lady.

  My mother-in-law's dog was lost, and I helped her find it.

  My mother-in-law thanked me very much and invited me to her house as a guest. She treated me to a lot of delicious food, such as my favorite burger.

  “If you can’t change others, try to change yourself.”

  My mother-in-law once told me so.

  …

  Pan Yi frowned tightly.

  The story is told in the first person by her sister Yoko.

  Obviously, the tone of the person involved was ordinary, but Pan Yi felt heavy and dark, with a feeling of oppression with chills on his back. One was from his mother's abuse of Yoko, and the other was from Yoko's habit.

  Yoko didn't seem to think of resisting at all.

  She seems to be a domesticated dog, and she thinks that all this is normal. She is also a mother and daughter, but she just doesn't deserve to have those beautiful things!

this moment.

  Pan Yi thought of the sentence at the beginning of the story, Yoko committed suicide by jumping off the building.

   "No."

  Pan Yi suddenly discovered a problem: "The opening paragraph did mention Yoko's suicide, but the perspective is from the first person!"

  Pan Yi also specifically went back to the beginning to confirm.

   That sentence is [A face exactly like mine is lying on the ground].

not…

  Pan Yi thought of some possibility, his heart beat faster, and he continued to watch with wide eyes.

  There are still a lot of descriptions of the mother abusing Yoko in the following text.

  Mother seems to have an inexplicable hatred for Yoko, even if she is just in a bad mood, she will vent it on this sister, and then leave her smile to her sister.

  Is this a foreshadowing?

  Why does mom hate Yoko so much?

   Is it related to the mother and daughter being abandoned by their father?

  Pan Yi was curious, and the plot entered a turning point at this time.

  The mother-in-law lent three books to Yoko before, but those books were confiscated by her mother.

  Mom thinks these books were stolen by Yoko.

   But the mother-in-law also gave Yoko the keys to the house, and put them in those books!

have no choice.

  Yoko sneaked into her mother's room, trying to get those books back, but her sister sneaked in too.

turn out to be.

  Sister Xiaoxiu wants to get a CD from her mother.

  Mother was unwilling to give it before, so Xiaoxiu wanted to secretly take it away by herself.

  Yoko was afraid of being discovered by her sister, so she quickly hid under the bed and peeked through the dressing mirror.

  Sister Xiaozhu seemed very nervous, and accidentally broke the vase, and all the water in it spilled on her mother's laptop.

  Xiaoxiu immediately restored the vase to its original position, but it was too late.

   In the full-length mirror, Xiaoxiu's pale face was reflected, as if she was afraid of being scolded by her mother after she found out.

  【Looking down at the wet computer, Xiaoxiu looked around the room in a panic, and soon a smile appeared on her face. She walked a few steps and stopped in front of the three books placed.

   That was the book my mother-in-law lent me to read.

  Xiaoxiu's hands grabbed those books.

   Then Xiaoxiu put the CD on the table back into the shelf, as if she didn't want to take it anymore.

  She walked out of the room with only the book my mother-in-law lent me.

  I quickly understood why Xiaoxiu left with the book that my mother-in-law lent me.

When my mother came back and saw the broken vase and the laptop computer soaked in water, she would definitely think who did it. Retrieve them before going into the room and knocking over the vase. 】

  Yoko was terrified.

  Both vases and notebooks are things that my mother cherishes very much. She has no doubt that her mother will kill herself!

  She can only pray that the kind mother-in-law can take her in.

  But who knows.

   Arriving at her mother-in-law's house, Yoko got the news that her mother-in-law had passed away.

   It's over!

  Yoko was desperate, sitting on the swing, listening to the laughter of children in the distance, shouting in her heart:

unacceptable!

  …

   This is more than excessive!

  Pan Yi was about to explode when he saw this.

  Sister Xiaoshi is too vicious, she even wants to blame her sister!

  Although Yoko didn't mention any resentment towards her sister in the first perspective, her sister's behavior has always been vicious, especially when she spit out the chewed food before and let her eat it like alms.

   And this time.

  Yoko finally tried to resist.

   "Hey, Xiaoshi, what you did in mother's room, please apologize to mother honestly!"

   "You know about that?!"

   "Yes, so please tell mom that you did it!"

   "No! I don't want to make mom angry!"

  Xiaoxiu shook her head vigorously and said: "Let her be angry with my sister! Aren't you used to making her angry? It's too shameful for me to make her angry, so I don't want it."

  Yoko suddenly felt breathless.

   "But you obviously knocked down the vase, didn't you?"

   "Hey, what a brainless person! What I mean is, think it was your sister who did it! When mom comes back, you should apologize to her, understand?"

"I…"

  Yoko's hand tightly grasped the key in the pocket, as if blood was about to be squeezed out.

  Pan Yi was also itching with hatred.

   But the following description left Pan Yi in a daze for several seconds:

  【I like her from the bottom of my heart. But this was already ten seconds ago. Thinking of this, the stuff stuck in my chest that made my breathing difficult melted away, and my breathing became smoother.

   "Then please listen to me..."

"It's a pity that mom already knew what you did. It's true. You took the book away, trying to make it look like I did it, but you couldn't hide it from mom. After you went to the convenience store to buy something, mom I'm back. I was standing in the entrance, and I heard my mother's roar from the room. Then I fled to the park, and my mother seemed to see that you knocked down the vase."

  Xiaozhu's face turned pale, "It's impossible to tell!"

"I can see, I heard my mother's voice in the hallway. She said that the order of the CDs was out of order, and it was Xiaoxiu who did it! I heard my mother shouting so. So she is waiting for you to go back and be honest with her An apology. So please, be honest."

  Xiaoxiu looked at me in confusion, "Has it all been exposed?"

  I nodded.

   "But I don't want to make her angry and get beaten like my sister!"

  I pretended to be confused, and then said to her, "Well then. I'll apologize to her on your behalf."

"How to do it?"

   "Let's change our clothes, just tonight. I'm wearing Xiaoshi's clothes, and Xiaoxiu is wearing mine. Until tomorrow morning, I will pretend to be Xiaoxiu, and Xiaoxiu will walk with her head down like me."

   "Won't it be revealed?"

"It's okay, we look exactly the same. It's just that Xiaoxiu has to pretend to be as sullen as I usually am. Then you'll be safe. Whether it's making my mother angry or being beaten by her, I'll bear it for you .Xiaoxiu doesn’t need to worry about anything.”]

  Pan Yi suddenly stood up.

  The words at the beginning of the novel reappeared in his mind, and suddenly he felt that his breathing was not smooth, as heavy as a draft fan.

  Xiaoxiu didn't doubt her sister's words.

  Because my sister never lied to Xiaoxiu.

  Sister Xiaoshi and sister Yoko exchanged clothes.

  The elder sister pretended to be the younger sister, and the younger sister pretended to be the older sister, and made an appointment to go home one after another. Anyway, the two sisters looked exactly the same.

  Finally echoed from beginning to end.

  Pan Yi saw the opening sentence again.

  【Suddenly there was a plop, something fell from upstairs, and I heard auntie screaming. Wearing dirty clothes, a face exactly like mine was lying on the ground. 】

  Yoko's suicide is beyond any doubt.

  Yoko's suicide without any doubts?

This novel was made into a movie, but the movie version has more adaptations, and finally added an ending, that is, after Xiaoshi, who pretended to be her sister, died, her mother asked Yoko, who pretended to be her sister, to forge a suicide note. After seeing Yoko’s handwriting, Mom gave a weird smile, and it was over.

  (end of this chapter)