investigative chronicle

Chapter 70 Heather
Ji Si'an took out the phone book and dialed after some hesitation.

"Hi, hello, are you Zhang Wenwen? I'm Ji Si'an."

"Ah...you are Xiaoan. I haven't contacted you for a long time. How are you doing? Where do you work? Has your mother's case been solved?..."

Ji Si'an bit his lip, he knew that there would be such a small talk, so he would not make this call.She has been far away from her hometown these years, but she just doesn't want to be questioned about those past events.

"Wenwen, I... don't want to mention this." Ji Si'an's voice was low and depressed.

Wen Wen knew the elegant meaning after hearing the sound, and no longer mentioned the old case.

Ji Si'an breathed a sigh of relief, and after briefly chatting with her about the current situation of the two of them, he went straight to the point and asked her if she knew Shinan.

"Heath Nan? How old is it? Male or female?" Zhang Wenwen asked.

It seemed that she didn't know, and Ji Si'an was slightly discouraged. If Zhang Wenwen, who is known as "Bao inquiring" among her classmates, didn't know, the others would not know.

"She should be older than us, and she seems a little silly..." Ji Si'an sorted out the information he heard during the hypnosis.

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while, and just when Ji Si'an had given up hope, Zhang Wenwen called out.

"Ah, I remembered. Are you talking about that silly girl? The old people in the village call her Silly Nantou."

Hearing this, Ji Si'an cheered up: "Yes, yes, this is the person. How is she now?"

"She died... She was nearly 20 years older than us. If she didn't die in a very special way, I wouldn't know about her." Zhang Wenwen said with a sigh.

"By the way, what are you looking for her for?"

Zhang Wenwen's question awakened Ji Si'an who was in shock.

She asked tremblingly, "When did she die?"

"What happened a few years ago must have looked like 5 or 6 years." Zhang Wenwen recalled.

Hearing the time of her death, Ji Si'an was lucky. Does this mean that the thing that his mother didn't prevent did not cause direct harm to Shinan.Thinking of Ji Si'an in this way made her feel a little better.

"I'm currently researching laws on women's protection, can you tell me about her?" Ji Si'an casually let out a panic.

Fortunately, Zhang Wenwen wanted to talk, so he told her about Shinan without delving into her lame excuses.

Shinan is the youngest in the family, and has two older brothers.She was also a clever child when she was a child, but later she fell ill. After recovering from the illness, her brain burned out and she became what everyone called a fool.

She often wanders around the village with disheveled hair and disheveled clothes. Whenever she meets someone's fruit tree bearing fruit, she picks it and eats it regardless of whether it is ripe or not.People who have suffered losses came to their door every now and then, and Heather naturally had to be severely beaten.

In order to let her get rid of this problem, her mother sewed a bag on her skirt, put some food in it, and took it out to eat a few bites when she was hungry.I don't know whether it was the father's beating or the mother's tears which played a role. Since then, Heather has really stopped picking the fruit from the roadside trees.

But even so, her behavior was disliked by the neighbors. What's more, the bad boys chased after her and threw stones, and even made up jokes to laugh at her.Every time at this time, she would stop, lower her head to pick up a bigger stone, pretending to fight back, and the brats would coax them into fleeing.

People who saw it all said that girl Nan is not that stupid, except that she can't speak and reacts slowly, she still knows it well.

But later, as Heather grew up, her condition seemed to be getting worse, and things like stripping and undressing in public happened from time to time.Her behavior gradually attracted the eyes of malicious people.

Female neighbors surreptitiously alerted her mother to the situation.Mother repeatedly urged but with little effect.Once, Shinan went to the field with her naked lower body to look for her mother, and kept wiping the dripping blood from her lower body...

The mother was terrified, thinking her daughter was being bullied, and nearly collapsed.Later, after being reminded by the kind grandmother who followed and protected her daughter all the way, I realized that it was a false alarm.

The daughter had menarche, but the mother was worried.She looked at her daughter who had grown into a big girl, but she was not happy at all.She didn't want those unscrupulous people in the village to look at her daughter with such lewd eyes.

In order to protect her daughter, she decided to reduce the number of times she went to the ground to take care of her daughter.But in this way, the family that is not well-off has one less labor force.Since then, there have been complaints in the family, and my father and brothers have disliked Nan Yatou even more.They regarded her as a burden, and taking care of her became the responsibility of the mother alone.

Later, in order to reduce the burden on the family, the mother took care of Nan Yatou during the day, and went to the fields to work under the moonlight at night...Such days lasted for ten years.My mother was so tired that day, she accidentally fell asleep while taking care of Nan girl.

Shinan took the opportunity to run out, she walked on the street and saw everything was novel, touched and bumped and quickly walked out of the village.The mother woke up and found that her daughter was not there, and hurried out to look for it, but accidentally fell into a deep ditch.Years of hard work and lack of sleep have already made her body vulnerable.When everyone found her, she was already dead.But she insisted on not closing her eyes just to wait for them to get her daughter back.

In fact, she was afraid, she was afraid that if she died, they would not look for their daughter and take the opportunity to get rid of her.Finally, under the joint efforts of everyone to find, Shinan was brought back to her mother.

Looking at the ashen-faced mother, Shinan, who had been stupefied, seemed to have sensed something.She rushed forward with a whimper, howling like a beast.It was a primitive, pure emotion. Even though she couldn't express it in human language, everyone understood her sadness and despair.

The mother took the hands of her father and brothers, but stared at her daughter intently.Her husband understood what she meant and promised her that he would take good care of her daughter, so she slowly closed her eyes.

Since then, Shinan has become much more honest. She sits on the big rock in front of her house in a daze all day long, and no one knows what she is thinking.

Later, her father also passed away, and her brothers started their own families, and she became more and more a burden.Although she was very obedient at this time and never ran around again; although she could be quiet all day with only three simple meals a day, the sisters-in-law still disliked her and discussed marrying her to an old man with a bad reputation in the next village. Bachelor.

That man had been imprisoned many times for molestation, rape and other crimes when he was young. It is impossible for such a person to treat Heather kindly...

Ji Si'an listened to Zhang Wenwen's narration with tears in his eyes, and guessed that his mother should be arguing with his father and grandma because of this.A mentally handicapped woman is like a child without any protection. Once married, she will lose the protection of her family and become a lamb at the mercy of others.

Everyone knew what Shinan was about to face, but they all stood by and watched for various reasons.Mother despaired of their indifference and insensitivity, but couldn't stop it from happening....

After Shinan got married, she lost all contact.People in the village quickly forgot about her existence.This silly girl who had lived in the village for more than [-] years disappeared without a sound.

(End of this chapter)