Three questions every day after traveling through a book: Has your character been ruined today?

"Of course, when I was little, she was my only friend."

"Sister, since you are curious, let me tell you the story between us."

Ever since Su Ye blurted out "sister" in front of the camera in a hurry yesterday, he has never changed his words, as if this was the most ordinary name.

Meng Yuan did not try to correct him. Her smile as she looked at Su Ye was clearly full of nostalgia, but a hint of cunning flashed inadvertently after she said this.

Meng Yuanguang was so busy studying the other person's smile that he ignored the word "we" in the words.

"My parents were very strict with me since I was young. They had to pick me up from school every day and didn't allow me to go out to play after I got home. So I had no other friends except the older sister next door."

"She is five years older than me. Her family favors boys over girls, so her parents treated her very badly and stopped her from studying in junior high school."

"Her family runs a small shop. Since she stopped going to school, she helps out in the shop every day."

"Every time I went there, she was either moving goods or busy helping customers get wine or weighing bulk goods. I rarely saw her sitting on a stool."

"Even if there were few customers in the store, when her parents were sitting in chairs behind the counter watching TV, she would just stand far away by the shelves, using the shelves as a cover to flip through the picture books in her hand that she had read countless times."

"I have a lot of picture books, so I lent her all the picture books I treasured."

"Our two families have a very good relationship. When my parents are at work and can't pick me up or are not at home, it is the neighbor's aunt who picks me up at her store."

"I usually eat lunch at her house. Oh, and my sister also cooks lunch. She cooks delicious food, but she rarely eats with us."

"I asked my uncle and aunt why my sister didn't eat with us, and they said she had to work."

"I asked the uncle and aunt why my sister didn't go to school. The uncle and aunt smiled and said that if she didn't want to study, then it wouldn't be a waste of money."

"But my sister obviously wants to learn. Every time I do my homework in the canteen, my sister comes over to look at my textbooks with great interest."

"So later, I started to teach my sister. After my uncle and aunt went to take a nap, we sat behind the counter and I taught her to recite ancient poems, read English, and do math."

"She couldn't learn it right away, but she would write it down carefully in the notebook I gave her. Later, I found that she no longer read comic books in her spare time, but kept flipping through the notebook where she took notes."

Meng Yuan intuitively felt that the so-called neighbor sister Su Ye mentioned was herself.

The family that abducted Meng Yuan and Su Ye ran a small shop, and I had also read in the original owner's diary that the original owner was forced to drop out of school when he was a child and worked every day.

Only then did Meng Yuan realize the true meaning of "we" that Su Ye had just said.

I didn't expect that the other party would recall that past event in public in front of the camera, but obviously, in order not to reveal the specific information, Su Ye still processed the background a little.

Although he didn't know why Su Ye was willing to take the initiative to talk to him about this experience at this time, Meng Yuan admitted that he was very curious about what that time in Su Ye's memory was like.

"Other children can go home together after school, but no matter how old I am, someone has to take me to and from school; other children can go out and play with their friends, but my parents never let me go out and play with them."

"The other boys in the class started to laugh at me and exclude me because of this. I felt very sad because I really wanted to hang out with them."

"When I went to my neighbor's sister's store at noon, she noticed that I was unhappy and asked me what was wrong. I told her that my classmates asked me to go out and play at noon, but my parents didn't allow me to."

"My sister asked me if I wanted to go. I said yes, so my sister asked me to sneak out while her parents were taking a lunch break. She would cover for me, but I had to come back before her parents woke up."

"I was so happy at that time. The moment I sneaked out, I felt the air outside was so fresh. It was my first time to participate in an extracurricular game activity with my classmates. I was so happy that I forgot the time."

"When I sneaked back to the store and walked to the door, I heard the shouting and cursing inside."

“When I opened the door, I saw the neighbor’s parents beating my sister.”

"They pulled my sister's pants off and made her kneel on the ground. One of them took a wooden ruler and the other took a whip, and they hit my sister with it."

"I was terrified. I cried and asked them to stop beating me, but the beating didn't stop."

"The next day at noon, I went to the canteen. My sister made lunch for me. After lunch, while my uncle and aunt were taking a nap, I asked my sister if it hurt. I cried and said sorry to her, but my sister smiled and touched my head and asked me if I had fun playing with my classmates yesterday."

Su Ye paused and took a long breath, as if trying to control his emotions, before continuing:

"I was happy. How could I not be happy? That was my first time to taste freedom. But the price of tasting freedom was that my sister was beaten."

"My sister was beaten by my uncle and aunt because I was missing, because my parents didn't allow me to go out to play, and she didn't keep an eye on me."

"From that day on, I never agreed to any invitation from classmates to go out and play. Even if I was excluded and isolated in class, I didn't care because I didn't want to make my sister suffer for my own happiness."

"My sister told me that it doesn't hurt, it just looks scary, and she's used to it."

Su Ye looked at the ruler on the counter, and it seemed as if he saw his childhood long ago through the ruler, and he showed an almost self-deprecating smile.

"How could it not hurt? When the ruler hit me, I knew my sister was lying to me."

"It hurts so much, and it's a pain that I will never get used to no matter how many times I experience it."

"You..." Meng Yuan said with great concern, but didn't know how to ask.

Fortunately, Su also understood what Meng Yuan wanted to ask, so he continued:

"Later, my parents' relationship broke down and they were always arguing. After every argument, they would get drunk, and if I didn't do what they wanted, they would drag me over and beat me up."

"Every time I saw my sister after getting beaten, she would always find me."

"Maybe because she was always beaten, so she could clearly see the injuries on my body."

"We are like two wounded young animals, always hiding together to lick each other's wounds."

"Later, my father beat me and I was hospitalized. My sister secretly ran to the hospital to see me. She cried as she looked at me lying on the bed and said to me, 'Leave here, or you will be beaten to death.'"

“I asked her why didn’t you leave?”

“She just smiled and shook her head.”

"What happened next?" Meng Yuan asked.

"Later," Su Ye smiled again, and this time it was the familiar, shining smile that Meng Yuan always saw on his face.

"Later, I listened to my sister and was admitted to a boarding school far from home. I lived in the school every day, so he couldn't find anyone to beat me up."

"My sister's store caught fire at night. My uncle and aunt who were sleeping in the inner room were burned to death. My sister escaped because she slept in the small bungalow outside."

“So when the idea of ​​setting up a canteen came up, I thought of the canteen I had when I was a kid.”

"It holds almost all the happiness and sadness of my childhood." Su Ye looked around the movable replica that took a day to create.

The cheers from the activity area outside were still rising and falling. Meng Yuan didn't know when Side A of the tape in the recorder had finished playing. He got up, changed the tape to Side B and pressed play again.

As the music filled the room again, Meng Yuan smiled at Su Ye:

"Then I hope that after today, when you think back to this store, you will have more happiness."

Su Ye looked at the look Meng Yuan gave him and smiled.

Sister, sister, you obviously don’t remember anything, but you still comfort me first.

You are indeed the god or Buddha who came to save me from the sea of ​​suffering.

How can I bear to let go of this?