Fraternal twins Aisha and Ruihaier, mother A Mu and Qing, native Verusa, grandmother Mamaji and Papacci, uncle Chuck, aunt Kegama, cousin Sophie Moore ... Every humble life has its own tragic story. Among the characters, Baby Kaigama didn't win much pen and ink from Roy, but in the end she became the biggest villain in the story, a stage image gradually enriched by her performance skills.
Ruihaier returned to Ayemen after the baby Kaigama wrote to tell her that Aisha was "sent back again". Baby Kegama is the aunt (Kegama) of Ruihaier's mother A Mu. Her real name is Nawami Pei Yi, but everyone calls her Baby. When she is old enough to be an aunt, she will become "Baby Kegama". Ruihaier returned to Ayemen Company after 23 years. The 83-year-old baby Kaigama is already the only "owner" here: wearing all the jewels of her late grandmother-flashing rings, diamond earrings, gold bracelets and a handmade flat gold necklace. "She always touches this gold necklace to make sure it is there. It belongs to her, just like a young bride who doesn't believe in her good luck."
Baby Kaigama has a very romantic first love. At the age of eighteen, baby Kegama fell in love with a handsome young father Mulligan from Ireland. He was sent by a seminary in Madras to study Hindu scriptures in Kerala, "hoping to refute them in a wise way". Little Kaigama's father is Father John Hippert, who is different from Father Mulligan. Every Thursday morning, Father Mulligan will firmly visit Ayemen Company, so that "this slim girl's heart" will be as excited as a flood. To this end, she also designed a weekly "charity act" performance to seduce Father Mulligan, and every time he made a serious explanation to get rid of her false doubts about the Bible, which was completely out of harmony with the exciting promise made by his bright emerald eyes. However, due to the excessive enthusiasm of Christians, the two men used the Bible as a strategy to approach each other, and it was not until Thursday of the whole year passed that they "produced any obvious results".
The distraught baby Kegama put all her hopes on faith, became a Catholic against her father's wishes, and entered a monastery as a trainee nun, hoping to get a proper chance to get along with Father Mulligan. But it was soon discovered that this effort was in vain, because "senior nuns monopolized the time for priests and bishops to deal with more complicated Bible problems". The angry and lonely baby Kaigama managed to leave the monastery, was arranged by his father to get a diploma in ornamental gardening at the University of Rochester in the United States, and returned to the front garden of his father's house in Ayemen to spend his life, only to find that he "worships Father Mulligan more than ever".
Ruihaier's return made their thoughts go back to 23 years ago, to the thirteen days when the story reached its climax, and to the baby Kogama to punish Ruihaier and Aisha for writing "I want to speak English forever" a hundred times, so as not to be teased by the party marchers to let her wave the flag on the way back to Cochin to meet Sophie Moore and get angry with Parafan (coconut pickers are more caste than sudra).
That afternoon, little Kegama was "in high spirits". Unlike Mamaji who accused Verusha's father of being a "drunken Parafan liar", she asked Veryababan to "describe in detail" what she witnessed-his sons Verusha and Amu "had a skin-to-skin blind date" on a boat every night. Baby Kaigama believes that "she can do that, so can he", because this is "God punishes Amu's sin" and "God revenges her shame in the hands of Virusha and the marchers". "He must leave, tonight!" Baby Kegama made up her mind to Mamaji, and then her own trembling: "How can she stand that smell?" Haven't you noticed? Those toadstools have a special smell. "
So, "Mamaji provides anger, baby Kegama provides plans", and they first locked A Mu up (lured her into the room). Next, little Kaigama entered the center of the stage and began her "vivid" performance.
First, it explains her "imagination".
At the police station in Gotayan, in order for Amu to "stop the scandal from spreading and save the family reputation", she began to make up stories and tried to rape "her niece, a divorced woman with two children". In her story, at about seven o'clock in the evening, Wei lusa went to her house and threatened-because he knew that only three women were at home alone-to ask them what evidence they had to prove the crime committed against him and what evidence they had to dismiss him according to the labor law. She told the inspector that what shocked her most was that he had no remorse at all and was even "very proud of what he had done". She added the behavior of the man who humiliated her in the parade to Verusha, describing the scoffing anger on his face and the impudence and arrogance that frightened her. Then she said that when Verusha was a child, she began to receive education. With the help of her family, she went to Park Jung Su school and received carpenter training. "The house he lives in is a gift from her family to his grandfather, and everything about him is given to him by her family."
At the end of the story, she did not forget to solemnly mention to the inspector "some ominous signs" that she noticed, such as that Wei lusa was in the parade, he was or was a Naxalite (extreme political faction), and "You can't kick us away again, just like kicking a dog, those days have passed", for example, the disappearance of several children in her family may be related to him. ...
What is the actual situation? First, when D lusa was called to Aymen Lian's house, Mamaji looked embarrassed and "spit out her rude insults" to him. Baby Kaigama has been "adding fuel to the fire" by her side, but Verusha didn't say a word from beginning to end, only ending with "we will deal with it". Secondly, with the exception of Parafan, who can't be changed but has nothing to do with Naxalites, Virusha, who is healthy, polite and steady, has almost undertaken all the equipment operation and maintenance tasks of the "Paradise Fruit and Vegetable Pickling Factory", the economic pillar of Baby Kegama's family, and is also one of the darlings in the eyes of Ruihai brothers and sisters. He grew up with A Mu, and now he has finally won the love of A Mu and his two children, which the inspector later learned. Third, even the baby Kegama couldn't think of it. A few hours after they abused Wei lusa, her two grandchildren-Aisha and Ruihai-couldn't find their cousin Sophie Moore. They thought that their mother no longer loved them and decided to run away from home. In the dark, Sophie Moore's boat capsized and drowned. Aisha and Ruihaier were taken into the "House of History" by lusa.
Then, it showed her "persuasiveness".
The police arrested Verusha according to the "complaint" of the baby Kaigama, and beat him in his sleep in the "House of History" in front of the two children. The skull is broken, the nasal bone and cheekbones are shattered, the face becomes muddy, the upper lip is cracked, six teeth are lost, the fracture pierces the left lung, the intestinal tube breaks and bleeds, the spine is damaged, the right arm is paralyzed, the bladder and rectum can't be controlled, and the kneecap is broken ... Being handcuffed and taken to the police station, it is doomed to "not live tomorrow".
Baby Kegama was told at the police station that the action taken by the police according to her "first complaint report" was wrong, because the two children voluntarily went to the "House of History" and Vjerusa was innocent. Baby Kegama once again hinted at "attempted rape", and the inspector pointed out that there must be a complaint from the victim. The inspector may be in big trouble "from the political atmosphere", suggesting that baby Kaigama should convince two children to testify against Virusha's kidnapping, otherwise she will be accused of being a criminal's "false" accusation. "Persuasion" spreads among infants, Kaigama and children;
Your lovely little cousin is dead. God won't forgive you for taking a person's life, will he? Two people nodded. If you go to jail, your mother will go to jail because of you. Do you like this? Two people shook their heads. You will stay in three different cells, with food mixed with cockroaches and piles of feces. If your mother can come out alive after being locked up for many years, then she is an old, weak and sick person with lice all over her hair. Two fears. You are lucky, that man is dying. The inspector said he would die anyway. If you want to save your mother, go to Uncle Beard and answer his question "Yes". Two vacancies. Do you want to save mom, or should we send her to prison? Two "Save A Mu"! -After Persuasion was finished, Aisha gently spit out two words to the police: "Yes."
Finally, it shows her "action power".
When A Mu took the children to the police station to tell the truth, Baby Kegama was frightened. Although she didn't know that the inspector ignored it for "political reasons", she also humiliated A Mu with body language. Although she bet that A Mu wouldn't admit the relationship with Virusha, she didn't consider A Mu's "endless tenderness of mother and reckless anger of suicide attackers". She didn't know how long the tacit alliance between the inspector and herself could last, or "If he is transferred, the case will be retried". Fear made her decide that A Mu must be driven out of Ayemen Company as soon as possible!
She achieved this goal with her best skill: "irrigate her fields and fuel her crops with the anger of others." Taking advantage of Chuck's grief over the loss of her daughter, her relaxed description planted an accessible goal for Chuck's "crazy anger": A Mu is the person who really must be responsible for Sophie Moore's death-her and her twin children.
The "action" has achieved practical results. A Mu was driven away by Chuck of Ayemen Company and died alone in a small hotel. Aisha was sent back to her father because of the baby's thoughts on Kegama, and gradually became silent and lost the language of normal communication with the outside world, as if "I just finished, there is nothing to say"; Ruihaier stayed in Ayemen Company alone, went to school, got married, divorced and went home. Just like Aisha, "the emptiness of one is just another quiet replica"-when she reaches the age of "being able to live and die", she is no longer alive, but she is not dead yet. ......
"Papacci moth"-a kind of moth first discovered in Papacci, has no name, is gray and hairy, and has a bunch of particularly thick hairs on its back. It is also the most important legacy left by Papacci to his family: doubt, jealousy, fear and sadness. Its ubiquity, the torture of living in his children and their children's hearts, even if it can't be turned into real things, has undeniably shrouded the shadow of baby Kegama-the cage is shrouded in Aisha's silence, the emptiness of Ruihaier, the exile of A Mu and the death of D lusa.
Under the Indian caste system and male chauvinism, Bao Kegama is the same victim as A Mu, Mamaji and Ruihaier. I also fell in love with "men belonging to different societies" in my early years, and tried my best to show my willingness and brave struggle in front of love. However, soon, she consciously became the defender, practitioner and executioner of caste system and patriarchy. She despised pagan marriage, hated "the smell of Paravan", threw divorced A Mu into eternal hell, and judged the brothers and sisters of Ruihaier as fatherless vagrants whose fate was fixed. A Mu's vitality, which is beyond redemption, and her struggle with fate, which the baby Kegama had already accepted, aroused her jealousy and hatred, and made her pursue human domination and "organization, order and complete monopoly".
Compared with Zhang Ailing's Cao's persecution and destruction of his children after "liberation", baby Kegama seems to be more insidious and vicious. He robbed future generations and haunted them. Rui Haier once thought that baby Kegama was "alive" because of the jewels in her heart, but she was only half right. Her baby menstruation went back not to look for her "material world", but simply to look for the "evil ghost" of Papacci moth!
At least, what she is obsessed with is her dead father Mulligan-baby Kaigama still begins with "I love you, I love you" in that chestnut diary every day-and she can be grateful in heaven, after all, he has converted to Hinduism before his death. Therefore, even if baby Kegama gets more historical gifts because of her long life, even if she wins in the spirit of encouraging fear, catalyzing anger and weaving lies, it has nothing to do with him.
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