Chapter 16 end

It was August twelfth again, and Ruth was still in her little study, sitting quietly.The fog horn pierced the night sky to welcome the boat back to the port. Ruth didn't lose her voice.Her ability to speak is not affected by any curse or disease.This point, she is very clear now.But she didn't need to speak.She can write.Before that, she had no reason to write for herself, but to make wedding dresses for others. Now, she found a reason to write for herself. Grandma's photo was placed in front of her.Ruth looks at this picture every day.From the photos, she can clearly see the present from the past.Could grandma imagine that she would have a granddaughter like herself? ——She has a husband who loves herself, two daughters who love her very much, shares a house with her husband, and has close friends. The only things she needs to worry about in life are leaking pipes and eating too many calories.

Ruth remembered that her mother used to talk about death, that sooner or later she would die from a curse, or kill herself.It wasn't until she started to get sick that the web of painful memories in her mind became more and more blurred, and the suicidal impulse gradually disappeared.But Mom still remembers the past, but the content of her memory is changing.She no longer always remembers those sad episodes, but just remembers that she has received a lot of love.She remembered that back then, she was the whole reason Bao Nanny survived. One day, Ruth's mother called her, her voice terrified and frustrated, like her long ago. "Ruyi," she said quickly, in Chinese, "When you were young, my mother was sorry for you in many things. I was so worried that I would make you suffer a lot. But I can't remember myself. What did you do..."

"Nothing—" Ruth said. "Mom just wants to tell you, I hope you can forget those grievances, just like mom, I don't remember now. I hope you can forgive mom. Mom is sorry for hurting you." After the two hung up, Ruth cried for a full hour, she was so happy.After all, their mother and daughter have time to forgive each other and themselves. Ruth stared at the phone, her mother as a girl, and her young grandmother in her mind.These are the women who made her who she is today, they are in her bones.It was because of them that Ruth kept asking how order and chaos came about in life.Is it the power of fate or luck?Is it by your own will, or is it influenced by the actions of others?They were the ones who taught Ruth to worry.But she also gradually understood that these were warnings handed down from her ancestors, not to scare her, but to remind her not to make the mistakes they made back then and to pursue a better life.They wanted Ruth to get rid of the curse.

In the small study, Ruth went back to the past.The thin laptop on the table seems to have become the sand table of the past.Ruth became a six-year-old girl again, still herself, with her broken arm healed, and her uninjured hand holding a chopstick, ready to write the words of prophecy.Babysitter came and sat down beside her as usual.Her face was smooth and as beautiful as in the photo.She was grinding ink on an endstone. "Think about your intentions," said Babysitter. "Look inside your own heart, what do you want to tell others." Ruth and grandma started writing side by side, Evans springs up, they are one, six years old, sixteen years old, forty-six years old, eighty-two years old .They write down what happened, why it happened, and the consequences.They write stories from the past that shouldn't have happened.They wrote the stories that should have happened, the stories that could have happened.The past they write can be changed.After all, says Babysitter, the past is nothing but those things we choose to remember.They can choose not to hide anymore, to review the wounds of the past, feel the pain at that time, and know that everything will be okay.They know where happiness hides. Happiness does not hide in a certain cave or in a certain country, but lies in love, giving and giving freely in love, and love is always there.

Ruth thought of this as she began to write.The story is about her grandmother, herself, and the little girl who will become her mother. ① The English spoken by Ru Ling is grammatically chaotic from the beginning to the end, with many mistakes, neither tense nor person and number.These are difficult to show in translation, so readers are reminded. ① come out: come out, specifically referring to homosexuals who disclose their sexual orientation. ① The OJ Simpson murder case was a criminal case that shocked the world at that time.The famous black football player Simpson was accused of brutally killing his white wife and a male friend of hers.Simpson spent huge sums of money to hire famous lawyers to defend himself, and the court finally ruled that he was not guilty of murder.

①Anne Frank, a Jewish girl, hid in a basement with her family for several years during the Second World War, and was later discovered by the Nazis, taken into a concentration camp, and eventually killed.The Diary of the Escape Period became a classic work after its publication, and has been adapted into movies and plays many times. ① Obviously the author made a mistake here.The "Zhou" of Shang Zhou and the "Zhou" of Zhoukou are not the same Chinese character.The name of Zhoukoudian has nothing to do with King Zhou. ① This is a free translation, and the translation is borrowed from .

① Here it is obvious that the author regards "Zhou" as the name of an emperor, but does not realize that "Zhou" is the name of a dynasty. After the Western Zhou and Eastern Zhou, there were many emperors.As mentioned in the previous article, the name of Zhoukoudian was taken from King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty, and the two places are inconsistent.Presumably the author who grew up in the United States does not know much about Chinese history.