After Mrs. Liang left, Yu Dong took out all the notebooks in his handbag.
Cheng Yanqiu looked at these diaries and sighed slightly: "I don't know what is hidden in them."
“You’ll know it once you’ve seen it.”
Yu Dong looked for them one by one and finally found the oldest one.
The first entry in the diary was recorded on May 21, 1936. The handwriting was very sloppy and the writing was very messy. It was nothing more than what they ate today, what they learned, and which old customer came to their store.
A new customer has arrived.
And it can be seen from this first diary entry that Mr. Liang has the habit of writing diaries. He has written many diaries before. This is a new diary, which cost a lot of money.
The content of the first half of the diary is similar, and the frequency of writing the diary is quite high. Even if it is not one article a day, it can be one every two or three days.
But in the second half of the book, the frequency dropped. Basically, I wrote one article every two or three days, and sometimes I only wrote one article every one or two weeks. It seemed that the current situation was not good and it had affected them.
These diaries often mention a person named A Yuan, who should be the apprentice their family recruited. It can be seen from the lines that Mr. Liang has a very good relationship with this A Yuan.
By the time of the second book, the two men officially took over Liang Ji's store. Although the current situation was not good, the business in the store was pretty good.
Until one day, A Yuan left a letter and left.
In the letter, A Yuan told Mr. Liang that he wanted to go to the south to try his luck, and he would come back when he made a name for himself, so that Mr. Liang should not worry.
Mr. Liang was very angry about A Yuan's sudden departure. He thought that he was very good to A Yuan and A Yuan should not treat him like this.
In several diaries written after A Yuan left, Mr. Liang would scold A Yuan. However, as time went by, the number of mentions of A Yuan in the diaries became less and less. Later, A Yuan was not mentioned for a long time.
name.
The time in the diary has reached 1942. Mr. Liang has gotten married and given birth to a son. It can be seen that despite the turmoil, Mr. Liang's family is still living a happy life. With new life, it is natural to have a new life.
new Hope.
One night just a few days after his son was one month old, a seriously injured man knocked on the door of Mr. Liang's house.
Shanghai was very chaotic at that time. Someone knocked on the door at night, and Mr. Liang did not dare to open the door until the other person said, "I am A Yuan."
A Yuan was shot and his arm could no longer be saved.
At that time, Neon's agents were arresting underground gangsters everywhere. As soon as Mr. Liang saw A Yuan's injury, he knew that A Yuan was the target of arrest.
When I wrote this in my diary, it felt a little strange.
The next dozen or so pages only contain dates, but no specific content.
Until later, in a new diary, the first sentence Mr. Liang wrote was: I betrayed A Yuan.
A Yuan was taken away, and before leaving, he said a curse to him.
However, the content of the curse is different from the version mentioned by Liang Fanyuan.
Liang Fanyuan's version is very simple, it is "All men of the Liang family will not die well", but what is recorded in the diary is "If you fail me, you Liang family members will not die well".
A Yuan's curse is not aimed at the men of the Liang family, and it also has a prerequisite.
Looking further back, Yu Dong finally understood what "if you failed me" meant. It turned out that A Yuan did not hold a grudge against Mr. Liang for his betrayal. He also asked Mr. Liang to help him take care of his wife and children.
After A Yuan left the Liang family, he also got married and had children. Both of his parents were still in the Northeast and knew nothing about what A Yuan had done.
He hoped that Mr. Liang could bring the couple to Shanghai to help take care of them.
But Mr. Liang didn't do it. He even found them, but he lingered in front of their house all night and finally returned to Shanghai alone.
Later, the Liang family moved to Jinling, and then to Baodao a few years later.
After arriving in Baodao, a new life seemed to have begun, but Mr. Liang had been thinking about A-Yuan's wife and children, but he had not heard about them through various channels.
When the diary reached this point, the handwriting suddenly changed.
Yu Dong realized that he had read four and a half of the five diaries.
In other words, Mr. Liang's diary ends here, and the next half is written by his son.
Yu Dong couldn't help but sigh. The end of the diary also meant that Mr. Liang was about to pass away when he finished writing this last diary entry.
Because of what happened to A Yuan, Mr. Liang lived with guilt for half his life. Later, when he committed suicide and was about to die, he told his son that he must find A Yuan's family and expose their family's crimes.
Mr. Liang used the word "crime", and it was these two words that made his son breathless.
In 1987, the Association for the Promotion of People from Other Provinces Returning to Hometowns to Visit Relatives was established. Mr. Liang wanted to participate, but at that time it was only once a year and the number of places was limited, so he did not register.
It wasn't until a few years ago that he finally had the opportunity to go to the mainland.
According to his father's description, he found A Yuan's home, but did not see A Yuan's family and only heard a tragic story.
A Yuan's wife later remarried and brought her son with her. However, the son was beaten into dementia by his stepfather and was sent to her father's home.
After the old man died, A Yuan's son had no one to take care of him, and he died in the winter of the previous year.
After returning from the mainland, Mr. Liang's state was not right. The only dozen or so diaries he wrote were like the ravings of a madman, and they were all fragmented words.
Revenge, devil, curse, crime, relief, repayment...
Although these words are very fragmentary, they can piece together Mr. Liang's state at that time. He must have been overwhelmed by these things and had some thoughts of relief.
After Mr. Liang's diary ended, Yu Dong thought it was all over, but he found some words on the last two pages of the diary.
The handwriting is different this time. The font is very small and very delicate. It looks like it was written by a woman.
Yu Dong read these two pages again and realized that they were written by Mrs. Liang. She was writing about her mental journey during the period after her son's death, including pain, resentment, and regret.
There was still relief, and she even came up with the idea that three people in the Liang family had died, and even the curse should end.
After reading all the words, Yu Dong let out a long sigh.
The tragedy of the Liang family was not caused by a curse, but by the guilt hidden in his heart. Even though Mrs. Liang's son did not know these things, he was still affected and suffered the guilt in another form.
And this tragedy is not a tragedy for their family, but a tragedy for an era.
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Chapter completed!