Starry River of the Sky最後一講: 如果你碰到Rendi遇到的家庭挫傷, 你會選擇逃離嗎?

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英文敘述Duke Zhe did as he promised. He spoke of Magistrate Tiger to the imperial family. As the summer was ending, Magistrate Tiger received an invitation from the Imperial Palace and he was invited to go to the emperor’s Mid-Autumn Moon Festivities. One of the activities in the festivities was riddle guessing, and Magistrate Tiger managed to secure the riddles before the festival. So one day he came home and called his children to him. He said, “Children are supposed to be good at riddles. If you have any intelligence at all, you will know the answers to these.” His children were able to answer the first two. But when Magistrate Tiger presented them with the third riddle, both children looked helplessly at each other. Magistrate Tiger looked at them with disgust. He said, “I see you are as feeble minded as I feared.” His voice began to rise as his customary roar emerged. Still Magistrate Tiger was able to answer the emperor’s first two riddles correctly by stealing his children’s answers. He was rewarded with a blue, white, and gold rice bowl on a gold stand 黃金架子, and an enormous gang that was made to be an indoor fishpond. When Rendi discovered his dad had stolen his answer, he was outraged, but his mom and sister comforted him by telling him that his dad did all this for him. Upon hearing this, he felt a mixture of confusion and resentment. He couldn’t understand why his dad roared and tricked and lied for him. But his mom and sister just kept telling him that his dad did this for him.

Magistrate Tiger was very proud of the prizes he received from the emperor. He filled the gang with water and goldfish, displaying it prominently in his formal chamber. Naturally Magistrate Tiger’s son was forbidden to go into his father’s room. One day Rendi walked softly to the huge gang, and to get a better view of the fish inside, he climbed onto the shelf, and by accident, he fell into the gang. Cold, shocking water slapped him and filled his mouth and eyes. His elbows and hands banged against the slippery walls of the gang, but he couldn’t find the edge. He was drowning, drowning… Crack! Suddenly, water rushed away from his face, and he was on the floor, coughing and choking. His sister had grabbed an ink stone墨石 from the table and had smashed it into the gang and saved Rendi. When Rendi looked at his sister with gratitude, he heard his father’s roar. When Rendi tried to explain to his dad that his sister had broken the gang to save his life, Magistrate Tiger just shouted, “I don’t care! These pieces are with more than you!” Black bitterness, 悲憤, gripped Rendi. His mother had lied! Everyone had lied! His father did not roar and lie and cheat for him. His father did not care about him! In fact, he cared more about the shattered gang.

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