"My father was worried that this piece of white cloth would fall into the hands of the three brothers and sisters of Ran Shixiong, so he specially wrote these six words. It is impossible for the three brothers and sisters of Ran Shixiong to understand these six words. Needless to say, Ran Shikai is the only one who can read these six words.

It must be that Ran Ruzhai chose this special way to tell Ran Shikai some important information when he encountered a very special situation, when he was extremely critical and in a hurry, and this information should not only be read by Ran Shikai, but also not seen by others.

Ran Shikai took two sips of soup: "'Kang Wenxiao' refers to the three Ran Shixiong brothers and sisters - at least the two Ran Shixiong brothers. ”

"Do the three Ran Shixiong brothers and sisters know?"

"I don't know—they can't know. There's a story -- it's a story of parent-child mother-killing. The name of the parent and child is 'Kang Wenxiao' last year's Spring Festival, I went back to Jingnan to visit my father, on the third day of the Lunar New Year, a distant relative came to the house, they are my mother's cousins, in the past, this relative as long as they came to Jingnan, they would come to my house for a few days, this story of parent-child killing mother was brought by this relative. It's not a story, it's a real thing that happened in their town -- something that happened more than thirty years ago. ”

"Ran Shikai, tell us this story."

Ran Shikai summarized the story.

Here's how the story goes:

The Kang family is engaged in the mountain goods and fur business in Wujia Town, there is a shop in the town, and there are two branches in the provincial capital, and the family is quite solid. The couple gave birth to a daughter, this daughter is very obedient and well-behaved, and the couple likes it very much. The only drawback is that he doesn't have a son. This has become the heart disease of the couple, there are three unfilial pieties, and there is no queen, this is a reason, and more importantly, there is no one to inherit the huge family business, and they are ashamed of their ancestors. Perhaps it was God's mercy, and when they were in their forties, the couple finally gave birth to a son, and this son was Kang Wenxiao. Middle-aged son, this is a great joy, since he is the only son, naturally he has to be pampered a lot, many of people's problems are used to it, Kang Wenxiao, who is soaked in honey, the bigger and more unformed, the bigger and more restless, when he was a child, the couple did not feel anything bad, but when he grew up, Kang Wenxiao became more and more disagreeable, he ate, drank, prostituted and gambled, the Kang family's mountain fur business deteriorated, the couple were busy wiping their son's buttocks all day long, and the light in the family continued to flow out, and they were about to lose their family's foundation, in the past, Kang Wenxiao took Guangyang from his parents, and finally developed to take Guangyang from the counter of the store. Once, the two semicolons in the provincial capital sent back six hundred yuan of input for three months, but he didn't expect this incident to make Kang Wenxiao bump into him, and he took the six hundred yuan of ocean away stubbornly. When the old man found out, he was so angry that he vomited blood from his mouth, and he couldn't afford to get sick. Before he died, the old man made a will behind his son Kang Wenxiao's back, leaving some inheritance to his daughter and the old woman, leaving only a few houses for Kang Wenxiao to live in and died. The old man had already seen that he couldn't count on Kang Wenxiao, and he was worried that his wife would suffer in the future, so he left a hand and left some savings for the old woman.

Kang Wenxiao, who lost his financial resources, followed the Kuomintang troops to become a soldier in desperation, and lost an arm on the battlefield.

After recovering, he returned home, probably when he was a soldier in the army, and he heard and saw a lot, and he gradually pondered the taste. So I started my mother's idea.