Grandpa's Moonlight

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It was a clear and non-windy early autumn night. The moonlight was like milk enveloping the world. Outside a house in our small village, there were a lot of people enjoyed the cool with continued talking and laughing. My grandpa was among them.

My two sisters and I were playing beside the crowd. Like a rabbit, I often jumped here and there. One time, I jumped to the back of my grandpa and found there was something seemed like a drop of blood on his cap. I used my fingernail to cut it and proved it was just a spot.

\"Hey. What are you doing?” grandpa shouted.

\"Oh, there was something wrong on your cap.\" I made a face.

\"Just go away. Play with your sisters.\"

I jumped back and found the moon was not so bright now.

After a while, grandpa felt a little bit sick. He went to his home and we continued playing.

The moon became dimmer.

...

\"Help, help...” suddenly, a cry disturbed the laughs. Guo, one of my neighbors, ran hurriedly to us.

\"Wang was going to die!”

This soon created a disturbance among us. Some of them felt confused and said to each other. \"Oh, my God! What’s wrong?\", \"He was quite well just now.\"...Some of them were fixed on the ground with their eyes stared into the direction where the voice came from. And some of them just kept asking loudly: \"What's happened? What's happened?” I couldn’t speak a word, and hugged my sisters closely—Wang was my grandpa.

\"Hurry up, hurry up. He was in my house. He has lost a lot of blood. He was going to die. He was killed by...\"

All the people ran to Guo's house. I, too, with my two sisters followed me closely, ran with the crowd and with a \"question\" in my heart. It seemed like we were all in a dream.

In the road to Guo's house, we had known the whole thing. As a manager of electricity in our village, several days ago, grandpa urged Lin's family to hand their charges for electricity in and Lin was not happy. Last night, Grandpa had a word with grandma, and shouted something not so pleasant loudly. When Lin heard it, he thought that my grandpa was scolding the locust while pointing at the mulberry. Tonight, he found a knife and pushed my grandpa's door out suddenly and cut grandpa when grandpa had no conscience of it. Two of my grandpa's fingers were broken. It was said that after cutting grandpa's belly, Lin began to cut his head. In order to protect his head, grandpa, intentionally, used his hands to hold it. After a while, when Guo passed grandpa's home, Lin had already ran away. Guo heard grandpa's weak voice of calling for help and then saved grandpa to his home.

When we arrived at Guo's house, my sisters and I were not allowed to come in. They said we were too young to see such a bloody scene, and asked us to find some place to hide in. My two sisters grasped me more firmly and I, like a carved figure, stood motionlessly despite the people were hurrying to and fro. In a daze, I heard a voice: \"Oh, how poor the children are! Their parents are all working in other provinces!\"

Soon, my grandpa was sent to hospital.

My sisters and I came to our own home. We made the door fast, even all the windows. We sat together closely without a word. For a long time, we had no intention to sleep. In the far away place, there were dogs barking one after another. Then after quite a long time, the moonlight was completely disappeared. Disjointedly, we heard the sound of the patrol wagon. With a wish, we gradually went off to dreamland.

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