We asked Gou Dan about a lot of things.
Most of them concerned him, his sister, and his parents.
He could tell us almost nothing about his parents. All he knew was that people in the village had killed them. He did not know who exactly had killed them.
We guessed that he might have been only four or five when his parents died, or even younger, which was why he knew nothing about it. He had only heard about it from his sister.
He did know a lot about his sister, though.
His sister's name was Shen Zhiyi, and she was twenty that year.
By twenty, he meant twenty in their own time and space.
The villagers had designated an area Shen Zhiyi was allowed to move around in, meaning she could not leave that area.
They also restricted her food and drink. The villagers brought her meals, but there was not much food each time. From Gou Dan's account, it sounded as though she barely had enough to fill her stomach.
Gou Dan, meanwhile, got nothing to eat. Nobody took care of his food or drink. He ate whatever leftovers the households had. If there were any, he got to eat. If there were none, he did not even get leftovers, so he was very hungry and came out every night to look for wild greens to stave off his hunger.
That explained why Gou Dan still went hungry despite having a sister: she had no say even over her own food and drink.
Gou Dan also said that his sister washed all the clothes in the village.
His sister had also borne many children for the villagers.
After hearing all this, indignation could no longer describe how we felt.
This was beyond abuse. They did not treat