Chapter 5: Midnight Fright
I hastened pace, aware that aunt''''s house was nearby. If I could reach it, I would be safe. With all strenth, I pounded on aunt''''s door. 我用了最快的速度往前赶着，姑姑，前面不远处就是姑姑的家，只要我能撑着走到姑姑家我就安全了。 "Ban, ban, ban!" I knocked on aunt''''s door with all strenth. “咚咚咚！咚咚咚！咚咚咚！”我使劲地敲着姑姑家的大门。 "Who is it?" I heard aunt''''s voice froinside. “谁呀？”远远地听到是姑姑的声音。 "Auntie, it''''s , Lotus!" “姑姑，是我，是我，莲儿呀。” "Child, why are you out so late?" Reconizin voice, aunt quickly opened the door to let in. “孩子，你怎么这么晚了还在外面呀？”姑姑听到是我的声音赶紧把门打开让我进去。 My trelin body finally found refue. 我抖擞的身子终于找到了安全的港湾。 Once aunt closed the door, I couldn''''t hold back tears and told her everythin that had happened. 待姑姑把门关好后，我再也无法克制住，哭着把事情的经过告诉了姑姑。 The barkin of dos outside continued nonstop. The n was still out there. The barkin continued for a lon ti before ceasin. Only then was I sure the n had left and I was finally safe. 门外的狗叫声一直不停地响着，那个男人还在外面，狗叫声持续了好久才停，等狗叫声停了，我才确定了那个男人离开了，而我也终于真正地安全了。 Later, aunt told father about the incident and blad hifor allowin , a youn irl, to do business alone so late at niht. It was far too danerous. 后来姑姑找到了我的父亲和他说了这件事情，并且责怪父亲让我一个女儿家这么晚一个人在外面做买卖，太不安全了。 However, aunt''''s reprind had no iact. My father reined that selfish and self-centered n. He never showed any fatherly affection. All he ever cared about was how to benefit fro. What advantaes could I brin hi How could I help our faly? 可是姑姑的责怪并没有起作用，父亲永远都是那个自私自利的父亲，他对我从来没有父爱，有的从来就是怎么从我身上获取利益，我能为他带来什么好处？我能帮助这个家庭什么？ Children without thers are truly pitiful, especially irls. 没娘的孩子真的很可怜，特别是针对女孩子。 Perhaps other therless children aren''''t as unfortunate as sisters and I because they still have their fathers or randparents. However, we don''''t have randparents, and our father is a very weak n. Others often bully weak individuals, and in our villae, father is one such person. He can''''t even protect hielf, so how can he protect his children? 也许别人家没娘的孩子没有我们姐妹这么可怜，因为她们还有自己的父亲，或者爷爷奶奶，而我们既没有爷爷奶奶，父亲也是个很懦弱的人，懦弱的人经常被别人欺负，在村里面，我的父亲就是这么一个人尽可欺的人，他连自己都保护不了自己，如何去保护自己的儿女呢？ Because we don''''t have a ther, we have experienced ny thins that ordinary people don''''t encounter, which are difficult for others to iine. 因为没有母亲，所以我们遇到了很多一般人遇不到的事情，很多一般人也想象不到的事情。 Our father can''''t protect us, so we st defend ourselves. 父亲懦弱护不了我们，我们只有自己护自己。