H'Ongtang "Scratches of Wounds"

Pressures

BEIJING, CHINA 1978

The sparks played at the time of the Chinese slightly distanced Yu An from the boredom of the business talks talked about by uncle Chen and his future fiancee, yu An's ears always hurt and his heart grumbled as lee chou began to boast in front of his uncle and aunt

" your judo business "

" very successful uncle, last month I have opened branches in hongkong and bangkok, maybe tomorrow I will open a branch in Indonesia"

"don't be in Indonesia, they're not safe for us "

" why uncle "

" hard line"

" aha"

Hearing the name of the land he was born in was talked about by them Yu An immediately voiced out because he did not accept if they mehinanya, he said,

" i don't think Indonesia is as bad as you might think, oh yes uncle please do not associate the death of our family with the good name of Indonesia because this is our business with a group of people and for you chou can you make money in the right way"

Uncle Chen was furious with Yu An's words that humiliated him and chou in front of many people, while Yu An left the party in the middle of the Chinese celebration after successfully making a red on the thick face of chou, Yu An pulled himself into the room and he picked up some literary books to read, the stack of writings on the book became a tranquilizer on his soul that had been exhausted from the pressure from his mother, not a few sentences he read in Uncle Chen's book came with his anger

" Yu An, why are you humiliating chou at the party "

" i don't feel ashamed of him but if he's embarrassed it's true"

"quite Yu An, you should be nice to him because he will be your husband "

" but I don't want an arranged marriage that uncle made just because of money"

" Yu An ..." An angry uncle raised his hand ready to slap Yu An yet he was able to hold back his emotions it was due to seeing the frightened face of Yu An, Uncle Chen turned around to neutralize his emotions ,his hands touched his chest and rubbed his face while Fei sat back down to read a book,

" why are you always pressuring me, is this your goal of adopting my uncle "

" Yu An"

" koko" Aunt Yen came to the room to break up the dispute between Yu An and uncle, their eyes both stared intently at each other with all the hatred "koko, koko, Yu An shouldn't you guys fight on this big day, please hold back your emotions lest others know there's a problem here"

Aunt pulled Yu An's hand and persuaded him to give up a little "Yu An my son come with auntie "

The uncle who was still holding was annoyed by Yu An's attitude and words then wanted to get rid of his valuables

" jung, jung"

" yes sir "

" burn all the books in this room "

" yes, sir"

After the party was over Yu An who was accompanied by aunt and uncle went to drive Chou and his father to the car, chou kissed Yu An's hand but Yu An threw away his face like he did not want to give a smile to the candidate and indeed from the beginning this beautiful Chinese woman did not want the mafia successor's man present his life, if not for the coercion of uncle Chen who had raised him maybe he had already refused the engagement back then, his debt to uncle was greater than his feelings so that Yu An could only keep quiet and obey the groove made by his mother, Yu An,

Early in the morning in late autumn Yu An woke up tired from a dull Chinese party last night "mistress morning" the sound of the housemaid greeting her every morning made her a little uneasy because previously she was just an ordinary girl who welcomed the morning freely but after she got engaged, she was a little bit engaged, Chou facilitates himself excessively and can not be imagined ten households at home just take care of Yu An to the core, Yu An does not like the things that curb, Yu An, just as freedom had been taken over by Chou completely and he thought it would be worse to be his wife later, "go away I want to be alone" Yu An told his ten aides with a cold face,with a slow step Yu An approached the breakfast dish on the table and took a cup of hot tea, while drinking the tea Yu An felt something different in his room,his favorite books he used to put on the room shelves were gone, all gone without a single one left, panic was on his mind "servant, servant ..." his screams filled the entire house that made the ten servants return to the room "where are my books? why silence, I asked once again where all my books "all the servants just fell silent not daring to make a sound but there was one of the servants looking towards the window , Yu An looked at the movements of his servant's eyes and then went to look at the window outside the black smoke, the feeling of his heart began to be uncomfortable and his mind turned bad, it didn't take long for Yu An to go outside the house and see his uncle's accomplice jung burning all of Yu An's books, "who told you to burn him " "mister chen miss" , yu An's disappointment to his mother was at a very high level to him and turned into anger ,Yu An took the half-burned book and threw it at the dinner table and it happened that uncle was having breakfast a loaf of bread with auntie" what else was uncle , ' he said , after my freedom you've let go, then my books and what else you're gonna lose from me"

" i only give what is good for you and will remove that bad thing from you "

" you think this kind of life is good for me "

" yes sure"

"ok, I know now that the reason you brought me here is that unfortunately my father has a sister like you, you're not my uncle you're a demon"