The Han Diaries, part 3
Sleeping, eating and weeping were all I did.
My face was swollen.
Mother usually told me to sleep after lunch.
They said good children sleep early in the evening.
I did it.

23. Mother forced me to wear very large short pants.
The size was for a teenager or for an adult.
Brother and third sister saw me and frantically laughed.

24. I was with a neighbour boy.
He suddenly pushed me into a ditch where dirty water was flowing.
He ran into his parents' store.
I chased after him.
His mother shouted after me, "Why? Why?"

25. I was with a neighbour boy.
He suddenly threw soil at my eyes and ran away.
It was painful.

26. A boy threatened me.
He said, "Be cautious, or I will kill you."

27. A boy and an older boy threatened me because when they fought another boy a few days before, I thought he was good and helped him.
The younger boy said, "You are dead today. Cub of a dog. (Son of a bitch.) Follow us."
We walked.
He said later, "Be cautious, or I will kill you."

28. If I crossed a book on the floor that was left by sister or brother (I didn't step on it.), they scolded me.
They said it was unlucky and that the owner wouldn't be able to study very well.
Superstition.

29. This was popular with children at the time.
They went to a small, shabby convenience store.
They put a white cube into the dipper, put the dipper on the briquet stove, melted it, put white powder into it (They called it soda.), and it swelled up.
They ate it with a wooden chopstick.
It tasted very sweet.
The third sister sometimes continued asking me to get money from father and often asked me to go to a convenince store together.
This was also popular.
A peddler had things totally made of sugar shaped like a sword, gun, animals, etc. on his cart.
A child gave some money and drew lots.
If he was lucky, he got a very big one.
If not, he got a very small one.
The third sister often asked me to do it together.
She diligently brushed her teeth.
She never asked me to do it together.

30. The third sister pushed me into the dirty ditch for fun.
I fell into it.
My pants were wet with dirty water.
We went home.
Mother didn't care.
She was devoting herself to talking with a woman.
She shouted, "What are you doing? Cub of a dog. (Son of a bitch.) Wash them."

31. There was a nail clipper at home.
But mother sometimes cut my fingernails with heavy, rusty scissiors.
She sometimes hurt the flesh.
She always cut the nails too short.

32. The toilet rooms of many houses were conventional at the time.
It always made me sick just thinking that a lot of excrements were piled up in one place in the house.

33. I said to parents, "I want to have my own room."
Brother joked, "You have your own room. The toilet room."

34. A young relative visited.
He and my brother were friends.
When I was passing by the two, brother said to him, "Kill that son of a dog. (Son of a bitch.)"


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