Eighty Years' Memories
by Wen Jieruo
About This Novel
Since the death of my wife Xiao Qian on February 11, 1999, I have returned to my home in this unit in Muxidi, Fwai, alone, and have lived there for nearly eight and a half years. I have been a person who has been very good at arranging my life since I was a child. In June 1941, my third sister Chang Wei suffered from osteomyelitis and was admitted to the Japanese Tongren Hospital at the east entrance of Santiao Hutong in Dongdan, where she underwent foot surgery. My mother originally asked the fourth sister and me to take turns taking care of the patients in bed. However, the fourth sister was only on duty for one day, so the third sister no longer wanted her. The fourth sister is very talented and good at playing the piano. She is proficient in English, French, German and Japanese without even looking at her hard work. She said to me personally: "I can see ten lines at a time." But she had no idea how to care for patients. Therefore, I became a full-time nurse and stayed with my third sister in the ward until she was discharged at the end of August. At that time, I was studying English at Sacred Heart School, which was located at the west entrance of Santiao Hutong.
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