啪!我爸盛怒之下给了我一耳光,「你知不知道自己在说什么?」
「你打她干什么!」程青烁冲过来,把我拉到怀里护着。
「我打我女儿关你什么事?你搞清楚,你当年威胁我的录音,我还有,我一个电话就能送你进去吃牢饭。」
「你送他进去,我也不活了。」我哭着说。
「孽障!」我爸气得又要来打我。
程青烁护着我,直接挡住他的手,「送我进去啊,我烂命一条无所谓。」
「你要是再敢动她一根手指头,不管你是不是她爹,我都跟你拼命。」
场面闹得很难堪。
我躲在程青烁怀里,哭到颤抖。
我不是傻子,我当然知道我爸有勒索的录音意味着什么。
我不想程青烁去坐牢。
我很害怕。
「千千,我是你爹,我才是你的亲人,他这个半路的绑匪算什么,你糊涂啊。」我爸坐在椅子上,气得颤抖。
「你去做亲子鉴定的时候,把我当女儿吗?」我哭着问他。
「我在家里被欺负,被凌辱,你都睁一只眼闭一只眼,你把我当女儿吗?
「我被绑架了,你听到我的声音就挂了电话,是你说把我送给他,让我去抵债的,你当时把我当女儿了吗?
「你现在这样说,不觉得自己打自己的脸吗?」
我爸的脸色越来越黑。
「千千,你听爸爸解释,之前那个鉴定报告是你后妈从中作梗,用别人的毛发伪造的,爸爸后来又用你梳子上的头发做了,你就是我女儿啊。
「都是她的错,害我跟你分开了一年多,爸爸现在来接你了。
「都是她的错?您没错?」我哭着哭着就笑了,「您就是因为拿到了新的鉴定报告,才决定来找我的吗?
「这一年来你都对我不闻不问,你知道我怎么过来的吗?
「是叔叔养着我,护着我,供我读书,教我做人,这里的每个人都比我自己的亲人对我好,我真的分不清谁才是我的亲人。
「你的女儿姚千千,一年前就死了,我不会跟你回去的。」
「你!」
程青烁才不管我爹,把我抱在怀里,抽了纸,小心翼翼地给我擦眼泪。
「好了,不哭了。」
「你不怕我爸真的送你进去?我担心……」
「你哭得我想打人,管不了那么多了。」
他叹了一口气,「养了这么久,算是没白养,还知道担心人了。」
Dampier’s evidence shows how little the natives have changed in two hundred years. Yet evidence of progress may be detected, perhaps, as we have already shown. But one fact, perhaps of an opposite bearing, must be noted. A singular painting, in a cave, of a person clothed in a robe of red, reaching to the feet, with sleeves, and with a kind of halo (or set of bandages) round the head, remains a mystery, like similar figures with blue halos or bandages, clothed and girdled. None of the figures had mouths; otherwise, in Sir George Grey’s sketches, they have a remote air of Cimabue’s work.4 These designs were by men familiar with clothing, whether their own, or that of strangers observed by them, though in one case an unclothed figure carries a kangaroo. At present the natives draw with much spirit, when provided with European materials, as may be seen in Mrs. Langloh Parker’s two volumes of Australian Legendary Tales. Their decorative patterns vary in character in different parts of the continent, but nowhere do they now execute works like those in the caves discovered by Sir George Grey. The reader must decide for himself how far these monuments alone warrant an inference of great degeneration in Australia, or are connected with religion.