MY SISTER'S MYSTERIOUS WORDS
My sister has been dead for about ten years. I still do not understand the mysterious words she said to me several months before she died.
One day when she was in bed in a hospital (She had been hospitalized for several years because of her broken leg and a chronic disease), she said, “There is a precious thing on the border between the west room and east room on the second floor of our house, and another at the south end of the kitchen floor.” At first, I didn’t comprehend what she was talking about. There was only a wall between the two rooms.
Several weeks later, however, I opened the drawer of a tansu chest that stood against the wall between the two rooms. In the drawer lay an old bereaved family pension bond. My uncle had been killed in China during World War II. So the government had issued the bond to my late father. I wondered how my sister knew about it? She had her leg broken many years before and had not been able to climb to the second floor. It was unlikely that my father had told her about the bond while he was alive.
I went to a post office with the bond and received the pension once a month for about a year. Without her words, I couldn’t have gotte the money.
As for the kitchen floor, I was not able to find any precious thing. Because the floor was covered with concrete, I was not able to break it to dig a hole in the ground.
What is strange is how she could know the location of the pension bond? She did not tell me to open the drawer of the tansu chest. She just mentioned the border between the west and east rooms. Was it her sixth sense that told her about it? Do chronically diseased people have special abilities?
