The amount of information in this sentence seemed a bit large. Minnie didn't react for a long time. After hesitating for a long time, she asked tentatively with a stiff smile: "Mom? What are you talking about? Didn't you only give birth to one child, Bao'er?
? When will we have another child?"
"It's all my fault. I never told you." Xiao Hui patted Minnie's shoulder apologetically, then put her arms around Xiao Bao'er, who had the same dull look on her face, and said, "Ni'er, you should know that I am not your biological child.
Mother, but you don’t know that when your father and I were together, I wasn’t married for the first time… That’s it, my ex-husband and I had a child, and that child was him.”
A classmate who had little contact with her on weekdays suddenly became her brother in name only. This dramatic development made Minnie a little hard to accept.
"But...Mom, why have you never mentioned this to us before?"
Xiao Hui shook her head, pulled her sleeves to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said, "It's not that I meant to hide it from you, it's just... I don't want to remember..."
Xiao Hui's tears once again burst out of her eyes like broken beads, and she sobbed intermittently as she recounted the pain of losing her child more than ten years ago that she did not want to recall.
While listening to her mother's narration, Minnie looked at Li Mengnan sitting next to her mother with a very complicated expression. She had no idea that this boy who laughed and laughed all day long and seemed to never have a problem would actually have such a tragic life experience.
Especially when I heard that when the police found Li Mengnan's biological parents and wanted to send him home, he refused. Instead, he stubbornly stayed in that remote and poor mountain village to provide for the old man who bought him until his death.
There, Minnie was finally moved.
If the two of them exchanged roles, she didn't think she could live in a comfortable and prosperous big city like Li Mengnan and stay in a poor valley guarding an old man... And in a sense, this old man still caused him
One of the culprits of being unable to return home.
Filial piety comes first. From the perspective of "filial piety" alone, this Li Mengnan can be regarded as a good person... Minnie's heart was touched, but she did not intend to give Li Mengnan any good looks because of this. After all, it was this bastard who took it away.
He took away her most precious possessions and ruined her dream of marrying into a wealthy family.
Although it does not mean that with that thin film, one can fly on the branches and become a phoenix, but if one wants to enter those wealthy mansions as the hostess, it is absolutely impossible without such a film that proves one's chastity.
The more important a big family pays attention to the purity of their bloodline, the more this is true.
Xiao Baoer was not as complicated as Minnie thought. The little girl was already full of affection for this elder brother who had saved him. In addition, half of the same blood was still flowing in her body, so she felt even more kind to Li Mengnan.
After listening to his mother tell the story of Li Mengnan's life experience, Xiao Baoer took the initiative to hold Li Mengnan's hand with tears in his eyes, as if he wanted to comfort him. However, he was teased by Li Mengnan's grimace without any warning, making him burst into laughter, wrinkled his nose and said coquettishly: "Humph.
!You are a bad brother! It turns out that you knew I was your sister a long time ago, and you lied to me that you liked me, but I almost took it seriously, you know?...I don’t care, you have to make it up to me!"
"Okay, okay, I can't let you call me brother in vain. I give this to you as a meeting gift."
Li Mengnan signaled Xiao Baoer to close her eyes, and then put something mysteriously on her hand. Xiao Baoer opened her eyes with joy, only to find that there was only a finger-long balloon skin lying pitifully on her like a little salted fish.
in the palm of your hand.
"Uh...thank you, brother." Full of expectations turned into disappointment, Xiao Baoer put away the balloon skin dejectedly, but the little girl still thanked her politely.
Xiao Hui on the side quickly came to the rescue: "Bao'er, your brother came in a hurry, and he doesn't know what you like... Why don't you let him take you out to play next time? Haven't you always wanted to go to the amusement park and the underwater world?
"
"Mom, the tickets there..." Minnie seemed to want to say something, but after looking at Xiao Baoer who looked disappointed, she still didn't say anything.
Li Mengnan grabbed Xiao Baoer who was about to leave, raised his eyebrows and smiled, pointing at the balloon and saying: "Xiaoqiang, don't look down on this balloon man. Although it looks inconspicuous, it is a magical balloon...
When it blows, there might be a surprise?"
"Humph! You are Xiaoqiang!"
This familiar title reminded Xiao Baoer again of the warm and safe embrace when he was in coma, and a sweet smile once again hung on his face.
In fact, her disappointment was not because of the meeting gift.
The little girl of twelve or thirteen years old is the age when love begins. She has been missing her father's love since she was a child, and she has always longed to have a broad back to look up to and a solid chest to rely on.
And when she was dying, it was Li Mengnan who played such a role that made her trust and feel at ease. It was this incident that planted a little seed of love in the little girl's heart.
No one knew that Li Mengnan's joking "confession" made Xiao Baoer's heart flutter, but it was also full of surprises. If she hadn't felt that she was too young and was seriously ill, she would have agreed almost immediately.
.
But she didn't expect that the whole thing would develop like a third-rate romantic drama. The eldest brother she liked turned out to be his biological brother, and the little seed of her first love was buried alive before it could sprout.
Inside.
Forget it, as long as he can love her and love her, there is nothing wrong with being a biological brother... At the very least, even if we are intimate together, no one will gossip.
Xiao Baoer is just a little girl who has just entered junior high school. She is still very ignorant about emotional matters. The feeling comes up quickly and goes down quickly. She is not trapped by love in life and death. Once she figures it out, it will be fine.
Unlike her sister Minnie, Xiao Baoer's thoughts are very simple and she doesn't take material things seriously. She is already very happy that Li Mengnan can appear in front of her, and she doesn't care much about whether there are gifts. However, hearing Li Mengnan say this, she is still skeptical.
He blew up the pink balloon.
"Keep blowing, and blow louder..."
With Li Mengnan's constant encouragement, the balloon was blown up bigger and bigger by Xiao Baoer. The ball's skin became almost completely transparent, and its size had blocked half of Xiao Baoer's body.
"Li Mengnan, what are you doing? Bao'er is not in good health. She will get dizzy if you blow so much air!" Minnie scolded Li Mengnan with an unkind look on her face.
Only then did Li Mengnan notice that Xiao Baoer's face was indeed a little sickly pale. He looked at the size of the balloon and suddenly took out a wooden toothpick from his trouser pocket and poked it directly on the surface of the balloon.
boom--!
The big pink balloon was popped without any surprise, and the huge explosion shocked the unprepared mother and daughter.
Minnie's pretty face turned red with anger, and she was about to yell at Li Mengnan for his unscrupulous prank, but suddenly she found Xiao Baoer holding a pink stuffed rabbit toy that was almost half her height, with his small mouth open blankly, his face
It was so full of incredible words that I couldn't even speak.