Xiaoting squatted behind the bushes, grabbed a stick and scratched it on the ground, her voice very low, "...Grandma doesn't like me. She says I'm a money-loser, and if it weren't for me, my mom would have another baby brother."

Even though her parents had promised her that they would only have one child in their lives, Xiaoting had never heard such vicious words before, and she couldn't easily erase them from her heart.

"...I don't want a younger brother."

An'an had never thought about this question. She was used to her parents having only one child, and she had many playmates. But what if there was another younger brother in the family?

"I don't want a younger brother. What's so great about a younger brother? Why do I have to have one? I just don't want one!"

Although her mother hadn't mentioned it, a thought suddenly popped into An'an's little head: what if her parents also wanted a younger brother? No, that absolutely couldn't happen.

"Why do you say that Aunt Xiaoting can't have another son because of her?"

Xiaoting, who was a little down just now, is now completely following An'an's train of thought, "...Because she has to take care of me? She can't take care of another person."

An'an stared at the bushes and silently drew inferences: her parents also need to take care of her, so does that mean they can't have another child?

"I understand. We need to make sure Mom and Dad don't have time to have another child."

"ah?"

“My mother said that a person’s energy is limited. If I am disobedient, my mother has more energy to take care of me, so she will not have another child who is more difficult to take care of.”

An'an can be quite domineering at times; right now, it's like, "There can only be one of us in the house!"

Xiaoting saw that her best friend didn't take this as a problem at all, and even said very naturally that she didn't like her younger brother. She also bravely admitted her own feelings.

"Yes, there can only be one of me."

Sui Sui plucked a lot of tender leaves, staining her hands with them, and ran over, asking, "What? There can only be one of me?"

After listening to the two of them, she looked at her brother and asked, "Then why do we have two children in our family?"

Zhuangzhuang proudly raised his head and said, "Hmph, anyway, I'm the older brother. I was born first. Even if there's only one, it should only be me. You're the extra one."

"...No, you're the one who has more."

"You are! I am the older brother, I was the first one born."

The two immediately started arguing, and ended up parting on bad terms, both clenching their fists and running home.

When Zhao Qin got off work, she wanted to ask Song Qing how things were going. Even many people in the factory were talking about it, saying that it was the first time in the family compound that a mother-in-law had been so upset that she ended up in the hospital.

When I got back, I saw the two children arguing heatedly, their faces red. They were standing in the yard, sulking and refusing to look at each other, their faces turning red from holding their breath.

Upon seeing her mother return, Sui Sui burst into tears. She had never cried so bitterly, even when she lost a fight with her brother. Zhao Qin was startled. "What's wrong?"

Zhuangzhuang crossed his arms smugly and said, "She's the extra one."

Zhao Qin: "..."

Sui Sui: "Why do we have to have two kids in our family? I don't want a brother, he's the extra one!"

"I don't want you either!"

The two argued so much that Zhao Qin had a headache. Towards the end, both siblings were sulking, and she was caught in the middle, not knowing who to comfort. Finally, when the man came home from get off work, she quickly dumped the mess on him.

"Quickly explain this to them."

"What's wrong? Did your brother bully you?"

...Sui Sui threw herself into her father's arms, grabbed his clothes, and cried, saying that her brother said she was superfluous.

Zhao Qin's husband squatted down to look at his son. Zhuangzhuang silently stood up straight and turned his head away, not daring to speak under his father's stern gaze.

"No one is superfluous. You are all your parents' children. You lived together in your mother's womb when you were little. You came together."

...

The sound of crying drifted into the courtyard. Lu Yang picked up a hammer and hammered a nail into the bamboo bed. "What's wrong now?"

"They say there can only be one person in the family, but they argue about who is the extra one."

Lu Yang found it amusing. They were twins who came together, so what was there to argue about? No matter who came out first, another one would have to come later.

"Where's An An?"

"backyard"

The couple soon started talking about the He family again. He Zhangcheng had taken a day off, and Ye Man was now at the hospital taking care of him. Liu He angrily pointed at her from the bed and told her to get out.

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