"Mommy, you're bleeding, waaaaah!" Little Su Mei saw the bloodstains flowing from her mother's trouser leg and was so frightened that she looked up, opened her mouth, and started crying while wiping away her tears.
"Don't cry, Mommy, it's... okay..." The child was too young to understand why adults bleed. Her cries both pained and warmed her mother's heart. For a moment, the mother endured the pain and shed tears, but didn't know how to explain it to her daughter.
"Mom, Meimei," a familiar voice came from the right rear just then.
A dark-skinned, ruddy-faced man was seen pushing a rusty Phoenix brand bicycle that looked only about 50% new. He quickly walked over from around the bend in the mountain forest a few dozen meters away.
"Dad!" As soon as Xiao Su Mei heard her father's voice, her eyes lit up. She turned around, stepped out of the bushes, and ran over with open arms.
When the father saw his daughter, he quickly stopped his bicycle, bent down, and lifted her onto the front of the bike, onto a small wooden board.
"Her dad," the mother said, her heart filled with joy at the sight of her husband. She opened her mouth to call out, but her voice was weak and feeble.
"Mommy is bleeding." Meimei turned to look at her father's chin, her little face still wet with tears.
"Really?" Upon hearing his daughter's words, the man's joy vanished instantly. He leaped onto the bicycle and pedaled over in a few quick steps.
Anxious and distraught, he lifted his daughter off the bus and slammed the car aside. His eyes immediately fell on his wife's bleeding leg, and his heart ached. "What happened to you?" he cried.
"It's nothing, I guess it's just my period, but this time it seems a bit stronger." Mom shook her head, and with a slight movement, the pain in her lower abdomen seemed to intensify.
"Really?" The father looked at his wife with concern, stepped forward, and took the baby from her arms, his expression puzzled. "This..."
"It seems someone abandoned the child," the woman frowned, "leaving him in this deep mountain forest. Luckily, the child wasn't hurt."
“It’s a life too, poor thing, sigh,” the man sighed, shook his head, and turned his eyes to the baby in his arms. The child probably felt that she was being held and stopped crying. She seemed to have found a sense of security. She just closed her eyes tightly, turned her head and opened her little mouth, sticking her little mouth out to one side, as if she was trying to find food.
"What should we do?" Feeling a little dizzy, the mother frowned. "We can't just leave her here any longer, can we? It's so sunny, perhaps..."
“Let’s take her back,” the father said, turning to the mother. “Otherwise, we won’t feel at ease.”
"But you're working so hard, and there's nothing I can do." The mother was conflicted and somewhat worried.
"Let's go, we'll talk about it when we get back." The father could only hand the child to his wife first, then turned and picked up the bicycle, lifting his daughter onto the small wooden board again. He turned the bicycle around and pushed it in front of his wife. "Be careful, get on slowly. It's only a mile or two, I'll push you..."
The father, attentive and considerate, held the bicycle with one hand and carefully helped his wife onto the seat with the other. Despite the large beads of sweat streaming down her face from the pain, the mother could only endure it, holding her child in her arms.
"Daddy, I'll have a little sister now..." Little Su Mei seemed very excited, sitting on the small wooden board, chattering excitedly all the way, and occasionally tilting her head to look at her mother and baby behind her.
"Yes, our Xiaomei has a younger sister now..."
The mother was worried because she was frail and sickly, and now with another child, the father's burden was even heavier...
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