Chapter 59 will be available for purchase on February 20th. My brother doesn't have little ears, so he's scared...
An Shisi cried with exceptional heart-wrenching intensity, his voice immediately drowning out Wang Xiaohei's sobs.
For a moment, everyone around was stunned. Even Wang Xiaohei stopped crying and stared at him blankly.
The school doctor hurriedly examined An Shisizi again, and even after confirming that he was not injured, she was still worried.
“My…my brother’s little ear fell off!” Wen Xingmou squeezed through the crowd and immediately saw the hearing aid lying next to Wang Xiaohei.
She ran over and picked up the hearing aid, "My brother is scared because he doesn't have little ears."
Only then did everyone realize why An Shisi was crying so bitterly.
An Fusheng quickly took the hearing aid and put it on An Shisi. After it was put on, An Shisi was stunned for a moment, then screamed, "Ah!!!" and cried even more shrilly.
An Fusheng hurriedly took off the hearing aid.
The school nurse examined the hearing aid and said, "The earmold is broken. The sound output from the hearing aid is leaking and being amplified again by the microphone, producing a sharp and piercing whistling sound that frightened the child. The child can no longer wear it."
Wang Xiaohei's mother wanted to say something, but An Fusheng yelled at her, and she finally shut up.
Perhaps due to extreme fear and anxiety from not being able to hear, An Shisi cried uncontrollably. An Fusheng took An Shisi and Wen Xingmou back to the orphanage ahead of schedule.
No matter how An Fusheng tried to comfort her, An Shisi ignored him (An Shisi: I can't hear you at all...). She just hugged An Fusheng's neck tightly, sobbing uncontrollably in the crook of his neck. An Fusheng also had to hug Wen Xingmou, and he almost choked on his own breath the whole way.
Xu Sannian didn't come to the orphanage today. Lou Lan was at home alone taking care of the two children. She was about to make lunch when she heard An Shisi crying.
"Why is Fourteen crying?" Lou Lan ran over and opened the door.
"I bumped into a classmate while playing games, and my hearing aid broke. I was terrified," An Fusheng said, panting heavily.
Lou Lan quickly took An Shisi from An Fusheng's arms, patted his back and comforted him repeatedly, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, don't be afraid."
An Shisi cried all the way, his voice became hoarse, and he was covered in sweat, his hair completely soaked. An Fusheng quickly found him a towel to wipe his sweat.
Lou Lan comforted An Shisi for a while before he slowly stopped crying.
Once An Shisi had calmed down, Lou Lan put him down and made him stand opposite her. "Shisi, look at your mother."
An Shisi's eyes were blurry with tears, "Aunt Lou, waaaah... my ears are broken again, waaaah..."
"It's okay, don't worry, if it breaks we can just get a new one," Lou Lan said, emphasizing each word.
An Shisi, still hiccuping from crying, said, "But we don't have much money..."
Lou Lan: "We don't need a lot of money, and we have money."
An Shisi: "Okay."
An Fusheng was shocked: "He...he can hear me?"
"He can read some lips."
"Fourteenth Brother, don't be afraid, I'll stay with you." Wen Xingmou came over and hugged An Shisi.
An Shisi covered her eyes and sobbed. Even though she didn't hear what Wen Xingmou said, she could feel her comfort. "Thank you, little sister."
“It’s a good thing you went today, otherwise I don’t know how helpless Fourteen would have felt.” Lou Lan sighed to An Fusheng. “He is very afraid of a world without sound. Sometimes the noise from his hearing aid gives him a headache, and he refuses to take it off. He can only take it off when he falls asleep at night.”
An Fusheng was somewhat confused.
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An Shisi felt extremely insecure without his hearing aid and clung to An Fusheng all the time. When An Fusheng was cooking, he would hug his legs and stare blankly at An Fusheng's every move. When An Fusheng wasn't cooking, he would lie in An Fusheng's arms and occasionally let out a few loud cries of emotion. Even when Wen Min came back, his eyelashes were still wet.
On Friday afternoon, Wen Xinghe's class was to make a small craft. When Wen Min heard that An Shisi had an accident, she discussed with the teacher about taking Wen Xinghe's craft home to do, so she returned home early.
As soon as Wen Min returned, he took An Shisi to buy hearing aids. The non-customized hearing aids were somewhat unsuitable, but they had to make do.
In fact, An Shisi is young and grows up very quickly. The size and shape of her ear canal change every day, and her hearing is unstable. Her needs for the size of the hearing aid shell are also constantly changing. Even a custom-made hearing aid cannot be 100% suitable. This is why Wen Min did not customize a hearing aid for An Shisi. She wanted to get An Shisi a cochlear implant as soon as possible.
"If possible, try to get the child a cochlear implant as early as possible. He is currently in the stage of brain development and needs rich sound stimulation. Moreover, the younger the child is, the greater the potential for recovery and the fewer negative impacts on his future life," the doctor suggested.
Although he knew that cochlear implants were expensive and that many families didn't opt for them not because they were unwilling but because they couldn't afford them, he truly couldn't bear to see such a lovely child separated from society because of hearing impairment.
“I understand, thank you, doctor,” Wen Min said.
The doctor put the hearing aid on An Shisi and asked softly, "Little one, can you hear now? How do you feel?"
An Shisi said excitedly, "I can hear now, thank you, doctor."
The doctor burst into laughter, amused by his words. "I could be your grandmother!"
An Shisi readily agreed, saying, "Thank you, Doctor Grandma."
After getting their hearing aids changed, An Fusheng carried An Shisi and Wen Min out of the hospital. An Shidao sighed like a little adult, "My little ears are always bad. Our family is almost broke. I wish I could earn a lot of money."
An auntie who used to cook, and Uncle Du, always liked to talk to the children about how much money the orphanage spent raising them, saying that the orphanage had no money. Although the children were young, they could all understand what they were saying.
Wen Min laughed and said, "Who told you that our family is broke? We have plenty of money. Making money is an adult's job. Children only need to grow up happily. Growing up is a very hard thing."
An Shisi: "I want to grow up quickly."
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Back at the orphanage, Wen Min immediately called the kindergarten to find out the details.
What happened in the morning was not a secret. Several teachers and children witnessed the whole incident, and there were also surveillance cameras in the park. In the end, it was found that Wang Xiaohei ran into the middle class's territory and bumped into An Shisi. Before falling, he grabbed An Shisi and knocked off An Shisi's hearing aid.
At first, Wang Xiaohei's mother demanded that An Shisi apologize to Wang Xiaohei. However, after seeing the surveillance footage, she started to say that the child was too young to understand and refused to admit it. She then shifted the blame to the kindergarten, saying that the kindergarten had not taken good care of Wang Xiaohei and even attributed the abrasions to the kindergarten.
Regardless of how she blamed the other party, Wen Min only demanded that she and Wang Xiaohei apologize to An Shisi and compensate An Shisi for the damaged hearing aid.
The kindergarten did not want the conflict to escalate, so the principal eventually stepped in to mediate.
"Everyone knows An Shisi is an orphan. You're just doing a job; how could you possibly love these children? You keep asking for compensation; are you just using the children's sake as a pretext to extort money?" Wang Xiaohei's mother said sarcastically.
The kindergarten principal almost jumped out of her chair. She had finally managed to persuade Wen Min to mediate, but Wang Xiaohei's mother said such things as soon as she arrived. It would be strange if Wen Min didn't explode!
Wen Min glanced at her calmly, “An Shisi is an orphan, but I raised him from the bottom of my heart. He grew up in my heart, just like he grew from my womb. From the first day he came to the orphanage, I have loved and nurtured him as if he were my own heart and liver.”
An Shisi was born with hearing impairment. During the two years he was learning to speak and walk, I personally taught him to speak and walk every day and took him to specialized institutions for behavioral and language intervention. Now, at only four years old, he can move and communicate like a normal person. Either of these two things alone might be something that a person with severe hearing impairment could never achieve in their entire life.
Besides, I've raised him to be enthusiastic, studious, and well-mannered, unlike some people who can't even be taught the slightest bit of politeness in a normal child. It's one thing for them to be naughty and disobedient, but when they bump into others or break their things, they don't even apologize.
You're saying I'm just doing a job?
Wang Xiaohei's mother retorted sharply: "Who are you calling rude?"
Wen Min looked at her with disdain.
The kindergarten principal quickly intervened to ease the tension, and after much persuasion, Wen Min reluctantly agreed to compensate for 80% of the original price of the hearing aid, but an apology was required. Wang Xiaohei's mother agreed at the time, but changed her mind as soon as she got home, refusing to apologize or pay the money.
Two days later, on her first day back at work, Wen Min filed a lawsuit against Wang Xiaohei's mother, Gao.
When Wang Xiaohei's mother received the court summons, she didn't even read it carefully before rushing to the kindergarten to give the full amount of compensation to the kindergarten principal and also went to Class 14 to apologize.
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Let's rewind to Friday night.
After taking a shower that evening, An Shisi ran into An Fusheng's room again, saying, "Big brother, I want to sleep with you."
Looking at his still swollen eyes, An Fusheng couldn't bring himself to refuse. "Okay."
An Shisi happily climbed into bed and rubbed Wen Xinglan on the bed, "Little brother, I'm here again. Did you miss me?"
Wen Xinglan chuckled as he rubbed her, "I want to."
The three brothers lay down on the bed.
"I'm sorry, I thought you were going to beat up Wang Xiaohei when you went to pick up the hearing aid today, that's why I wouldn't let you go," An Fusheng said.
An Shisi: "He knocked my little ear off, and I just wanted to hit him. I didn't even know my hearing aid had fallen with him."
An Fusheng: "...Okay, let's go to sleep."
“Okay.” An Shisi lay down for a while and said, “Big brother, I don’t really like naughty kids. They can cause trouble for others.”
An Fusheng: "Well, I don't really like those kinds of kids either."
An Shisi: "I like it at night when everyone is lying in bed and everyone is well-behaved."
An Fusheng: "Then lie down obediently."
"OK."
An Shisi was probably exhausted from playing games and crying all day, and he fell asleep quickly.
An Fusheng, however, couldn't fall asleep while leaning against the bed. The desperate screams of An Shisi that day seemed to travel from his ears into his brain, making his mind a complete mess.
An Fusheng picked up his phone and typed into the browser: What is a cochlear implant, and how much does it cost to get a cochlear implant?
Later on: What can a cook at an orphanage do to make money? Can a cook at an orphanage run a business?
An Fusheng only put down his phone and lay down when it ran out of battery.
Half-asleep, he kept muttering, "Five hundred to raise Ah Fu, no need to buy clothes, no need to pay for food... four thousand five..."
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Author's note: You didn't expect this early update, did you? Hahaha (Typed on my phone, will correct typos later)
I'm going to be a paid seller tomorrow! Thank you all for your continued support. I'll be doing a giveaway in the comments section on the day it goes live (I haven't done this before, I'll have to experiment with how to do it, and I'll tell you in tomorrow's author's note~).
Since the VIP chapter has reverted to Chapter 19, anti-piracy measures will not be implemented for the time being. I hope everyone enjoys reading, and thank you again for your support and companionship. I will continue to work hard!
Okay, I'm going to go write now. A bigger, longer chapter tomorrow!
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