September 7th, sunny and cheerful.
I have a little sister. Unlike the other newborn babies I've ever seen, who are all wrinkled and ugly, she is very cute and the most beautiful baby I've ever seen.
On the day Tang Wan was born, Tang Qi wrote the following in his notebook.
"What's her name?" Tang Qi lay down next to the crib, teasing the baby lying inside with a finger.
“Your dad said she was born at night, so her name is Tang Wan.”
"What a perfunctory name," Tang Qi thought to himself.
Su Yao was discharged from the hospital after less than three days. During this time, Tang Sheng only made a token visit.
He didn't even give Tang Wan a second glance, only asked about Su Yao's situation before hurriedly leaving under the pretext of being busy with company matters.
After being discharged from the hospital, Su Yao did not focus on her two children. She rested for less than a week before going out with Tang Sheng to run business.
In the cramped and dilapidated rented room, there was only a child who hadn't started elementary school yet and an infant who could only babble incoherently.
However, Tang Sheng and Su Yao did not completely neglect their children. At least they gave some money to their neighbor, who had also recently given birth, to help look after her two children.
But most of the time, only the two children are alone in the rented room.
"Tang Qi, dinner's ready." Lin Yu knocked on the door, holding a lunchbox.
She is the neighbor's daughter and is in high school.
Before Tang Wan was born, she was responsible for delivering meals to Tang Qi. After Tang Wan was born, the neighbors would bring her meals along so they could breastfeed her.
"sister."
Since Tang Qi's parents were not around, the children in the neighborhood would sometimes deliberately provoke him.
Tang Qi was also tough. He fought back and forth several times. Even when the other party's parents came to his door, Tang Qi still fought back without hesitation.
Over time, the children became obedient, but the neighbors were somewhat dissatisfied with him.
Only the neighbor's daughter remained kind to him as always. She always spoke softly to him, and sometimes when she saw that he was injured, she would apply medicine to him. On weekends, she would also teach him to read and write.
Tang Qi is not an ungrateful person; he remembers everyone who is kind to him and is always polite and courteous to his neighbor's daughter.
“Ever since your sister was born, I’ve been coming over to deliver meals, and I’ve seen you much more often,” Lin Yu joked.
When his parents weren't around, Tang Qi would hang out outside from morning till night. He would come home for a quick meal and then run off again. He rarely stayed home for more than a few hours a day, and nobody knew where he went.
But in reality, he didn't go anywhere.
Aside from the occasional fight with a few kids, he spent most of his time reading in the small bookstore on the next street. The place was run-down and tiny, mostly selling secondhand books, and rarely visited; only an old man was minding the shop.
Even though he never bought books, the old man didn't chase him away, letting him quietly sit in the corner and read.
But Tang Qi rarely went there after Tang Wan was born.
He started to worry about the baby at home, and couldn't concentrate on his book anymore. So he simply stayed in the house, acting like a little parent, revolving around the baby.
Changing diapers, feeding... she was much more skilled at these mundane tasks than Su Yao.
But they are all children after all, and there are always things we can't take care of.
It's currently the change of seasons, and the temperature dropped several degrees at night. The sudden change from hot to cold caused Tang Wan to develop a high fever the next day. She cried and fussed, her little face turning red, and no matter how Tang Qi tried to soothe her, she wouldn't calm down.
"Tang Qi, what happened to your sister?"
It wasn't feeding time yet, so the neighbors wouldn't come over. But Tang Wan, who rarely cried, was crying so terribly that the neighbors were a little worried. They told their child to continue eating breakfast while they came over to check on her.
"Auntie, my sister keeps crying." No matter how mature she seems, she's still just a child. Tang Qi looked at his neighbor with a rare look of fear in his eyes, and his voice trembled slightly.
The neighbor picked up the baby and patted its head.
"How did she get so burned? Tang Qi, call your parents right away. I'll take your sister to the hospital first. If the fever continues like this, her brain will be damaged."
Amidst the chaos, Tang Qi ran to the alley entrance, stuffed a dollar into the shopkeeper's hand, and pressed the wrong button several times.
Tang Sheng's phone went unanswered, so Tang Qi immediately dialed Su Yao's number, but still no one answered.
He gritted his teeth, hung up the phone, ran back to his rented room, found the living expenses Su Yao had left him, and ran to the hospital.
He ran around like a headless fly until a nurse finally stopped him and took him to the children's clinic, where they found the baby and the neighbor.
The baby was sleeping soundly in the neighbor's arms, with a fever-reducing patch on his forehead, a flushed face, and tears still clinging to his eyelashes. He looked extremely pitiful.
"Auntie, my parents didn't answer the phone. Please keep this money for now, and I'll pay you back when they get back."
The neighbor, seeing Tang Qi covered in sweat, did not take his money.
"Take it, I'll ask your parents for it when they get back. Your sister caught a cold from being chilled. She just got an injection, and she'll be fine once the fever goes down. It's been cold lately, so remember to dress your sister in a few extra layers tonight. You should also be careful not to catch a cold."
Tang Qi clutched the crumpled money and nodded.
"Thank you." The voice was low, but it came from a very young man.
The neighbor pursed his lips, looking at the faded coat he was wearing, and ultimately said nothing.
After that, two more books on childcare appeared in the rented room.
"Tang Qi, how is your sister?" Lin Yu came over with a lunchbox.
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