Mei Si felt something was wrong with her lately; she couldn't eat anything!
Mei Si watched as her round face gradually became thinner and thinner, losing its former plumpness. She felt very distressed and thought she might be sick.
"Mom, I'm sick."
Mei Si said somewhat anxiously.
"Huh? What's wrong?" Mei's mother carefully examined her daughter's face but didn't see anything wrong with her.
Mei's mother touched her daughter's head again. Normal temperature, not hot.
"Sigh! I can't eat anything," Mei Si said with a distressed expression.
"...Can't eat? Didn't you just eat a whole bowl? Not a single grain of rice left." Mei's mother couldn't understand. This was called "not being able to eat"? Her daughter could eat more than her son!
"It's different. I used to be able to eat a bowl and a half, but lately I can't eat anything at all. I've lost a lot of weight. I must be sick. Mom, I need to go to the hospital!" Mei Si felt that the human body was fragile and that it was better to treat illnesses as soon as possible. She wanted to eat for a few more years.
"Sisi, you're just eating less, not that you can't eat anymore. And you've lost weight not because you're eating less, but because you're growing." Mei's mother was somewhat speechless, not understanding why her daughter would associate eating half a bowl less with illness.
"What? Growing taller will make you thinner? What about my round face? I don't want to be thin! My face looks ugly if it's not round!" Mei thought of the female classmate sitting in front of her, whose chin was pointed and whose face had no flesh at all, looking like a white chili pepper, which was too ugly.
"...Don't worry, children take after their parents. Look at me, I have a round face, and your dad has a square face. You definitely won't have a long face." Mei's mother looked at her daughter with a strange expression. Is it ugly if your face isn't round?
Who told her?
With her mother's assurance, Mei Si felt relieved. Although she still craved the food in the bowl every day, she no longer forced herself to stuff it into her mouth.
"Daddy, egg, egg, egg..." Little Mei looked at Mei Si, his little mouth chattering incessantly.
"No way! I've lost weight recently, it must be because of you, you always steal my food." Mei Si looked at the little devil, then at the steamed egg custard in the spoon, and finally understood why she had lost weight.
"Egg, egg, egg..." When Mei Si didn't give him an egg for a long time, Mei Xiaodi thought that Mei Si hadn't heard him, so he started shouting louder and louder until his voice became a little hoarse.
"Sisi, quickly give Jianjian a bite, his voice is hoarse from shouting," Mei's mother couldn't help but interject.
"Here you go!" Mei Si frowned and gave the little devil half a spoonful of steamed egg custard.
Little Mei smacked his lips a few times and finished eating. He felt that today's eggs were not very filling, but he didn't know how to express it, so he kept asking Mei Si for more.
Mei Si would give her half a spoonful each time, and by the time she realized what was happening...
When Little Mei started learning to speak, he would repeat whatever he learned over and over again. Apart from Mei Si, no one in the family could stand him.
If it weren't for the fact that little Mei is still breastfeeding, Mei's mother would really like to send him to her parents' home for a while.
"Sisi, this little devil keeps nagging, don't you find it annoying?" Mei Liang knew what kind of person Mei Si was; she had no patience for being bothered. He never expected that she could put up with the little devil's endless nagging.
"You're talking nonsense again! If your dad hears you, he'll definitely kick you again," Grandma Mei said, glaring at Mei Liang.
"Hehehe! My dad's not home!" Mei Liang said, scratching his head.
“Annoying? He’s just learning to talk.” Mei Si looked at Mei Liang in confusion, not understanding why he would find the little devil annoying.
"Have you forgotten what Sisi was like when she was little? Not just the two of them, you were like that when you were little too." Although Grandma Mei also felt a little annoyed, her grandson was much better than Sisi was back then.
"Compared to Sisi, the little devil is really nothing." Mei Liang recalled Mei Si's childhood, and with the comparison, Mei Liang felt that the little devil was actually quite lovable.
"Zha zha! Zha zha zha zha..." Little Mei woke up and started shouting as soon as he opened his eyes.
"Who is Zha Zha?" Mei Si frowned. She didn't know this "Zha Zha".
"Pfft! Hahaha..." Grandma Mei couldn't help but laugh when she saw her granddaughter's serious expression.
“You…” Mei Liang looked at his sister in shock. She didn’t even know what “Zha Zha” was.
"You know Zha Zha? Tell me quickly." Seeing that Grandma Mei was laughing and wouldn't stop anytime soon, Mei Si turned to ask Mei Liang.
"I...I..." Mei Liang stammered for a long time, his face turning red, unable to say anything.
"What are you doing? Holding in your poop? Tell me and go poop right now." Mei Si waited for a long time but didn't get an answer, so she became a little impatient.
"Ahem! Um, Sisi, don't ask your brother about this. He's too embarrassed to talk about it. I'll tell you."
Grandma Mei, having laughed enough, quickly cleared her throat to rescue her eldest grandson.
"Grandma, I'm going out to play for a while." Mei Liang glanced gratefully at Grandma Mei and ran out the door.
"Zha za za za za..." When Mei Xiaodi saw that no one paid attention to him for a long time, he couldn't help but climb out of the quilt and crawl towards Mei Si.
“This ‘zaza’ is your mother’s milk. Drinking milk is also called drinking zaza.” Grandma Mei knew her granddaughter’s serious nature. If this wasn’t explained clearly, she would probably ask the teacher directly in class tomorrow.
“Breastfeeding? Zha Zha? How come I didn’t know that before?” Mei Si recalled when she was learning to speak, but she didn’t remember learning that word.
"How old were you when you were little? How could you possibly remember?" Grandma Mei ruffled her granddaughter's hair and said with a smile.
“I remember…” Mei Si frowned. She had a very good memory. Except for the ancient poems and texts she learned in school, she could remember everything else.
"But you might not know this, you were a late talker. You only started talking after you were weaned. At that time, we sent you to your maternal grandma's house. You never went to a store with me." Grandma Mei thought about it carefully and realized that her granddaughter might have actually heard of the word "Zha Zha".
Nobody at home says that, it's just a few of my colleagues at the store who like to say it. My grandson learned it from them at the store today.
"The store?" Mei Si had always known that Grandma Mei worked at the store, but she had never been there before. This time, she was quite curious about it.
Mays: Can I learn new things at a store? I'll have to check it out sometime.
Final exams were fast approaching, and Mei Si stuck to her usual style, answering some questions very accurately, while others...
Ms. Wei, the homeroom teacher, felt somewhat helpless. She thought she should talk to Mei Si's parents. The child's ideas were too strange, and if things continued like this, her academic performance would only get worse.
After getting off work, Teacher Wei went home and ate dinner. When it was almost time, she rode her bicycle to Mei Si's house.
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