“Waaah! Waaah waaah waaah…” A deafening cry suddenly came from the inner room.
"Oh, don't cry! Our Jianjian is a little man, he can't always cry..." When Mei's mother, who was resting on the kang, heard her youngest son crying, she quickly got up and hugged him to comfort him.
Mei Si covered her numb ears and quickly ran outside. She felt that this kid was even more powerful than Bu Yaoxing's magical beasts. Whenever this kid cried, she felt her mind go blank and her vision go black.
Mei Si was really looking forward to this little brother. When he was born, Mei Si even went to the hospital with him.
Before going to the hospital, May thought she would be able to witness her brother's birth, but the human hospital wouldn't let them into the delivery room and only allowed them to wait outside.
What kind of "seeing it with my own eyes" is this? Mei Si came here just to see how her little brother crawled out of her mother's belly.
Mei Si felt that she had been fooled by her father; seeing it through a wall was not "in person" at all!
After waiting for several hours, Mei Si was finally able to see her newborn brother. She walked to his crib and prepared to take a closer look at him.
But then, this kid started crying! She really didn't do anything! She didn't even touch him!
"I didn't make him cry," Mei Si explained, looking at her grandmother who was picking up and comforting her younger brother.
"Yes, I know, your little brother is hungry." Grandma Mei carried her grandson to the bed next to her and let her mother breastfeed him.
Meis's first attempt to approach and observe her brother failed.
Because it was too late, Mei's father took Mei Liang and Mei Si home that night.
The next day was Sunday. Mei Si got up early to wash up, planning to go to the hospital to see her younger brother later, but Mei's father disagreed with Mei Si going with him.
"Sisi, don't go today. I'll pick up your brother this afternoon." Mei's dad went to the hospital today to handle Mei's mom's discharge procedures. It will be busy and crowded at the hospital. If their daughter is taken away, they might not find out for a while. It's safer for their daughter to stay at home.
"Oh! Then I'll wait at home." Mei Si said with a stern face, sounding somewhat unhappy.
"Here, this is 50 cents. Have your brother take you out for wontons or tofu pudding for lunch." Dad Mei gave the money to his daughter and hurried out the door.
In the afternoon, Mei Si finally waited for her mother and the others to return. Her younger brother was placed on the kang (a heated brick bed), and he was very quiet. Grandma Mei said he was asleep.
Mei Si felt this was a good opportunity, so she quickly climbed onto the kang (a heated brick bed) to take a good look at her younger brother.
But... the timing was just right. As soon as Mei Si sat down next to her younger brother, he started crying again, even louder than the night before.
“Shut up!” Meisi glared at her brother.
"Waaaaah..." Little Mei ignored Mei Si and continued to cry intently.
"I told you to shut up!"
"Waaaaah..."
The second time, Mei Si failed to communicate with her brother.
"Pfft! Silly child, your little brother is only a few days old, how could he possibly understand what you're saying?" Mother Mei slowly came out of the inner room, climbed onto the kang (a heated brick bed), and breastfed her youngest son.
"When will he be able to understand?" Mei Si breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that her younger brother stopped crying after nursing.
"We have to wait until he's at least one year old. You were almost a year old before you started to understand what it meant."
Mei Si was not discouraged. This time she learned her lesson and waited until her mother had put her younger brother to sleep before she went closer to observe him.
Sure enough, the younger brother didn't cry this time, but Mei Si noticed a problem.
Mei Si: Why is it so red? Were you switched at birth? It's not our color!
All day long, Mei Si looked at her mother, hesitant to speak, wanting to tell her mother her suspicions, but also afraid that if she went to look for her younger brother now, he would be gone forever.
That evening, Mei Si finally told her father, thinking that she could ask him to secretly go to the hospital to look for her without telling her mother.
"Huh? Not his biological child?" Mei's father was shocked to hear his daughter calling him to the kitchen so mysteriously to talk about this. His voice changed from shock.
"Shh! Keep your voice down, don't let them hear. Dad, why don't you go to the hospital first and see where my brother is?" Mei Si looked into the main room, afraid that her mother would cry if she heard this.
Mei Si had heard from her grandmother that her mother couldn't cry during her postpartum confinement period, otherwise her eyesight would become blurry.
Although Mei Si didn't understand why her eyes didn't blur when she cried normally, but became blurry after giving birth, she believed that Grandma Mei wouldn't lie to her.
"No, well... how did you know about this?" Mei's father remembered that when Mei's mother gave birth, his daughter seemed to be with him the whole time. How did she know about this?
“That younger brother in the house… the child, his face is red! It’s not the same color as our family members.” Mei Si felt strange when she mentioned this. Why didn’t her parents and grandmother ever suspect that the child was their biological son?
"...Hmm...Sisi, that's your little brother in the room, your real brother...your own brother. Newborn babies all have red skin, it'll be fine in a week." Dad Mei felt incredibly stupid. He had actually believed his 6-year-old daughter's silly words and thought his son had really been switched at birth.
"Really? Why don't you go to the hospital to confirm?" Mei Si looked at her father suspiciously, feeling that his explanation of the skin discoloration was unreliable.
"...Then I'll go tomorrow." For some reason, after being asked this by his daughter, Mei's father suddenly became unsure and decided to go to the hospital to ask.
The next afternoon, Mei's father went to the hospital and was stared at by the doctor like he was an idiot for a full ten minutes.
"On the 16th, two families gave birth. The other family had a C-section and had twins, two girls, who look exactly alike." The doctor looked at the record in his hand and emphasized that since the babies looked the same, it was impossible for them to have been switched at birth.
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