My parents went to work on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, and the nanny also came to our house to do housework today.
When no one was around, the nanny said to Meng Yiming, "Yiming, don't take what Grandma Erni said the other day to heart. She was just talking nonsense."
Meng Yiming thought of that incident and became angry again, "Grandma Erni beat her, and you didn't care?"
The babysitter rubbed her hands in embarrassment, "It won't break if I hit it."
"Your family doesn't even feed girls?" Meng Yiming asked angrily, "You won't even raise the child you gave birth to? What have you done with the salary my family gives you?"
The nanny was even more embarrassed. "Everything in the house costs money. You are a child, you don't understand these things."
Meng Yiming didn't know what to say.
But later, when he brought steamed buns to Erni, he would bring two and let Erni give one to Dani.
Spring has arrived, Meng Yiming's brothers and sisters have returned to school, and he has also started school.
Sometimes, he would still meet Erni when he skipped classes and went home.
One day, Erni said to him in a wronged tone, "Brother, if you don't want my sister, can you have me?"
Meng Yiming was very angry, "...Didn't I tell you not to have such thoughts! I don't want anyone!"
Erni felt even more aggrieved. "Ajie said she wanted to marry you too. Marrying you means she can eat steamed buns, but I want to eat steamed buns too."
After a pause, she continued, "It's good for my sister to marry you. She will have steamed buns to eat."
Meng Yiming: “…”
He said this as if he had to choose one of the sisters!
Meng Yiming thought he had to change their minds.
"From today on, I will teach you how to read, and you can go home and teach your sister. Learn one word every day."
Erni said, "I don't want to learn to read."
"Why?"
"Nizi doesn't need to know how to read."
"If you can't read, you won't have any bread to eat!"
Erni: “…”
"Let's learn the simplest character today."
Meng Yiming took out a pen and a notebook and drew a horizontal line.
Erni learned it in no time.
Meng Yiming said, "Then learn two more."
Erni: “…”
Meng Yiming wrote two and three again, and said, "The two in Erni is this character!"
Erni learned it again, "Brother, I know, two is two horizontal lines, three is three horizontal lines, four is four horizontal lines, five is five horizontal lines..."
Meng Yiming: “…” Damn! How could you be so stupid?!
When he wrote four and five, Erni was dumbfounded.
In one month, Erni learned basic characters such as one to ten, population and hand, up, middle and down, big and small, mountains, water and fire.
That day, Teacher Meng was teaching again. "What's your last name?"
Erni didn't know.
"Ask your mother."
Erni went to the kitchen and asked, "My last name is Yao, Yao Erni."
Meng Yiming said: "Yao Erni doesn't sound good."
He thought for a moment and said, "Your name is Yao Xiaoxiao." A very small little person.
Meng Yiming taught her how to write the word "Yao".
As the days passed, Erni and Meng Yiming became very familiar with each other.
From Erni, he learned that Erni had two older sisters.
The eldest sister is Da Ni and the second sister is Er Ni. But one day the second sister went missing. She was not even five years old when she went missing.
At that time, the nanny was pregnant with the current Erni. After Erni was born, she became Erni.
Meng Yiming was shocked, "Your family is embarrassed, so why don't you go find someone?"
Erni said, "Grandma said that Nizi is a money-loser, so it's better to get rid of her."
Meng Yiming's three views were completely overturned, "Your grandma is just an old witch!"
"Your parents are not good people either!" he added.
The children I gave birth to are so heartless!
The temperature is rising day by day.
Erni took off her coat and put on her short and tattered clothes.
Meng Yiming saw that her arms and legs were covered with new and old wounds.
"Why are you beaten every day? Who beats you?"
"Grandma, Dad, Sister, Brother, and sometimes Mom also hits me."
Meng Yiming was shocked. "So the whole family is taking it out on you?!"
"My sister was also beaten, and my mother was also beaten."
Meng Yiming's worldview was overturned again. "...I didn't do anything wrong, why did you hit me?"
"Dad, grandma, and my brother beat us when they're unhappy. If I don't help my sister, she beats me. If my sister and I don't listen, mom beats us."
Meng Yiming heard that Erni was at the bottom of their family's food chain, followed by Dani, and then the nanny. Those three were at the top of the food chain.
A family of lunatics!
Meng Yiming told Erni, "If your father, mother, and grandmother hit you, you run and hide so they can't hit you. If your brother hits you, you beat him up. If your sister hits you, you have to hit her back, otherwise she will bully you even more."
Ever since Meng Yiming taught Erni the method, Erni has suffered more injuries.
One day, Meng Yiming met Erni on the road. Her right hand was hanging down and she couldn't move it. Her arm was swollen.
Meng Yiming asked angrily: "Who hit you?"
"Father."
"Your hand is in such a mess, why don't you go see a doctor?"
Erni looked confused, "Doctor?"
When Meng Yiming saw her expression, he knew that she had never seen a doctor and didn't even have the awareness to see a doctor when she was sick.
Meng Yiming took her to the hospital for examination and found that her arm was broken.
Meng Yiming seriously suspected that Erni was unconscious.
She didn't feel any pain even though her bone was broken. Even when the doctor was fixing her, she didn't seem to feel any pain.
Meng Yiming learned the reason why Erni was beaten.
Because her younger brother hit Erni, Erni hit her younger brother back. Her father picked up a wooden stick and hit Erni, breaking her hand.
Meng Yiming stood up for the injustice and first went home and scolded the nanny.
The nanny said timidly but reasonably, "Who told her to hit Fuguier?"
Fuguier is Erni's younger brother.
Meng Yiming was furious and took Erni back to her home to argue with her father.
But everyone in Erni's family thought that Erni had beaten Fuguier and it was her own fault.
In this family’s hearts, there is no right or wrong, only men and women!
Meng Yiming returned home like a defeated rooster.
He thought about it all night and decided that he should marry Erni and save her from her suffering.
The next day, he deliberately cornered Erni.
"Er Ni, when we grow up, I will marry you!"
He said this with sympathy, compassion, kindness and passion, but without love.
Erni was wearing tattered clothes and had messy hair. She smiled happily and said, "I will marry my brother when I grow up!"
Erni's hand was injured, so learning to read was put on hold.
The nanny is pregnant again, but we don’t know the gender of the baby yet.
Meng Yiming is about to graduate from junior high school.
Fortunately, he was not good at studying and could not get into a technical secondary school like his brothers and sisters.
His family wanted to arrange for him to work in a factory, but he didn't want to.
His father decided to let him continue his studies and go to high school.
But when I went to high school, I could only come back once a week.
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