"Zhili, you must behave well and not take your sister's rice cake. She's starving and needs to eat to stay healthy."
Yunping looked at her silly son, Lu Zhili, who was standing to the side licking his fingers, and patted his head with heartache.
"Zhili knows that I am the older brother and I will not take my sister's rice cake."
"Okay, good boy, Mom will cook you some eggs later."
Yunping always had a smile on her face, a gentle and loving smile.
An Wan couldn't resist taking a piece of rice cake and eating it. This body was too hungry and wanted to eat everything it saw. She even drank a large glass of water before she could barely feel a little full.
Even though I ate two bowls of millet porridge and an egg just an hour ago.
Seeing Lu Zhili standing in front of her licking his fingers, looking pitiful, made her feel a little sad.
The Lu family looked very poor.
Can she stay here?
Will Yunping always be good to me?
"Brother Zhili, do you want some?" An Wan took a piece of rice cake that she had never eaten before and handed it to him.
"If the brother doesn't eat, the sister will; if the brother isn't hungry, the sister will be." He spat out his saliva-covered finger and grinned foolishly.
But his clear, bright eyes sparkled, his smile was so innocent and lovely, and he had a pair of shallow dimples.
This silly little thing.
That's really cute.
"Brother eats a bite, sister eats a bite. Otherwise, I won't eat anything last night and will go hungry with my brother."
To coax him into eating, she could only eat pastries with his saliva on them.
Because she could already hear his stomach rumbling.
"Hehehe..." Lu Zhili chuckled and took a small bite of the rice cake, but when she saw that most of the rice cake was gone, she was so sad that tears immediately fell down her face.
"Waaaaah... I ate Wanwan's rice cake, waaaah... I'm so sorry Wanwan, ahhhhh—"
"Don't cry, brother. Wanwan isn't angry. Wanwan likes it when you eat Wanwan's rice cakes." She coaxed him and wiped away his tears with her hand.
"Really? Wanwan, little sister?"
"Yes, Brother Zhili is the best. Look at this half piece of rice cake, Wanwan really likes to eat it."
An Wan felt like she had really turned into a five-year-old girl, instead of the decisive and efficient level ten lightning-type boss from her previous life.
"Wanwan, the bath water is ready. Shall Mommy help you take a bath?"
Yunping, who had been standing at the door for a long time, wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes. She saw Anwan getting along so well with her mentally challenged son, not disliking his mental disability, and even sharing rice cakes with him.
This really moved her. Several years ago, Zhili suffered carbon monoxide poisoning in the winter. It was discovered late, and he was rushed to the hospital and his life was saved, but he became mentally impaired and will always have the intelligence of a child.
From then on, the children outside laughed at him, cursed him, and bullied him.
"Yes, Mom, I'm here." An Wan was so happy to hear that there was hot water for a bath that she jumped off the chair and ran to Yun Ping's side.
Her body was so dirty, and her scalp felt very itchy; she probably had lice.
Yunping led Anwan into a dimly lit bathroom and told Anwan to use the toilet first.
She went out and filled a plastic bucket halfway with well water, then poured half a bucket of hot water from the pot to make warm water.
Seeing Lu Yanshu passing by, Yunping called him over.
“Yanshu, your sister’s clothes are too old. Go to your second aunt and buy some of her third daughter’s old clothes to wear temporarily. I’ll give you three yuan. You can give me whatever you think is appropriate. I trust you.”
"Yes, Mom, I'll take care of it." Lu Yanshu nodded, took the three yuan and walked away expressionlessly.
Clutching a few one-yuan bills tightly in his palm, he felt conflicted. His mother had spent the last of their money on this adopted, unattractive little sister.
Can this family still survive?
My older brother is a senior in high school this year and will be taking the college entrance exam. It will cost a lot of money for him to go to university.
My second and third older brothers are also in their first year of high school. One is a sports student, and the other is an art student. They both need to spend a lot of money to go to school.
My fourth brother is sick, and we have to spend hundreds of yuan on medicine every month.
Fifth Brother is an idiot; it will cost a lot of money for him to get married in the future.
Yesterday, the mother spent tens of yuan to have Anwan treated by a doctor for an abandoned child of unknown origin, and now she is spending money to buy clothes.
Yunping was unaware that her youngest son had so many ideas. She turned around and went into the makeshift toilet.
Instead of helping An Wan take off her clothes and shower, she first applied medicine to kill lice to An Wan's hair and wrapped it in a plastic bag.
An hour later, most of the lice were killed.
Yunping then helped Anwan straighten her tangled hair and also combed off the lice.
Throughout the process, Yunping was very patient and gentle, and she didn't mind Anwan's dirty clothes at all.
This deeply touched An Wan's previously frozen heart once again.
Yunping wet Anwan's hair with warm water and applied the shampoo that they had always been reluctant to use.
I washed Anwan's hair three times before I could get rid of the lice.
"Mom, thank you." An Wan couldn't help but feel a lump in her throat, her amber eyes glistening with tears.
This was her heartfelt gratitude.
For the first time, someone didn't mind her looks or her dirtiness, and took good care of her.
"Silly child, this is what a mother should do." Yunping's voice choked with emotion, feeling even more heartache for the sensible and well-behaved Anwan.
Her eyes reddened, and tears streamed down her face. Yunping wiped them away with the back of her hand, not daring to make a sound so that Anwan could hear.
"Wanwan, let Mommy cut your hair a little shorter, okay? It'll be easier to manage that way, and after a while, Wanwan's hair will grow even prettier."
An Wan's hair was too long, too yellow, and very messy.
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