She said, "Boys and girls are different, and there always needs to be a boy in the family."
"After your daughter gets married, will you and Mr. Zhou be left with an empty house?"
Sun Lifang hadn't expected Mrs. Tong to think so far ahead. Just as she was about to say something, she heard her daughter's voice.
Zhou Xinya turned around, still holding the bowl in her arms, and stopped watching the cartoon. She stared at Mrs. Tong with her big eyes and said, "You're wrong."
"What?"
"I will be a good son to my mother in the future."
Mrs. Tong chuckled, "You might say that now, but that might not be the case when you grow up."
"Girls are meant to marry into other families, you don't understand."
"Really." Zhou Xinya said very seriously, "I will stay with my mother from now on."
Mrs. Tong couldn't help but burst into laughter, "So you'll never get married? Silly girl, you don't understand anything..."
Before she could finish speaking, the little girl's lips trembled and tears rolled down her cheeks.
"Oh dear, oh dear, you're already shedding tears like this?" Mrs. Tong laughed, saying she wanted to slap herself, while Zhou Xinya cried silently.
Mrs. Tong wanted to say something more, but Sun Lifang glanced at her and hugged her daughter.
"She must have been irritable because she didn't take a nap," Sun Lifang said, making up an excuse for her daughter. Mrs. Tong finished eating, said goodbye, and went home.
Before leaving, he took out some chocolate from his pocket to coax her.
Zhou Xinya was still angry, so she didn't answer.
Sun Lifang tried to smooth things over, saying that the child was just being immature.
Back in the master bedroom, I drew the curtains and officially began my afternoon nap.
"Mom." Zhou Xinya, dressed in a Minnie Mouse nightgown, hugged Sun Lifang's arm, her spirits low.
Sun Lifang touched the little girl's head; it wasn't feverish. Then she heard the little girl's soft voice, "Why do I have to marry into another family when I grow up?"
"Will my mother abandon me after I get married?"
"Can't I go home and live with my mother after I get married? Do I have to live at someone else's house?"
Huh? Sun Lifang didn't expect her daughter to think so much.
The little girl actually thought that getting married meant never coming home again; what a fool.
"I'm scared, so I promise I won't get married in the future, okay?" Zhou Xinya tightened her arms, hoping for a reply.
"Can."
Having lived through past and present lives, Sun Lifang can finally give her daughter a proper answer.
She held her daughter close to her chest and solemnly promised, "Whether you get married or not, this home will always be your home."
"Don't listen to Aunt Tong. It's not like you can't come home after you get married."
"What your auntie said was just a 'what if' situation. What if you meet a boy you really like in the future and want to leave your mother to go far away?"
"No!" Zhou Xinya raised her head, her eyes bright and clear. "I won't leave Mom, I really won't."
"Okay, okay." Sun Lifang knew that this had touched a nerve with the little girl, who was now clinging to her especially.
I felt a little proud; my daughter finally loved me more.
I just don't know why she thought so far ahead.
Zhou Xinya didn't get married in her previous life, so of course she didn't marry someone else.
Sun Lifang patted her daughter to sleep, her thoughts drifting away unnoticed—
Can we take a child's words seriously?
She didn't know either.
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