Chapter 03 Chapter 3
No one was talking at the dinner table. Yue Qing, who was used to being alone, was always surrounded by silence. She was also accustomed to this state, but today was a little different.
Although the children beside her didn't make much noise while eating, their presence was very strong and distracted her from time to time.
Naturally, there were no children's bowls and chopsticks at home, and she had no experience and forgot to buy some. Now the child held the spoon in one hand and the chopsticks in the other, clumsily trying to figure out which one to use for eating. He tried for a long time but didn't eat much, and sweat broke out on his forehead.
These two children grew up with the original owner and learned very little.
If this continues, the food will get cold.
Yueqing slowed down her eating and thought of her childhood for no reason. She was also living under someone else's roof and no one took the trouble to teach her how to grow up and develop good habits. When other children had already learned to hold chopsticks and write well, she was still staring at other children blankly.
So her pace of growth is always slower than her peers.
It’s not that she doesn’t like children, but in other words she doesn’t want to recall the past.
Seeing that the child failed to pick up the food again and could only quietly eat the white rice with a spoon, Yue Qing took out a pair of clean chopsticks and said, "Look at me."
She put the food into the child's bowl and said, "Eat with a spoon first, and then you can watch me learn how to use chopsticks."
Little Le'an held the spoon tightly and nodded cautiously.
The dishes were all in the bowl, and she could just lean over the edge of the bowl to scoop the rice into her mouth, and she could also learn how her aunt eats.
As she watched, she began to lose her focus.
The aunt was so calm, there were no clothes, bags, or nightclubs that she couldn't understand, so her attention was focused on the aunt's face.
In the past, Xiao Le'an didn't dare to look her aunt in the eye. When she did, she would be frightened by the unpleasant words in her heart. But now she can actually see her aunt's appearance clearly.
She racked her brains to find adjectives, but was really at a loss. She only knew the word "beautiful". She was prettier than the princesses in the cartoons her brother had shown her. Her eyes were shining!
My brother always says that he wants to post nice photos online so that people will like to see them. If I post photos of my aunt, will many people like them?
Forget it, my brother doesn’t like my aunt.
She also... well, she likes it a little bit because my aunt is sick today.
After dinner, Xiao Le'an planned to go back to his room and sleep quietly as usual, but he was stopped by his aunt halfway.
"Where are you going?"
Hearing his aunt's cold voice, Xiao Le'an said timidly, "Go to sleep."
After thinking for a moment, he added, "I can wash your feet."
There was no air conditioning in that room, and the quilt was thin. Yue Qing was worried about letting a child who had just recovered from a fever sleep there, so she opened her own door and said, "Let him sleep here tonight."
Xiao Le'an was stunned and didn't move.
Yue Qing walked into the child's room and found the neatly piled clothes. She squatted down and couldn't help laughing. The child didn't know how to fold clothes very well, so it looked neat from a distance, but when she got closer, it was just a pile of clothes stuffed together. Fortunately, they were not dirty.
She found two and said with a barely noticeable smile, "You have a fever today. You need to take a bath first. Can you wash your feet or take a bath?"
Xiao Le'an nodded slightly.
Yue Qing was worried and followed her into the bathroom. The child tiptoed to test the water switch, muttering, "Left, left, left, hot water on the left?"
My brother is gone, so I don’t remember anything.
In a flash, the water column soaked the child thoroughly.
Fortunately, Yueqing had turned on the heater in the bathroom before she came in. She turned off the water and filled the bathtub with hot water while undressing the child: "How did you take a bath before?"
Thinking he had done something wrong, Xiao Le'an lowered his head and murmured, "Brother."
Yueqing understood.
【It seems that the smart one is the older brother.】
Little Le'an got nervous: "I'm learning too."
"Yeah." Yue Qing's pupils shrank slightly when he saw the bruises on the child's fair skin while he was taking off his clothes.
She only knew that the original owner would abuse the two children, but she didn't expect it to be so serious. There were bruises all over their bodies, new and old, which were shocking. Her fingertips trembled and she didn't dare to touch them.
Looking at the child again, he didn't seem to notice anything special about himself, perhaps he had already gotten used to it.
The scary thing is that even after experiencing all this, today's children still have no intention of resisting what she said, and are incredibly well-behaved.
【How can you be so obedient?】
Yue Qing tested the water temperature, and after carrying the child in, she couldn't help but say, "Child."
"Hmm?" Xiao Le'an didn't react. "Auntie calling me?"
But she is not called a child.
Yue Qing hummed, her throat a little hoarse: "In the future, if you don't like or don't want to, you must learn to say no."
Little Le An didn't quite understand this principle because she was taught since she was a child not to disobey, otherwise she would be punished.
She blinked, didn't say anything if she didn't understand, lowered her head and wiped her arms with a small towel.
The huge bathroom was filled with only the sound of water. Yue Qing calmed down and said nothing more. He was a little distracted as he counted the bruises as if he was counting the number of days he had left to live.
After taking a shower, she took the child back to her room to sleep, thinking about the possibility of sleeping on the sofa tonight. There was air conditioning in the living room and the sofa was big enough so she wouldn't catch a cold.
She wasn't ready to sleep in the same bed with a strange child.
Just as she was about to turn off the lights and leave, the child, who had been quiet all this time, suddenly asked, "Will you hit me?"
Yue Qing stopped and turned back: "What?"
The child, covered in a blanket, remained motionless on the bed, staring at the ceiling and asking, "Will I get beaten if I say no?"
Is this answering the bathroom question?
After a few seconds of silence, Yue Qing returned to the bed and lowered his dark eyes: "No."
She whispered, "It has nothing to do with you. The one who was wrong was the aunt who hit someone."
Even if she didn't hit the child, how could the child in front of her understand these things? Yue Qing knew very well that children at this age did not need the logic of who was right or wrong, but an affirmation.
"Does my aunt take medicine?"
"Take medicine?"
Xiao Le'an's eyes flickered with a bit of trepidation: "Is my aunt sick? If she is sick, take some medicine and she will be fine."
Yueqing didn't understand.
Xiao Le'an asked again: "If Auntie gets better, will she still hug me?"
Yue Qing came to her senses now. Did the child think that her change today was due to illness?
[The new brain is easy to use, and its thinking is unconstrained.]
But as to whether she would hold her again, Yue Qing herself could not make a promise. She did not have the habit of being intimate with others, and the two children probably would not need her to hold them after they had a biological father.
She didn't know how to coax the child, so she could only say another way: "I won't hit you anyway."
But she didn't know that these words were very important to Xiao Le'an at this moment.
It was so important that she didn't care about being well behaved for a moment. She kicked the quilt excitedly a few times, making a small arc.
After kicking, he realized that he didn't do well and looked at his aunt worriedly.
But my aunt just turned off the lights, leaving only a dim bedside lamp. Her face looked even gentler under the warm yellow light. She grabbed a quilt and walked out.
"Go to sleep."
Xiao Le'an quickly closed her eyes, and only dared to open them secretly after hearing the sound of her aunt going out. She took out her cell phone and secretly made a video call to her brother. This was an agreement between her and her brother, and she couldn't sleep without her brother.
The call was connected quickly. In order to talk to his sister, little Le Jia threw a tantrum for a long time before the buyer couple agreed to let him sleep alone. Now his room was quiet.
Xiao Le'an lowered his voice: "Brother, I slept in my aunt's bed and she praised me."
"What are you praising?"
The little girl recalled for a moment and pointed to her head: "They said my head is useful!"
Doesn’t that mean she’s not stupid?
Little Le Jia on the other side was very confused. Why did his bad aunt become strange after he had been away for only two days?
He asked, "Does she sleep with you?"
"No."
Little Le Jia was still worried: "Just take a look quietly, where is she?"
The two siblings hid in the quilt for more than half an hour. When little Le'an didn't hear any sound, he secretly got out of bed and opened the door. Through the crack in the door, he could see his aunt sleeping on the sofa in the living room. She had fallen asleep with her brows slightly wrinkled, like a sleeping beauty.
But Xiao Lejia's face suddenly darkened: "Go back quickly!"
Little Le'an didn't understand what was going on, but he still ran back to the bed obediently: "What's wrong, brother?"
Little Le Jia pursed her lips tightly: "She is guarding you."
She stayed in the living room because she was afraid that my sister would run away. She also said that my sister had a good brain. Someone even praised my sister's stupid little head. This bad aunt really wanted to sell my sister!
He said, "Don't hang up."
Xiao Le'an didn't understand, but she really didn't hear her aunt saying that she wanted to hurt her.
Could it be that her special abilities also disappeared due to her illness?
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The mental pressure from the previous day was too great, and she also had to take care of a sick child, so Yue Qing slept well all night and got up early the next day. She was still thinking about the bag she had listed on the second-hand website.
What surprised her was that even though the bag cost tens of thousands of dollars, many people contacted her behind the scenes. There is really no shortage of rich people in this world.
In order to get the money as soon as possible, Yueqing chose a buyer in the same city and planned to send it to her directly without going through the platform. It happened that the other party heard that she had many bags and was also interested in them. For the first cooperation, they could also authenticate the authenticity of the bags offline.
There is no way. A penny can make a hero fall. Yueqing only has more than ten yuan on him now, which is not enough for the gas money to pick up another child.
After agreeing on a time and place with the buyer, Yueqing went into the room first to see how the child was doing today.
As soon as she pushed the door open, the child woke up in a daze, looked at her warily, and only breathed a sigh of relief when he saw it was her.
Last night, little Le'an's brother taught him many ways to save himself from being sold as a child, so he had nightmares about being sold by his aunt all night.
Yue Qing didn't know what the child was thinking, but walked over and touched her forehead to make sure she was no longer feverish before getting her some clean clothes to change into and taking her to wash up: "I'll make breakfast, you play by yourself."
Little Le Jia, who hadn't hung up the phone, stood up immediately after hearing the voice, with his ear pressed against the phone, wanting to see what this bad aunt was going to do.
Not only do I have to wash my sister's face and dress her, but I also have to cook?
He was a little unhappy. Now the bad aunt was not speaking harshly anymore. Why didn't she take these steps before selling him?
Little Le'an didn't get his brother's permission, nor did he hang up the phone. Instead, he walked to the living room with his phone.
Soon, my aunt brought out two bowls of noodles.
Without being reminded, little Le'an climbed onto the dining table obediently and lowered his head to blow on the bowl to cool it down.
Yueqing was very satisfied with this. If the child didn't know, she could teach him/her as long as he/she was willing to learn. This saved her a lot of worry.
Thinking about what she was going to do today, she said, "I'm going out later and no one's home. Will you come with me?"
Little Le'an, who was concentrating on eating noodles, turned pale in an instant.
It turns out that my brother was right!
Little Le Jia on the other side also became anxious. He didn't expect that his bad aunt would sell a child so soon.
But before he could say anything, the door of the room was opened. Fearing that he would be discovered, he quickly hung up the phone, sent a voice message to his sister, and hid the phone.
"Baby." The buyer couple walked in and lifted his quilt. As expected, they saw a puddle of water. Their faces immediately turned unhappy and they scolded him, "Didn't I put a diaper on you last night?"
Not only was the child mentally unstable, he couldn't even control his instincts and would wet his pants every time, so even though he was three years old, the couple still put diapers on him at night.
Little Le Jia shook his head without saying anything, but threw the diaper that he had deliberately taken off and torn last night onto the ground.
He drank a lot of water yesterday and deliberately didn't go to the toilet, so he peed directly on the bed!
The young father held his brow tightly and turned to leave the room: "You clean him up first, and then go to the hospital."
This was what the couple had discussed last night. They planned to send their child to the hospital to test his intelligence, otherwise they wouldn't know if he was cheated. They only wanted a smart, beautiful and worry-free child. If the child really had any problems, they didn't have enough time and patience to teach him.
While they were getting clean clothes, little Le Jia quickly made his next plan. He had to ask them to return him today, otherwise his sister would be sold.
It seems he needs to poop big!
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