Chapter 11 Chapter 11 Come and hug me
The three of them immediately looked towards Xia Tian.
Si Cheng walked quickly towards Xia Ji, touched his face, and said, "I'll go call someone."
There were no medical staff accompanying the program crew, so the staff quickly brought the first aid kit. Chen Cheng, Ding Man, Li Xiaoxiao and others also came. For a moment, the small room was crowded with people.
"38.9." Chen Cheng looked at the thermometer with a serious expression.
"So high? Let's take him to the hospital immediately!" Ding Man said anxiously.
"Try taking medicine and physical cooling first. Going to the hospital also means taking medicine and getting acupuncture." Li Xiaoxiao said.
Xia Ji was not actually completely unconscious. He was somewhat conscious and could hear the people around him talking, but he had no strength.
He was very obedient when taking medicine and rubbing his body, so obedient that Ding Man and Li Xiaoxiao felt even more distressed.
Everyone else had gone to film, leaving only them and Si Cheng in the room.
"Have you called his home?" Ding Man asked.
"Yes, his mother asked if we should interrupt the filming," said Li Xiaoxiao.
"What do you mean?" Ding Man was puzzled.
Li Xiaoxiao's tone was filled with dissatisfaction with Xu Suxin. "What do you mean? What it means is that if we don't need to interrupt the filming, we can continue filming as usual and she won't come over. If we need to interrupt the filming, then she will come and take the child back."
Ding Man was speechless and indignant after hearing this. "Is there any mother like this? Even if she didn't interrupt the filming, she should have come to see the child, right?"
Xia Ji listened to their conversation, grabbed Ding Man's hand at the right time, and gently called her "Mom".
Ding Man held his little hand distressedly and touched his forehead, "The child is calling me mom, how can this woman be so cruel!"
Xia Ji started sobbing, tears streaming from the corners of her eyes.
The child looked so pitiful when he cried. He was so young and just like other children, he still depended on his mother.
Ding Man's eyes instantly turned red. She was injured when she gave birth to Si Cheng. The doctor said that she would never be able to get pregnant again. Although she still wanted a child, her family members stopped her.
"Mom, mom, woo woo woo, I want mom..." Xia Ji's little hands were waving in the air, trying to grab something.
Li Xiaoxiao was about to grab him when Ding Man hugged him in her arms, patted his back lovingly, and coaxed him, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, Ji Ji, it's okay."
Xia Ji buried his face in her soft arms, his small hands tightly hugging her waist, mumbling, "Mom, my mom."
Ding Man was so soft-hearted that she kissed him on the forehead.
"Sister Man, you are so caring." Li Xiaoxiao said.
Ding Man curled the corners of her lips slightly, looked at Xia Ji in her arms tenderly, and said nothing.
But Si Cheng knew that if Ding Man just had love, she would never be able to do what she is doing now. She really liked Xia Ji, just like in her previous life, no, she liked her even more than in her previous life.
Si Cheng looked at them with an obscure gaze, and finally turned and left the room.
Ding Man stayed by Xia Ji's side to take care of him for the entire afternoon, and even called the family doctor to come over and examine Xia Ji.
In the evening, summer finally woke up.
"Wake up!" Ding Man was sitting on the edge of the bed and had just been replying to someone's message. When she found out that Xia Ji had woken up, she immediately put down her phone.
Xia Tian looked around and found that he had been moved to another room. The crew must be afraid of infecting other children.
"Mom, Auntie, where's my mom?" Xia Ji asked. The child was sick and his voice sounded very weak.
Ding Man was stunned for a moment, then realized that Xia Tian had misunderstood that the person holding him was his mother. However, she couldn't bear to make Xia Tian sad, so she told a white lie full of love, "Baby, your mother had something to do and just went back."
"She went back?" Xia Tian looked at the door in disappointment, her face pale. "Why didn't she wait for me to wake up?"
"Do you want to go back?" Ding Man asked.
"I do." Xia Tian raised his eyes and looked at her.
"Then auntie, can you take you home?" Ding Man stroked his hair.
Xia Tian shook her head and said, "I can only go back if my mother says I can."
"Why?" Ding Man asked in confusion.
"Because I need to make money for my mother, and I have a younger brother to support." The child's eyes turned red again as he spoke, and he choked up and started crying, "My mother doesn't like me, she only likes my younger brother, wuwuwu..."
The more he spoke, the sadder he became, and finally he broke down and burst into tears.
Ding Man already knew a lot about him. After taking care of him today and finding out that he was actually very thin, she felt even more distressed. She guessed in her heart that this child was definitely not well taken care of. He had been shooting commercials all the time and had no time to eat properly or rest well.
"Okay, okay, don't cry, don't cry, don't cry." Ding Man held him and coaxed him for a long time before he calmed down.
"Awake?" Ding Xue came in and asked.
"Just woke up." Ding Man said.
Xia Ji rubbed the corners of his red eyes and looked at her with watery eyes.
"Oh, whose poor little kid is this? He's crying." Ding Xue smiled and hooked his chin with her finger.
"Okay, okay. He's sick, so it's normal for him to be a little vulnerable. Bring me the bedside thermometer so I can take his temperature again," said Ding Man.
"37.3," Ding Man said, putting down the thermometer. "It's gone down quite a bit. I hope it won't come back tonight."
Li Xiaoxiao also came in and said, "Sister Ding Man, you've been tired all afternoon. Go and have a rest. I'll take care of Xia Ji."
Ding Xue patted Ding Man on the back. Ding Man helped Xia Ji lie back on the bed and followed Ding Xue out.
"Don't you have a backache? Why are you still holding him?" Ding Xue said.
Ding Man thought for a moment and said, "I want to adopt Xia Ji."
"Adopt Xia Ji?" Ding Xue touched Ding Man's forehead, surprised. "She doesn't have a fever, why are you talking nonsense? Xia Ji has parents, and you don't have a son, so why would you adopt her?"
Ding Man glared at her unhappily and said, "I want to adopt Xia Ji as my godson. I want to take care of him."
"I know, but they have parents, and their whole family relies on making money for them in the summer. How can you ask them to give up this ATM?" Ding Xue said.
"I'm just wondering what to do!" Ding Man said speechlessly, "Do you think I can't think of what you said? I'm just confused about this. Can you help me think of a way to bring Xia Ji home?"
"There's definitely a way if you want to..." Ding Xue bit her lip as she pondered, "This child is indeed quite pitiful..."
The two walked out while chatting.
"No." Si Cheng said.
The mother and son stood on the path outside the villa, and the street lights emitted a hazy white light.
"Why?" Ding Man asked. She had never seen her son so adamantly oppose her. He was the only son in the Si family, so even if Xia Ji was adopted, it wouldn't have any effect on him. So she couldn't understand why he was so opposed, even though he seemed to like Xia Ji.
"I don't want a stranger in my house." Si Cheng looked up at Ding Man, his eyes dark. "I don't object to you helping him, but don't bring him home."
After saying that, he turned and left.
Ding Man looked at his back. His expression just now told her that he was serious about what he said. After all, Si Cheng was her biological son, so his words naturally carried weight.
In order to prevent Xia Tian from having a fever again at night, Ding Man stayed with him to sleep all night. She left only the next morning when Xia Tian's fever had completely subsided.
Although the fever has subsided, I still have no appetite in summer and only ate a small steamed bun in the morning.
In the afternoon, Xu Suxin came to pick up Xia Ji. Li Xiaoxiao told her to let Xia Ji have a good rest, after all, he had just fallen ill. Xu Suxin naturally agreed and turned around to take Xia Ji to the studio.
Si Cheng looked at Xia Ji's leaving figure. He naturally knew who Xu Suxin was. Xia Ji was in her hands, and it was a good thing that she didn't peel off a layer of skin. Thinking of that pale little face, his heart, which had originally been cruel, felt a little blocked.
When they got home, Ding Man told him that she would go to her cousin's house the next day to attend his son's third birthday party.
His cousin, Ding Biao, had a very good relationship with his family, having grown up with his mother and aunt. He also had many business dealings with the Si family.
Because of this, his father was not on guard and fell into his trap, and finally committed suicide by jumping off the building.
In the summer of his previous life, he had a great time playing with Ding Biao's son.
Si Cheng leaned over the desk, thinking about his past life. Ding Biao must have planned his intentions towards the Si family for a long time, otherwise he would not have almost swallowed up the huge Si family in one gulp.
When the Si family was down and out, Xia Ji was still very close to the Ding Biao family, and even mocked him when he went to the Ding family for help.
Why? Why was Xia Ji so close to Ding Biao's family in her previous life?
The relationship that he had never thought about in detail in the past now seemed like a dead knot, lying across Si Cheng's heart, unable to get out or out.
It was not until the next day when I went to Ding Biao's house and saw a couple that I suddenly realized what was going on.
The couple was Ding Biao's brother-in-law's family. They had very decent and delicate looks and had a little boy who looked nothing like them.
Although the little boy was fat and white, his facial features were really ordinary, just like a passerby in a comic book.
In his previous life, Si Cheng had not had much contact with this family. Firstly, he was the only son of the Si family. Every time he attended a banquet, there were too many people around him, and it was not his turn to pay attention to the people in the corners. Secondly, he went abroad to study in high school, and he had no impression of these distant relatives at home.
Before, he was only thinking about how to deal with Ding Biao. If he hadn't thought about it carefully yesterday, he would probably have been careless again this time.
"Hahaha, Ranran is so cute, hiding and hiding!" Ding Man bent down with a balloon and teased Ding Biao's son Ding Ran.
Ding Biao stood beside her, looking at Si Cheng who was sitting silently on the side of the sofa. "Why does your Ah Cheng look unhappy at all? Didn't you say you were participating in some children's variety show? Isn't it fun?"
Ding Man was speechless and said, "That's just his personality. How can you expect him to be nice to you?"
Ding Biao laughed heartily, "As a mother, you are also ruthless to your son!"
Si Cheng ignored his joke and stood up and said, "I suddenly remembered something else, cousin, I'm leaving first."
"Ah? Just leave?" Ding Biao was stunned.
"You have something to do, what else do you have to do?" Ding Man said dissatisfiedly.
"Private matter." Si Cheng said and left.
"He left in such a cool way." Ding Xue said with a smile.
"It's normal for children to have a little temper." Ding Biao tried to smooth things over.
"Forget it, let's just move on," said Ding Man.
After returning home, Si Cheng immediately asked Si Guanqing's assistant to investigate the couple he had just seen, and finally got the results in the evening.
It turned out that the couple's child was not their biological child, and they have been looking for their biological child for the past two years.
So, did Xia Tian recognize his biological parents in his previous life? When did they recognize each other? Were his biological parents related to the Si family's misfortune?
Originally, Si Cheng didn't want Ding Man to raise Xia Ji, but now he changed his mind.
He left the study and happened to run into Ding Man who had just come upstairs.
"What did you do at home?" Ding Man asked, lifting her long hair.
"Reading." Si Cheng said.
"Reading? You came back early just to read?" Ding Man was surprised and a little angry. Although she knew that her son had this kind of personality, this personality could sometimes really make people infuriated.
Si Cheng ignored her and said, "Didn't you say before that you wanted to adopt Xia Ji?"
Ding Man, who was about to get angry, was interrupted by his words and said, "Ah? Yeah, what's wrong?"
"You can take him home and raise him." Si Cheng said.
"Why?" Ding Man was puzzled. "Didn't you object before, saying you didn't like having strangers in the house?"
"Don't you feel sorry for him?" Si Cheng said.
Ding Man smiled. "So you don't like him? You talked to him the most on the show, and you often stared at him."
Si Cheng pursed his lips and said, "Don't make blind guesses. Talking a lot doesn't mean you like me, okay?"
Ding Man laughed and put her arm around his shoulders, "You're still denying it. You obviously like him. When you saw him sick, you stayed by his side worriedly."
Sicheng wanted to push her away, but he raised his hand and then put it down again.
"It's okay, son. If you like it, then you like it. Don't feel embarrassed. Mom sent you to participate in this program because she hopes you can make good friends that you like!"
Si Cheng was speechless, "You really think too much."
He just thought that since Ding Man felt sorry for Xia Ji, and Xia Ji was indeed a threat, maybe he could be useful in the future, so it would be okay to keep him by his side.
After getting her son's consent, Ding Man talked to Si Guanqing again. Si Guanqing thought this was just a small matter and she could raise the child if she wanted.
However, he felt that if he wanted to keep the pet at home, it would be better to bring it home first and let it spend some time with the pet to see how they got along before making a decision.
Otherwise, once everyone has invested their feelings, they will be sad if they break up.
After obtaining the consent of her family, Ding Man immediately got to work.
The first thing is to collect evidence of Xu Suxin's child abuse. This is very easy to do because the Si family has connections in the modeling circle and it is easy to investigate.
While collecting evidence, he learned that Xu Suxin was negotiating with several economic companies, so he immediately prepared to take action.
The second season of "Dear Children" has a total of six episodes, three of which have been filmed, and three are left.
During the filming of the fourth episode, Ding Man actively built a relationship with Xu Suxin. The Si family is the richest family in J City, and as the wife of the richest family, her communication skills are naturally needless to say.
Xu Suxin happened to be a money-hungry snob, and she also wanted to climb up the social ladder, so for a while, the two of them went in and out together, got along very well, and were as close as sisters.
The filming locations for "Dear Children" were all located in J City, and the fourth episode was also filmed in a fruit plantation on the outskirts of the city.
The children went to the orchard to take pictures, and the two sat under the parasol next to the car and chatted. Although they were about the same age, Ding Man was obviously better maintained than Xu Suxin, with whiter and more delicate skin. You know, Xu Suxin was two years younger than Ding Man.
"Sister, your skin is so good, it seems to be glowing." Xu Suxin praised with a smile.
Ding Man drank some juice, leaned over affectionately, and said with a soft smile: "I love beauty. I go to the beauty salon once or twice a week."
"Beauty is something that varies from person to person. Only natural beauty can achieve this effect," Xu Suxin complimented. She knew she had an ordinary appearance, otherwise she wouldn't have suspected Xia Tian wasn't her biological son shortly after he was born.
"That's wrong. Haven't you heard the saying, 30% depends on appearance, 70% depends on dressing! Are you free tonight? If you are, I'd like to take you to the beauty salon I often go to."
Ding Man is definitely not short of money, but Xu Suxin is not so generous.
She smiled sheepishly, "Sister Man, how can I compare to you? That beauty salon you go to must be really high-end, right?"
"It's one of the best beauty salons in J City. I deposited over one million yuan into it. If you want to use it, just swipe my card." Ding Man said nonchalantly, looking like she had been taken advantage of.
"How can I feel embarrassed?" Xu Suxin also noticed Ding Man's unusual enthusiasm for her, but she felt that she had nothing to gain, so she was not afraid.
"Hey, it's okay, let's go and have some fun. I often take my friends there." Ding Man said.
Under Ding Man's temptation, Xu Suxin couldn't help but agree to her request. They drove back to the city. When she got in the car, she repeatedly looked in the rearview mirror, carefully observing the condition of her skin.
Xia Ji was also mentally calculating the time to go to Si's house. Si Cheng had participated very little in the filming over the past two days, spending most of his time sitting next to Ding Xue reading.
In the past two days, Si Cheng has been wondering whether the decision he made was right or wrong. Xia Tian is obviously different from the Xia Tian in his previous life. Maybe he is really just a child. Is it necessary for him to be on guard against him like this?
After a day of filming, the little ones returned home, each carrying a bag of fruit. After dinner, everyone sat in the yard, listening to the two teachers tell stories and play games.
Guo Ziwen brought a lot of snacks and everyone crowded together to choose.
Xia Tian noticed him walking towards Si Cheng with a handful of chocolate with nuts in it, and immediately stepped forward to stop him.
"No, he can't eat this chocolate, he will be allergic!" He righteously took the chocolate from Guo Ziwen's hand.
"Ah? Allergic reaction? Why?" Guo Ziweng didn't understand.
"Because there are peanuts in it, he can't eat peanuts, right?" Xia Ji turned around and asked Xiang Sicheng.
However, Si Cheng just looked at him deeply without answering.
Seeing that he didn't answer, Xia Ji said to Guo Ziweng, "If you don't believe me, ask him yourself, or you can ask his mother when she comes tomorrow."
Guo Ziweng and the other children asked Si Cheng all at once, but Si Cheng still didn't answer, so they turned around and asked Xia Ji again, "Don't you not allow sweets? Why did you take my chocolate?"
"Eat one, just one, and then brush your teeth, okay?" Li Siya said.
"Forget it." Xia Ji returned all the chocolates to Guo Ziweng. He had promised Li Xiaoxiao that he could only eat sweet food once a day.
Si Cheng sat on a chair on the side with a serious expression. He had always thought that Xia Ji was just an ordinary child, but now his suspicion was aroused again.
If he was a stranger, how did he know that he was allergic to peanuts? Could he also be reborn?
Thinking of this, he called out, "Ji Ji, come here."
Xia Tian didn't know what happened, and he skipped away. "What?"
"How do you know I'm allergic to peanuts?" Si Cheng's eyes were serious.
Xia Tian said crisply, "I heard it from Aunt Ding."
Si Cheng: "..."
That’s it?
Xia Tian looked at him and blinked strangely, "What's wrong with you?"
Si Cheng: "It's okay, go play."
After activities like shopping together, getting beauty treatments together, eating together, etc., which brought them closer, Ding Man and Xu Suxin's relationship indeed became better.
Her plan was to use courtesy first and then force, to build a good relationship and then achieve her goal step by step. If Xu Suxin resisted, she would produce evidence of her child abuse and use force.
The next day, after the fourth episode was filmed, the two went to the production team to pick up their child. Ding Man pretended to be casual and asked, "I heard that you are planning to sign Ji Ji to an agency?"
"Yes, I've been in contact recently, but the conditions offered by those companies are too harsh." Xu Suxin didn't want to be Xia Ji's agent. It was too tiring and unnecessary. She still had her own son to take care of and didn't want to spend all her time on Xia Ji.
As long as she can make money, she doesn't care even if she is ripped off by the agency in the summer.
"It seems that our family also has an agency. Why don't you let Xia Ji sign with ours?" Ding Man said.
She was so humble in what she said that Xu Suxin couldn't tell whether she was being unintentional or just pretending.
Because she knew that the Si family's economic company was one of the best in the industry. It had created several famous child stars and often invested in the filming of children's dramas.
"Really? I'm afraid our Xia Ji is not qualified enough. The ones that come to us now are all small and unknown agencies." Xu Suxin said.
"Of course it's true. I like this kid Xia Ji very much. The waters in general economic companies are very complicated. If you have no experience, it is easy to fall into a pit once you step in. It is better to have an acquaintance introduce you." Ding Man said.
Li Xiaoxiao and Ding Xue happened to be coming over with Xia Ji and Si Cheng, so Ding Man took the opportunity to say, "Why don't you let your Xia Ji come to our house and play for a few days? He's also a good friend of our Si Cheng."
Xu Suxin was very surprised. Before she could think of how to answer, Ding Xue started to add fuel to the fire. "Si Cheng in our family doesn't have many friends. It's really rare for Xia Ji to become friends with him."
"this……"
Just as Xu Suxin was about to speak, Li Xiaoxiao lowered her head and asked Xia Ji, "Ji Ji, do you want to go to Si Cheng's house to play?"
Xia Ji looked up at them, her big eyes very clear and innocent, "I want to go, but I still have work." If she answered directly that she wanted to go now, it would seem very strange, right?
Xu Suxin immediately smiled and said, "Yes, we have made appointments with several businesses and will be filming commercials for them in the next two days."
Si Cheng, who had been watching coldly, suddenly spoke up, "Go if you want to. You're just a child. You can go wherever you want to play. Work is for adults."
Xia Tian looked at him with some surprise. Did Si Cheng also speak up for Xia Tian in the original text? It seems there is no detailed description.
"But we have already made an appointment. It's not good to break the contract suddenly like this?" Xu Suxin said in embarrassment. She couldn't let go of the piece of fat meat handed to her by Ding Man, but she was also afraid that if she didn't sign with the Si family's company, she would lose her credibility.
"Just postpone it. You didn't let him rest when he was sick last time, right? Is the health and happiness of your child not more important than filming a commercial?" Si Cheng said sharply.
Xu Suxin was shocked. Although she was not nice to Xia Ji, she was very concerned about her reputation and was afraid that others would say that she was not nice to Xia Ji and that she was abusing Xia Ji.
"Yes, last time Xia was sick we called a doctor, and he said he was severely malnourished," Ding Xue said. "Xia Ji, Mom, you have to make sure he gets better first."
"What? Malnutrition?" Ding Man said solemnly, "Su Xin, I originally planned to take Ji Ji home to play for a while, and then take him to the agency, but we can't sign a child with poor health."
Xu Suxin felt suffocated by the pressure of their questioning. She was also worried that the contract with the Si family's financial company would really fall through, so she had no choice but to agree. She consoled herself with the fact that at least she was on board the Si family. If she really did, she wouldn't have to worry about making money.
And they just said that Sicheng only has Xia Ji as his good friend.
Since ancient times, the prince's companions would later become powerful officials. Isn't it better than anything else to have such a powerful and wealthy friend?
"Okay, then go." She smiled and touched Xia Ji's head, and instructed, "Go play with Brother Sicheng. Mom will come to pick you up in a few days. Be obedient, okay?"
"Okay." Xia Tian said obediently, looking innocent and cute.
"Okay, that's a deal." Ding Man took Xia Ji's suitcase and handed it to the driver. "Come to our house for a few days. We in Sicheng have never invited any children to our house before."
Li Xiaoxiao also quickly carried Xia Ji into the Si family's car and sat with Si Cheng.
Xia Ji looked around happily in the car and said to Si Cheng, "Thank you."
Si Cheng frowned, "Why are you thanking me?"
"Thank you for inviting me to your house, otherwise I would have to go shoot a commercial again." Xia Ji said.
"Don't you like shooting commercials?" Si Cheng asked.
Xia Ji curled her lips and said, "It can make money, but who would want to shoot every day?"
The people outside chatted for a while, and finally Ding Man got in the car. "Then I'm leaving. Bye."
Xia Ji also waved quickly: "Goodbye, Mom!"
"Goodbye!" said Xu Suxin.
The driver closed the door, started the car, and the Rolls-Royce quickly disappeared on the road.
Ding Xue stretched lazily, "Oh, my period has come, I can finally have a good rest!"
"Have you been suffering from insomnia these two days?" Li Xiaoxiao asked.
"Yeah, I always suffer from insomnia before my period. It's so uncomfortable. Today I can finally have a good sleep."
Xu Suxin interrupted and said, "You can eat something if you have insomnia during your period..."
Before she finished speaking, Li Xiaoxiao took Ding Xue's hand and said, "Come on, hurry up and pack up. What are we having for dinner? I want to eat seafood."
"Seafood? Sure! Let's go on our own?" Ding Xue obviously got along very well with her.
"Let's go."
The two of them walked inside, talking and laughing intimately, without even glancing at Xu Suxin, as if she didn't exist.
Xu Suxin watched them from behind, her teeth gnashing with anger. She got in the car, and the more she thought about it, the angrier she got. She felt like she'd been tricked, but she couldn't put her finger on what she'd been tricked into. She had no choice but to hold her breath and drive, nearly causing a car accident.
Ding Man sat in the passenger seat and turned around to talk to Xia Ji, "Did Ji Ji have fun at Auntie's house?"
Xia Ji was holding a toy, looking innocent and cute. "Happy! I like Auntie and Brother Sicheng too!"
When he said this, he deliberately glanced at Si Cheng, but Si Cheng turned his head and looked out the window.
"Hahaha, really?" Ding Man laughed happily, "Auntie likes Ji Ji very much too. Do you want to be Auntie's son?"
"Being my aunt's son?" Xia Ji pretended to be confused.
"Yes, my aunt's little darling, I won't force you to shoot commercials. Ji Ji can go to school and do whatever he wants."
"I, I want to go to school. Auntie is very beautiful and gentle, but if I do that, my mother will be unhappy." Xia Ji said.
"It's okay, your mom and aunt will take care of it. Ji Ji just needs to tell you whether he is willing or not." Ding Man said.
"Yes! I'm willing!" Xia Ji said loudly, "Auntie is very good to me, even better than my mother!"
Ding Man became even happier after hearing his words. If she wasn't wearing a seat belt, she would have wanted to go over and hug Xia Ji and kiss him.
The Si family has been passed down for generations and lives in an old house in the center of J City. It covers a large area and is surrounded by key protected cultural relics.
This kind of ancient building looks a bit eerie at night when the lights are not bright enough.
Summer stared out the window curiously. The trees on both sides of the road were quite old and blocked out the sun.
Si Guanqing is still working overtime at the company and will not come back for dinner at night. Old Man Si lives in the east yard, which is some distance away from here, and they only get together for dinner occasionally.
So there were only three of them eating dinner together. Despite this, the table was filled with dishes, and there were housekeepers and servants standing by, serving tea and water.
Away from the depressed Xu Suxin, Xia Tian's appetite has improved a lot. After eating two small bowls of rice, Ding Man felt her appetite was whetted.
She has always liked children with good appetites and often watched those children eat live. Unfortunately, Sicheng is very picky about food.
On the way back, Ding Man had already called the housekeeper to clean up Xia Ji's room, which was right next to Si Cheng's room. Although it was a temporary arrangement, it was very warm. The bedding and utensils were all for children and were cartoon-themed.
"Are you scared of living alone? Do you want to sleep with Brother Sicheng?" Ding Man squatted beside Xia Ji and asked with concern.
Xia Ji glanced at Si Cheng before answering, "No, I sleep alone at home too."
"Really? Baby, you are so brave!" Ding Man touched his head, took him to the living room to watch some cartoons, and then personally took him to take a bath.
The servants were all amazed because Ding Man rarely gave Si Cheng a bath.
The next day, Ding Man took Xia Ji around the house again, and then asked Si Cheng to take him out to play.
Si Cheng didn't care about him at all. He just took him to the garden to bask in the sun, read books by himself, and play by himself in the summer.
In summer, you can lie on the railing of the pavilion and see a pond with colorful fat koi below. The water in the pond is crystal clear and you can see the koi swimming around in groups, so beautiful that you can't take your eyes off it.
"Do you want to feed them?" asked the servant.
Xia Tian's eyes lit up, and he turned his head and asked, "Is it okay?"
The servant was a very young girl who looked very gentle and amiable. When she heard Xia Tian's soft voice, she smiled and her voice became even softer. "Of course! I'll go get the fish food. You follow Brother Sicheng and don't run around."
There was a servant nearby, so the girl went to get the fish food with confidence, bent down and followed him to feed the koi.
"That's so fat! So cute!" Xia Ji said while holding the fish food.
"Yes, you are so cute too!" The girl kissed his smooth little face.
"Sister, what's your name?" Xia Ji asked. He liked to be close to his sister.
"You can just call me Lily."
"Sister Lily!" Xia Tian called sweetly.
"Baby is so good~" Lily was also very happy. She was originally Sicheng's nanny, but Sicheng was too difficult to get close to. Now that summer has come, she finally feels a sense of accomplishment in taking care of the baby.
The two were feeding the koi affectionately when the housekeeper suddenly passed by them with two servants and hurriedly walked towards the back yard.
The two were drawn to him again. Lily grabbed a servant nearby and asked, "What's wrong? What happened? Why did Uncle Li leave in such a hurry?"
"Annie bit someone. She just bit another one." said the servant.
"Bite? Is Annie a dog?" Xia Tian asked.
"Yes, Annie gave birth to puppies last night," said Lily.
"The puppies this female dog gave birth to are very aggressive. They bit someone while feeding them this morning," said the maid.
Lily looked worried. "I wonder if the bite is serious. Lily used to be very gentle."
The two were chatting when Lily suddenly felt the hem of her clothes being tugged. She looked down and saw a round little face.
"Sister Lily, can you take me to see the puppy?" Xia Ji said.
"Don't go, we don't dare to get close." said the servant.
"Let's just watch from afar and not get close. I don't have anything to do anyway." Xia Ji pulled Lily's clothes and said, "Okay, okay, okay, let's just watch from afar!"
The coquettish voice made Si Cheng, who was reading a book, look at him.
Lily said in embarrassment: "Ji Ji, I dare not take you with me. I am really afraid that you will get hurt. Why don't you ask the young master?"
So Xia turned around and ran towards Sicheng.
Si Cheng calmly turned a page of the book, which was in the original English version.
"Sicheng! Sicheng! Can you take me to see the puppies? I haven't seen newborn puppies yet!" Xia Ji lay on the stone table and came in front of Sicheng.
"Newborn animals are all ugly, what's so good about them?" Si Cheng said mercilessly.
"Ah~~~ But I really haven't seen it, and such opportunities are rare. Can you take me to see it? Okay?" He almost leaned close to Si Cheng.
Si Cheng ignored him, pushed him away and continued reading.
"Brother Sicheng! Brother, brother, brother! Good brother! Just take me to see it! Really!" He pushed it away, but Xia Ji stuck to it again, like a gummy bear.
Si Cheng was so annoyed that he couldn't just ignore it and put the book down.
The servant was frightened by his expression and thought he was going to get angry, but he just got up and left.
Xia Ji stood there, not knowing where he was going.
Si Cheng walked a few steps with his hands behind his back, then turned back and said, "Don't you want to see the dog? Why don't you follow me?"
A smile instantly spread across Xia Tian's face, and the servants breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly followed.
Anne is a very handsome German Shepherd who used to live alone in a kennel in the backyard. Because she was going to have puppies, the servants prepared a larger room for her with a fenced-in area.
When the housekeeper saw a large group of them coming, he hurriedly tried to stop them, fearing that the large crowd would disturb the bitch and make her even more agitated.
"Master, you'd better not go over there," the housekeeper said. "She gave birth to puppies yesterday, and she won't let us get close to clean up. There's a smell in the room."
Si Cheng is a mysophobe, so the housekeeper said that.
"It's okay," Sicheng said. "Just a quick look."
"Then don't go over there, otherwise it will show its teeth again." The butler said to the servants following behind.
Xia Ji still stood there, Si Cheng looked back at him and said, "Let's go."
Xia Tian then moved, "Oh!"
He took short steps and struggled to keep up with his superior's pace.
The two walked along the short corridor and stopped at the door of the innermost room.
There were a lot of maternity mats in the room, and two old hens for making soup were placed against the wall in a stainless steel basin. Annie was lying in the corner with her puppy, feeding her.
Hearing the sound, his ears moved alertly and his eyes looked towards the door.
Xia Tian looked inside in amazement and said happily, "Wow, there are six of them in total. They are really small!"
The puppies' eyes haven't opened yet, and the patterns on their bodies are almost the same.
"A newborn baby, of course it's small." Si Cheng disagreed and thought the man was making a fuss out of nothing.
"It's so cute. I wish I could touch it." Xia Tian said with shining eyes. In fact, he has always had a small wish, which is to raise a small animal with his own hands, preferably to feed it from the time it is breastfeeding, because that way it would be the most intimate.
"You said before that you just wanted to take a look, and now you want to touch it. Don't push your luck." Si Cheng said.
"Hehe, I know." Xia Ji was so happy that the dimples on her face never went away.
Si Cheng looked at his silly face, not understanding, but still explained: "It will bite. When it first gives birth to puppies, it will be particularly aggressive, so don't even think about petting the puppies."
"Hey, I know."
"There are six in total, four males and two females." The housekeeper walked up behind them, feet slightly together, and said, "We can't keep so many. Madam will probably give them away when the time comes."
Perhaps it was because the housekeeper had arrived, but Anne started growling again.
"Ah? Give it to someone? Can you give it to me? I want to raise it!" Xia Ji asked, looking up.
The butler was a middle-aged man in his fifties, tall and slightly plump, wearing a tuxedo, with his hair combed meticulously. "I have to ask the lady before I can answer you."
"Okay." Xia Ji pursed his lips in disappointment.
"You shouldn't keep a dog just for fun; you have to take care of it. If you can't even take care of yourself, how can you take care of a dog?" Si Cheng said.
"I can take care of myself! I can take good care of the dog!" Xia Tian promised.
"Okay, okay, go out and don't disturb it from feeding." There is indeed some smell here. Although it is not strong, it is still a bit unbearable for Si Cheng.
"Okay." Xia Tian looked back at the dog reluctantly, and finally dragged his feet to follow Si Cheng.
The puppy grows very fast and can walk on its own in a few days. Although it is still wobbly, it is very cute.
Although Annie no longer bites people, she still doesn't allow others to touch her cubs.
The servants led them back to the kennel, and they were often taken for walks within the fenced yard.
In the summer, he often sneaked over to see them. The more he watched, the more itchy he became. He also found that Annie was particularly gentle and tolerant towards him. Once, he was very close to the puppy, but it didn't react at all.
At noon that day, the weather outside was a little hot, so Annie took the puppy and hid in the kennel.
Xia Tian dragged Si Cheng out, but didn't see the puppy, and felt very disappointed.
Si Cheng didn't like dogs in general, he just came out to accompany Xia Ji, "Let's go, it's so late in the afternoon, dogs also need a nap."
Xia Tian pursed her lips and stared at the window of the kennel.
After all, the kennel is low, it is a low house, so the windows are also relatively low, but it is still difficult to reach them with your height in summer.
"don't want."
No? Si Cheng raised his brow, feeling deeply offended.
"Hold me!"
"I want you to hug me?" Because it was a request, it sounded particularly legitimate, causing Si Cheng's brow to twitch uncontrollably. He wondered if he had been too indulgent with Xia Tian recently, causing him to become so arrogant.
Xia Ji walked straight to the window of the kennel, stood on tiptoe, and with her two little hands, she kept looking inside. She turned around and called to Si Cheng, "Come here quickly!"
The little dwarf couldn’t reach it no matter how much he jumped.
After more than ten seconds, Si Cheng resigned himself to his fate and walked over. Never mind, it's just a kid.
"Hurry up!" Xia Ji urged.
Si Cheng picked up his thighs and lifted him up. To his surprise, the child was really light.
With Si Cheng's support, Xia Tian finally saw Annie and the puppies. The puppies were sleeping soundly. One of them woke up and found that it was him. It ran over and wagged its tail.
"Wow, it's so cute, it recognizes me! Sicheng, it recognizes me! It comes over and wags its tail at me!" Xia Ji shouted happily.
"Are you done?" Si Cheng asked. Although the pain wasn't severe in Xia Tian, he felt that doing such a thing was totally inconsistent with his usual aloof young master demeanor, so he felt very uncomfortable.
Xia Tian mistakenly thought that he could no longer hold her, so to prevent them from falling, she quickly said, "Alright, alright, I'll be satisfied with just one look!"
Then you are really easy to satisfy. Si Cheng put him down and shook his hands. "Let's go back to sleep."
"Okay!" Just as Xia Ji was about to leave, the puppy suddenly ran out and walked to the fence.
"Hey, wait!" Xia Ji shouted.
Si Cheng looked back and saw Xia Ji about to bend down to grab the puppy, and immediately stopped him, "Don't grab it—"
However, Xia Ji had already caught the puppy, held it in his arms, and smiled at Si Cheng.
Annie came out of the kennel with a gloomy face, but surprisingly she didn't lose her temper.
Si Cheng finally let go of the worry he had been holding on to.
"Annie, I'm just touching it, I'm not taking it away." Xia Ji said to the dog.
Si Cheng was speechless, "It doesn't understand what you are saying."
"Who said that? Dogs are very smart, they can understand it!" Xia Ji stroked the puppy.
After growing up over the past few days, the puppy has become furry and chubby, with a soft little body and big eyes that are innocent and cute.
"Okay, stop playing, it's so dirty." Si Cheng said helplessly.
"No, the puppy is very clean because the mother dog will clean it."
Xia Ji held the dog for a while, then returned it, still muttering, "Go back, go back to your mother. Your brother has to go back too, otherwise your other brother will be angry."
Another brother - Sicheng, when did he become the same generation as Xiaogou?
"Go back and take a shower immediately. Don't get close to me if you don't take a shower." Si Cheng said.
"Okay." Xia Tian smiled and followed him. He felt that Si Cheng was getting better and better to him. It would be great if he could become friends with Si Cheng. Once they became friends, he probably wouldn't stab him again, right?
Two days later, Ding Man really took Xia Ji to the Si family's economic company.
The economic company is called Tianhuan Entertainment. It is very large and covers many aspects. Its head office is in the city center.
Ding Man is the boss's wife, so naturally she was welcomed by the senior management as soon as she arrived.
Before leaving, Ding Man called Xu Suxin, so she arrived there early.
After a conversation, both parties were very satisfied, but when they were about to sign the contract, Ding Man got stuck.
"Su Xin, I'm not happy with you either. To be honest with you, I really like Xia Ji and want to adopt him as my godson." Ding Man said while sitting on the sofa.
Xu Suxin was sitting opposite her, and Xia Ji was taken to the lounge by the secretary.
"Godson?" Xu Suxin was very surprised, but this was indeed a good thing that fell from the sky. Just imagine, if the wife of the richest man said she wanted to adopt you as her godson or goddaughter, would you agree immediately?
Anyway, she agreed immediately. She even wanted to hand over her own son and ask if she could have another one.
"Of course! He is so lucky to have you as his godmother." Xu Suxin said with a smile.
"Since I want to adopt him as my godson, I will definitely train him with all my heart. He can even receive the same training as Si Cheng." Ding Man's attitude seemed friendly, but her words revealed that she would not tolerate any objection.
"That's right, that's for sure." Xu Suxin nodded repeatedly. With the Si family's training, wouldn't Xia Tian be a big star? As Xia Tian's guardian, all she had to do was sit back and count the money.
"What I want to say is that since I've signed this contract, I'll take Xia Tian to my house to raise her."
"What?"
Xu Suxin finally reacted, but Dante Man just looked at her with a smile.
"What do you mean? We just signed an economic contract, not selling the child to you, right?" Xu Suxin said.
Ding Man smiled and said, "Why are you saying such harsh words? I just wanted to take Xia Ji home and raise him because I really like him."
Although she meant it sincerely, to Xu Suxin, her words sounded like a rich person choosing a pet and buying it home to raise.
"I hope he can live in our house so that Sicheng will have a playmate." Ding Man explained again. Although she had evidence that Xu Suxin abused Xia Ji, she was Xia Ji's guardian after all. She would not offend her if she could. Otherwise, she was afraid that in the end, Xia Ji would be the one who would be hurt.
"Oh." Xu Suxin smiled awkwardly, "Is that so."
"Yes, and the company here will arrange a professional agent and assistant for him, so you don't have to follow him all the time. As far as I know, don't you have a little son who needs to be taken care of?" Ding Man said gently.
Xu Suxin rubbed her hands and put on that hypocritical look again, "I absolutely trust you, but after all, this is my own child, and I'm still a little worried about handing it over like this."
What's there to worry about? It's not your biological child, after all. Ding Man thought to herself. She had also found out some time ago that Xia Ji was not Xu Suxin's biological child.
"In that case, let's sign the contract?" Ding Man said.
Xu Suxin nodded quickly, "Okay, okay."
After leaving the agency, Xu Suxin pretended to hug Xia Ji again and acted like she was very reluctant to leave before they separated.
Ding Man hugged Xia Ji and watched Xu Suxin drive away.
"Do you miss your mother?" Ding Man asked.
Xia Tian shook his head, "No."
"Why?" Ding Man asked curiously.
"Because my mother doesn't like me, I'm not her biological child," said Xia Ji.
Ding Man was surprised and asked, "How do you know you are not her biological child?"
"Because I don't look like her at all. Every time I go out, people say we don't look like their biological child." Xia Ji played with the necklace around Ding Man's neck.
"Indeed." Ding Man sighed, "You don't look like her at all. Just follow your godmother from now on, okay?"
"Okay!" Xia Ji curled the corners of his mouth and hugged her neck tightly.
When a child's body is soft and he hugs you dependently, it can bring you infinite joy.
Ding Man patted him on the back and took him to the Rolls-Royce.
When filming the fifth episode of "Dear Little Friends", Xia Ji's complexion looked much better, and he was no longer as frail as when Xu Suxin took him.
Ding Man has become a fashion maniac. She can change Xia Ji's clothes several times a day and take care of his food, clothing, housing and transportation personally. She cares about him even more than Si Cheng.
After the filming, the three of them returned to the Si family's old house. Ding Man went for a beauty treatment and went shopping. Before leaving, she reminded Si Cheng to take good care of his younger brother.
Usually Sicheng reads in the study, and in summer he plays Lego on the shag carpet.
Or maybe he was practicing in the Taekwondo gym, and soon, Xia Tian came jumping in wearing training clothes.
Si Cheng was too mature, and because of his status, the coaches didn't dare to tease him.
But Xia Ji is different. Xia Ji likes to talk and joke. Just watching him, a short and chubby little guy in a white training suit, jumping and kicking his legs can make a lot of people laugh.
After training, Si Cheng took a shower, changed his clothes, and went out, replying to messages on his phone. Xia Ji also changed back into his own clothes with the help of the coach.
"Let's go. We'll go to grandpa's house for dinner later." Si Cheng said.
"Should I go too?" Xia Ji hurried to catch up with him.
"What else?" Si Cheng objected.
"Is your grandfather serious?" Xia Tian asked.
Si Cheng thought for two seconds and replied, "It's okay, what's wrong?"
"I'm worried that he won't like me," Xia Tian said.
Si Cheng raised an eyebrow, "Are you still worried about this?"
Xia Tian frowned and said angrily, "Why not? Who do you think I am?"
"I thought you only knew how to eat and sleep!" Si Cheng said with a smile.
He rarely smiles, and often has a blank expression on his face, looking quite distant. But when he smiles, he's really good-looking!
At least that's what Xia thought, as he watched in amazement.
Si Cheng also realized that he was too relaxed and intimate with him, so he quickly corrected his expression, walked away, and urged him uncomfortably, "Hurry up! I have something to do tonight!"
Xia Ji was stunned for a while before quickly following him. "What's going on? What else do you have to do tonight?"
"Why are you asking so many questions? It's none of your business anyway." Si Cheng said coldly.
"Okay." Xia Tian felt aggrieved, while secretly glancing at Si Cheng to observe him.
Sure enough, after a while, Si Cheng explained: "It's really none of your business. You're just a child and can't understand so many things."
In fact, he was an assistant named Si Guanqing, and he sent him some company information.
"Aren't you a child too?" Xia Ji said unconvinced.
"I..." Si Cheng couldn't really say that he was already in his twenties, "I'm at least one year older than you!"
"He's only one year old! Fifty steps is only a hundred steps!"
"You've never been to school, haven't you? And you still think you can laugh at me?"
"I watch TV! I can learn a lot from watching TV! I'm very smart!"
"And there are those who praise themselves for being smart?"
Mr. Si, who loves quietness, has always lived alone in the courtyard east of the old house. But as an old man, he sometimes misses the public, so he calls the younger generation to eat.
But I didn’t expect that my grandson would bring a little kid with him this time.
The child was half a head shorter than his grandson, with a round, chubby face and big, bright eyes. He was wearing grey overalls and looked very obedient as he followed his grandson, like someone in a painting.
The old man was sitting on a rattan chair in the yard to enjoy the cool air, and Si Cheng brought Xia Ji to greet him.
"Grandpa." Si Cheng shouted.
"Hmm." The old man snorted, his face quite serious, and the wrinkles on his face revealed the demeanor of an elder who was not to be trifled with. "Who is this kid? Why did he follow you here?"
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