"There's no big problem, just malnutrition, a little weak, and sleeping too late at night, right? Children should go to bed early." The doctor left after examining him.
Malnutrition? Xin Yanlai was thoughtful. He remembered the attitude of Xin Xiaolu's mother when she sent her here before. She was indifferent to her child, as if she were a stranger. This child probably didn't have a good life in the Xin family, with an indifferent mother, a father who was not related by blood, and a brother who loved to bully others... Xin Yanlai touched Xin Xiaolu's head.
"You need to rest well and eat well."
Xin Xiaolu saw him get up and go to the kitchen to talk to her aunt. She only vaguely heard him talking to her aunt about making some nourishing soup to supplement her nutrition. Sure enough, the meal was more substantial, and Xin Xiaolu had an extra bowl of soup in front of her.
Xin Yuan was not happy again, "Cousin, why does she have one more bowl of soup than me? We are family, not her! Why are you treating her better than me!"
Xin Yanlai: "Xiaolu is not in good health, Yuanyuan, you can't bully her, do you hear me?"
Xin Yuan: "I don't..."
Xin Yanlai: "It's useless for you to quarrel with me. If you still have the energy to quarrel, it means you can continue to write a few more test papers."
Xin Yuan knew that it was useless to quarrel with his cousin, but he felt so wronged that he couldn't help crying. Xin Yanlai brought him a tissue and said calmly, "Wipe your face, then eat."
Xin Yuan: "I don't want to eat anymore!"
Xin Yanlai: "Okay, but if you don't eat, there will be no snacks for you in the afternoon, so just starve."
Xin Yuan, who had been causing trouble every night and causing hunger for some time, hesitated. He was really scared.
Compared with Xin Yuan's unfortunate treatment, Xin Xiaolu was much happier. She had fruit and dessert after dinner. After dinner at night, Xin Yanlai even brought her milk. "The doctor said that you go to bed late at night, so you don't have to do your homework at night. Drink the milk and go to bed early."
Although he was strict and a little precocious, he was a gentle and good boy, and Xin Xiaolu didn't want to scare him. But she woke up in the middle of the night, unable to sleep, and opened the door and walked out, walked around the empty big house, opened the door again, and wandered in the garden below.
Xin Yanlai was used to studying until late at night. He saw a white shadow in the garden in the dark night. He stood up curiously and looked carefully on the balcony. He found that it was Xin Xiaolu. He put down his pen, went downstairs to open the door, went to the garden and brought Xin Xiaolu back.
"Why did you run out at night again? It shouldn't be sleepwalking, but you can't sleep?" Xin Yanlai frowned and looked at the dark circles under the little girl's eyes.
Xin Xiaolu sat on the sofa, staring at him. She had fair skin and dark eyes, two dark circles under her eyes, and she was wearing a white nightgown with long hair. She looked just like a ghost girl in horror movies, with a spooky temperament. But Xin Yanlai didn't feel this scary temperament, he just felt that her sleeping habits were very bad and needed to be corrected. A healthy child was so weak.
"I'll heat you another cup of milk."
Xin Xiaolu drank a cup of warm milk in the middle of the night and was sent back to his room by the young boy Yan Lai.
Her habit of running around in the middle of the night when she couldn't sleep had not improved, and the doctor had no solution. He just told her to get more rest, exercise, eat healthily, and not have too much stress. Xin Yanlai developed the habit of going to the window in the middle of the night to see if the little sister was wandering in the garden or in the dark room. If he saw her, he would give her a cup of hot milk and send her to bed, and then go back to sleep.
"If you can't sleep at night, you can take a proper nap for an hour at noon to refresh your spirit." Xin Yanlai's sense of responsibility made him shoulder the education and mental health issues of his two younger brothers and sisters. Because Xin Yuan was too naughty, he mainly educated her strictly, while Xin Xiaolu mainly cared about her education. After all, compared with Xin Yuan, this quiet little girl was too well-behaved, just like an angel.
"Xiaolu, from now on, I will take you for a night run in the community park. You will be able to fall asleep at night after you are tired from running." Xin Yanlai tried to cure her sleep problems every day.
Xin Xiaolu refused as usual: "I don't want to run."
Xin Yanlai: "If you run, I'll give you one less test paper."
Xin Xiaolu: "I'm ready now."
Xin Yuan: "Sister is fine, brother is fine too!" Under the education of Xin Yanlai's cousin, Xin Yuan can finally call Xin Xiaolu "sister" instead of using "hey" or "hey". Of course, he would only swallow his anger when Xin Yanlai was present.
Xin Yanlai agreed: "Okay, Yuanyuan will run with us, but you can't miss your test paper."
Xin Yuan shouted: "Why!"
Xin Yanlai held up his and Xin Xiaolu's test papers: "Because Xiaolu's test papers are all correct, it shows that she has indeed mastered the knowledge, so you can take a proper rest and relax. But you made a lot of mistakes, and these mistakes were all due to carelessness, which shows that you are not serious. So if you don't complete the task seriously, I will not reduce your homework for a day."
Xin Yuan was taken aside by his cousin to be educated again. Xin Yuan's tricks of crying and making a fuss were nothing in front of Xin Yanlai, and he was scolded like a grandson.
After a month of such painful days, Mr. Xin and Ms. He Rumeng finally returned from their honeymoon. Xin Yuan packed up and went home immediately, eager to escape from her cousin's clutches. She didn't remember at all how scared and reluctant she was to stay at home before. Her mind kept jumping between seeing ghosts and seeing her cousin.
September is a season that school-age children generally dislike, because the arrival of September marks the end of their two-month free vacation and the beginning of a new semester.
Xin Xiaolu transferred to a school in the city. This school has elementary school, junior high school and high school, divided into three school districts, and there is also an affiliated kindergarten next to it. Xin Yuan went to school in that kindergarten before, and will enter the first grade of elementary school in September. Xin Yanlai is in the second grade of junior high school, and Xin Xiaolu is about to enter the fourth grade.
This school is a kind of "aristocratic school". Most of the students come from wealthy families. Most of them study in this school from kindergarten to high school. Many of their parents have overlapping families and know each other, so it is relatively xenophobic. Transfer students like Xin Xiaolu, especially her identity as an ordinary woman who married into a wealthy family and brought a burden, are not very popular with most people.
"My sister is in the same class as Xin Yuan. I heard that she is the daughter of Xin Yuan's stepmother. Xin Yuan said that his stepmother is very bad, and her daughter is probably not a good person either."
"Yeah, I hate this kind of stepmother the most. I'm so annoyed that she was assigned to our class."
"We've only had this many classmates in the past three years. Now there's a new face and we're not used to it at all. Can't we let her go to another class?"
A group of little kids who haven't even grown all their hair gathered together and whispered, using the word xenophobia to target Xin Xiaolu, and almost treated her as an invisible person throughout the day.
But Xin Xiaolu is used to this feeling of insignificance.
She used to stay in school, stayed in a school for a very long time, a very long time, watching the students in that school come and go year after year, and almost no one could see her - everyone who saw her was scared half to death.
Xin Xiaolu is not really ten years old. It has always been others who are afraid of her, not her who is afraid of others. She is too lazy to even raise her eyebrows at such childish play.
"Xiaolu." The stern-looking young man wearing glasses called her from the door.
The 'non-existent' state that lasted for a day was broken by the unexpected arrival of this young man. He carried a thermos and took Xin Xiaolu away from the fourth grade class one and brought him to their cafeteria. "Auntie made soup for you. Are you used to the new school? If you have any problems, you can come to me. The junior high school is in the building over there. I'm in the second grade class one, the leftmost classroom on the second floor."
Xin Xiaolu: “Yeah.”
After she finished her soup, Xin Yanlai took another portion to the first grade to find his cousin Xin Yuan and greeted him as well. It must be said that he was a better brother than his own father.
After Xin Xiaolu returned to the classroom, she was no longer invisible. During the short time she was away, her classmates had already discussed the issue.
"Xin Xiaolu, do you know Senior Yan Lai? He's not your biological cousin, so why is he so nice to you?"
"He brought you some food, right? What was it?"
"Is Senior Yan Lai familiar with you? Have you ever been to his house?"
Xin Yanlai was a university bully who had been ranked first in his class for nearly ten consecutive years. Even in elementary school, countless people had heard of his legend. For a man at the top of the food chain, all the arrogant little brats were sincerely afraid of and yearned for him. The reason why Xin Yuan was so afraid of his cousin was probably because of the pressure of being crushed.
If the classmates were still very reserved on the first day Xin Yanlai came to deliver the stewed soup, then after Xin Yanlai had been delivering soup every day for a long time, no one wanted to be independent to Xin Xiaolu anymore, at least someone talked to her.
At the same time, Xin Xiaolu encountered another trouble.
"Are you Xin Xiaolu? The guy who's been pestering Senior Xin Yanlai?" Several little girls in junior high school uniforms surrounded her aggressively, and warned her in a very disgusted tone: "I heard that you and Senior Xin are not related by blood. Don't be so shameless to call him brother in the future, understand?"
Xin Xiaolu: "..." She recalled and realized that she had never called the boy brother, and her body was only in the fourth grade, right? She looked at her flat body, and then looked at the children who were looking for trouble. They were probably in the first grade, and their breasts hadn't even grown. Why were they jealous? Did they know that she was only in the fourth grade
She had been in high school and had seen too many things like this, but she had never expected that the world was so dangerous now that even elementary school students were not spared.
Even if you want to fall in love prematurely, can you wait until your breasts grow out, sisters
"Did you hear the sisters talking?" A girl pushed her anxiously.
Xin Xiaolu: "I understand." She smiled. See, no matter how old you are, if you are so malicious towards others for no reason, you should be punished.
His clear black and white eyes looked at the faces of several girls one by one, as if he wanted to remember their appearance.
"Why are you looking at us like that? Are you unconvinced?" The little girl in the lead felt uncomfortable being stared at by her.
Xin Xiaolu smiled again. He wondered if these kids liked the school toilets or the equipment room in the basement on the first floor. The school would be especially interesting after dusk, and he wanted to keep these precocious kids to experience it.
"What are you doing?" Xin Yanlai suddenly appeared and captured several girls who were threatening the children. He sternly questioned the panicked girls: "Are you bullying others? Do you know that this is school bullying?"
Then he led a bunch of people into the office, lined up to receive the teacher's reprimand, called their parents, and made them write self-criticisms. Only Xin Xiaolu, as the victim, was led away by Xin Yanlai. Before leaving, Xin Xiaolu saw the heartbroken eyes of those girls. It seemed that they were going to stop being fans of his brother.
When the young boy Xin Yanlai took his little sister back home, he felt a little worried. He thought that such a quiet and introverted sister would be easily bullied, and he didn't know how much she had suffered when he didn't see it. The atmosphere in the school was really bad.
An idea suddenly occurred to the boy's mind. He felt that maybe he should join the student union in the future and rectify these bad habits.
The author has something to say: Lu: Please give me some room to play
[Ahaha! It is indeed a campus novel!]