Hospital.
Xiao Qiaoyi smiled and ran in, holding a lollipop in her white hand, "Mom, look at the picture I drew."
"The teacher said that you can go to the competition next time."
She was holding a painting in her hand, and she was carrying a small schoolbag on her back, and she heard voices from a long distance away.
Ai Li's baby was delivered by cesarean section. The pain was so painful that she could hardly move her fingers. She lay on the hospital bed and fell asleep most of the time. She had no choice but to ask Ai Mu to take care of her.
Xiao Qiaoyi yelled, waking up the baby, who started to cry loudly, Amy looked at Xiao Qiaoyi, and reprimanded softly, "Oh, you woke up my brother, hurry up and be quiet."
"Grandma, are you scared by my sister?" Ai Mu hugged and coaxed the baby, taking care of the baby very carefully.
The son-in-law has a little money now, and the daughter has a good job. After giving birth to a son and a daughter, life will be easier in the future. They are all meat from the body. She also wants her daughter to live well.
Xiao Qiaoyi stood where she was, pouted her mouth, and lowered her head in frustration.
Mom and Dad don't love her anymore, and grandma doesn't love her anymore.
Just like what Xiaohua from the community said, from now on, her younger brother will play with her toys, give her snacks, and be bullied by her younger brother.
"From now on, you have to love your younger brother, let him go, you are a big sister, you have to be sensible." Ai Mu coaxed the baby, looked at Xiao Qiaoyi, and began to induce slowly.
Xiao Qiaoyi looked at the little baby with confusion in her eyes.
"Ai Li is asleep?" Ji Yang walked in, put the bought meal on the table, and took the baby with his hand, "Mom, you should eat first."
"Hey." Emma couldn't close her mouth with a smile.
"Qiaoyi, have dinner with grandma. Dad bought you chicken legs." Ji Yang said to Xiao Qiaoyi.
Xiao Qiaoyi put down her schoolbag. She was very happy on weekdays, shouting that she loves her father, but today she was a little unhappy, she walked to Ai Mu's side, and looked sideways at her father who lowered her head to coax her younger brother, her eyes were dim.
Mom and Dad no longer love her, she is not the only baby of Mom and Dad.
"Ji Yang, in the past, I only raised Qiaoyi, and I enrolled in all interest classes, which cost too much money. Now I have two, so don't go to those hobbies. With a son, you and Ai Li have to save money , and buy him a house and a car in the future." Ai Muyu said with a lot of focus.
Xiao Qiaoyi gnawed on her chicken leg and kept silent.
The younger brother really came to grab her things, and immediately she had nothing, and she couldn't go to draw and swim, and she didn't have new clothes or skirts, all of which belonged to her younger brother.
She doesn't like this brother.
"We can only do our best. Xiaoli and I still have to live, so we can't work hard for him for the rest of our lives, right?" Ji Yang put the sleeping baby beside Ellie, lowered his head and called her softly twice.
"Eat some food."
Ai Li opened her eyes, listless, and Ji Yang sat beside her with the specially bought porridge.
"You have to work hard, or you won't be able to marry a wife in the future, and you must have a car." Ai Mu disagreed.
"It's all the same. He also has the coincidences he has, and he doesn't miss the coincidences he has. If he has a car, he will give it. If he doesn't, forget it." Ji Yang fed Ai Li, and then continued.
"How can a girl..."
"Mom." Ji Yang interrupted her, "Girls have to marry, and they have to be confident. Xiao Li and I can't ignore her just to raise our son. Let Qiaoyi leave a family member, they will all be cultivated in the same way, and they will do our best."
Ai Mu's voice was much lower, "If you marry, you will belong to someone else's family."
"Mom, I'm a girl, so I'm not your daughter if I marry someone?" Ai Li felt helpless and sad.
"That's not what I said, of course Mom loves you." Ai Mu wrapped herself around to death, and could only reluctantly say, "The man now prepares the RV, otherwise the girl will not marry, and the resources must be given priority to the boy. Seeing that my son can't marry a wife, the background is like this."
"What if I get kicked out at any time?" Ai Li retorted, "My sister-in-law was kicked out by my brother last time, and she said that she won't get a cent for the divorce."
Emma choked.
She is different from Li Qiuxiang. Those who benefit will not complain about these injustices. She has both a daughter and a son, and her thinking will change, and the two thoughts begin to struggle.
"If you say this in front of Qiaoyi, she will have an idea. If Ji Yang and I do this again, we will really try our best to make a pair of enemies. What are we trying to do? If it doesn't help Ji Yang and me, we will work harder." Ai Li looked at her daughter who was buried in her meal, and felt distressed.
If children have conflicts because of unfair resources in the family, and brothers and sisters become enemies, many of them are the parents' fault.
"Mom, don't talk about it, isn't it because you are afraid that it will be hard for you to raise two? Qiaoyi is so expensive." Ai Mu also felt that she was at a loss. Although she still had some ideas in her bones, she couldn't find a reasonable reason.
"If the quality of life drops, there's nothing I can do about it. The quality of the whole family is lower, and I won't deliberately deprive her to make up for the small one." Ellie said softly.
She and Ji Yang have already made preparations since they decided to keep the child.
Children tip money, and Xiaoqiaoyi is also spending money, so I have to consider these issues.
"Interest classes are useless." Ai Mu is used to living in the countryside. There are hundreds of interest classes a month, and she feels distressed when she sees them.
How good is it to have this money
In the future, the grandson will go to university and buy a big house.
"She likes it." Ji Yang didn't expect to reason with her, and he also knew that people whose thinking logic has been solidified for decades can't be justified at once, so he could only laugh, "Xiao Li and I don't want her to grow up either. She doesn’t have any strengths or hobbies, and she’s not confident enough after going to school in a big city, so let her go if she can support herself.”
"It's better for a girl to be outstanding. Back then, if my mother didn't support Xiaoli to go to college, how could she get a job in a bank?"
As soon as this topic was opened, Emma's focus changed, she looked at Ji Yang, and began to babbling, "Let me tell you, how poor was our family back then? We lived in a tile-roofed house, and she didn't have tuition fees when she went to college. The money, I took her dad to take the pig as collateral, and scraped together a thousand yuan."
"She is good at studying. I want to give her up, find a good job to marry, support and support the family, or live a better life on my own. His father and I worked hard, and her brother also came out to work early."
"Look at those who don't study, they didn't go to elementary school or junior high school. When I let her go to high school, there were a lot of gossips in the village, and they all made fun of them behind their backs."
…
After Ai's mother left, Ji Yang picked up Xiao Qiaoyi who was sitting on the side, and the person who was usually active and lively sat very firmly today.
A chicken leg gnawed for a long time.
"Don't you want to eat?" Ji Yang looked at her, "Look, you haven't eaten a few mouthfuls of rice."
Xiao Qiaoyi pouted, her mouth full of oil.
Ji Yang leaned over and took out a piece of paper, wiped it for her, took another mouthful of rice and put it near her mouth, "Didn't you say to bring Huahua back to mom to see? Where is Huahua?"
She opened her mouth to bite down on the rice, and pointed to the side with her greasy fingers, not very interested.
Ellie reached out to take it, looked carefully, and said with a smile, "Did the teacher teach you to draw?"
Xiao Qiaoyi nodded and said in a low voice, "The teacher said that I can still go to the competition in the future."
"Competition?" Ellie raised her voice slightly, "Is that because Qiao Yi draws well, the teacher let you go?"
"Other children are not as big as my paintings, and there are many people. The teacher said that my paintings are beautiful." Xiao Qiaoyi raised her brows, opened her mouth to eat the meal fed by her father, and her eyes began to show pride.
"So amazing." Ai Li didn't hesitate to praise her, "We are the best at Qiaoyi."
"It's so good, I have to finish this bowl of rice." Ji Yang also said with a smile.
"Yeah!" She nodded heavily.
Ji Yang was feeding her, the baby was crying again, Ai Li had a hard time moving, and Xiao Qiaoyi became visibly nervous.
The younger brother will take away the parents.
She started to become extra sensitive.
"Qiaoyi, can you eat by yourself? My brother may be hungry. Dad will go and have a look and put him to sleep. Dad will send you to swimming lessons." Ji Yang said warmly.
"Okay." She looked at her crying brother and nodded obediently.
Dad will send her to class soon, so he can't look after his brother, so now he has to look at him.
Ji Yang patted her head, then walked over to pick up the baby and coax her.
In the afternoon.
Ji Yang sent Xiao Qiaoyi to attend class, passing by the piano room, the teacher was teaching the children how to practice the piano, she stopped in her tracks and stared intently.
After a while, she looked up, "Dad, do we still have money to learn piano?"
Learning to play the piano is expensive.
"Grandma said she wanted to leave money for my younger brother to buy a house, but Dad, why did you want to leave money for my younger brother to buy a house instead of Qiaoyi?"
She doesn't understand.
Can't she have a house
"Grandma is talking nonsense. Of course, my brother should have what he has. Mom and Dad won't just give it to my brother." Ji Yang looked inside, "You can't make random reports about the piano class. You just talked about drawing with your father yesterday. There is no time to draw, you have to sleep."
"Then think about what you like the most. Let's sign up for two, so we can't waste it, right? Qiaoyi can't finish her studies, and she still has to go to kindergarten. If you pay the money, you won't be refunded."
Xiao Qiaoyi nodded heavily, with a serious face, "Then can I think about it for a day? Just tell Dad when I wake up from sleep."
"Yes." Ji Yang smiled and took her hand and walked in, and let go at the door, "Go, Dad will pick you up later, don't run around."
She grinned, showing her small row of small teeth, raised her hand and shook, "Goodbye, Dad."
Ji Yang stood there watching her walk in, and it took him a while to turn around and leave.
He will not let Xiao Qiaoyi repeat the ending of his previous life, nor will he put the burden of the family on her, and he will not continue to instill in her the idea of sacrificing for her younger brother. They should be her strongest backing, try their best to give her The best platform allows her to pursue the life she wants without worry.
Everyone is independent. He hopes that the two children can have their own lives, and they can support each other when they are independent.
A person's life is very long. After he and Ellie left, he hoped that the two of them could be the closest people in the world, even if they didn't communicate often, the relationship would always be there.