Chapter 1303: Chapter 1303: Stories of the Second Child (Part 3)
Song Xiaohua sneakingly played with her grandma’s cellphone, but ultimately couldn’t escape her mom’s eagle eyes.
Even though she had already set her Moments to be invisible to her mom, her real identity was still exposed under the disguise, leading to Song Xiaohua’s first corporal punishment in her life.
Being told to stand in the corner for half an hour, Song Xiaohua: "???"
The punishment wasn’t the scary part.
The scary thing was, her mom still deprived her of afternoon tea.
A chocolate crispy cone.
She wanted to ask her dad for help.
Her mom saw through her mind early on, holding George and letting out a villainous snicker: "Your dad is in a meeting in the war room, even if you shout until your throat is sore, he won’t hear you."
Song Xiaohua: "..."
Unfortunately, her mom forgot.
Wherever there is oppression, there will be resistance.
Looking at George yawning on her mom’s shoulder, acting like a silly goose, Song Xiaohua started to worry about this little brother.
She was four years old, suffering some grievances wasn’t a big deal.
But how old was her brother.
If her mom could punish her today, tomorrow she could refuse to give George milk.
Thinking this way, she became even more anxious.
At night, taking advantage of her mom’s shower time, Song Xiaohua went to her dad to complain.
To her surprise, not only did her dad not help her, but also said kids can’t play with cellphones, and told her that grandma’s phone had a passcode set, she won’t be able to unlock it anymore!
Song Xiaohua: (⇀‸↼‶)
In this household, she actually had an ally.
But her ally was boarding at school this semester, would only be back on weekends.
Realizing her uncle’s betrayal was on Saturday night.
After dinner, she went to her uncle’s room with him, watched him work on test papers for a bit, then voiced her wish to play with the tablet for half an hour, only to have her uncle sternly refuse.
Her uncle’s reason was that electronic products were too harmful to children’s eyes.
Seeing her uncle push up his glasses with his index finger, she said without fear: "I can buy glasses to wear in the future too."
"That won’t do." Her uncle disagreed and handed her a mirror from the desk: "Look at yourself, your face is already not small, if you wear glasses, your face will look twice as big."
Song Xiaohua held the round mirror, glancing at herself in the mirror.
For the first time realizing that her head was actually this big.
Her face almost occupied the entire mirror.
And—
Her mouth was also very big.
Her nose looked like a garlic clove.
Her eyebrows were shaped like the number eight.
Holding the mirror, Song Xiaohua felt chilled to the bone—
No wonder they didn’t let her look in mirrors at home, and installed the washroom mirrors so high up, it was to prevent her from seeing her own appearance.
Song Xiaohua instantly lost the desire to play with the tablet.
Returning to her grandma’s room, she picked up the photo frame on the bedside table.
Inside the frame was her picture at six months old.
The longer she looked, the more melancholy she became.
She clearly didn’t look like a melon before.
Song Xiaohua suddenly remembered a short video she liked—a child ate toxic milk powder and turned into a big-headed doll.
Wasn’t that her?
Seeing the can of milk powder on the bedside table, Song Xiaohua held the photo frame and couldn’t hide her grief.
Even more unbearable was—
George was drinking this brand of milk powder too.
Another time she saw the Wet Nurse make milk powder for George, she tried to stop it, but the Wet Nurse said her mom’s breast milk was insufficient, if George didn’t drink milk powder, he would end up hungry.
"Then change the milk powder brand," she suggested.
But in the family, she had little influence.
A few days later, Song Xiaohua discovered her little brother was still drinking the same milk powder.
Seeing George happily drinking from his bottle, she felt a stab of pain in her heart.
That night, sitting in the bathtub scrubbing down, Song Xiaohua made a major decision—she would take George and leave this home.
Only by leaving here, could she save George’s head!
If it was just her leaving, she wouldn’t have to take too much stuff.
But bringing George along required thorough preparation.
Not to mention other things, just diapers and rice cereal, she packed a big bag.
As for George’s milk needs, she already had a solution.
In class, Niu Benben’s mom had a second baby six months ago, Niu Benben said his mom would express two bottles of breast milk in the morning and put it in the fridge, so she made a deal with Niu Benben that he would bring a bottle of milk to kindergarten every day and she’d give him ten yuan.
One hand exchanges milk, the other exchanges money.
Niu Benben was very happy to form a long-term partnership with her.
The plan to take her brother and run away was provisionally set for George’s one-month milestone.
On the day of George’s one-month milestone, guests arrived at Tan Palace.
It was Gao Wenlan and her son.
When Tang Li entertained Gao Wenlan in the living room, Song Xiaohua also called her four-year-old dry uncle outside.
Wong Doubao was handsome and had a soft-spoken personality, even though he was only a few months older than Song Xiaohua, in front of his niece, he had already shown the gentle and steady demeanor of a gentleman.
Song Xiaohua took Wong Doubao to her secret base.
—Ah Xi and Tiger Whip’s doghouse.
Digging out a piggy bank from the doghouse, Song Xiaohua asked Wong Doubao if he’d be willing to help her take care of George Song, and made a promise—
"If you agree, I’ll earn money to support you."
Bringing Wong Doubao into the plan was out of necessity.
In a family, ultimately, there needed to be a man in charge to seem proper.
And having someone look after George, she could confidently go out to work.
She had already researched it, driving an excavator outside could earn five thousand yuan a month.
Wong Doubao didn’t understand why Song Xiaohua wanted to earn money to support him, but as an elder, it was his duty to look after his nephew, so he nodded: "Alright."
Saying this, he pursed his small mouth: "But I’m heading back in the afternoon, I can only help you for a little while."
Song Xiaohua, hugging her piggy bank, disagreed: "I’ll support you, how can you still want to go home?"
Wong Doubao explained—
He had school tomorrow, his mother wouldn’t agree to let him stay in the Capital.
"Well, okay then." Although she was unwilling, Song Xiaohua still respected Wong Doubao’s choice.
Since Wong Doubao couldn’t do it, she could only find George a dad in class.
Watching Song Xiaohua put the piggy bank back in the doghouse and wipe her cheek with her hand, cute and cheeky, Wong Doubao, with his hands behind his back, suggested: "Why don’t you take George and go back to Shangbu with me, then I can have our family’s babysitter help take care of George."
Song Xiaohua asked: "Can you find someone to feed George?"
Wong Doubao seriously nodded.
"I have Chinese New Year money, I can go buy some."
Song Xiaohua: (◠‿◠✿)
Although mooching wasn’t good, for George’s sake, she still decided to go to Shangbu.
In the evening, Gao Wenlan got up from the sofa, ready to call her son to catch a plane, but the Wet Nurse appeared at the living room door, looking a bit complicated, when asked by Tang Li, she replied: "Miss said she wants to take the little master to Shangbu, and also said...she wants to rebuild a happy and fulfilling family with Wong Family’s little master."
Tang Li: "???"
Gao Wenlan: "???"
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