Rebirth As A Cub And Happy

chapter 22

　　Then he listened to his younger brother's sincere admonition: "Brother, don't grab my quilt at night. This is my first time sleeping with you and I have no experience. You won't grind your teeth and snore, right?"

　　An Jin: "…………"

　　An Jin shook off the little hand holding his hand expressionlessly.

　　"Stop talking nonsense and go to sleep!"

　　After An Yuzhuo did this, he retreated back into the quilt with peace of mind, closed his eyes, and fell asleep heartlessly. Not long after, his steady breathing could be heard.

　　However, the sleeping time of little children is different from that of big children.

　　Although they were speechless in the room, Lu Yu could still hear the sound of An Jin tossing and turning. Both of them were completely sleepless.

　　In the darkness, Lu Yu's voice sounded faintly: "I can't sleep either. Do you want to chat?"

　　Perhaps the long night was too boring. After a while, An Jin actually responded: "What to chat about?" "

　　Just chat, for example... Zhuo Bao seems to care about you a lot, why do you hate him?"

　　An Jin: "..."

　　Lu Yu was very patient. Without waiting for An Jin's answer, he started to talk: "I can understand you. When I was staying at my relatives' house, I wanted to find a room to hide myself and didn't want to communicate with anyone."

　　An Jin turned her head silently and looked in the direction of Lu Yu through the darkness.

　　"I heard that my father was gone when my mother was pregnant with me. She had no job and no savings. She couldn't afford to raise a child by herself. She wanted to abort me. Later, I don't know why, but she still gave birth to me, but I would rather she didn't." Lu Yu spoke calmly as if he was telling someone else's story.

　　"She never fed me enough. As far as I can remember, I only had porridge and pickles. Our family actually cooked meat and bought snacks, but she would eat secretly behind closed doors. If she couldn't finish it, she would lock it up. I knew where it was, but I didn't dare to steal it... Do you know what raw sweet potatoes taste like? Crisp, sweet, and a little astringent. When I was a kid, I was very hungry, so I would go to the cellar to steal some, but I didn't dare to take more. If I was discovered, I would be beaten." Lu Yu said, "As far as I can remember, I haven't had a piece of good meat on my body. It took me more than half a month to heal my wounds until I came to your house."

　　"Later, she went out to work and simply left me to her relatives, but she often owed me living expenses. You can imagine my situation. My relatives despised me, and the children in the village called me an 'unwanted bastard'. It was better to be with her... I also wanted to hide myself and didn't want to face those people, but I couldn't. I had to work to have food to eat."

　　"..."

　　"Look, I have a mother, but my life is not better than yours, who has no mother."

　　Lu Yu said the last sentence as if he was concluding his speech, and then fell silent.

　　After a while, An Jin said, "I'm sorry, I didn't know..." At this point, An Jin was stuck, and after a pause, he said irritably, "You don't have to expose your own scars to comfort me." Although this kind of comforting method of comparing misery is actually very effective.

　　"It doesn't count as exposing scars, anyway, there is no one else now." Lu Yu said this, but his eyes glanced at the camera.

　　In the whole room, there was only that one place flashing a little light that was so weak that it was almost negligible.

　　An Jin relaxed because of the sentence "no one else", opened his mouth, and finally whispered, "Compared to you, I am much luckier."

　　"In fact, Aunt Guo has never abused me, I'm just worried."

　　Lu Yu: "What are you worried about?"

　　There are no curtains in the room, only transparent windproof plastic cloth. The indoor and outdoor are equally silent as ink. Through this dark night, it seems that the distant stars can be seen.

　　"My biological mother is in Europe now and has found a German boyfriend." An Jin suddenly said out of the blue, "She doesn't want me anymore, so I only have my dad left. But he married a stepmother and has a new child. I'm worried... I've lost my last relative."

　　"Who told you that?"

　　"What?"

　　"Who told you, 'Dad won't want you if you have a stepmother'?"

　　"..."

　　An Jin: "Everyone says so, my grandma, my uncle, my aunt..."

　　Lu Yu sneered: "Some adults are just mean."

　　An Jin: "?"

　　An Jin suspected that he had heard it wrong: "What did you say?"

　　Lu Yu: "Some adults, especially some relatives, just like to make hurtful and unfounded speculations. They are happy only when they make the children cry. If you make a fuss, they will say, 'This child is really not funny'. They won't apologize. At most, they will say, 'I was just teasing him, why did he take it seriously?'"

　　An Jin: "..." It seems that what he said is right.

　　Lu Yu said faintly: "I don't know if they are just having a bad taste or have ulterior motives."

　　He stopped there. It was up to An Jin to figure out the deeper meaning. Lu Yu was young, but he had seen far more dirty things than the older An Da Shao Ye, so he was not afraid to assume the worst of others. Lu

　　Yu looked at the camera in the dark and thought silently: Even if An Jin couldn't figure it out, there would always be someone who could figure it out, so let's tell him. Anyway, I hope he can come to his senses and stop being used as a gun... and then be nicer to Zhuo Bao.

　　"Brother--"

　　a soft little baby voice sounded.

　　Lu Yu was surprised: "Zhuo Bao, are you not asleep?"

　　"I woke up because I was holding it in..." An Yuzhuo was a little embarrassed, and then crawled in the dark and crawled to the other side.

　　He stretched out his short hands through the quilt and hugged An Jin.

　　An Jin: "?!"

　　An Yuzhuo said with a look of emotion: "Brother--"

　　An Jin: "...What are you doing?" Why is it so cheesy all of a sudden?

　　An Yuzhuo was not used to hugging his brother. In their two lives, they were always at odds with each other. Physical contact could only lead to quarrels. This was the first time they were so close.

　　But An Yuzhuo had been awakened by the urge to pee for a while. He had listened to most of An Jin's thoughts and could not help but be moved: after all, his cheap brother was just a little kid now. How old was An Jin when his mom and dad got married? Only three or four years old.