Chapter 3 Brother
"Min-Min! Big brother has returned with your medicine!" YiMin hears a child's voice near the entrance. Abandoning her idea to explore this beautiful new word she instead walk around the house till she see her new brother. Before she only remembered the feelings of unfairness, being forced and controlled, and feeling unwanted by her family. Seeing how well Zhou Yi Han treasured his sister and mother made her a little curious about a true family.
The first thing she see is a little dirty face and a mop of short dark black hair on his head. Even though he was skinny he had bright brown eyes that lit up his face, they looked like honey. As soon as he sees me he smiles. His smile was so captivating you could see his beauty under his mask of dirt. Am I going to have to keep an eye on this little beauty? He then immediately runs to YiMin and lifts her up and hugs her tight. While he hugged her, YiMin got lost in emotion trying to remember the last time she was hugged, but nothing came to mind.
"Min-Min, I did it! here let's make your medicine so you could get better!" YiHan says as he puts her down. YiMin stands there and watchs as he grabs a pouch from his waist and runs to grab the wooden water jug that he left by the entrance. Her eyes sparkle when she sees the jug. "Hehe" Noticing YiMin's eyes the boy laughs, "Min-Min, I also went and got you some yummy water!" Inside she was sad that children had to do so much without help from an adult but outwardly she just smiled to her new brother for his effort, hey, I'm only a baby. The original would have long died if she didn't have this brother.
Once back inside the shack YiHan got started with blending the medicines and mixing them with water. "Min-Min, brother couldn't get you any pills like the cultivatiors use but Brother said that this should help with your fever."
"thank you brother" YiMin said in a childish voice as he began to spoon the medicine into her mouth.
cultivators?? And I wonder who this Brother is? The medicine was bitter and tasted awful but I could feel the pain subsiding from my body.
YiHan stares at YiMin, once he sees her little cheeks cooling down he smiles and asks "Are you feeling better now Min-Min?"
"uhun, much better now brother" He puts the empty bowl down then hugs her close again. Ugh he seem like a hugger, I better get used to this. "Next time your not feel so well call big brother immediately ok?" he whispers, "You can't hold it in like before!" His words touched her heart and she could see his little face looking so serious with glassy eyes. Poor boy, he must have been so scared of losing his last family member.
The original wouldn't tell her brother she was sick until he discovered her passed out in bed a few days later. The original was so worried about her brother running around everyday that she didn't want to be more of a burden. How can a 3 year old know about being a burden! Once she gets some strength she's really going to need to pound some sense into this Zhou family.
"Don't worry brother, I'll let you know right away next time" he then smiles vibrantly and kisses my forehead.
"Good, good. My Min-Mins a good girl." This boy is embarrassing.
After we both settled into the bed YiHan handed her some small smushy balls. They looked like mushrooms. "Here Min-Min, eat dinner" after staring at them for a few minutes in confusion she then remember that they had no stove and ate whatever this brother found for them in the forest or around town.
Starring at the heart shaped grey mushrooms she asks, "Is it edible?"
"What's edible? A Food?" he asked looking at me oddly with his bright brown eyes.
"no, it means if the food is ok to eat." Sigh. Looks like I need to expand his vocabulary.
"ohh, but it should be ok Big Brother Haun told me that they were ok to eat."
"Who's that?" I ask, not remembering any Haun in the originals memory.
"he~he~, you haven't met him yet. I met Big Brother Haun in the Miau forest right beside our house, it was one day while I was searching for food in the forest. Whenever we meet, brother Haun always gives me advice on which things that are ok to gather. Even the medicine you took was made by brother Haun!" YiHan says with sparkling eyes, "I want to be strong just like daddy and brother Haun when I'm big"
Yimin stare at this brother, taking in what he said, "how old is this brother Haun, brother?" She asks curiously. Although YiHan is older he's still just a five year old boy, it's an easy thing for someone to take advantage of him without his knowledge.
"Hum~" he thought for a minute, "I think he's 12. He recently told me about the adulthood ceremony he completed with some friends, and how much of a pain it was." YiHan starts to munch on his mushrooms like they were popcorn, while YiMin wonders about the person who helped them.
Supposedly a boy at the age of 12 is considered an adult; for girls, there usually married off at the age of 14! And a 12 year old kid living in the Forest? What kind of world is this?
I look up and notice him staring at me, then he smiles at me with a twinkle in his eye, "Eat your dinner Min-Min" I stare at the mushroom for a second before stuffing it into my mouth and chewing slowly, at lease I know that they are calories.
Tears! I definitely need to come up with a way for us to eat properly first!
Brother YiHan!
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Hi all,
Hope your enjoying this ride with me.
I might be editing here and there but I was a bit anxious to share my story so bare with me please!~
I'm going to try and update every other day and make this story as long as I can(🙇GodHelpMe)
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