C36 (1/2)

For a moment I thought I had misheard, or maybe my mother had cut me off. He asked once more, ”Mother, what did you say?”

Mother said, ”That night you came home! I thought you didn't jump! Who would have known that it wasn't you at all! ”

”If it wasn't me, then why do you think it was me?”

”Because he looks exactly like you!”

Although my mother rode in front of me on her Electric Tricycle and had her back to me, I could not see her face. But I could feel that she was very calm now, as if she were talking about something that didn't matter. But I was too shocked to speak. He believed that not many people would be able to remain calm after hearing that someone else had appeared in this world.

Second Uncle, who was sitting next to me, said, ”Actually, when your mother gave birth to you, not only did you give birth to yourself, she gave birth to two children. When your mother was pregnant with you, she was pregnant with twins. You're the older brother, he's the younger brother. Your parents gave your brother away. He came back to see your mother the other day. That head and body, they look exactly like you, and even the voice he makes sounds like you're talking! ”

”So that's the case!” So what's so good about having twins, why give the other one to someone else? ” I don't understand.

Mother's voice was filled with anger. ”It's all your grandpa's doing! Didn't your grandfather fight in the army? He had a comrade who had saved him. It was impossible for him to have children because his comrade's lifeline had been blown off by a shell. In order to repay the debt of gratitude, your grandfather gave your younger twin to his comrade! ”

After a pause, the mother added, ”Your grandfather's comrade didn't want children for nothing. He gave us five hundred yuan. At that time, five hundred dollars was not a small sum, equivalent to fifty thousand dollars now! ”

I asked again, ”So many years have passed, why did he come to my house?”

Mother said, ”Your grandfather's comrade died. He had no family left. He just needed to find his biological parents. The child was very pitiful! He still hadn't gotten married yet! I asked him what he did for a living, and he said he would lose his job if he took a monkey to play in the streets of the city. Damn it, this blind god, I can't let you have a promising child! ”

”So where is he now?” I asked again.

”At home! I'm sleeping on your bed! ” she said, turning to look at me. His eyes were filled with an indescribable strangeness.

Eldest Uncle at the side stared at me. With a stern expression and an educating tone, he said, ”Shier, if you want to drink goat's milk in the future, come to my house. I have several milk sheep! Don't steal other people's sheep. That was against the law! Looks like a police officer scared you so much that you jumped off the well! ”No pain!”

I understood what was going on and pretended to be submissive as I nodded and said, ”I know about the Eldest Uncle, so I won't do anything illegal anymore!”

The Second Uncle said, ”It's just stealing a few sheep. It's no big deal to get caught by the police. At most, you'll be fined two money for a few days. Foolish child, do you want to jump into the well? Being able to survive is your luck! ”

In the town hospital, when the doctor examined me, he gasped and said, ”Why is it so hot? You fell into a pot of high soup? ”

I said no, I went to the bathhouse, took a bath, and fell into a hot tub whose temperature was not being controlled properly.

”This skin is so white, it's turned into chills. This means that I've been in the water for quite some time!” the doctor said.

The mother said impatiently, ”Quickly cure it! Why ask so much! It's like this on his body anyways! ”

The doctor told me to undress and to stand naked. He spread a thick layer of black ointment over my body and then wrapped me in gauze to make me a mummy. Finally, I let them help me lie down and wrap up the soles of my feet. All I could see were my eyes.

The doctor said that my eyes were burned and the whites were covered with water, but luckily it wasn't too serious, or else I would have been blind and sold me a bottle of eyedrops.

”Eye drops should be given once every hour!” Apply the ointment on your body once a month! A total of 1,830 yuan! Get together and give it a thousand eight hundred! ” the doctor said with a smile as he swiped the bill. I could tell that he was quite satisfied with my patient and should be able to make a lot of money out of me.

”Why is it so expensive! What is this black paste? ” the mother complained.

”It was boiled out of the sediment in the soy sauce tank! I can smell it! Including these gauze, the cost won't exceed 500! ” Second Uncle sneered.

His mother couldn't take out eighteen hundred dollars, so she just looked at his two uncles.

The Eldest Uncle seemed to be blind and couldn't see that my mother was looking at him. Second Uncle took out a hundred and handed it over, saying, Sis, that's all I brought.

His mother had brought a hundred with her as well. In total, they only brought two hundred yuan.

”Eldest Uncle, take out your money first. I'll lend you how much. I said, licking the gauze from my mouth with my tongue.