Chapter 37.3
At this time, everyone was still awake, because Ji Zhile was sick and went to see the doctor again. After the family doctor came, he said that he had caught a cold and it did not matter much. He would be fine after taking some medicine and sleeping.
Ji Zhile was sick, so Si Tian arranged Ji Ningyi to another room to avoid being infected.
After being ill, Ji Zhile was a little fragile and took her hand, asking her to finish telling the fairy tale of daffodils. After Si Tian sat by his bed and finished telling, Ji Zhile said in a daze, “Mom, I’ll be fine tomorrow.”
“Good night, Mom.”
After leaving Ji Zhile’s room, Si Tian yawned. She was a little caught off guard by the unexpected situation tonight, but her mother-in-law is very experienced and the doctor came in time. Ji Jiangzhou comforted Ji Zhile, and in the end, she did not do anything, just told Ji Zhile a bedtime story.
But now at half past ten, she walked towards the room. Before she arrived, the door of the room opened first and Ji Jiangzhou said, “You’ve worked hard tonight, go to sleep.”
Si Tian glanced at him, the beds inside were all made up, filled with a warm and comfortable sleeping atmosphere: “Sleep together?”
Ji Jiangzhou did not speak and looked at her quietly with a pair of dark eyes.
Si Tian understood, but in order to show that she was very dedicated, she said, “Don’t worry, I won’t do anything to you.”
“Go and see if Ningyi is asleep.”
Ji Jiangzhou: “He’s asleep.”
When Si Tian was telling Ji Zhile a bedtime story, he went to see Ji Ningyi. The two children are usually easy to take care of, but once they get sick, they are a little weak.
In the past three years of company expansion, Ji Jiangzhou often travels and spends little time at home. He will regularly send money to Si Tian. There are many domestic servants. He seems to miss a lot of things. (T/N: So, did they sleep in the same room? Hehe…)
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Ji Ningyi did not fall asleep. Zhile fell ill, probably because he accidentally wet his clothes while watering today.
Ji Ningyi never felt that his mother would blame him for this. But today Grandma Zhu Pan’s words made him a little timid. He is also Zhile’s elder brother.
The villa was quiet, Ji Ningyi quietly pushed open the door, walked softly in the corridor, and turned the doorknob of Ji Zhile’s room.
Zhile fell asleep and his mother was not there.
Ji Ningyi lowered his eyes, but tonight’s bedtime story was not finished yet.
He walked downstairs quietly, only to find a small figure sitting on the balcony on the first floor. When Ji Ningyi approached, he realized that it was Zhu Pan.
After thinking about it, Ji Ningyi greeted her politely: “Aren’t you going to sleep, Panpan?”
Zhu Pan looked back at him and Ji Ningyi found that her eyes were red.
He was a little at a loss, not knowing how to face the girl’s tears.
“You didn’t sleep either.” The girl’s voice was thickly nasal and her tone was fierce.
Ji Ningyi said: “Don’t cry, your eyes will be swollen the next day if you cry in bed at night.”
His gentleness made Zhu Pan less aggressive. The two children stood by the edge of the balcony without speaking. After a while, Zhu Pan asked, “Is your brother seriously ill?”
Ji Ningyi said: “It’s not serious, it’s just a low-grade fever. The doctor said it would be fine the next day.”
Zhu Pan looked at him, her eyes were a little pitiful: “Then, did your parents scold you?”
Without waiting for Ji Ningyi’s answer, Zhu Pan said to him: “My grandma scolded me. She said that I couldn’t take care of Ji Zhile when I was so old, let him get wet and sick, and said that I don’t know gratitude, living in your house still causes you trouble.”
“But it’s okay, I’ll go back to my own home tomorrow.” Zhu Pan said, “Tomorrow, my mother will bring my younger brother back from my aunt’s house. I don’t want to live in someone else’s house.”
After hearing Zhu Pan’s words, Ji Ningyi did not quite understand: “You can also go with your mother and the others. In this way, you don’t have to live in someone else’s house.”
Zhu Pan shook her head: “I won’t go. The fare is very expensive. My mother asked me to stay with Grandma for two days and they will come back.”
Ji Ningyi did not quite understand, so he just said: “Grandma will take us to grow cabbage tomorrow, you should come with us, you will grow it well.”
Speaking of growing vegetables, Zhu Pan was a little happier: “Our family grows a lot of vegetables. I also grow some myself and they all grow very well.”
“Today, Ji Zhile doesn’t know how to recognize vegetables or water. Just like my younger brother, he doesn’t know how to do anything and still likes to do things by himself. He ruined all the vegetables I planted and even complained that I don’t play with him. My mother and grandma just scolded me.” Zhu Pan said, “I really hate him.”
“Zhile won’t sue.” Ji Ningyi said.
Zhu Pan curled her lips, and after a moment of silence, she asked, “Ningyi, why did your mother give birth to a younger brother? Obviously, you are also a boy.”
Ji Ningyi did not know either.
Zhu Pan looked at the sky and said, “It would be nice if my younger brother disappeared.”
Ji Ningyi’s heart was shocked and he quickly shook his head: “My mother will be sad if he disappears.”
Zhu Pan said: “But I was the only one in our family before and everyone lived well. After my younger brother was born, everything became his.”
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Translator’s Comment:
Why was their conversation very heavy? (｡•́︿•̀｡)
Poor, Panpan… ༼ ༎ຶ ᆺ ༎ຶ༽
I think this is the dilemma of older siblings.
Spoiler: In the next few chapters, the story is a bit of gloomy. Ji Ningyi’s dark side will be revealed.