NOVEL NEXT Chapter 646 Grow Up Quickly
"Mumu, brother is going to a very far place."
"How far is very far?"
Mumu sat on the crawling mat, her big watery eyes full of curiosity as she looked at her brother.
"It's...it's a place you can't see with just a glance." Little Fatty didn't really know how to explain.
"Then take me with you." Mumu immediately said.
"No." Little Fatty refused without even thinking.
"Mom..."
Mumu, upon hearing this, immediately called out to her mom, wanting to complain that her brother wouldn't take her.
But Little Fatty knew his sister too well, as soon as she opened her mouth, Little Fatty covered it.
"Shh~"
Little Fatty made a gesture for silence.
"This is a secret, you can't tell mom." Little Fatty said.
Upon hearing this, Mumu immediately covered her own mouth with excitement and curiosity in her eyes, thinking her brother was playing a game with her.
"Mumu, brother wants to tell you something."
"Hmm, I'm listening."
Mumu released the small hand covering her mouth and intentionally lowered her voice to speak.
"Brother is already dead, dad and mom didn't tell you because they're afraid you'd be sad."
"Hmm, I know, are you alive again now?"
Little Fatty: ...
Dou Dou and Duoduo beside them burst into laughter, even Xiao Yue couldn't help but chuckle.
"No, I'm still dead." Little Fatty said helplessly.
Mumu, upon hearing this, fell back, tilted her head, rolled her eyes, and stuck out her tongue.
"Ah, I'm dead too."
Little Fatty: ...
"Haha~"
Dou Dou and Duoduo almost laughed to tears, Xiao Yue giggled as well.
Luckily they were invisible now, otherwise, they would've startled Little Fatty's mother.
Little Fatty gently tickled her small belly, Mumu immediately giggled and climbed up, opening her arms to demand a hug from her brother.
Little Fatty hugged her and then said, "Brother met an immortal, who let brother come back to see Mumu."
"An immortal?" Mumu's face lit up with surprise.
Kids nowadays are exposed to so much information, they naturally know what an immortal is.
"Can you ask the immortal to send me a kitten?"
"Okay, I'll ask next time I meet the immortal."
Mumu happily waved her little hand upon hearing this.
"Brother hasn't finished speaking yet."
"Then keep talking."
"Brother died and just came back to see you, later...later, you won't see brother anymore."
Mumu, who was just happily smiling, pouted in an instant, tears welling up in her eyes.
"When will you come back to see me?"
She only half-understood what Little Fatty said, and Little Fatty was helpless too, talking to kids is just like this, repeating over and over, yet sometimes they still don't get it.
Little Fatty was used to it and wasn't angry, just patiently explained, "Never coming back."
"Then what do I do if I miss you?" Mumu said pitifully.
"Then...then look at dad and mom's phone, there are photos of me." Little Fatty thought for a moment.
"But what if I want to talk to you, want you to play with me?" Mumu's tears flowed down her fair cheeks.
"Then...then I have no way..." Little Fatty said, tears also rolling down his cheeks.
The little ones nearby stopped laughing, especially Dou Dou and Duoduo, who could empathize the most, pouting and feeling sad too.
"I...I don't want brother to leave, waa..." cried Mumu loudly, and Little Fatty quickly covered her mouth.
"Shh, don't cry, don't cry... Brother... Brother promises you, when you grow up, I'll come back, alright?" Little Fatty hurriedly said.
Beside them, Dou Dou glanced at Xiao Yue with some choking.
"When little sister grows up, can Little Fatty brother really come back?"
"He's lying." Xiao Yue said.
"Lying? Little Fatty brother is a bad guy then." Dou Dou said angrily.
"He just doesn't want little sister to be sad."
Duoduo explained beside them, also teary-eyed.
Children seem to particularly like growing up, Mumu stopped crying instantly when she heard about growing up.
Tearfully asked, "Really? Not lying?"
"Of course it's true, not lying."
"Pinky swear."
Mumu extended her little finger.
Then Little Fatty hooked pinky and swore for a hundred years with her.
"Be good and listen to everyone..." Little Fatty patted his sister's little head.
"Okay."
"Study well in the future..."
"Alrighty."
"And...be happy..."
"Yeah, Mumu will always be happy." Mumu said happily.
"Then...then say goodbye to brother."
Little Fatty's voice was slightly choked as he raised his hand to wave.
Mumu became unhappy, widened her eyes, and looked at Little Fatty.
"Mumu doesn't allow you to go." She hugged Little Fatty's arm.
"No, brother has to go." Little Fatty tried hard to pull his arm out.
"Then I'll cry for you to see, waa..." Mumu cried immediately, opening her mouth wide.
Little Fatty hurriedly covered her mouth, but it was a step too late, Little Fatty's mother washing clothes in the bathroom heard it.
"Mumu, what's wrong?" Little Fatty's mother asked nervously.
"Nothing."
Little Fatty instinctively answered for Mumu, a habit from the past, but then he realized and quickly let go of his sister.
He lowered his head and kissed Mumu's forehead.
"Goodbye, Mumu."
Then he disappeared in front of Mumu without any hesitation.
Mumu reached out to hug but caught nothing, and directly fell flat on the crawling mat, crying even louder.
Little Fatty's mother initially didn't react to the word "nothing," then her face turned pale, followed by a series of clangs and thuds, then rushed out of the bathroom like a whirlwind.
She saw Mumu lying on the crawling mat crying her heart out and quickly picked her up.
"Alright, don't cry, don't cry..."
She smoothed her daughter's disheveled hair and, seeing she wasn't hurt, immediately looked around the room.
Sunshine poured in from the balcony, illuminating the house like a mirror, with nothing unusual.
"Mumu, tell mom, why are you crying?" Little Fatty's mother coaxed her daughter and asked.
"Brother... Brother left." Mumu said with choked sobs.
"Did brother tell you something?" Little Fatty's mother hastily asked.
Mumu nodded obediently, "Brother told me to listen to dad and mom and be happily..."
"What else?"
Little Fatty's mother eagerly pressed for more details, wanting to know more.
"Brother said he'd come back when I grow up." Mumu continued.
Upon hearing this, Little Fatty's mother examined her daughter carefully, her expression complex, not knowing whether what her daughter said was true or not.
"Mommy, when will I grow up?" Mumu rubbed her eyes and asked.
"This..." Little Fatty's mother didn't know how to answer.
"Can I grow up tomorrow?" Mumu naively asked.
Little Fatty's mother hugged her, slightly choking, and said: "You will, you will grow up very soon..."
Mumu hugged her mother's neck, whispered in her ear: "I wonder if brother met an immortal, would he let the immortal send me a kitten."
"An immortal?"
Little Fatty's mother's expression flickered, what her daughter said didn't seem like something she could make up herself.