Meng Yan's Transformation

Xiao Mengyan staggered back to her uncle's house carrying a large vegetable basket and was about to feed the pigs.

"When you pick wild vegetables next time, don't pick so many. You haven't grown up yet. A full basket will tire you out!" said old aunt Sun Guifen, who hurriedly took the basket from Xiao Mengyan.

"Tomorrow is Sunday. Let's all go to Uncle Long Xi's house and ask Xiao Mengyan when she can go to school." Uncle Yunwen said.

"Thank you, uncle and aunt! Don't ask for now. If my uncle succeeds, he will come and tell us!" Xiao Mengyan replied hurriedly.

"Hey! What's wrong with this child today? He gets so excited every day when talking about school and urges us to go and ask around! Why isn't he in a hurry today?" Aunt Sun Guifen said puzzledly.

"I won't let Sister Mengyan go to school. I don't want to go to grandma's house. I want to play with Sister Mengyan every day!" When Xiao Longxi heard that Xiao Mengyan was shouting that she wanted to go to school, he hugged Xiao Mengyan's legs and refused to let go.

"Okay! Sister won't let you learn anymore!" Xiao Mengyan said as she picked up Xiao Longxi and spun him around. Xiao Longxi chuckled.

"Mengyan, you play with your brother for a while. I'll go cook dinner with your uncle! We made some dough today. We'll have vegetable buns for dinner. They'll be stuffed with gourd and celery, and some small shrimp skins..." Aunt Sun Guifen said as she peeled the gourd and prepared to make the vegetable stuffing.

"Yes, the sun is setting, and my sister must be getting impatient waiting. I'm afraid she won't be able to catch the last bus!" Xiao Mengyan thought to herself, feeling so anxious that she didn't know what to do. She really couldn't think of a way to escape.

"Aunt, I'm taking my younger brother Long Xi to Xiaohong's house to play for a while. Xiaohong's father made a new car for her younger brother, so I'm taking Long Xi to see it!" Xiao Mengyan asked her aunt Sun Guifen.

"Go! Go! Come back early, there are delicious vegetable buns! Take them to your brother, so he doesn't have to watch me making buns and then waste the dough for fun." Aunt Sun Guifen replied.

Xiao Mengyan brought Xiao Longxi to Xiao Hong's house to play. After playing for a while, Xiao Mengyan saw Xiao Longxi and his brother Xiao Hong playing with wooden cars happily, so she said to Xiao Hong: "Xiao Hong, can you help me look after my brother? I feel a little uncomfortable in my stomach, I want to go to the toilet, to have a big bowel movement..." Xiao Mengyan touched her stomach while speaking.

"Do you have a stomachache? Are you going to have diarrhea? Do you need to take medicine?" Xiaohong asked with concern.

"No, no, I'll be fine after I finish defecating. Holding it in will make my stomach uncomfortable..." Xiao Mengyan waved her hands and said hurriedly.

"Then why are you holding it in? Go to the toilet quickly!" Xiaohong said angrily.

Xiao Mengyan hurriedly left Xiaohong's house and ran towards the sorghum field where Zhan Yingying was...

In the sorghum field, Zhan Yingying was looking around anxiously, her face flushed with anxiety, pacing back and forth in the furrow, muttering: Why hasn't she come yet? Will something happen? Will Xiao Mengyan betray me? Will Xiao Mengyan tell on me? Zhan Yingying stamped her feet, frowning tightly, her eyes focused on the wild apple in her hand. Because she was holding it tightly, her knuckles turned slightly white, and the wild apple was dripping with juice. Her hands kept shaking, and she looked very anxious...

Suddenly, a figure came flying from afar, like a wild horse running away...

"Sister... Sister! I'm sorry! I... I'm late!" Xiao Mengyan said while gasping for breath.

Zhan Yingying originally wanted to blame Xiao Mengyan for coming late, but when she saw Xiao Mengyan, her breathing was rapid, sweat dripping from her forehead, and her whole body had begun to tremble... She calmed herself down, "Don't be anxious! Don't be anxious, talk slowly..." Zhan Yingying supported Xiao Mengyan's trembling body and said soothingly.

"Sister, I took my brother Long Xi to our friend Xiao Hong's house to play, and I ran away secretly. I used the excuse of going to the toilet, and Long Xi asked someone to help watch over me. We have to go back immediately. We can't leave today, and we will miss the last bus. Sister, it will be dark soon, I will leave the gate for you, you can go to your uncle's warehouse to sleep for a night, tomorrow they will go to Long Xi's eldest uncle's house to inquire about my schooling, I will find a way to stay, and we will leave after my uncle and aunt leave..."

"You can't get away now, we can only leave tomorrow! I don't want to go to my uncle's house, for fear of being discovered!" Zhan Yingying replied.

"You won't be discovered. I'll leave the door open for you! I have to go pick up my brother Long Xi..." Xiao Mengyan said, and ran towards Xiaohong's house reluctantly.

"Why is your face so red? And you're sweating so much! How can you be so tired after going to the toilet? Or do you have a stomachache?" Xiaohong asked Xiao Mengyan in confusion.

"My stomach doesn't hurt anymore. It used to hurt. I didn't tell you because I was afraid you would worry. Now I feel much better and nothing happened..." Xiao Mengyan explained awkwardly.

"I was wondering why it takes so long to go to the toilet! I was just about to look for you. It turns out you have a stomachache. You must have eaten something bad. Just poop. I am like this sometimes..." Xiaohong said with relief.

"Sister, I'm hungry and want to go home to eat vegetable buns!" Xiao Longxi said while pulling Meng Yan.

Xiao Mengyan brought her younger brother Longxi home, and Sun Guifen had just steamed the vegetable buns.

The four of them sat around the table eating hot buns. Xiao Longxi was really hungry and ate voraciously...

Yunwen and Sun Guifen also ate with gusto, and Yunwen even drank two liang of wine. Only Xiao Mengyan ate slowly and absent-mindedly...

"Mengyan, are you feeling unwell? Why are you eating so slowly?" asked my aunt Sun Guifen with concern.

"Sister, I had diarrhea at Sister Xiaohong's house just now. I was sweating all over in pain..." Long Xi said while eating vegetable buns.

"Really? Why didn't you tell your aunt that you were sick?" asked Aunt Sun Guifen anxiously.

"It's okay. It doesn't hurt at all now. I ate too much sour 'dogtail rolls' when I was picking wild vegetables. My stomach was a little bloated. After I went to the toilet, I was fine. But now my stomach is still a little full and I can't eat too much..." Xiao Mengyan explained.

"I've told you so many times that eating unwashed food will make you sick. You better be careful next time and don't eat wild, unwashed food again!" said my aunt Sun Guifen with concern.

"Aunt, I get it. I will never eat unclean things again." Xiao Mengyan said obediently.

After dinner, it was already dark, Yunwen had drunk some wine and fell asleep on the kang. Xiao Longxi asked Sun Guifen to tell him a story.

"Aunt, please tell stories to my brother and coax him to sleep. After I clean up the dishes and the yard, I will go and listen to your stories too!" said Xiao Mengyan.

After washing the dishes, Xiao Mengyan took a few hot buns and put them in the warehouse.

Xiao Mengyan gently opened the door and vaguely saw a person squatting in the corner.

"Sister..." Xiao Mengyan called out in a low voice.

Zhan Yingying followed the sound and came to the warehouse with Xiao Mengyan. She wolfed down the hot vegetable buns and waved her hands while eating, signaling Xiao Mengyan to leave quickly...

Xiao Mengyan tiptoed to close the door of the warehouse and returned to the upper room. When she entered the room, she saw her aunt Sun Guifen sleeping with Xiao Longxi in her arms on the kang. Xiao Mengyan found an unused quilt in the cabinet, turned off the light, and tiptoed back to the warehouse, silently making a bed for her sister Zhan Yingying. The two sisters hugged each other silently... Xiao Mengyan tiptoed away again.

Xiao Mengyan returned to the upper room again, groped her way to the kang, took off her coat, got into bed, lay down, and fell asleep unconsciously. She dreamed that she and her sister were on the road back home...