Rebirth handbook - Chapter 18
He Weiming didn’t wake up until the night. Chang Manjing sat by the bed and read a book. She heard a movement from the sleeping person in the bed. Chang Manjing thought that he was finally awake. By that time the little boy was breathing fast, as if he was caught by a nightmare. He remained rigid, struggling in vain, a bit like the last time he fell into the lake in the forest villa.
Chang Manjing leaned over and grabbed He Weiming’s hand and awakened him. He Weiming opened his eyes and glanced at Chang Manjing’s tired eyes. Then he calmed down. After a long pause, he fell asleep again. Chang Manjing sat there thinking for a while, and remembered what the doctor said. He Weiming had some psychological problems. He lived in an environment of being excluded and bullied for a long time.
She got up and went to the balcony to make a phone call. Two days later, she received an email that wrote about He Weiming’s previous life in the orphanage. Chang Manjing thought that He Weiming’s previous life might not be good, but only after seeing it did she know what this child had tolerated. Because of his thin body and scars on his face, he was excluded and bullied both in the orphanage and in the school. People, those people who roam around in groups would find an outcast member, isolate and bully him to establish a sense of group with others. Although they were just children, sometimes it was the innocent children who did more terrible things.
He Weiming’s isolation from others probably came from that. While being bullied, no one helped him. He was able to live with all that which was great enough.
Chang Manjing flipped through the information and saw a file. It said that a few years ago, when He Weiming was only four years old, he encountered something. There was a big pool in the orphanage, which was specially used for bathing, for children over nine years old. Because it was a bit deep for some children, the younger children usually didn’t bathe there, and the door was locked at night. One day, He Weiming was discovered soaked in the water all night, by the teacher of the orphanage. When he was rescued, he clutched a hole on the side of the pool. His fingers were bleeding, and he was holding the hole. So the four-year-old child wouldn’t drown in that pool. He spent the whole night in the pool and struggled to avoid being drowned. Once he was rescued, He Weiming had a fever, and he was almost burned to death. It was after that time that he became seriously ill and gradually became thin.
A four-year-old child shouldn’t have been there, and the door was locked too. How could he be alone in a pool and would drown himself, at night? Chang Manjing didn’t believe that he went there by himself. Those innocent looking children framed others in order to get a little more attention in their early days. Chang Manjing had almost guessed what had happened.
There probably must be another incident of being bullied. In the data, there was more than one such incident.
He Weiming was scared of swimming by the water, but when Chang Manjing took him fishing on the lake, she didn’t find anything unusual about He Weiming, except that he seemed a little flustered after falling into the water. Which was a very common behavior for ordinary children, so she didn’t care too much.
She thought about how He Weiming was taught to swim in the past few days, and he hadn’t made any progress, perhaps because of that incident. Chang Manjing sighed that she didn’t even notice it. If it hadn’t been for his sudden fever, she wouldn’t have discovered that he was afraid of water at all. A kid who was good at disguising his thoughts!
Chang Manjing had always been a cold-hearted person, even if she kept saying that He Weiming was a tool to attack He Xianyang and Meng Caiqi, seeing him as a pitiful little innocent, she felt a little bit pity in her heart. She was more careful.
He Weiming was a patient who wasn’t taken care of. No matter how uncomfortable he was, he didn’t express it. No matter how much medicine or injections he had to take, he didn’t hesitate or cry. Chang Manjing remembered Chang Yicong, who was also a child of similar age. He would be upset when he was ill. He wouldn’t take medicine or injections. He won’t be quiet all the time.
Children who got no one to love them probably knew how to act the best. They couldn’t even act like children, for fear that it will make people unhappy. Chang Manjing took care of He Weiming for a few days, and when she saw that he was getting better, she was relieved. He Weiming’s illness came fiercely, but went quickly. He Weiming watched her guarding him by the bed every day, and no matter what he ate or drank, she made it and took care of him. He was tired of enduring it alone. Now he was accompanied by someone. Before going to bed, he could hear her reading to him, especially coaxing him and his heart was moved.
What he admired most before was this kind of feeling. When immersed in the nightmare of inescapable darkness, someone would wake him up, and when his body was in pain, someone would accompany him.
Chang Manjing put down her book and saw He Weiming look at her while on the bed. She smiled at him and asked, “Why, you have been sick like this, do you want to learn to swim next time?”
He Weiming nodded. Not surprised, Chang Manjing squeezed the child’s cheek, “Okay, I will find a professional coach to teach you. Just be careful not to get sick again. You should take good care of your body. Swim slowly and don’t worry. That’s right, it’s also exercise anyway.”
When He Weiming’s illness completely healed, he continued to learn to swim. But this time, he began to learn quickly, and he managed to swim in just a few days.
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Eliza
Poor boy, he went through a lot.