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These two intimate words are like a key, unlocking the memory buried deep in Jingtang's heart.

——妹囡.

The first person to call him that was Ling Lian.

That day Jing Yue and Ling Lian took Jing Tang to the shopping mall to buy new clothes. Because he was white, tender and cute, and Ling Lian tied a pigtail in the back of his head, he was recognized as a little girl by the employees of a children's clothing store. Jing Yue and Ling Lian knew she had misidentified her gender, but neither corrected her.

The staff graciously recommended the new summer clothes in the store to the couple. Jing Tang slipped away from Ling Lian while her parents were not paying attention, and ran around the store alone, looking up at the little skirts hanging on the wall.

At that time, it was very popular to wear this kind of cute pettiskirt for little girls, with beautiful lace, which made them look like little princesses.Jingtang often sees girls dressed like this in kindergarten, but she doesn't quite understand why boys don't have such cute clothes?Why are clothes divided into boys and girls?

Jing Tang blinked her round eyes, stood on tiptoe, and reached out to touch the hem of one of the white princess dresses, only to be caught by the sharp eyes of the staff.

"Little friend, do you like this dress?" She walked towards Jingtang, bent over and touched the child's head, "Do you want to try it?"

"Wow..." Jing Tang opened her mouth wide in surprise, a faint blush appeared on her face, "Can I wear it too?" What he actually wanted to ask was, can a boy like me wear a princess dress?

The employee smiled and said, "Okay, the kids are so cute, they're even cuter in this." Then they took off the white skirt, took off the hanger, and put the soft skirt into Jingtang's arms.

Jing Tang happily ran towards Ling Lian and Jing Yue with the skirt in her arms, and raised the skirt in front of them: "Mom and Dad, I want to wear this!" Little White Teeth.

Jing Yue and Ling Lian looked at each other and laughed in unison.

"Okay, Dad will take you in and change." Jing Yue pointed his son's nose with his fingers, and pulled him into the locker room.

The staff looked at the backs of the two, one big and one young, in a strange way, as if they didn't understand why it was the father who took the daughter to change clothes when the mother was there.

Ling Lian explained with a smile beside her, "This one in our family is actually a boy."

The employee whispered in surprise, and apologized to Ling Lian again and again, saying that he was sorry for mistaking the gender of the child.Ling Lian waved her hand, saying that it's okay, anyway, he wanted to wear the skirt himself.

After a while Jing Tang changed into her skirt, excitedly opened the door and ran out, circling around to show Ling Lian: "Look, mom! The skirt is bulging!"

Jing Yue came out after him, sighing weakly.Jingtang is a little restless, and every time I take him out to try on clothes, it takes a lot of effort, let alone this time I put Jingtang in a skirt.

Ling Lian took Jing Tang to look in the mirror, half squatted beside the child, lovingly touching his head, and said, "My niece is so cute——"

Jingtang tilted her head and asked, "What is Nannan?" The pronunciation is amazing.

Ling Lian said: "It's a name used to call children."

"Then I want to be called Nannan!" Jingtang said with a puffy face, "Xiaotang is not special enough, I want a special name!" In his heart, uncommon pronunciation means special.

Since then, his nickname has changed from "Xiaotang" to "Nannan".But the four-year-old Jing Tang didn't know how to write these two characters, and Yan Jue told him one day after they met.

In order to retaliate against Jing Tang for repeatedly robbing his father, Yan Jue deliberately told Jing Tang, "I looked it up in the dictionary, and the word '囡' in '囡囡' has a 'female' in it, and this is a girl's name!"

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Jing Tang's face collapsed and her lips shrunk, and she sat on the foam floor of the Yan family's children's room and began to cry on the spot.Yan Jue was terrified, and hurried to the kitchen to drag out his father who was worrying about a pile of ingredients.

Yan Cheng also heard Jing Tang's exaggerated crying, and hurriedly asked Yan Jue, "What's wrong with Xiao Tang?"

"I, I just told him that Nannai is a girl's name." Yanjue was also on the verge of crying, with tears pooling in the corners of his eyes, "Then he suddenly cried!"

Today Jing Tang's parents went on a short business trip, so they temporarily left Jing Tang at Yan's house, but Yan Jue's mother also went out in the afternoon due to an urgent matter at work, so only Yan Cheng was left to take care of the two children at home.He doesn't know how to cook. He originally planned to let the children stay in the room and play with toys, and study how to make edible dishes from the recipes by himself, but he didn't expect that the problem of food had not been solved, and the problem of children came again.Yan Cheng sighed silently, and quickly walked into the children's room.

Jingtang was still crying, her tears wet the foam floor, looking pitiful.

Yan Cheng picked him up from the ground and hugged him in his arms to coax him: "Be good, my uncle, will my uncle take you to the movies tonight?"

Jingtang sniffled, and asked in a childish voice, "Why do we have to separate male and female names?"

Yan Cheng was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Jing Tang to care about this.

Jing Tang grabbed Yan Cheng's clothes and continued to sob and say, "My parents took me to buy clothes before, and I liked a white dress. They bought it for me, but they told me that I can't wear it out. Playing around at home. Why?"

"... Boys who wear skirts will be bullied by other children." Yan Cheng said.

Jingtang still asked persistently: "Why why?"

Yan Cheng didn't know how to explain it to him. This question was too deep for a child to understand.

On the contrary, Yan Jue, who was standing aside, said abruptly, "Because that's the rule."

"Girls wear skirts and boys wear pants. Boys like girls. That's the rule."

Jing Tang lay on Yan Cheng's chest, and said doubtfully, "But I don't seem to like girls either."

Yan Jue said again: "That's because you are still a child!"

Yan Cheng sighed in his heart.Although Yan Jue pretended to be cool to answer Jing Tang's question, but the kid probably didn't think about it himself.

Seeing that Jingtang stopped crying, Yan Cheng took him into the bathroom and wiped his face with a wet towel.

At this time, Jing Tang asked again: "Who made the regulations?"

Yan Cheng soaked the towel in warm water and said, "These are all stipulated by people themselves."

"Your parents told you like that, to protect you." Yan Cheng pinched the folded towel and gently wiped away the tears on Jingtang's face, "Now you are still a child, you are too easy to be bullied , if you want to grow up safely, just listen to them obediently. But—"

"But don't forget the doubts in your heart."

Jing Tang raised her face to look at him, and repeated blankly: "Don't forget...the question in your heart?"

"Yeah." Yan Cheng touched his head, and a gentle smile appeared on his lips, "When you grow up, you can live freely."

Although Jing Tang didn't understand very well, she still nodded.

After wiping his face, Yan Cheng carried him off the sink and patted him on the shoulder: "Nannan is a good name, it suits you very well."

The author says:

The setting is that same-sex marriage was not allowed 17 years ago, and it will be 17 years later, that is, now.

Uncle Yan——Xiaotang's life mentor x