On Tuesday night, when the brother and sister returned home from school, they could smell the smell of pork stuffing and flour mixed with sesame oil. The busy figures of Jiang's father and Jiang's mother could be vaguely seen in the kitchen.
Jiang Su put down his backpack and walked towards the kitchen with his amazing sense of smell: "Mom, shall we eat dumplings today?"
"It's just your nose that works." Mother Jiang said with a smile, and put the dumplings on the curtain into the pot. She didn't forget to tell Father Jiang, "Wrap the remaining stuffing in the pot with plastic wrap and cook it tomorrow. I bake pies for the two children in the morning."
Jiang Su looked at the steaming dumplings in the pot and geared up excitedly: "Hey, I'm going to have a good meal today... But what day is today? Why do we want to eat dumplings?"
"When you get on the bus and get the dumplings off, of course you have to eat dumplings." Mother Jiang said, stirring the white and fat dumplings in the pot with a spoon.
"Get in the car? Who wants to leave?"
"Aren't you and Weiwei going to swap tonight?"
"That's not like leaving."
"The meaning is similar. In case your souls fail to be transferred to each other..."
"Hey...what are you talking nonsense about?" Father Jiang blamed Mother Jiang for speaking so freely, and explained to Jiang Su, "Isn't today the summer solstice? Your mother said we eat dumplings on the summer solstice."
Jiang Su rolled his eyes speechlessly - I've heard that dumplings are eaten at the winter solstice, but I've never heard of dumplings being eaten at the summer solstice!
"Okay, okay, go wash your hands and get ready to eat."
"Oh..." Jiang Su responded, turned and left the kitchen.
After eating delicious dumplings in the evening, the family of four sat in the living room as usual, some watching TV, some playing on their mobile phones, quietly waiting for the moment when siblings exchanged.
Jiang Su secretly turned on his phone and saw through the phone screen that the surveillance camera was working normally, and felt relieved.
It was nine o'clock in the evening, and the alarm clock on Jiang's mother's cell phone rang.
Jiang Wei didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Mom, that's not it. You make me nervous."
Mother Jiang quickly turned off the alarm clock: "Don't be nervous, don't be nervous."
Even though she said this, it was still possible to see that Mother Jiang was uneasy.
When discussing the exchange of brothers and sisters before, Jiang's mother asked whether there were certain risks associated with soul exchange.
Although both brother and sister said there was nothing unusual, what mother wouldn't worry about it blindly.
"You guys go to bed at half past nine, right?" Jiang's mother repeated the time they exchanged.
"It should be." Jiang Su pondered, "It used to be half past ten, but since last time it has been half past nine."
I don’t know if the time to fall asleep will be earlier in the future, or even the exchange time between the two will be relatively longer?
"In other words, you can fall asleep at any time from now on?" Mother Jiang looked at the time and sat upright for an instant.
The sense of urgency increased again.
Mother Jiang had a serious face, trying to think of everything: "After you exchanged, were you always woken up or woken up the next morning? Did you ever wake up on your own initiative?"
The brother and sister shook their heads: "No."
"After you fall asleep, we'll wake you up and try."
However, Father Jiang has a slight concern: "If I wake them up rashly, will the two children become fools?"
Mother Jiang opened her mouth - it seemed that it was not unreasonable.
Jiang Su was speechless: "Can't you just call us gently twice? Why do you have to go out of your way to call us fools?"
"I know, don't worry, your mother and I won't let you be in danger."
As Father Jiang said, he stretched the socks between his toes with his hands, and a piece of dust visible to the naked eye flew up.
Jiang Su curled his lips, it was a good thing that his father didn't say this, but as soon as he said this, thinking about the dumplings he just ate, he felt that his and Jiang Wei were about to die.
Time passed by, Jiang Su and Jiang Wei had already gone to the toilet respectively, changed their clothes for tomorrow, and sat quietly on the sofa, waiting for the arrival of the big black bird.
When the minute hand points to the number "6", the big black bird appears on time. It spreads its huge black wings and suddenly blocks out the sky and the sun, and the sleepiness is overwhelming.
With a "boom" sound, the two brothers and sisters sitting on the sofa tilted their heads, and their heads bumped together. However, they closed their eyes tightly and fell into sleep.
Father Jiang and Mother Jiang were frightened by this sudden scene——
what's the situation?
Just fell asleep without any warning?
Even if you are sleepy, your eyelids will become heavy and you will feel sleepy all day long, right?
They both... fell into deep sleep instantly? ?
Father Jiang and Mother Jiang looked at each other, and I looked at you.
"The sleep quality of young people is really good." Father Jiang, who runs long distances all year round, sighed sincerely.
Mother Jiang looked at the two brothers and sisters banging their heads and sleeping, and she was worried: "Are they really asleep? They don't look alive at all."
Mother Jiang said, reaching out and exploring between the brother and sister's noses.
"Hey, he's still alive." Jiang's mother murmured to herself.
Father Jiang's mouth twitched: "Your tone sounds surprising?"
"What are you talking about?" Mother Jiang glared at Father Jiang angrily, then shook Jiang Su gently, "Jiang Su, wake up, can you hear me?"
"He may already be Jiang Wei in this body..." Jiang's father analyzed.
"Oh." Mother Jiang agreed, and went to hang out with Jiang Wei, calling softly, "Jiang Su, wake up, go back to the house and go to sleep?"
After the words fell, "Jiang Wei" tilted her head to one side, but she showed no sign of waking up and started snoring instead...
Mother Jiang was stunned, looking at her precious daughter "Jiang Wei", and suddenly said with certainty: "I am sure they have been exchanged. Now Weiwei's body must be Jiang Su's soul, otherwise how could she snore..."
"Okay, it looks like they can't be woken up, so let's get them back inside to sleep. Sleeping sitting up here is not good for the neck."
"Yeah." Jiang's mother responded. Looking at the sleeping faces of the two brothers and sisters, a question suddenly occurred to her, "Then we should carry Jiang Su into Jiang Wei's room, and then carry Jiang Wei into Jiang Su's room?"
"Wait a minute, I'm a little confused." Father Jiang pondered for a while, "Why don't we just leave it in the living room. It's not cold anymore, so we can observe how they get up tomorrow morning."
"...I think it's okay."
Father Jiang and Mother Jiang decided with each other's words where the brother and sister would end up tonight. The two of them laid out a bed quilt in the spacious living room. They pulled the brother and sister onto the bed quilt again and again, and then separated them. Covered with two thin quilts.
After doing all this, the Jiang family's parents rested on the sofa, panting.
Looking at her son and daughter who were sleeping deeply, Jiang's mother said, "I'll try tomorrow morning to see if I can wake them up."
"Okay, let's set an alarm for tomorrow morning. What time is it set for?"
"Let me think about it and decide..."
Before Mother Jiang finished speaking, her cell phone rang suddenly.
After answering the phone, Aunt Li's loud voice came from the other side: "Hey! Lao Bai, what are you doing? Come over and play cards!"
"No, I have something to do today." Jiang's mother refused directly, holding out five fingers to Jiang's father and telling him, "Five, five..."
Father Jiang nodded and set the alarm on his phone for five in the morning: "It's set."
"Ah, is Lao Jiang at home too? You two can come over together!" Aunt Li's loud voice came again.
"No way, we have to get up early tomorrow."
"Hey, it doesn't matter, hurry up, I'm waiting for you two!"
"Oh, it's really..." Mother Jiang couldn't resist her kindness and looked at Father Jiang with questioning eyes.
I saw Father Jiang rubbing his hands in confusion... Well, his hands were indeed itchy. He wanted to grab cards and win money.
"How about going?" Father Jiang asked quietly.
These words played into Mother Jiang's hands, and Mother Jiang said happily: "You said this!"
Then he said to the phone, "Go, we'll be there right away."
"Hey, that's right! I'll wait for you!"
"Okay, okay."
After hanging up the phone, Mother Jiang hummed a tune happily, stood up and groomed herself, not forgetting to turn back and say to Father Jiang, "By the way, let's just play for a while and be back before twelve o'clock."
"No problem!" Father Jiang said firmly.
