Manbao burst into laughter, "If you don't wear it and you get sunburnt, you'll be even uglier. Wearing a straw hat only makes you look half as bad for a while, but getting tanned means looking bad for a lifetime."
Bai Erlang hesitated a bit but still talked tough, "Nonsense, how could I get tanned just by being in the sun for a short while? I often play outside in the sun with my classmates, and I don't get very dark."
That was indeed true, but Manbao scratched her head and, looking at his sunburnt face, she chose to believe Keke over him and Erlang.
She remembered clearly that once when she went out to play, the sun made her feel dizzy. She thought she had a fever, but Keke said it was heatstroke and that having a sunburned face meant she would definitely turn darker the next day and that it would get increasingly worse.
Getting sunburnt was the second step toward getting a darkened face.
