Chapter 38 The World is Big, the Stars are Small
"Xingxing, do you like recording the show with your mother?" the staff of the program crew asked him softly.
Xingxing looked at her, then tilted her head to look at her mother who was obviously nervous. She blinked her bright and clear eyes, then nodded silently.
"Will Xingxing feel lonely when she plays alone at home every day?"
Lonely?
Xingxing thought of the little boy Liang Nanxing in her memory, and herself who once only had Qiuqiu.
The child sat in front of the camera, holding the doll and thinking for several seconds before slowly shaking his head.
"No, lonely." He said softly.
"Does Xingxing want to make more friends and play with other kids?"
This question made Xingxing think for several seconds.
The child shook his head again and said softly, "It's too noisy, not fun~"
Xingxing doesn’t like noisy places or noisy people, and she doesn’t think she would like playing with children.
"Then Xingxing, can you tell us what you like?"
Xingxing nodded, and this time she actually smiled a little, and said seriously: "Xingxing, I like Xingxing~"
He said slowly: "...I like painting, I like sweet candies and sweet pears, I like balls, I like my mother, I like..."
He spoke slowly and the staff did not rush him, but listened patiently and took notes.
Until the end, the child emphasized again: "I also like mushrooms and stars."
After a careful count, he found that the people and things he liked were less than ten in total.
The staff member paused and asked softly, "Xingxing, if many people like you, would you feel happy?"
The child sitting in front of the camera nodded without hesitation, his eyes slightly curved, and his childish voice was soft and sticky: "Yes, Xingxing is happy~"
"There are really many people who like Xingxing. Do you want to hear what they say to you?" the staff asked him with a smile.
Liang Jinyu next to him was a little stunned. This was obviously not an established process and was most likely a temporary insertion.
But she did not step forward to interrupt. She just looked at Xingxing gently and saw that Xingxing was not stage-frightened in front of the camera.
After Xingxing nodded, the staff read out the comments and messages selected by netizens in the background one by one.
"Xingxing baby, I just graduated from college this year and I'm looking for a job. When I saw you today, I suddenly felt healed. I hope Xingxing can grow up well and be healthy."
"Baby, I have a little baby at home who is the same age as you and who likes quietness and not noise just like you. I hope both of you can grow up healthily and find happiness in your own world."
"Little Mushroom Star, I'm a surveyor. I've seen many, many kinds of mushrooms. I hope you can go to the mountains and see them grow carefully. Then you might like mushrooms more."
"Xingxing baby, get well soon. Go out of the house. The world is still very big, and there are many beautiful things waiting for you that you have not yet touched or discovered."
"Star……"
When the staff read out the messages, Xingxing held the doll and listened obediently.
After the other party finished reading, Xingxing slightly tilted her head to look at the camera that was recording.
Just like before when she said she wanted to accompany the audience, this time, Xingxing also talked to herself seriously in front of the camera.
"Thank you, sister. Live well and Xingxing grow up well~"
"Auntie, your baby is also a cute little mushroom~"
"The mountains are so big, and the stars are so small. Let the little mushrooms wait a little longer~"
"The world is so big, the stars are so small, let the beauty wait a moment~"
“…”
The audience in front of the screen watched and listened in a daze, listening to Xingxing's slow and serious answers in his childish voice. They were shocked at Xingxing's strong memory and logical abilities, and were also moved to smile knowingly by his answers in starry words.
There is no denying that the little kid on the screen is really, really cute.
It's not just the cuteness of appearance, but the kind of simple and clean cuteness that makes people's hearts soften.
Listening to his answers, one can’t help but wonder: This world is so lovely!
The sick child is a cute little mushroom. The mountains are so big, the world is so big, so the little mushrooms in the mountains and the little beauties in the world have to wait for the little stars.
Wait until the star grows up seriously, and then explore them slowly and carefully.
[I suddenly became convinced that Star Baby was the little mushroom doctor with extraordinary medical skills. With just a few words, he made my corpse warm again~]
[Really, at this moment, I am willing to unconditionally forgive this terrible world for 10 seconds.]
[Star baby, you are a soft and sweet little cake~]
[I thought the production team would take the opportunity to ask some interesting and controversial questions to attract more viewers, but it turned out that I was too petty. The production team’s interview was the most heartwarming one among all the variety shows I have watched recently.]
[I folded a small star and hung it on the wind chime, hoping that the blessing written on it can be carried to the arms of the star by the wind.]
The interview ended quickly and everyone breathed a sigh of relief silently.
Liang Jinyu hugged Xingxing in her arms again, bent down and kissed the child's soft cheek, and said softly: "Baby, you performed really well today. Mom is so proud of you!"
Xingxing looked at her with bright eyes. After a moment, she also touched her mother's cheek and replied softly: "Mom is great too. Xingxing is proud~"
Hearing this, Liang Jinyu's smile grew even wider. She couldn't help but lower her head and kissed him again, then walked out with Xingxing in her arms: "Let's go and collect the rewards for today's mini-game. Xingxing, do you want to guess what the reward is?"
Xingxing shook her head.
Making him guess is secretly cheating.
Because he already knew the answer from the voices of these humans.
Liang Jinyu hugged him and watched the production crew retreat from her home, leaving only the last staff member who smiled and handed a small box to her.
The box is neither too big nor too small, and is packaged with the program team's logo.
Liang Jinyu closed the door, walked to the sofa in the living room with Xingxing in her arms and sat down. With a bit of curiosity, she opened the gift box belonging to the third place in front of the camera.
It's a ticket.
"Is this... a family ticket to Polar Ocean World?" Liang Jinyu took it out and read out the name on it.
After reading it, she tilted her head to look at Xingxing who was also looking at the ticket, and asked softly: "Baby, do you want to see lots of different little fishes?"
Little fish?
Sea World?
The children who had been living inland during the apocalypse in their previous life had only seen mutated fish in the rivers and had never seen the ocean, let alone various normal small fish.
Xingxing looked at the colorful photo of little fish on the family ticket, and her curiosity about the unknown was slightly aroused.
He didn't answer his mother's question, but the way he stared at the ticket gave a positive answer.
Liang Jinyu was stunned by Xingxing's curious and focused look at the moment.
She suddenly remembered that from the time Xingxing was born until now, apart from taking Xingxing to the hospital to see a doctor and forcing Xingxing to play in the community downstairs a few times, it seemed that... she had never really taken Xingxing out to play anywhere.
The messy marriage and the tedious and lengthy work occupied almost all the focus of her life.
The arguments with Xiao Yongyan, the exhaustion after taking Xingxing to the hospital, the hard work at work...
It seemed that she had never spared the time to think about taking Xingxing to the children's playground, the underwater world, etc.
The only time was when I wanted to take Xingxing to the mountains to pick mushrooms today...
It was the stars that gave her inspiration, and she messed it up herself.
Except for the year when Xingxing was in the cradle, she seemed to have acquiesced that Xingxing did not need to have any more contact with the outside world.
She is protecting him, protecting a child with autism. But is not letting him have contact with the outside world protecting him?
Liang Jinyu's cognition began to become confused again.
She saw Xingxing's curiosity about the outside world at this moment, but she also could not forget Xingxing's sharp resistance when it came into contact with the outside world.
Her cognition was a mess between the past and the present. She couldn't help but frown and kept thinking: Did I do anything wrong?
Should he be allowed to contact the outside world, or should he be protected in a separate safe space?
Does he want to go out, or does he want complete silence?
What should I do to be right? What is the best and most appropriate thing for him?
Will it backfire every time? Will it...
"Baby, there's something wrong with your mother." Qiuqiu noticed something was wrong at the first moment. When it detected Liang Jinyu's current condition, not only did its body emit a dangerous red light, but it also kept making sharp alarm sounds to remind him.
Liang Jinyu's condition is really bad. If she is not careful, her condition will become more serious. This is not an ordinary emotional illness that can be cured by Xingxing saying a few words or giving her a few hugs.
She needs to take medicine to control her condition, and she needs better psychological counseling.
Most importantly, she needed someone to interrupt her chaotic thoughts that were constantly going on in a rut.
And the person who interrupted her could only be Xingxing.
Fortunately, when Qiuqiu was undergoing testing, Xingxing had already taken action.
Xingxing could feel her mother's hand holding the ticket twitching and shaking unconsciously, and could also hear her mother's increasingly confused and collapsed heart.
He reached out and easily took the ticket that caused all this, put it aside, and then snuggled into his mother's arms.
"Mother."
Xingxing's soft and tender childish voice seemed to reach Liang Jinyu's ears bit by bit through layers of space.
Her unfocused pupils slowly came back to life because of the voice and the familiar little ball in her arms.
But her expression was still dazed and confused.
Xingxing hugged her, tore off a candy wrapper in the space, and secretly put it into her mouth while hugging her, hiding from the camera.
The rich milky aroma is instantly transmitted from the tip of the tongue to the entire oral nerves.
Liang Jinyu became more sober. When he lowered his head, he met a pair of curved eyes.
"Mom, is it sweet?" Xingxing asked her in a low voice.
The thoughts circling in her mind paused briefly, and she was forced to start thinking about new questions.
After thinking slowly for a few seconds, she nodded slowly: "Yeah, sweet."
Then the body belatedly becomes more aware.
I can feel the sweetness on the tip of my tongue and in my mouth, the fatigue in my brain, and the weight and temperature of the stars in my arms.
She seemed to be awakened by a piece of candy, and then gradually connected with the real world.
The slowly functioning brain was finally driven by the body and truly woke up.
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