No one knew what happened to the child. Zhao Xiaohua, Zhou Dazhui and others did not see anything. Only Tianjiao had extraordinary eyesight.
Just as they rushed over a little, they saw Sun Hong coming out from behind the willow tree and looking at them fiercely: "What are you doing here?"
Zhao Xiaohua and the others paused, then stopped in fear.
Tianjiao didn't care about that and shouted directly: "I saw it. He pushed the kid into the river. Go back and call for help..."
Zhao Xiaohua and the other two immediately looked stern and ran back without saying a word: "Jiaojiao, hold on first, we'll go get the adults!"
Sun Hong's face changed drastically. He rushed towards the little ghosts and said in a rough voice: "I didn't push anyone. Xiao He fell down accidentally. I was trying to save him!"
But he couldn't let them pass it back like this. After he chased for two steps, the three children who were already quite far away suddenly ran away as if they were wound up.
Tianjiao ignored him and walked around him, looking at the figure struggling in the river. He couldn't speak, but he still had some strength. It was only a short while since he fell into the river, so he still had the strength to struggle.
There was a "splash" sound of someone falling into the water, Tianjiao had already jumped into the river. Sun Hong stopped and looked fiercely at the two children's movements in different directions, a trace of ruthlessness flashed across his face.
She is just a girl, and still a child, so her words may not carry enough weight. As long as the final result is achieved, he will just refuse to admit it.
But a few seconds later, he seemed to have made up his mind, a ruthless look flashed in his eyes, and he also jumped into the water: "Stinky girl, I said I wanted to save people, a little girl like you shouldn't get involved."
The water in early autumn was still very cold. As soon as she went in, Tianjiao felt her whole body shivering. At this moment, a big man came in. She was anxious and subconsciously wanted something to stop him. At the same time, she struggled hard in the water with her limbs to get towards Xiao He.
They were not far apart, and Tianjiao grabbed Xiao He in a short while.
…
The threat of drowning was right in front of them. Xiao He, with a strong desire to survive, hugged Tianjiao directly. Fortunately, she had stretched out her limbs in advance and was not tied up, so she could continue to struggle. Fortunately, the water had buoyancy, and there was also an unknown yet somewhat familiar force that allowed her to swim more easily in the water.
At the same time, Sun Hong had already gone into the water and was about to go over and pull the two children. He didn't believe that he couldn't handle two children of a few years old in the water.
Unexpectedly, a large number of crabs suddenly appeared in the river, and behind the crabs there were fish and loaches. They rushed towards Sun Hong in dense groups. The crabs, led by them, had huge claws, which were species that were not usually seen in the river.
As soon as they approached Sun Hong, they started waving their big pincers.
After a while, screams were heard. Sun Hong felt as if the whole part below his neck was suddenly attacked by something. It was extremely painful. It was really very painful. The key point was that the wound was so dense that there was almost no intact skin and flesh. There was also a resistance under the water.
"Ah - damn, what is that?" Sun Hong was frightened and in pain after being bitten. He looked down and almost lost his soul. The river fish that he usually hid from people suddenly rushed towards him?
It's so densely packed that you can't even see anything else. All you can see are these things. Your trypophobia kicks in. It's creepy and scary, as if you're going to be eaten by them.
The crab's claws pinched his chest, thighs and other parts mercilessly, and the pain was as if his flesh was being cut open.
His eyes widened, and he immediately stepped back, flailing his limbs frantically to climb onto the shore, shouting, "Help, help! There's a ghost! There's a monster!"
"Huh~~~" Tianjiao had already climbed up with his men and breathed a sigh of relief. She saw Xiao He, who was rescued by her, looking at her foolishly. His big red eyes seemed even more out of place. The river water slid down his head, which had a little more hair, and fell into his eyes without him blinking.
He stared at Tianjiao intently, his eyes, moistened by the water, seemed to sparkle.
Tianjiao rubbed his head and comforted him softly: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, it's okay."
While comforting him, I took the opportunity to give him some energy, hoping that it would help him to have less water in his brain.
Xiao He finally reacted, his eyes narrowed, as if he was enjoying it, and even the little hand that was placed on the side couldn't help but come over and hold her hand.
It was very comfortable, and made his chaotic mind seem to become much clearer again.
Tianjiao smiled, looked at the miserable and bleeding Sun Hong, then looked at the crabs hanging under the water and on Sun Hong's body, and decisively pulled Xiao He up: "Let's run back quickly."
Tianjiao still had enough strength to stand up, but Xiaohe staggered two steps and fell softly to the ground. He was already exhausted.
However, Sun Hong, who was on guard against by her, shook off the few crabs that were clinging to his body in a panic and ran away, howling all the way: "Help, there is a ghost! It's so scary..." He didn't even look at her.
Tianjiao: “…”
She didn't expect him to be so timid. How could he have the courage to push Xiao He into the water?
In fact, Tianjiao did not see Sun Hong take action with her own eyes, but the scene just now gave her a strong intuition, and this intuition made her certain.
Therefore, she was afraid that Sun Hong would come again and drown Xiao He in the water, so she wanted to leave as soon as possible. However, she saw Sun Hong running away. For a moment, Tianjiao's movements were frozen in mid-air, and she was stuck halfway through running.
How come he became the one who escaped?
But this reversal also made Tianjiao feel relieved. He sat on the ground and gasped: "I'm so tired. Are you still feeling uncomfortable now?"
As usual, Xiao He waited for several seconds before responding slowly: He shook his head, and his big eyes looked at her stubbornly. His eyes, which had just been soaked in water, were so clear that it seemed as if one could see into his heart. There was only her reflection in his eyes.
This time it was a little faster than before, Tianjiao grinned. At this time, there was a noise coming from the village. A group of people rushed over with various farm tools in their hands. The three people running in the front were Zhao Xiaohua.
People are coming.
****
Xiao He was rescued again and returned to the village chief's house. As soon as he returned, he started to have a high fever. He was drowsy and not conscious.
The captain also came to inquire, but even though Sun Hong was frightened by the group of crabs and fish, he still refused to admit that he pushed the person and insisted that he just wanted to save people.
In this era, there is no surveillance, no lie detectors, and no various magical spells to force people to tell the truth.
Tianjiao was held in Zhang Rui's arms. He was so angry that he trembled all over when he saw Sun Hong gritting his teeth and refusing to give in. He cried out of grievance, "Liar, liar! I saw it with my own eyes. He was the one who pushed me!"
Sun Hong choked up and said, "I didn't, you were the only one who saw it! How come the person next to you didn't see it?"
Tianjiao: "My eyes are very powerful! I'm not lying!"
The captain looked at Sun Hong with a sullen face, and finally shook his head: "Are you really unwilling to admit it?"
No matter what Sun Hong said, he insisted: "I didn't push it!"
It is not known whether Xiao He can survive and cannot testify. Zhao Xiaohua and the others indeed did not see it. The matter is serious and they dare not say anything nonsense. Therefore, Tianjiao's one-sided statement alone is far from enough to convict Sun Hong.
Seeing that the matter had been settled, Zhang Rui hugged Tianjiao and left: "Don't be angry, he is a bad guy. When Xiao He makes up, we can let the police arrest him!"
Tianjiao nodded vigorously: "Yes!"
Xiao He has her treatment and will be able to recover by tomorrow at the latest. Then this bad guy won't be able to get away with it.
But now he must be taught a lesson, otherwise she would not be willing to let him get away with it.
So that night, the Sun family was frightened and screamed in the middle of the night, waking up half of the village. Only then did they realize that a large number of snakes had entered the Sun family at some point, and they were the kind of poisonous native snakes. They didn't bite anyone, but their mere appearance was enough to scare people to death.
Especially Sun Hong, who had been frightened once in the afternoon.
The cry woke Tianjiao up directly. She rubbed her eyes, listened to the news from Feng Zhongtiandao’s father, grinned, smacked the air, and continued to sleep contentedly.
That’s great. It’s worth it that she spent so much time pestering Tiandao Dad and acting like a spoiled child before going to bed.
…
Because Sun Hong was suspected of murder, even though he temporarily denied it, the police still came the next day.
Xiao He, who happened to have a high fever, also recovered and woke up.
However, when Xiao He slowly answered Tianjiao's questions and confirmed Sun Hong's murder, he turned around and saw the serious expression of the policeman.
"There is something wrong with this child. He must be examined by a doctor. If he has mental problems, his identification is invalid."
The crowd that had come to watch was suddenly shocked. A talkative woman said in surprise: "I know, I know. Are you crazy?"
"No wonder I've never seen him speak and his reactions are so slow, it turns out he's crazy!"
"It's really tragic. The family situation is like this, and I'm also sick."
Everyone immediately started discussing, and the police turned around and looked at them seriously: "Don't talk nonsense!"
Everyone fell silent instantly.
However, they didn't dare to say it out loud. After the police took Xiao He away, everyone in the village started talking about it. Now everyone thought that Xiao He was crazy and a lunatic.
Even Zhao Xiaohua came to see Tianjiao because of this.
"You can't play with him anymore. He's a little lunatic. Be careful or he'll beat you up. My parents say lunatics can be scary."
Tianjiao pouted unhappily: "He is not crazy!"
Zhao Xiaohua: "He is crazy!"
Tianjiao was so angry: "He is not!"
The two started arguing again. Zhou Dazhui and Tian Zhuangzhuang were confused and didn't dare to go over. They could only play with ants out of boredom on the side.
After the two girls finished their quarrel, they successfully broke up again.
Tianjiao cried angrily, but this did not change the reality until three days later when the test results came out. It was revealed that Xiao He was autistic, not mentally ill. The two are different concepts, but in the current environment, people who do not understand the terms autism and madness think they mean the same thing.
Even with the police's explanation and the fact that Xiao He's testimony was admissible, the rumors that he was a lunatic never disappeared.
On the day Sun Hong was taken away, Xu came out crying. Sun's mother beat and scolded her with hatred: "You jinx, if it weren't for you, my son wouldn't have gotten into trouble. Jinx, I'll beat you to death!"
"Auntie, forget it, forget it. If you keep hitting me like this, I'm going to kill him!"
"If someone is killed, you will go to jail too!"
"That's enough."
Mother Sun was stopped by a group of people, who kicked her twice before dragging her away, shouting, "I will not let her go even if I die. If it weren't for her, how could my son be captured? You are a jinx, a troublemaker! Why don't you just die!"
Even when being beaten, Xu did not resist. She just kept crying and looked at her husband with tearful eyes as he was dragged into the police car.
Of course, Sun Hong also wanted to curse loudly, but he behaved himself only after being taught a lesson by the police.
This was a rare major event in the village. Sun Hong was taken away for murder. The whole village, no, it should be said that several nearby brigades were in an uproar. Almost no one went to work that day, and everyone tried to come to Lanshan Village to watch.
Zhang Rui held Tianjiao in his arms and stood in the crowd, watching Sun Hong being taken away. An auntie who was watching nearby looked at this scene, shook her head with a complicated expression, and said to her friends, "This time, that little lunatic is really homeless. The Sun family will not take them in."
"That's right." The man nodded and said, "Besides, these days, although it's not as hard as in the early years, it's not much better. Who has enough food to support these two people?"
"No, I have to tell my grandson not to play with this little lunatic! Who knows, he might harm our child one day."
"Let me tell you, lunatics are very scary. There was also a lunatic on my in-laws' side. I heard that one day when he woke up, the lunatic had killed his entire family, leaving no one alive."
Tianjiao was held by Zhang Rui, looking down from a high position, and could barely see the women standing near him talking.
Her face seemed calm, but inside she felt a little worried and aggrieved. It was clearly not her who did anything wrong, and the doctor only said that he was autistic.
Although she didn't know what autism meant in her little head, Tianjiao knew that he was not a lunatic. He could still communicate with others and understand what they said.
Thinking of this, she spoke out: "Xiao He is not crazy, you can't talk nonsense!"
Children’s thinking is very naive. If they think something is right, they will do it without too many concerns.
People in the village all liked her very much. When they saw her suddenly speak out with such an unhappy and puffy face, several aunts turned around to look at her and smiled good-naturedly, not showing any unhappiness at all.
"Okay, he's not crazy~"
"Jiaojiao, I heard that you went to school recently. Is school fun?"
Tianjiao was a little embarrassed by their unexpected good temper. He lowered his head and stirred his hands nervously: "School is fun."
Zhang Rui patted her back comfortingly but said nothing. Everyone was very nice to her, but she was just a child in this matter and it was useless to say anything. He could only let the facts speak for themselves.
****
Sun Hong was shot.
In this day and age, especially now when everything is being revived, the punishment attitude towards many things is very strict. His intention to murder, even if he did not succeed, is a big deal.
Sun's mother went to see her son that day and never came back.
Mrs. Xu went crazy. She didn't go to see the incident, but people in the village said that she was driven out of the Sun family and lived in a cowshed.
There were no suitable houses for them to live in in the village, so even several educated youth had no place to live.
As soon as they moved in, Xu started to work. They were very motivated in the first two days. They ate the food lent to them by the village chief himself, so they were able to survive.
But on the third day, the verdict on Sun Hong's case was announced and implemented the next day, and Xu went crazy.
She was already in a bad mental state, had been subjected to domestic violence for years, and was over-cijied when getting up early. In addition, her only son also had problems. Now, with the death of Sun Hong, she was in a bad state.
Xu is now repeating this every day: "I didn't mean it! I'm sorry!"
"Stop hitting me, stop hitting me, I didn't go out, stop hitting me..."
"Son, where is my son?"
But when someone put Xiao He in front of her, she pushed him away and said mysteriously: "No, this is not my son. My son is very cute and smart. He called me mom when he was very young!"
Gradually, everyone tacitly accepted that the mother and son were both little lunatics. Occasionally, someone would feel sorry for them and give them a sweet potato or a potato, but that was all. For people of their generation, they could not afford good things and were reluctant to do so.
If they were not so cruel, they could drive the madman out of the village.
After Tianjiao acted impulsively that time, Zhang Rui had a good talk with her when she returned that day. He let her know that in this world, human beings are individuals with many ideas, and no one can ask others to change. If they want to change other people's ideas, they can only change themselves. She never said anything to other people again, but just used her abilities to help them.
In the Zhang family, Tianjiao does not need to use these. She only needs to pray to her father Tiandao occasionally and return what she has used and spent in another way.
But now in order to help Xiao He, it is naturally necessary to use it.
…
The rural paths are made of dirt and become flat only after being walked on countless times.
When it rains, the place becomes muddy, and when the sun is too strong, the sky is full of dust.
However, the weather has been very good recently. It occasionally rains at night, and when you wake up during the day, you will find that you feel cool. Autumn has completely arrived.
Tianjiao was wearing a blue singlet. The gentle sunlight shone on his body, and his fair and tender face made the ordinary blue clothes look very eye-catching.
She just walked slowly with empty hands.
Today is the weekend and the school is on holiday, so I can go to see Xiao He early.
The cowshed is located near Lanshan, which is convenient for the cowherd to take the cows to graze. However, there are only two cows in their village, but there are three cowsheds, and they are not connected together. Therefore, although the place where Xiao and his family live is called a cowshed, it is actually quite okay. After cleaning, there is no smell.
After all, the houses in the village are now made of mud bricks and wooden boards.
"Xiao He! Here!" Seeing a man sitting on a haystack from afar, Tianjiao immediately waved happily.
Xiao He has no hair, and his head is shiny with a few scars visible occasionally. He looks like a little monk, with a big head pressed on a small body. Tianjiao always wonders whether this body will not be able to bear the force of the head and fall off?
He was sitting there with his arms around his knees, but when he heard the cool voice, his half-closed eyes suddenly opened wide and looked over brightly.
This reaction speed has become much faster thanks to Tianjiao's unremitting efforts, but he has not spoken a word yet and there is no expression on his face.
He just watched Tianjiao approach, with his little mouth pursed.
Tianjiao came over and tilted his head to take a look: "Hey, you've gained weight!"
Xiao He blinked his big eyes twice, and his face, which had been thin and a little scary before, now seemed to have a little more flesh, making the face, which was only skin left, look fuller.
He had never looked at his own appearance, but seeing Tianjiao's joyful look, the corners of his mouth twitched, as if he wanted to grin, but failed.
Tianjiao snorted and laughed, and a big white steamed bun and a greasy-looking chicken leg appeared from his hands, which had been behind his back.
She held out her hands like she was offering a treasure: "Look, I'm giving you this today!"
Xiao He's eyes curved and he reached out to take it.
No one in the countryside can afford this big white steamed bun. It is white and tender, and you can tell it is made from fine wheat. Who in the village could afford it?
There are also big chicken legs, which no one in the village can afford. Not only are they chicken legs, but there are also a variety of seasonings on them, and they taste really delicious. Even if you have never eaten them, you will automatically drool when you smell them.
But they were both children and didn't think anything was wrong. One ate the food in small bites with relish, while the other watched it with great interest.
The aroma of the chicken legs kept filling her nose, she sniffed and swallowed.
Suddenly a chicken leg appeared in front of her. Xiao He looked at her calmly without making any sound. Seeing that she didn't take it, he moved forward again.
"Gulp!" Tianjiao swallowed hard again, licked his lower lip, and shook his head: "I don't want to eat it, you eat it."
Xiao He didn't move, and pushed forward again, almost touching Tianjiao's little mouth, luckily she dodged quickly.
"I don't want to eat it, you eat it!" She reached out and pushed Xiao He's hand back, letting the chicken leg approach his mouth: "Come on, take a bite."
Xiao He stared at her blankly, and after several seconds he opened his mouth and started eating.
He just ate the steamed bun and didn't take a single bite of the chicken leg.
Because he habitually saves the best things for last, but if he sees Tianjiao wanting to eat, he will immediately give the food to him without hesitation.
Although Tianjiao has never eaten it either.
She watched and watched, and finally couldn't help but look away, her mouth full of saliva.
But she didn't dare to eat it, and couldn't eat it.
By doing this, she is actually consuming her future fortune. Nothing in this world can appear out of thin air unless future fortune is used as collateral.
Tianjiao gave the food to Xiao He, and his fortune was only a one-to-one mortgage. If he ate it himself, it would be a one-hundred-to-one mortgage. In other words, if he ate a chicken leg from her first, even if he only tasted it, there would be ten less in the future. It doesn't look like much, this kind of thing is invisible. Who knows where the money from these ten chicken legs will be reduced in the future?
What if the money is gone when she is saving lives?
Pooh! Crow's mouth! This won't happen!
Tianjiao said "Pah" twice, then played with a piece of grass and said, "Xiao He, have you seen your mother these two days?"
Hearing her voice, Xiao He stopped eating, thought about it seriously, and shook his head.
Tianjiao turned his head and saw that he was eating with his little mouth smacking sounds but without making any sound. He was very gentle, unlike the others here who swallowed with big gulps, unless there was an emergency. It was unknown whether it was a natural habit or someone taught him.
Xiao He's mother, Xu, suddenly disappeared two days ago. As a son, Xiao He had no reaction to Xu's disappearance except for the panic on the first day.
"Alas!" Tianjiao sighed helplessly when he saw him like this: "You are so stupid."
…
A few minutes later, Xiao He finished eating, and Tian Jiao suddenly perked up. He dared to look over and said excitedly, "Come on, class!"
Xiao He also stood up happily, washed his hands and mouth with half a bowl of water in a broken porcelain bowl beside him, and then picked up a wooden stick and sat next to Tianjiao, looking at her with a bright look, with obvious urging.
Tianjiao smiled and said, "Today is the exam. Let's see if you can get a perfect score!"
Xiao He nodded vigorously, silently expressing his support.
Tianjiao began to write questions on the ground with a wooden stick. She had a good memory and could recite the papers she had done. Even if she didn't know how to write a word, she could describe it bit by bit according to the shape on it, especially the questions the teacher had read.
So the test papers of the first grade students of the third brigade who took the test last Friday appeared in Tianjiao’s chubby little hands.
After she finished writing, she waved her hand with pride and said, "Okay, do the questions now. If you make a mistake, you will be punished with a stick."
Xiao He pursed his lips, looked serious, squatted on the ground and started to do the questions.
Tianjiao watched by the side with her face in her hands, with anticipation in her eyes. She hoped that he would get all the answers right like her, but she also hoped that he would get one or two wrong so that she could experience what it felt like to be a teacher.
But she was disappointed. When it was getting dark, Xiao He had already finished all the questions. He wrote down all the knowledge points that Tianjiao had explained to him.
Those questions are naturally not wrong at all.
Tianjiao was full of amazement: "You are so amazing!"
Xiao He smiled and pointed at Tianjiao.
Tianjiao smiled shyly.
Suddenly a slightly hoarse voice sounded: "Hey, you two little kids!"
Tianjiao and Xiaohe looked up immediately and saw an old man, probably in his sixties, with gray hair and a weathered face, slowly walking towards them. When he saw them looking at him, the old man smiled gently with a kind look.
The old man's clothes were tattered but clean. He was holding a cane in his hand, and the exposed skin was also clean. His face looked a little weak, but his eyes were clear.
Tianjiao called out obediently: "Hello, Grandpa."
The old man smiled more and narrowed his eyes: "This baby is beautiful, who is yours?"
"From the Zhang family, my name is Tianjiao and his name is Xiaohe, but he can't speak." Tianjiao tilted his head and answered softly. Xiaohe beside him lowered his head and used the branch in his hand to circle the 100 points that Tianjiao had just corrected.
The old man didn't mind. Instead, he looked at the two people with shining eyes and asked softly, "Little girl, tell grandpa, did you memorize this question by yourself?"
Speaking of this, she was proud. Anger appeared on her face and she looked up proudly: "Yes, I memorized them all. The teacher said Jiaojiao is the smartest child!"
The old man nodded in satisfaction, and pointed at Xiao He: "Did he go to school? Did you teach him?"
Tianjiao nodded. Seeing that he seemed a little excited, his eyes were red and he looked a little confused: "What's wrong?"
“Ahem…” The old man coughed twice, suppressing the discomfort in his heart, and said as calmly as possible: “Little girl, grandpa will play a game with you, okay? Come to grandpa every afternoon after school, and grandpa will teach you some fun things. If you can learn them, you will be very powerful in the future!”
Tianjiao's eyes lit up immediately: "Great, great! Jiaojiao likes to study!" But after being happy, she looked at the old man expectantly: "Can he do it too?"
The old man smiled and nodded: "Of course! But there is one thing, this is a secret between the three of us, no one can tell it, if it is told, grandpa will disappear."
"no problem!"
Tianjiao shook the people around her, and Xiao He, who had been playing with tree branches, looked up at her in confusion.
Tianjiao knocked his head in dissatisfaction, but worried that he might hurt it, he rubbed it and whispered, "From now on, the two of us will follow this grandfather to take classes. This is a secret between us. Secrets cannot be told to anyone. Do you hear me?"
Xiao He's eyes lit up. He also liked learning, so he nodded his head vigorously twice.
"Haha..." The old man laughed, but after a short while, he wiped away his tears, his emotions seemed out of control.
However, he hid these emotions and just looked at the two children with a gentle face. They were only five years old, but they could rewrite the test paper that they had only done once, and they could even trace it out even if they didn't recognize it. These two points were enough to show the child's talent.
He has a successor!
And old man Li, he has to thank himself.
The old man shook his head, crying and laughing.
Tianjiao accidentally noticed it and looked at him worriedly: "Grandpa, are you okay?"
The old man chuckled, and said in high spirits: "Don't worry, Grandpa is fine, and he will definitely teach you a lesson!"
Tianjiao smiled and patted Xiao He on the shoulder: "He can't forget it either."
The old man stroked his beard and said, "He has another grandfather, whose last name is Li. You guys can play first, and the class will start tomorrow."
Tianjiao nodded obediently and asked sweetly: "Grandpa, what's your last name?"
The old man said, "My surname is Song, and my name is Song Zhen."
Tianjiao took note of it carefully without any special reaction, but if some older people who had been to school had known him, they would have known immediately that the person in front of them was none other than the famous Chinese painter Song Zhen. A few years ago, one of Song Zhen's ink paintings could buy a house in Kyoto.
****
The reason why Tianjiao taught Xiao He was because of what Zhang Rui said.
Everyone in the village thinks that Xiao He is a little lunatic and it is useless to talk to him. Tianjiao can understand the difference between autism and mental illness, but others can't. If they want to change their minds, they can only use another method, which is to improve themselves.
As long as Xiao He can succeed and become powerful in the future, no one will call him a little lunatic.
But if he wanted to become very powerful, Tianjiao thought about it for a long time and concluded that the best way to do it in this era was to study, so she began to teach him.
Both of them were children. Tianjiao copied everything the teacher taught her in class to Xiao He. How much they could absorb depended on their talent. Fortunately, Xiao He was smart enough, just like her. They could remember what they read once and could understand it after being taught once, so her teaching went smoothly.
The only thing is that she always felt that the teacher's progress was too slow, but all the students around her were at the same speed and it was impossible to adjust for her alone.
And she can't skip a grade.
But today, her anxiety seemed to be unexpectedly relieved, as the grandfather looked like a learned man.
When they got home, dinner was ready. Zhang Rui put away everything in the yard and pulled Tianjiao to his side with a smile on his face: "Dad bought you a candied haws. I wanted to give it to you as soon as I got back, but you were not at home."
Tianjiao was already happy, and when he heard about the candied haws, he jumped up and down: "Dad is the best!"
Zhang Rui snorted and pinched her nose, looked at her bright smile, and handed her the candied haws.
After being left out for a long time, some of them melted, but now the weather is not hot, so they only melted a little bit. Tianjiao ate one by one, and the sweet taste appeared in her mouth. She took a bite and added a bit of sourness. She held up the candied haws and said, "Daddy, eat it!"
Zhang Rui shook his head: "Dad has eaten."
Tianjiao curled his lips in disdain: "Liar, eat quickly!"
The daughter's attitude was too tough. Zhang Rui smiled bitterly on the surface, but ate one sweetly inside. Then he saw the child rushing to find grandma, then grandpa, and finally Dabao.
Dabao can’t eat, but can tianjiao. In front of Tianjiao, Dabao is very well behaved. He will tianjiao when he is asked to and will never bite.
"Okay, that's enough." Tianjiao took the candied haws back and said to Dabao, who was still eager to eat, "You've already eaten two bites. Now you can wait a moment."
"Okay!" Dabao nodded with drooling, his eyes still on the candied haws, but his hands remained obediently on his knees, motionless.
Li Mizhen, with a sweet and sour taste still in her mouth, saw this scene when she brought two dishes out from the kitchen. She subconsciously smiled a little more.
When she entered the main room, she saw her husband sitting with his legs crossed and his cheek puffed out, obviously eating. Li Mizhen couldn't help laughing: "Is it delicious?"
Zhang Dagen coughed dryly: "...It's okay."
Li Mizhen: "How is this granddaughter?"
Zhang Dagen glared at her, but Li Mizhen still looked at him narrowly, forcing Zhang Dagen to reply helplessly: "Very good!"
Zhang Rui came in with his meal and heard this. He immediately laughed and said, "I told you that no one would dislike my daughter!"
Zhang Dagen snorted coldly: "Eat your meal!"
****
Everyone is having fun here, and everyone is also very happy on the other side.
Song Zhen happily returned to where they lived, which was a previously abandoned thatched hut. Later, when they came, the team leader didn't dare to let them live in a better place, so he pointed to this place.
The village chief is a good man. Seeing that they are old, he specially asked a few young people to help them tidy up the house so that they can protect themselves from wind and rain.
When he came in, Old Man Li was sitting at the doorstep in a daze, his eyes staring straight ahead. No one knew what he was thinking, but the depressed aura on his body showed that it was not a good thing.
As he thought about it, Old Man Li's eyes turned red.
This scene is heartbreaking. Everyone has the same experience, so it's inevitable that they will sympathize with and help each other.
Song Zhen coughed lightly to show his presence.
But Old Man Li was not moved at all, which made Song Zhen laugh. He gathered his pants casually and sat down. Then he heard Old Man Li say in a low voice, "Can we still go back alive?"
There was a moment of silence. Song Zhen swallowed the sob in his throat and said lightly, "I found a disciple today. She is a very smart girl. The words she writes are just like printed words. The key is that she is only five years old!"
Old man Li sat up straight immediately and looked at him with sparkling eyes: "Really?"
Song Zhen smiled complacently: "How can I deceive you?" As he spoke, he saw the fawning look of old man Li and immediately became alert: "This is my disciple!"
Old Man Li's eyes dimmed, but he still pleaded, "We have such a good relationship, are you willing to let my skills disappear?"
Song Zhen tried to hold back his laughter. Seeing that Old Man Li was getting more and more frustrated, he slowly said, "I found one for you too. He has never been to school, but he can learn everything that girl teaches him in one go. He also has a photographic memory."
Old man Li's eyes suddenly lit up.
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Under Grandpa Song's repeated instructions, Tianjiao didn't tell anyone about going to his place to take classes with Xiao He every afternoon and weekends. She just went there at around five o'clock every afternoon and studied until dinner, which was actually only about an hour. Occasionally, when dinner time was advanced, she had to leave early as well.
But what Grandpa Song taught was Chinese painting. Even using a tree branch one could draw beautiful scenery. Tianjiao was obsessed with learning it and was reluctant to reduce his time, so he had to squeeze it in other time.
Both of them were elderly people. Although they were sent down to do some work, they couldn't do much and had plenty of time. So Tianjiao gave up his time to play and tried to sneak over there.
She didn't want to be discovered, so no one could find out where she was sneaking away.
Zhao Xiaohua and other good friends who used to play together suddenly found that they could not find Tianjiao after school, and they were angry for a long time.
Children can usually make up within three days after having a conflict. Basically, they will be fine in the afternoon after they quarrel in the morning. This time, Tianjiao took three full days to coax Zhao Xiaohua into stopping being angry.
"What are you doing? You don't play with us every day!" Zhao Xiaohua
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