After pondering for a moment, Yu Ci suggested, "There are cages for mice in the lab. We can take it to a veterinary hospital for treatment."
After saying that, Xie Jingcheng said, "I'll go."
Yu Ci paused, then looked at him, "Do you know where the lab is?"
"I know." Xie Jingcheng picked up the trash bag from the ground, glanced at Yu Ci, and whispered, "Take good care of her."
Yu Ci chuckled: "Of course."
With one less person present, the little squirrel seemed even more "dead."
A faint sound came from the tree branch, and one, two, three pine cones fell onto the grass, rolling around their feet.
Looking up, Chaochao saw a dark gray squirrel on a high branch. It pointed its paw at the injured squirrel below the tree, then at the pine cones at their feet, before leaping and hopping along the trunk and disappearing into the dense foliage.
Chaochao understood.
"This is the baby squirrel's mother; she asked us to help her baby."
Yu Ci's breath hitched.
"This fruit is a thank-you gift from the squirrel mother!"
Chaochao excitedly picked up the pine cones from the ground. The cones were very large, with clear and deep lines, and she couldn't hold one in her little hand.
She saw the empty trash bag next to the tweezers, ran over excitedly, opened it, and put the pine cones in one by one.
Since Chao Chao started speaking, Yu Ci has stood there without saying a word.
Her delicate and beautiful features had shed their gentle facade, and her slightly lowered eyes were as dark and murky as mud she couldn't escape.
A squirrel brings fruit to someone's door, hoping for the birth of its offspring.
But at the last moment he changed his mind, stepping over his mother's corpse to swim upstream, shamefully becoming a widow.
Yu Ci thought calmly.
He's worse than an animal.
This disgusting man is, in fact, the real him...
Under the dappled, slanted sunlight, the boy's eyebrows and eyes were pale and cold, his lips trembled slightly, and his whole body felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.
Suddenly, her left hand was gently tugged, like the string of a kite, or a firelight in the darkness, pulling Yu Ci back to the ground.
Before he knew it, his palms were damp with cold sweat.
Yu Ci felt her cool fingertips being gently grasped by a warm, dry little hand, and she instinctively tried to pull her fingers away. But as soon as she moved, the little dumpling cried out, "Hey, don't move!" and she obediently gave up struggling.
Chaochao held his hand and carefully threaded the leaf ring through his fingers, between his thumb and forefinger, and finally onto his pale, bony wrist.
A bracelet made of supple, slender branches, with dark brown twigs adorned with lovely green new leaves, rests on a porcelain-white wrist, like the natural pale blue veins in a torso.
"What...is this?" Yu Ci asked in a low voice, her gaze shifting slightly.
"A bracelet," Chaochao said, her eyes bright and clear. "I made it myself. It's not as pretty as the bracelet Brother Yuci had before, but it's one of a kind. But, Brother, you seem to look good in anything..."
After picking up the pine cones, Chaochao felt that her brother Yuci seemed a little off.
It's as if the body has been stripped of its soul, or as if consciousness has fallen into the deepest nightmare.
The naive and inexperienced Chaochao didn't know how to describe it, but it made her quite uncomfortable, just like when Yu Ci lost his composure on the playground last time.
When she saw Yu Ci's bare wrist and noticed the scattered twigs and branches of the bushes on the ground, she had a sudden inspiration and squatted down to work on them again.
Yu Ci's eyelids drooped slightly, and the child's fair fingertips were stained with streaks of red that had not yet faded. The leaf wreath was actually haphazardly woven and not particularly exquisite or beautiful, but it was permeated with the child's care.
His lips were slightly pursed, and after several seconds, as if he had just found his voice, he smiled and said, "Thank you, Chaochao, I... really like it."
Chaochao glanced at the boy's expression, frowned, and asked cautiously, "Is that green bracelet really not available?"
Yu Ci: "...Hmm."
The little dumpling panicked when she saw the boy's downcast expression and waved her hand to comfort him, "It's okay, it's okay. Out with the old, in with the new. Look, the little green leaf bracelet is pretty too."
"But the green leaves will wither..." she said, thinking about this problem, the bracelet wouldn't last long. But then she thought again that it wasn't a big deal.
"Then I'll keep weaving it for you."
I send several every year.
Replace it with a new one when it withers.
Suddenly, a line from a TV series from a few days ago popped into Chaochao's mind. She waved her chubby little hand with great pride, "Brother Yu Ci, I'll buy you your bracelet for a year, or even every year!"
Yu Ci asked in a hoarse voice, "Really every year?"
Chaochao was already thinking about when to make a Peppa Pig bracelet for her brother Yuci. Hearing this, she nodded and said, "Of course, I'm very skillful."
Yu Ci smiled, leaned down and gently pulled her into his arms, resting his chin on her back. "I know, Chaochao is very capable."
Let's leave it at that.
Don't leave.
He took it seriously.
No longer feeling the oppressive gaze falling upon it, the little squirrel on the ground quietly opened its eyes a crack, and slowly relaxed.
Oh my god, that really scared the mouse to death.
Xie Jingcheng quickly returned carrying the transparent cage box.
Yu Ci glanced at his hand and realized that she seemed to have forgotten to remind him that Professor Fan was on duty in the lab today, and that she could borrow the key from him.
Yu Ci: "...How did you get in?"
Xie Jingcheng put on gloves. "He came in through the window."
"..." Yu Ci smiled helplessly, "I'll write the self-criticism for you."
“Half for each of us.” Xie Jingcheng put on his gloves, his gaze lingering briefly on the green leaf bracelet on the boy’s wrist before looking away.
Yu Ci noticed his gaze, raised her hand and smiled, "It was given to me by Chaochao."
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