Chapter 77 77 "Brother, I also have a secret."...
When Feng Ci returned home that evening, he also heard about what happened at kindergarten. He jokingly asked Meiguo, "Do you know where Siberia is? You're still calling people Siberian wild boars."
"I don't say anything."
Meiguo, who was lying on her stomach playing with building blocks, turned her head, her round eyes curved, and she giggled happily, covering her mouth. "Li Ziming didn't say anything, he was crying really loudly."
Seeing the chubby boy's mischievous look, Feng Ci knew that his parents' worries were completely unnecessary.
The little girl is not stupid. She knows how to protect the people around her and how to make others cry.
Feng Ci: "You learned this from the internet again, right? Tell me what else you know."
"Okay, okay."
Meiguo obediently put down the building blocks, stood up, put her hands on her waist, raised her eyebrows and shouted fiercely: "You are a wild boar, a porcupine, a stupid pig, a Ukrainian suckling pig, a pig that will never fly into the sky!"
A child who couldn't even recognize all 26 letters of the alphabet memorized these lines word for word without taking a breath.
Excellent memory and language talent.
Feng Ci pondered for a long time and sincerely suggested, "Why don't you find a master who can play the clappers for you and learn how to play it."
"I don't want to be spanked." Meiguo shook her head quickly and said seriously, "It will be a beating."
Feng Ci: "Watch less of that crap."
"Look at me then." Meiguo tiptoed closer to him, pointing at her chubby face and saying, "Brother, I have dimples on my cheeks. I can put a rainbow candy in them!"
After saying that, the child actually took out a small candy from his pocket, put it into his dimple, and sang happily: "Oh, I am a rainbow candy, a round rainbow candy~"
Feng Ci suppressed his laughter and took the candy out of her dimple: "This is called a dimple. Most people want it but don't have it yet."
"Brother, do you want one?" Meiguo touched the side of his face, "I'll give you one."
"I don't want it." Feng Ci raised his chin slightly, "A strong and cold man like me doesn't need dimples."
Meiguo stared at Feng Ci with wide eyes and said, "Brother, you are not strong at all."
It would be fine if they said he was not good in other areas, but he had six-pack abs, and he looked thin when dressed and had muscles when undressed. Who would dare to say with a clear conscience that he was not strong?
Feng Ci lifted his clothes to reveal his full abdominal muscles: "You are just talking nonsense, look at this."
"Meat."
"These are abdominal muscles!" Feng Ci said in a resounding voice, "See my muscular body? Men with abdominal muscles are in great shape and won't get sick for years."
Then, Feng Ci, who made these bold statements, fell ill the next day.
He has a fever.
The last time Feng Ci had a fever was the day berries fell from the sky. He was knocked unconscious all night, and when he woke up the next day, the fever was gone.
He was not tortured by the fever for too long that time, but he had a nightmare about being fed Xiangrui all night.
In order to avoid scoring twice, Feng Ci took the initiative to go to the hospital to register and get medicine. The doctor suggested a shot in the buttocks to reduce the fever quickly. Feng Ci was shy and politely declined the suggestion, and resolutely went to get the drip.
Feng Ci was drowsy and half dozed off while sitting on a bench in the hospital corridor.
The drip lasted for three days. When Feng Ci came back, his fever was almost gone, but he still felt a little unsteady when walking.
As soon as Feng Ci returned home, Meiguo discovered that something was wrong with him.
Whenever she pressed the back of his hand, her brother would make strange noises.
Meiguo stared at the back of Feng Ci's hand for a while, and noticed something strange: "Brother, what's wrong with you?"
Feng Ci looked at her without saying anything.
Meiguo thought for a moment and changed her words: "Brother, what's wrong with you?"
"I went to the hospital this afternoon to get an IV drip. There's a needle mark on my hand."
"Ah, you got pricked by a needle."
Feng Ci responded casually.
Berry: "Are you sick?"
"yes."
After hearing this answer, Meiguo immediately lowered her head to look for the potion. When Feng Ci saw the color of the potion with extraordinary shrinkage power, he immediately refused it with righteous indignation.
"A little fever won't kill you."
"And I've been on an IV drip all afternoon, and my fever has almost subsided."
Berry pouted: "But you're not well."
"It will be fine soon." Feng Ci said, "If you don't believe me, I'll take a nap and show you."
Feng Ci went to sleep as soon as he said so. He went back to his room, lay on the bed, covered himself with the quilt, closed his eyes and pretended to sleep.
He knew without opening his eyes that the child was lying beside his bed. He had originally planned to pretend to get up for a while, but he actually fell asleep while pretending.
When he opened his eyes again, the sky outside the window was full of rosy clouds, and a furry little head was resting on his arm, snoring rhythmically.
Before he opened his eyes, he was alone in the world. Feng Ci felt a swelling in his heart at that moment.
Perhaps there was some kind of telepathy between the brother and sister. Within two minutes of Feng Ci waking up, Meiguo also woke up.
The first words the child said were: "Brother."
"Are you okay?"
Feng Ci was so moved that he said, "I'm fine now."
He said something sentimental, "Guoguo, let me tell you a secret. Brother loves you very much."
Meiguo blinked twice, slowly put her ear close to his, and said softly, "Brother, I have a secret too."
"I want to watch the tablet."
"Will you show me the tablet?"
“…”
"Get up, I'm getting up."
*
After returning to China, Qiao Tong and Feng Chen stayed with their two children. Perhaps because he was afraid that Qiao Tong would be reminded of bad memories when she returned to the old house, Feng Chen never mentioned the old house.
One sunny morning, Qiao Tong suddenly suggested going back to the old house to take a look.
Feng Chen was very surprised. Qiao Tong looked at the child watering the potted plants on the balcony with soft yet firm eyes.
"There are important things there. I want to take Guoguo to see them."
Meiguo was very happy. Today was Friday but she didn't have to go to kindergarten. She felt that she had made a great deal of money. She sat obediently in the high chair for the entire 40-minute drive, without crying or making a fuss, and smiled as if she was going on an outing.
Feng Chen looked at his precious daughter's smiling face and an idea came to his mind.
He turned around and discussed with Qiao Tong: "Xiao Tong, how about giving our baby one more day off in the future."
Now all foreign countries are advocating to work four days and have three days off. Fengjia Group has implemented the policy of working four days and having three days off for more than half a year. Employees do not feel dead at work like going to a grave. They are full of energy and feel like alive. Their work efficiency has increased rapidly.
It can be seen from this that increasing rest time can further stimulate people's potential and enthusiasm.
Qiao Tong hesitated a little: "Calm down. There's actually no academic pressure in kindergarten. On the contrary, you can play with other children in kindergarten. It's much better than staying at home and watching TV."
Both husband and wife have their own careers to take care of. Taking one more day off means that one of them has to spend more energy to accompany their daughter.
If I go to school normally, I won’t have this worry, and Feng Ci will go home on weekends.
Feng Chen regained his composure and said, "Well, you're right. Let's wait until Guoguo enters elementary and junior high school before continuing to work four days a week and rest three days a week."
Berry looked at her father, then at her mother, "Mom and Dad, what are you talking about?"
"Baby, we're saying that when you grow up, we'll give you an extra day off to rest."
Berry:!!
A string of passionate farts from a child could be heard in the car.
When they got off the car at the destination, Meiguo was shocked by the magnificent old house.
"Mom, whose palace is Jie?"
"This is our home, baby."
Meiguo's expression lit up: "Mom, so you are the Queen."
Qiao Tong was overjoyed, and Feng Chen laughed: "So Dad is the emperor?"
Berry: "Dad, you can't be the emperor. The emperor is too busy."
The child took Qiao Tong's hand and walked inside, leaving a message to Feng Chen: "You'd better be a slave, so that you can always be with your mother."
Feng Chen: ...
The sweet little cotton-padded jacket is leaking again.
The mother and daughter walked in front, and Meiguo was like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden, asking questions as she walked.
"Mom, do we have elephants and tigers at home?"
"No," Qiao Tong said with a smile, "The only place in the city where these animals can be legally kept is the zoo."
"Then let's go to the zoo tomorrow. Your brother is back soon."
"Yeah."
Qiao Tong pushed the door open and entered a room he hadn't been to for many years. The furnishings in the room remained the same as they were before he left.
Qiao Tong saw the photo album on the bed at a glance and she quickly stepped forward.
Butler Uncle Jiang said that Feng Ci came back half a year ago, and she guessed that he must have also looked through this photo album.
Although Berry looked around curiously, his little hands remained well-behaved from beginning to end, not touching anything.
Qiao Tong waved: "Baby, come to the bed."
"This is where you were born, don't be shy."
As she spoke, she flipped open the photo album, and the first thing that caught her eye was Berry's baby photo.
"Look, this is when you're just one month old."
The child in the photo is fair and tender, wearing a butterfly headband on his head, smiling sweetly at the camera.
Three-and-a-half-year-old Meiguo shyly held her face in her hands and twisted it into a knot: "Oh, Mom, I was so cute when I was young."
Qiao Tong chuckled.
"Baby, you are young now."
"You are the youngest baby in our family."
Qiao Tong was looking through the photo album while hugging Meiguo, and the heartache he felt at the beginning was no longer there.
She thanked her mother for taking good care of her daughter and sending her back to her. At this moment, she felt that she was ready to thank her mother in person.
*
Early on Saturday morning, the family drove to the A City Zoo.
When Berry first came to this world, her favorite show was Animal World. She got to know many animals through Animal World.
The zoo is so big that you can’t explore it all in one day.
They spent most of the day feeding the sika deer, alpacas and ostriches, and watching lions and tigers up close in the wild animal area.
The last stop in the morning was the elephant park.
The dozen or so huge elephants gave Meiguo a big shock. She whispered to Feng Ci, "Brother, I don't think elephants are as big as you."
Seal:? ?
"Whose fault is that?"
Is it a good thing that he, a normal person, becomes bigger than an elephant?
"Because of me, hehe."
She is quite proud.
"Get off me."
"No, no." Meiguo hugged Feng Ci's neck tightly, "I don't like so many butts."
Feng Ci: "Don't go down, just watch quietly. We'll go eat soon."
There were too many people near the guardrail, and Qiao Tong and Feng Chen were tired of the crowd, so they stood outside in the shade of the trees to rest.
In the venue, the elephants use their long trunks to roll up sand from the ground and sprinkle it on their bodies for sun protection. Their adorable appearance makes tourists love them very much.
Feng Ci's gaze was not on the living elephants.
He silently observed an elephant in the corner that was so quiet that it almost had no sense of existence.
Compared with the other fat and strong elephants, that elephant had shriveled skin and was obviously smaller in size.
Feng Ci glanced at the introduction board standing beside him. The elephant was called Dina, a seven-year-old female elephant. The information showed that it came to this zoo two years ago.
Feng Ci felt that the name Dina sounded familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere.
He took out his mobile phone and typed the four words "Dina Elephant" on social media, and many related entries immediately popped up.
The content of the entries is all about Dina being bullied and abused by her peers and the zoo's inaction.
Since Dina came to this zoo, she has not been accepted by her own kind. She has been constantly attacked and excluded by her own kind for two years. A quick search will show videos of Dina being beaten by other elephants and pushed to the side of the electric fence.
After reading all this information, Feng Ci's heart sank to the bottom.
Although many caring people protested to the zoo and the incident became a hot topic on Weibo, in the end the zoo did not make any real-time changes.
Feng Ci drooped his eyelashes, he didn't know what he could do.
At this moment, a pair of soft little hands patted his shoulders, and Berry Milk's voice was filled with worry: "Brother, is that elephant unhappy?"
Children are the creatures that are most sensitive to emotions. Dina can't speak, she just stands there quietly, but Berry feels inexplicably sad.
Feng Ci didn't want to tell Meiguo the truth about Dina being bullied, so he chose to briefly explain:
"Because its companions don't accept it and don't play with it, and it's not well taken care of, it's not happy here."
Berry didn't understand: "Why don't its companions play with it?"
Feng Ci was organizing his thoughts when Meiguo answered on her own, "I know. It must be because it's so good."
"Just like the kids in Nanger Town who don't play with me because I'm a little witch and they're afraid I'll feed them strange potions."
Feng Ci was speechless.
He touched his sister's head with some heartache: "Brother will play with you in the future."
Meiguo rolled her eyes at him: "You're lying, you won't even let me play with the tablet, huh."
“…”
The heartache lasts only three seconds.
Berry: "Brother, let's send the elephant home."
"It's the property of the zoo and we don't have the right to send it home."
"Well, let's send it secretly." Meiguo whispered in Fengci's ear, "I'll send it to the magical world. There are prairies in the magical world. It will like it, right?"
Feng Ci's eyes flashed, and he looked at Meiguo with a look of disbelief.
He looked around for a while, his heart beating fast, and carefully retreated from the crowd with the berries in his arms.
"Guoguo, is this the new magic you learned?"
The magical world has forests and large continents that have not been developed by humans. The magical forest he has visited alone is rich in water and grass, and is indeed very suitable for releasing injured large animals.
"Yeah." Meiguo touched her head embarrassedly, "The elf just taught me yesterday."
Just learning...well, this is just cramming.
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