Searching for "Jiang Yuanshi" (Part 2)
"Hey, young man, you are obviously not from the village. Why are you here alone? Come on, it's hot, come inside to cool down. It's so hot outside, why are you still wearing long pants and long sleeves?"
Sitting on a chair in the house, holding a bowl of mint water, Z01 began to doubt his life. When did he come in?
Z01 recalled his memory and found himself blocking the door of "Dabai"'s house. During the conversation with him, he was caught by an old man who walked into the yard. With the help of Dabai and Xiaopang, Z01, a high-dimensional creature, was initially diagnosed as autistic because he spoke in a rigid manner, with few words, and seemed to be immersed in his own world.
But Z01 just doesn't know how to communicate with humans. Even if he has learned the human communication patterns of different ages, he will only study hard. When it comes to practice, he will eventually find that children are more complex than diversity. They are more unstable, have wild imaginations, and say whatever they dream about.
The taciturn "teenager" Z01 was warmly invited into the old man's home without even a chance to refuse. He was too familiar with the old man. Z01 thought that these people were too alert. How could they just bring a stranger home? What if he was a bad guy?
"Child, do you know what grade you are in? High school or college? Where are your family members?"
"Grandma, he said he was looking for someone." Dabai replied.
"Has that person been found?"
"Big brother said he found him, but Xiaopang and I didn't see him. Maybe he is a second personality."
How on earth can a five or six-year-old child say such things?
However, the old man believed his grandson's words, nodded, sighed and said: "Then it must have gotten lost. There's nothing I can do. I'll go find the village committee to take a look."
As she spoke, the old lady in a fashionable floral dress went out with a cane and a parasol. Before leaving, she asked her grandson and an autistic stranger to look after the house.
At this time, the suspected autistic young man spoke up: "It's dangerous to put children with strangers."
The old man was delighted when he heard this and said, "Oh!", "You still have common sense, that's good."
Z01: “…”
After the old man finished speaking, he seemed to think it made sense, and turned around and warned: "Yuanyuan, take good care of the house, don't let this big guy run away."
Yuanyuan opened her big watery eyes, sat on a small stool, held a bowl of mint water in both hands, and nodded obediently: "Don't worry, grandma, it's so hot outside now, I just got back."
So do we really have to go out if it's not hot? Z01 fell into deep thought.
The old man left with a smile.
There were only one person, one big and one small, left in the room.
Z01 frowned and said to the child, "You are very likely to be abducted like this."
Yuanyuan, who was sitting on a small stool and digging glutinous rice from the mint water with a spoon, looked up at Z01 and said, "No, the people here are very simple and honest." After saying that, he turned around and drank a sip of water and continued, "You have to be careful. Although I don't know how you got here, our area... um... there are only mountains and rivers for many miles. It's very far from the city."
"That's why you're sure you won't be in danger."
"In danger? You mean you?"
The child tilted his head in confusion, with no fear in his eyes. He didn't take Z01, who was 1.8 meters tall, seriously at all. "You look like you are not from here when you are dressed like this. If you say so, you are an outsider, and you are very dangerous. Do you believe that if I cry here loudly, someone will come and beat you up right away?"
The child looked serious, as if he could invite heavenly soldiers and generals. At this moment, Z01 felt that this was still a child, but now he needed to be more sure of one thing, that his mission was not completed. But it was obviously Jiang Yuanshi. According to Jiang Yuanshi's description of his childhood, he was indeed white and chubby, with arms like lotus roots. The only thing wrong was that he was too cute.
Especially the cheek flesh, which is white and pink and looks very easy to pinch. The glutinous rice dumpling has become a concrete thing at this moment.
"Excuse me, could you tell me your name?"
"? No, grandma said we can't talk to strangers. You just said the same thing."
"..." Did he remember to be alert at this time? Just as Z01 thought so, he heard the glutinous rice dumpling with glutinous rice on his cheek say: "Unless you tell me your name first, so that I can exchange with you."
Well, good, vigilance 0.
Z01 sighed for the first time. Just as he was about to speak, he remembered that his name was unique in the human world. It seemed that he had to come up with a name.
So the glutinous rice dumpling ate while watching the big guy immersed in his own world. The glutinous rice dumpling sighed calmly and continued to drink his mint water.
After the glutinous rice dumpling finally scooped up all the red and green threads in the water with a spoon and put them into his mouth to eat, the big guy started again: "My name is Jiang Zhi. Jiang means river water."
The glutinous rice dumpling blinked, chewed with one cheek like a squirrel, and after swallowing the food, he asked: "What a coincidence? Is your last name Jiang too? Which one is the 'only' at the end?"
"Send to."
"Matsuko? The 'son's 'son'? Can't you tell the difference?"
Is this what it means to put the blame on someone else? Z01 understood the meaning of this idiom for the first time.
"It's zhi, the back nasal sound, not zi, the front nasal sound." Z01 explained seriously, and then said, "You can't tell the difference between flat and retroflex sound."
The glutinous rice dumpling who was told the original words curled his lips and said confidently: "How can you be so old and argue with a child? How childish."
Z01 said “hmm”, accepted the comment, and asked, “You haven’t told me your name yet?”
He was very patient and willing to be called childish for his name. Glutinous Rice Dumpling was stunned. He didn't expect adults to be so shameless. Isn't the adult world very powerful? Glutinous Rice Dumpling doubted his life, but he had to answer what he promised. He said: "My name is Jiang Yuanshi, Jiang for river water, Yuan for wish, and Shi for time."
This sentence was spoken more smoothly and fluently than any other sentence, without any accent, as if it had been repeated many times.
After introducing himself, Jiang Yuanshi lowered his head to drink mint water, then quietly raised his eyes and pretended to look at Z01 naturally.
Z01 couldn't understand the other party's sudden thief-like demeanor, so he just followed his heart and said, "Nice name, hello Jiang Yuanshi."
Xiao Jiangyuan asked, "Really?"
"What?"
"Do you think it's a good name?"
Z01 was puzzled: "Don't you think so? Then you need to correct your perception."
This is not suitable for humans of any age, and it has a bit of a didactic tone, but Z01, who is still in the process of transitioning to artificial intelligence, has no such awareness. To him, it is just a normal conversation. However, Xiao Jiangyuanshi suddenly understood after hearing this. He happily shook his head while holding the tea bowl and agreed: "Hehe, I also think my name is very good. My grandmother, my parents and I gave it to me together."
Then why did you look so worried about being laughed at? Z01 didn't say anything, but just asked:
"Your parents aren't home?"
"…No, grandma said they were too busy, so they sent me to her house to let her take care of me. But they called me a few days ago and said they would be able to take me in soon! Then, grandma and I can live with mom and dad."
When Jiang Yuanshi, who was only five or six years old, talked about his parents whom he rarely met, he still had expectations and love for them. However, his expectations may be broken after he meets them. How can he change his fate? Z01 has calculated many possibilities, but the final result is only one, that is, Jiang Yuanshi's death.
To avoid future suffering, there are two kinds of death. One is Jiang Yuanshi’s stillbirth, and the other is the current situation, death in a car accident and then being bound to the system.
Z01 once calculated what would happen if Jiang Yuanshi did not go with his parents, or if his parents died, but the result would be death, or even a more miserable death. If he lived with his grandmother, his grandmother would pass away soon, leaving Jiang Yuanshi an orphan in the village. The same would happen if his parents died in the middle of his life: he would become an orphan and eventually die.
The experience of a human who has long died can be changed, but the ending cannot. It is destined, and even Z01 cannot change it.
In the last world, don't change my ending.
Jiang Yuanshi once said this.
But even so, after seeing it with his own eyes, Z01 could not guarantee that he would not intervene. How could such a lively child transform into the smooth-talking and extremely self-destructive Jiang Yuanshi over there?
Z01 frowned as he looked at the child who was concentrating on stirring the raisins with a spoon, and expressed a bad prediction: "What if your parents are not good to you in the future? After all, they are very busy now, and they may not be able to relax in the future."
Xiao Jiang Yuanshi paused while stirring the spoon. This sentence was similar to "Your parents don't love you". If it were any other child, they would have burst into tears. However, Xiao Jiang Yuanshi just held the tea bowl and the spoon, with his head lowered motionlessly. Finally, he raised his head, smiled nonchalantly and said, "It can't be helped. After all, they are really busy."
After saying that, he lowered his head again and drank a sip of mint water pretending not to care. The speed at which he lowered his head seemed natural but was actually very fast. Redness flashed across his eyes, and Z01 felt a huge sense of guilt.
"I'm sorry, I went a little too far."
"No, what you said makes sense. After all, I almost forgot what they looked like. I only saw them twice a year, during the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Spring Festival. Everyone said that I was an unwanted child... but I clearly have them..."
As she was talking, Glutinous Rice Dumpling started to shed little goldfish tears, and her tears fell into the mint water.
Z01: “…………”
He made Jiang Yuanshi cry.
Damn it.
"sorry……"
Z01 helplessly took out the tissue on the table and handed it to Xiao Jiangyuanshi. Xiao Jiangyuanshi, who had been crying quietly, cried even harder. Her tears poured out like a dam bursting, but her crying was not loud, just a light whimper.
The thunder is light but the rain is heavy.
Z01 felt like he was being soaked.
Human parenting textbooks are of no use. He is neither Jiang Yuanshi's parent nor his friend. The age gap is too big. Nothing he says can comfort this little bass water truck.
What should I do? Z01 looked at his palm and thought of a solution. He had no other choice but to do this.
The waterwheel was still running, and suddenly something soft rubbed against my leg.
"Woo...Woo?" Xiao Jiangyuan got stuck in the middle of crying. He held back his tears and looked down. He saw a khaki puppy with dark red eyes, its tail swinging and hitting his legs.
Xiao Jiang’s wish:?
He looked around and the big guy was gone.
Xiao Jiangyuan sniffed and touched the puppy carefully, saying with a nasal voice: "Big brother, how did you turn into a dog?"
Z01: ?
Shouldn't we generally assume that the adult ran away and the puppy broke in?
"Wuuu... Big brother, why are you so small? You're such a small puppy... Wuuu, but grandma is allergic to dog hair, how can I raise you?" As she spoke, she began to cry again.
Z01, who was being touched on the dog's head, then realized that children's thinking is very imaginative, especially Jiang Yuanshi, whose thinking is still abstract even after he grows up.
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