Searching for "Jiang Yuanshi" (Part 2)
"Hey, young man, you're obviously not from the village. Why are you here alone? Come on, it's hot out. Come inside and cool down. It's so hot outside. Why are you wearing long pants and long sleeves?"
Sitting on a chair in the house, holding a bowl of mint water in his hand, 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 and 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 age groups, he will only study rote. When he comes to practice, he will eventually find that children are more complex than diversity. They are more unstable, imaginative, and say whatever they dream about.
The taciturn "teen" Z01 was warmly invited into the elderly man's home without even a chance to refuse. He was so familiar with them that Z01 thought these people had little vigilance. 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's a second personality."
I wonder how a five or six-year-old child could say such a thing.
However, the old man believed his grandson's words, nodded, sighed and said, "Then he 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 young man, who seemed to be autistic, spoke up: "It's dangerous to leave children with strangers."
The old man's face lit up when he heard this, and he said, "Oh!", "That's good to have some common sense."
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 her hands, and nodded obediently: "Don't worry, grandma, it's so hot outside now. I just got back."
So, do I really need 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 guys are very likely to be abducted like this."
Yuanyuan, who was sitting on a small stool nearby, obediently using a spoon to dig sticky rice into the mint water, looked up at Z01 and said, "No, we're very simple here." He turned back and took a sip of water before continuing, "You should be careful. I don't know how you got here, but here... well... there's nothing but mountains and rivers for miles. It's super far from the city."
"That's why you're so sure you're not in danger."
"In danger? You mean you?"
The child tilted his head in confusion, his eyes devoid of fear. He didn't take the 5'8" Z01 seriously at all. "You look so different dressed than we are. If you're an outsider, you're the real danger. Believe it or not, if I start crying right now, someone's going to come and beat you up."
The child's expression was serious, as if he could summon heavenly soldiers and generals. At this moment, Z01 felt that this was still a child, but now he needed to be more certain 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 concrete at this moment.
"Excuse me, could you tell me your name?"
"? No, grandma said not to talk to strangers, and you just said the same thing."
"..." Did he remember to be vigilant at this time? Just as Z01 was thinking this, he heard the glutinous rice dumpling with glutinous rice on his cheek say, "Unless you tell me your name first, then I can trade 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 again. The glutinous rice dumpling sighed lazily 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, the big man started again: "My name is Jiang Zhi. Jiang means river water."
The glutinous rice dumpling blinked, chewed its food with one cheek like a squirrel, and after swallowing it, asked, "What a coincidence? Is your last name Jiang too? Which 'only' at the end is that?"
"Sent to."
"Mine nut? Son's nut? Can't you tell the difference between a flat and a straight one?"
Is this what it means to blame someone for something? Z01 personally understood the meaning of this idiom for the first time.
"It's zhi, a back nasal, not zi, a front nasal," Z01 explained carefully, then added, "Are you confused about the difference between flat and retroflex sounds?"
The glutinous rice dumpling, who was told the same thing, curled his lips and said confidently: "How can you, at your age, argue with a child? How childish."
Z01 said "hmm," accepted the comment, and asked, "You haven't told me your name yet?"
He was quite patient, willing to be called childish for the sake of his name. Nuomi Dumpling was stunned. He hadn't expected adults to be so shameless. Isn't the adult world so powerful? Nuomi Dumpling doubted his life, but he had to answer the promise he made. 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 person'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."
These words weren't appropriate for humans of any age, and they sounded a bit didactic. But Z01, still in the process of transitioning to artificial intelligence, didn't have that in mind; to him, it was just a normal conversation. However, Xiao Jiangyuanshi suddenly understood after hearing this. He happily shook his head while holding his tea bowl, and agreed, "Hey, I think my name is great too. My grandma, my parents, and I gave it to me."
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 take care of me. But they called 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."
At only five or six years old, Jiang Yuanshi spoke of his parents, whom he seldom saw, with evident anticipation and fondness. But his hopes might be shattered upon meeting them. How could he change his fate? Z01 had calculated numerous possibilities, but the ultimate outcome was only one: Jiang Yuanshi's death.
To avoid future pain, 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 be changed. It is destined, and even Z01 cannot change it.
In the final world, don't change my ending.
Jiang Yuanshi once said this.
But even so, after seeing it with his own eyes, Z01 couldn't guarantee that he wouldn't 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 in front of him, who was concentrating on stirring the raisins with a spoon, and expressed a dire prediction: "What if your parents treat you badly in the future? After all, they are very busy now, and they may not be able to relax in the future."
Little Jiang Yuanshi paused stirring the spoon. This sentence was similar to "Your parents don't love you." Any other child would have burst into tears, but little Jiang Yuanshi just held the tea bowl and the spoon, his head lowered motionlessly. Finally, he raised it, 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 to be nonchalant. 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 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. Tears poured out like a bursting dam, but the crying was not loud, just a light whimper.
The thunder is quiet but the rain is heavy.
Z01 felt like he was about to be soaked.
Human parenting textbooks are of no use. He is neither Jiang Yuanshi's parent nor his friend. The age gap is too big, and nothing he says can comfort this little bass water truck.
What should I do? Z01 looked at his palm and thought of a solution. There was nothing else he could do. This was the only way.
The waterwheel was still running when suddenly something soft brushed against my leg.
"Woo... Woo?" Xiao Jiangyuan was 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 wish:?
He looked around and the big man was gone.
Xiao Jiangyuan sniffed, carefully touched the puppy, and said with a nasal sniff, "Big brother, how did you turn into a dog?"
Z01:?
Shouldn't we generally assume that the adult ran away and the puppy came in?
"Wuuu... Big brother, why are you so small? You are 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 patted 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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