Chapter 227 - Amaze you (1/2)
It was already evening, and Lei Zhao, Yan Mei, and Niu Niu stayed at the hotel near Disneyland and had eaten dinner there. The three were already in the hotel room, Yan Mei and Niu Niu watching TV.
Lei Zhao was out on the balcony. He was doing some calls for the company and also asking for some updates in the investigation.
Yan Mei and Niu Niu were on the bed. The little boy was watching a movie while Yan Mei was busy watching Lei Zhao talking to someone on the phone.
'He looks so focused... who is he talking to?'
”Boo-boo...”
Yan Mei snapped out of her thoughts as Niu Niu got her attention.
”What is it?”
”I'm getting sleepy...”
Niu Niu rubbed his eyes as he yawned, Yan Mei smiling as she pulled the sheets, tucking Niu Niu in the bed.
”Then go to sleep. Boo-boo and your uncle will be here and will sleep in a while,” she said, Niu Niu sleepily looking at Yan Mei with droopy eyes.
”Can you tell me a story that you love, Boo-boo?”
”Oh!”
Hearing this from him, the title of a Filipino author's poem suddenly popped into her mind. It was entitled ”Ballad of a Mother's Heart” by Jose La Villa Tierra.
She had read this before when she had an interest in reading books. She bought a book with a collection of poems. When she read the book, she read the poem by Jose La Villa Tierra, making her love her poem in an instant.
”Boo-boo?”
Yan Mei smiled as she realized that she was in her thoughts again.
”I'll tell you about a mother's love. Is that okay?”
Niu Niu nodded, ”Anything that Boo-boo tells me, I would love it!”
Yan Mei nodded as she started patting Niu Niu's small body. She then spoke each line of the poem in verbatim. Since she loved the poem, she knew each line at heart.
”The night was dark, for the moon was young. And the stars were asleep and rare; The clouds were thick, yet Youth went out. To see his Maiden fair.”
Niu Niu furrowed his brows, ”What does that mean, Boo-boo?”
Yan Mei smiled, ”It means that the boy went out to see his girlfriend late at night.”
”Oh!”
Yan Mei nodded, then she continued saying the next stanzas of the poem.
”'Dear One,' he pleaded as he knelt. Before her feet, in tears, 'My love is true; why have you kept me waiting all these years?' The maiden looked at him unmoved, it seemed, and whispered low:
'Persistent Youth, you have to prove by deeds your love is true.'”