Chapter 72 (1/2)
Anna doesn't like winter very much. Although there is beautiful snow in winter, she would prefer to live in warm season if she was given the chance to choose.
Karenin didn't care about the change of seasons. If it was too hot, the mood of the senior official in Petersburg might be affected a little, of course, just a little.
Their son, Xie liaosha, seems to love all seasons. He can always find those beautiful places in his optimistic little mind.
It happened in June, in early summer. The continuous spring rain has ended, and summer insects have begun to stir up.
During this period of time, Xie liaosha always wakes up very early. Generally, she will open her big blue eyes at more than five o'clock. Therefore, Anna always asks him to go to bed early at night. Fortunately, after observing for a period of time, Xie liaosha does not show any discomfort, and Anna is relieved.
This morning, Xie liaosha woke up early as usual.
He didn't change his clothes immediately after washing. He was still wearing a white robe with lace. He leaned lazily against the bay window and began to read a collection of poems in a whisper.
It is only in the morning that Xie liaosha shows such an inappropriate appearance, and more often, he keeps himself in a good sitting position. Because he saw a lot of good habits from his father, and Xie liaosha wanted to be a self disciplined person like his father since he was a child.
And Anna always felt like her heart was melting when she opened the door to see all this.
”Mom.”
Xie liaosha saw his mother. He put down his book and began to smile. He called softly.
Anna goes over and kisses the child's round cheek.
”Why do you get up so early?” Xie liaosha asked in his mother's kiss, holding each other's neck in both hands, like koala.
Anna smoothed the curly hair in front of her forehead for Xie liaosha. She was just like a small animal waking up from hibernation. She always had a kind of newborn ignorance between her eyebrows and eyes. She looked weak and lovely.
”Remember what I told you last night? Andre is coming today. Shall we meet him at the railway station
Xie liaosha remembered that his father had said it at dinner yesterday.
Cousin Andre came suddenly this time. It was not his holiday time.
The answer his father gave him was that cousin Andre was going through another period of change. His response to this answer was to blink his eyes and poke at the beans in the bowl, thinking: it's a bit mysterious.
Now, with his mother, he could inquire in more detail.
”What's the other stage dad was talking about? Mom. ” Xie liaosha is still holding his mother, his blue eyes are like the sky outside the window, clear and distant, without a trace of impurities.
Anna is also sitting on the wool mat of the bay window. She first touches Xie liaosha's ankle to make sure whether he has caught cold. Then she smiles and answers questions for her curious child.
”It's a change of mind from a child to an adult. At this stage, they sometimes don't like to get some answers from their parents. ”
Xie liaosha thought it was incredible. In the world of a five-year-old, parents sometimes mean the world.
”It's strange.” He said with a wink. He drooped his eyelashes, pondered for a moment, and then looked up. ”That's why brother Andrey came over when it wasn't a holiday, right? Because he wants answers from his father? ”
”Absolutely right.” Anna kisses the boy's little hand. The meat nest on the back of the hand is really lovely, while Xie liaosha looks at his little hand anxiously. Although he knew that many people liked them, when he was a little older, it would be difficult for him to carry out the kind of adult handshake with his fleshy hand?
”I'm not always that fat, am I?” He looked at his mother, blushing slightly, and asked shyly.
Anna laughed.
”Don't worry, baby, when you get to Andrea's age, they won't be like children any more.”
Then she pretended to be a little healthy when she was five years old
Having been assured, Xie liaosha breathed a sigh of relief. After hearing the words his mother teased him, he also laughed, and the sound of joy was like the wind beside a stream. After a while, Xie liaosha said shyly:
”I hope they can be like dad.”
He looked at his small hands carefully, spread out, and then clenched, soft and soft.
”Dad's hands are beautiful.”
Slender, powerful, able to hold a gun, strong and warm when writing.
Anna knew that he adored his father, and she was very proud of that feeling, but every time she listened to these statements again from his pure blue eyes or his small mouth, she still felt a little moved.”It may not be exactly the same, but we all believe that you will become a better person than him.” Anna encouraged hopefully.
”Well.” Liaosha's dimples are just like the dimples of stars.
At about ten o'clock, Xie liaosha and his mother went to the train station to meet Andre.
The time they had estimated was just right, and after her mother had kissed Andrea on the cheek, seliosa walked over.
”You don't look very tall, Xie liaosha.” Teenagers are extremely thin, and their high cheekbones should have seemed a little cold, but they are bright because of the smile on the bottom of their eyes when they speak.
Xieliosha bowed down with Andre, and then kissed each other on the cheek. Only then did he stand up and was not angry. He only said softly that he would grow tall in the future.
Andrea touched sheriosa's little head absentmindedly.
Back in the carriage, serliosa watched Andre carefully.
After all, he was only five years old, and there was always a limit to what he could understand. But because he was young and sensitive, he immediately noticed some changes in Andre.
It wasn't just about height and appearance. It was like, in the past, Andre was the same as him, like a carefree plant, but now he is restless.
From the corner of his eyes and eyebrows occasionally revealed the fatigue and irritability, Xie liaosha thought: the original growth has so many troubles!
At home, Andre moved his body as if he had been tense, and now he was relaxed because he came home.
Xie liaosha still hooked his mother's little thumb, until his mother patted his hand and motioned him to let go, and then he reluctantly let go.
Anna thought it was funny.
This is a small problem of Xie liaosha. For close people, Xie liaosha occasionally shows that he is too sticky. Once he decides who to hold the thumb, it is like sticking it with sugar, so he doesn't want to loosen it. If you do that, seliosa will act like a little dog that's been kicked, a little bit sad.
Anna looks at seliosa, then stops Andrea, who turns around and signals him with her lips.
Andrea looked down at sheriosa, shrugged his shoulders, and finally took the little boy to his room by the waist.
”Ah”
suddenly, Xie liaosha was frightened, but soon, he giggled again.
At home, the father would not do this kind of monkey business to him, and Andrea, to some extent, replaced a part of the father's role, although before that, he was only a little boy himself.
In Andrea's bedroom.
Xie liaosha was sitting on the sofa. He was a little too upright. In contrast, Andre, sitting cross legged on the carpet with his back against the sofa, seemed very inappropriate.
However, no matter how inappropriate, the beautiful face and the juvenile body, as well as the unique rebellious adolescence still make him appear some charming.
At least, the little maid who brought Andre honey water looked a little shy.
”Madame said honey water can moisten your throat, and master Andre should drink more now.”
”Well.” Andrea answered, then wrinkled his nose and took a sip without moving.
”Brother Andre, don't you finish it?” Xie liaosha asked, holding his cup in his hands.
”Too sweet.” Andre wrinkled his face and continued to read the book in his hand.
Xie liaosha was stupefied. He clearly remembered that Andrea didn't hate sweets, although he didn't like sweet food as much as he did.
So, when you grow up, you don't even like sweets?
Xie liaosha felt a little afraid, and then quickly drank the honey water in his hand.
Xie liaosha didn't know that his worried look was completely captured by Andrea. I don't know why. From the beginning of Xie liaosha's understanding, Andrea suspected that he was not a little boy, but some kind of young but pure animal.
No boy can be as soft and courageous as seliosa.
But because of this, sometimes Andre wants to tease each other.
”Open your mouth.” Andre held the book lazily in one hand and made a gesture of opening his mouth in the other.
Although Xie liaosha is a little confused, he still opens his small mouth and matches his innocent big eyes, just like some kind of chick crying for help.
”Ah”
Andrea looked at the boy's teeth and said, ”haven't you changed your teeth yet?”
Xie liaosha shook his head.
”You can still eat it now.” Andre nodded. ”Even if you lose your teeth because you eat too many sweets, there will be new ones.”
No teeth!
Xie liaosha's big blue eyes were wide and round, and there was obviously some panic.
Then he asked, ”how to change his teeth?”Andre gave a fake smile: ”Oh, then there will be no teeth. You can only drink milk from now on.”
Xie liaosha listened and looked anxiously at the small cake just sent by the maid. He didn't want to lose all his teeth, but he couldn't let go of the cake.
Andre saw Xie liaosha's tangled appearance, and her small brown eyebrows twisted. Suddenly, she felt that she didn't like sweet food any more.
”Eat one and you'll be OK.” Xie liaosha whispered, obviously still unable to resist the temptation of sweets, he stretched out a small white hand.
”The teeth will fall out.” Said Andrea coolly.
The little hand in mid air stops.
Andrea looked up, and serliosa was stunned, then slowly put his little hand behind his back, but his eyes were still fixed on the cake.
”Well, that's funny.” Andrea laughed and took the cake to sheriosa and put it in the heart of his hand.
Xie liaosha looked at the small cake in his hand carefully, then laughed, and did not accuse Andre of cheating him.
Andrea looked at serliosa's contented appearance, and suddenly felt that his parents' behavior of making decisions for him regardless of his wishes was not so strong in France.
At more than four o'clock in the afternoon, his father came back from the Ministry. After Xie liaosha and his father said hello, the latter took Andrea to the study.
His mother was talking to Sasha in the kitchen. Seliosa had no classes now. It was his leisure time, so he went to the porter cabidonnech.
Cabidonec knows a lot of things, most of which are very interesting, so sheliosa likes to talk to him.