Chapter 93 (2/2)
”I told him you would take me on a picnic, because Peter can't come with us, so I'll bring him a present when I come back.” Xie liaosha replied happily.
”I'm proud of you.” Anna pinches Xie liaosha's small hand, and the latter smiles shyly.
”The gift is good. I like it.”
”Peter's fine, too, and I like him.”
Xie liaosha explained.
”But Peter has a job, so he can't go with me.”
”So I can bring him a present.”
”You did a good job.” Anna said with a smile, ”if we like someone, we always need to show it.”
”Yes.” Xie liaosha became more happy because his mother praised his ideas.
It's getting hotter in May. Anna and anusika set up the picnic cloth and food by the riverside in the suburb. Xie liaosha helped. After they had dinner, Xie liaosha and his mother squatted on the river.
”I want those little stones.” Xie liaosha pointed to the pebbles beside the shallow stream and said, ”can I take them home? As a gift. ”
”One or two will do.”
”Well, I'm not greedy.” ”I'll take two, one for Dad and one for Peter,” he said with a smile
”Do you want me to carry it for you?” Anna asked.
”Can I rely on myself?” 'it looks like a lot of courage,' Mr. Xie said.
”Yes, I can.” Anna decided to satisfy the boy's wish.
”But if you want to do this in the future, it must be within the range we can see, otherwise it will be very dangerous. You know the danger, don't you? ”
”Yes.” Xie liaosha nodded, ”I may slip, or accidentally step into a very deep place, it will be very terrible.”
”You'll look at me, won't you?”
”Ah, of course.” Anna said with a smile. She watched him take off his shoes and socks. Then she rolled up his trousers and pulled his left hand to make sure that if anything happened, she would protect him.
Xie liaosha didn't seem to worry at all. He always trusted his mother so much.
He walked half a meter away from the side of the stream. The stream only reached his calf. It was a little cool, but it was also fun.
He stood quietly for a moment, then felt the fish kissing his bare skin. The itch made him giggle, and he turned back to his mother and blinked, making a lovely ”Shhh” gesture.
”Do you want them?” Anna asked in a low voice.
Xie liaosha nodded, then shook his head and said happily, ”I like little fish, but they are better here.” After saying that, Xie liaosha moved his feet, and then bent down to borrow the clear stream, and chose two.
”White for Peter, black for Dad.” Xie liaosha said after landing.
Anna wiped seliosa's feet and put on her socks and shoes again.
In the afternoon the sun fell down, and she was lying in the shade of a tree with seliosha. Anushika insisted on sitting, and she came with her needlework.
”Mom, do you think that cloud looks like a pony?” Xie liaosha asked, pointing to the clouds in the sky.”Like, maybe it's really a pony, living in the sky.”
”What do they eat?”
”What do you think?”
Xie liaosha frowned and thought, ”maybe it's the wind?”
”Maybe it is.”
”That's why birds fly in the sky? Because they have good friends in the sky
”Maybe it is. After all, we live on the ground, we can't understand them completely, can we? ” Anna said gently with Xie liaosha's childish words, and the latter's face showed a happy expression.
”You see, honey. Bird has her good friends both on the ground and in the sky. Sometimes she leaves some friends, but she always comes back. While her friends are waiting for her, they can have other good friends, so that when she comes back, there will be more friends. ”
”Will there be more happiness?”
”Yes, just like today we went out for a picnic, but you brought gifts to Peter and Dad, and you told them our story of today, so there are five happy people.”
Xie liaosha thought for a moment, then turned over and nestled himself in his mother's arms.
”Do you think I'm not brave?”
”I'm always proud of you, baby.”
”The teacher said I should restrain myself. He said that I was too emotional to be a useful person. He said dad wouldn't be like that. ” Xie liaosha revealed his inner worry.
”I want to be an adult like dad.”
”It's true that being too emotional is not good for deciding something, but,” Anna kisses the boy on the forehead. ”It's hard to be a good person if you don't have compassion and empathy.”
”It's not that you're not brave. You're just a little too kind. We all think it's not a mistake. On the contrary, it is a very precious and wonderful quality. ”
Xie liaosha blushed a little and leaned closer to his mother.
”Swear?”
”Yes, I swear it's true, not because I'm your mother.”
”I love you, mom.” Xie liaosha said, holding her mother's arm in her little hand.
”I love you too, baby.”
That night, Xie liaosha wrote in his diary:
”today I understand one thing. My mother told me that I have very precious things, and I should be proud. If I meet a child like me in the future, I will tell him the same, and we will become good friends
After writing this paragraph, Xie liaosha's NIB stopped for a moment, then he began to smile in the light, with a little blush, and continued to add a paragraph:
”just now, dad told me that he didn't think I would become a bad adult in the future, and he believed that one day, I would become a better person than him.”