At 11 o'clock in the evening, the parents of the children came to the academy to pick them up one after another. Half of the dormitories were already gone, and about half were still sleeping.
When Zhang Tan came down, a strange man happened to come in with him. He was about 30 to 40 years old, carrying a briefcase. He was still wearing a white long-sleeved shirt and black trousers on a hot day. He had a swollen figure and a round face.
Yes, my face was greasy, so I wiped it with a tissue as I walked.
When he saw Zhang Tan, he bowed slightly and said with a smile: "Hello."
Zhang Tan responded: "Hello, are you here to pick up the child?"
"Yes, you too, right?"
Zhang Tan smiled, and then Teacher Xiao Liu came forward and said, "Cheng Cheng is still sleeping. Would you like to sit down for a while or take him away now?"
It turned out to be Meng Chengcheng's father! Zhang Tan looked at the other person again in surprise. Meng Chengcheng looked like an elf. Although it was rude to think so, he really didn't see any resemblance between the two.
"When did Cheng Cheng go to bed?" the other party asked.
Teacher Xiaoliu said: "At half past ten."
"Then wait a little longer and let her sleep a little longer."
Teacher Xiaoliu said: "Go over there and sit for a while."
Zhang Tan saw the other party walking away and asked Teacher Xiaoliu: "Is Xiaobai sleeping?"
Teacher Xiaoliu shook his head: "I'm reading picture books on the first floor and don't want to sleep."
She is really a night owl. All the other children are sleeping, but she is the only one who doesn't sleep.
Zhang Tan did not immediately go downstairs to find Xiaobai, but went to Aunt Huang's office.
The door was open, and the light spread all the way to the corridor. Aunt Huang was wearing glasses and looking at the computer. Zhang Tan knocked on the door, attracting her attention and said, "Aunt Huang, are you still busy?"
When Aunt Huang saw it was Zhang Tan, she took off her glasses, let him in, and asked, "Are you still awake?"
"Come down and see everyone." Zhang Tan sat down and said.
Aunt Huang looked at the clock hanging on the wall and said, "This is the peak time for parents to pick up their children. It's almost over after 12 o'clock."
She continued: "I heard that you have been here to help these days. You should go to bed early. You have to go to work the next day. Unlike us, it doesn't matter if you sleep a little longer tomorrow."
Zhang Tan smiled and said: "It's okay, I just want to understand the operation of the academy. By the way, I want to see Xiaobai's file. Do you have it here?"
"File?" Aunt Huang was a little surprised and didn't understand why Zhang Tan wanted to see this. This is confidential, but he is the boss and is not subject to confidentiality.
"Yes, I'll find it."
She got up and walked to the filing cabinet behind her desk, opened the lock with the key, rummaged for a while, pulled out a copy, and handed it to Zhang Tan: "This is Xiaobai's."
Zhang Tan took it in his hand, untied the rope on the document bag, and pulled out a document.
Name: Bai Chunhua
Gender: Female
Age: 4 years old
Birthday: December 1
Birthplace: Chengdu, Sichuan
Family situation: Adopted by uncle Bai Jianping and aunt Ma Lanhua
Address: No. 1035, Huangjia Village, Pujiang City
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After Zhang Tan finished reading, he sighed softly and asked, "Where are Xiaobai's parents?"
Aunt Huang looked a little unbearable and said: "It's not written in the file, but I talked to her aunt, and she said that Xiaobai passed away when she was a few months old, and there was only one grandma in the family. She was old and couldn't take care of her on her own.
She was left to them to raise. They came to Pujiang to work at the beginning of this year, and Xiaobai followed."
Zhang Tan asked again: "What do her uncle and aunt do?"
"One of their fellow villagers works as a contractor on a construction site here, and both of them work on the construction site. They set up a stall on the street at night to sell small things." Aunt Huang said, "The life of adults is not easy.
"
Zhang Tan nodded: "Yes, it's not easy."
Aunt Huang asked: "Why do you suddenly want to see Xiaobai's file? What's wrong with her?"
"It's okay, I just think this kid is very special. I'll return the file to you. If it's okay, I'll go back first." Zhang Tan reinstalled the file and returned it to Aunt Huang.
"Okay, you should go to bed early and don't stay up late." Aunt Huang warned without asking any more questions.
Zhang Tan left the office and saw Meng Chengcheng's father leaving the academy with the child in his arms.
"Bye, see you tomorrow~"
There was a child standing under the eaves to say goodbye to them. Meng Chengcheng's father turned around after hearing this, smiled and waved, not only to say goodbye, but also to tell her not to say goodbye and go back to rest.
It was the little white children's shoes that refused to sleep that I was saying goodbye to.
Zhang Tan came down the stairs. Xiaobai heard the noise and looked back, his eyes lit up: "Uncle is here, tell me a story."
I told her about the field mouse Afo last time, and she remembered it.
The child rushed to find a picture book. Zhang Tan went over and said, "It's time for you to go to bed. Aren't you sleepy?"
Xiaobai stood on tiptoe and quickly found "Vole Buddha" from the bookshelf. He held it in his hand and gave it to Zhang Tan. His little face was dark and his eyes were bright: "Xiaobai is not sleepy. Uncle, please tell me a story."
,I thank you."
Zhang Tan was about to refuse, but found that he had already taken the picture book in his hand!
Forget it, I’ve answered them all, let’s just talk about one. The kid in front of me looks full of hope, like a little puppy.
"Then I'll just pick one to talk about? Or should I tell you which one do you want to hear?"
Xiaobai stood on tiptoe, pointed at the opened picture book, and said, "I want to hear this, this, this, and this..."
Seeing this, Zhang Tan quickly said: "Forget it, stop talking, I know you want to hear everything."
"Goose goose goose" Xiaobai's laughter turned into a goose cry again.
Zhang Tan asked her to sit down and agreed that she must go to bed after listening to a story.
Xiaobai agreed.
At this time, I felt like she would agree to whatever I asked her to do.
Dogs are the most ferocious when they are eating, but dogs are the most talkative before eating.
Zhang Tan decided to test her, pointing to the cover of the picture book, which contained the four words "Fire Mouse Buddha", and asked her: "Do you know what these words are?"
Last time, Xiaobai said that she was illiterate. Zhang Tan didn't believe it at first, but after looking at her file just now, I learned that she didn't even go to kindergarten!
Maybe, she really hasn't started to read yet.
"Windmill Che Afoerthi, I'm not a country dog." Xiaobai said angrily.
"This is a field mouse, not a windmill." Zhang Tan said.
Xiaobai argued: "This is a windmill."
Zhang Tan thought to himself that it was probably the difference between Sichuan and Mandarin. Forget it, let's assume she knew him. It seemed like she still knew a few words.
Zhang Tan turned to a page of content, pointed at a line of words, and continued to ask her, testing to upgrade.
"Then how do you pronounce this sentence?"
Xiaobai stared at it for a long time and smiled without saying a word.
"What's the matter? Just smile and don't speak? Do you know how to pronounce these words?"
Xiaobai shook his head.
"You don't know these two words either?"
Zhang Tan asked, pointing to the word "Afo".
Xiaobai stared at it very seriously, looking at the words and Zhang Tan. It was difficult to understand why she must know these two words based on his tone?
Shaking his head, he still didn’t recognize him.
Zhang Tan said: "It turns out you were blinded just now."
These two words are "Afo".
Zhang Tan judged that Xiaobai's shoes were covered just now, and the title of the book was easier to cover.
"What?!"
Xiaobai was very unhappy when Zhang Tan said that she was blindfolded.
"What are you instigating?? You instigate it again and let me hear it clearly."
It seems to be a prelude to going crazy, but the next second may be a bunch of Sichuanese trolls.
"It's okay, I'm not talking about you, let's tell a story, Field Mouse Afo, this day, he met a cat..."
Xiaobai was shocked.
"What? Fake sophistication? He's a fairy, the windmill is dead~"
It's okay when a mouse meets a cat.
Zhang Tan: "..."
The windmill had already given him a headache just now, and now there is a fake sophistication coming out. What the hell is this? I don't understand it at all!
But, Immortal Banban, he understood!
Zhang Tan stared at Xiaobai and said nothing. Xiaobai also looked at him innocently, wondering why he was mute, and urged: "Uncle, please continue talking."
Zhang Tan: "Don't think that I can't understand what you said. Children should not use swear words."
"Oh, I have to have it~" Xiaobai said, and then muttered: "I'm very popular."
Zhang Tan heard this and asked, "What did you say?"
"It's so good, I'm such a good boy, why would I say dirty words? You must have heard me wrong. You need to clear the wax out of your ears."
"...Can you speak Mandarin?"
"Okay uncle, Xiaobai is a good baby."
Xiaobai sat upright and acted like a good baby.
Zhang Tan kept "very popular" in mind. If there is fire, it is the sun. The sun is also called day. Well, it is probably a curse word. I will definitely look up what it means online later.
No! I can’t wait to go back and check now!
He took out his mobile phone and checked online. Fortunately, it was very troublesome to be careless.
Xiaobai stretched out his little head curiously and looked at the screen of his mobile phone.
Zhang Tan put his cell phone away, you've escaped a little, little white kid's shoes.
It took less than 5 minutes to finish telling another story about the field mouse Afo to Xiaobai. He took her back to the dormitory to rest and urged the children to lie down on the crib.
She rolled around on the small bed, raised her upper body, and said to Zhang Tan: "Uncle, let me tell you something."
"What?"
"Come here and get some tea, put your ear over and get some tea."
Zhang Tan put his ear closer.
"My aunt is coming to pick me up. I'm sleeping."
Zhang Tan: "..."
He looked at Teacher Xiaoliu, who suppressed a smile and nodded.
