Lao Li was sitting in the yard. The small coffee table beside him made a slurping sound. The aroma of tea came out. A mellow male voice sounded on the radio, announcing tomorrow's weather.
Lao Li was holding his mobile phone and was making a video call with his daughter who was far away from abroad, smiling broadly.
“Don’t worry, good girl, I’m fine. I just accidentally knocked myself and put a band-aid on it. It’s nothing serious. Don’t worry...”
Old Li babbled that he had a band-aid on his forehead. In fact, he did not accidentally hit it on himself, but was accidentally slapped by a branch when being chased by Dudu and Liuliu during the day.
Speaking of Dudu, Dudu’s parents came in from the gate of the academy and waved to him. He pointed to the classroom, which meant that Miss Zhao was in the classroom.
Dudu’s parents came outside the classroom. Instead of rushing in, they looked in through the window in the corridor to see how their dolls were getting along with the children.
Dudu can’t speak and is easily bullied.
Sun Dongdong touched Zhao Gongcheng and pointed to a certain corner. Among a pile of dolls, her Miss Zhao was sitting in it. Because she was too small, she was very inconspicuous.
They looked at the front of the pile of dolls. Cheng Cheng was telling a story and everyone was listening to the story.
Dudu was quite fascinated by what she was listening to, with her little chin raised, completely unaware that her parents were coming.
Zhao Gongcheng and Sun Dongdong watched for a while. Instead of rushing to take Dudu home, they found Teacher Xiaoliu and asked if Boss Zhang was at home. They wanted to make a special trip to thank Boss Zhang and brought some fruits and homemade snacks.
“Boss Zhang is on the third floor. He is at home. You can go up now. Do you want me to accompany you?” Teacher Xiaoliu said.
Sun Dongdong shook his head, thanked her, went upstairs with her husband, and knocked on Zhang Tan's door.
There was a click and it was Xiaobai who opened the door.
"Which one are you looking for?" Xiaobai asked, and then he remembered, "Oh, you are Dudu's mother and old man, where do you live?"
Sun Dongdong didn't expect that it was Xiaobai who opened the door and gestured to ask for Boss Zhang, but she met a silly child. Silly children can't understand sign language. After being stunned for a long time, she thought: "You are looking for Boss Zhang."
?”
Zhao Gongcheng took a deep breath, but he was so anxious. The student Xiaobai in front of him had not understood their sign language for a long time.
“Boss Zhang, Boss Zhang’s old man and his mother are here to find you.” Xiaobai turned around and shouted, but there was no response from the family, so she said to Zhao Gongcheng and Sun Dongdong, “Boss Zhang is shitting.”
Zhao Gongcheng: “……”
Sun Dongdong: “……”
“Come in and sit down.”
Xiaobai welcomed the two people into the house, poured them water like a little host, and asked them what TV they wanted to watch. If they liked "Windmill and Fake Sophistication"? If they didn't like it, she could change the channel.
Zhao Gongcheng gave her a thumbs up. Xiaobai laughed and asked in surprise that she also liked "Windmill and Fake Sophistication".
Zhang Tan came out of the bathroom at this time. Sun Dongdong stood up immediately when he heard the sound and looked at her husband beside her. Her husband stepped forward to thank Zhang Tan.
Within ten minutes, Zhao Gongcheng and Sun Dongdong left. Xiaobai leaned by the door to see them downstairs, and enthusiastically told them that Dudu was listening to a story downstairs.
After they left, he suddenly remembered and turned back to Zhang Tan and said, "Oh, I forgot to tell them that Dudu can talk."
Zhang Tan: "If you forget, forget it. Wouldn't it be better to let Dudu surprise them?"
Downstairs, Dudu was taken home by her parents. Her father carried her on a big horse. Behind her, at the door of the classroom, a little kid stood leaning against the door and watched them disappear.
Their home is not far from Little Red Horse, about 20 minutes' walk. It's summer now, the nights are cooler, and many people go out at night, just in time for a walk after dinner.
When she arrived at the community, Sun Dongdong saw that the small store was still open and the lights were bright, so she took Dudu over and gestured to buy two bottles of Little Bear drinks. She often buys here.
However, this time the store owner is not the original store owner, but a young man. He does not recognize Sun Dongdong and cannot understand sign language.
“What do you want? I can’t understand.” The young man said in confusion.
Sun Dongdong kept making gestures and looking for the little bear in the store, but didn't see it.
"What do you want?" the young man said, "I don't understand. Just come in and get it."
Sun Dongdong nodded and went to the refrigerator to look for a bear drink. Dudu looked at the young man and said, "Little Bear, we want a bear drink."
The young man suddenly understood and said with a smile: "It turns out I want a bear drink. My dear, you told me earlier that it is here, not in the refrigerator. I will come find it."
Dudu jumped happily and said: "Am I proud? I want three bottles of Little Bear, 666."
“Three bottles? That’s okay,” the young man said.
Dudu was still looking forward to the bear drink, but suddenly she found herself flying up. When she looked back, her father had picked her up and dropped her, so that she looked like a little lamb waiting to be slaughtered, facing each other.
"Where do you live?" Dudu said in confusion, struggling for a while, but couldn't get away, "Mom, please don't kill me, I'm a good baby, don't kill me~"
There was no point in calling her mother. Her mother also came over and touched her face from head to toe, as if to confirm whether this was her baby.
“Hahahaha” Dudu was not completely stupid. She guessed her parents because she could talk and was surprised.
“You are daddy.” Dudu said excitedly, “You are mommy.”
The biggest worry for the young couple Zhao Gongcheng and Sun Dongdong was not their work or how to find a job to make a living after retiring, but that their daughter could not speak, which really made them miserable. After thinking of various ways, they decided to send her to a primary school.
Red Horse Academy, let her play more with other children.
Now, it finally worked, and little Dudu can actually say mom and dad.
“Ouch~” Dudu suddenly covered her butt and looked at her mother with a pouted mouth.
Her mother spanked her.
Sun Dongdong had tears in his eyes, smiled and cried, and looked at Dudu tenderly.
“Excuse me, do you want some bear drinks?” asked the young man in the store.
Sun Dongdong raised his hand to wipe his tears, went back to pay, and went home with two bottles of Little Bear drinks. The family was happy. When they got home, the three sessions began. Dudu was arranged to sit on a small stool in front of her.
With mom and dad.
Her big eyes were moving around, looking at this and that, not knowing what her parents were going to do. She felt like she wanted to say something.
“Have you eaten?”
Zhao Gongcheng: “……”
Sun Dongdong: “……”
She shuddered and laughed.
She made gestures and opened her mouth to speak, asking Dudu to say more and say what he knew.
Dudu began to speak proudly.
“Xiaobai is a melon boy.”
“Cheng Cheng’s fart is black.”
“Liuliu is Fat Liliu.”
…
“My parents, I love you.”
This last sentence was specially taught to her by Tan Xier in the evening, and she was also told to tell her parents face to face.
Sun Dongdong suddenly couldn't hold back any longer and burst into tears.
Zhao Gongcheng put his arm around her shoulders, held her in his arms, and comforted her. At the same time, he was no better, with tears in his eyes.
