bunny kid

It was getting dark, and I boiled hot water in the kitchen.We went home very early that day, and we had dinner early in the morning, and began to prepare hot water for the bath.That night was the third night that the boy stayed at my house. Although the snow had stopped long ago, the cold breath continued. It was too painful to be naked in such a cold weather, so it was not until that night that I realized Boil water for a bath.

"Little brother, come take a shower!" I yelled into the room, and soon, the boy ran over with his arms wrapped around him, wheezing.

Before that, I still worked hard.

"Little brother, let's take a bath together later." I said as I cleaned up the dishes.But he glanced at me, then shook his head, expressing his reluctance.

"That's not okay, it's been a few days, you stink badly." The boy frowned and shook his head again.

He is always like this, constantly testing my bottom line, but I am no longer helpless against him.

"I'll take a shower tonight. If you don't take a shower, don't want to sleep in my bed." When the boy heard this, he stared at me angrily, as if there was nothing he could do.

"It's a deal, I'll sleep on the bed tonight, and you can sleep on this hard, cold floor."

Throwing a decisive word, I turned around and prepared to boil the water. As expected, there was a shout of "Oh!", I immediately turned my head, and saw the boy nodded reluctantly. Being soft, although the method may not be good, at least the goal is achieved.

I suppressed my smile and pretended to be wronged: "Okay...then I have no choice but to continue to succumb to that floor."

In the almost empty bathroom, I put the hot water in the middle of the bathroom and let the boy sit on the bench.

"Your knee is injured, it may not be easy to wash, can I help you take a bath?"

The boy nodded shyly, and we began to undress him. After stripping off, I took a bath towel and soaked it in water, ready to scrub him.However, when I took a closer look, I was stunned, completely stunned, I was at a loss for a while, I thought it was only my thigh, but my whole body was covered with scars.Some are bruises, some are scratches, and it can be said that no piece of skin on the whole body is intact.

The boy turned his back to me, I couldn't see his face, and he didn't speak.And I couldn't say a word, but felt deeply heavy.

I pretended not to notice, picked up the towel and gently rubbed his back, for fear of hurting him.We wiped each other, rinsed off, and ended up, without saying a word, through the shower in silence.

The boy puts on the clothes I've prepared for him, the clothes I've been throwing away because I'm too small.Even so, it still looks big on him, the sleeves need to be rolled up several times, and the slender waist can't support the loose trousers at all, and can only be supported by the pelvis, "It seems that it will be revised. "I looked up and down and came to this conclusion.

"I'm on vacation tomorrow, let's go shopping for some clothes." I laid a bed on the floor and said, "Fortunately, it's winter now, so I don't need to wash clothes so frequently, otherwise it will be troublesome."

After blowing out the candles, I lay down on the bed, and a cold stream seeped down my back from the floor, making me shiver.It was like this all the time during those few nights. Although it was uncomfortable at first, I got used to it over time.However, that night, the scar on the boy's body has been lingering in my mind, I can't close my eyes, I always feel that once I fall asleep, I will throw it into the deep memory and bury it, but I don't want to do this.

"I'm glad you let me touch you." In a trance, an inexplicable sentence blurted out. "Do you remember that you were afraid of me at first? Now you can take a bath together. When I was a child, my brother and I often took a bath together. I actually wanted to wash with my dad, but he was always working and it was not good for us. Wen Buwen is a very serious and traditional father."

I glanced at the boy, and felt that the chatter could not stop once it started: "My father forced me to go to school when I was very young, can you believe it? Actually, I didn't like reading at first. I fell in love with it, so I feel that reading is forced out. But today I can't do such a thing to force you, because I don't know when you will lose control of your emotions. I always feel that you have been forbearing, and it hurts to watch. "

As he said that, he suddenly felt embarrassed, and couldn't help laughing awkwardly, "I don't know what's wrong with me, why I helped you, whether it's empathy or pure kindness...it doesn't matter which one, anyway, I I think the result is good. It would be even better if you gain weight slowly and gradually become willing to speak, but will you be dumb? If so, forget it.”

The boy remained silent, sleeping with his back to me.

"Did I tell you? I decided to let you live with me. Of course, the premise is that you have no place to go. If you decide to leave, you must say goodbye to me. You can't leave without saying goodbye. But, in fact, I I don't want you to go, I don't know what kind of past you have, no matter what you have encountered, it has passed. Now you can be my family and my brother, can you?"

Inadvertently, I glanced at him again, only to find that his body was shaking slightly, and the sound of sobbing and sniffing followed by my ears.I was so surprised that I immediately turned up and patted the boy on the shoulder. Before I recovered, he had already thrown himself into my arms.

"Woo... woo... waaaaah..." The boy cried bitterly in my arms, sometimes gasping for breath, sometimes continuing to howl, tears soaking my collar like a fountain.I felt very uncomfortable, so I could only silently wipe away the endless tears for him, saying the old-fashioned comfort of "it's okay, it's okay", and hugging him with a pair of not-so-strong arms, trying to make him feel as comfortable as possible. He feels warm.

The boy's crying couldn't stop for a long time, tired from crying, sleepiness gradually hit, and I don't know when he fell asleep lying on my chest.

When you close your eyes and open them, it's dawn.That night I fell asleep leaning on the head of the bed, and when I woke up, I saw the boy lying on my waist. I picked up the boy in a trance, put him in a good position and let him sleep on his back. Fully awake, had to get up and wash.

Not long after, I heard the sound of a boy getting up outside, and I immediately looked back, and then saw the boy who had just woken up sitting on the edge of the bed, his swollen eyes half-covered and narrowed, his sluggish expression showing a little fatigue.

I said: "Good morning." I turned my head away and continued to wash.

"Good morning." I was stunned and didn't react for a while, so I turned my head and looked fixedly on the boy. He was smiling. That was the first time I saw him smiling, like spring sunshine falling on the green land , the joy in my heart arises spontaneously.

I couldn't believe my ears. I was so overwhelmed with joy and surprise that I almost couldn't stand. I thought I was going to fall down. I stumbled into the room and started talking wildly: "You, what did you say just now?" ?”

"I say good morning." The boy was always smiling, happy and from the bottom of his heart.

"You can talk? Great! You can talk!"

The boy stared at his big round eyes, giggled and said, "Hahaha, brother, you are so funny."

"What did you say?" I seemed to hear a sentence that concerned me very much.

The boy looked confused, turned his head in wonder and said, "You're so funny."

"No, the previous sentence."

"elder brother."

A soft and waxy call hit my heart in an instant. I covered my heart and was so excited that I leaned back and forth, almost jumping up and yelling. The boy who was hanging aside looked at me with a blank expression on his face. I had no choice but to ask my concerns after I calmed down.

"Can I really be your brother?"

I couldn't hide my smile: "Of course, silly boy. It's really good of you to speak up."

It took a few days for Lin Zhi to resist me from the beginning, to finally open his heart and be willing to face me directly. However, at that time, it was just a kind of love for family.In fact, I also find it inconceivable that I would actually have family-like feelings for someone I have just met for a few days.Ah, by the way, this boy is Lin Zhi, and he took the initiative to tell me this name.

"Why didn't you ask my name?" He blurted out a question that seemed to be deliberately blaming.

"I don't want to force you, I want you to tell me yourself."

He whispered: "You are too careful, I am not used to people like you."

"Sorry, you don't like that, next time I..."

"My name is Lin Zhi." Before I finished speaking, he interrupted me, as if he didn't want to get entangled in this issue any longer.

"Lin Zhì? Which Zhì is it?"

"I don't know either, I can't read, that's what they call me."

"They?" As soon as I blurted out the words, I immediately regretted it. Lin Zhi has never talked about his past. That time, it seemed that he was also unintentional. Who they are is something Lin Zhi would never reveal.In order to take back what he had said, he had no choice but to immediately cover it up with another sentence.

"Then shall I get one for you?"

I took a piece of paper casually, wrote "Lin Zhi" on it, and said, "This is the sincerity, the love, and it also means that I hope you can become someone's love one day."

Lin Zhi raised his head and raised his innocent face: "Is it true?"

"Of course."

Lin Zhi picked up the pen and clumsily followed my strokes to write his name.I saw that he was focused, but he wrote crooked characters as expected.

"Want to read?" I saw his thoughts.

"Ah."

"Let me teach you at home." I remembered Lin Zhi's experience in school, "I don't want you to go to school."

"Okay, I don't want to go either." Although Lin Zhi's expression was as calm as if nothing had happened, I still couldn't let go of this big stone in my heart.

"Actually, what happened to you at the school yesterday?"

Lin Zhi frowned, kept his mouth tightly shut, and never answered me. He ignored the question as a matter of course, leaving me alone in a daze waiting for the response I couldn't get.

From the first snowfall in October to the blizzard in late November, the streets of Beiping were covered in a vast expanse of whiteness. Even if we diligently cleared the snow every day, we could not finish the continuous snowflakes.It's not that Beiping has never had a sunny day, but most of the time, the sky is gray, which makes people feel depressed.

I lived with Lin Zhi for a month. Ever since he broke into my life, I experienced the bewilderment at the beginning, and gradually resolved the barrier. After he was willing to accept me, I have returned to a regular life.After returning home from school every day, he served as Lin Zhi's teacher, teaching him to read and write.From the need to hold his hand to write, it didn't take long for him to grasp the pen and write in an orderly manner.Every day after I went to school, he would copy the copybooks at home.

I noticed Lin Zhi's progress in the copybooks that I had copied down, so I proposed another teaching method, "Lin Zhi, you already know how to write a lot of characters, right?"

"Ah."

"I think it's time to teach you how to write vernacular."

"Vernacular?"

"That's right, it's the simple and plain style we're talking about now."

"I used to teach the style of classical Chinese in the school. In fact, classical Chinese has been replaced by vernacular in this era, but as a teacher, I think it is necessary to know classical Chinese. It is the history and culture of our country for thousands of years. , Of course, at your age, just knowing each other is enough."

I grabbed the pen and wrote a stroke on the paper, "Now we are going to put together the words you have learned, and teach you some of the most commonly used phrases first."

I pointed to the words on it, said the simplest "hello" and "goodbye", and also said the basic words of dealing with people "thank you" and "sorry".

"This is the vernacular, which turns what we say into words."

I said it with my mouth and wrote it with my pen, and Lin Zhi followed suit, learning, practicing, and absorbing with his hands, mouth, and brain respectively. Over time, he was able to understand a lot of words, and he could also try to write sentences by himself.Although there are still many situations that require my assistance, seeing how enthusiastic he is about learning, I always believe that he will become a master in time.

The snowstorm in November dissipated suddenly without warning, and the cold winter in Beiping gradually warmed up. I thought that the bitterly cold days would never come again that year, but I didn’t expect that it was just a short clearing in the cold wave. .

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