Precarious

Fu Nanyuan poured a glass of milk and carefully carried it to the study.

He is still only one meter tall, and it is a huge project for him to carry milk with one hand and open the door with the other.

He had to put the milk on the ground first, open the door first, and then bring the milk in.

However, just as the door was opened and he knelt down to pick up the milk, the door closed by itself. Seeing that the milk was about to be knocked over, Fu Nanyuan closed his eyes in fear.

But the sense of impact did not come.

"Why isn't Xiao Yuan still asleep?" A gentle voice came from above his head.

"Tomorrow is Saturday and I want to watch more TV at night. Mom, I'll give you this milk." Fu Nanyuan raised his head and handed the milk over and said obediently.

He watched helplessly, watching his mother drink the milk he brought him expectantly.

Jin Yujie stroked her son's fluffy hair and said with a smile, "Thank you, Xiaoyuan."

Picking up the cup and just about to drink it, the phone on the table rang.

She smiled apologetically at Fu Nanyuan, walked over to answer the phone: "Hello, um, the information is still being compiled..."

Seeing his mother put the milk on the table and picked up the phone, Fu Nanyuan felt a little lost and didn't make a fuss. He closed the door and climbed onto the sofa in the corner by himself, waiting quietly.

A few minutes later, seeing his mother hang up the phone, he climbed off the sofa and ran to the office desk.

Mom seemed to have forgotten about him, and started to work again, while Fu Nanyuan stood by the table and watched.

Only when Jin Yujie picked up the milk from the corner of the table and drank it did she realize that her son was still in the room.

She put down the work at hand and said softly to Fu Nanyuan: "Xiaoyuan, I'm afraid mom won't be able to tell you a bedtime story today."

Fu Nanyuan shook his head and comforted: "It's okay mom, Xiaoyuan knows a lot of words, you can read it yourself, mom's work is important."

Jin Yujie kissed her son's forehead, said with a light smile, "Xiaoyuan is the most precious gift God gave to mother."

Fu Nanyuan happily showed two rows of white teeth, and said, "Mom too."

Jin Yujie: "Okay, Xiaoyuan can play by himself, remember not to watch TV for too long, you must sleep before 09:30!"

Fu Nanyuan nodded, but did not leave.

"Is there anything else for Xiaoyuan?" Jin Yujie asked.

Fu Nanyuan asked expectantly: "Mom, are you free the day after tomorrow? My best friend Xiaofeng in kindergarten has a birthday the day after tomorrow, and he wants to invite me to his birthday party."

There is a case to be closed the day after tomorrow.

But looking at the obedient and well-behaved son Jin Yujie, he couldn't refuse at all.

Work a little more today and tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow should be able to free up time.

Jin Yujie pinched her son's chubby little face and said with a smile, "When I'm free, Mom will accompany you the day after tomorrow."

"Really?" Fu Nanyuan asked in disbelief.

"Of course it's true. When did mom lie to you?"

"Yeah! Long live mother!" Fu Nanyuan jumped up happily.

"Be careful, don't fall. Are you ready for Xiaofeng's birthday?"

"I've been ready for a long time!" Fu Nanyuan raised his chin proudly.

Looking at the happy Fu Nanyuan, Jin Yujie felt guilty because she was busy with work and hadn't been with her children for a long time.

The next day, Fu Nanyuan got up early, put on the most beautiful suit in the closet, and stepped on a stool in front of the bathroom mirror for a long time.

Glancing at the jingle cat watch on his wrist, it was almost eight o'clock, Fu Nanyuan picked up the bow tie on the bathroom table and ran to his mother's bedroom.

Jin Yujie just woke up when Fu Nanyuan knocked on the door.

Jin Yujie bent down and touched the top of Fu Nanyuan's head, and said with a smile, "Whose little prince is this, so handsome."

Fu Nanyuan smiled sweetly and said, "Ours." Then he stuffed the tie into Jin Yujie's hand: "Mom help me put on the tie."

"it is good."

Fully dressed, Fu Nanyuan fidgeted in the living room with a small schoolbag on his back. Every minute, he had to stand up and run to the study room to ask, "Mom, can we go?"

Not a moment's idle time.

Jin Yujie smiled and said, "Xiaofeng's birthday party doesn't start until 4 p.m., it's still early, how about we take a nap after lunch?"

"Okay." Fu Nanyuan pouted and said helplessly, the time passed really slowly.

After finally finishing his lunch, Fu Nanyuan excitedly picked up his small schoolbag. He wanted to tell his mother that he could go directly without taking a nap.

Jin Yujie received a call at this moment.

It's from the office.

"Lawyer Jin, there is something wrong with the materials here. It's very urgent. Can you come here now?"

"okay."

Looking at his mother's apologetic eyes, Fu Nanyuan had a bad feeling in his heart: "Is mom busy with work again?"

Jin Yujie nodded and said, "I'm sorry Xiao Yuan. Auntie doesn't go to work today. Mom will ask Auntie to take you there, okay?"

Fu Nanyuan pursed his lips and replied in disappointment.

Jin Yujie looked distressed, but there was nothing she could do.

"Then mom is leaving first, you are not allowed to open the door to strangers, you know? Mom came back and brought you your favorite Superman toy."

"Well," Fu Nanyuan forced himself to show a smile: "Mom, go slowly."

He knew that his mother was tired of taking care of him alone, and he didn't want to make his mother worry anymore.

Jin Yujie hurried out to the office and called her younger sister Jin Yuling on the way.

"Hey sister, what's the matter? Hey hey, don't touch the cards, I want to touch them!"

"How about playing mahjong?"

Jin Yuling: "Well, I have nothing to do and have a few rounds with the little sisters. What do you want, sister?"

"My office is temporarily busy. Xiaoyuan is going to attend his friend's birthday party this afternoon. Please deliver it for me."

"Okay, no problem, what time is it?"

"Send it around two o'clock."

"Okay, I'll hang up if there's nothing else to do."

"Ah."

Jin Yuling's fair face was covered with large and small turtles.

After hanging up the phone, she touched a card.

Her eyes lit up at this rough but familiar touch, and she slapped the card on the table.

"Touch yourself! All in one color! Draw a turtle, draw a turtle!"

My dear sister, you are really my lucky star, you changed my luck with just one phone call.

Jin Yuling put one hand on her hips and stepped on the stool to demonstrate to the sisters: "My sister's luck is here today, you just wait to become a big cat!"

"It's already two o'clock, why hasn't Auntie come here yet?" Fu Nanyuan rested his chin depressedly, and couldn't get through to her on his landline at home.

If we wait any longer, we will miss Xiaofeng's birthday party, and that crybaby will definitely cry because of it.

Auntie is really unreliable.

Fu Nanyuan heaved a long sigh, went back to his bedroom and opened his small gold cabinet, and took out a few big red bills and some small change from it.

Now I can only make my own car.

Fu Nanyuan walked to the bus booth with his schoolbag on his back like a little adult, and stopped the bus.

The driver is a warm-hearted aunt.

"How old is the kid this year? Where are your parents? Why do you come to take the bus alone?"

"I'm 8 years old, my mother has gone to work, and I'm going to a classmate's birthday party." In order not to be kicked off the car and sent to the police station, Fu Nanyuan wisely reported his age.

Driver: "It's so brave to take the bus alone, but children, for safety's sake, you should take the bus with your parents in the future."

"Understood, thank you, auntie." Fu Nanyuan revealed two cute dimples.

The driver's aunt's heart melted: "The kid sit down, and tell auntie when you arrive at the stop. Do you know which stop you got off at?"

"I know." Fu Nanyuan said.

He checked it on his computer when he came out.

There were other passengers on the bus, many of them with children.

One person said: "The parents of this child are really big-hearted. It is too dangerous for such a young child to let a person out to take the bus."

"Yes." Someone agreed.

Fu Nanyuan can't tolerate others saying that her mother is not at all.

He turned around and argued, "I'm already a man, and a man should ride alone, hmph."

That arrogant and angry little appearance made everyone laugh.

Fu Nanyuan got off the car on Meihua Road, and came to a nearby villa area.

He remembered that Xiaofeng told him that when he got off the bus, it was his family's community.

Fu Nanyuan peeked inside the gate, and found that the houses inside were very big, completely different from the residential complex he lived in, but very similar to the villas in the magazines, he frowned and murmured: "So Xiaofeng said He’s not bragging about having a swimming pool.”

He took out the invitation card with the address written on it from his pocket, looked at the address on it and looked for it in the villa area.

Because of his short height, the gatekeeper of the gazebo at the door did not see it.

Fu Nanyuan walked for a long time and still couldn't find Xiaofeng's house.

He searched around, and the largest number was 356, but he couldn't find the number 521 of Xiaofeng's house.

He had to find someone to ask the way.

"Cough cough cough" In the quiet villa, there was a sound of a child coughing.

A tall and slender woman ran over with a small cloak embroidered with a butterfly pattern in her hand, with a sad face: "Xiao Xun, come, put on more clothes."

"I don't want to wear girls' clothes!" the little boy strongly refused.

The little boy was Lu Xun. He was white and soft, with eyes like two black grapes. He was wearing a lace princess dress, with shoulder-length hair and an oversized bow ribbon pinned to it.If you don't speak, you look like a girl.

"Xiao Xun, today is the last year. Next year, Xiao Xun will not force you to wear whatever she wants." Chen Lingfei persuaded.

Lu Xun has been weak and sick since he was born. Every time he has a fever, he has to walk through the gate of hell.

When Lu Xun was five years old, he had a high fever and the doctors were helpless.

In desperation, grandma invited Taoist priests to do it. I don't know if the medicine or rituals worked. Lu Xun's illness suddenly healed.

The Taoist said that Lu Xun was haunted by ghosts and ghosts, sucking his energy, so he was always sick. As long as Lu Xun was raised as a girl, the ghosts and monsters would not be found. Over time, Lu Xun's physique would be cured.

In the past, Chen Lingfei would never reply to the Taoist's words, but after Lu Xun's high fever subsided, she was dubious.

With the mentality of giving it a try, she coaxed her son to put on her daughter's clothes. Unexpectedly, it was really effective. Since then, Lu Xun fell ill less often.

Chen Lingfei also thought that it might be the reason why Lu Xun's resistance increased with age.But as soon as he was dressed in boy's clothes and raised as a boy, his body deteriorated again.

So Chen Lingfei decided to obey the Taoist priest and raised her son as a girl for three years.

"I don't want it!" Lu Xun pushed Chen Lingfei away and ran out the door, tears falling like a string of pearls.

He is obviously a boy, so why did he wear girls' clothes? Because of this, the classmates in the school laughed at him and called him a sissy.

"Xiao Xun!"

Lu Xun automatically blocked his mother's voice and ran around aimlessly. He wanted to turn back into a boy instead of a girl. Even becoming a homeless man was better than being a girl at home.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" the person who was running and the person who was looking at the invitation bumped into each other.

"How do you walk!" Lu Xun blamed in a very bad mood.

In Fu Nanyuan's heart, it is clear that you ran into me on the way.

But seeing that the other party was a girl, Fu Nanyuan took the initiative to help Lu Xun up out of a gentleman's demeanor, and apologized: "I'm sorry, miss."

Lu Xun immediately blew up when he heard this, and shook off Fu Nanyuan's hand but said, "You are the young lady, and your whole family is all young ladies!"

Fu Nanyuan was slightly stunned, he didn't expect such a cute girl to have such a bad temper, but she was really like the little rabbit in my aunt's house, who looked obedient on weekdays, but when she robbed it, she became fiercer than a little tiger.

Thinking of this, Fu Nanyuan showed a sweet smile.

If you can't call me little sister, let's call her little sister. Girls seem to like to be called smaller.

He remembered that when he and his aunt went to the amusement park, a child called her auntie, and she got angry, grabbed the child by the collar and called her sister.

Fu Nanyuan: "I'm sorry, little sister."

Lu Xun was so angry that he turned into a puffer fish, and gave Fu Nanyuan a hard look.

Fu Nanyuan blinked innocently, the little sister was already very small and couldn't be any younger.

"Open your eyes and take a good look, I'm a man..." Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by a voice from a distance: "Xiao Xun!"

Lu Xun got excited, pulled Fu Nanyuan to hide behind the green belt, and warned fiercely: "Don't make any noise." Through the gaps in the bushes, he carefully watched his mother's figure.

Fu Nanyuan squatted beside Lu Xun, blushing thoroughly, it was the first time he held hands with someone.

Seeing the back of his mother walking away, Lu Xun let go of Fu Nanyuan's hand and stood up, saying: "I will never go back again."

"Is that your mother? She looks worried." Fu Nanyuan said.

"She's not worried about me!" Lu Xun retorted, if he was worried, he wouldn't force him to wear girls' clothes.

Fu Nanyuan: "My mother said that every child is a big baby sent to mothers by angels. No mother would dislike her child."

"Hmph, what do you know, you little brat." Lu Xun put his hand in and turned sideways.

"You're just a little bit taller than me. I'm a brat and you're a brat too." Fu Nanyuan said with reason.

Lu Xun was choked and speechless. Although he was eight years old due to physical reasons, his height was about the same as a five-year-old kid.

He became angry from embarrassment: "Then I am older than you and know a lot more than you."

"Okay, okay, you are older than me and know more than me." Fu Nanyuan coaxed Lu Xun like a little adult, and then said: "Xiao Tao who lives upstairs is also a girl, she likes to play with Barbie dolls very much, but she Mom always asked her to practice the piano. She was very unhappy, so she ran away with the Barbie doll, and was finally caught by the police uncle. I think you also ran out because you didn't like the homework assigned by your mother, so you should hurry back Home, or the police uncle will take you away."

Lu Xun rolled his eyes and said, "Who are you scaring? The police uncle only arrests bad guys, not children. You mean that Xiaotao must have been sent home by the police uncle in the end."

Fu Nanyuan looked at Lu Xun adoringly: "How do you know that!"

Lu Xun snorted arrogantly: "I'm no longer a three-year-old kid like you, of course I know."

"I'm not three years old, I'm five years old." Fu Nanyuan clarified.

Lu Xun: "Hmph, almost."

"By the way," Lu Xun looked Fu Nanyuan up and down with his chest in his arms, and asked, "Whose child are you from? I don't think I've seen you before."

He would pass the kindergarten in the community every day on his way to and from school, as if he had never seen this face before.

Fu Nanyuan took out the invitation and said, "I'm not from this community. I came here to attend my best friend's birthday party, but I got lost."

Lu Xun glanced at the invitation: "No. 521, Bishuijiangyuan, Huamei Road." He emphasized, "The above is Huamei Road."

Fu Nanyuan didn't understand, so: "That's right, Huamei Road, what's wrong?"

Lu Xun glanced at him with disgust: "We are here on Plum Blossom Road."

Fu Nanyuan: "Huh? Then I went wrong?"

"Otherwise. How stupid, I can't tell the difference between Plum Blossom Road and Huamei Road."

"Then how long will it take from here to Huamei Road?"

"It will take you an hour to walk like this."

"What about the car?"

Lu Xun: "Unless you call for a taxi, ordinary taxis won't come here."

Then we can only take the bus. Fu Nanyuan glanced at his watch, and it was already [-]:[-]. It took time to wait for the bus, and it took time to get on the bus. .”

Lu Xun glanced at him and said, "Hey, you're not going to cry, are you?"

"I didn't cry, I just felt a little uncomfortable."

Lu Xun: "Didn't the above say four o'clock, it's okay to be a little late."

"But I promised Xiaofeng that I would arrive on time. My mother said that a good boy will do what he says, and if I am late, he will be a bad boy. Besides, Xiaofeng will be sad."

"You were late because you got lost, and you didn't do it on purpose. You're not a bad boy, and your friends will forgive you." Lu Xun comforted subconsciously.

Fu Nanyuan stared at Lu Xun and smiled.

Lu Xun glared at him: "Why are you looking at me?"

Fu Nanyuan: "Thank you, miss, for comforting me." Although the tone was fierce.

Lu Xun turned his head awkwardly, and said, "Who is comforting you? Hurry up and leave. The birthday party will be over in a while. Also, don't call me young lady!"