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Chen Shuhua, who was actively feeding himself, felt a warm current rushing to his heart.

After feeding dinner, Chen Shuhua wiped Li Xiaoyu's mouth clean, looked into those big black grape-like eyes, and said, "Little brother, my name is Chen Shuhua, you can call me Brother Xiaohua."

Li Xiaoyu tried his best to distinguish Chen Shuhua's words, and secretly complained that the dialect here was difficult to understand.

Born in Beijing in 1975, he immigrated to Los Angeles with his parents when he was 1 year old. Although he speaks English as his mother tongue, he can also speak Mandarin fluently.

If everyone here spoke Mandarin, he wouldn't be hearing impaired.

"I don't know your name, and you can't speak, so you can't tell me. How about I give you a name so that I can call you later, okay?" Chen Shuhua looked at Li Xiaoyu and said, "Are you I picked it up from the snow, and it was my birthday again yesterday, so I might as well call you 'Xuesheng'. What do you think?"

Li Xiaoyu couldn't understand what Chen Shuhua was saying, so he could only stare at him blankly.

"Xuesheng? Xuesheng! I will call you 'Xuesheng' from now on."

Chen Shuhua looked at Li Xiaoyu with a smile, very satisfied with the name he came up with.

He reached out and touched Li Xiaoyu's head, and called "Xuesheng" over and over again in a crisp, childish voice.

The more he yelled, the happier he was, and the more he yelled, the more he felt that Li Xiaoyu was kind, and the last one was so happy that he giggled.

Li Xiaoyu looked at Chen Shuhua who kept laughing with a puzzled expression, he was at a loss.

Feeling the urge to urinate, Li Xiaoyu reached out to pull the diaper between his legs.

Although he is only an 8-month-old baby now, his mental age is nearly 36 years old, but he can't tolerate bed-wetting.

Chen Shuhua looked at Li Xiaoyu's movements in puzzlement, and asked tentatively, "Xuesheng, do you want to pee?"

Li Xiaoyu understood the word "shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh."

Chen Shuhua didn't expect that the little baby in front of him could really understand his words and respond to him, so he couldn't help being stunned.

Seeing Chen Shuhua standing stupidly with his mouth open all the time, Li Xiaoyu stretched out his hand anxiously to pull the other person's clothes, babbling and urging him.

Chen Shuhua smiled apologetically, and dragged over an old wooden basin leaning against the corner of the wall.

He picked up Li Xiaoyu, untied the diaper between his legs, let him lie in his arms, held his thighs with both hands and separated them, and supplemented by the sound of "shush" as a signal to defecate.

Chen Shuhua learned the posture and sound of urinating for the baby from Liu Chunhua.

Although it was his first time to practice, he did well.

Li Xiaoyu was embarrassed by Chen Shuhua's immature whistle, he moved his body awkwardly, closed his eyes, and completed the urination process as if evading.

After urinating, he felt that his vitals were being held by rough fingers, so he quickly opened his eyes to check.

I saw Chen Shuhua gently holding his little thing with his right index finger and middle finger to help him shake off the urine stained on it.

With a "boom", a fireball exploded in Li Xiaoyu's brain, and all the blood from his body rushed to his face.

He had never been so embarrassed since he could remember.

Thinking of all kinds of embarrassing things he would encounter in the future, he really hated the current state of being unable to take care of himself.

Chen Shuhua carried Li Xiaoyu back to the crib and helped him put on the diaper.

Seeing that Li Xiaoyu's face was as red as a ripe tomato, he pressed his forehead to the other's forehead worriedly, considering whether it was necessary to prepare a cold towel.

Li Xiaoyu faced Chen Shuhua facelessly, and kept his eyes closed to hypnotize himself: "Sleep...sleep..."

After all, it was the baby's drowsiness. After a while, he really fell asleep.

Looking at Li Xiaoyu's innocent sleeping face rosy in white, Chen Shuhua felt warm in his heart.

He gently held the baby's soft little hand in his palm, thinking to himself: "You must be my birthday present from my parents!"

Chen Shuhua now has an extra concern.

The first thing he did after returning to the orphanage after school every day was to visit Li Xiaoyu.

He would tell Li Xiaoyu what happened in school, and would take out his textbooks to introduce the new knowledge he had learned to Li Xiaoyu.

Although Li Xiaoyu couldn't understand Chen Shuhua's words, he always looked into the other person's eyes and listened carefully.

His performance gave Chen Shuhua great encouragement, and made this once taciturn child increasingly cheerful and talkative.

One evening, when Chen Shuhua was hugging Li Xiaoyu and teaching him to learn Chinese characters in Chinese textbooks, Liu Chunhua opened the door and walked in.

She leaned forward curiously and asked, "Xiaohua, what are you doing?"

Chen Shuhua looked up at Liu Chunhua, and replied, "I'm teaching Xuesheng to read."

"Oh, hello..." Liu Chunhua laughed and said, "How old is he, already he can read?"

"Xuesheng is so smart, he already knows a lot of words." Chen Shuhua said proudly.

"Impossible?" Liu Chunhua looked at Li Xiaoyu in disbelief.

She glanced at the book in Chen Shuhua's hand and said, "Xuesheng, what word is 'country'? Show me."

Li Xiaoyu sat motionless, thinking: "I'm not learning to read, but learning your dialect, so that I don't feel like listening to heavenly scriptures all day long. Don't you listen to the radio every day? How come no one can speak Mandarin? Even the texts are read in dialects!"

Seeing Li Xiaoyu sitting still, Chen Shuhua became anxious.

"Xuesheng, didn't I teach you just now? Don't you remember?" He pointed to the word "国" in the textbook and said, "This word reads '国', you remember what it looks like, there is a ' mouth', a piece of 'jade' inside."

Liu Chunhua shook her head with a smile, and said, "Xiaohua, Xuesheng is only less than 9 months old and can't read. Don't waste your efforts."

"He knows everything." Chen Shuhua said unconvinced, "'Guo' is new, so it doesn't count. He knows all the previous characters."

In order to prove his words, Chen Shuhua turned to the first page of the first-grade Chinese textbook, and said to Li Xiaoyu, "Xuesheng, you can point out 'big' to Mama Liu."

Li Xiaoyu still sat still, thinking: "If Liu Chunhua really knows that I know so many characters, it will be troublesome."

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3. Oath...

"You silly boy, why do you have to show off?" Li Xiaoyu educated Chen Shuhua in his heart, "You should keep a low profile, do you understand?"

How did Chen Shuhua know Li Xiaoyu's thoughts, he just asked anxiously: "Xuesheng, you don't remember 'big'? What about 'small'?"

Seeing that Li Xiaoyu didn't respond, he asked again: "You should know 'people', right? 'One' is also fine. Quickly point out 'one' to Mother Liu!"

Li Xiaoyu looked sideways at Chen Shuhua, whose face was flushed with anxiety, and said in his heart: "Silly boy, even if you are so anxious, I won't know how to read in front of Liu Chunhua. You'd better save yourself!"

The failure of the proof made Chen Shuhua feel very humiliated.

He looked up at Liu Chunhua, and when he saw the expression on Liu Chunhua's face, he was immediately angry and annoyed.

He threw away the textbook, put Li Xiaoyu sitting in his arms heavily on the bed, and said angrily, "What did you do? After teaching you for so many days, you can't even read a single word! Why are you so stupid!"

Li Xiaoyu looked up at Chen Shuhua who was standing upright, sighed secretly, climbed to the head of the bed and grabbed the wooden post to practice standing.

Seeing that Li Xiaoyu didn't pay attention to him at all, Chen Shuhua was so angry that he didn't fight anywhere.

"Xiaohua, you are wrong!" Liu Chunhua criticized a little harshly, "Xuesheng is only 9 months old, and he is not sensible, so don't bully him! The final exam is coming soon, you should study hard and strive for the exam." A good grade. From now on, Xuesheng will be taken care of by me. Don't waste your time on him!"

After more than a month of study, Li Xiaoyu can roughly understand Liu Chunhua's words.

However, he didn't react and remained busy with standing exercises.

Chen Shuhua glared at the indifferent Li Xiaoyu, and pouted his mouth in grievance.

He quickly picked up the textbooks on the bed, grabbed his schoolbag, and ran out the door with red eyes.

"This baby is so dumb, why are you angry with a baby who is less than 9 months old?" Liu Chunhua muttered, "If such a small baby can read, wouldn't it be a monster?"

Li Xiaoyu's heart moved, and he thought to himself: "If he didn't have that innocence, spirituality and stupidity, I would be suffocated here!"

Liu Chunhua found an old blanket that was patched and wrapped it up for Li Xiaoyu, and carried him into the kitchen.

Li Xiaoyu sat in the grass nest with the brazier below, watching Liu Chunhua and Xu Huifang work swiftly, and listening to them talking about family affairs in dialect, he was so bored that he fell asleep.

There is an old radio in the big room where old people and children live together, but the signal is not very clear, and the cries and noise of the children are too loud, almost completely drowning out the sound of the radio.

Li Xiaoyu is a person who likes to be quiet, although he really wants to learn about the outside world through the radio, but he still prefers to be alone.

In contrast, Li Xiaoyu actually likes staying with Chen Shuhua very much.

He likes the way the child happily tells himself, likes how he meticulously teaches him how to read, likes listening to him say silly things, likes watching him tease himself...

There are so many adults and children in the orphanage, and the person Li Xiaoyu feels most familiar with is Chen Shuhua.

In the past, Chen Shuhua chatted beside Li Xiaoyu, and more than a month passed quickly.

Now that Chen Shuhua is not coming, Li Xiaoyu obviously feels that life is boring and difficult.

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