After becoming a chaotic daughter

Eggy... gone.

Going to school again tomorrow, sitting on the tatami, Nanako's little head was about to get into her schoolbag, and she couldn't find the faded ball she hid in her schoolbag on Friday night.

She flipped through her schoolbag and emptied out everything in the schoolbag, pencil case, writing pad, band-aids, small handkerchief, children's water bottle... a pile of scattered things scattered on the tatami mat, the schoolbag was upside down Upturned, but Nanako didn't see the ball that faded and turned white after being soaked in vinegar twice.

She didn't think about the egg for two days on the weekend, and she didn't know when it disappeared.

Looking at the messy things in front of her, Nanako hung her head and thought for a while, then turned over, slowly crawled to the side of Gogol who was watching TV, and tugged at his clothes.

"... Guoguoli."

"Ok?"

Sitting cross-legged on the tatami, with a glass of fruit juice on the small table in front of him, Gogol, who was watching TV with his head propped up, patiently shifted his gaze from the TV screen to Nanako, bent his eyes and smiled look at her.

Nanako looked at him with a small face paralyzed, tried to organize the words in her head, and asked slowly: "Have you seen the balls? The black, round ones...soaked in vinegar, Then, it turned white."

"Hmm~~~" Grasping his crossed legs with both hands, Gogol's body swayed from side to side, raised his fluffy white head, and said with a smile on the face of serious thinking, "Let me think about it." ...Did you see it~or didn't you~?...Oh, I don't seem to remember clearly~"

Japanese with a Russian accent sounds awkward, but Gogol will not choose to reduce what he said because of his strange accent. On the contrary, he seems to think that learning a new language is very interesting Things, every word he uttered sounded as emotional as performing a drama, and it made people feel that his thin and small body was filled with such a full spirit, it was simply incredible.

But Nanako didn't react at all to his tone. She said "Oh" slowly, scratched her hair, then crawled back slowly, and went to pack her small schoolbag.

After taking a shower, Luanbu wiped his hair and came out of the bathroom. He glanced at the TV in the room. What was playing on the screen was a recently hit evening detective TV series, which was said to be adapted from a new foreign novel. His works, whether original or adapted, have been widely acclaimed.

The protagonist on TV frowned at the message left by the deceased, and several supporting characters with different expressions stood aside, shouting loudly, whispering to each other, or remaining silent. It shows their distinctive characters and respective identities.

Luanbu grabbed a towel and stood in front of the TV for 2 minutes, wiped his wet hair carelessly, then tilted his head and yawned boredly.

"What's so interesting about this kind of boring thing? The murderer can tell it's the bald man in a suit at a glance. It's not interesting at all-change the channel. Tonight, the East ○ channel will show a movie by God, I want to watch that !” He ordered Gogol confidently, without feeling that there was anything wrong with his “spoiler” evil deeds.

After all, this TV series is really boring!The original novel might look a little better, but in his eyes, the acting skills of these actors are a little too bad, as if he wanted the audience to see who the murderer was at a glance.

It was exactly 09:30 when the movie ended, and Luanbu turned off the TV on time to drive the two little kids to bed.

After brushing her teeth, Nanako stepped on the small bench, ran out of the bathroom, got into the closet, and dragged out her quilt and small pillow.

The closet extends from the floor to the ceiling, and the interior is divided into three layers with partitions. The top layer is thick bedding and cotton clothes for winter, the middle layer is disorderly bedding and clothes for other seasons, and the bottom layer is Where Gogol slept.Nanako is too short to reach the middle tier, so her quilt is also placed on the bottom tier.

With great effort, she pulled out her futon and dragged it to the center of the room. Nanako lay down on the tatami mat and spread the futon with her short hands. Then she got up again and ran back to the closet. Get your own little yellow duck doll.

The little yellow duck doll was placed in the back of the closet. Nanako crawled into the closet with her head curled up, caught her little yellow duck, and tried to move back with all her hands and feet.

The closet is a bit cramped for adults but roomy for kids.Sitting in the closet with his pillow in his arms, Gogol slightly bent his golden eyes and moved to the side to make room for Nanako.There was no light in the closet, only half of the light coming in from the living room outside. He shrank his shoulders slightly and huddled in a dark corner, the gold in his eyes seemed to have turned into a dark color.

He watched Nanako grabbing the little yellow duck doll and was about to retreat from the closet. Suddenly, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, showing a strange-looking smile, and said in a light tone:

"That egg actually flew away."

His words were light and light, like a feather dropped by a bird when it flapped its wings and flew away, without feeling the weight at all.

"I saw it fly away from the window, just yesterday morning when we were going out, you forgot to close the window, didn't you? And then it flew away from the open window. Pure white eggs, in the morning It shone beautifully in the sun, like a jewel."

Nanako heard him speak softly, and he kept looking at Nanako when he was talking, his golden eyes stared at Nanako's dark and dull pupils, and there was a strange expression on his immature face, like "mature" and "mature" Pure innocence” look, the oddly pronounced Japanese seems to be singing a poem.

Nanako was holding the little yellow duck, half of her body was still in the closet, only her buttocks were outside.She looked at Gogol, thought about it seriously, and then said slowly with a firm tone:

"...I closed the window."

"No, you didn't turn it off." Gogol narrowed his eyes with a smile, and looked at her without blinking.

Nanako lowered her head and thought for a while after what he said, and after five seconds of thinking, she raised her little head again, and said with absolute certainty, "...No, I closed it."

She must have turned it off. In such hot weather, if you don't close the window, you will be burned to death by the sun, and the air conditioner can only be turned on after the window is closed. It is impossible for her not to turn it off.

"Okay, then it's closed." Gogol made a concession gesture. He sat cross-legged in the closet, leaned back against the wall, held a small pillow with cartoon patterns in his hand, and smiled. "But if it's closed, how did the egg fly out of the window?"

Nanako replied blankly, "It opened the window by itself and flew out."

"Hmm~ Can an egg open the window by itself?"

Gogol said in a questioning tone.

【...Then can an egg fly? 】

Nanako stared at Gogol with her dark, expressionless eyes, and her expressionless little face showed such meaning.

Gogol blinked his eyes, then showed a big smile, and said to Nanako in a light tone like a bird chirping in a treetop: "Why not? Flying freely in the sky like other birds— —Isn’t it the inevitable fate of the hatched egg? If so, what difference does it make if you learn to fly earlier and later?”

"..."

Nanako grabbed her little yellow duck, and with an unmoving little face, fell into deep thought.

She is thinking about a problem.

"Crocodile", or "turtle" - how do you say it in Japanese?

After thinking about it for a long time, she couldn't think of the Japanese words corresponding to these two animals. After all, she hadn't learned these two animals before, so she didn't learn them.

So Nanako showed a little confused look on her face.

Gogol put down the pillow in his hand, stretched out his hand and put it on Nanako's little head, and touched it lightly. There was a senseless smile on his young face: "...do you want to go [outside] 】? Маленькая собака?"

He uttered another strange sentence in Russian, which Nanako didn't understand, but only knew that it was a title referring to her.

Nanako shook her head at him without thinking.

"Why?" Gogol asked without changing his tone.

Nanako answered him without any ups and downs: "Outside... there is no air conditioner, it's so hot."

Gogol suddenly realized that something was wrong: "..."

The little boy's face showed a look of serious thinking, he thought for a while,

I found that what Nanako said seemed to be quite right.

After laying out his own quilt, he listened to the two little radish heads chattering, and stretched out his hands in disorder to pull the tail of the little dinosaur on the buttocks of Nanako's pajamas—yes, he bought Nanako a new summer-style little dinosaur Pajamas—playing on his authority as a "father", urged loudly:

"Nanako! Go to sleep!"

"Oh……"

Dragging her little yellow duck doll, Nanako crawled out of the closet, and then lay down in her little quilt, straightened the tail of the little dinosaur behind the pajamas, hugged the little yellow duck and closed her eyes .

The lights in the room were turned off by random steps, leaving only a small night light on the table.The air conditioner in the room made a slight roar of operation, other than that, the only sound left was the thin breathing of the three of them.

Nanako opened her eyes and stared at the extinguished chandelier on the ceiling in a daze. After a long time, she suddenly stretched out her short hand, moved to the edge of the quilt, and tugged at the quilt not far away.

"dad."

"Um...?"

"Won't Guoguo go to school?"

"Don't go..."

Nanako let out an "Oh" and was quiet for a while, and was about to fall asleep in a random step, when she suddenly heard Nanako calling him: "Daddy."

"Hmm... what are you doing..." Luanbu turned over, yawned lazily, and responded vaguely.

"...Guo Guoli said that eggs can fly."

Nanako said dryly, her tone sounded as dry as a dehydrated vegetable bag in instant ramen.

Ranbu: "..."

Gogol still asleep in the closet: "..."

"...Miss Yu Xie Ye will teach him how to read tomorrow!" Luanbu pulled her quilt, covered her little head, and said loudly, changing the subject with a strong tone: "Okay, so go to sleep now! Children who go to bed too late will have panda eyes when they wake up tomorrow!"

Another "oh", Nanako really closed her eyes this time, hugged the little yellow duck and went to sleep.

The author has something to say:

Nanako: Compulsory education, I can only help you get here

Gogol: ...

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【Gogol Translator】

Маленькаясобака→Puppy dog

If there is any mistake, it is all the fault of the translator [play stupid.jpg