European and American Style Liaozhai

Mrs. Hill quickly covered her mouth after screaming, because she saw clearly that it was not the scary woman standing at the stairs, but a cute little boy with black hair, yellow skin, and obvious Asian features , he stared at her with wide eyes, without any expression on his face, looking like a lifeless oriental doll.

To be honest, this appearance is a bit scary, but it is only a little boy after all, and he looks so cute, so Mrs. Hill quickly controlled her emotions.She walked forward a few steps slowly, and said to the child in slow English: "Hi, I'm the new nanny Hill, can you understand English?"

The little boy didn't speak, but just stared at Mrs. Hill with those big dull eyes. Mrs. Hill grabbed the snack packaging bag on the table a little uncomfortably. She really couldn't bear the look in the child's eyes.

But she must ask who this child is, because she remembers that there is no such child in the information of Tokunaga's family. There are only four people in Tokunaga's family. Ma'am, there are no children.And Mrs. De Yong didn't tell her just now that there is a child in the family who needs to be taken care of, so he has to find out the identity of the child. If it belongs to the De Yong family, she has to take good care of him. If he is not a child of the De Yong family, Instead, he ran over from the neighbor's house, so she had to send the child home, anyway, she couldn't let him just stay like this.

"Are you a child of the Tokunaga family? Can you tell me your name?" Mrs. Hill tried to communicate with the little boy as slowly as possible. She was not sure whether the little boy could understand English, So when I speak, I also use some gestures.

It is not the first time that she has encountered a language barrier with her employer. The United States is a country with a large number of immigrants. As a nanny, they can meet people from many different countries. Although most of them have basic English communication skills before coming to the United States, But there are indeed some people who can only say YES and NO. Of course, you can't expect a nanny with no education to speak many languages, so they can only use some gestures for work.

Probably Mrs. Hill's hand and foot gestures were a bit ridiculous. The little boy finally had a little reaction. He blinked and said to her in English: "My name is Junxiong."

As long as the child can speak English, Mrs. Hill breathed a sigh of relief and continued to ask, "Junxiong, do you live here?"

Junxiong didn't answer, but nodded, proving that he really lived here.

But Mrs. Hill didn't believe him easily, because there was no trace of the child's life in this house. If the child lived here, there would be some traces left, but there were none here.

According to Mrs. Hill's experience, if there are children living in a family, then you can definitely find children's toys or their snacks in the living room of this family, but this living room is full of garbage and sundries, but there is no The same belongs to children.

However, it is not ruled out that the child came here today, so Mrs. Hill continued to ask: "Toshio, if you live here, is Mrs. Tokunaga your mother?"

Toshio looked at Mrs. Hill, then shook his head slowly after a few seconds.

Seeing him shaking his head, Mrs. Hill couldn't help but frowned, and asked patiently: "Junxiong, if Mrs. Deyong is not your mother, then are you and the Deyong family?" What's the matter?"

Mrs. Hill asked while looking at Toshio’s face, trying to find traces of Tokunaga’s family from Toshio’s face. If they are relatives, there should be some similarities in appearance. Blood relationship is very magical, no matter how old it is in appearance. As long as it is a relative, you can definitely find something similar on the face.

This is also Mrs. Hill's life experience after experiencing so many employers, but this time she can't find the similarity.

And Junxiong didn't answer Mrs. Hill's question this time either. He didn't speak, shook his head or nodded, just waited to look at Mrs. Hill with big eyes. Live a little hairy.

No one spoke for a while, and the house was very quiet, only the rustling of the leaves outside was suddenly blown by the wind, and the atmosphere suddenly seemed a little weird.

This house is really weird, everything is too weird, thinking of the figure of the woman she saw in the mirror just now, and the child who suddenly appeared in front of her now, Mrs. Hill suddenly felt a chilling feeling .

There was a feeling of retreat in her heart, and she couldn't help but started to retreat. She wanted to escape the house immediately, but at this moment, the door next to her was suddenly pushed open with a "bang" up.

This time, Mrs. Hill was so frightened that she almost jumped up, and at the same time looked to the side reflexively.

But this time it was not a strange person. It was Grandma Tokunaga, the old woman with Alzheimer's, who pushed the door open.She was wearing a set of messy off-white pajamas, the top was half torn open, exposing one shoulder, the pants were half-faded on her legs, and obvious yellow stains could be seen between her legs, and those things were still in progress down stream.

A stench suddenly hit her face, and Mrs. Hill couldn't help turning her head and retching, and then she saw Junxiong standing behind her reacted the same way as her.

In an instant, Mrs. Hill's sense of fear disappeared again. If it was a ghost, she shouldn't be afraid of the smell.The child must have not answered her just now because he did not understand her question, or because he was not talkative by nature.Besides, if it was a ghost, the child would look a little too cute.

The woman she saw in the mirror is more like a ghost, but where is the ghost in this world, that so-called woman is only seen by her eyesight.

Mrs. Hill quickly convinced herself again with reason. Although she was frightened again and again today, the three views established over the years cannot be collapsed in an instant. Even if the reason of dizziness is not convincing, she still chooses to believe this reason .

Most of the adults in this world are like this. As long as they have not been personally hurt, no matter what strange things they see or find strange things, they always choose to believe those unconvincing reasons, and they are not willing to believe There are indeed some special things in this world.

It might be ridiculous, but it doesn't mean that adults are stubborn or stupid, they make choices like this because they need to get on with life.Children can hide when they are scared, but adults have nowhere to hide, they need to get on with their lives, so they can only convince themselves that there is nothing in the world that they are afraid of and want to hide in the house.

Nothing strange happened in the following time. After cleaning all the rooms, Mrs. Hill rubbed her waist and sat down on the sofa in the living room while the washing machine was working, preparing to go upstairs to clean up after a short rest. .

The place where Tokunaga's house needs to be cleaned is actually downstairs. Mr. and Mrs. Tokunaga pay more attention to safety and do not allow the nanny to enter the upstairs room, but they will dirty the garbage in the room and the bedding that needs to be changed. Clothes and everything were piled upstairs in the bathroom and the small living room.Mrs. Hill packed a lot last time, and this time she believes there will be more. Because of Susan's unexpected death, there has been no one cleaning here for two days. One can imagine how many dirty clothes will be piled up.

But even if it was a rest, Mrs. Hill couldn't sit with complete peace of mind, because during her work, Junxiong had been following her all the time, and now he was standing on the edge of the small sofa and staring at her.Although she knew that the child might just stare at her because she thought it was interesting to work, it still made her feel that the child was monitoring her work.

Mrs. Hill wiped the glass on the coffee table with a rag, and put down the rag after making sure that it was as clean as new. She looked at Junxiong helplessly and said, "Junxiong, it's getting late now, are you tired, do you want to go to bed? for a while?"

Junxiong didn't answer, neither shook his head nor nodded, just watched Mrs. Hill's eyes widen, as if saying that he was very energetic and didn't want to sleep at all.

Mrs. Hill no longer finds Junxiong intimidating, but she feels helpless because the child has not said a word other than "I am Junxiong" this hour, and sometimes even shakes his head and nods. They are all stingy, so she really doesn't know how to communicate.

Mrs. Hill had to think that the child might have autism. When she accompanied Cole to see a doctor, she had met several children with this type of mental illness. Now that she thought about it, some of their symptoms were indeed similar to Toshio’s. So although she felt helpless, she was a little more patient with Junxiong than before.

Seeing that Junxiong didn't want to sleep, Mrs. Hill asked: "Then Junxiong, do you feel hungry? Do you need me to make something for you? My craftsmanship is pretty good."

Junxiong was probably really hungry, but this time he responded. He said to Mrs. Hill in a robot-like voice, "I'm hungry, I want to eat."

As he said that, Junxiong touched his stomach with both hands, it seemed that he was really hungry.

"Okay, then I'll make you something to eat." Mrs. Hill was never hungry for her children, and when she heard Junxiong say that she was hungry, she immediately stood up and walked into the kitchen regardless of the soreness on her back.

But there was nothing to eat in the kitchen, and Mrs. Hill couldn't find anything in the refrigerator except eggs and ham sausage, so in the end she could only make two fried eggs and two fried sausages for Junxiong.

"There's only this, Junxiong can bear with it now, can you eat these?" Mrs. Hill discussed with Junxiong after bringing up the plate. She knew that it didn't look like dinner at all, but it's hard for a smart woman to cook without rice, and there is nothing in the refrigerator. She can't do anything.

Junxiong didn't raise any objection to this breakfast-like dinner. He sat down on the stool obediently, and then looked at the food on the plate, looking like he wanted to start it, but he didn't know why he didn't start it. eat.

"Junxiong, eat quickly, it won't taste good when it's cold." Mrs. Hill said.

Junxiong still didn't move, but his mouth was deflated, and he suddenly looked like he was about to cry.

Mrs. Hill was very surprised. Just as she was about to do something about him, the outside door was pushed open, and Mr. and Mrs. Deyong came back.

The author has something to say: Junxiong hiding under the table is really cute!