Little Xixi was a bit late this time, because in the past, Little Xixi appeared at the human kindergarten gate when the kindergarten bell rang. But this time, when the kindergarten bell rang, she was still playing pretend house.
So when she ran over, panting, she saw that there were already no more parents at the kindergarten gate.
At this moment, Father Zhao, who was waiting behind the line, also saw Little Xixi.
Father Zhao: “Xixi, why are you sweating all over your head?”
Little Xixi nodded and said, “Dad...”
Father Zhao picked up Little Xixi and asked, “Did you have fun at school today?”
Little Xixi said happily, “It's fun!”
She suddenly remembered something very happy.
Little Xixi: “Dad, Dad, when I grow up, I will have a place to live when I move out!”
Father Zhao was a bit strange. Why did she suddenly say this? “Huh?”
Little Xixi: “Mom said that when I grow up, monsters will definitely eat me. In fact, I won't! When I grow up, I will move to the tiger cub's house.”
There is too much information at once.
Father Zhao didn't know what to say. He also remembered this sentence. When they took their daughter to a demonstration together, Little Xixi kept pestering them to sign up. His wife was too busy at the moment, so she said two sentences to Little Xixi, and then Little Xixi immediately burst into tears. And his wife spoke indiscriminately, saying that she only knows how to cry and that when she grows up, monsters will definitely eat her.
The first thought in Father Zhao's mind was that they always thought that such a young Zhao Xixi was unable to remember anything at all. But it was clearly something that Zhao Xixi could actually remember. Like she still remembers this thing.
Father Zhao thought for a while and said, “You don't need to move out when you grow up.”
“But Mom and Dad don't live with grandparents. I definitely can't live with mom and dad. Then I will live with Tiger Cub. He lives alone now, and the house is still big,” Said Little Xixi seriously.
Hearing this and from what Little Xixi said, Father Zhao only thought that this “Fu Zai” was a rich classmate in their class.
In fact, there is no need to take this kind of oath from a child seriously. As a child, everyone has various ideas about what they want to do when they grow up.
Although Father Zhao didn't care much for what Little Xixi said, after seeing her face, he quickly asked some more. So Father Zhao said very cooperatively, “Why do you want to move to live with Fu Zai?”
“Because Hu Zai (Tiger Cub) is my best, best, best friend, I'm super good with him!”
“When I move to (Hu Zai) Tiger Cub’s house, we can pick up wires and plastic bottles together, and then we sell them for money to buy fried chicken drumsticks together.”
Father Zhao had black lines on his head: “...”
Although knowing what a child will do in the future will always be weird, commonly other girls wishes are: "Be a princess! To Marry Prince Charming!" Or, "Be a model and wear beautiful clothes every day!"
But why did the style change when it became her daughter's and it turned into picking up trash?
Father Zhao's heart was bleeding, and his face was still flat, saying, “That's fine.”
After returning home, Father Zhao told Mother Zhao about the matter and finally said, “I recalled that she wanted to be a princess before, wearing beautiful dresses and living in an edible candy house, but now her wish has turned into picking up trash.”
Mother Zhao and Father Zhao have different opinions. She said, “Isn't that good? It's strange to get something from nothing. Now that she wants to be a self-reliant child, it means it's a good thing.”
Speaking of which, Father and Mother Zhao also realized that their child has really changed a lot.
The biggest change is that she doesn't like to cry anymore.
She used to really cry a lot, tearing up every time, but now, even if she had been spanked, the little girl didn't even cry.
Little Xixi was still in her room when she took off the Barbie doll's clothes and said as she took them off, “I'll put on this dress for you later. I want to use this dress.”
Father Zhao walked to Little Xixi and asked, “Xixi, why don't you like to cry now?”
Little Xixi raised her head and said a bit strangely, “If no one bullies me, then I won't cry.”
Father Zhao thought of the little boy in kindergarten and couldn't help but say, “But you used to like to cry at home, too.”
“Because...” Little Xixi thought for a while and said, “Because they bullied me at school, and when I was at home, you guys didn't want to listen to me, so I just wanted to cry.”
Father Zhao was surprised when he heard this; the sentence pattern was too familiar:
“Zhao Xixi, please be quiet! Mom and Dad had worked very hard already in the company. Why are you not obedient when you are at home? Mom and Dad are so tired!”
“Mom had walked a lot today, and I was so tired. I have to drive to pick you up, so I got even more tired. Can you be more obedient?”
Father Zhao never thought that children could have much trouble. Every day, they just had fun in kindergarten and then went home. How happy they were.
But at this moment, he suddenly felt that the child in front of him also had her own troubles.
Father Zhao touched Little Xixi's head and asked, “Did you have a hard time at school in the past?”
Little Xixi is not sad now, but honestly said, “Yes, they all pulled my hair, called me a little fat pig, and scratched my neck to kill the pig...”
Father Zhao thought of that scene and was stunned for a moment. He originally wanted to say why she didn't tell Mom and Dad, but then he recalled that she actually had said it, but they didn't think it was a big deal.
Little Xixi stood on the bed next to her and touched her father's head, who was sitting by the bed. Then she said, “It's all right now. I have a good friend, and no one bullies me anymore.”
She thought of the hard work of her parents and said, “You will get better too in the future.”
Father Zhao hugged his little daughter, as if something had hit his heart so hard.
He suddenly felt very sad. His daughter was unhappy at school, and when she returned home, she was being scolded for talking a bit too much...
When Father Zhao came out, he saw Mother Zhao, who was leaning against the wall outside, and shed tears.
Once this child was in her belly, she touched her belly, felt her heartbeat, and vowed in her heart to create the best conditions for her.
Then how did it become like this?
Her mind was filled with the pure and immature voice of her little daughter: "Because they bullied me at school, and when I was at home, you guys didn’t want to listen to me, so I just wanted to cry."
Father Zhao hugged Mother Zhao, then said, “Or... Give her fried chicken drumsticks.”
Today's dream is still talking about eating fried chicken drumsticks, which is something that you have to buy when you pick up junk.
Come to think of it, their little daughter will definitely feel very happy when eating it.
Mother Zhao thought for a while and said, “I heard from my colleagues that there is an air fryer that doesn't need oil to fry. It will be suitable for making these foods for children. I'll ask where she bought it.”
Although the air fryer was not ready tonight, Little Xixi could still eat fried chicken drumsticks!
Happiness is inevitable!
Not only that, Father and Mother Zhao also asked Little Xixi about her good friend Fu Zai.
“Hu Zai (Tiger Cub) is my deskmate. He doesn't like to talk, but he is very good-looking, and his ears are so comfortable to the touch!”
Father Zhao: “...”
Mother Zhao: “...”
“By the way, Mom and Dad, can I bring him two fried chicken drumsticks? He likes to eat fried chicken drumsticks too!”
Father Zhao: “This fried chicken drumsticks will be cold when you bring it to school tomorrow, and you will have diarrhea after eating it.”
But their daughter wanted to bring snacks to her good friend, which is a sign of her willingness to share. Of course, Father and Mother Zhao were willing, so Mother Zhao took two apples and said, “Why don't you bring two apples to your good friend?”
Little Xixi felt nauseous whenever she saw apples. She used to like apples very much, but after eating apples in school for more than a month, she felt dizzy when she saw apples now.
“No, we don't eat apples. We all like meat,” Little Xixi said.
“There is beef jerky at home. Do you want it?”
Mother Zhao said next to her, “When Mom buys the air fryer, I will fry the chicken, and you can take it to school to eat.”
Little Xixi smiled immediately, hugged her mother cheerfully, and said coquettishly, “Okay, okay, thank you, Mom!”
Little Xixi thought for a while and said, “Mom, I love you!”
Then she ran back to the room in embarrassment!
Mother Zhao froze for a moment, then happily prepared to go to the vegetable market to buy some chicken breasts, and came back with beef.
And at this moment, Zhao Xixi came out of the room again and said shyly, “Mom, can I go to the vegetable market with you?”
Mother Zhao tidied her hair, then said, “Okay, but it's impossible to run around, you know? You must hold Mom's hand, okay?”
Little Xixi nodded heavily.
The supermarket is within the community. When the family of three walked to the vegetable market, Little Xixi was still looking around.
Next to the pork shop is a teahouse, which is full of grandparents playing cards and mahjong. When they saw Little Xixi, their eyes lit up, and they stopped playing cards and mahjong and said, “This little girl is so cute!”
The old man next to him added, “It looks like you’ll have blessings. Do you want to eat candy?”
When Mother Zhao bought the meat, Little Xixi's pocket was already full of milk candies and melon seeds.
Little Xixi was a bit confused. She didn't understand why those grandparents gave her candy to eat. She couldn’t even refuse them, and they just kept praising her for being cute.
Although she also thinks she is quite cute, but...
When Mother Zhao came over, she was also surprised, but this group of grandpa and grandma didn't seem to be bad people; they were just old people who played cards and mahjong.
Mother Zhao couldn't tell Little Xixi not to eat the candies on the spot; she just thanked them and took Little Xixi away.
And after they left, the old monsters in the teahouse also fell silent.
“Hmm... I didn't guess wrong, right? That Madam is a member of The Anti-Monster Alliance.”
“Yes, she was even in the newspaper.”
“So... What are they going to do with their daughter in the cub-nursery kindergarten?”
“I don't know. There must be some conspiracy?”
“It shouldn't be so. The Tiger King must have known about this when he went to the cub-nursery some time ago. The Tiger King basically doesn't talk on the Internet. There must be a reason for saying something like that this time.”
“My great-grandson's friend was at the nursery, and I asked him to ask.”
So, that night, almost all monsters with Internet access knew one thing:It was a misunderstanding that the only human cub in the nursery had enrolled there, and that little human cub had pretended like she was still in a human kindergarten every day.
This matter really made a group of adult monsters and old monsters boil.
“So, this human cub actually likes us monsters, right? Otherwise, she must have gone back crying.”
“Of course, a human cub who had a dream to pick up rags when grown up; who can think of waiting for her parents at the human kindergarten next door every day so that she can stay in the cub-nursery kindergarten. She must like us monsters.”
“Cute human cub! I really want to pet her little pigtails.”
Although the relationship between monsters and humans has been very bad from ancient times to the present, monsters have worked hard to become humans. Even now, they are legally the same as humans, but humans are still rejecting them.
Although the monsters said that they are becoming more and more powerful in all aspects now and don't care about humans at all, there is a human cub who lives in an Anti-Monster family but still makes friends with monsters and secretly studies in the monster cub-nursery. In the end, this still hit the hearts of the monsters; it just hit their racial identity.
When Teacher Yu Lan read these comments at home, she didn't know how to describe her mood.
Then she saw a comment:
“My son is in the same class as her, and they are both students in kindergarten, but this human cub never talks to him. Whether she really likes monsters or it's a show, you can prove it yourself.”
Although Teacher Yu Lan doesn't like the fact that Zhao Xixi's affairs are making too much trouble on the monster's side, seeing this message made her feel a bit uncomfortable, so she left a comment below:
“This child really likes monsters, but it's true that she doesn't have a good relationship with other monsters in the class. It's because other monsters speak ill of her good friend Tiger Cub, and they don't play with him, so this human cub doesn't want to play with them either.”
“The teacher of the kindergarten has come out, so that means your son has excluded other monsters at school. As a result, the human cub couldn't stand it anymore. When this girl picks up trash in the future, I will throw gold! I hate discrimination the most!”
“That's right! We, the monsters, are also intelligent creatures. Because we differ from humans, they have excluded us for thousands of years. It is full of blood and tears. The current monster cubs are amazing; they have not learned about human virtues but have learned the trick to dissidents and excluded others!”
“It's really a group of monster cubs who have forgotten their origins! Our ancestors have worked hard for human rights for generations, but many humans have discriminated against them. And cubs nowadays also discriminate against each other!”
“This human cub is so tough! I like this human cub named Zhao Xixi!”
“You can like her, but keep it low-profile. If her parents find out that she is studying in the cub-nursery kindergarten, they will definitely not let her continue to study there!”
“I don't know if there is still a shortage of job vacancies in the cub-nursery kindergarten. I can be a teacher.”
The following comments were messy, and Teacher Yu Lan read a little more and felt so happy.
Because of the exclusion of monsters by humans, monsters have worked hard to integrate into human society for thousands of years. For monsters, even if they can now walk in the sun and even if hunting monsters is no longer legal, these histories are really dark for them.
It is really healing to have a human being who genuinely likes monsters from the heart.
Little Xixi knows nothing about what happened on the Monster Network. She sneaked to the balcony at night and called out softly, like all the nights before.
“Uncle Cat...”
“Uncle Cat...”
“Uncle with a cat at home...”
But today, Uncle Cat came out so quickly and soon arrived on the balcony, teasing Little Xixi in a low voice: “Did you go to pick up the wires and come back?”
This afternoon, when school was over, Little Xixi really went to pick up the wires. She didn't realize how Uncle Cat could know about this matter, so she nodded and said, Yes, she came back from picking up the wires.
Uncle Cat thought of how the other monsters on the Internet liked this human cub, and he liked her a lot too.
“Uncle, this is today's fifty cents.”
The next day, Little Xixi was going to see her father off at the gate of the community as usual and then go to the kindergarten by herself. But this time, Father Zhao, who had awakened the soul of a loving father, held Little Xixi's hand and said, “Daddy will send you to the school gate.”
He just wants to ask the teacher how Little Xixi is doing during this time and whether she has faced bullying from her classmates or not.
Little Xixi: “Dad, I'll go by myself. You are too busy to go to work.”
Little Xixi didn't know that she had entered the wrong school at first, but later she knew, and then she wanted to stay in the school. How good that school is!
Little Xixi whispered, “Daddy, Daddy, can I go by myself?”
“Father is not that busy today. I still have something to ask the teacher,” said Father Zhao.
Little Xixi: “...” At this moment, if I cried and told Daddy, I didn't want to study in this kindergarten but wanted to study in the cub-nursery kindergarten next door. Would Daddy agree?
Mom and Dad often say that monsters are bad, that monsters want to eat people, and that we can’t talk when we meet monster cubs, so they might not agree...
Little Xixi moved away when she walked. Her little head is full of various things. At one moment, she thought about how her parents scolded her for lying, saying that she was a bad child, and at another moment, she thought about how Tiger Cub would look at her, saying that he couldn't be friends with her anymore...
Little Xixi didn't know what to do. She noticed she had arrived at the gate of her former kindergarten, and there were several teachers picking up the students at the gate. Little Xixi almost forgot to greet the teacher because this was her former teacher.
One teacher walked towards them, smiled politely, then said, “Good morning, Little Xixi; good morning, Zhao Xixi's father.”
Xixi looked at the teacher pitifully and said, “Teacher, teacher, my father is too busy today. Let's talk to him later.”
She was especially afraid that the teacher would say, “Ah, Zhao Xixi is no longer studying with us.”
Father Zhao touched Little Xixi's head and said, “You child...”
Then Father Zhao looked at the teacher and said, “During this time, you have worked hard to take care of our Little Xixi.”
Little Xixi hurriedly took the teacher's hand and said in a childlike voice, “Thank you for your hard work, teacher. I will give you a thump on the back. Let's go in quickly!”
The teacher looked at the human cub, who was shrinking into a ball so nervously; then, with a smile hidden in her eyes, she hugged Little Xixi and said, “It's not so hard. Little Xixi is very obedient.”
While walking, she said, “Let's talk while walking.” The teacher's gesture while hugging Little Xixi, she sent Father Zhao out of the community.
Father Zhao naturally followed. Little Xixi was actually still nervous. She was not afraid of being spanked or scolded, but she was very scared that she would not be at the same table with the tiger cub anymore. She liked the current cub-nursery kindergarten.
The teacher touched Little Xixi's head, blinked at her comfortingly, and continued: “Little Xixi listens to the teacher very much at school.”
Father Zhao: “It should be. We, husband and wife, are afraid that she will be too active and affect the teacher's teaching.”
The teacher said, “No, we all like Little Xixi very much. She is the smartest child in our class.”
This praise made Little Xixi feel so embarrassed, and she whispered, “The tiger cub is the smartest, and the circles he draws are really, really huge.”
Father Zhao thought that the circle that Xixi was talking about was referring to the circle in the painting.
The teacher said, “If you have anything to do, you can call me directly. My number is...”
Father Zhao hurriedly wrote it down.
At this moment, he had already reached the gate of the community, and Father Zhao said, “Then my Zhao Xixi will trouble the teacher.”
The teacher said, “No trouble, no trouble. You go to work quickly, and I'm taking Zhao Xixi, this little girl, back to school, and I'm going to class soon.”
After Father Zhao got into the car, the teacher immediately lowered her head and said, “Little Xixi, let's go; let's go back to kindergarten.”
Little Xixi hummed, thinking that the teacher thought she was still in kindergarten.
So Little Xixi said so obediently, “Teacher, I'm so fat and so heavy, it's too hard to hug me. I'll walk there by myself.” In order to go to the kindergarten next door, Zhao Xixi is willing to admit that she is fat.
The teacher seemed to really believe it and put Little Xixi down, saying, “Then remember to go to the classroom yourself.”
When the teacher walked in front, Little Xixi moved slowly behind.
The teacher looked back from time to time and saw the little Xixi's speed as if she hadn't moved. The teacher suspected that if a tortoise were placed next to her, the tortoise would walk faster than the human cub.
But the teacher thought about why this human cub did this and felt as comforted as if she had been wrapped in hot water. What a cute human cub.
So the teacher said, “Little Xixi, I still have things to do first; you go slowly; don't fall down.”
Little Xixi smiled immediately and said, “Okay.”
When the teacher was out of sight, Little Xixi immediately ran towards the kindergarten next door. The child, who was slower than the tortoise just now, had turned into a little rabbit. It was unbelievable that the little shortleg could run so fast! As if there’s some monster chasing after her!
The teacher likes her more and more!
And when Zhao Xixi ran to the cub-nursery kindergarten next door, she made sure that the teacher would not see her anymore, and then she breathed a sigh of relief.
When she got close to the classroom, she saw the little tiger looking up at the door from time to time, and there were piles of... things on the table?
After Little Xixi approached, she found that on the table... there's a lot of fried chicken drumsticks wrapped in paper bags!
No wonder she smelled something good when she entered the classroom just now!
Little Xixi blinked: “Whose is this?”
Teacher Yu Lan also has a headache. It's a habit of monsters that if they like someone, whether a person or a monster, they must show it, as if they can suffocate to death if they don't show it!
So, early this morning, there were a lot of takeaways delivered to this school—that's fried chicken drumsticks!
The little brother who delivered the food thought that the school was going to hold some conferences.
The fried chicken shop was supposed to open at ten o'clock in the morning, but they insisted on extra money to make people work early.
Yes, if monsters are like someone but keep it hidden deep in their hearts, these monsters will definitely suffocate to death!
Regarding this matter, Teacher Yu Lan could only say, “It's yours, Zhao Xixi. This is the breakfast assigned by our school.”
Teacher Yu Lan looked at this pile of fried chicken drumsticks. In fact, she had rejected most of them. After she learned the identities of some notable monsters that she didn't dare refuse, she could only take them.
Sure enough, after becoming a kindergarten teacher, she learned nothing; she only learned to tell lies!
In the past, her former kindergarten also gave out breakfast, which was eggs and milk, so it didn’t surprise Little Xixi that the current kindergarten gave out so many fried chicken drumsticks.
She thought for a while and said, “I can't finish eating it alone. Shall we all eat together?”
She said that everyone would eat together, but in fact, Zhao Xixi's little hand desperately sent a lot of fried chicken drumsticks to the tiger cub's table.
“Okay, then let's eat together,” said teacher Yu Lan.
So a group of cubs ate these fried chicken drumsticks together.
Whether it is the little tiger or the little Xixi, it is the first time that they are so full, and they are so sleepy when their stomachs are full.
So in the first class, when the math teacher came over, a group of cubs were drowsy and difficult to count.
The math teacher remembered what the bearded teacher said about Little Xixi's Anti-Monster Alliance flyer; he almost cried… This group of cubs will really be illiterate in the future.
The bearded teacher saw that his colleagues were happy as the Chinese New Year was coming. So he simply said that the illiterate human cub Zhao Xixi brought The Anti-Monster Alliance’s Promotional PPT to the school, and she used it to prove that the tiger cub was a Siberian tiger. She also seriously taught those things to the other little illiterate cubs.
The Anti-Monster Alliance publishes a daily newspaper every three days and every five days and never hides it. Of course, the monsters also know that. They let them post every day. After all, it’s easier to cause incidents if you don’t let them post. It’s just in this matter; how do you think about it? It’s too funny.
If the humans from The Anti-Monster Alliance know that the promotional PPT they made can still have this effect, they will probably vomit blood.
And this group of old monsters—the more they looked at her, the more they felt that this chubby human cub was very pleasing to the eye and very good-looking, and they wanted to buy her fried chicken drumsticks.
The direct consequence is that Little Xixi, who ate fried chicken drumsticks for three days in a row, felt she had broken skin in her mouth!
Teacher Yu Lan finally has a reason to stop these gangsters from sending fried chicken drumsticks to school!
And Little Xixi also changed her wish: after selling wires and plastic bottles, she was willing to buy anything except fried chicken drumsticks and apples.
When returning home from school in the afternoon, Father Zhao drove the car and took Little Xixi home. But along the way, Father Zhao had seen his daughter look like she was greeting everyone with a smile—“Hello!” and “Thank you!”.
Father Zhao was a bit strange, so he asked, “Do you know them?”
Little Xixi shook her head and said, “I don't know, but they also greeted me.”
The stranger's warm greeting also made Little Xixi so happy.
Having grown up so old, he has never met so many enthusiastic people. Father Zhao: “...” He always feels weird.
After talking to Mother Zhao at night, Mother Zhao looked at Little Xixi and said, “Maybe because our daughter is very cute.”
When going out, it's common for adults to say hello to cute children.
Father Zhao thought about it, and it seems to be the same reason. Then he didn't meet anyone who greeted him when he was a child, probably because he was too shabby when he was a child.
One can regard this matter as a tiny episode. The changes in Little Xixi's life are actually not that big—not as big as the changes of the monsters.
In the past, the life of monsters was to eat, sleep, work, and watch the group of evil spirits from The Anti-Monster Alliance jump up and down.
But now the life of the monsters has become eating, sleeping, working, and watching what the human cub, Zhao Xixi, did today.
And Little Xixi today is the same as before, playing together with Tiger Cub after school is over. Either she is playing pretend house or picking up wires and plastic bottles with the tiger cub.
Little Xixi likes to do this very much. Sometimes when she was at home and she would dream, there were wires and plastic bottles all over the floor to pick up.
The little tiger dragged the big bag to his home with Little Xixi every day and then piled it neatly in the corner.
Little Xixi also helped pile up the wires and plastic bottles. After the pile was over, the two cubs lay down in the nest of dead leaves.
Little Xixi looked at the pile of wires and asked the tiger cub next to her, “Tiger Cub, we have piled up so many plastic bottles and wires. Why haven't we exchanged them for money?”
If other people or monsters asked this, the little tiger would not tell the truth. But this human cub he liked, the little tiger, lowered his head, exposing the top of his head with two round ears, and told the truth: “I want to find my mother.”
Little Xixi was stunned for a moment and said, “Then where is your mother? We can look for it together!”
The little tiger jumped into the dead leaf nest next to him and found a small sign inside. Little Xixi saw a leaf shape on that small card.
Tiger Cub: “This belongs to my mother, but I don't know where she is or who she is.”
Little Xixi touched this little card, wondering how this little card could find his mother.
The little tiger continued: “They said that there is a machine now, and I heard it can analyze genes. Many people have found their parents in this way. But it costs 30,000 yuan.”
“Everyone and every monster has genes,” said Tiger Cub.
Little Xixi seemed to understand. She thought she must save money for the tiger cub.
Jīyīn (chicken sound)... I heard this again!
Little Xixi suddenly remembered.
“My mother also said the chicken sound! Said it was the chicken sound of the saber-toothed tiger! Could you be the baby of the saber-toothed tiger?”
Translator's Note: Zhao Xixi means is jī yīn = Gene
In the afternoon, when Father Zhao picked up Little Xixi after school, he saw that Little Xixi was so quiet, really quiet, as if she had something on her mind.
Father Zhao was stunned for a moment, thinking that the child could have something on her mind, then he asked, “Baby, what's the matter?”
Little Xixi looked at Father Zhao and said with a sad face, “Dad, how do you make money?”
Father Zhao: “Why do you want to make money suddenly?” But it's normal for Little Xixi to say such things. Her little head is always full of various thoughts.
Zhao Xixi: “Dad, just talk about how to make money.”
Father Zhao said, “Little Xixi has to study hard now and earn money when she grows up.”
Zhao Xixi: “...” Growing up... It will take a long time.
When the father and daughter walked out of the gated community, they saw a stall next to it. The stall owner saw Little Xixi and yelled, “Barbie, crystal ball... Do you want to see it?”
It turned out that this was a street stall selling children's toys.
Little Xixi refused to leave, staring at it for a while. Father Zhao thought she liked it, so he said, “Xixi, which one do you like?”
Hearing this, the stall owner felt that the business was promising and immediately introduced the toys: “Do you like this Barbie Princess?”
Little Xixi asked, “How much is this?”
Stall owner: “Thirty dollars.”
Little Xixi let out an oh, and then looked at a crystal ball. “How much is this?”
Stall owner: “This is ten yuan.”
Little Xixi let out an oh again and then said, “What about this one?”
Stall owner: “Two dollars.”
Little Xixi was probably tired from standing, so she sat down on the small stool next to the stall owner's uncle, looking ready to have a long chat; then she said, “Uncle, do you come to sell toys every day?”
Stall owner: “Yes.”
Little Xixi: “Then uncle can play with these toys himself.”
“These toys can earn a lot of money...” Little Xixi looked at the toy stall with a bit envy.
Just when Father Zhao thought that the kid wanted to buy them all, he saw Little Xixi politely say thank you and then drag him away.
Not to mention the stall owner. Even Father Zhao was a bit stunned and said with astonishment, “Aren't you going to buy it?”
Little Xixi: “No, Dad, I've decided; I'm going to sell toys to make money too! Just like that, Uncle.”
Little Xixi just thought about it. It's better to sell toys so that Tiger Cub can play with them while selling the toys.
Father Zhao has different things to think about his daughter, and then he said, “...It's up to you.”
Last time, she decided to pick up wires and plastic bottles, and now she has turned to selling toys. Although they are all down-to-earth poor people, but there's progressing in her career.
Of course, Father Zhao didn't think that Little Xixi could do it. He felt that his daughter's wish would change after a while, so when they arrived at home, he told this to his wife as a joke.
When school was over the next day, the human cub picked up wires with the little tiger.
Little Xixi turned and said, “Tiger Cub, Tiger Cub, I think we can sell this for money!” Holding a crystal ball in her hand, it was still good.
The little tiger hummed as he put it in the bag. In fact, every time Little Xixi would pick up some nice things that they couldn't sell for money, the little tiger would take them back with great seriousness and never throw them away.
Probably because the things that he can sell for money are for survival, but the things that Little Xixi chooses that they cannot sell for money are for the happiness of the two of them.
After choosing and choosing, the tiger cub stopped suddenly, blocked Little Xixi's front, bared his teeth, and growled at the nearby bushes.
And at that moment, a big dog rushed out of the bushes. It looked a little more dirty, looking fiercely at the tiger cub!
The little tiger let out a low growl as a warning, even though he failed to defeat the big dog last time! But the little tiger didn't show any fear.
Little Xixi weakly raised her hand from behind: “Dog, dog, dog... Do you want this? We just gave it to you. Don't fight, okay?”
Little Xixi really didn't want to fight because the last time the tiger cub fought with this dog, it injured the tiger cub’s neck.
The big dog set its vicious eyes on the human cub behind the little tiger!
Little Xixi was surprised by this look, and she saw the big dog run away again!
Little Xixi: “...” Why did you run away?
Little Xixi didn't understand why, but she was still so happy because there was no need to fight.
Zhao Xixi and the little tiger carried things home together. And then the little tiger saw that Little Xixi put all the beautiful things that they had picked up before under the faucet and rinsed them.
The little tiger passed by and saw Little Xixi's chubby hands glowing red under the flow of the cold water. He grabbed Little Xixi's collar and pulled her aside, then said, “It's cold.”
Still holding the crystal ball in her hand, Little Xixi said, “We can sell these too. However, we can only sell them after they are clean. This one has sold for ten yuan outside! But we can sell it only for fifty cents!”
In fact, Little Xixi feels so happy for fifty cents!
“We'll sell a few more, and then we can go to find your mother.”
The eyes of the human cub seemed to look so shining, brighter, and more beautiful than the crystal ball she held in her hand.
Little Xixi had already washed the crystal ball and put it beside her. Then she turned her head and felt the soft, warm fur in her hands.
It turned out that the little tiger came over and rubbed Xixi's hands with his neck.
It was so comfortable to touch. Little Xixi couldn't help touching him twice more. After touching him, Little Xixi suddenly said, “Tiger Cub, you seem to have grown taller!”
The little tiger is on all fours, so it is not as tall as Little Xixi now or as before, but Little Xixi suddenly found that the tiger cub seemed to be much taller.
So, Little Xixi said, “Then I will comb your fur for you...”
Little Xixi recalled the appearance of the big tiger who came to school last time. And she thinks the tiger cub will grow to be that big in the future. Then she said, “In the future, you will definitely grow to be as tall as the big tiger, and I cannot comb your fur by then.”
Little Xixi said, “When the time comes, you will let other people comb your fur.”
The little tiger lay on the human cub's legs, feeling the human cub's small hands gently combing his fur. The whole tiger was lazy and couldn't lift a bit weight.
The little tiger is usually on alert most of the time; barely at this moment is he lazy.
But the little tiger heard the words of the human cub and then said lazily, “No.”
Little Xixi thought for a while and said with her baby voice, “Then I will move the stool and stand on it to comb your fur.”
Little Baby Tiger said, “I will lie on my stomach...”
After combing the tiger cub's fur, it happened that the kindergarten on the other side was over, so Little Xixi trotted to find her father.
When she came there this time, she actually saw her former male classmate, who was always pulling her hair.
Little Xixi glanced at that former classmate. In the past, she always felt that this classmate looked very scary. Her legs were weak whenever she saw him. But now she feels he is not scary at all!
In the evening, Little Xixi found Uncle Cat to pay back the money, but this time there were only 20 cents.
Little Xixi discusses with Uncle Cat: “Uncle Cat, can I pay back the 20 cents a day now?” Little Xixi spoke cautiously. After all, the other party is the creditor, so she can't offend the other party.
Uncle Cat asked in slight astonishment, “Why?”
Little Xixi sighed and said, “I want to save the remaining 30 cents a day and give it to my friend.”
Little Xixi suddenly remembered a big thing: “Uncle, have you heard of Jiyin's chicken utensils, which can help people find their parents? How much does that cost?”
The little tiger didn't tell Little Xixi how much money he needed. Also, she felt that he didn't know either.
Uncle Cat also didn't know how much that cost, but this didn't stop him from asking online, and someone answered right away—30,000.
“Thirty thousand.”
Thirty thousand... this number...
Little Xixi didn't know how big it was, so she looked at Uncle Cat and asked, “Uncle, if you save 30 cents a day, how many days would you need to save?”
Uncle Cat also doesn't know how long it will take her to save 30,000 yuan, he is not good at math.
But he couldn't lose face in front of this human cub, so he said, “It's probably about the same as your hair.”
Little Xixi touched her hair. There are so many strands! It really needs a long, long, long time!
When Uncle Cat said goodbye to the human cub, he told his good friend about it. That friend is working next to Tiger King.
Hearing this, the friend felt sad and moved. He works beside Tiger King, so he naturally knew that the tiger cub that the human cub wanted to help was actually a mixed-race tiger cub. A while ago, when they compared his genes with the machine pool gene, no one had the same matching gene as the tiger cub. In other words, even if the two cubs worked hard to save 30,000 yuan , they still couldn't find the tiger cub's mother.
Little Xixi and Little Tiger didn’t know about this. Little Xixi prepared with both hands, saving 30 cents a day and trying to pick up wires every day. The two cubs didn’t know that they still couldn't find his mother. They worked so hard to pick up wires every day. They can still find the discarded wires, as if inexhaustible.
After Little Xixi separated from the tiger cub, she was still so happy. Today she picked up a lot of discarded wires, which meant that she was one step closer to finding the mother of the tiger cub, so Little Xixi bounced around very quickly. She found her father, held hands with him, and said while walking, “Today our school—”
“Our teacher even praised me.”
“We even distributed cherries at school today, which are very delicious.”
But Father Zhao seemed unhappy today. After talking for a while, Little Xixi discovered the problem. She said, “Dad, what's the matter? Are you unhappy?”
Father Zhao looked at Little Xixi, sighed, and said, “It's okay; don't tell Mom about Dad's unhappy things when you go home.”
Little Xixi was a bit strange: “What's wrong with you, Dad?”
Father Zhao hugged Little Xixi, thinking that even if he said it, Little Xixi would definitely not understand, so he said, “Dad's factory may not be able to continue.”
He didn't expect this to happen. It was someone from the Anti-Monster Alliance who had troubled them.
Unfortunately, his wife is now four months pregnant, and this pregnancy is not stable.
Little Xixi still understood. To put it another way, Dad is running out of money.
Because Dad works in the factory, as Dad said, Dad goes to work to earn money to support the family. If there is no factory, then there is no money to use.
Little Xixi thought for a while and said, “Dad, don’t worry; in the future, I will go study with the money that I earn myself.”
Little Xixi thinks she can make money, and she can make a lot of money with the little tiger. Even the little tiger earns money to support his studies by himself, so she can definitely do it too.
Father Zhao touched Little Xixi’s head and said, “Good girl.”
“I still have the money to support your study.” It is still not too short of money.
However, Father Zhao’s eyes darkened. He still had to get through this difficulty.
The next day, Little Xixi told the little tiger about this when she arrived at school.
Little Xixi: “Let’s go out together on weekends to find discarded wires and plastic bottles!”
The little tiger opened his eyes. He also wanted to play with the human cub on weekends, but the little tiger still asked, “Are you short of money?”
Little Xixi nodded, sighed, and said, “My father has no job. My mother is going to have a younger brother...”
Zhao Xixi suddenly remembered something and said, “Tiger Cub, Tiger Cub, shall we take care of my younger brother together?”
From Little Xixi’s point of view, Mom and Dad are very busy, and they definitely don’t have time to take care of her younger brother. When the time comes, she must be the one to take care of him.
Little Xixi often takes Princess Barbie with Little Tiger, and taking a child should resemble taking that one.
“We can feed him and teach him to count.” Zhao Xixi thought it would be easy to take care of a child. Because she herself grew up from a child to such a big age, it's not a difficult thing.
The little tiger hummed and agreed.
At noon, Little Xixi already had rice, shredded carrots and pork, and a small bowl of carrot soup.
When Little Xixi was eating her lunch, the little tiger was still eating his meat in the corner. After eating, he went out secretly. When Little Xixi found out, she didn’t know where he had gone.
Little Xixi could only sit in the classroom and wait for him to come back. After a while, the other students had taken a nap, and Little Xixi still waited for the little tiger to come back with her eyes open.
Just as Little Xixi was about to fall asleep, the little tiger came back.
Little Xixi was so sleepy; her eyelids seemed to weigh a thousand catties, and she couldn’t open them no matter what. In a daze, Little Xixi seemed to see that the little tiger was holding something, which he stuffed into her schoolbag.
When the nap bell was over, Little Xixi woke up and saw the little tiger next to her sleeping curled up on the table. Little Xixi tilted her head to look at the little tiger. She always felt that the tiger stripes on the little head were so beautiful. The round ears are also beautiful, and the long fur on both sides of the head is also beautiful...
Little Xixi thought that he just fell asleep and could gently comb the fur around his face, but when she reached for the comb in her schoolbag, she touched something that was not there before, like a few pieces of paper.
Little Xixi took it out and saw slightly wet money in the middle—several pieces of red money with a value of one hundred yuan on each of them.
One, two, three...
There are twelve in total.
Little Xixi was stunned and then remembered that before she fell asleep, she saw the little tiger holding something red and stuffed in her schoolbag.
Little Xixi really wanted to wake up the tiger cub and ask him why he stuffed her with so much money...
This must be the money that the little tiger saved to find his mother...
Little Xixi remembered what she told Tiger Cub about her family's lack of money today, and when she looked at the money again, Little Xixi’s eyes were red.
But this is the little tiger’s money to find his mother...
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