Teacher Tao Hua picked up the tiger cub and said, “I’ll take him back to the teacher’s house, and the doctor will take care of him. Zhao Xixi, you just study obediently in the classroom, okay?”
Zhao Xixi: “No, I’m going too.”
Teacher Tao Hua: “Be obedient. The tiger cub is sick. You are his best friend. Shouldn’t you stay in the classroom and help him study?”
Zhao Xixi: “Okay, teacher, then I’ll go to see him at noon.”
There were still two classes left in the morning, and Zhao Xixi couldn’t concentrate on listening to them. She was thinking about the tiger cub all the time. She didn’t know whether the tiger cub was still uncomfortable or not.
Finally, at noon, Zhao Xixi didn’t even eat lunch and, together with teacher Tao Hua, went back to the teacher’s house.
Teacher Tao Hua wanted to go to the doctor to ask about the tiger cub, so Zhao Xixi went to the room to look for the tiger cub.
She pushed open the door from yesterday and saw a bulge on the bed. Different from yesterday, this time the tiger cub didn’t show his head. Zhao Xixi walked over and said, “Tiger Cub, Tiger Cub, are you feeling better?”
The fluffy quilt moved, and a very familiar voice that Zhao Xixi knew came from inside, anxious and fast, said, “Zhao Xixi, don’t come over.”
Zhao Xixi stood there obediently and confusedly asked, “Why, Tiger Cub?”
There was no movement under the red, fluffy quilt.
Tiger Cub: “I’m not well yet.”
Zhao Xixi: “Then did you get an injection?”
Tiger Cub: “No.”
Zhao Xixi immediately said, “The injection will get you healed quickly. Let’s go to the hospital for an injection in the butt. After your butt gets the injection, you will feel better.”
Little Tiger’s voice came out from under the quilt: “I don't want to go. Don’t look at me…”
Zhao Xixi: “Are you afraid of the butt injection? It only hurts a little, and the nurse's sister will give you delicious candy. It’s really delicious. I won’t lie to you.”
Zhao Xixi swallowed her saliva while talking. She really thought it tasted delicious.
After the tiger cub heard it. Although he himself was having so much trouble, he did not forget to say, “Then, when I get a butt injection in the future, I will give you that candy.”
“Then let’s share half for each of us,” said Zhao Xixi as she was about to come over to pull the quilt.
“Tiger Cub, Tiger Cub, let’s go to the hospital for an injection first. Then you come home with me, okay?”
“My house is so fun. We can also paint together.”
Zhao Xixi simply couldn’t stop once she started talking.
“By the way, I also want to tell my parents to get you a cub safety seat because children must sit in the child safety seat when riding in the car.”
Zhao Xixi felt she knew a lot, and she always emphasized this matter repeatedly. Because when she was a child, she accidentally saw the person in front of her in a car accident, and that person got thrown out directly, bleeding a lot. It must have been very painful.
At this moment, the tiger cub said, “Zhao Xixi, take care of yourself from now on and don’t fight with monsters. I didn’t tell you last time that you can’t fight anymore because you can’t beat them. But if you can win the fight, just fight, so as not to be bullied all the time…”
Zhao Xixi felt so strange. She took two steps towards the bed, and the tiger cub stopped her and said, “Don’t come over here!”
Zhao Xixi: “Why is it? I also want to touch your head and comb your fur. When I get up in the morning, I still want to comb your fur.”
When the tiger cub heard this, he almost cried, “I don’t have fur anymore…”
Zhao Xixi didn’t quite understand: “Let me see what’s going on.”
Tiger Cub: “You go back to school.”
He has no fur anymore, so he definitely doesn't look good. Zhao Xixi actually doesn't like to play with others. She just likes to play with him, who has furry legs, furry ears, and a furry face.
But now he is furless.
“No,” Zhao Xixi said, “we are good friends. If you don’t go to school, I won’t go to school either.”
Tiger Cub: “But I have no more fur at all, unable to let you touch my furry ears anymore.”
Zhao Xixi saw under the red fluffy quilt that, firstly, Tiger Cub exposed his black hair, then a small white face, and then a pair of big golden eyes.
So beautiful! Zhao Xixi had never seen such a good-looking child! It’s even better than the best-looking kid Zhao Xixi has ever seen on TV!
Zhao Xixi’s little head was not enough to process this suddenly, so she said, “You… who are you?”
With grievance in his golden eyes, the little boy said, “I am Tiger Cub.”
When he was talking, Zhao Xixi saw two sharp teeth, just like a vampire on TV.
Zhao Xixi blinked and said, “Your voice belongs to Tiger Cub, but you don’t look like him, and the tiger cub has lost two teeth, but you still have two sharp teeth.”
Tiger Cub: “My teeth grew out last night… and then it became like this.”
The night before yesterday, he was in pain for most of the night, and then he even fainted. He was dazed that he had vaguely touched the face of a human cub, but he didn’t take it seriously.
He started feeling pain again last night. But this time he tried to resist the pain, and this time he didn’t faint. However, he found that the fur on his body began changing, and his paws also began changing…
Within the limited scope of knowledge of the tiger cub, the only explanation that he can conclude is that this is what the adult monsters call the cubs’ transformation.
It must be because he is a saber-toothed tiger, so he has transformed. Then he… will definitely end up in the laboratory. They will surely lock him up in a cage.
It’s better to go to the zoo. If you go to the zoo, at least you can meet Zhao Xixi across the river, but in the experimentum crucis, you will never see Zhao Xixi again.
In science, an experimentum crucis (English: crucial experiment or critical experiment) is an experiment or set of observations that is held to be, in some sense, decisive in confirming or falsifying a theoretical explanation of a phenomenon.
The tiger cub thought of this, and he looked at Zhao Xixi reluctantly and said, “Zhao Xixi, I’ll be going to the laboratory…”
Zhao Xixi burst into tears when she heard this. She said, “No! Don’t go to the laboratory! You must live with me. I will comb your fur every day and also give you milk. My mother said that when I go to middle school, I’ll be a big child, so every day I will have one dollar. And later, I will give you fifty cents every day, or else I will give you all from now on.”
While crying, Zhao Xixi said, “I… I will raise you, okay? Don’t go to the laboratory.”
Zhao Xixi didn’t know what the laboratory was or where it was, but she knew that she definitely could not get in.
The tiger cub was still wearing the tiger-print clothes that Zhao Xixi got on credit from Uncle Cat. He originally wanted to comfort Zhao Xixi with his paw, but what he stretched out was a white and tender hand.
The tiger cub is so sad.
Zhao Xixi couldn’t wait to hold the tiger cub’s hand, then said, “Tiger Cub, don’t go to the laboratory, okay? We can walk hand in hand in the future!”
In the past, Zhao Xixi really wanted to hold hands with the tiger cub, just like her other good friends in her former kindergarten.
We can go to school holding hands together and leave school holding hands together…
Zhao Xixi’s little hands held the tiger cub's hands. His hand was a little fleshy, so it was soft, just as soft as Zhao Xixi’s, a human cub's, hands.
The little boy lowered his head and said in frustration, “But I don't have good fluffy fur to touch, nor good fluffy ears to touch, nor good fluffy paws to touch…”
Zhao Xixi climbed onto the bed with great joy and said, “But now we can go back together hand in hand, and we can also hug each other!”
Zhao Xixi immediately hugged the tiger cub, and now she didn’t even need to squat down to hug him!
Zhao Xixi concluded: “I also like the way you look now. You look so good!”
The little boy didn’t speak, but his eyes were shining.
Zhao Xixi suddenly thought of something, lowered her head, and said, “You are so good-looking. The others may tell you not to play with me, and if you play with me, you’ll become fat and not look good, so don't listen to them. Those kids are all bad kids, and what they all say is not true.”
Tiger Cub: “I won't listen. You are the prettiest!”
To be honest, Zhao Xixi is fair and tender, with big and watery eyes. Even with the baby fat, she looks like a standard cute baby in the eyes of adults. Those are just a little child’s malicious slander.
In Tiger Cub’s mind, all other human cubs are hateful in appearance. Only Zhao Xixi is good-looking. He likes her, no matter how he sees her, and he wants to rub her face with his head.
Zhao Xixi breathed a sigh of relief when she heard her best friend say that.
So she touched the tiger cub’s short black hair and said, “I will comb your hair from now on.”
The tiger cub nodded. He was still wearing tiger-striped clothes, so he wasn’t cold, but he was a little thirsty and was going to get out of bed to drink some water.
However, he had just transformed and was not very skilled with his hands and feet. The tiger cub jumped off the bed, landed on his hands and feet, and then walked forward on all fours, as before.
Zhao Xixi also quickly slid off the bed and said, “Tiger Cub, Tiger Cub, you can’t walk like this. You have walked just like me.”
Only then did the tiger cub react, so he lifted his two forelimbs up and stood up slowly. He tried to walk forward with his two hind limbs, but the next second, he fell down.
But he didn’t fall to the ground because Zhao Xixi suddenly lay on the ground, and the tiger cub fell on her.
Zhao Xixi made a sound from below: “I’m fine. It doesn’t hurt.”
The tiger cub got up quickly.
Zhao Xixi crawled out as fast as she could, and the tiger cub did not really crush her.
Fortunately, the tiger cub is only a little taller than Zhao Xix. Zhao Xixi supported the tiger cub, and in an excited tone, she said, “Tiger Cub, you walk just like me. Step out with your left foot.”
Following Zhao Xixi’s example, the tiger cub stepped forward with one foot.
Zhao Xixi: “And then the right foot…”
And at this moment, Teacher Tao Hua’s voice came from outside: “Okay, thank you, doctor. I’ll go in and see how he is doing.”
Zhao Xixi felt that the hand she was holding was heavy. She turned her head and saw that he had transformed into a furry little tiger again. Not only that, he also sneezed.
The tiger cub raised his two forelimbs and lay on the human cub’s shoulders. And then he whispered carefully in her ear, “You can’t tell anyone what happened just now, and you can’t tell anyone that I am a saber-tooth tiger.”
In fact, Tiger Cub really wanted to say that, especially don't tell Teacher Tao Hua. He just discovered last night that Teacher Tao Hua might have actually hoped to develop potions for the transformation of the monster cubs.
But Zhao Xixi liked Teacher Tao Hua, so Tiger Cub specifically said nothing.
Although Zhao Xixi didn’t know why, she still so obediently said, “Okay…”
She felt something was not right. Zhao Xixi turned her head and wanted to say, Tiger Cub, you are not a saber-tooth tiger. You are a kitchen knife tiger. In the future, your teeth will be as long as two kitchen knives, and then you can bite off the kitchen knife into two pieces in one bite.
At this moment, Teacher Tao Hua came in.
Teacher Tao Hua saw that the two cubs had already gotten out of bed. She came over and touched the tiger cub’s head, found that the fever had subsided, and then she said, “Fortunately, the fever has subsided. But don’t go to school today. Rest here for a day.”
Zhao Xixi still remembered the serious business that her mother had explained to her, so she said, “Teacher Tao Hua, Tiger Cub will live in my house from now on.”
Her mother said, Let the teacher know that the tiger cub lives in their house.
Faced with Zhao Xixi’s starry eyes, Teacher Tao Hua really couldn’t say no to her. So, she threw this question to the tiger cub: “Does Tiger Cub wants to live at Zhao Xixi’s house?”
The tiger cub nodded.
Teacher Tao Hua: “…”
Are all children today so fickle? Didn't you say that you didn't want to stay at someone else's house yesterday?
After all, Teacher Tao Hua is not his guardian, nor is she even a member of the same race as the tiger cub. If the tiger cub wants to, Teacher Tao Hua can only nod her head.
In fact, what she thought was that these two cubs living together might cause conflicts. After all, no matter how good friends are, they have to have their own space. Just like between sisters, and also between brothers and sisters, they also tend to fight every day.
So Teacher Tao Hua thought it would be okay to stay for a few days.
Then Teacher Tao Hua said, “Okay, then the tiger cub will stay at your house, and I’ll send him there at night. Okay?”
Suddenly, Zhao Xixi hugged Teacher Tao Hua excitedly and said, “Thank you, Teacher Tao Hua! I love you!”
Never be Friends with Monsters Chapter List:
0 comment:
Post a Comment
Be polite, and no rude or insulting comments, please...