Chapter 269: A Different Path
Zhang Zi'an put away his prankster heart and gently patted Little Celery on the shoulder. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Good morning, little celery. ”
Even so, Xiao Celery was still startled, jumped up with a small wow, her eyes widened, and she looked at the person behind her vigilantly, and only after recognizing that it was Zhang Zi'an, she breathed a sigh of relief.
"What, it turned out to be the store manager's brother, which scared me. She said as she stroked her chest.
"Haha, little celery looked so funny just now, how about you have a chance to do it again next time?" Zhang Zi'an joked with her.
"Don't!" Little Celery believed it, waved her two little arms, and said in an anxious tone, "Brother the store manager is an adult, don't bully children!"
Called an adult by her, Zhang Zi felt that his image was tall, and he finally raised his eyebrows and turned over in front of the various elves in the store.
"Well, just kidding you. He smiled, "Little Celery seems to be very scared, don't you dare to watch horror movies?"
"I hate horror movies the most!" Little Celery's face changed, "Some boys in school are very annoying, and sometimes they will scare us with horror movies during recess!"
A boy of this age is at an age when he is not afraid of heaven and earth, and he is so naughty that he even dares to pull off a few beards of Taishang Laojun. Zhang Zi'an remembered that when he was a child, although there were no electronic devices such as mobile phones, some boys would catch caterpillars or beetles from outside to scare girls. At that time, Zhang Zi'an was still relatively honest, and he would neither follow the boys to do such a thing, nor did he have the courage to stand up for the girls.
"That's right...... Did you tell the teacher?" he asked.
"I told the teacher, and the teacher confiscated their phones and asked their parents to collect them, and then they said that I was the one who made the small report......" Xiao Celery said very aggrieved.
Zhang Zi'an sympathized with Xiao Celery and comforted: "It's okay, Xiao Celery is doing the right thing, let them say whatever they want." ”
Having said that, he also knew that little celery was far from being pampered and not shocked, and even he could not reach the state of mind of such a saint, so the effect of this comfort was very limited.
Little Celery still nodded, with a slight smile on her face, "That's what my mother said." ”
"That's right, that's what mature adults say, you don't have to care what your little kid classmates say. Zhang Zi'an said approvingly.
"yes, I see. She nodded obediently.
"So, will Little Celery also come to the store today to feed Little Bell and Ears?" he asked as he walked, holding a foam insulated box under his arm. In fact, this is also a lack of words, because he expects to get a positive answer.
"Hmm...... Today...... Forget it today......"
However, unexpectedly, Little Celery actually refused. She kept her head down, walking like a little boy and kicking the stones, her tone as if she was confused and embarrassed.
Huh, what's the real problem?
Zhang Zi'an became serious and asked, "Did something happen? Did your mother not let you come?"
If Little Celery's mother doesn't let her come to the store, no matter what the reason is, for whatever considerations, then Zhang Zi'an will also respect her mother's opinion. He didn't want his love for pets to affect their mother-daughter relationship.
"Not my mom...... Yes......" she slurred, probably hesitating to say it.
"Isn't it convenient to say?" Zhang Zi'an was confident when she heard that it was not her mother. As long as it's not her closest relative, why don't you let her come to the pet store?
"It's my classmates......" She raised her little face a little and said aggrievedly: "I told my classmates at school that the little bell and ears at the store manager's brother's house can talk, but they didn't believe me, and they laughed at me for being a fool......"
"Uh......"
Zhang Zi'an didn't expect this, and secretly called himself a miscalculation. Children at this age don't have much scheming, especially innocent children like Little Celery, who don't hide good things and always want to share them with everyone, so it makes sense for her to tell her classmates about hamsters talking to lop-eared rabbits. She did the right thing, not wrong at all, but the fault was that Zhang Zi'an didn't remind her with the unique scheming of adults at that time, not to tell others about the hamster talking to the lop-eared rabbit.
Zhang Zi'an can't blame Xinghai for doing good deeds, and he can't blame Xiao Celery for being too talkative. In the process of children's growth, the words and deeds of adults will subtly affect them, because children are really very observant and imitating creatures. If parents and adults can't set an example, then the child learns badly, or becomes sleek and sophisticated in advance, just a matter of minutes.
Similarly, Zhang Zi'an can't blame Richard. He told a little lie, and Richard spoke in place of the hamster and the lop-eared rabbit to help him round the lie, is that wrong?
No one is wrong, if you want to blame Zhang Zi'an, you can only blame Zhang Zi'an for not thinking about it and not taking into account the possibility of Xiao Celery revealing it to others. But even if he reminds Xiao Celery not to say it to others, I'm afraid it will be difficult, after all, the child's mouth is not very strict, and besides, will she even hide it from her mother?
Little Celery stood with her head bowed and her hands down, staring at the tips of her shoes, as if she had made a mistake and was waiting to be punished.
Zhang Zi'an stared at the pair of pigtails that move periodically at the back of Celery's head, which her mother carefully designed for her daughter, and perhaps only those who really care about Celery can notice. He believes that Little Celery's mother loves her daughter wholeheartedly, and anything that may affect their mother-daughter relationship, no matter how unlikely it is, he will not do it, this is the principle and bottom line.
Therefore, even if time comes back, he will not be able to say what he will hide from her.
Seeing that he had not spoken for a long time, little celery quietly glanced up at him, and hung her head uneasily, even lowering her head than just now. She had never seen the store manager's brother show such a depressed expression, and she couldn't help but be scared in her heart, it must be because she had done something wrong, and the store manager's brother, who was always amiable on his face, would be sad and angry whenever he did. If the store manager's brother loses his temper, will he drive her away and never let her play with Suzu and Ear again?
She rubbed the tips of her shoes up and down nervously, tears pooling in her eyes, her vision blurred, and she could cry at any moment.
Zhang Zi'an is indeed very depressed, he faces two diametrically opposed paths. One way is to admit to her that you lied to her, telling her that your classmates are right, that hamsters and lop-eared rabbits can't speak, and that you used to just joke with her. It's a very simple road, you can easily shirk responsibility, jokes, who says you can't joke with children?
However, baby celery may lose trust in adults because of this.
Zhang Zi'an can only choose another difficult path.