Chapter 244: Ants and Crickets
The days when I used to get along with Bai Qi's little cub are now projected in my mind,
Once on the back mountain of Yixian County, Zhang Xiaobei found Xiaobaiqi who skipped class.
"Xiaobai, why didn't you come to morning class today!" Zhang Xiaobei asked Xiaobaiqi.
Xiao Bai got up on his knees and lay on the mountain, as if looking for something.
"Xiaobai, what are you looking for!" Zhang Xiaobei asked.
"I was looking for my 'Black General' and just accidentally ran away in this place. Xiaobai replied without raising his head.
"What is the Black General?"
"My baby cricket, Master, you can help me find it too!" Xiao Bai raised his head and pleaded.
Zhang Xiaobei glanced at the vast mountainous area, how difficult it is to find a small cricket here.
He thought why not educate this little white on this topic.
"Xiaobai, if you let people be locked in a small dark room all day, will you be happy, will you want to escape?" Zhang Xiaobei asked.
"Of course I want to escape, of course I'm not happy!" Xiao Bai replied without thinking about it.
"In fact, everything has feelings, thinking has reached people, General Black has been locked in a bamboo tube by you all day long, it is not happy, it also wants to escape, now that it is free, you let it go." ”
"I don't keep it in a bamboo tube all day, I often let it out for a walk, and I often catch female crickets to relieve its boredom, I am so good to it, how can it be unhappy." Xiao Bai shouted with a red face.
"This ......" Zhang Xiaobei didn't expect Xiaobai to reply to him like this,
"Maybe it doesn't like the female cricket you found for it, so it wants to find it on its own! If you really care about it, you should let it go, and wish it happiness soon!"
Zhang Xiaobei suddenly came to a blind reason.
Xiao Baiqi lowered his head and was silent.
"Let's go, go down the mountain with the teacher, the teacher has prepared a very rich course for you today!"
Zhang Xiaobei took Xiaobaiqi's hand and walked down the mountain.
Suddenly, Zhang Xiaobei stopped, and his left foot was raised, some distance from the ground, and he didn't step down.
"Xiaobai, do you know why you don't step on it as a teacher? Zhang Xiaobei turned his head and asked Xiaobaiqi.
Xiao Baiqi shook his head, "I don't know." ”
"You go and see what's under the left foot of the teacher. ”
Xiaobai squatted down and fell to the ground,
I saw a little ant moving food at Zhang Xiaobei's feet,
"There's a little ant!" shouted Xiao Baiqi, looking up.
"Ants are small, but they are alive like us, all beings are equal, and we have no right to deprive them of their lives. ”
"Oh!" replied as if he didn't understand.
"Keep in mind what the teacher just said, and let's take a good look at it!" Zhang Xiaobei said, stepping his left foot on the open space next door, avoiding the ant.
"Let's go!"
Zhang Xiaobei turned his head very kindly and took Xiaobaiqi's hand and walked forward.
He was quite satisfied with his performance just now.
Under his guidance, if Xiao Baiqi could even care about the life of an ant, then it would be impossible to kill those 400,000 fresh lives in the future.
But Xiao Baiqi seemed to sense something, and looked back suddenly,
"Ahh
He broke free of Zhang Xiaobei's hand, ran back, pounced, and lay on the ground with his whole body.
Zhang Xiaobei also turned around, only to see that there was a cricket that had been stepped on on the ground he had stepped on just now.
Seeing Xiao Baiqi's moving expression, he knew that this cricket was the 'black general' that Xiao Baiqi had been thinking about.
He couldn't imagine that he had avoided a small ant but stepped on a cricket, and there were his footprints on it, and the evidence was ironclad, and he couldn't rely on it.
After this incident, there was an irreparable crack in the relationship between Xiaobaiqi and Zhang Xiaobei.
Zhang Xiaobei clearly remembered that on that day, Xiao Baiqi frantically cleared all the ant nests he could find on the mountain, covered them with water, smoked them with fire, and destroyed them with all their might, which was simply a disaster for ants.
What Xiaobai said to him afterwards, he still remembers clearly,
"Master, if you had trampled on that ant at that time, my little black would not have been trampled to death by you, but your compassion for the little ant caused cruelty to Xiao Hei. So I feel like you're wrong, compassion doesn't reduce harm!"
Zhang Xiaobei, who is now sitting in the ambulance, thinks back to these past events, and thinks to himself, when Bai Qi, who has become a general of the Qin State, decided to kill the 400,000 soldiers of the Zhao State, would he also think of the cricket that his master unintentionally stepped on when he was eight years old?
That's why some people say that some things are predestined, even if you live again and choose again what you think is the right choice, the outcome of things will not change.
Zhang Xiaobei would never have imagined that his failed moral education might eventually become one of the driving forces behind Bai Qi's order to kill in the pit.
After arriving at the hospital, Zhang Xiaobei and Cai Yan were waiting in the patient's family area.
Although Bao Xiaoyun, Du Jingtao and others were seriously injured, there were no fatal injuries on their bodies, so they should not be in danger of life.
Two hours later, the doctor came over and told them that it was time to go in and visit the patient.
"But who of you is Bao Xiaoyun's family?" the attending doctor asked.
"We are all her friends. Zhang Xiaobei said.
"Then you have to call her parents as soon as possible, her leukemia is already in the advanced stage, to put it mildly, she may be in danger of life at any time now!"
"I see. Zhang Xiaobei nodded.
After Bao Xiaoyun's left eye was snatched, she lost the ability to contain the disease, and it was a matter of course that leukemia recurred.
"Cai Yan, go see Bao Xiaoyun, I'll go see Du Jingtao first!" Zhang Xiaobei and Cai Yan said.
Cai Yan nodded and walked in the direction of Bao Xiaoyun's ward.
Bao Xiaoyun lay on the hospital bed with a peaceful expression, staring at the ceiling with his eyes stupid.
As soon as Cai Yanfu entered the door, she noticed it and turned her head to look in the direction of the door.
"Right...... I'm sorry!" Cai Yan apologized as soon as she opened her mouth.
"Why are you telling me I'm sorry?" Bao Xiaoyun blinked her only remaining eye.
"It was my cousin who caused you to lose an eye, and I am responsible for this. Cai Yan said.
Bao Xiaoyun smiled, "That eye wasn't mine in the first place, you don't have to apologize to me for it." ”
"But the doctor said your leukemia recurred because of it......"
"I've had leukemia since I was a child, and if God is destined for me to die with this disease, I can't blame anyone for it. Bao Xiaoyun said, with a flat smile on his face all the time.
Cai Yan was stunned, she didn't expect a little girl who was only seventeen years old to see her life and death so openly.
"I ...... I'll cut you an apple," Cai Yan said, she really didn't know what to say to Bao Xiaoyun.
"Thank you!"
When Cai Yan handed the peeled and cut in half apple to Cai Yan, Zhang Xiaobei walked in.
"Cai Yan, can you go out for a while, I have something I want to talk to Bao Xiaoyun about alone!"