The old dean walked out of the hospital with the boy, and he looked at the boy with more appreciation, just like an ancient saying, the heavens will descend on the people, and they must first suffer their minds, work their muscles and bones, and starve their bodies and skins.

The old dean did not take the boy back to the orphanage, he parked his car at an ice cream shop on the side of the road, and the old dean decided to reward the boy for his performance today with a dessert that children love.

Although the boy is called the little devil, he is still just a child after all, and when he walks into the ice cream parlor and sees desserts of various colors, the little boy is so hungry that his saliva is about to flow out.

This was the first time the little boy had eaten ice cream, and the old dean ordered him four completely different flavors, and when the four colors of ice cream were placed in front of the little boy, the little boy instantly had a feeling of being in heaven.

The ice cream was quickly wiped out by the little boy, and he knew that there was such a delicious thing in the world, and when the last piece of ice cream was eaten by the little boy, the little boy said sincerely, "Bearded dean, you are a good person." ”

The little boy's mind is more precocious than the average person, he looks back on everything he has experienced today, and finds that the old dean not only saved himself from fire and water, but also took himself to the doctor, and finally bought so many delicious ice cream for himself to eat, the little boy really felt that the old dean was different from the rest of the welfare home.

The old dean let out a hearty laugh, it seems that the little boy has finally opened his heart to himself, and has been approved by him, so that he can slowly get closer to him in the future.

On the way back, the little boy got out of the car at the gate of the orphanage, and he said that he did not want other children to see his relationship with the old director, because everyone saw that he had been beaten by the old director. The little boy felt that taking the dean's car back now would make him look very shameless.

The old dean was amused in his heart, but he agreed to the boy's request, and told him to be careful not to touch the wound when he walked.

In this way, the relationship between the director and the boy gradually became a secret of the welfare home, although later that day, the director still received a small report from the staff, saying that the little devil had smashed a window again, should he be punished to clean the toilet?

The old dean refused the punishment proposed by the staff on the grounds that the boy's foot was injured, and simply said, "This matter will be discussed after his foot injury is healed." So, ten days and half a month passed, and the boy's prank was over.

Gradually, the boy and the old dean began to communicate more, but they deliberately avoided the eyes and ears of other people, so no one knew that the old and the young were actually close like friends.

The boy took the old dean to his orchard, which seemed to him a secret garden to himself, and the boy never mentioned to anyone else that it was his only friend, the orange tree. But on this day, he took the old dean to his secret garden.

"This orange tree is my only friend in the orphanage, and I will tell it anything that is in my heart," the little boy said in a tone that seemed to introduce his friend to the old director.

The old dean looked at the orange tree in front of him, it may be about the same age as a little boy, and it has been planted for four or five years, and it may really be suitable to be a friend of the little boy in terms of age, but it is only a tree.

The old dean felt a little heartache, but he didn't expect that the little boy's partner was just this orange tree that couldn't speak or move, maybe it was because only this orange tree wouldn't physically punish him, and wouldn't call him a little devil?

The boy also told the old dean a secret, that he had his own zoo in the orphanage, which housed zebras, giraffes, lions, and elephants.

Seeing the little boy's thoughtful appearance, the old dean fell into a dazed expression, of course he could be sure that there were no such animals in his welfare home.

Seeing that the old director did not believe it, the little boy decided to take him to his own zoo to see it for himself, and they walked some way into the depths of the orchard, and after crossing a small stream only half a meter wide, they came to a triangle surrounded by a wall.

"Look, my zoo is there," the little boy said, pointing excitedly ahead.

The old dean blinked his eyes, and he found that there was nothing in front of him except that there was still a single tree, but there were several more species of trees here, and there were a few cedar, pear, and plane trees mixed in, and there was no possibility of animals such as zebras and giraffes.

"Where are your animals?" asked the old dean, puzzled.

The boy walked to the front of the triangle, pointed to a plane tree, and said, "This one is the tallest one, and it likes to bow its head and eat the leaves of other trees, and this one is the thickest, and the one that is the thickest is the elephant, and next to it is a zebra, and now the zebra is running around the elephant..."

A strong wind blew, and all the treetops began to sway from side to side in the wind, which undoubtedly formed another vivid scene in the eyes of the little boy, and made the zoo that belonged to him now full of life and vitality.

The old dean finally understood that the so-called zoo and all kinds of animals were also imagined in the boy's mind, and all the old dean could see was just ordinary trees.

The old dean did not want to spoil the boy's fantasies, perhaps the non-existent zoo was the only place that made him happy, so he ran in with the little boy, and under the boy's guidance, rode the zebra that liked to run around, and lay on the back of the elephant and took a leisurely nap.

The boy and the old dean had a very happy afternoon, and when the two of them were about to leave the zoo, the old dean tentatively asked, "Now, are we friends?"

This question was quickly answered in the affirmative by the boy, and in fact, he would not have taken the old dean to his secret garden without the boy's approval. It will not let him enter his own animal world.

"We're good friends from this day on, but don't tell anyone else this secret," the boy said with a cautious expression.

The old dean finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and his relationship with the boy seemed to have gone further, and he showed a relieved smile on his face, and hooked his fingers with the little boy and said, "I promise, this is a secret that belongs to the two of us." ”