Chapter 2 Sticky Spirits
There are a lot of girls in this small area, most of them a few years older than me. I always see them playing games in the community, sometimes kicking shuttlecocks, sometimes jumping rubber bands. I was curious about these new things, so I tried to mingle with them. I can't kick the shuttlecock, but I can jump the rubber band happily, maybe this is the innate specialty of a cat. Those girls were also surprised that my small body could have such a sensitive body, and some of the hurdles they couldn't jump over were easily handled by me. They welcomed me into their game, and I was fascinated by their admiring gazes.
"Little Cat, don't jump, grandpa told us to go home for dinner." A loud sound broke the small stage in front of me.
I saw that it was Shen Yun coming: "Shen Yun, come!" You try to jump, too, and it's fun. β
Under everyone's encouragement, Shen Yun tried to take a few steps between the rubber bands, but she was not so comfortable. Eventually, she got impatient and stumbled out, "Phew, it's not fun at all." With that, she grabbed my arm and walked down the hallway, "Quick, let's help get a few eggs." β
"Eh, slow down!" I was pulled by her and almost didn't stand firm, muttering to myself that this girl was not very flexible, but she had a lot of strength.
When I got to the yard of her house, I opened the chicken coop, Shen Yun took out the hen and put it aside, and then handed me four eggs. I carefully took the eggs to the kitchen and handed them to her grandfather. Today my grandfather was coming back later, so he left me at her house, and her grandfather wanted to make a good meal for me.
When I returned to the yard, I found Shen Yun running after the hen.
"Little hen, run so fast." I said with a smile.
"It's my!" Shen Yun said, pointing to the chicken coop just now, "The hen just now is safe in the cage." β
"Oh, how do you tell the difference between a hen and a rooster?"
"The rooster has a big red crest on its head, you see." She pointed to the chicken in front of her again.
"Oh, I thought you all had hens that lay eggs." I stared at the head of the chicken for a long time, "You see its head is always moving, what is it thinking?" β
"The devil knows what it thinks."
"It's foraging, you see it's pecking the ground."
"Let's get it back to its cage. It's getting dark, and it can't be allowed to run around anymore. Shen Yun said and walked quietly towards the rooster, finding the right time to fly over. Unexpectedly, the rooster reacted more sensitively, flapping his wings and running fast for a meter or two, causing her to lie on her stomach in the dirt.
I hurried over to help her: "It's okay." β
She slowly got up and said, "It's okay, it's not the first time." I often help my grandfather catch chicks, but I didn't do well today. β
"You're amazing!" I patted Shen Yun on the shoulder, but when I saw her face, I couldn't help laughing, "Hahaha, look at your muddy face!" β
"Hey! You nasty! Suddenly, she rubbed her hands my clothes.
"Eh! You're the nasty thing! I tried to remove her hand, but she wasn't convinced. So we scuffled together, and neither of us let go of the other, and it was a stalemate.
"Xiaoyun, it's time to eat!" Shen Yun's grandfather came to the yard and was taken aback when he saw two dirty children, "Oh, how did you two do this." Hurry back to the house and stop making trouble. β
"She got my clothes dirty!" I was so anxious that my eyes were red.
"He laughed at me!" Shen Yun said confidently.
"Then you can't stain other people's clothes!" Shen Yun's grandfather pulled Shen Yun up, and then said to the cat Xiaoer with a smile, "Xiaoer, don't cry, grandpa has already made something delicious." β
For the sake of the delicious face, I finally calmed down, but I was still very unhappy when I saw Shen Yun.
She was also very upset when she saw me, so she picked up a bowl and grabbed a few dishes and ran back to her room.
It's time to go to kindergarten. There is a small kindergarten in this community, and the children in the community are basically sent to this kindergarten. There is only one primary, middle and large class in the kindergarten, so children of the same age are all in the same class. Shen Yun and I happened to be in the same class, so we were placed in the same class.
Usually, my parents would take me to kindergarten on their bikes in the morning, and my grandfather would pick me up on their bikes in the evenings. The rear seat of the bike is fitted with a comfortable foam cushion and has a backrest. I was very happy to sit on it, especially when I saw the pedestrians coming and going on the street, and the strange buildings on both sides of the road, I often hummed nursery rhymes excitedly.
Sometimes, Shen Yun's grandfather and my grandfather would pick us up after school together, and we would sit in the back seats of our respective cars. The two grandfathers were chatting in front of us, while Shen Yun and I stared at each other, making grimaces, sticking out our tongues, and so on. Sometimes, my grandfather didn't have time to pick me up, so he entrusted Shen Yun's grandfather to pick me up as well, and then I waited at Shen Yun's house.
The kindergarten teacher assigned some homework, such as writing one's name dozens of times, and a one-page addition and subtraction arithmetic problem. These are both familiar to me, my grandfather enlightened me very early, multiplication and division of three-digit numbers are not a problem for me, I usually can't wait to finish my homework in kindergarten, and when I get home, I can turn on the TV and watch cartoons with peace of mind.
Shen Yun was not so lucky, her homework was all taken home to write, and she hated writing.
For example, when I stayed at her house after school that day, I turned on the TV and watched cartoons carefree, but she had to do her homework.
"Oopsβthat's annoying!" Where is she the kind of person who can calm down and do her homework, let alone watch cartoons with me there. I saw her holding a pencil and scribbling a few times in the notebook before stopping. "Don't write it! Don't write it! With that, she moved a stool and sat next to me and watched the cartoon.
"You're really done with your homework?" She asked me out of the blue.
"yes, what's wrong?"
"You'll do it for me later, okay?"
"No, I can't. My grandfather always taught me to do my own thing. β
"Help me!" She grabbed my arm and shook it vigorously.
"No, you still have to write your homework, at most I'll teach you on the side."
"Okay!"
After watching the cartoon, she excitedly returned to her desk and opened her homework book. I sat on her right-hand side.
"4+2......" she stretched out her fingers and snapped, "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6!" β
"7+8......" she still stretched out her fingers and broke it, "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, oh it's not enough, what should I do!" Lend me your hand. β
"No, you can use your own toes first."
"Toes?" She looked down at her shoes and yelled at me, "Stop talking nonsense, put your hand out!" β
I grinned and hung my fingers open in the air.
She stretched out her index finger and tapped it over my fingers one by one: "11, 12, 13, 14, 15!" Haha, that's right. Eh, your hands are so small. β
"Really?"
She pressed her palm to mine: "You see, my hand is indeed a little bigger than yours. β
"Really, my hands are smaller than yours."
"Haha!" She laughed, strangely, probably because she had finally discovered something better than me.
"I'm finally done with the nasty arithmetic problem, and then it's easy to write the name. Can you write it for me a few times? She stared at me with watery eyes.
"Do your own thing, write your own name!" I won't help her because she's cute.
"Hey, it's not like I can't write. You can help me take the pressure off of it! β
"I've written it 50 times myself, and it's fast, it's not troublesome at all, you can write it yourself."
"Your name is simple, and my name has a lot of strokes."
"Don't look at the simple words 'little two', there are many strokes of 'cat'!"
"Hmmβwrite it for me a few times!"
"No, write it yourself!"
"Ouch, help me!" She threw my arm again.
"No way!" I pursed my lips and glanced to the side.
"Hmph, I'm not playing with you anymore!" She gave me an angry look, and then she wrote her name herself.
In addition to literacy and arithmetic, teachers often take the children to play games and do crafts. No matter what the project, I am handy, but Shen Yun is always clumsy and always loves to harass me.
For example, when playing "Eagle Catches Chicken", she always follows behind me, holding me tightly, and her clothes are always torn by her, which makes people very uncomfortable; When I played "Lost Handkerchief", she always put the handkerchief behind me, so that I was very nervous every time I saw her holding the handkerchief, and my scalp tingled every time I saw her pass behind me.
I'm actually not afraid of losing my handkerchief, with my agility, I can always get up at the first time to catch up with the person who threw the handkerchief to me, and Shen Yun is nothing. As soon as she dropped the handkerchief behind me, I only had to glance at it to confirm it, and then I jumped up and chased after it, like a tiger pounced on a lone elk. She's not my opponent, of course, but it's strange that she laughs like a madman when she gets caught, as if she's the one who won the game. I absolutely can't accept this, if I am caught, I will lose, and if I lose, I will be ashamed. This little girl really has a broken head.
I wish I hadn't been with her again when I was in elementary school.