Seven days later, Chinese New Year's Eve.

On the lively street of Chunxi Town, a handsome young man wears a white robe and red coat, and his long hem sways on the winter street; Holding a small tender hand in his hand, the owner of the little hand is a three- or four-year-old female doll, wearing a festive red short cotton gown and cotton pants, and a moon-white sachet tied around her waist, well-behaved and cute, the little hand is tightly clenched, following the boy to walk on the street with red lanterns, and holding a small rattle in the other hand.

Today is the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the street is very lively, everywhere is the shouting of small stalls and vendors, the young man squatted down and looked at the girl, gently stroking her little head: "Let's wait for Daddy to come to you on the street, okay?" The girl nodded obediently.

Bai Ershao sighed secretly, in the past few days, the next person has not found the little doll on the street, and the yamen also said that he still has not received the report, the female doll does not know how old she is, and she does not know what her name is.

Passing by a stall selling lanterns, the girl stared at the colorful lanterns without blinking an eye, Bai Shaojie guessed that she liked it, and held her up to see it more clearly: "Do you like it?" My brother bought it for you, which one do you want? ”

Bai Shaojie took the rattle from his small hand, and carefully put the fish lamp in her hand, and after paying the money, he led her to continue shopping, and asked her: "Wait for the Lantern Festival brother to take you to see the lanterns, there will be a lot of big and beautiful lights, as well as guessing lantern riddles, and delicious snacks, okay?" Hearing that there was something delicious and beautiful, the girl was very happy, and she also knew what she was eating, so she nodded vigorously: "Hmm", Bai Shaojie pinched her little face: "It's so good." ”

Bai Ershao was wandering around the street with the female baby, not paying attention to a small doll running in front of him, he didn't have time to stop it, and he was about to bump into Bai Meixue, at this time a figure suddenly blocked in front of the little doll, and the little doll threw himself into the arms of the figure, but fortunately, the other party quickly bowed down and supported it, and stabilized the baby's small shoulder with one hand and held the baby's left hand with the other.

I thought it was a thrill, but the little doll screamed, as if it was pinched, and pulled back his hand and ran away, one did not stand firm or poofed and pressed the girl baby and fell down together, Bai Ershao hurriedly picked it up one by one, fortunately he was dressed thick in winter, he didn't hurt when he fell, and he didn't cry, Bai Ershao patted the soil on the girl's body, and the doll on the opposite side also pounced on himself and slapped it a few times, as if he hit someone and knew that it was wrong, and apologized with a small face: "I'm sorry, I ran too fast and couldn't stop." ”

As he spoke, he also reached out to help pat a few dirt on the girl's body. Bai Ershao couldn't cry or laugh, the little doll was only three or four years old, a little taller than the female doll, wearing a small blue cotton robe, looking chubby, with a lantern bun on her head.

Seeing that the girl didn't speak, the little doll asked her with a smile: "How old are you, what is your name, my name is Tang Tang, what about you?" Before he could speak very neatly, he crackled and asked a bunch of questions.

A series of questions, Bai Ershao thought to himself that you really think highly of her, it would be good to be able to spit out a word to you, the girl seemed to be a little recognized, lowered her head and dragged the bag to play, and when she heard so many questions asked, she actually raised her head and opened the golden mouth: "It's called (Jiao)... It's called (Jiao)..."

The little doll looked puzzled: "What is it called?" ”

The girl pouted, then lowered her head and stopped talking.

Bai Ershao suddenly remembered the figure that stopped the little doll just now, and hurriedly turned around to look in a few directions, but the person was long gone, and when he turned around, he only heard the little doll ask again, "... How old are you, I'm four years old! ”

The girl still bowed her head and didn't speak, after thinking about it, she looked up at the little doll, stretched out a small hand in front of her, and tried to remember what her grandfather taught her in her little head, and then bent her thumb and index finger back with difficulty.

Bai Ershao was really surprised at this time, she would just respond to people, it turned out that this little girl knew how old she was, and she could count, and she wouldn't say anything if anyone asked at home.

Just thinking about it, a woman walked quickly behind the little doll, holding the little doll's hand: "Tang'er, are you naughty again?" ”

He looked up and said to Shang Bai Ershao: "I'm really sorry, did I cause you any trouble?" ”

Bai Er Shao hurriedly said: "No, no, she also fell." ”

The woman looked at the dust on the girl's body and smiled and apologized: "I'm really sorry, the child is naughty." ”

Bai Shaojie smiled and shook his head, and the woman lowered her head and warned the little doll: "Don't run around in the future, what should I do if I get hurt, you see that you have soiled your sister's clothes, go back and your father will punish you." ”

The little doll pouted, and Bai Ershao hurriedly played the round and said, "It's okay, it's good that you didn't fall." ”

The woman smiled apologetically, remembered what she was holding, and handed over a bag: "This is for the child, for the little sister." ”

Bai Ershao wanted to refuse, but the woman had already handed it over, and the little girl also reached out and pushed it to the girl: "Eat..."

The woman hugged the child and said goodbye and left, Bai Shaojie squatted down and opened the bag given by the woman to see that it was a bag of sugar balls, the red fruit was wrapped in snow-white sugar coating, which was quite tempting for the little doll, so she put it in front of the female doll, grabbed one and handed it to her, the female doll stared at the sugar ball in her hand, and suddenly she cried without warning, Bai Ershao was startled, what's the matter, why are you still crying if you don't eat it?!

I had to quickly pick it up and coax: "What's wrong?" Don't like to eat? If you don't like to eat, don't cry or cry, my brother will take you home. Not to mention that the home is fine, but to cry even worse: "Daddy... Families... Woowoo"

"You miss Daddy, let's go home and wait for Daddy, okay?" Then the girl would just cry and not say anything. There was no way, Bai Ershao had to hug the crying girl and coax her all the way home.

The little doll was carried by her mother and walked a street, only to see the little doll holding a sachet in her hand, hurriedly put the person down, took the sachet and asked the little doll: "Tang'er, where did this come from?" ”

"That sister gave it."

When the woman heard this, her heart sank: "How did your father and mother teach you, how can you take other people's things?" ”

The little doll explained anxiously: "It was given by my sister, I didn't take it!" ”

It turned out that the two children were in a question and answer just now, and the girl didn't know how to tear off the bag and give it to the little doll. But the woman did not see her, nor did she know why, so she picked up the girl and went to the place where she had met her.

When they arrived at the place, the boy and the girl were no longer there, and the woman had to hold the little doll and wait in the same place, and waited for nearly half an hour, but no one came back, so she took the little doll to find two nearby streets, but still did not find anyone, so she had no choice but to take the little doll back home.