Chapter 6 Looking Back
For the first few seconds, Tong En was in a state of complete distraction, and her eyes were as clear as a pool of spring water, making her feel as if she were in a dream.
"Auntie?"
"Huh?" Tong En replied blankly.
"Can you do me a favor?" The children's voice is crisp and pleasant.
"Oh, of course." Tong En finally came back to his senses.
She squatted down, looked at the little man with a serious face in front of her, and asked equally seriously, "Excuse me, can I help you with anything?" ”
The little man pointed to the toilet with the woman's portrait on it, "My car has run inside, can you help me take it out?" ”
Tong En looked at it, a bright red toy racing car was quietly parked in the innermost corner, she smiled and said, "Okay, come, Auntie will take you to get it." As he spoke, he got up and took his little hand and walked inside.
The little man hurriedly retreated backwards and waved his little hand, "No, I can't go in." ”
Tong En looked at him in surprise and asked, "Why?" ”
The little guy looked up with a red little face and said seriously: "This is the women's toilet, I am a boy, I can't enter the women's toilet." ”
Tong En was amused, she felt funny and looked at the boy in front of her with a childish face but a serious expression like a little adult, a very regular white Western-style trousers, a short-sleeved shirt of the same color on the upper body with orange stripes, thin blood vessels can be faintly seen on the tender white face, and the chubby little body seems to have a faint milky smell.
"Auntie knows that you are a boy, but you are still young, and there is no rule that little boys can't go to the women's bathroom."
"I'm 5 years old, I'm already in the big class, all the boys in our big class don't go to the girls' bathroom, and my dad says I'm already a man." The little boy said with a heartfelt voice.
At the age of 5, Tong En's heart suddenly ached.
"That's right, that's good, you wait here, Auntie will help you take it out."
Tong En walked into the women's bathroom, picked up the red racing car in the corner, she looked at the bright red car body with some trepidation, closed her eyes and calmed down, smiled and walked out and put the racing car in the boy's chubby little hands.
"Is that it?"
The boy immediately smiled happily.
"That's it, thank you Auntie!" After saying that, he turned around and was about to run.
"Wait."
Tong En herself couldn't tell why she did this, she reached out and grabbed the boy's arm, raised her other hand and tucked the corner of his short-sleeved shirt back into his pants, and very naturally helped him wipe a drop of juice from the corner of his mouth.
"Yuhao, come back quickly, we're leaving."
"Hey."
The boy agreed, turned around and ran, just ran two steps, and suddenly stopped, turned around and waved at Tong En, "Goodbye, Auntie." ”
"Goodbye!"
Tong En smiled and waved his hand, watching him run towards the end of the hallway.
A very young woman stood around the corner at the end of the hallway, reached out and took the boy's small hand and led him into the hall on the left.
Tong En returned to his seat, smiled and continued to talk to Jerry about the previous topic.
"Today's dessert seems to be to your taste."
"Huh? What? ”
Tong En was stunned for a moment, and did not react to the sudden change of topic for a while.
"Dessert, you must like it very much, you eat it so quickly." Jerry looked at her slender figure and secretly wondered where she had eaten so many high-calorie foods.
Tong En looked down and saw that the puff vanilla ice cream chocolate young master had been eaten by himself at some point.
"I've had a sweet tooth since I was a kid, especially cream chocolate, and I've never been able to eat it."
"Since you're done eating, I'll send you back, I just arrived today, go back early to rest." Jerry looked thoughtfully at Tong Eun, who was obviously a little tired.
"It's okay, I'm a little tired."
"I'm going to drive, wait for me." Walking out the door, Jerry said to Tong En.
Tong En nodded, standing on the steps at the door of the hotel and gently fanning the wind with his hands, the weather was a little stuffy, especially when he just came out of the air-conditioned restaurant, it was like being in a subtropical rainforest all of a sudden.
A tall figure passed her from behind, and Tong En saw a young face lying on a giant's broad shoulders, smiling at her. The tall back holding the child strode towards a black Mercedes that had been parked at the door, and a young and delicate woman followed closely behind him.
The boy's big dark eyes looked at Tong En with a smile, and raised his chubby little hand and waved it quietly, as if there was a secret between them that no one else knew.
Tong En's face was smiling, and he raised his hand and waved quietly at the boy.
The man put the child in the car, watched his wife go in and sat down, then closed the car door, strode around the front and pulled the car door and sat in.
Tong En stood there in a daze, watching the black Mercedes drive into the dark night with a happy family.
The night is picturesque, with fire trees and silver flowers, and neon flashes.
Jerry drove earnestly, he had drunk tonight, so he didn't dare to relax a little. He looked intently ahead, and the corner of his eye seemed to sweep towards Tong En inadvertently.
Tong En reclined in a large leather chair, looking out the window, admiring the beautiful night view of the city.
From her unfocused gaze, Jerry knew she hadn't seen anything at all.
And so, she entered her own world again, a world that no one else could enter but herself.
From the moment she returned to her seat, Jerry could tell that she was in a trance.
Her eyes were on him, her mouth was talking to him, but her heart had already flown to another world. She was mechanically eating the ice cream, not even paying attention to what she was eating.
I have known her for four years, and she often unconsciously enters another world, sometimes with a momentary drift of her eyes, sometimes with a long period of self-closure, which is her own spiritual world, a dream world that he has tried countless times but can never enter.
This oriental woman, who is sometimes clear like a mirror, sometimes puzzling like a puzzle, fascinates him in this way.