Chapter 70: The Story of My Father's College Years 20
Adeline usually spends the night in her bedroom.
A doctor once presented Garcia with a Braille script developed by the royal family of Salander, which used a few small protruding metal dots inlaid on thin wooden boards in place of words. If you are familiar with grammar and after simple training, you will be able to read freely. Garcia returned the things untouched, and he told the man, "My Adeline is not blind, she can see, but she can't see clearly." If you dare to send these things again, you can go and open a clinic elsewhere, you can't stay any longer. ”
Adeline's grammar teacher is a patient old woman who holds Adeline's hand and it takes a year for Adeline to master something that the average child can grasp in a month. After that, with amazing perseverance, Adeline memorized a large number of words and poems in less than three years, and began to be able to write short essays coherently. When she was 12 years old, she wrote a little poem thanking her father on Garcia's birthday and gave it to Garcia. Garcia claimed that it was the most beautiful poem he had ever read, and that he could take Aaron to participate in the Bard's poetry contest.
That night, an excited Adeline couldn't sleep, and she fumbled around to talk to her father in the study, where she knew Garcia would work on the papers every night. She could touch it herself, and she wanted to surprise Garcia.
When she reached the door, she heard Uncle Butler inside. The old man was discussing something with Garcia. She listened quietly, and it turned out that Garcia was happily talking to the butler about the poem his daughter dedicated to him: "It's so beautiful, I always knew that little Adeline could write like a normal child, and she could do more things in the future, I know." Please transcribe it well. ”。
The housekeeper smiled, "Yes, Miss's rhyme is very accurate." The words are also very beautiful. Unfortunately, the child could not see, and she herself did not know that the poem she had written was crooked by the time it reached the right side of the paper. Two sentences have already been written serially. ”
Garcia sighed, "It'll get better slowly, after all, she's only 13 years old, and the doctors will find a way in the future." ”
After a while, the butler finished transcribing Adeline's poem and got up to take her leave. When he reached the door, he screamed in surprise, and he saw Adeline holding her knees and crying quietly by the wall. Adeline had just heard: everything she had written was wrong.
It wasn't the most beautiful poem my father had ever said, and I couldn't participate in the competition.
Garcia heard the news and walked out, and after seeing the surprised butler and the crying Adeline, he squatted down and slowly hugged Adeline's shoulders: "What's the matter, dear, why did you run out, are you afraid of the dark?" ”
Adeline sobbed and said a series of heartbreaking words that broke Garcia's heart: "I'm sorry, Dad. I didn't get my birthday present ready for you, I don't know I wrote it crookedly, I'm sorry... ”
Since then, Garcia has loved Adeline even more. He said that if anyone could heal Adeline's eyes, they would get a reward of 10,000 dinars from him. This high and terrifying prize has attracted countless people, from medical celebrities to charlatans, from peddlers and pawns to witchmancers. People tried their best to heal Adeline's eyes, but they all failed. Every time someone came to treat Adeline, Adeline would be hopeful, but soon Adeline would return to her Aoi garden in a silent daze, experiencing disappointment again and again, and the feeling was a hundred times more painful than being in the foggy darkness.
When she was 18 years old, she told Garcia that she didn't want to be someone else's test again, and she was disappointed. She told Garcia that she was living a good life now, that she was happy, and that she knew she was happy, and that there was no need to toss herself and her family for too much luxury.
Garcia was initially opposed, but since he himself had long lost faith in medical treatment, he stopped forcing Adeline to undergo treatment. Adeline's little maid is the youngest daughter of a down-and-out soju merchant who knows how to read and write. Garcia had the little girl by Adeline's side, helping Adeline ghostwrite something, and helping her read things that were inconvenient for others to read when she needed them.
Every evening, Adeline would stay in her bedroom and talk to the little girl and listen to her tell stories about the winery. The most difficult thing for Adeline to understand was the colorful objects that the little girl was talking about: beige lees, gray oak barrels, golden grains, dark red grapes.
As Adeline listened to the articulate little girl say these things, she would try to think of these colorful things in her mind, and these things made her yearn for them. She has a faint loss in her heart, but that little girl is not mature enough to be able to understand Adeline's sadness, she is just a kind heart to sow colorful sunshine in Adeline's heart, but how does she know, Adeline doesn't even know what the light looks like, her world is just a fog, nothing.
On this day, Adeline was smiling in the study while listening to the little girl rapping a winemaking song. The butler knocked on the door, and the little girl ran over with a cheerful cry, and the old man would always bring her some sweets: those wonderful little things that were transparent like pomegranate fruits.
But today, the old housekeeper was very abnormal, and he gently patted the little girl's face: "Nannan, grandpa has something to find my sister today, and I didn't have time to bring you something delicious." If you want to be sensible, you know, come, help grandpa take my sister to the master's study. ”
This sweet little girl pouted coquettishly, and then laughed again: "Okay, give me two pieces of Suno Guifei candy next time!" You go out first, I'll help my sister change her clothes and come out. ”
When Adeline came out with the little girl, the butler whispered to Adeline that the master had something important to tell her today.
Adeline asked worriedly, "What's wrong, uncle?" Is something wrong? ”
The old butler knew a little, and he knew something from Garcia's conversation with the strange man just now. He looked at Adeline with pity: "Miss, the master will tell you later." Come with me. It's a God-blessed thing, come on, miss", the old butler wiped his damp eye sockets, "I hope God doesn't make fun of us".
Adeline doesn't know what's going on now. She even wondered if there was another Jianghu Lang who came to the house to treat herself. Nervously, she followed the butler and the little girl to the edge of the study.
The butler coughed, and Adeline heard the vague conversation inside stop.
The butler walked to the door first, leaned sideways to let the door out, and then reached out to hold Adeline's hand, "Come in, Miss." ”
When Adeline walked in, she heard a strange boy call in a low voice, "Oh my God." ”