father - home

At the edge of the woods, we met a group of little rascals.Because it was Sunday, the children didn't go to school.Some of them played in the flower beds, among the trampled and stripped flowers; others climbed to the apple trees to break branches and pick the green fruits that were not yet ripe.

"Little wild ghost." I scolded with a smile.

When the children saw us, no, they should have seen me, those on the ground ran away, and those on the trees hurriedly climbed down.

A little boy was standing on a branch looking out for apples on the top of the tree. There was a commotion below him. He panicked, lost his center of gravity, and fell down with an "ah".Fortunately, at this moment, the child grabbed the treetop, so he dangled on the treetop with his legs hanging in the air.Although the child is not big, it shouldn't be very heavy, but the treetops still couldn't support his weight. Seeing that the branch was about to break, I yelled, "Don't move!" Zhao pinched his legs and urged his horse When he got under the tree, he opened his arms and firmly caught the falling child.

Breaking out in a cold sweat, I rushed to the front and jumped off the horse.

"Are you okay?"

"Are you okay?"

The two of us spoke at the same time, and I couldn't help feeling ashamed. I asked Zhao, but he asked the child.

The child was about five or six years old, his face was pale with fright, his lips were trembling and he could not speak.

Zhao patted the child on the back, "Don't be afraid, child, it's fine." Zhao handed the child to me along the horse's back.

I caught it and asked, "Which family are you from?"

The boy broke free from me all at once, held his mouth shut, and hid back, tears streaming out.

At this moment, a girl wearing a white apron came running and shouted, "I'm sorry, master!"

"Lily?" I know this girl, she is my mother's maid.

Lily rushed in front of me, barely able to stop.Zhao had already dismounted from the horse and reached out to hold her.

"Thank you, sir! I'm sorry, sir, but this is my brother, Bill." Lily drew the little boy to her side.

"Your brother?" I seem to have never heard of it.

"Yes, master. My mother is sick and hospitalized. My father wants to accompany her in the hospital. No one cares about Bill at home. I can only bring him. I know the master. I have asked my wife for instructions, and she agrees." Perhaps because she was afraid that I would blame her, Lily finished speaking in one go, and even brought out her mother.

I haven't said anything yet.I was a little unhappy, and my tone was a little cold. "I don't think you told your brother that the tree can't be climbed?"

"This... I'm sorry, young master, it's my fault, I didn't expect..." Lily was terrified, she turned around and slapped the little boy.

The little boy was stupefied and stared at his sister in fear with tearful eyes.

"What are you doing?" Zhaoya got angry, hugged Lily, and knelt down in front of the little boy. "Bill, you are so young, do you know that climbing trees is dangerous?

The little boy shook his head.

"Look at just now, if you fall down, you are likely to be injured."

The little boy nodded.

"Your mother is sick. If you get hurt again, think about how worried she is about you?"

The little boy's eye circles were red again.

"You have to be obedient in the future, and you can't just climb trees casually, you know?"

The little boy nodded emphatically.

"Then what should you do now? Should you admit your mistake?" Zhao turned the little boy around to face me.

"I'm sorry, first..." The little boy didn't know what to call me, because he heard his sister call me young master just now, so he turned to look at Zhao.

"Call me sir, Bill, call me sir." Zhao answered him.

"I'm sorry, sir, I shouldn't have climbed the tree. I picked two apples and I'll give them back to you, sir." As he spoke, the little boy took out two green apples the size of his little fist from his pocket.

I took an apple, and imitated Zhao's tone and said kindly: "Look, Bill, these apples are not yet ripe, and you can't eat them now after picking them, aren't they a waste?"

I thought I would be recognized by the little boy like Zhao. Unexpectedly, Bill poked his neck, "Who said, this apple is delicious." As he said, Bill rubbed the apple on his clothes and bit it He took a bite, showing a very enjoying expression, while chewing, he said sincerely: "It's really delicious, sir, if you don't believe me, you can try it."

I looked at the apple in my hand, and then at Bill who was nibbling on the apple one by one. I still wondered, is this apple not ripe yet?But Bill's expression, that look in his eyes, was so flawless and intoxicating.Thinking about it again, isn't it just an apple, and it won't be poisonous, so in order not to show weakness, and to get close to Bill, I took a big bite of the apple and bit down half of it.

God!It was sour and astringent, and I neither swallowed it nor spit it out. Just when I was embarrassed, Bill's little face was smiling.What's even more exasperating is that Zhao also couldn't hold back his joy, he laughed so hard, he even pulled me, urging Lily and brother to go, go.

"Let go! I must grab that little bastard and give him a good beating." I spat out the sour apple in my mouth and said angrily.

"You don't think it's shabby, just for a bite of apple..." Zhao almost bent over with a smile.

I also burst into laughter, thinking that I was so stupid that I was being teased by a five or six-year-old child.

We put Silver Sword and Red Rabbit by the stream to drink, and lay down among the tall grass.The lawn has not been mowed this year and is covered with yellow buttercups.The grass overwhelms us, we feel so small, we can't see anything other than the blue sky above our heads, people or trees, houses, others can't see us, the grass caresses me gently The neck, hands and eyelids are really comfortable.

I leaned my face against my bent arms, turned sideways, and stared at Akira beside me.

"Hey, tell me, why did Bill treat me like this?"

"Because you bully people." Zhao didn't look at me, pulled out the small purple clover flowers, and crushed them with his hands.

"I bully people?!"

"Yes, you first went to his house to file a complaint, and then you asked his sister to beat him."

"You think so too?" I cried out in my heart.

"I know you're not. You wanted to send him home. Later, his sister beat him because his sister misunderstood you. You're just like me, and you just hope he doesn't get hurt."

Then a ladybug climbed onto Zhao's arm, and he watched the little bug for a long time.The little bug gasped on his arm, at first lightly, trying to raise those delicate and transparent wings, and then gasped heavily, panting so loudly, it felt like a shipwrecked man, Like climbing on a raft in rough seas.

I waited until the ladybug flew away before speaking. "You're only partly right, darling. His sister beat him because she knew he had made a big mistake, and the apple tree was not to be climbed."

Then a big cloud covered half the sky, and the flowers, the lawn, the green, shiny colors, all dimmed.

Zhao realized that I was talking about a serious matter, so he turned his head.