As he said this, the old man carefully searched through his memory.
Then he nodded firmly.
Sure enough, no eyewitnesses said they had seen a tiger in the woods.
"I haven't heard of it either."
The old lady shook her head.
"Leilei is okay?"
The old man was surprised and worried at the same time.
Tigers can eat people.
"Leilei is fine."
The old lady's expression became a little strange.
This made the old man, who had relaxed his expression after hearing the old lady say that the child was fine, slowly frowned again.
"What's wrong?"
"Isn't it great that the child is okay?"
Since there was a tiger in the forest, he could understand why the old lady was so determined not to let the child go to the forest.
"The child is fine..."
The old lady murmured.
The image of the child talking into the air last night came to mind.
She took a deep breath.
"he......"
"What happened?"
The old man's heart skipped a beat, and he had a bad premonition for no reason. There was some urgency in his eyebrows, "Old lady, I have something to say."
"Can you please stop being so hesitant and appetizing?"
The old lady looked at the child and hesitated whether to express her worries in front of the child.
Children don't know the old man's struggles.
Seeing the old lady looking over, he took the opportunity to make his request, "Grandma, you talk to grandpa, and I'll go out first."
"Don't go!"
The old lady shouted sharply.
"Old lady."
The old man touched the head of the frightened and aggrieved child soothingly, then looked at the old lady with a hint of disapproval on her face, "Don't just lose your temper."
"Talking things out."
"Did the child do something wrong?"
"You have to tell him and he will know."
"You are the only one who knows the situation now, and both Leilei and I are in the dark..."
...
The old lady made up her mind.
"The kid's statement about seeing a tiger is not true."
"ah?"
The old man was stunned, "You said this kid lied?"
"I did not lie!"
The child who was shocked by the old lady's words instantly came back to his senses because of the old man's words.
He didn't lie.
Lying is a bad boy.
He is not a bad boy.
"I really saw a tiger!"
...
The child's words brought a bitter smile to the old lady's face, "It would be better if I lied."
But this kid is so serious...
"......What's the meaning?"
The old man's expression tightened, and the bad premonition that had been vaguely felt in his heart became stronger.
"This kid said right in front of me that he had found a tiger and was talking to the tiger..."
"But......"
"I'm behind the child, how do I see..."
The old lady paused for a moment before continuing, "I didn't even see the tiger."
"In my eyes, this kid is just talking to the air."
"......What?"
The old man felt that he understood what the old lady said, but he also didn't quite understand.
Probably... I don't quite understand.
But I don’t quite believe it…
...
"Grandma, what are you talking about?"
The child opened his eyes wide, he didn't understand...
"The tiger is right there."
"I did not lie."
"A tiger is so big..."
"Didn't you see that?"
...
"Leilei, don't worry."
The old man pressed the child's shoulder.
"Can you tell me in detail what happened last night?"
The old man looked at the old lady with a serious look on his face.
When he came back yesterday, his wife and grandson were at home.
The old woman is applying medicine to her grandson's feet.
He said he fell down in the woods.
His attention was focused on his grandson's injured foot.
I didn’t ask too much about the old lady’s process of finding her grandson.
Wasn't it just found in the woods?
Will there be any other developments?
Now it seems that what happened last night was much more than he thought.
...
"Leilei, tell me."
The old lady was thinking about leaving the forest last night, thinking about the child forgetting the tiger...
She knew that the child was lost in the woods, that the child had fallen...
But she did not ask in detail what happened when the child was lost.
...
The child glanced at the old lady, but pursed his lips and said nothing.
He was also a little angry at grandma's strange behavior today.
And those strange things grandma said...
Obviously he did nothing wrong.
...
"Leilei."
The old man relaxed his tense expression, smiled and patted the child on the shoulder.
The child is growing up day by day and no longer likes his head being patted.
"Tell grandpa, how is grandma?"
"Grandpa, grandma wants to know what Leilei went through last night?"
"Grandpa, grandma is worried about Leilei."
...
"......Um."
The child looked away at the old man uncomfortably.
He remembered everything about last night clearly.
After all, it is such a special experience.
"I went to the woods yesterday to look for fireflies..."
The child tells the story from the very beginning.
I was looking for fireflies and strayed into the depths of the mountain forest. I didn't know the direction and couldn't find my way back.
He was anxious and panicked. The light in the mountain forest was very dark, and his steps were hurried and staggering.
He fell.
Everywhere in my body hurts.
For a while, he couldn't get up.
He cried.
Just then, the tiger came to him.
He was also very frightened when he suddenly saw a tiger.
He thought he was going to be eaten by a tiger.
But, no.
The tiger didn't want to eat him.
The tiger discovered that he had sprained his foot and picked him up on his back.
The tiger also took him to see fireflies.
The firefly he never found.
Super beautiful fireflies.
Fireflies followed them all the way...
"The tiger sent me to Linzikou."
"I just got off the tiger and heard my grandma's voice."
"When I went to see the tiger again, the tiger and the fireflies were gone..."
The child was really panicked at that time.
He ignored his sprained foot and looked for tigers everywhere.
Fortunately, he finally found the tiger.
He was extremely happy.
He also made an appointment with Tiger to meet today...
etc.
The child was stunned.
He remembered that his grandma said similar words yesterday.
Ask him who he is talking to?
But my grandma never mentioned this issue again.
Whether on the way back or after returning home.
He also forgot.
Unexpectedly, grandma always remembered this issue.
Now he is not allowed to go find the tiger because of this problem...
...
"Did Tiger help Leilei?"
The old man just felt like he had listened to a fairy tale.
"Leile came back riding a tiger?"
"Um!"
Speaking of this, the child's mood was no different from yesterday, with a face full of excitement.
"I came back riding a tiger!"
“Super awesome!”
The children danced a little.
The old man hurriedly reminded the child, "Leilei, watch your feet."
The child put down his hand obediently, his tone still showing a bit of suppressed excitement, "When I first sprained my foot, it was very painful and difficult to walk..."