1166, Good night, I wish you a good dream (Updated for Silver League cslaw on 2/2)
That night, after Xi'er came back from Little Red Horse Academy, she had been riding a horse wildly, jumping up and down with her arms around the horse's neck. Tan Jin'er thought that the child had been stimulated in some way.
"I rode Dudu today, and Dudu became my big horse, hiahia~" Xi'er shared her happiness with her sister.
"Dudu is great, but you can't always let Dudu carry you, you know? Dudu is younger than you," Tan Jin'er said.
Xi'er nodded and said that she wouldn't let Dudu carry her next time, and she would also carry Dudu tonight.
"Later, later, Luoliu came, and Luoliu asked us to carry her on our backs. Oh, Xi'er was frightened. I was crushed afterward~" Xi'er said, showing a scared expression, and patted her little chest.
, seems to have escaped from death.
Tan Jin'er couldn't help but laugh.
"Sister, where is my rice book?" Xi'er said suddenly. The rice book was the book that recorded how many meals she owed.
"It's in the drawer in the bedroom. What's wrong? Are you worried about counting it again?"
"hiahiahia~~~" Xi'er didn't answer, and quickly ran to find the rice book, opened it and counted it again.
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5... 16, eh?" Xi'er counted the words "正" in her notebook and found something was wrong. She ran to find Tan Jin'er who was boiling water to wash her face and feet, "Sister,
Sister~ It’s 16! Not 15.”
"What is 16, not 15?" Tan Jin'er didn't understand and took the notebook from Xi'er.
"Xi'er owes 15 bowls of rice, not 16! We counted it last time." Xi'er became more energetic and her memory improved after talking about this.
"That's right, last time it was 15, and now it's 16. You owe another bowl in the past two days."
"Clam?"
"That's right, you wrote this yourself, not your sister. Look at the handwriting, is it your own?"
"yes."
"That's right."
Tan Jin'er poured hot water into the washbasin, then mixed in cold water to adjust the temperature.
Xi'er followed her and continued to ask: "Sister, sister~ Xi'er ate a lot of food at Sister Ma's house today, can you help me do the math?"
"What is it, Sister Ma?"
"Xiao Bai's aunt."
"Is that Sister Ma? You have to call Aunt Ma."
"Xi'er called me Sister Ma today."
"That's because you shouted wrong. You can't shout like that in the future."
"Oh, then I will listen to my sister. Sister, help me do the math."
It was only in the evening that Xi'er remembered that she had eaten a lot at Malanhua's that morning. She had to calculate it in a small book and cross out the one or two bowls of rice she owed, otherwise she would be at a huge loss.
Tan Jin'er said just convert it into a bowl of rice and just cross it out.
But Xi'er disagreed. She thought she had eaten at least 5 bowls of rice, so she asked to cross out 5 strokes.
"Tan Xi'er, you are really good at talking like a lion. Your belly can't hold 5 bowls of rice! You calculated wrong."
"No! Sister, Xi'er didn't! Xi'er really ate 5 bowls of rice." Xi'er opened her small palm and raised 5 fingers to indicate that she really ate 5 bowls of rice and she must be counted.
, "If you don't help Xi'er, Xi'er will be unhappy."
However, Tan Jiner did not accept this trick.
"There's nothing you can do if you're unhappy. You didn't get 5 bowls of rice."
"I really ate it. I ate like this. This is how I went home."
Xi'er said, imitating the way she felt when she was full, holding her belly with both hands, moving a little before walking, then holding on to the wall, moving little steps step by step.
Tan Jin'er was amused by her and immediately told her that she shouldn't eat so much next time as it would be bad for her health.
She had good intentions, but in the end, little Tan Xier was unhappy.
"Sister, you know it's not good for children, so why do you let Xi'er eat so much!"
This kid learned what he was doing and put it to use, making Tan Jiner laugh and cry.
"You won't feel full if you eat three bowls in one meal, but if you eat more than three bowls in one meal, you will get a stomachache."
Xi'er's eyes rolled: "...I, I don't even know how to scold you!"
"Then stop talking. Come here quickly and wash your face and feet. You must be digging sand again tonight."
"Yeah, hiahiahia~~~ Dudu and I dug the sand together."
While helping Xi'er roll up her sleeves, Tan Jin'er asked, "Which child will you plant tonight?"
"I planted Xi'er~~hiahiahia~~~"
Xi'er picked up a towel from the basin, squeezed out the water, and wiped her face. After wiping it, her face was pink and tender, and her skin was elastic.
"Why did you plant yourself?" Tan Jin'er asked, and went to the kitchen and brought a blue bucket. After Xi'er washed her face, she poured the water from the basin into the bucket and helped Xi'er take off her hair.
Take off your shoes and socks and let her wash her feet.
"Xi'er wants to grow up quickly~~" Xi'er lifted her little feet, put them to her nose and smelled, "It smells so good~hiahia~~~"
"Eh~~~Tan Xi'er! It's not hygienic for you to do this."
"hiahiahia~~"
Xi'er put her little feet into the bucket to soak her feet. She made a sound of comfort and called her sister to join her in soaking her feet.
Tan Jin'er moved a chair and sat down opposite Xi'er. He also took off his shoes and socks and put his feet into the bucket.
"Sister, I'll make room for you."
Xi'er squeezed her little jiojio to the edge and let Tan Jin'er put her feet in.
The two chatted while soaking their feet, and Xi'er asked to cross out five bowls of rice for her.
"Forget it, sister, please cross out two bowls for you. Any more will not work. If you don't agree, forget it. I won't cross it off."
"Agree, I agree! I raise my hand~~"
Xi'er quickly raised her little hand high to show that she agreed with the two bowls.
She was so cheerful, which made Tan Jin'er wonder if she had been tricked by her little sister.
But the words had been spoken and she couldn't go back on her words.
"I've finished washing." Xi'er hurriedly wiped her own shoes, put on her little cotton shoes, and said she wanted to wipe her sister's shoes. If she didn't, she became anxious and said with a straight face that she was very unhappy.
Tan Jin'er could only ask her to help wipe the jiojio. The child wiped it very carefully. He squatted in front of her, grabbed the jiojio and carefully wiped it inside and out twice. Finally, he asked, sister, are you satisfied?
"Satisfied, satisfied, thank you. It's time to go to bed now. Go and lie down on the bed. My sister will be here soon."
Tan Jin'er went to pour water, and when he came back, Xi'er was already lying on the bed, with her hands outside the quilt, seeming to be looking at something. When she saw her coming back, she immediately hid her hands under the quilt.
"What are you looking at?" Tan Jin'er asked, also getting on the bed.
"hiahia, you didn't look at the photo~" Xi'er said with a smile, turning her body sideways, leaving her back to Tan Jin'er.
It's really rare. Not only did I not take the initiative to ask for a hug tonight, but I turned my body sideways. There must be something going on.
"What photos are you looking at?" Tan Jin'er asked.
Xi'er looked back at her, smiled, and landed on the pillow again, "The baby is going to sleep."
"Then go to sleep, don't stay awake secretly."
"OK."
Tan Jin'er leaned on the bed and read for a while. Xi'er beside her fell asleep soon. When she was about to turn off the lights and go to sleep, she covered Xi'er with a quilt and picked up the photo that fell out of her arms.
She picked it up and put it under the desk lamp to look at it. It was the old photo of her father carrying Xi'er on his back!
Xi'er sat on her father's neck, hugged his father's forehead, and looked at the camera with a very happy smile.
Xi'er was still very young at that time, only a little over a year old, and her front teeth had already fallen out at that time. It was precisely because of the missing front teeth that her smile was leaky, which has become her signature laugh now.
It's quiet at night.
Tan Jiner was lost in thought while holding this wrinkled photo. She gently touched her father in the photo with her fingers, as if she wanted to feel his warmth.
After a long time, she sighed vaguely and put the photo under Xi'er's pillow. She guessed that Xi'er saw Zhang Tan carrying Xiaobai home, so she felt envious and went to bed at night to find this photo.
Holding an old photo in my arms, I went to see my father riding a big horse in my dream.
She went to her father to ride a big horse in her dream, this is what Xi'er told her once.
When Xi'er said this, she was still very proud.
This silly kid~
Tan Jin'er quietly looked at Xi'er's sleeping face, her heart filled with tenderness. She lowered her head, kissed her, and whispered: "Good night, I wish you a sweet dream~"