Chapter 938: The little angel who becomes ill with longing
Although Heidi seemed so out of tune with everything here, her arrival made Clara extremely happy.
Clara found it interesting every time she did something out of line, something that was not in line with aristocratic etiquette.
Clara also took Heidi to see the portrait of her and her mother. Heidi was surprised to find that Clara was standing in it.
Clara told Heidi that she began to fall ill after her mother passed away. Her father missed his wife very much, so he kept running away, always going out to work and rarely coming back. Clara has been trapped in this home.
This made Heidi feel very sorry for Clara, and she held Clara's hand tightly.
Heidi asked the valet how to open the window. The kind valet helped her open the window and carefully brought her a chair with legs.
Heidi climbed on the mountain chair and looked out the window, but she was disappointed because she couldn't see any big mountains here.
The manservant told her that you can't see anything here. He pointed to the tall tower in the distance and told Heidi that you can see further by going to the tall tower.
Heidi remembered it immediately. She couldn't wait for a moment. She missed her grandpa, Pete, goats, marmots, and everything on the mountains.
She secretly pushed Clara out and came to the market. Clara was full of curiosity and freshness about everything here, because before Heidi came, she had no friends and could only stay at home.
Heidi wanted to go to the high tower, but Clara didn't know how to go.
The beggar on the roadside gave Heidi the direction.
If Heidi is a bird flying freely in the wild, then Clara is a bird that has been kept in a cage from the beginning: although she really wants to go outside to play, she finds that she cannot adapt to the outside environment.
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She didn't know the road, but she wouldn't go to a beggar on the roadside to ask for directions like Heidi did, because those noble etiquettes were engraved in her bones.
They successfully arrived in front of the tower, Clara stayed outside, and Heidi climbed to the top of the tower. However, she still couldn't see her grandfather's mountain from the tower. There were only large tracts of roofs and towering mountains in the distance.
Chimney, Heidi was very disappointed, she missed her grandpa more and more.
Back at the bottom of the tower, Clara was still waiting for her, holding a litter of kittens she had just bought in her arms.
At the same time, the housekeeper discovered that Clara and Heidi were missing, and the house was in chaos. The housekeeper sent her servants out to look for Heidi and Clara.
Back home, the housekeeper was very angry with Heidi for taking Clara out without permission.
It’s just that she was allergic to cat hair and kept sneezing. The little milk cat escaped from Clara’s arms, which scared the housekeeper and backed away.
Clara wants to raise them, but how can the housekeeper agree?
Clara and Heidi couldn't help but laugh when they saw the housekeeper, who had always been holding the bag and was extremely strict, panicking and running around because of the little cat.
Especially when they saw the stern housekeeper climbing on the table, hugging the pillar, and kicking over the vase on the table in fright, the two little guys went crazy with joy.
It was just that the housekeeper took Clara out without permission in order to punish Heidi. Heidi was not allowed to have dinner as a punishment and was also asked to face the wall and think about her fault.
Clara wanted to defend Heidi, but this time the housekeeper did not let her do it anymore and directly said that it was adults who had the final say in disciplining children.
Heidi obeyed with full of grievance, but she didn't like it here. Although there was Clara here, she missed her grandpa and the mountains more.
So, at night, Heidi changed back into her original clothes, took the soft bread she had saved, and decided to leave.
She said goodbye to Clara, but was intercepted by the housekeeper on the corridor. Heidi remembered that her aunt said that if she didn't like it, she could leave.
But the housekeeper told Heidi that her aunt had lied to her and that she was sold here and could not leave.
The housekeeper grabbed Heidi and told her: "Do you know how lucky you are? I wish I could grow up here!"
But Heidi didn't want to hear it. She struggled to leave and the bread fell on the floor, making the housekeeper wonder what she was doing with so much bread.
Heidi told her that this was for Grandma Pete.
Heidi's plan to run away ended in failure, but her decision broke Clara's heart, and she covered her face and cried.
That night, the moon was big and round, and Heidi was in the dark room, feeling so sad and desperate.
The next morning, at dinner time, Clara was not there. She was ill.
The maid told Heidi that it was because of her that Clara fell ill.
Heidi went to find Clara. The doctor had just come out of Clara's room. She walked into Clara's room and climbed onto the bed. Clara sat on the bed, very sad.
Clara looked at Heidi: "Did I treat you badly, so you want to leave?"
Heidi shook her head: "No, you are very kind to me!"
Clara took Heidi's hand and told her: "I only have one friend like you, can we play together from now on?"
Heidi still chose to stay, because she didn't want her friends to be sad. Clara's mother was gone, and Clara was so sick that she couldn't stand up. Clara had no friends, and she was her only friend. Heidi didn't want Clara to be sad, but
But she herself became more and more sluggish, and she could no longer even recognize the letters she had learned before.
Finally Clara's father came back, and Clara's grandmother came back with him.
Clara was extremely happy when Clara's father came back, and Clara's father was also very kind to Heidi. He was a very well-educated baron.
Clara's grandma is also a very kind old man. Heidi used the wrong word when greeting her grandma. The stern housekeeper immediately corrected her, but grandma asked Heidi to call her grandma the same as Clara.
The housekeeper told Clara's father and grandmother that Heidi's performance was very poor, she was not literate, she could not learn well no matter how hard she studied, and she often did stupid things, which would affect Clara's learning progress.
Grandma decided to see what was going on.
Grandma told Heidi a story, and Heidi leaned on her and listened with interest. When it came to the lost lamb, Heidi said that she and Peter had also encountered it.
But when grandma asked: "What is your hometown like? It must be different from here, right?"
But Heidi lay down next to her grandma and let her continue telling the story.
In the middle of the story, grandma suddenly stopped and said that Heidi should go to bed, but Heidi was very curious about whether the shepherd found the lamb. Grandma said you can read it yourself.
But Heidi said she couldn't read.
"Why can't you read?" Grandma asked.
"Pete said we don't need to read," Heidi replied.
"It turns out it was Pete who said it. You must never think that what others say is right. If you learn to read, then you can read stories by yourself. Do you like these stories?"
Heidi nodded. What her grandma said gave her a feeling of déjà vu, as if her grandpa had said similar words before.
She wanted to know the story behind it, and this became her motivation for learning.
She read the first sentence with difficulty, and gradually she was able to read it to the teacher with difficulty.
Later, Heidi learned better and better, and she could even read to everyone fluently.
Everyone is happy for Heidi, especially Clara. If Heidi learns to read, it will not affect her study progress, so Heidi can stay, stay forever.
Clara's grandmother noticed that when Clara talked about forever, Heidi lost her smile and wanted to go home.