After Being Scumbed

As the saying goes, "cannibalism, short hands." It may be that he accepted a bribe from a candy, and the next noon, Yin Bai planned to ignore the noise from the next door.

But the children are too noisy, just like a group of chirping birds, noisy. Even though there was a wall, Yin Bai was troubled by the noise of these frolics.

She couldn't bear it, so she had to carry her own book and afternoon tea, and went back to the big balcony on the second floor of the villa to bask in the sun. After such a long distance, the children's laughter passed through the barriers and floated to Yin Bai's ears.

Those cheerful voices seemed to come from another world and attracted Yin Bai's attention.

Yin Bai sat on the swing on the large balcony on the second floor, put down the books in his hand, and turned to look at the children's laughter. Her gaze passed through the layers of flowers, through the swaying shadows of the trees, over the vine-twisted fence, and landed in the villa next door.

Unlike the exquisitely dressed courtyard on her side, the yard next door is an open space paved with grass. In this open space, a small outdoor football field has been built. At this moment, two children were running around happily with a badminton racket chasing a dangling badminton shuttlecock.

Yin Bai looked at the figures chasing by the children in the distance, and his thoughts began to diverge.

Why are these two kids always playing? No one else is with them? Is the aunt at home not there? All the adults in the family have gone out?

But for those who can settle their family business here, there should be an aunt. These aunts don't care about the children?

Yin Bai thought wildly, and suddenly thought that his home was deserted and deserted, except for the clean and hygienic aunt who cleaned it regularly every week, there was no other person.

Thinking about it this way, it is not surprising that there are only two children next door as playmates.

Yin Bai thought about it for a while, put down the collection of poems in his hand, turned his head to look at the "Little Prince" placed aside, hesitated for a while, picked it up, and opened the book.

"When I was six years old, I read a book about virgin forest..." (Note 1)

Among all the books Yin Bai has read, her favorite is this "The Little Prince". If she is in a good mood or not, she likes to dig out this book and have a look.

Although she memorized the book so thoroughly, she could even write silently in the original French version. But every time she picked up this book, she was kind of inexplicable joy.

The noise that had never been far away gradually dissipated, and even the gentle spring breeze stopped his gentle footsteps. The warm sun shines through the thick glass dome, through the lush vine branches and leaves, and sprinkles on the swing.

Yin Bai, who was nestled in the swing, was lying in the fine sunlight and turned a page: "She finally said to the little prince:

Goodbye, please be happy. I wasted too much time, so stupid just to hide all my feelings. And now you are leaving, I ask for your forgiveness. "

"I should have told you earlier, I have been in love with you for so long."

"Let's go, let's go... let's go now..."

"Without you, I can adapt to this wind and cold night."

"Without you, I can deceive myself with caterpillars and butterflies without worry..."

"Don't delay any longer, see you again." (Note 2)

Yin Bai looked down and looked at the illustration in the book: The little prince is holding the glass cover, saying goodbye to the only rose on his planet: "Goodbye... please be happy."

Yin Bai stretched out his hand, stroked the four thorns of the little rose in the illustration, and smiled bitterly: "What are you saying goodbye...Your little prince, she has gone wandering and will never come back."

"You obviously only have four thorns, but you think you can protect yourself. You are not afraid of tigers and alpacas. What are you doing? You obviously...you can't do without her, why should you let her go."

Yin Bai took a deep breath, raised his hand to cover the book on his face, pressed his tears back, and said aggrieved: "You are obviously tamed by her, why can you say goodbye frankly."

Xiao Nian, you obviously have tamed me, why do you want to leave me again?

Yin Bai closed his eyes, but the way she saw Xiao Nian in the theater for the first time eight years ago appeared in her mind. It was Children's Day. She was sitting in the middle of a group of adults and children holding a ticket, looking up at the stage. The charming little rose wearing a green dress and red hair was reluctantly saying goodbye to her little prince.

On the dim stage, Yin Bai could only hear his heartbeat. At that moment, she looked up at the woman with tears in her eyes as bright and moving as a rose. She only felt that she had become the little prince in the story and found the only and unique rose in this life.

Xiao Nian is the only brilliant color in her gray and bleak life.

But she was wrong, terribly wrong.

She thought that she would guard her roses all her life and protect her carefree. But never thought that Xiao Nian was not the "little rose" that would be tamed from the beginning.

In fact, Xiao Nian is the little prince, and she is the rose that has only four thorns, but can open its teeth and dance its claws, pretending to be awkward.

So in the end, as the story said, her "little prince" left her.

Thinking of this, the scene of Lu Qing and Xiao Nian embracing and crying that night uncontrollably resurfaced in Yin Bai's mind, and he felt a little regretful in his heart.

You have never loved me, why should you be so good to me?

Obviously you have tamed me, why do you want to leave me?

Once again in a sad mood, Yin Bai, who was nestled in the sun, was a little bit self-defeating. She is not a person who regrets her choice easily, but because of her feelings, she has never been able to do a good job once, and she tasted even more regret.

Just as she was about to fall, the mobile phone placed on the table began to ring reluctantly.

This ringtone is really annoying, even more annoying than a child's noise. Yin Bai took off the book covering his face, reached out to touch his mobile phone, lifted up and took a look, and found that it was a video call coming in from the gate.

Okay, it's probably those two kids who came to the door again.

Yin Bai switched on the video, and it turned out that it was the two children again. Perhaps because of the candy, the two children looked much bolder than the previous time: "Sister Fairy, Sister Fairy, our badminton has fallen in your yard again, can you open the door for us!"

Yin Bai was in a bad mood, and reluctantly said, "The door is opened for you, come in."

"Okay, thank you Fairy Sister!"

Tongtong happily said thank you, and after a while Yin Bai hung up the phone, opened the door, and put the two children in again.

The two little children held hands and entered the door grinning. Yin Bai stood on the balcony on the second floor, watching two children not far away, buried in the bright rose bushes, swimming around in the yard like two small fishes.

It's just that these two little fishes are a little noisy. Yin Bai saw that they had not found a badminton shuttlecock after searching in the yard. He couldn't bear the noise, so he went downstairs on crutches to help find them together.

As a result, as soon as Yin Bai walked to the entrance of the garden, he ran into the two children who ran out with the ball.

With six eyes facing each other, Yin Bai lowered his head and looked at the badminton in Tongtong's hand. Tongtong and Wenwen both raised their eyes and looked at the crutches in her hand.

The child looked at the crutches in Yin Bai's hand and gave a slight surprise: "Ah, Sister Fairy, are you injured?" Tongtong still remembered that her grandmother was injured a while ago and she was also leaning on the cane.

Yin Bai was stunned for a moment, and most of the emotion he wanted to have had disappeared, so he had to stiffly replied: "Yeah."

Tongtong bit her lip and looked at her right leg with some sympathy: "Does that fairy sister still hurt?"

Yin Bai really did not expect that after so many years of injury to his leg, some people would ask if it hurts. She pursed her lips uncomfortably, and replied, "It doesn't hurt anymore."

Despite what she said, Tongtong looked at her legs with some worry. In Yin Bai's eyes, the little girl looked like Zuo Jingyou with this worried look.

However, Yin Bai didn't care if she was Zuo Jingyou's child. She put her hand on her lips and coughed softly: "Speaking of which, does your family have no indoor playground? How come I like to play outside every day."

Tongtong raised her head and looked at her with a smile: "Yes, but the weather is very good today. Sister Wenwen and I like to be outside."

Wenwen, who was standing next to Tongtong, was also a little bit bolder, thinking about it, and said, "Well, it's more fun outside."

Yin Bai said, "Then how long are you going to play? It's impossible to play ball all day, right?"

Tongtong smiled and replied, "I won't play after lunch."

Yin Bai nodded thoughtfully, looked down at the children in front of him, and said to them: "Okay, then you'd better not play in the afternoon. I will take a nap in the afternoon, and the door will be locked and will not be opened for you. "

Yin Bai paused and said in a rather serious tone: "And I won't be home tomorrow. From now on, you'd better not hit the ball again, because no one will open the door for you to pick up the ball."

Her sudden serious expression made the two children feel at a loss. Wenwen, who was a little afraid of her, subconsciously took a step towards Tongtong and hid behind her slightly.

Yin Bai raised his eyebrows when he saw this scene, and said to the children a little bit fiercely, "So don't bother me anymore, you know?"

Holding the badminton, Tong Tong stepped back a bit, pursing her lips and said, "I see, we won't trouble you anymore."

After Tongtong finished speaking, he said goodbye to Yin Bai politely: "Goodbye, that fairy sister."

Yin Bai snorted, and the two children hurriedly ran out the door holding hands.

Yin Bai leaned on crutches and watched the two children running hand in hand towards the iron gate outside the yard. He vaguely heard them whispering again that they were fierce. Wenwen pulled Tongtong and said with a horror that the sister was very strange, and she walked differently from them. She was fierce and didn't look like a good person.

Tongtong relaxed a little, saying that this was prejudice. It was obvious that Fairy Sister was good-looking and good-to-speak. It was because we quarreled her and so on.

Yin Bai stayed in place, eavesdropped for a while, and walked to his villa with a cane.

The hustle and bustle of late spring was soon left behind by her. She leaned on a cane and walked into her cold villa with her back facing the bright sunshine. Hiding in the shadows again, Yin Bai thought that he would leave this sad place tomorrow, find a house facing the sea in spring, and live a quiet life.

Anyway...she is not a person who can't get used to loneliness.

The author has something to say: Note 1: From the Chinese version of "The Little Prince"

Note 2: Lines from the French version of The Little Prince's musical.

The intention of the little prince and rose is taken here, but the key word is domestication.

In fact, Yin Bai is a bit like a lonely old man, not very good at communication, facing a child with an indescribable embarrassment. Just kind of... the selfish giant in Wilde's fairy tale.

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