Daddy Academy

Chapter 692
The photo album that Zhang Tan and Xiao Bai opened was given to Zhang Tan by Teacher Jiang before they left, and the photos in it were all about Xiao Bai.

The photo album is not thick, only 10 pages, plus a back cover and a front cover.

There are not many photos, and they are all taken with mobile phones, and some photos are blurry, so I don’t pay much attention to the aspect ratio, color saturation, etc.

Thanks to the popularization of mobile phones now, if it was more than ten years earlier, many people did not leave a single photo in their childhood. At that time, it was not easy to go to a photo studio to take a photo.

When the two opened the cover, the first thing that caught their eyes was a little baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, like a little mouse, with a wrinkled face and hair clinging to his forehead in messy strands.She closed her eyes and seemed to want to open them, but she was not strong enough, showing a struggling and weak appearance, like a piece of white paper that was crumpled up.

This little person—or it's more appropriate to call it a little life—is grinning loudly, showing its tender gums.

"Which pot baby is this?" Xiao Bai asked in surprise.Her questioning eyes revealed that she was not ignorant, but could not believe it.

"This is you, when you were just born." Zhang Tan said.

Xiaobai held the album tightly, stared at the slightly yellowed photo with wide eyes, and moved closer, trying to see traces of himself at 01:30.

"It's not lovable at all." Xiaobai said after repeated research, she detested the wrinkled doll.

Zhang Tan laughed and said, "Children are born like this, already very cute."

The little white head in the photo is long, flat, and collapsed.

Xiaobai studied it for a while in surprise, and finally had to accept the fact that it was his own, and was amazed.She especially cares about this little doll's head, which is flat and slumped, so it's not as cute as her current watermelon head.

"Let's look at the next one." Zhang Tan turned to the next page.

On the first page there was only one photo of Xiaobai who was just born, but on the second page, there were three photos.One of them was wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying on the bed, staring into the camera with big eyes.The other one is that Xiaobai can stand up, hugging the legs of the table, but he can't walk yet.In the third picture, she is leaning slightly, walking with her head down.

"This is me!" Xiaobai pointed to the three photos and told Zhang Tan. In the photos, she had grown a little, and her eyebrows and eyes were still her own, so Xiaobai quickly recognized it.

"This is when you were so young." Zhang Tan said.

"Why am I so small?" Xiaobai was surprised at how small he was back then, and looked down at himself. The big ones, especially the little belly, were bulging and full from eating too much.She quickly inhaled and sucked her bulging belly in, otherwise Boss Zhang would make a joke if she saw it, and she couldn't turn into a durian.

The two flipped through the photos, and there were actually two of Xiaobai fighting.

One is Xiaobai and a little boy pulling each other and having a fight.The other one is that the fight is over, the little white hair is messy, the nose is bleeding, and the clothes are pulled apart, dirty and dusty, looking miserable.

Zhang Tan asked curiously, "Is this a win or a loss?"

Xiaobai pretended to be engrossed in looking at the photo album, but didn't hear Zhang Tan's question, just rolled his eyes, glanced at him out of the corner of his eye, didn't make a sound, chose to pretend to be deaf and dumb, and muttered in his heart, who made this picture Well!Such an embarrassing thing even took pictures, oops, she was so annoyed.

Judging from the photos, this probably happened when Xiaobai was four or five years old, so it can be deduced that it should be taken by Malanhua.If it was Teacher Jiang, she would definitely pay attention to whether Xiaobai was injured first, but only Ma Lanhua would take a photo first, keep a memory, and get rid of it, so that she can laugh at Xiaobai in the future.

After reading the photos, there are not many, less than 20, but it records the complete journey of Xiaobai from birth to the present.

The igloo fell into silence, Xiao Bai glanced at Zhang Tan, and just caught his sight, he couldn't help laughing awkwardly.

Zhang Tan said: "You will be 6 years old in a blink of an eye."

Xiao Bai lay on the big bed, rolled over, and sat up when he heard the words: "You are still in your 20s! You are an uncle."

Zhang Tan: "Hehe, do you know why I have your photo?"

"I don't know, what are you talking about?"

"Your grandma gave it to me."

"Grandma won't give it to me?"

"Haven't you seen it?"

"Don't worry about it."

"This is the first time?"

"That's right, I don't even know how to babble."

"Are you sleepy?"

"I'm working hard."

Zhang Tan saw that Xiaobai was lying down, and he also lay down, looking up at the boundless starry sky, and couldn't help feeling: "We are like a frog in a well."

"Strange cat? What kind of strange cat?"

"Haven't you heard the story of the frog in the well?"

"Cheng Chengmo never told me."

The biggest source of her story is Cheng Cheng.

When I didn't leave my hometown, my grandma often told her.She can't remember that period of time clearly, but the stories she told and every night of storytelling are still clearly imprinted in her heart, making it hard to forget.

Grandma told her "Snow Child", "Duck Bridge", "Little Deer Fairy", and "Little Tadpole Looking for Mother"... She told her many, many stories, and she remembered them all.She told Xi'er, told Cheng Cheng... and told herself that when she was lonely and sad, when she was locked up at home and alone, she would tell herself stories, those stories that her grandma once told, were told by her Tell yourself over and over again.

After following my aunt, my aunt never told stories, even if she begged, it was useless.

As time passed, she realized that it wasn't that my aunt didn't want to tell it, but that she couldn't tell it. There was too little ink in her stomach to hold a few stories.

Sometimes she doesn't sleep at night and makes a lot of noise, so my aunt will hold back a strange story from her growling belly, all of which are ghost stories, specially designed to scare children so that she can lie on the bed and go to sleep .

After she entered Little Red Horse, she tried her best to read picture books and find stories by herself, but she didn't know a few words, and it took a long time before she finished reading one or two books. ".That greedy little snake is really funny, every time she holds that picture book, flips a page at will, reads a clip, looks at an illustration, it can make her laugh for a long time.

Little Red Horse has so many picture books, she doesn't know how to read, but she can read the illustrations, even guessing, and can read with relish every night.

"I'll tell you about The Frog in the Well."

Suddenly there was a croaking sound in the igloo, Xiao Bai puffed up his cheeks, and laughed like a frog.

"You can also call a frog." Zhang Tan said.

"I can still bray, do you want to listen?"

"Then listen."

Xiaobai laughed out loud and imitated the donkey bray twice.

"looks like?"

"I thought there was a little donkey in our igloo."

"Hahaha~~ This is my strong point, Boss Zhang, let me tell you, I can also bark like a tiger and a wolf, woo, woo~"

"Are tigers and wolves howling?"

"It's true, it's true, it's all screaming."

"What else do you call it?"

"Call the chicken."

"Toot, toot, is that so? I will too."

"Hahaha~~ I can also crow with a big cock."

"Then call to listen."

"Big, big, big~~"

"It's amazing."

"Xiaobai can also sing."

"A song to lull children to sleep?"

"I coaxed Liuliu before."

"Do you still want to coax Liuliu to sleep?"

"Hahahaha~~~ Boss Zhang, don't you like Liuliu? Liuliu is very loving, she is just a little naughty, she is still a doll."

"She's really cute and I like her a lot."

"Hey, who else do you like?"

"You, Xi'er also likes it very much, as well as Cheng Cheng, Dudu, and Xiaomi..."

"Everyone likes you!"

"But you are my favorite."

"I'm so in love, aren't I?"

"Hahaha, yes, you are so cute."

Xiao Bai happily kicked his feet.

Zhang Tan added: "Speaking of singing, do you want to have a song?"

"Okay, what do you want to hear?"

"casual."

"Then I'll sing to you my strengths."

"Really been waiting."

"Tang Monk rides a horse and thumps, followed by Sun Wukong. Sun Wukong, who runs fast, is followed by a pig monster. The pig monster has a long nose, and behind him is a sand monk. Sand monk, carrying a gong, is followed by an old witch The old witch, she is really bad, she deceived Tang Seng and the eight monsters. The Tang monk and the eight monsters are so confused, they can’t tell if it’s a human or a monster. They can’t tell, they’ve been fooled, thanks to Wukong’s bright eyes. Eyes are bright, shining golden, holding high Pick up the golden cudgel. The golden cudgel has power and wipes out all the demons and ghosts."

Zhang Tan had no choice but to applaud, so many words, Xiao Bai actually memorized them all, singing without missing a single word.

"Does it sound good?" Xiaobai asked softly.

"It's very, very nice to hear, you are so amazing, you can remember it for such a long time."

"I'm so good."

"It's really awesome."

"Hahahaha, Boss Zhang, what kind of songs do you know?"

"I know a lot, do you want to hear it?"

"I can do whatever I want~"

"Look at so many stars above our heads. In this situation, I will sing "Stars Light Up" for you."

"Give it to me?"

"Give it to you."

"If you want it, you want it~ hurry up and sing."

"The stars light up, light up my door
Let the lost children find their way

Light up the stars, light up my future

Use a little light to warm a child's heart. "

Xiaobai clapped and applauded very much.

"Is it alright?"

"That's your forte."

"That's true."

"Boss Zhang, what else do you know?"

"I can tell stories."

"I want to hear Theda and Baloo."

"Laputa in the Sky, right? You've listened to it seven or eight times, and you still want to listen to it. Where do you start?"

"Theda's spaceship is about to fall."

"Okay, let's start from here. Their spaceship encountered a huge tornado..."

He is happy to have stories to listen to, and Xiaobai's eyes become brighter and brighter.

After the story of "Castle in the Sky" was finished, Zhang Tan asked Xiaobai if he still wanted to hear it, and Xiaobai said he still wanted to hear it, so he told her "Frozen" and lived in an igloo to listen to this story. the occasion.

The more Xiaobai listened, the more energetic he became, without a trace of drowsiness.

Few people tell her bedtime stories. Grandma is one, after much deliberation, the other is Boss Zhang in front of her.

My aunt is asshole.

Uncle is naive.

After finishing "Frozen" and answering Xiaobai's "[-] reasons", Zhang Tan sat up, got up and poured himself a cup of hot water, his mouth was a little dry.

"Xiaobai, do you want a drink?"

"What should I do if I wet the bed?"

"It's okay, it will freeze."

"Hahaha~~"

Zhang Tan moistened his throat, lay back on the bed, leaned against the head of the bed, and slightly raised his head to look at the boundless starry sky.

"Xiaobai, do you still want to hear the story?"

"Boss Zhang, do you have a story to tell?"

"I'm the king of stories, I have all the stories you want to hear."

"Boss Zhang~"

"Ok?"

"Why are you being so nice to me?"

"I'm your old man." After Zhang Tan finished speaking, he was worried that Xiao Bai would think it was a joke again like last time, so he immediately added, "I'm not joking, I'm serious."

The igloo suddenly fell into silence, the wall lights had been turned off, leaving only a small night light near the floor on, and the starry sky above was extraordinarily bright, the starlight was scattered on the glass dome, and then penetrated through the dome Into the igloo, spread to every corner, covering the two people in the igloo like a layer of hazy and illusory tulle.

Xiao Bai suddenly sat up, straightened his body, looked at Zhang Tan in shock, and met Zhang Tan's eyes.Just when Zhang Tan thought she was going to cry and call the old man, she made a grimace, stuck her tongue out at him, slightly~~ and then hid herself under the quilt again, even covering her head.

Zhang Tan: "..."

"Don't you believe what I said?" Zhang Tan asked.

Xiaobai stopped talking, and there was a rustling sound from the bed, as if he was grinding his teeth, or he was eating durians.Immediately, a small head was exposed under the quilt. In the night under the starlight, those big bright eyes flickered, staring blankly at the glass dome, like a little astronomer.

But Zhang Tan noticed that the corner of Xiaobai's eyes flicked towards him. Even now, when he was looking at her, she was still peeking at him from the corner of her eye. Move, pretend.

"Why didn't you talk? Are you scared?" Zhang Tan asked.

Xiaobai was still lying motionless.

Since she didn't speak, Zhang Tan talked to himself.The conversation has already been said, so I will finish it all at once, and the showdown will be tonight, which is planned.

"I want to tell you something about me and your mother." He said, Xiaobai rolled his eyes and peeked more, but his body remained motionless, disguised by magic.

"Your mother used to work on West Chang'an Street, and I live near Little Red Horse, so I met her. She is a very gentle girl..."

Zhang Tan briefly talked about it, and of course skipped the complicated things between adults.

The igloo is dotted with stars, and the outside of the igloo is silent. They seem to be transformed into primitives and blend into the nature.

After speaking, the igloo was quiet for a while, and Xiao Bai finally spoke.

"Then why don't you want me?"

She was bitter about her lack of parents since she was a child.

"I didn't know you existed. I only found out last year. You turned out to be my doll."

"……Oh."

"Is there anything you want to ask?"

"Don't be kidding, Boss Zhang."

Zhang Tan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "I'm not kidding, I'm serious, several people said we look alike."

"Dudu and Liuliu are also very similar."

"That's different, they're just fat. Your grandma and your uncles and aunts know I'm your old man."

"Hmph, liar."

"Do you want to call and ask?"

Xiao Bai was silent for a moment, then suddenly said loudly: "I want to sleep! I won't talk to you—"

There was anger in her tone, and she got her head under the quilt again.

No matter what Zhang Tan said to her, she ignored it, as if she was really sleeping.

"Okay, let's not talk."

There was a popping sound from under the quilt, Xiaobai farted, quickly rubbed his head out of the quilt, and gasped silently for several times.

She turned over and lay on her side with her back to Zhang Tan, not knowing what she was thinking.

Zhang Tan didn't feel sleepy at all. I don't know how long it had passed in the dark night. Suddenly, he heard a little movement from Xiao Bai next to him. There was a rustling sound in the quilt. It quickly fell silent, but after a while, he heard a sound. Slight suppressed sobs, hiccups sounded from time to time.

Zhang Tan raised his upper body and leaned in front of Xiao Bai. Through the dim light blue starlight, he saw this little man wiping his tears with his hands, his mouth was pursed, his whole face was wrinkled, very resembling The photos of her when she was just born were all aggrieved.

Her eyes, which always shone with determination, were surrounded by countless teardrops and other complex emotions at this moment.Zhang Tan couldn't put it into words, he just felt uncomfortable.

Some people say that tears will overflow into the eye sockets only if they cannot hold in the heart, and will flow to the eyes, nose and mouth, and flow into other people's hearts when the eye sockets cannot hold.

At this moment, Xiaobai's teardrops were broken, big and big ones gushed out, and he couldn't finish wiping them off. His little face was already wet, and he was crying for a long time, and he was already choking.

She shed tears silently in the night like this, if Zhang Tan hadn't been up all the time and put most of his attention on her, maybe he wouldn't have noticed, maybe she just cried silently all night.

Zhang Tan couldn't help but wondered sadly, in the past 6 years she has passed, whether there have been many nights like tonight where she cried silently.At that time, who was by her side, who would hold her in his arms and comfort her softly?Or, she just cried all night, relying on self-healing.

Xiaobai didn't even look at Zhang Tan, put his hands on his face, and kept wiping away the disobedient tears, but he couldn't finish it no matter how much he wiped.

"I feel wronged, don't you?"

Zhang Tan stretched out his hand to hold her in his arms, but Xiao Bai squeezed his fist to open him, he stretched out his hand again, and was punched a few more times, hugged her, punched again...

"I hate you!"

With a roar, Xiao Bai hid sideways on the other side of the bed, curled up in a corner, trembling.

　Ask for a monthly pass, until the 7th, the monthly pass will be doubled, and it will be gone after that.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)