Chapter 11 of 23
CH 11
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Xie Yishu thought for a moment that he had auditory hallucinations.
He didn’t hear the sound clearly, so he asked the little cub: “Bo Zai, did you hear any sound?”
Bo Zai tightened his chubby face and denied, “Bo Zai didn’t.”
He tried hard to suck his belly, trying to hold the button with a knitted vest and a small belly to prevent it from falling out.
As long as he maintains this position, the small button will not fall out.
Bo Zai thought so, and he was relieved when he heard Xie Yishu said, “Then, teacher may have heard it wrong.”
As soon as the belly moved, the button fell out on the mezzanine.
Bounced on the ground and made a “ding” with a crisp sound.
It rolled another distance and finally stopped at Xie Yishu’s feet.
Xie Yishu picked up the button and looked at the little cub in front of him: “Bo Zai, this is…”
Bo Zai looked at the small button in Xie Yishu’s hands, his eyes were red. He tried very hard to control his emotions, but without success, the small tears fell.
Mom finally recognized him.
As a result, he shows an ugly side in front of his mother again.
Just now his mother changed the way he pronounces himself from “mother” to “teacher”.
His mother might not like Bo Zai again.
The cub lifted his chubby hand to wipe the tears. The more he thought about it, the sadder he felt. Finally, he couldn’t hold back his tears. He covered his eyes and cried out.
Xie Yishu was stunned at first, but then he reacted.
After thinking for a while, he said to Bo Zai, “Bo Zai, teacher has something to ask you. I don’t know if you can help teacher.”
The cub’s small ears trembled.
He was very active in “helping his mother” and “letting his mother like him again”, and refused to let go of an opportunity to brush up his favorability. Xie Yishu’s words transferred his attention very well. He wiped his tears, sobbed and asked, “What, helping with what?”
“Teacher is learning how to sew recently but is lack in practice.” Xie Yishu said as he took the little cub to the sink. He deliberately hesitated, as if he was a little embarrassed to open his mouth. “The button was ripped from your cloth, so can I use this to practice my sewing?”
The chubby cub believes that it is true, and quickly nodded his head: “Okay!”
Yunshan Kindergarten asked every parent to prepare a handkerchief for their child.
Xie Yishu reached out inside Bo Zai’s pocket, found the handkerchief, wetted it with water, and while wiping the tears little cub’s cheek, he talked with little cub in a pleased tone: “Teacher juts learn how to sew, so can Bo Zai help teacher to keep it as a secret?”
Bo Zai focused his chubby face: “No problem!”
He realized that he knew a little secret of his mother, and he is excited again, looking at Xie Yishu’s small eyes with hope: “Teacher Xie, is this the little secret between Bo Zai and teacher?”
“Yes.” Xie Yishu affirmed. He had a similar experience, knowing the embarrassment of being found to be wearing inappropriate clothes.
He looked at the heavy and rejuvenating chubby cub and stretched his hand to rub his head: “After a while, when Teacher Ge comes, I will tell her that I have something in the dormitory and I need to go back and get it. You said that you will go with me and take it with me, okay?”
Bo Zai is very proud to be able to help his mother, so he puffed up his chest and said: “Okay!”
The two were not on the same channel at all, but reached a consensus on this matter.
When Ge Qing arrived in the class, Xie Yishu greeted him and took the little cub to the dorm to sew the buttons.
Bo Zai was still a little shy when he took off the knitted vest, but when he thought that he was helping his mother; all the awkwardness and embarrassing feeling has fly away.
He quickly took off his little knitted vest, revealing a shirt with a button down. The little cub unbuttoned the buttons awkwardly, took off the little shirt and handed it to Xie Yishu: “Teacher Xie, here you are!”
“Thank you, Bo Zai.” Xie Yishu took the small shirt and hung it on the back of the chair. He wrapped the little cub with a blanket first and wrapped him tightly. Then he picked up the shirt on the back of the chair and took out the needle and thread that he bought yesterday in the drawer, and sewed the buttons.
While sewing, Xie Yishu checked the other buttons and found that they were a little loose. So he asked the little cub, “Bo Zai, can teacher practice to sew on other buttons too?”
Bo Zai is naturally 100% happy, wrapped in a small blanket and said: “Okay!”
Xie Yishu took the scissors and cut off the buttons. When re-sewing, he paid attention to them and moved the buttons to the edge.
He used to help himself and his younger brothers and sisters in the orphanage to sew their clothes. He hadn’t done it for a few years and was a little rusty, but the speed was still very fast: “Bo Zai, come and see.”
The chubby cub stretched out his arm and wears his clothes obediently. Xie Yishu helped him button up the shirt, and the cub moved a little. He was surprised to find that the originally tight little shirt was not so tight anymore!
Did he lose weight?
But it’s only been for a while!
The little cub though has been shown all over his. Xie Yishu held back his smile and thanked, “Thank you, Bo Zai, for lending your clothes to teacher for practice.”
“This is what Bo Zai should do!” Because he helped his mother, Xiao Pangdun felt so happy in his heart, “Bo Zai has a lot of these clothes at home. Teacher Xie doesn’t have enough materials. Bo Zai will bring the clothes to Teacher Xie tomorrow so Teacher Xie doesn’t need to buy anymore.”
Although he only has one small shirt, Dad has a lot of them.
And each one has many, many small buttons!