Chapter 10 what!doll

An An was carrying a small backpack and looked at the proud hat of the customs officer. He didn't pay attention to his father's reluctant eyes. "Little thing," Dad squatted down, holding An An's cheek with his big hands, "Don't forget Dad when you arrive in Taiwan." The little thing was not at all moved by his father's sentimentalism, and he said in German: "Daddy, I'm not going to be a garbage worker anymore; I'm going to be an airport policeman, okay?" Dad watched the mother and son walk through the checkpoint hand in hand, his eyes were like a transparent rope, tightly tied to their slender backs.

The back figure was quickly wiped away by the crowd. On the plane, An An buckled up her seat belt after sitting down like a veteran pilot.But a few minutes later, he was playing the game of a three-year-old child again-eyes in the cracks of the chair, playing hide-and-seek with the passengers in front, back, left, and right.The German tourists also teased him in a good-natured way. "Mom, are all these Germans going to Taiwan?" "No. Some go to Pakistan, some go to Thailand, and some go to the Philippines. Only some go to Taiwan." When we arrived in Karachi, some Pakistanis and Indians came up.An An opened her eyes and pricked her ears:

"Mother, who are they? What are they talking about?" "Pakistans speak Urdu; Indians speak Hindi, baby." The baby stood on the chair and observed it, then nodded and came to a conclusion: "They're darker, mother." "Yes, because it's hotter here, and the sun tans the skin." "Also, mother, the soil is probably darker too." "What soil?" The mother was confused. "Mud!" An An gestured with her hands, "Nu Wa probably used darker soil when making them, right?" Stopped in Bangkok, black-haired and black-eyed passengers came in one after another.A little Thai girl, about five years old, with butterfly braids, came over and looked at Hua Jing quietly.

What did the girl say, An An turned around in confusion and asked: "Mom, what is she talking about? Isn't she Chinese?" "No, she is Thai and speaks Thai." "Why," An An stared at the girl, "Why, why do you look like a Chinese?" "It's very similar, but it's not the same, baby." Mom thought for a while, and then said: "You see, that horse looks a lot like a donkey, but a horse is a horse, and a donkey is a donkey, right?" "Yeah!" An An agreed, and reminded her mother: "Flies are similar to bees, and... wolves are similar to wolf dogs, and... egrets are similar to cranes, and..."

There are a lot of people boarding from Manila.Everyone was carrying big and small bags in their hands: ox horns, straw hats, rattan baskets, tobacco and alcohol gifts... Everyone shouted and talked loudly with excitement.The cabin suddenly looked like a department store. "Hey, how much is your bottle of XO?" "Fifty dollars, where's yours?" "Wow! I bought it at the duty-free shop at the airport, fifty-six yuan. I fell for it, and killed me!" "Miss, this is an English form, what should I do if I don't know how to fill it out?" "Mrs. Zhang, it's okay. I'll fill in the passport for you."

"Please, please, don't press my horns..." An An leaned her head on the back of the chair, her round eyes didn't dare to blink, she was so shocked that she forgot to speak as she looked at the noisy crowd. When he came back to his senses, he asked his mother softly: "Mom, so many people—they all speak Chinese. Are they all Chinese?" The mother couldn't help laughing, she suddenly understood the little boy's confusion and shock: In An An's world, there is only one person who speaks Chinese, and that is his sweet mother.In Chinese, it means "mother's words".All the rest of the world—the kid in kindergarten, the fat ice cream guy, Mrs. Kaufman who used to give him chocolates across the street, the postman who rang the bell, the bald painter, the chimney sweep in black, of course, And his father who made him ride a horse—all of them, all of them spoke German.

Why, why did so many people come in on this plane suddenly, and they all spoke An'an's "mother's words"? An An was very surprised, and also a little bit of joy that he didn't understand: he could understand all these people's twittering!Just like the king who saw two cranes walking in the garden and suddenly realized that he understood the whispers of the cranes... "What a cute doll!" A woman screamed, and several other women came over, surrounding the little boy who was still in shock. "What is your name?" "Where do you come from?"

The woman talked to An An in a hurry, in English. This time.An An was really confused, he turned to ask his mother, his voice was full of confusion: "Mom, why do they speak English to me?" The woman was startled and screamed again: "Wow! He can speak Chinese! It's a Chinese kid! It's amazing..." Some people still don't give up and insist on asking in English: "What's your name?" Now that An An has calmed down, he said: "Auntie, I don't speak English, I only speak German. Can you?" There is a long street in Taoyuan, and there is a big temple in the middle of the street. One side of the temple is called Miaoqian, and the other side of the temple is called Miaohou.The aunt told the mother who was a guest that she could go to the front of the temple and behind the temple to buy some clothes for An An.An An asked thoughtfully:

"Mom, why does Longxing call my mother 'aunt' and I call his mother 'aunt'? Why does he call grandma 'grandma' and I call grandma 'grandmother'? Why is Longxing's father called 'uncle'? Why is he called Chugo 'Uncle', Yindi's 'Uncle', then yesterday's big belly became 'Uncle' again? Why—” "Hush—" Mom interrupted An An's questioning angrily, and tried to divert his attention: "The taxi is here, let's go behind the temple first." There are so many clothes shops behind the temple, one after another, the aisles are full of clothes, An An is happily walking around in the pile of cloth, flickering.

"Hey, Ayu, come and see, here is a doll!" The girl watching the store shouted.As soon as my mother turned around, she found that An An was already surrounded.Someone touched his hair, someone held his hand. "The eyes are so beautiful! What's your name?" When the mother came to rescue, the girls suddenly realized and said: "Ah! It turns out they are of mixed race!" Now my mother is also under heavy siege: "Which country is his father from?" "Where do you live?" "Ah, how did you know each other? Where did you meet?" "Is his father pretty? How tall is he?"

"Why didn't Papa come? What was he doing?" "How long have you been married? How many children?" "Oh, why doesn't the child look like you?" The fat proprietress came out from the inside, and the girls made room for it. The proprietress said: "Is this your kiddo?" I nod.she said aloud: "How is that possible? This kid is so beautiful!" Walking out of the shop, mother held An An's little hand tightly and stopped the taxi with a wave.An An protested unhappily: "I don't want to go home. My aunt said there is still the temple, and I have to go to the street in front of the temple! You said I would go too!" "Cute doll——" Mother hugged her writhing little body, and sighed a long time: "Mom can't take it anymore!"