Chapter 21 electric calf

One autumn afternoon, the sun shone lazily through the window, thick and yellow like peanut oil.The reason why it is so oily is because the leaves of the magnolia tree outside the window have turned golden and fell to the ground, as if someone covered the grass with a yellow blanket. Feifei just came back angrily and stopped playing with Xiaobaicai, why?Because she cried.why is she cryingBecause I kicked her.why did you kick herShe keeps calling me a dog, she won't be a dog, then I'll be a cute kitten, then she won't, I kick her... My mother was lying on the sofa reading a book called "An Old Taiwanese Writer in the 1950s"; the bored Fei Fei covered his head in front of the book, "I won't show you," he said, "play with me."

He climbed onto the sofa and lay his body on top of his mother. The sun brushed his hair, his mother hugged him, and kissed his hair, forehead, eyelashes, cheeks, nose... Feifei hooked his mother's neck with two short arms, and suddenly kissed his mother's lips forcefully . "It's stuck!" Mom said, "It's inseparable!" Feifei opened her round eyes and said suddenly: "Let's get married!" My mother seemed to be choked, she was surprised and laughed again, she couldn't breathe from the laughter. The phone just rang. "Are you Mrs. Ward?"

"yes." "Did you know a little boy named Freddy?" There was a "ding" in my mother's head: something happened.Ann and Freddy went to the children's playground behind the supermarket together half an hour ago. "I'm the owner of Harold's Supermarket. Freddie stole something from our store, and his parents are away, can you come and pick him up?" Mom hands Feifei to a neighbor and jumps in the car.Where is Ann? My mother became a thief for the first time when she was eight years old.Pulled out a ten-yuan bill from her mother's purse, and secretly hid it under the closet.But there was a large full-length mirror on the closet, and the father sitting in the living room watched every movement of his daughter.

Where is Ann?Did he steal it too?What did you steal? Through the rows of vegetables, the butcher's stand, the bread stand, and the egg racks, in a small office in the back, Mom met Freddie, who had just entered the first grade. Freddy burst into tears at once, rubbing his tears with his fists, and sobbing: "It was An An who asked me to steal - I don't want to steal it myself - it was An An who asked me to come..." Several adults gathered around.The owner of the supermarket whispered to his mother: "He is really scared, don't scare him." Mama knelt down and held Freddy in her arms for a moment, and when he had calmed down a bit, she said:

"Don't you be afraid, Freddie, they won't call the police, we'll take care of you. First I need to know—" The mother straightened the little boy's shoulders and stared straight at him, "I want to know what you did from your mouth first. Tell me the truth." "I'll come in and get these chocolates—" Mom saw a big bag of candy on the table, "stuff them under my clothes, and that's it—" The current prisoner performed on the spot how he shrank his neck, hunched his back, and walked out with his stomach in his arms. Mom wanted to laugh, but held back, and put on a serious face: "Did An An teach you this trick, or did you think of it yourself?"

"I figured it out by myself!" There was a bit of pride in the voice, "I thought it all up with my own head!" "This kid," interposed the boss, "I noticed in the mirror last week that he was walking out stooped all the time, and I want our lady's attention. He just appeared again, and he walked away for the first time. , this time we are waiting for him to come." Mom shook hands with the boss, thanked him for his gentleness and understanding, and promised to explain the situation to Freddy's parents. Holding his mother's hand tightly, Freddy walked out the glass door of the supermarket.

On the path, the mother stopped and bent over the little boy: "Freddie, I'm going to ask you a question now, and you have to give me a 100% true answer to this question-will you agree? Otherwise, I will no longer be your friend from now on." Freddy nodded, still wet tears on his cheeks. "My question is: Did An An ask you to steal it?" "No," the answer came quickly and urgently, "No, it was all planned by me. An An is my friend, and I want to tell the truth. He didn't ask me to steal." "Okay," Mom wiped his tears with her fingers, "will you promise never to take anything from anyone else again?"

He nodded, "Never again." After walking a few steps, I saw An An sitting on a tree trunk, her two thin legs dangling in the air.He looked very calm, the kind of calm that is about to come. When mother and An An were alone, An An finally couldn't hold back: "Mom, I didn't steal. I didn't do anything wrong." Mom sat down in the peanut oil-colored living room, and An An stood at attention in front of her. "I don't want to listen to a lie, do you understand?" nod. "Before he went, did you know he was going to steal?" nod. "After he stole the candy, did he share the candy with you?"

nod. "He used to steal, do you know that?" nod. "Break up with you every time?" "we are good friends." "Did you tell him to steal?" "No." Loudly. The mother raised her eyes and stared deeply at the eight-year-old.There is a group of dairy cows in the field, grazing leisurely all day long, as if the whole sky and grassland belonged to them, until one day, a calf wanted to go farther, and encountered a thin line that was almost invisible ——That's the boundary line, the line was charged, the calf was shocked, and stopped, it turned out that there are places and things you can't do in this world.

"Do you know what an accomplice is?" Mom asked. "have no idea." "An accomplice," said Ma, "is someone who joins in doing bad things. Like taking a knife and letting someone kill, like letting someone steal and then enjoying the stolen things with him... Your fault is almost as bad as Freddy's." Same weight, you know?" An An was thinking and said, "How much does he weigh? How much do I weigh?" "He weighs six and you weigh four. Is it heavy enough?" nod. "I have to punish you too. Do you agree?" Nodding, eyes drooping.

Mother and son are at the desk. "Leave it to me when it's finished, and I'll pick Feifei back." That night, my father and mother sat together under the lamp to read a crooked diary: "Today was a bad day. Freddie went to Harlequin and got caught. His mother wouldn't give him candy, so he stole it. I felt bad because I also ate the stolen candy. Mom said it was called splitting the spoils. I didn't steal it, but I didn't tell him not to steal it, because he shared it with me.In my current way, stealing is absolutely unacceptable.I will never again.It was very disappointing, my mother asked me to write the report, and I made a lot of mistakes. It took a long time, and I felt very sad.Very ㄋ ㄢ too.September 28, 1993" Do you know what happened to Freddy?The next morning, he brought a bouquet of flowers, and walked to the Harold supermarket with his father, bowing and apologizing to the boss.After returning, he was grounded for a week, which meant that he could only play in the garden by himself after school and was not allowed to go out.And good friend An An can only look at each other from a distance.From the study, Mom heard them questioning each other. "Freddie, my mother, I write articles, and now I'm sweeping leaves. What are you doing?" Broom sound.The sound of footsteps on fallen leaves. "My mom does too. I sweep the garden. The leaves are all over the ground." "Quiet." "But I think it's quite amusing—don't you like sweeping leaves, Freddie?" "I like it, but my mother still tells me that I am not allowed to watch TV for three days." "Ah, me too..." sadly. It was another afternoon when the sun was as thick as peanut oil.