37. The Secret of Lilliput
Xiao Chen arranged for someone to deliver goods to Anhua on time tomorrow, and then returned to Anmin County with Liu Shuai's second-hand Xiali. It was exactly 4 o'clock, and Nini was about to get off school.
"Nini, Dad is here to pick you up home." Director Chen led Xiao Chen into the classroom. Nini was still sitting in front of the small table and burying her head to draw, responding: "Dad, wait for me for a while, I'm almost finished drawing."
"Ni Ni draws slowly, dad, don't worry." Xiao Chen walked gently behind Nini and watched Nini draw. The lines of the drawing were childish and rough, but Xiao Chen could still tell that Nini was painting an adult leading a little girl. Xiao Chen guessed that this should be a father and daughter. At the feet of the father and daughter, there were some small houses, trees and villains, probably a villain.
Nini took the picture to Xiao Chen's eyes and proudly showed off: "Dad, do you see if the paintings I painted are good?" She pointed to the father and daughter and said: "This is Dad and I, we are traveling in the Lilliput Kingdom!"
"Hahaha, Nini is so stupid. There is no villain at all!" A chubby little boy next to him pointed at Nini's painting and laughed.
Nini glared at her eyes and said angrily: "Some! My dad said there are some!"
"But my dad said no!" Zhuangzhuang refused to give in. "My dad said that they were all fairy tales, and they were made up by adults to deceive children!"
"What your father said is wrong, my father said is right!" Nini shook Xiao Chen's hand and begged: "Dad, tell Zhuangzhuang, is there a villain country in this world?"
Well... Xiao Chen had a broad brain pain, but in order to protect his daughter, he nodded and said, "That's right, Zhuangzhuang kid, there is indeed a villain in this world!"
Zhuangzhuang looked confused. His father clearly told him not, but Nini's father told him there was... Who should I listen to?
"Parent, please don't mislead my son!" Suddenly, someone spoke from behind, his tone of unhappy.
I don’t know when Zhuangzhuang’s father came to pick up his son after school. When he happened to hear Xiao Chen and his daughter talking to Zhuangzhuang, he immediately walked in to refute.
Zhuang Zhuang's father helped the myopia mirror that was more than 500 degrees, and the nerd's breath came to his face. He said furiously: "British writer Swift wrote this story just to satirize the British government at that time, and it is not a fairy tale at all. Moreover, the Lilli Kingdom is purely fabricated, and scientific research has proved that it does not exist! Dad Nini, you, as an adult, should be very clear about this. What you did just now has seriously affected my son's ability to correctly judge things in the future!"
"You said this a bit exaggeratedly? This is just a fairy tale. Children like to listen to fairy tales. And what you said affects the ability to correctly judge things is too far-reaching!" Xiao Chen felt speechless. Should this parent be so serious?
Zhuangzhuang's father snorted and said with confidence: "It's not an exaggeration at all! The parenting book says that children at this stage are establishing their own worldview. I hope my son can have a clear understanding of the world, rather than immersing himself in those false fairy tales and unable to extricate himself!" He rolled his eyes and asked Xiao Chen: "If you think the Lilliput Kingdom really exists, please provide evidence! Otherwise, please don't talk casually! Mislead other people's children!"
Xiao Chen was completely speechless. He felt that a scholar could not explain the reason when he met a soldier. Now he had deep sympathy for Zhuangzhuang. He had a dull father. How boring should this child have in his childhood?
Without wanting to continue to get entangled with this nerd, Xiao Chen took Nini away from the kindergarten.
Zhuangzhuang's father raised his head proudly, as if he had won a rooster. He said to his son: "Zhuangzhuang! Have you seen it? In the future, when you meet such a fool, you must present scientific principles to defeat him!"
"Oh! Dad, what is science?" Zhuangzhuang asked, sucking his fingers.
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"Dad, didn't you say there is a villain? Why didn't you tell Zhuangzhuang's father just now?"
Xiao Chen took Nini's little hand and walked on the way home. The little guy pouted and was unhappy, as if he was still worried about what had happened just now.
"Ni Ni, are the residents of Lilliput Kingdom very small?" Xiao Chen did not answer directly, but asked back.
Nini nodded: "Yes, they are too young to dance on Grev's palm."
"Then do you think they are afraid of us huge humans?" Xiao Chen continued to induce and asked.
"They are so scared, because we can step on them with one foot!" Nini raised her foot and made a stomp.
"Yes, the residents of the Little Man Country are afraid of our giants, so in order not to be discovered by us, they hid their country in a very, very secret place. Only Dad knows this place. If Dad tells others, it will cause trouble to the Little Man Country, and may even fall into danger. Nini doesn't want to see such a thing, right?"
Nini shook her head quickly: "I don't want to go to their place with my dad!"
"So, my dad didn't tell Zhuangzhuang's dad about the Little Man Kingdom. In addition, my dad hopes that Nini can also help Nini keep secrets and not let their lives be disturbed." Xiao Chen touched Nini's little head.
"Yeah!" Nini nodded obediently.
After thinking for a while, Xiao Chen decided to fulfill his promise: "Tomorrow is Sunday, the kindergarten is on holiday, and my father has already greeted his friends in Little People's Country. Let's visit Little People's Country tomorrow."
"Really! Oh! That's great!" Nini jumped up excitedly, and she said happily: "Dad, when you arrive in the Little People's Country tomorrow, please take a few more photos for me. I want to take them back for Zhuangzhuang! I also have to buy a lot of souvenirs for all the children and teachers."
"Uh... I'm afraid this won't work." Xiao Chen shook his head, "Have you forgotten to help the villain keep a secret? And we can't enter the villain and can only take a look from a distance, because we are too big and you may step on their house or even kill the villain if you accidentally."
Nini thought about it and felt that what Xiao Chen said made sense, but she had already agreed with Zhuangzhuang. What should I do? She would definitely be ridiculed by Zhuangzhuang. However, for the sake of the security of the villain country, Nini decided to obey her father and help the villain country keep the secret.
The father and daughter were chatting and walking. In a hotel called "Yu Shentang" on the roadside, Gao Yue, the owner of the Xuanfeng Hair Salon, was greeting him with a good friend who had returned from the imperial capital.
"Come on, have another drink!"
Gao Yue poured his friend a glass of beer and smiled and said, "Li Xiang, can we brothers not see each other for ten years?"
"No, ten years have passed, time passes so quickly!" Li Xiang sighed and drank the beer in the glass. He looked at Gao Yue and suddenly said, "Actually, I envy you. Open a small shop by myself, being free and unrestrained, not as tired as I am. It's great!
Gao Yue laughed and said, "It's true that you are free and easy, but you make less money. My profit this year may not be enough for your income in a movie, right? A big director?"
"What director? I'm just an assistant, far away from the director." Li Xiang waved his hand, "If I hadn't left the imperial capital for my dream, it would be really difficult for the assistant to do the job, alas!"
Chapter completed!