Chapter 7

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

Lu Yan looked at the fiendish-looking Zhou Miao and the hand that was about to land on his butt. Suddenly, he sat down on the ground.

The child’s big eyes were filled with tears, but he still pulled a long face vehemently to stop himself from crying.

“Big Brother can’t talk. Big Brother is an idiot. Big Brotheris really an idiot.”

Lu Yan shouted resentfully.

Children of this age had their own system of understanding the world, but they didn’t have the ability to think in other people’s shoes. That was why Lu Yan had treated his Big Brother in this way.

In the child’s eyes, Cheng Heng was a big, quiet idiot who couldn’t speak. The child called Cheng Heng an idiot to tease him, but he was just acting according to his own thoughts.

Although children appeared innocent, their naivety was sometimes even more hurtful than the devious scheming of adults.

Zhou Miao looked at Cheng Heng, who had been painted as a giant panda. He lowered his head and looked only at the paint box in front of him in a daze. The emoji box above his head still had a dazed expression.

Zhou Jing sighed. She knew that Cheng Heng couldn’t feel pain in his body, and now it seemed that sometimes he couldn’t feel this kind of malicious taunting from others.

“Big Brother is not an idiot.” Zhou Miao squatted down and stroked Lu Yan’s head.

Lu Yan’s small face was tensed up. As he was holding back his tears, his nose had turned red, and he looked like he would rather die than submit.

“Big Brother only feels the world differently and expresses himself in a different way from us. There’s nothing wrong with him.” Zhou Miao explained patiently. “Not everyone who doesn’t know how to speak is an idiot…”

Lu Yan was somewhat convinced by Zhou Miao, but he still refused to admit it. “No! Let Big Brother prove it to me!”

Zhou Miao looked at Cheng Heng, who was sitting there in a daze, and felt that she was caught in a dilemma. How could he prove it?

“Do you have drawing homework to do? How about you let Big Brother do up one drawing according to your topic?” Zhou Miao looked at the empty drawing board, and an idea formed in her heart.

Lu Yan nodded in agreement with Zhou Miao’s suggestion.

“Then pinky swear with me then. If Big Brother can draw it, we won’t think of him as an idiot anymore.”

Seeing that Lu Yan had agreed, Zhou Miao’s voice also became much gentler.

Lu Yan had not cried earlier, but now he was choking back his tears a little. His eyes were red as he hooked his pinky with Zhou Miao’s.

“Is that alright?” Zhou Miao turned her head to look at Cheng Heng.

Cheng Heng stared at Zhou Miao blankly, as if he did not quite understand her purpose, but he still nodded obediently. He then sat in front of the easel and began spreading out the canvas.

The two of them, one tall and one short, began to draw.

This time, the theme of the homework assigned by Lu Yan’s teacher was toys. Lu Yan drew his favorite Ultraman, while Cheng Heng drew the little bear that he often hugged.

Little Bear was lying on the red plaid bed sheet, its eyes empty and black. The clothes on its body were not as exquisite as ordinary dolls, but rather, it was wearing torn clothes.

However, the clothes were torn in a very artistic fashion and were made up of all kinds of patchwork rags.

Zhou Miao looked at the lifelike Little Bear on the paper and thought of the bear that Cheng Heng had been carrying these few days. It seemed to be wearing the same clothes.

What did this outfit represent?

On the other hand, Lu Yan had also finished drawing. On the paper, there were pieces of things all over the place. The little monster had a big head and a small body. Ultraman’s two protruding eyes looked like a small goldfish.

Zhou Miao snickered out loud.

Lu Yan’s face turned red. He wasn’t very good at drawing, so he felt a little embarrassed when he saw that his Big Brother was drawing very well.

“Alright, alright! Big Brother won. Big Brother is not an idiot.” Lu Yan pursed his lips.

“That’s right.” Zhou Miao stroked Lu Yan’s head. “Then do you want to apologize to Big Brother?”

Lu Yan stood there, a little embarrassed.

“If you apologize and wipe the paint off his face, I can reward you with some nice snacks!”

Children of this age were still very innocent. Upon hearing that there were nice snacks, Lu Yan took the wet tissue from Zhou Miao’s hand and stood in front of Cheng Heng with his head lowered.

“Big Brother, I’m sorry. Let me help you wipe your face.”

Just as Lu Yan was about to reach out and touch Cheng Heng’s face, Cheng Heng suddenly turned his head to the side and stared at Zhou Miao with a lost look.

“Let him help you wipe it.” Zhou Jing nodded. “He wants to apologize to you. He won’t hurt you.”

Cheng Heng obediently turned his head back and allowed Lu Yan to wipe his face.

Zhou Miao could not help but laugh. Why did this Cheng Heng look like he had found a backer? Just now, when she was not around, he obediently allowed himself to be bullied by a child. Now that she was around, he became tough.

Lu Yan still couldn’t wipe Cheng Heng’s face clean after a while. Zhou Miao thought about it and decided not to make things difficult for the child. She walked over and took the wet tissue to help him wipe it.

The wiping was fine, but then Zhou Miao saw a smiley face appear above Lu Yan’s head. On the other side, the blank face in the emoji box above Cheng Heng’s head also smiled obediently.

Huh?

Could it be that she could also harvest other people’s smiley faces?