Gentlemen's Friends

Chapter 35 Part [-]: Fairy Tale

"Uncle, tell me another story."

Holding his calf at his feet is his little niece.My cousin came to T city for vacation and brought a pair of children. The eldest son is in the rebellious period, and the youngest daughter is in the grinding period. She has to listen to many fairy tales every day, and never stops from morning till night.

Feeling a little tired, Ren Ningyuan picked her up, let her sit on his lap, and then opened a book of fairy tales.

However, as soon as the story was read, the kid said, "Uncle, I've heard this before."

It is not a good thing for a child to have a good memory and a strong thirst for knowledge.

"Uncle, can you tell me a story that I have never heard?"

This is really not easy to do.For the first time, Ren Ningyuan felt a sense of fatigue, rubbed his temples, and opened another book.

He is not very energetic today.

"Uncle, I don't want to listen to the books. I've heard them all. I want to listen to the radio."

Ren Ningyuan closed the pages of the book and looked at a certain direction on the table for a while: "Uncle, let me tell you a story about a clownfish."

Once upon a time there was a clown fish who met a big shark at the bottom of the sea one day.Obviously it is a vicious shark, many fish are afraid of it, I don’t know why, but the clownfish will regard it as a kind person, think it is a vegetarian, think it is very handsome, follow it wholeheartedly, be its little follower, up and down every day Clean it up.

Sharks were not used to it at first, and it is not a sea anemone, and it is not a suitable symbiotic object for clownfish at all.But the clownfish treats it too well, probably because of its bad eyesight, and mistakenly regards it as a gentle and beautiful sea anemone. It brings food to share with it every day, and helps it clean up the waste on its body.

Gradually, the shark will also close its teeth to make itself look more gentle and kind.When the clownfish gets into its mouth to help it clean it with all its heart, it must be very careful to ensure that it will not swallow it accidentally.

The friendship that the clownfish has for the shark is worth the shark doing something for it, so that it can live safely in its small world.

Sharks don't have to do much, as clownfish don't ask for much at all.So, the shark circled a small coral group far away from the bottom of the sea, found a sea anemone, and let the clownfish swim around safely and fully in it.

After that, no fish will help the shark to do what the clownfish did, no fish will happily follow behind it, the shark feels a little lonely and misses the clownfish a little.

But the clownfish's life there is no longer easy, and the real underwater world where the shark lives is crueler and uglier than it knows.

But one day the clownfish suddenly came out of the coral group and came to the shark with all his belongings.

This is really stupid and unsafe. Although it is called a clownfish, its body color is very bright, which will bring many dangers to it, and it will easily become the target of predation and be swallowed by other fish casually.

It's so weak and not easy to hide, the shark doesn't know where to hide it.

Perhaps it is only safe to get into the mouth of the shark, but the shark itself is carnivorous after all, and it has to eat a lot of fish every meal.

"and then?"

Ren Ningyuan paused for a while, then lowered his head and stroked the soft yellow hair on the top of the little girl's head: "It's very late, you should go to bed."

"But Uncle, the story isn't over yet. The shark didn't eat the clownfish, did it? They've always been friends, haven't they?"

Ren Ningyuan gave a noncommittal "hmm", and said with the patience and gentleness of an adult: "Go to sleep, or mom will scold you when she comes back."

The four-year-old kid is still reluctant: "What happened to the clownfish?"

Ren Ningyuan was silent for a while, and looked up at the table: "It was washed ashore and died."

The little ghost lost his voice, and after being quiet for a while, he said loudly: "Uncle, you are lying, the radio station will not play this kind of fairy tale."

Ren Ningyuan touched her head: "Go to sleep."

Life is not a fairy tale.

The man in the photo frame on the table smiled timidly and full of flattered joy, his face was very young.That was many years ago, and he still remembers standing beside him at that time, with a very faint smell on his body.

He also remembered that he had been away for a whole year.

(End of this chapter)