They are used to being raised in captivity at home, but if they suddenly leave home and live in a group, there will be a long period of adaptation. Eyes are the first window for communication and feedback between people and the outside world. Once this connection is cut off, everything else will become more difficult.
I have to coax before going to bed at night, and I cry when I wake up in the morning.
How hopeless it is to wake up and not be at home and not hear the voices of mom and dad.
Tao Huainan was much stronger than them, he just wiped away his tears the next morning, and he didn't cry anymore. After all, compared with other children, he would often be separated from his brother for a few days. The longest time for his brother to go out for more than half a month, he would go to Brother Tian Yi's house to stay with Aunt Tian and Grandpa Shi.
So compared to others, he certainly misses his brother, but he is not so desperate.
Not to mention the delay.
I grabbed Chiku all day yesterday, and I slept with my hands at night. I don't know when I fell asleep before I took my hands back.
Tao Huainan woke up early, remembered that he was at school now, lowered his head and cried silently for a while, then jumped off his bed and touched Chi Ku's bed with his bare feet. After touching it, he quietly climbed up and sat by the bed.
Chi Ku woke up, he couldn't sleep well. Opening his eyes, he saw Tao Huainan wiping his tears with his back turned to him, and Chi Ku moved in.
Tao Huainan heard him move, tilted his head to listen, wanted to say something, opened his mouth and closed it again.
The relationship between the two of them is a bit delicate now. For children, they don't know how to alleviate this subtlety. They didn't have a good relationship at first, and they didn't say a word. But yesterday they were together and holding hands, Tao Huainan no longer hated him.
But I also don't want to open my mouth to take the initiative to speak. This kind of emotion is embarrassing for adults, but awkward for children. It's embarrassing to cling to people even though they're not good friends.
Grandma came in from the outside lightly, holding four sets of clothes in her hand. Seeing that the two of them woke up and didn't make a fuss, he smiled and praised in a low voice: "Oh, you're so good."
When Tao Huainan heard the sound, he pursed his lips, moved his buttocks back, and didn't finish until he was tired.
Grandma reached out and touched his head, and said softly with a smile: "As timid as a kitten."
There are many things to be taught in school, such as how to wash and dress independently, all have to be taught slowly. The little radish heads were led out by the grandmothers of each house in a row of four, holding the clothes of the previous one, and drove the small train to the water room.
Chiku doesn't need to teach, the little blind people haven't organized well yet, Chiku has already finished washing his face and brushing his teeth. Tao Huainan let go of him temporarily, and followed his grandmother's instructions to explore.
Letting go was only temporary, as soon as he came out of the water room, he drove back to the room by a small train of four. Tao Huainan grabbed Chiku's clothes and held them tightly.
They stayed at the school like this.
If there is no difference between schools for the blind and ordinary schools, then it is definitely not the case. There is still a difference, but it is not that big. Their first class is in Braille, which is their first step in exposure to culture. On this basis, there are other courses similar to those of normal elementary schools, including language, mathematics, foreign language, music, art and labor.
Apart from his timidity, Tao Huainan adapted fairly well, and the other children in the class cried less and less. The teachers coaxed them softly for the first two days, but they became less tempered from the third day onwards. They began to set rules for the children, and gradually became stricter.
The tables and chairs that Tao Huainan and Chi Ku were sitting side by side were also separated, but they sat one behind the other, and Tao Huainan could touch Chi Ku's table when he turned his head.
From Monday to Friday, these five days are too long for children.
On Thursday night, Tao Huainan was lying on the bed, clutching a bundle of pillow covers in his hands, thinking about his brother silently.
The pillow cover was tied by grandma. Seeing that it was too difficult for the two of them to stretch their arms across the railing and hold hands every night, I found a pillow cover for me, passed it through the railing, and let them each hold one end.
Tao Huainan holds one end in his hand every night before going to bed, and moves when he can't hear the sound, and Chi Ku also moves if he doesn't sleep.
I can go home tomorrow, and my brother will pick me up in the afternoon.
Tao Huainan wanted to cry again, he held the pillowcase and twitched it lightly.
Chi Ku moved, Tao Huainan called him in a low voice: "Chi Ku."
There was already a crying tone in the voice, Chi Ku said over there: "Don't cry."
He always sounded fierce when he spoke, Tao Huainan curled his lips: "I miss my brother."
Chi Ku ignored him, Tao Huainan was used to it, and ignored him. Tao Huainan let go of the pillow towel and turned over.
Chi Ku closed his eyes over there, feeling extremely sleepy. A corner of the pillow cover was pressed under his head, and he could feel Tao Huainan's movement.
Tao Huainan turned over and closed his eyes for a while, then turned back after a while, pulled up the pillow towel and held it weakly.
Tao Xiaodong came to pick them up as soon as school was over on Friday. The first-grade children came out with the little train. Tao Huainan knew he couldn't see, but still turned his face towards the gate, feeling extremely anxious.
They sent them out one by one, and when Tao Huainan came out, Tao Xiaodong pinched his waist and swung him around with one hand. Tao Huainan wanted to cry and laugh at the same time, put his hand on his brother's arm, and scratched it with his fingertips.
Tao Xiaodong put him on his neck, while Tao Huainan rode on his neck, holding his brother's head with both hands, and pulling his brother's ears. Tao Xiaodong grabbed his foot with one hand, while the other rested on Chiku's shoulder.
Tao Huainan called his brother like he was having fun.
Tao Xiaodong turned his head and bit his little arm lightly, then squeezed Chiku's neck, and asked him if the little annoyance was energetic.
"I don't have one." Tao Huainan whispered above.
Chi Ku shook his head underneath.
Children are the strangest creatures. They are sensitive and delicate. Although their minds are easy to guess, sometimes adults can't figure it out.
The two little ones have ignored each other since they came back from school, and Chi Kui is always far away from others. When Tao Huainan talked to him, he stayed in the distance and said nothing, and Tao Huainan didn't say anything after that.
As soon as the two returned home, it was as if they hadn't gone to school, and the five days in the middle of holding hands at school seemed to have disappeared. Tao Huainan only played with Grandpa Shi, occasionally turning his head when he heard Chi Ku's voice, and turning back when he saw that he didn't intend to stop.
Tao Xiaodong didn't know whether to laugh or cry, adults don't need to deliberately interfere with children's affairs, they have their own solutions. Tao Xiaodong deliberately spared time to accompany his younger brother on weekends. Tian Yi asked them to go over for dinner, and Tao Xiaodong dragged them there.
Brother Tian Yi is a good friend of his brother and is still studying.
Tao Huainan really likes Brother Tian Yi's voice, he always smiles when he speaks, children like people who love to laugh.
He flew around Tao Huainan twice, and then said he sank.
"This is much thinner." Tao Xiaodong looked at Tao Huainan and said, "Last school lost a lot of weight."
"It's okay, it will be fine after a while, and I got angry just after school." Tian Yi pinched the flesh on Tao Huainan's arm and played with it.
A large glass of milk a day is now reduced, and the teacher does not allow me to drink so much. The school's milk is a bit watery, tasteless, and not good to drink.
Tao Huainan can't eat too much for breakfast, and he doesn't like eggs. He is used to drinking milk, but now he doesn't drink so much milk, and he always feels hungry in the morning.
After chatting with my brother for a long time, Aunt Tian quickly brought over two glasses of milk and said with a smile, "Hurry up and continue with Xiaonan."
Tao Xiaodong leaned back and called Chi Ku, asking him to come over and drink milk.
Chi Ku came over and raised his head, feeling bored, went to the kitchen to flush the cup by himself. Aunt Tian was in the kitchen, she said she didn't need him to wash the cups, but she wanted to give him fruit, he shook his head and turned around to stand outside.
"What's the matter with this kid?" Tian Yi lowered his voice and asked Tao Xiaodong, "It's always been like this?"
Tao Xiaodong said "um" and said, "I don't like to talk."
"This is too unloving." Tian Yi looked at it and felt that it was not normal.
Tao Xiaodong didn't say anything else, they were used to Chi Ku being like that all the time. After all, Tian Yi hadn't seen that child a few times, and the few times he saw it was like this, his heart was a little drummed.
"Don't just follow his roots." Tian Yi felt a headache when he thought about his family. When Tao Xiaodong brought him back, Tian Yi told Tao Xiaodong that it was not good for him the first time he saw him. The child's eyes were not close. people.
"Not at all." Tao Xiaodong said.
Tian Yi and Tao Xiaodong have been brothers for many years, and he always considers everything from him, so he whispered to him: "Don't turn around and raise a wolf cub."
Tao Xiaodong said no.
In front of Tao Huainan, Tian Yi couldn't say too much, don't let children listen to adults' thoughts, children should be clean and innocent.
Tao Xiaodong glanced at Chiku outside, and said, "I'm just very defensive, and I haven't gotten along with people normally, so take your time."
Tian Yi also looked outside, but didn't continue talking.
Tao Huainan listened to them talking for a long time, he didn't know what was going on in his mind, his big eyes didn't move, he listened quite seriously.
Tao Xiaodong deliberately said: "They are neither close nor playing together."
Tian Yi said: "I can see it."
Tao Xiaodong made a look, and Tian Yi instantly understood that the two discerning adults were deliberately teasing the little blind child. Tian Yi said, "Let's see it when the time comes. If Xiao Nan doesn't like it, we'll send him away."
Tao Huainan saw that the back straightened up, and blinked.
"What's the matter..." Tao Huainan picked at the lace on the couch, "What's wrong with the delay..."
The two adults looked at Le, and Tian Yi said again: "He doesn't talk, and you two are not good, you can change one."
Tao Huainan pursed his lips, not very happy: "It's not bad."
After listening to it for a long time, Tao Huainan finally said that he was going to be sent away. Tao Huainan fell off Tian Yi's lap, opened and closed his mouth not knowing what to say, stood there for a long time, and finally choked out a sentence: "How are we doing?" .”