Catching fireflies is a particularly happy thing, especially in the grassland beside the reed pond. Watching the fireflies flying, it really feels like being in a starry sky.
But on the way home, the aftereffects of mosquito bites began to show for the family of three.
On the way home, Feng Ruoruo slowly began to feel itchy.
Feng Yifan could only hold his daughter and gently touch the bitten area, using friction to relieve the itch, but he couldn't let her scratch it.
Feng Ruoruo also looked a little aggrieved, with her little head tucked into her father's arms.
"Dad, it's so itchy. Those mosquitoes are so bad. Dad, you have to help Ruoruo beat them."
Feng Yifan hugged his daughter and whispered, "Okay, mosquitoes are bad guys. Dad will buy a bottle of mosquito repellent and spray those mosquitoes to kill them all."
Feng Ruoruo rubbed the place where she was bitten in her father's arms and nodded her little head vigorously.
Su Ruoxi, who was following beside him, also scratched her arm gently and said, "This is all Dad's fault. Dad didn't prepare anything, so he took us to catch fireflies. As a result, there were mosquitoes everywhere. When we get home, I'll ask Dad to find a way to stop the itch."
When Feng Ruoruo heard what her mother said, she turned around and asked, "Mom, were you bitten by a mosquito too?"
Su Ruoxi raised her arm and showed the big bag to her daughter: "Take a look."
Seeing the bag on her mother's arm, Feng Ruoruo stretched out her little hand to help her mother touch it gently.
"Mom, are you feeling itchy too? Then Ruoruo will imitate Daddy and touch you. Don't scratch it yourself. Daddy said you can't scratch it well by yourself."
After being gently touched by her daughter's little hand, although it was actually a little itchy, Su Ruoxi still endured the itch.
"Okay, Mom thanks Ruoruo, but you still have to punish Dad when you get back."
Feng Ruoruo immediately said, "Mom, please don't punish Dad. Dad has good intentions. He wants Ruoruo to catch fireflies and show them to Xixi, Feifei and Sister Jingyi. Don't be angry, Mom."
Su Ruoxi was really amused by her daughter. She reached out and nudged her husband and said, "Look at your daughter. She's in this state, but she still wants to speak up for you. It really makes me jealous. Humph, you only know how to use your daughter."
Feng Yifan quickly put his arms around his wife and gently touched the bag on her arm.
"Okay, my dear wife, don't be angry. I was not prepared today. I didn't expect the mosquitoes there to be so strong. When we get home, we have that ointment at home. I guarantee that after applying it, you and Ruoruo will not itch anymore. You will be fine tomorrow morning."
Su Ruoxi was a little surprised: "There is such a good ointment?"
Feng Ruoruo also asked curiously: "Dad, what kind of ointment is that?"
At this time, Lu Cuiling came over and said, "That's the ointment from my grandparents' house. It was passed down in the village. It's very effective. It's better than the wind oil you bought. So Ruoruo doesn't have to worry. When you go home, apply it and you'll be fine by tomorrow morning."
Hearing what her grandmother said, Feng Ruoruo turned her head to look at her grandmother, then opened her little arms and threw herself into her grandmother's arms.
After being carried by her grandmother, the little girl hugged her grandmother's neck and said, "Grandma, you have to help Ruoruo kill the mosquitoes. Those mosquitoes are so mean. They drank so much of Ruoruo's blood."
Lu Cuiling also said distressedly: "Oh, my little darling, grandma is so distressed, I must kill those mosquitoes."
Feng Ruoruo nodded immediately: "Yes, yes, kill the mosquito."
The family returned home, denouncing mosquitoes along the way.
When she got home, Feng Ruoruo seemed to have forgotten about the itch immediately. She picked up the cover her father had made with reed leaves and said, "Dad, dad, hurry up and get something to put the fireflies away."
At this moment, Feng Ruoruo seemed to have completely forgotten the itch on her body and only wanted to see the fireflies.
Lu Cuiling also went to the utility room at home to look for it and soon found a glass bottle.
Feng Yifan carefully tore a hole in the reed leaves, and then slowly drove the fireflies trapped inside into the glass bottle.
When the fireflies were driven into the glass bottle, everyone was surprised to find that there were actually quite a few of them.
Feng Ruoruo looked at the tiny fireflies in the bottle and found them very interesting: "Wow, there are so many. Dad, you caught a lot of them."
Feng Yifan smiled and said, "It's really quite a lot. Dad didn't expect there would be so many."
After putting the lid on the glass bottle, Feng Yifan drilled a few holes on the lid.
Feng Ruoruo held the glass bottle and looked at it again and again, then asked curiously: "Dad, why don't they light up?"
Grandpa said at this time: "There is a light here, so they are not bright, turn off the light, and then they will light up in a while."
Feng Ruoruo quickly said, "Okay, let's turn off the lights."
Grandpa went to turn off the lights, and then a group of people waited quietly under the persimmon tree for the fireflies to light up.
After waiting for a while, the tail of the firefly in the bottle finally began to light up.
Finally, the fireflies began to glow, and Feng Ruoruo's originally somewhat depressed face suddenly lit up. Her big eyes opened, reflecting the light of the fireflies in the bottle.
It was quiet under the persimmon tree. After a long while, Feng Ruoruo reached out and held her parents’ hands and said, “They are so beautiful, Mom and Dad. The stars are so beautiful.”
Feng Yifan smiled and said, "Yes, the stars are the most beautiful."
Feng Ruoruo held the glass bottle in her arms and said, "Mom, please help me to video chat with Xixi, Feifei and Sister Jingyi. Show them."
Su Ruoxi took out her phone and said, "Okay, video call Ruoruo."
The video call was quickly connected, and three girls were already waiting there.
After Feng Ruoruo dialed the video, she immediately raised the glass bottle in her arms and said, "Look, Xixi, Feifei, and Sister Jingyi, look, my parents and I went to catch stars today. Look, we caught a bottle. Isn't it beautiful?"
The three girls in the video were also a little surprised, and it was the first time for Yang Xiaoxi and Chen Yaofei to see this.
"Wow, Ruoruo, what is this?"
"Ruoruo, is this really a star?"
Guo Jingyi had seen it before, and helped explain: "The things in this glass bottle should be fireflies, right? They are insects that can glow by themselves."
Yang Xiaoxi was the first to exclaim: "Wow, a little bug that glows?"
Hearing the name of fireflies, Chen Yaofei knew something: "I know, fireflies can glow at night, their buttocks can glow."
Chen Yaofei had seen introductions to fireflies in some popular science books before, but this was the first time she had seen one in real life.
Yang Xiaoxi then left the video, and a shouting sound came from her video.
"Mom, mom, please come quickly, come and see, Ruoruo has caught a little star in a bottle."
Not long after, Yang Xiaoxi pulled her mother back to the video.
The little girl didn't forget to say to the video: "Ruoruo, show the bottle to my mother."
Feng Ruoruo held the bottle closer to the camera of the mobile phone so that people on the other side of the camera could see what was in the bottle.
Li Feier looked at it carefully and said, "Oh, it turns out to be a firefly."
Then, Yang Zhiyi’s voice was heard again in the video of Yang Xiaoxi’s home: “Fireflies? Where are they? Oh, Xixi, such a wonderful thing, why don’t you ask dad to come and watch it with you? I haven’t seen fireflies for many years, and I thought they were extinct.”
Yang Xiaoxi did not forget to correct him: "It was Little Star, the Little Star that Ruoruo and the others caught."
In the video, Feng Ruoruo laughed after hearing this: "Hahaha, that's right, Xixi is right, it's Little Star."
Yang Zhiyi took a closer look and was a little disappointed: "They are not very bright anymore."
Feng Ruoruo gently shook the bottle in her hand and said, "It's lit, Uncle Yang, please take a closer look."
Feng Yifan stretched out his hand to stop his daughter from bringing the bottle close to the phone: "Okay, don't bring the bottle too close to the phone like this. The phone has light and it will scare Little Star."
When Feng Ruoruo heard what her father said, she quickly put the glass bottle back.
"Hey, Sister Jingyi, Feifei, Xixi, my dad said you can't get too close or it will scare Little Star. Can you see me if I bring it here?"
The three girls in the video all answered that they could see it.
Feng Ruoruo then opened up the conversation and began to introduce to her friends the process of catching fireflies tonight.
"Sister Jingyi, Xixi, Feifei, I went to play on the dam near my grandparents' house with my grandparents, grandpa, mom and dad tonight. There were rivers on both sides, and there were boats on the river. There were lights on the dam, and people were dancing over there..."
When Feng Ruoruo started talking, she just started from the beginning. It was easy to imagine that the little girl would talk for a long time.
So Feng Yifan couldn't help but interrupt his daughter when she heard her say this: "Ruoruo, it's late today, why don't you just skip the first part and just say let's catch fireflies together, okay?"
Feng Ruoruo raised her little head and looked at her father in surprise. For a moment she didn't understand what her father meant.
Seeing her daughter and her father staring at each other, Su Ruoxi couldn't help but laugh and said, "Hahaha, Daddy means that Ruoruo shouldn't talk about dancing in front, but should directly talk about how to catch the little stars."
This time Feng Ruoruo understood immediately, and turned to the three girls in the video and said, "To catch little stars, my mom and I went to a large patch of grass, and then my mom waved her hand, and the little stars flew up. There were so many little stars, and then I tried to catch them, but I didn't catch any..."
After hearing what Feng Ruoruo said, Feng Yifan and Su Ruoxi looked at each other. The couple understood that no matter what their daughter said, it would be impossible for her to finish her words simply.
The key point is that the three girls in the video are really willing to listen to Feng Ruoruo.
Seeing that everyone, including Guo Jingyi, looked very focused, Feng Yifan and Su Ruoxi naturally could not disturb their daughter.
At this time, grandma had already taken out the ointment, and Feng Yifan was about to apply it on her daughter.
But his father stopped him: "Don't apply it now, take a shower first, then apply it."
Su Ruoxi quickly said to her daughter, "Ruoruo, shall we go take a shower? Let's go take a shower first, and then tell Xixi, Feifei, and Sister Jingyi after we're done."
Feng Ruoruo was in high spirits, so naturally she didn't want to take a shower.
The little girl didn't even turn her head, she just stared at the video and said, "No, no, Ruoruo hasn't finished yet."
Seeing that his daughter was unwilling, Feng Yifan said to the other side of the video: "Look at you three, Feng Ruoruo doesn't want to take a shower. The weather is so hot, and she sweats so much all day. If she doesn't take a shower, her body will stink. Do you want to play with the smelly Feng Ruoruo?"
After hearing what Feng Yifan said, the three girls in the video couldn't help laughing.
Feng Ruoruo immediately rushed to her father and said, "Bad dad, you are the one who stinks. Ruoruo, go take a shower now. After the shower, dad will be the one who stinks, not Ruoruo."
Guo Jingyi smiled and said on the other side of the video: "Ruoruo, go take a shower quickly, or you will really stink."
Chen Yaofei also said: "Yes, Ruoruo, go take a shower first, we will talk after you finish taking a shower."
Yang Xiaoxi clapped her hands and said, "Hahaha, if Ruoruo doesn't take a bath, she's going to become smelly."
Under urging, Feng Ruoruo finally hung up the video temporarily and followed her mother and grandmother to take a bath. Before leaving, the little girl didn't forget to hit her father twice: "Humph, stinky dad, dad is the stinky one."
After watching his daughter take a bath, Feng Yifan gently shook the glass bottle in his hand to say goodbye to his daughter.
After his granddaughter went to take a bath, Feng Jiandong smiled and said, "It's really you who are back, especially Ruoruo, who is at home. The whole house has become lively. The small yard is full of laughter all the time. This is what home looks like."
Su Jinrong also said, "Yes, it seems that we need to ask Yifan and the others to come back more often in the future."
Feng Jiandong added, "You don't have to come back often. Yifan and his mother sometimes don't get along. If he comes back often, they will definitely quarrel. So if he comes back from time to time, both mother and son will find it fresh and they won't get tired of each other."
Feng Yifan didn't know whether to laugh or cry after hearing what his father said: "Dad, how dare I dislike my mom?"
Feng Jiandong looked at his son with a wry smile, thought for a moment and said, "That's true. You don't dare to do it now."
Su Jinrong couldn't help but laugh out loud when listening to the conversation between the father and son.
Feng Ruoruo followed her grandma and mom to take a bath. Although she went to the back to take a bath, her little mouth still did not stop and kept talking to her grandma and mom.
"Grandma, Sister Jingyi, Feifei and Xixi have never seen the Little Star. Have you seen it? They all like it very much when they see it."
Lu Cuiling smiled and said, "Yes, yes, who doesn't like Little Star?"
Feng Ruoruo said immediately: "Yes, all the little stars will like it."
Su Ruoxi couldn't help laughing when she heard her daughter say that: "Then you should take a bath quickly and obediently. After taking a bath, you can continue to video chat with your good friends and show them your little stars."
Feng Ruoruo reached out to scratch the lump on her leg: "Grandma, Mom, I'm itchy here."
Lu Cuiling took a look and said, "Oh, I feel sorry for the little baby. He has been bitten by mosquitoes and has several small lumps on him."
Feng Ruoruo pouted and said, "Grandma, those mosquitoes are so bad. They bite me and mommy."
At this point, Feng Ruoruo suddenly said, "Hey, why don't mosquitoes bite dad?"
Su Ruoxi immediately said, "Because your father's skin is too thick for mosquitoes to bite."
When Feng Ruoruo heard what her mother said, she seemed to have heard something extremely funny and she burst into laughter. She laughed so hard that she fell backwards, and her laughter echoed throughout the Feng family's small courtyard.