Zi did not resist when he bullied him. Casper said that his father taught him that a person should always maintain a good manner. Chen Amao didn’t understand well, and he waved his fist: as long as someone dared to provoke me, I would beat him fiercely. Casper shook his head: No, if you are not cultivated, you will be looked down upon. Chen Amao didn’t believe it. He said that this is Shanghai, and only poor people will be looked down upon. Caspar still shook his head: when we were in Austria, we had a big garden, but the Germans drove our Jews out of their homes, confiscated their mother’s diamond necklaces, they had a lot of money, but they ⋯… With his limited Chinese vocabulary, he blinked big lake-like eyes and said: They have no noble heart.
Chen Amao was touched by something in his heart. He couldn’t say it, but for the first time he was ashamed of his behavior in the past, he took the sheep from the grocery store and stole sugar to eat, teased the fortune-telling blind man. Originally, I wanted to teach Casper so that I could go fooling around together, but somehow, his face became hot because of these thoughts.
Casper came back from church school and often brought a book to Amao, sometimes the Bible, sometimes Hebrew history. When Chen Amao returned to the newspaper, he would also go to play with Caspar. Under the dim light of the night, Caspar’s father hummed this cheerful melody and danced with his mother. Chen Amao looked enviously at this wandering but loving couple. His father rarely had time when he was not drunk, and once he got drunk, he would exhale his wife and children. He liked the family in his heart, optimistic and warm.
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