Xue Jiamin vaguely felt that he was the only one who could see the leopard with a human face.
No.
He thought of someone else.
Maybe...
He could see it too.
To disguise the strangeness of his question, Xue Jiamin asked quite a few other questions afterward.
"...A leopard with a human face..."
The teacher repeated softly.
She looked at Xue Jiamin.
This was the only question the child had asked both her and his parents.
She pondered it deeply.
Why was the child so fixated on this question?
Was there something special about it?
Could it be that the child had really seen a leopard with a human face?
The teacher shook her head with amusement.
How could that be?
Children were innocent and carefree.
She couldn't let her imagination run too wild.
Had he mistaken something for it?
The teacher fell into thought.
What could it have been?
What could have made a child think he'd seen a leopard with a human face?
The teacher couldn't help rubbing her forehead.
As an adult who had long since left childhood behind, she simply couldn't relate to a child's imagination.
She couldn't figure it out...
She didn't understand either...
What could have made the child think he'd seen a leopard with a human face?
The teacher shook her head.
She gave up.
Besides, she wasn't even sure this was what the child really cared about.
What if she spent all this time thinking about it, only to find that it wasn't what the child had been thinking about at all...
Wouldn't all her effort have been for nothing?
So the most important thing was to get the child to share his thoughts.
Only effective communication could help her prescribe the right remedy.
They didn't have much