The woman was very satisfied.
She even found herself looking at the child in a whole new light...
It wasn't that she thought little of her own child.
But in a crisis like that, even adults would be at a loss, completely flustered...
Let alone such a young child.
The woman couldn't help wanting to speak again.
She wanted to praise the child.
No.
She wanted to praise him to the skies.
He'd done so well this time.
A flash of inspiration crossed the man's mind.
The girl nodded repeatedly.
That day... when we went to see your brother... the little brother we met?
But the child didn't know anyone around there, did he?
"Mom came here to ask the police officers to help her find Bao Bao."
A hint of confusion and unease gradually appeared on her face.
The girl said excitedly,
"The little brother had a fox and a snake with him."
Huh!?
Who had she seen?
Don't even think about it.
"You don't have to keep pointing."
I'd been racking my brain, trying to match the person in my memory to the child's description, because I couldn't place him right away...
I hadn't expected...
The girl looked at the woman mysteriously. "Guess who I saw in the car that almost hit us?"
Did this child even realize how serious this was!?
"Then why didn't you just say it was him?"
"He rescued a little girl..."
Then she hurriedly put on a smile, too.
The girl blinked in confusion.
Unlike the child, who remembered Xiao Xiao clearly because of the fox and snake with him, Bao Bao's mom hadn't really gotten a good look at Xiao Xiao's face at the time.
The woman had more or less guessed what came next.
But...
It had been