Pavel smiled at me, and he said, you know, I think it’s when I was a doctor, when I was your age.
I want to be an explorer, Bruno Ma said.
Good luck, Pavel said
thank you
Have you found anything?
There is a lot to explore in our home in Berlin, Bruno replied. It is a very big room, so big that you can’t imagine many places to explore, unlike here.
Everything here is different, and Pavel agrees.
When will you come with me? Bruno asked
Pavel thought about carrots for a while. I think I’ve been here all the time. Finally, he said quietly
Did you grow up here?
No, Pavel shook his head and said I didn’t grow up here.
But you just said
Bruno said that he heard his mother’s voice coming outside. As soon as he heard her voice, Pavel got up from his chair and planed a newspaper with carrots. Carrot skins went back to the sink and turned his back to Bruno and bowed his head and never spoke again.
God, what’s the matter with you? Mother came to the kitchen and bent down to examine Bruno’s wound.
I made a swing and fell off the surface, Bruno explained. Then the swing hit my head and knocked me to the ground. I almost passed out. Pavel came to bring me back and cleaned my wound and bandaged it. Although it hurt, I didn’t cry. I didn’t cry once, did I, Pavel?
Pavel turned slightly in their direction, but didn’t look up. The wound was cleaned. He said calmly that he didn’t answer Bruno’s question, so don’t worry about it.
Go back to your room. Bruno’s mother says she looks unhappy now.
but I …
Don’t argue with me. Go back to your room. Mother said that Bruno’s weight came down from the chair when he decided to weigh his broken leg. When he turned away from the kitchen but didn’t go upstairs, he could still hear his mother thank Pavel. Bruno was very happy because everyone could see that he would have died of bleeding if Pavel hadn’t been here.
In front of the building, he heard his mother finally speak to the doctor’s attendant.
When the commander asked, we said I helped Bruno clean the wound.
It’s too personal for Bruno for his mother to take credit like this.
Chapter grandma what angrily away?
The two family members Bruno misses most are grandparents. They live in a small bungalow near the vegetable shop. When Bruno came to go together, grandpa was almost 73 years old. This is Bruno’s knowledge that the oldest person in the world once counted himself one afternoon, and he was still one year younger than grandpa.
Grandpa has been running a restaurant in the city all his life. One of his employees is Bruno’s good friend Martin’s father. He works as a chef in the store. Although Grandpa never cooks or eats at the table again, he still sits at the bar in the store almost every day. Customers chat and eat in the store at night. Friends laugh and laugh until closing time.
Compared with other children’s grandmothers, Grandma Bruno never looked old. When Bruno learned that she was 6 years old, she was surprised. When she was young, she met her grandfather at a concert. Although he had many shortcomings, he proposed to her. She had long red hair, which was strikingly similar to her daughter-in-law’s, and her eyes were green. She said that this was because her family was of Irish descent. When someone sat at the piano and invited Grandma to sing a song, the party would reach its climax. Bruno always believed in this.
Why, she always shouts like this, putting one hand on her chest as if the idea would kill her. Do you want me to sing? What? I’m dying. I’m afraid of young people. My singing day is gone forever.
Let’s have a song and a party. Everyone will shout and then pause for ten or twelve seconds. She will surrender and turn to the young man sitting at the piano. She quickly and humorously stressed that I will try my best to talk to you in la vie en rose E minor.
Bruno’s family party is always dominated by grandma’s singing. I don’t know what. Whenever this time, my mother always walks into the kitchen with her friends from the party hall. My father always listens intently to Bruno. There is nothing that makes him do better than listening to grandma’s singing. He won warm applause from the guests when he saw grandma playing the range. Besides, la vie en rose also cheered him up. His back hair could stand on end.
Grandma hopes that Bruno or Gretel can inherit her stage career. Every Christmas or birthday party, she always arranges a three-person drama for her mother, father and grandfather to perform. Bruno thinks that she always keeps the best lines for herself. Of course, Bruno doesn’t mind it very much. Usually, there is a song interspersed in it. Do you ask Bruno if she always has a chance to perform a little magic before singing this song? Gretel will dance a dance drama. At last, Bruno usually recites a great poem. He thinks that those poems are really obscure, but as he recites them, he feels that the poems are more and more beautiful.
However, these are not the most colorful parts of the small creation. The most colorful part is the grandmother Bruno Gretel’s own props. On the role played by her grandmother and sister, Bruno is always dressed as a king or an Arab leader. Once, Bruno was a Roman gladiator. Without a crown, he would wear a spear, a whip or a Muslim headscarf. No one knows what new tricks her grandmother will do next time, but Bruno Gretel will be called to rehearsal every day a week before Christmas.
But the last drama was a disaster, and Bruno still remembers it sadly today, although he didn’t know exactly what would happen.
About a week ago, the family was very excited. Maybe it was because my father was taken back to his home by Maria, the chef and housekeeper, and Les, the soldier. In Bruno’s view, it seems that this place has become their home instead of calling itself the commander. In those weeks, everyone was very excited. First, a beautiful blonde came to eat at home, which made everyone really nervous. Then my father became the commander. Mother asked Bruno to congratulate his father. He did it. Honestly, he tried to be honest. He didn’t know exactly what to congratulate his father.
On Christmas Day, my father wore his brand-new military uniform. Now he wears this clean and ironed uniform every day. When he does, everyone immediately applauds him. This is really special. Compared with other soldiers who entered this room, my father is especially respected. Those soldiers also respected his mother more than before. They got up, went over to kiss his father’s cheek and put their hands on his father’s military uniform as if to praise how good the cloth was. Bruno was deeply attracted by the dazzling medal of military uniform. He was allowed to wear his father’s hat for a while. Of course, his hands must be clean when he touched it.
Grandpa felt very proud when he saw his son wearing a new military uniform, but grandma was the only one who was indifferent. After dinner, Gretel Bruno performed the last drama. She sat in an armchair sadly and looked at her father shaking her head as if he had let her down.
I wonder if I taught you something wrong, Rafe. She said that I worked hard to raise you and made you look like a marionette.
Now mother and father say in a broad tone, you know this is not the time to talk about it.
Grandma in your new military uniform goes on saying that it makes you special, and you don’t care what it means.
Nathalie, we’ll discuss this later. Grandpa said that although everyone knows that if you want grandma to talk, she will be free to talk and be welcomed.
You talked about grandma mathis saying that you never listen to me, just like before.
Now that we are at the party, mother and father sighed. Today is Christmas. Let’s not spoil the atmosphere.
I still remember that when the world war broke out, my grandfather proudly said that he stared at the flames in the furnace and shook his head. I remember that you went home and told us that you had joined the army and that you would get hurt.
He was really hurt. Grandma mathis insisted that you take a good look at him.
Now I’ll look at your grandparents and continue to say that you have been promoted to such an important position, which makes me very proud. After so many unfair treatments suffered by our motherland, you want her to fight for honor and punish well.
Oh, listen to you, grandma shouted. Which one of you is the stupidest? I was thinking.
But Nathalie’s mother wants to calm the storm. Don’t you think Rafe is very handsome in this military uniform?
Handsome grandma asked. She leaned forward slightly and stared at her daughter-in-law as if she had lost her mind. You said handsome, you silly child. You think this is the important thing in the world. Handsome.