Kaka

Kaka becomes Aki's new friend, a special, mysterious friend.

Mom and Dad noticed that Archie liked going to the garage more and more, and insisted on driving Dad away each time to stay alone in the truck.Papa Ai was happy to be at leisure, and every time he put Ai Qi in the driver's seat, he turned around and walked away to play cards or chat with his co-workers.

He didn't know that Ai Qi was also chatting in the truck.

Ai Qi asked Kaka: "Kaka, why didn't you talk to me before?"

Kaka said: "Because I found that you are very obedient and never mess with my dashboard. I trust you very much, so I talked to you."

Edge asked, "What's a dashboard?"

"It's the gauges and buttons next to my steering wheel. I can use them to manipulate my body. Only professionally trained drivers can touch them. If I move them casually, I will break."

Ai Qi nodded: "Dad said so too."

Kaka told Ai Qi that it was from the Jiefang brand and was produced in Changchun, so Changchun is its hometown.

"Where is that?" Archie asked.

"It is an industrial city in northern China. The automobile industry is particularly developed. It is known as the 'Car City'. About 200 million cars are born there every year."

"Wow!" Ai Qi exclaimed. Although he didn't know how much 200 million vehicles were, it was a lot anyway!

Kaka also told Ai Qi that it drank diesel, and diesel engines are more powerful than gasoline engines, so most trucks have diesel engines.

"That's why I'm more powerful and louder than a normal car," Kaka said. "Aki, have you heard the sound of my engine?"

"Engine, what is it?"

"Uh, to put it simply, it's my heart. Have you heard the sound I make when I start it?"

"I heard, chug chug—" Ai Qi imitated Kaka's voice when he drove out of the warehouse.

"Yes, that's the sound of the engine. That sound is loud, right? That means I'm very strong..."

In this way, Ai Qi learned a lot about cars without knowing it, and he and Kaka gradually became friends who talked about everything.

Once, my father drove a truck on a business trip to a distant place and didn't come back for three days.Ai Qi was so anxious that he burst into tears. His mother asked him what was wrong, did he miss his father?Ai Qi cried and said, "I miss Kaka."

My mother laughed so loudly that the flowers trembled, and the laughter was as powerful as a barbell.She wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and said to Ai Qi: "Ai Qi, you must never tell Dad this." Then she touched Ai Qi's head and said, "What an idiot."

Mom didn't let Ai Qi tell Dad, but when Dad came home, she told him about it as soon as possible.Mom and Dad laughed like barbells together, shaking the ground with laughter.Ai Qi looked at them puzzled, his little head couldn't figure out why.