(42)程海大笑着拉开抽屉：“你看，都快空了。”他背了一大串借书人的名字，小贝也在内。老伴夸奖说：“小贝这几天变样了。”程海对老伴说小贝现在就要来了，老伴以为小贝又逃学了。程海却神秘地说：“今天他有任务。”

(42) Cheng Hai laughed out loud as he opened the drawer: “Look, it’s almost empty.” He recited a long list of names of people who had borrowed books, including Xiaobei. His wife praised, “Xiaobei has changed over the past few days.” When Cheng Hai told her that Xiaobei would be coming soon, she thought Xiaobei had skipped school again. But Cheng Hai said mysteriously, “He has a mission today.”