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Chapter 179 Friends, Sometimes You Don’t Care About Your Age

The alleys are too winding.

In the past, when the people here repaired the house, they probably didn't plan the road well. Everyone repaired new houses and gardens, and repaired wherever the ground was relatively flat.

As a result, this leads to a large number of alleys in the old city.

Do you think it's someone else's backyard from here?
No, no, there is another street after passing here. There should be a school nearby. There are many shops for stationery and snacks on this street, as well as a large number of children.

Looking at those shops selling snacks, Chen Xing felt a little nostalgic.

When he was in elementary school, his family didn't give him much pocket money, so these [-] cents, [-] yuan snacks were the delicacies he dreamed of on weekdays.

When I grow up, I have money, but I can no longer feel the same way as before.

Until now, there is only nostalgia left.

This street was also where the aunt and Chen Xing pointed the way. If he walked along, he would see the square that the aunt mentioned before.

This square is very empty, it seems that it is simply a place for the surrounding residents to take a walk.

There are fitness equipment in the community, a circle for walking and walking, and a basketball court.

There is nothing else.

Chen Xing strongly suspects that the open space opposite the basketball court is the site of the square dancing aunts. Anyway, if there is such a place in their hometown, they will never have a second use.

That's okay, the aunts in the province are going to occupy the position of the basketball court.

Although it's just after noon, there are quite a few people here, mostly children.

Adults have their own affairs, and it is difficult for people over 20 to return to the carefree childhood.

Although children have to go to school, Chen Xing knows that schools in many places, especially elementary and junior high schools in small cities, will have a long break at noon for students to go home for lunch.

This was the case when Chen Xing was studying in the New Territories, so Chen Xing went to the Internet cafe to play games almost every morning after school.

He circled here twice and nodded secretly.

The square is still nice.

Then fly here.

He brought a drone with him when he went out this time, just to take pictures of the scenery here, and to feel what it's like to look at the legendary Western Regions from a height.

When he first arrived in Altai, Chen Xing was still very disappointed.

After all, this modern city is not the style he wants to see.

It's not that people who live in Xijiang should live in adobe buildings, but Chen Xing thinks that every ethnic group and every land boundary should have their own style.

Huaxia is too big.

He flew in the sky for four hours from Rongcheng to here, how far can he fly in Europe in four hours?
Crossing several countries is perfectly sufficient.

How boring would it be if all of them had the same style on such a large site?
Chen Xing likes to travel because he wants to see different things, so on the second day after he came to Altai, he was a little disappointed after seeing the city during the day.

But satisfied now.

The architectural style of this old town is exactly what Chen Xing wants to see.

This should be regarded as a Uighur building?
Finding an open space with a bench, Chen Xing sat on the chair and took out the shuttle, opened the mobile app, and connected the screen to the flying glasses.

Flying glasses are a kind of VR glasses. After wearing them, you can see the images transmitted by drones immersively.This is also an operation that can only be realized after the 5G network is fully laid out, which would have been difficult to do a few years ago.

As Chen Xing pressed the button, the drone made a loud fan sound and flew towards the sky quickly.

Many people around looked over when they heard the voice, and then turned their heads back when they found that there was nothing wrong with it, chatting with those who should be chatting, and exercising with fitness... Young people, adults are not surprised by anything weird.

As long as you don't bother yourself.

But the children around were very curious. They watched a small plane in front of Chen Xing 'whoosh' fly into the sky, and it suddenly turned into a black spot, and then disappeared.

The ordinary traversing machine sold by DJI cannot reach such a speed, but the soul of the traversing machine is that various accessories can be replaced.

Chen Xing was not short of money during this time, so he directly filled up all the accessories.

The top, the best, the fastest!
So in the eyes of the people around, they only heard a sound, and when they reacted and looked at it, they could only see a small black dot.

At this moment, in Chen Xing's perspective.

The sky, the clear blue sky.

He was tilting his head up as the plane flew up.

This is the head tracking function of the flying glasses. After using it, you can control the drone. It is a real somatosensory game. When you look up at the sky, the drone will fly to the sky, and if you look down, the drone will go down. look.

At this time, press the throttle on the remote control, and the drone will fly forward.

Together, it's like flying in the sky.

Although this kind of control is not as smart as the remote control, Chen Xing is not planning to race now, but just to record the scenery here, so he still prioritizes his own comfort.

Looking down from the sky, the sense of color is stronger.

After Chen Xing got the gift of color, he was very interested in these combinations, so he lowered his height and flew back and forth above the houses in this old city, looking at the houses of various colors.

And because he was flying in the sky, Chen Xing could clearly see into other people's yards.

People in Xijiang really like plants and flowers. Every household has grape trellises and flowers. It looks lush from the sky, and those early blooming flowers are also embellished with color.

The blue house is a work of art in cool tones, and the green ones are plants. The sun shines on them, making these plants glisten. The countless colorful decorations are the scrolls of national culture left here.

What are the answers to the mysteries of these scrolls? Only the travelers can spy on them.

When Chen Xing was hovering in the sky, he suddenly saw a few people around him in the square.

In order not to disturb people, he flew too high, so he couldn't see clearly, so he clicked pause with his right hand and took off the flying glasses.

Three little girls who were dancing rubber bands before were bending over and standing beside him, looking at the mobile phone on his lap—the mobile phone and the flying glasses are connected, and the images seen on the flying glasses will also be displayed on the mobile phone .

The three of them were so engrossed that they didn't even notice that Chen Xing took off his glasses.

One of them suddenly said, "Eh? Why did it stop?"

Chen Xing's eyesight can see his position on the square from a very high place, but on the mobile phone, they can only see some small dots in the screen they see.

He coughed very quietly.

They glanced at Chen Xing, only to realize that Chen Xing was looking at them.

Chen Xing thought they would break up in a herd.

But it didn't.

These three little girls are like social cows. Seeing that Chen Xing noticed them, he directly asked, "Brother, what is this?"

Before Chen Xing could speak, another girl said, "This is a drone. It can control a remote-controlled plane that flies in the sky."

"So high-tech!"

These three girls don't seem to be over 15 years old. Children of this age don't seem to know what troubles are, and they like to laugh. Whether they are talking or watching others talk, they always have a sweet smile on their faces.

Sure enough, all the girls in Xijiang are Nazha.

Especially when young.

But these three girls must be good-looking when they grow up.

Chen Xing said: "Yes, this is a remote control plane, do you want to play with it?"

"Okay, okay!! I want to play."

"Great!"

I don't know if Chen Xing's friendliness played a role. The three of them didn't seem to treat Chen Xing as an adult. When they spoke, Chen Xing felt as if they were communicating with their peers.

Chen Xing felt healed.

Then I flew the drone back to change the battery, and then taught them how to look.

In fact, they can only control the direction of the camera, not the throttle, and Chen Xing always holds the remote control.

Even so, they had a great time.

It’s just that the capacity of the batteries is really a big problem. Everyone switched to play, and it didn’t take long for the three batteries to die. Chen Xing could only put everything back into the backpack one by one with their disappointed expressions. .

He was also very helpless: "There is no electricity, there is no way."

"Fun is fun, but the time is too short."

"Brother Chen Xing, will you come here tomorrow?"

"Maybe, I'm not sure."

Chen Xing stood up after packing up his things, and stepped on a piece of fitness equipment that Chen Xing didn't know the name of in the empty space they had specially reserved for them.

It's the kind of device that has two pedals that the feet can step on to walk back and forth, and there is an armrest in front of it.

The two girls on the left are each stepping on a pedal, and the girl on the right is looking at Chen Xing's camera.

"This kind of camera is expensive, right? I remember my uncle seems to have one."

"It's not too expensive, come on, let's take a photo together."

Chen Xing did not take pictures of their faces, but pointed the camera at the shadows on the ground.

The sun was already slanting westward at this time, and the sun shone from behind them, leaving a few black shadows on the ground. Chen Xing's shadow was very tall, leaning on the armrest with one hand, and holding the camera in the other.

The girls knew that Chen Xing was taking pictures, so they all raised their hands, like scissors.

And so a special group photo was born.

When shooting, Chen Xing didn't think much about composition, post-production, etc., but after shooting, Chen Xing unexpectedly found that he liked this kind of photos very much.

Maybe this photo is very meaningful.

After all, Chen Xing would never have imagined that after he came to Xijiang, the first friends he made were a few girls in the third grade of junior high school. The key is that they can still chat.

Chen Xing asked them about their life in Xijiang, and then asked what it was like inside the school.

They also asked Chen Xing if the mainland was fun, and whether he was tired from studying. Chen Xing was very good at talking about these topics, because he had just left the campus not long ago and was going to the next campus soon.

Huh?
Looking at it this way, I am a student, and they are also students, so it is not too surprising that they can talk about going together.

At this time, someone pushed a cart that was still on fire and came here from the road, and another person pushed a larger cart behind it, which contained things blocked by white cloth.

"What is this?" Chen Xing asked.

"It's barbecue. There are stalls here every night. There are also sellers of kebabs and baked buns."

"There are also baked buns here?"

"Yes, there are many baked buns in our county."

Chen Xing licked his lips and asked, "When will the bakers come over to set up a stall?"

"They are in the new city during the day, and I don't know when they will come. I haven't paid attention to it."

"I do not have either."

"Anyway, he'll be there when we leave school in the afternoon."

Chen Xing looked at the time, it was almost four o'clock, and asked, "Aren't you going to class this afternoon?"

"Today is Friday, only half a day."

The girl on the right tore open a packet of spicy strips, took it over and asked Chen Xing, "Do you want to eat?"

"eat!"

Chen Xing picked up a spicy stick from the package with his hand.

If this picture was seen by any of Chen Xing's current friends, they probably wouldn't believe it. There was no image at all.

But in Chen Xing's view now, if he is happy, that's enough.

Basking in the sun well, listening to the girls talking to each other about their surroundings, Chen Xing was so comfortable that he almost fell asleep.

However, after hearing a sentence, he suddenly became sober.

"Now you are playing games and asking, is there any topic like boy you like?"

A girl jumped up and down and broke the news: "She has!!"

"Is it someone from your school?"

"No, it's just in the square where they play basketball."

"Wow, then this plaza is really a good place, and you can meet people you like." Chen Xing looked towards the basketball court. In his opinion, they were all little kids, freshmen at most.

I looked at the little girls again.

By the way, when I was playing friends with my first love, it seemed to be the second year of junior high school, right?
Is it so small?

No wonder it didn't work out in the end.

Chen Xing said:

"Don't like it too easily. I think you can still observe more. After a year or two, you will find that the person you like may not be as good as you think."

"So do you have a girlfriend?" one of them asked.

"Ah, this, I... I haven't."

He can still find a female companion casually, but this kind of girl is not a girlfriend.

He is also looking for it.

A real partner needs to be by your side for many years, and the circle of life will squeeze each other. In this process, if there is no matching personality, then there will definitely be conflicts after talking for a long time.

When Chen Xing was in school, he didn't know what love was, and he had talked about such feelings several times.

The end result is that my heart hurts when I break up.

This is also the reason why he doesn't want to find a real girlfriend now.

"Oh!! Hahaha, if I were older, I would definitely be your girlfriend."

"You are more handsome than the best-looking boys in our school. How could you not have a girlfriend? You must be lying to us, right?"

Chen Xing recalled it for a long time, and said with a smile: "You don't have to be handsome to have a girlfriend..."

After a short chat, a few more girls came.

They actually came here to watch the boys play.

Boys come to the basketball court here to play basketball every day, and girls may like handsome boys who love sports, so they also like to gather here to play.

It is said to be for fun, but the drunkard's intention is not to drink.

Listening to their chat, Chen Xing couldn't help feeling that the kids nowadays matured too early.

So, Chen Xing added a few more new friends.

Knowing that Chen Xing came here to travel, they took Chen Xing to many beautiful places to take pictures, there were beautiful houses, and food stalls that the locals thought were delicious...

Everything in this small town is as peaceful as before, but there is a group of very happy people.

Only the boys who play basketball feel very puzzled.

What about the girls?

(End of this chapter)