i was my mistake

"This..." Ye Chen scratched her head vigorously, messing up her neatly combed hair, she pursed her lips, and muttered softly, "Then what should I do?"

"...Let's take one step at a time."

……

47. After school routine

The sunset is dim and the shadows are long,

The uncle sighed lightly, showing melancholy.

The cold wind blows the dust,

The smoke from the factory has long since ceased.

In recent days, the time for smoke from factory chimneys seems to be getting shorter and shorter.

In the past, even after school was over, there was still billowing smoke, as if to replace the clouds in the sky and cover the sky.

But recently, even before school is over, the chimneys have stopped smoking, and the chemical smell in the air is much less than usual.

——It makes people feel a little inexplicably uneasy.

Stepped on the bicycle and headed towards the sunset, it was already sunset halfway.

Dressed in the starry night, I returned to the city.

There are more and more people setting up stalls.

My father's stall has already been set up. Two folding tables are hung on the tricycle, and only one is placed in the alley.

When Wan Qing and the others came back, he was busy, carefully wrapping the inlaid cakes for the guests with his rough hands, his movements were quick and gentle, with a smooth and smooth beauty.

"Boss! Let's have an inlaid cake, add pork offal, and a glass of loose baijiu!"

"Okay, if you eat here, sit down first!"

Next to the trash can in the alley, the lame white dog I saw last time was lying on its stomach. It was rummaging through a box of fast food left by others on the ground next to it. Although there was no meat in it, it still stained it. The rice with the broth was chewy.

"Dad, we're back." Ye Chen stopped his bicycle and greeted with a smile, "You seem busy today?"

"A little bit, do you want to eat now or later?" The father wrapped the cake and handed the poured baijiu to the guest.

Ye Chen and Wan Qing looked at Zhao Jinyu in unison, usually she had to decide on such matters.

The main reason is that both of them have to rely on her to tutor their homework.

"Eat now, you don't need to go upstairs when you're done."

"Okay, let's see what I want to eat today..."

At this moment, there was a harsh noise from the end of the stall, and someone shouted at the top of their voices.

"The dog's leg of the dog day is here!"

"Little Japan is coming!" Someone also shouted.

"The prince is here, run!"

People call them differently, but they all have the same meaning.

But what's interesting is that no one calls them by their real names, as if some invisible force is preventing them from telling the truth.

The roar of the locomotive had already been heard, and the street stalls in the lively but orderly night market were suddenly in chaos.

Ye Chen stood there in a daze, but when she came back to her senses, she found that her father had already packed up everything and ran towards the alley pushing the tricycle.

And the guest who hadn't had time to sit down just now was holding a glass of white wine and gnawing on the hot cake.

"Why are you standing there, get in the car!" This time it was Wan Qing riding the bike, she grabbed Ye Chen who was still a little dazed, and let her sit on the back seat.

Zhao Jinyu also followed, but she wasn't nervous at all, instead she was excited as if she was playing some game.

Thinking of what happened that day, Ye Chen couldn't help shivering, but finally sat on the back seat of the bicycle.

The street went far back, followed my father's tricycle, and came to the depths of the alley.

Although the front is already a dead end, but here, those 'little Japan' will no longer chase in.

After all, there are still many small stalls waiting for them to smash and loot, waiting for them to exercise their small but supreme power.

"Huh..." Although he was just sitting, Ye Chen couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he was safely down.

There are many twists and turns here, and you can't see what's going on outside. There are only old and low-rise residential buildings around, and few of them exceed three floors.

So that the setting sun can shine into this small open space.

The surroundings are extremely quiet, and the hustle and bustle of the world seems to have been isolated.

Even the two or three girls playing hopscotch weren't too noisy.

Zhao Jinyu's little face was flushed: "Did you escape?"

"Are you tired? Haha, you'll be fine here." Father put out the folding table again. Judging by his appearance, it's obvious that this kind of thing didn't happen to him once or twice. If you can’t go out, just eat here.”

"Okay." Wan Qing looked around, "It's quiet here, and the environment is better than the alley."

Not far from this clearing is a small pond, but the water in it has almost dried up, and a few moss-covered stones are scattered in it.

Father took some things off the tricycle, took out a piece of dried tofu from the marinated pot as a snack, and chewed leisurely.

"I'll eat... lean meatballs today, right?" Zhao Jinyu put his schoolbag in the car basket and was the first to sit down.

"Father, embed cake with soaked shrimp."

"Alright, where's Chen'er?"

"Why did my dad start calling me that? When did it happen..." Ye Chen drooped his eyelids, his face full of helplessness, "Well...then I'll just... just ordinary fried rice with soy sauce."

"Why, no seafood?"

"Seafood is too expensive, Dad, you should save the money for selling it, I'll just fry rice with soy sauce."

"Then put a big piece of meat for you."

"Ah... If you want to put it in, just... a little pork chop will do."

"Okay, you must be full when you eat, otherwise you won't be nutritious, how can you have the energy to think about problems?" My father smiled and started to get busy at the tricycle stall.

There is only one street lamp here, which is so dim that it can hardly illuminate anything. My father hung up his big light bulb, like the moon in the endless night.

The aroma soon permeated the stall, blending with the taste of home-cooked dishes wafting from thousands of households.

"Dad, where are you celebrating the New Year this year? Back home or?"

"This year." Father seemed a little careless, "Forget this year, I won't go back."

"Oh... celebrate the New Year here?"

"Well, probably celebrate the New Year here, Qingqing, your cake is ready!"

"Ang, it's here." Wan Qing stood up and took the cake, took a big bite, the wonderful taste melted on the tip of her tongue, even if she ate it every day, she didn't seem to feel tired.

Of course, it may also be because the frequency of eating is not so much.

This time, even his father sat down to eat together, and the short escape gave him his own lunch time.

Every household is lit up, lighting up the city in the dark.

Although it is not as prosperous as the streets and the houses are very old, it makes people feel very warm.

It would be even better if there was snow at this time.

However, it rarely snows in the south. Even if it happens occasionally, it only stops for a day or two. The normal heavy snow in the north is already an uncommon disaster in the south...

……

"How about it, are there many people setting up stalls on the street?"

"It's much less than before." Ye Chen, who had just returned from 'scouting' outside, said in a low voice, "But there are still... half of them."

"It appears to be back to normal."

"Well, it seems that they have all gone." My father stretched his waist, picked up a 'Double Happiness' from the intact and beautiful cigarette case, covered the lighter with his hand to block the wind, and after a few 'clicks' Only then did he ignite it, and then took a good breath, "Okay, keep working!"

"Will they come at night?"

"Normally not." Father said with a smile, "But once, they came after nine o'clock."

"Ah... you still have to be careful." Ye Chen was a little worried.

"Don't worry, you probably won't come again after you come here once."

"It's better to be careful."

"Haha, yes." Father picked up the pager that Wan Qing had repaired and looked at the time, "It's time for you to go back to your room and do your homework, right? Finish your work early and go to bed early, getting enough sleep is very important."

"Well, let's go back then."

"it is good."

Leaving from the place where my father set up a stall, it was indeed quite deserted along the way, but that was relatively speaking, and it was actually still lively.

The stalls selling cut cakes and mutton skewers were still on the street, and Wan Qing seriously doubted whether they hadn't moved their positions at all.

Maybe...they weren't afraid of them at all.

Let’s not talk about how much it costs to cut a piece of cake, it’s the big watermelon knife, who wouldn’t be scared after seeing it.

Those who bully the weak and fear the hard will definitely not dare to do anything.

—— Wan Qing thought jokingly in her heart.

It's the rush hour after get off work and school, and there are a lot of people in the elevator.

The three of them who really didn't want to take the stairs finally squeezed in after waiting two times.

Two elementary school children were yelling and screaming, and it hurt people's brains.

So much so that the time for the elevator to go up makes people feel extraordinarily long.

When they arrived at their floor and walked out, Wan Qing clearly felt that everyone in the elevator was slightly relieved.

The lethality of bear children is so strong no matter what era it is...

Of course, I take a shower first when I get home, so as not to run out of hot water later.

"Ah, it would be nice if there was a water heater at home, so I can take a bath whenever I think about it..." Wan Qing drooped her arms and sighed.

"That kind of thing is too expensive. The apartment won't install it. It's cheap to supply hot water." Ye Chen spread his hands, "There are so many rooms on the first floor."

"Tsk, yes." After all, water heaters in this era are still a novelty, and like air conditioners, they are not affordable for ordinary people.

In fact, apartments are now using relatively cheap window air conditioners.

One is that there is no heating capacity, and the other is that the cooling effect is not very good-mainly because the space covered is not large, but it is enough for an apartment.

As for the solar water heater, that thing can probably be installed in the room on the top floor, after all, there can't be so many solar panels on the roof.

People always think that the past is better.

But in fact, there are too many convenient things in the future era. In terms of life, the past is simply incomparable with the future.

Those who want to go back to the past are not yearning for the life of that era, but for the faded memories.

Of course, for a person like Wan Qing who can't stand the neurotic society of the future, no matter how inconvenient the past was, she probably wouldn't think about going back to the future.

At most, it's just an occasional thought of 'the future is better in this respect'.

……

48. Smile in the mirror

"Ah... so tired." Ye Chen felt that his eyes could hardly be opened.

It was eleven o'clock in the evening.

She just came back from Zhao Jinyu's room, and brought back a bunch of homework by the way.

Some of them are extra.