i was my mistake

Although the road is so empty that you can lie down and sleep, it is still a bit dangerous after all.

After all, there are still occasional cars.

And when there is no car, they generally drive faster, and even run red lights directly.

——The traffic laws in this era are not so strict, and surveillance cameras are not installed in many places. It is very common for cars to not obey the traffic rules.

In other words, whether it is pedestrians or cars, they don't follow the traffic rules very much. How you drive, how to go, when to stop, and when to slow down are all up to you-especially when there are not many cars and even the traffic police are not on duty.

The sentry box at the Grand Crossing was empty, and there was no one there.

This is also normal, after all, the traffic police also have to go back to celebrate the Spring Festival on vacation.

In the field field by the side of the road, there were no players playing today. Several seven or eight-year-old children who were still running noses gathered together and were playing a game of stepping on the cannon.

That is to say, instead of throwing the cannons and blowing them up, they are gently dropped on the ground and then exploded with their feet.

It's probably similar to the feeling of popping a balloon, and the force is even lighter.

These little boys surrounded the firecrackers, stomping on them with a 'crackling' sound, their rosy faces were full of excitement.

Even a game as simple as this is fun for them.

Wan Qing also played it when she was a child. At that time, her friends called it the game of the brave. If she was more courageous, she would even light the cannon on the bottom of her feet, and then let it explode without moving her feet.

Some people's shoe soles were blown out, and of course these brats got beaten a lot when they got home.

Wan Qing hadn't done such a thing before, she had always been more life-saving, so she only used it to blow up river water or those bottles and cans that no one wanted.

I haven't even done such things as pinching it in my hand for a while and throwing it into the air to detonate it.

Compared with children who grew up in the countryside, she still has to restrain herself a lot.

But she likes to watch other people play, especially watching them stuff firecrackers into the mouse's mouth, or tie Er Tijiao with the mouse, light it and send the mouse to the sky...

The evil of children is really pure and undisguised.

"It's nice to have an elevator." Ye Chen wiped the sweat from his forehead, and took a breath. The three of them walked several times and finally moved all the things on the tricycle to the door of the elevator. What they have to do now is to put them All move in.

"If there is no elevator, you have to go to the eighth floor. I don't think you can take much at a time. It takes at least a dozen trips for the three of you."

"It's not that exaggerated." Father picked up an unlit cigarette, "Come on, you go inside and continue, I'll pass it in."

The elevator sounded the alarm that the door had been opened for too long, but the three of them pretended not to hear it. It was not until all the things were put in that the father slipped in and pressed the number eight button.

When the things are brought home, they have to be sorted out. Some dishes that are going to be eaten today have to be cleaned and cleaned, and the dishes that are not planned to be eaten today have to be put away neatly.

For example, potatoes have to be put in black bags to avoid sprouting, oranges have to be spread flat on the ground, and cannot be pressed into a pile...

Everyone's busyness seems to make Xiaobai feel very excited, it runs back and forth, and joins in the fun everywhere.

"What are you doing, you can't help me, let's go play." Wan Qing, who was handling the celery, angrily pushed the dog's head that came close to it aside.

Xiaobai snorted again and went to Ye Chen's place.

"I think it came here to play..." Ye Chen patted its head with the back of his hand, "It thought we were playing."

"silly dog."

"Haha, silly dogs are interesting, aren't they?" Father laughed loudly, spreading the oranges on the newspaper, "Xiaobai, don't come here, if you mess it up, Qing'er will beat you up."

"Why am I the one to beat you?"

"Maybe you look the fiercest?" Ye Chen helped his father and said.

"Oh? Really? Then I will be the first to beat you!"

"Why, I'm not a dog."

"Then turn you into a dog."

"Magic or witchcraft?"

"Wrong, it's science."

"what?"

Ye Chen looked at Wan Qing, and saw her smirking badly, that strange look gave her goosebumps all over her body, and she knew without thinking that what she said must be something terrible.

"When the time comes to buy a collar, I'll buy you one too, put it around your neck..."

"Why don't you set yourself up?"

"I'm not a dog."

"Then I'm a dog?"

"Yes."

Seeing the smug Wan Qing who took advantage of language, Ye Chen rolled his eyes skyward: "Childish..."

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95. Get back your childhood

People will have a compensatory psychology.

For example, after struggling for a year in the third year of high school, and finally successfully admitted to the ideal university, you will want to have fun; I have been working for a month but I don't have a break. When it's time for a break, I don't want to 'rest'. I want to play happily and stay up late...

Some people can control this kind of psychology, while others are easily affected by it.

Wan Qing is probably the latter, she still remembers that one year she worked for half a year, she was so tired that she didn't want to go out, so she quit her job and played at home for half a year.

When she grows up, she will often reward herself by buying things that she could not afford in the past—even if those things have lost their practical value in the future.

Therefore, in the future, Wan Qing, who has not been able to play with firecrackers and set off fireworks for many years due to the fireworks ban, is looking forward to this matter.

February [-], [-], the day before New Year's Eve.

It was rare for my father who didn't set up a stall yesterday to get up early in the morning. The sound of "listen to Dangdang" came from the kitchen. The busy sound was like the drumbeat of dance music, and the body couldn't help but move rhythmically with the sound.

"Go out to play today, do you want to go?" After washing, Wan Qing rubbed Xiao Bai's dog's head vigorously, and conveniently put a few boxes of big black eagle firecrackers on the table into her pocket.

"Wow!" Xiaobai yelled, wagging his tail vigorously and approached the door, looking expectant.

"Where are you going to play?" Ye Chen rubbed his eyes in a daze and yawned several times.

"Go play with firecrackers, let's go to a place farther away, Chen'er?"

"Uh... Is it okay to go out to play today? Do you want to help dad with work?"

"What kind of work do I do? I can do this myself." My father came out with a plate, which contained golden-yellow fried eggs sprinkled with emerald green scallions as an embellishment.

"Ah, the color of chopped green onion is similar to Qing'er's pupil color."

"...If you're hungry, just say yes." Wan Qing closed her eyes to prevent Ye Chen from looking, turned around lazily, and pulled Xiao Bai's doggy face that was getting fatter day by day.

Although the food at home is also average, it’s just bibimbap with some leftover meat, but it’s still much better than what I ate when I was wandering outside.

"Let's go out after breakfast. Be careful when you go out to play. Don't go too far away, don't break people's things..."

"Understood, dad, I'm not a child anymore." Wan Qing sat down on the dining table and chairs, raised her feet without socks and stepped on Xiao Bai's head, the latter not only did not dodge, but instead He rubbed his wet nose vigorously.

"Haha, yes... If you really count, you should be my age."

"Almost...?" Wan Qing nodded while holding her chin, "To be honest, I was a little unaccustomed to transforming from an uncle into a beautiful girl at first."

"I see that you are not used to it at all, and you are quite happy..."

"Of course, turning from a greasy and fat uncle to a cute and beautiful girl is a reward no matter what you think of it?"

"What kind of reward is this! You have changed from a man to a woman."

"What's the difference between men and women?"

"It's the strangest thing that comes out of your mouth..."

Although Wan Qing and Ye Chen were bickering and joking with each other, there was no smile on his father's face. He silently stared at Wan Qing for a few times, and then looked away: "Do it again, just enjoy life."

"Well, the beauty in life that you don't care about, sometimes it really just disappears when it disappears."

Father touched his nose, went into the kitchen again, and brought out more breakfast—seven or eight kinds of dishes.

For a breakfast, today is extravagant and rich.

But in fact, most of them are the kind of dishes that can be eaten for a long time after cooking once.

Such as bacon and plum dried vegetables, minced pork with pickled vegetables...

"The green beans in the minced meat are delicious." Ye Chen picked up a few more green beans and put them into a bowl, and drank them together with the porridge. "Going out by bike?"

"Yeah, if you don't feel tired from walking so far, you can go."

"...Where is this going?"

"go to school."

"so far?"

"To the middle of the road."

"In the middle... almost just out of the city, near the oxygen plant?"

"En." Wan Qing hooked Xiao Bai's neck with her restless little feet, completely using her warm body as a foot warmer.

My father is at home, so I don't have to worry about anything.

He can clean up the dishes, and he can clean the kitchen.

You don't have to do anything after eating, and you can go out with peace of mind.

This is probably the joy of being a child.

"Daddy, we're going out!"

"Okay, be careful on the road!"

"Well, Xiaobai, don't follow me, there is no place for you—"

"Tch, you asked it before if you want to go with it, it must have taken it seriously."

After hearing Ye Chen's words, Wan Qing rolled her eyes, pushed Xiao Bai back into the room, and then gently closed the door.

"Let's go, let's go!"

On the last day before New Year's Eve, the streets were even more empty.

The few shops that were still open yesterday have also closed. Looking up, only a few grocery stores and a small supermarket are still open, but it doesn't look like there is any business.

"Wait, go buy a lighter." Wan Qing didn't get in the car right away, but walked towards the grocery store not far from the apartment building.

The owner's family is sitting around the iron basin at the door, roasting the fire. The warm fire is flickering in the wind, and there is a constant 'creak' sound of burning wood.

When Wan Qing walked over, she thought, if a sweet potato could be roasted in this brazier, it would taste delicious...

"Boss, here are two lighters."

"Okay, take it yourself."

"how much is it?"

"Five cents!"

This is an ordinary plastic lighter, but there are quite a lot of patterns on the glass counter, some are pure and transparent, and some have a sticker of a beautiful woman on the outside.

This is an era that is both conservative and open, and it is full of complexities and contradictions. Women would be embarrassed to buy sanitary napkins, but the pictures of beauties on lighters are more revealing than one another—many of them are only wearing three-point swimsuits .

Wan Qing deliberately picked two that seemed to have the least amount of fabric, and put a dollar on the counter: "Boss, put the money here."

"Okay!" He didn't even get up to see if it was a dollar, so he nodded reassuringly, and turned the burning brazier with his long iron tongs—he actually turned out a roasted sweet potato from inside. Come.

The strong fragrance made Wan Qing who had just finished breakfast a little bit hungry.

"Here, lighter."

"Leave it alone...huh? This one is...uh, this kind."

"Why, don't you like it?"

"... Cough!" Ye Chen coughed twice in embarrassment, "It's, it's okay..."

"Do you want me to buy a super sexy swimsuit for you to see?"

"...Forget it, why does it make people feel nothing when you say this kind of thing..."