i was my mistake

Roads without auxiliary roads like this are actually very common in H City in this era.

The curbs protruding a little from the side of the street are actually part of the shops.

Pedestrians walked on it with some reluctance. Occasionally, when someone came from the opposite side, someone on the other side had to give way.

City H is a typical southern city where the whole city is cramped and cramped. Although it is the provincial capital, it always makes people feel tense.

This situation was not improved until a large number of new districts were built later.

And even in the future, the road has not been widened much.

Sometimes the traffic jam is even worse than that of S City next door, which is an international metropolis.

Mao Yeyuan stopped in front of a large hardware store with three doors, which not only sold hardware parts, but also sold various lamps, and all kinds of practical gadgets that every family needs can be found here.

"Sister, I'm back!" Mao Yeyuan, who was leading the dog, walked into the store with a sigh of relief, and handed the husky's rope to the eldest sister who was sitting on the chair to settle the accounts, "I'm so exhausted!"

"Did you fall?" The woman who seemed to be in her early thirties stopped the pen in her hand, looked up at her, and could not help but laugh, "You didn't get hurt?"

"Sister, don't snicker when you care about others, okay!" Mao Yeyuan puffed up her cheeks, as if she was acting like a spoiled child.

"Pfft, cough, I didn't expect to be so embarrassed... Who are those two?"

"Oh! It's my classmate, classmate! Ye Chen and Wan Qing."

"Hello..." Ye Chen nodded awkwardly, not knowing whether to call 'Sister' or 'Auntie' for a moment.

"Hi, big sister." Wan Qing was not polite at all, and directly followed Mao Yeyuan to use the same address.

"Oh, well, you guys go play! It's really inconvenient to bring such a big dog."

"Sister, when will your friend take this dog back? Have you been let go for a month?"

"It's coming soon, I'm too annoyed, but we are friends after all, what can I do?"

"Is the second sister in the laundry?"

"It must be there, why is this point not there?"

"Oh, I'm going to find her!"

"Hey, wait a minute, take this coat for me by the way, and ask your second sister to wash it for me without using water."

"Know it!"

The relationship between Mao Yeyuan's sisters seems to be quite good-only a real family can be so casual.

Although they are not the same mother, they are at least the same father, and they can also be called sisters. However, in many cases, such a close blood relationship may not be able to get along harmoniously and friendly.

"Let's go, go find the second sister!" Mao Yeyuan said excitedly holding her coat. Actually, it's not much fun—maybe she thinks that introducing her sister to her friends is already a very interesting thing.

The second sister's laundry shop is not far from the hardware store, about 20 meters away.

There is only one door, which looks inconspicuous, but the inside is very deep, and it is neat and clean.

There are several washing machines in the store, all of which are spinning 'squeaky'. A young woman about 25 or six years old is carefully washing a piece of clothing that looks expensive.

"Second Sister!" Mao Yeyuan jumped lightly.

"The members of Caterpillar's family are all tall..." Ye Chen suddenly sighed, "Her eldest sister is about the same height as her, and the second sister seems to be even taller."

"Yes, my second sister is 1.7 meters five!" Mao Yeyuan obviously heard it, and she replied proudly, "It's very tall!"

"Yuanyuan, it's not good for a woman to be tall." The second sister shook her head helplessly and smiled, "Look at me, it's because I'm too tall that I don't have a boyfriend yet."

"That's because they don't know how to appreciate it!" Mao Yeyuan curled her lips, "Or they are too short, and they feel that standing next to you has frustrated their self-esteem. Second sister will definitely find a man who is 1.9 meters in the future."

"Don't be 1.9 meters, the child will be taller by then. If I have a daughter, she will grow to 1.8 meters..." The second sister smiled wryly, "It's okay to be shorter."

"No! Wouldn't it look weird if your boyfriend was shorter than you?"

"Pfft, alright, what's the matter, elder sister asked you to bring the clothes?"

"Yes, here it is!" Mao Yeyuan handed over the coat, and introduced her two friends as usual.

She took Wan Qing and Ye Chen to the store for a stroll, then set off to the last place.

——Third Sister's small facade.

That is the facade at the end of the street, only one-third of the normal facade.

Even the roller shutter door looked pitifully small.

"Third sister is not here today, but I have the key~" Mao Yeyuan said, and opened the rolling gate.

There is a bright window in the small room, which seems less cramped than imagined.

It is said to be a facade, but it looks more like a room. There are various paintings on the walls, including sketches, oil paintings, and some ink paintings. There are a lot of tools and a drawing board at the end of the room, all cleaned up Very neat.

There is a small round table and three chairs near the window, and a small green refrigerator is placed against the wall.

"By the way, do you want milk tea?"

"milk tea?"

"Well, my third sister and I made it ourselves, it's delicious, and we also made our own little pearls! Hmm...do you want it hot or iced?"

Tasting milk tea in H City in [-] was considered a trendy thing.

Wan Qing used to like to drink too. She remembers that when she first drank, it only cost one dollar a cup. It was a few years ago...

"Milk tea..." She sat down at the table with nostalgia, "Give me a cup of iced tea."

"Drink ice? Hey, the period is coming soon." Ye Chen muttered softly.

"Why, no way."

"...It's up to you, anyway, I want to be hot!" She shouted again.

"Okay! I'll do it now!"

……

61. Milk tea and small talk

The golden spring light came in from the window, Xiao Bai sniffed around in this strange room, and finally lay down at Ye Chen's feet, licking his big black nose with his wet tongue from time to time.

Mao Yeyuan, who was wearing a gray knit coat, opened the refrigerator and took out bottles and jars one after another.

While taking it, she introduced: "This is the pearl I made myself, this is the coconut fruit I bought, this is the brewed black tea, and this is the packaged milk - this is not easy to spoil, and this is honey, and this is Yuzu jam, and some mint..."

"This is much more complicated than I imagined." Ye Chen sighed.

"It's okay, it's actually very simple." Mao Yeyuan took a few steps inside, and lifted a piece of brown cloth, revealing a small firewood stove, about half the size of a car basket.

Mao Yeyuan broke off some dead branches and stuffed them in, and then put a blackened enamel bowl on top.

The remaining red characters are no longer bright, but the original four characters "Long Live the People" can still be discerned.

In the string of numbers below, only the first "19" can be recognized, and the last two are completely blurred.

Mao Yeyuan poured some black tea into it, then poured in half a carton of milk, and then started stirring with a long iron spoon.

She kept stirring until the liquid in the cup was slightly hot, then she poured the pearls and honey into it, and then continued to stir: "Chen'er, do you want grapefruit jam?"

"tasty……?"

"Well—generally speaking, it's more appropriate to put it when drinking ice, because there is mint in it."

"Then I don't want it?"

"No problem, then don't let go."

The milk tea was cooked quickly, and the room was filled with a faint aroma. She poured it into a glass half smaller than the enamel cup, put it on the table, and then started to make Wan Qing's share—steps It's the same, except that a lot of ice cubes are put in at the end, so that it becomes iced milk tea in one go.

"Here, Qing'er's is fine too!"

"Don't you drink the caterpillar yourself?"

"I don't want to drink milk tea today, I'll just drink black tea." Mao Yeyuan said, and put a few ice cubes and some grapefruit jam into the black tea in the cup, "This is iced black tea, and it's delicious! If Even better with lemon."

"It's amazing, I feel like I can open a small shop."

"Hmph." She put her hips on her hips proudly, "Maybe after graduating from university, I can't find a suitable job, so I come back to open a small shop! How does it taste?"

"It's delicious!" Ye Chen was never stingy with his compliments, except of course when facing Wan Qing.

"It's not bad." Wan Qing nodded flatly, mainly because there are too many types of beverages in the future, and this taste is not too surprising to her.

"Sometimes I sit and chat with my third sister here, drink milk tea for a while, especially when the sun is shining, like today, it's super comfortable to lazily bask in the sun."

"It's really pleasant." Ye Chen took a sip of the still hot milk tea, feeling a hint of bitterness in the sweetness, which made the taste of the milk tea even more charming.

What do girls usually talk about when they are together?

That is of course all kinds of weird gossip.

It doesn't have to be a celebrity, it may also be people around you or anecdotes heard from others.

When chatting with boys, you will talk about national affairs, even the international situation, and the difference in the future of mankind. Girls can always talk about various stories about love, and at most they just stay in life itself, not Talking in a larger direction, even if you talk about it occasionally, will soon stop.

That's where the chat bias between men and women lies.

Ye Chen can chat in any direction, but Wan Qing is still the typical male chat method, so sometimes what she says will destroy the romance and beauty of the story, making people feel like they have returned to reality from the fairy tale.

Fortunately, the girls around me are all good-tempered people. If it were someone else, I'm afraid I wouldn't want to chat with her long ago.

——Who made her often spoil the atmosphere.

"Have you heard a piece of news recently, a case of disappearance?"

"What disappearance case?" Ye Chen asked curiously.

"It was a primary school student who didn't come home after school, and couldn't find it."

"Is it human trafficking?"

"It's a boy, so he shouldn't be trafficked... oh... unless it's a beggar who cut off his limbs or something... I heard my mother said that those little boys are worse than girls, girls Being trafficked is basically going to a remote village to give birth to someone else..."

"That's not certain." Wan Qing shook her head, "What if someone also captures the little boy to be his wife?"

"Ugh?"

"cough!"

"But the strangest thing about this incident is that a young man went to the police station and said that he was the missing little boy." Mao Yeyuan brought the topic back.

"Huh?" Ye Chen originally thought it was just ordinary news, but he didn't expect it to become bizarre, "Is it a mental patient?"

"I don't know. The report said that this young man had no home and was an orphan. He went to the police station only after seeing the missing person notice posted on the telephone pole. The mother of the missing child also said that the young man went to her home first. , she didn't believe it, so he went to the police station."

"Is it because you want a home, so you are insane?" Ye Chen analyzed.

"Well, but I heard, just, gossip, that young man can tell the missing boy's name, birthday, and all kinds of things he has experienced before, even the other's parents are very surprised." Mao Yeyuan Picking up the black tea and taking a sip, looking at the sun shining on the table, "It's just a gossip, and it will gradually become an urban legend if it is spread around."

Ye Chen suddenly remembered the dream that day.

She remembered the voice she heard vaguely when she was about to leave the dreamland.

Could it be that the ninth floor really exists?

Although there was already a time traveler from the future back to the past by her side, she still felt a sudden jump in her heart, a little creepy.

Wan Qing glanced sideways at her, as if she felt that the two of them had thought of something.

However, in fact, the direction of the two people's thinking is not the same.

"Maybe someone lost in time."

"Lost... in time?" Mao Yeyuan asked suspiciously, "What is that?"

"Maybe it's because I arrived in the future, my body grew up with time, and became, but the memory was still in the elementary school, and then I was sent back, but the body didn't recover, so it became like this - he is the elementary school student. , it's just what it looks like when it grows up." Wan Qing chewed an ice cube and swallowed it.

"Time and space travel..." This is one of the most popular sci-fi themes of this era.

Basically, when people talk about science fiction, they think of time machines.

"Wouldn't it be a dead bone if we go to the far, far future all of a sudden?" Mao Yeyuan's thoughts were scattered.

"maybe."

"Hey - think about it, if in the future, you fall in love with someone and then go back, wouldn't it be very painful?"

"The more painful thing is that if you go slowly according to the time, the person you like has not been born after you die." Ye Chen frowned, "Oh, by the way, what happened to the young man who claimed to be a primary school student?"