Lin Xiaoxin, who was slightly panicked, walked for two minutes on this street with dim street lights, and found that the scene in front of her had changed again.
The original asphalt road became a stone road, and the trash cans originally placed on both sides of the road with two entrances, recyclable and non-recyclable, now have only one entrance. They are huge, like those placed at the entrances of many old communities in the north. of trash cans.
The trees seem to have changed too.
Lin Xiaoxin looked up at the trees planted on both sides and found that all the sycamore trees originally planted here had been replaced by Chinese Sophora japonica.
Wutong is more common in southern cities, and Sophora japonica is more common in northern cities.
Lin Xiaoxin stopped.
She suddenly remembered that she walked along a road a long time ago, and it seemed that both sides of the road were also planted with Sophora japonica.
Under the old and dim street lights, there is only one person.
The road I walked just now seemed like I had walked it again when I was very young.
That was a long time ago, so early that she had not graduated from elementary school.
That night, it was already dark and there were few people on the road. Lin Xiaoxin originally came out with her grandma. But when she was squeezing the last bus to Yanjiao, Lin Xiaoxin not only failed to get on the bus, but she also got lost with her grandma.
Lin Xiaoxin, who was alone, tried to find a canteen where she could make a phone call, but after walking for a long time, not only did she not find the canteen, but she also came to a path where there were no pedestrians.
The darkness and fear made Lin Xiaoxin, who was still very small, sob softly while stumbling forward.
Then, Lin Xiaoxin met Fang Ze, who was also a child.
The good news is that Lin Xiaoxin already knew Fang Ze at that time, because Fang Ze had just become her deskmate last week.
The bad news is that Fang Ze himself got here because he got lost.
"I went to the arcade to play games and spent all my money. I thought about picking up a few empty bottles and selling them to get money to continue playing games, but I didn't expect that I got lost."
A familiar voice came, and Lin Xiaoxin looked back and found Fang Ze's figure emerging from under the dark tree trunks on the roadside.
Lin Xiaoxin looked at Fang Ze, thinking of the news that Fang Ze had specially emphasized to her that he would not come until tomorrow, and immediately guessed that all this was Fang Ze's fault.
"Did you do this too?" Lin Xiaoxin pointed to the Sophora japonica tree on the roadside. Just when she was about to ask if Fang Ze had replaced the trees here overnight, Fang Ze suddenly put his finger to his mouth, signaling to Lin Xiaoxin Don't ask too much.
"Give me your hand." Fang Ze stretched out his hand, opened his palm and said to Lin Xiaoxin.
When Fang Ze said these words, time seemed to have returned to that night. Fang Ze, who was carrying two dirty bottles he picked up from nowhere, very gentlemanly reached out to Lin Xiaoxin, indicating that he could take her with him. Go together.
Although she was unfamiliar with her new deskmate, Lin Xiaoxin still put her hand in Fang Ze's, who was also very small and sniffed from time to time.
The two people walked hand in hand under the cover of night.
"Do you know how to walk back?" Lin Xiaoxin was held by Fang Ze, and most of the fear in her heart disappeared.
Although he doubted that Fang Ze, who was also lost, could take him back, Fang Ze had already had the idea to pick up empty bottles and sell them when he was a child.
So Lin Xiaoxin felt that he should be more mature and have a little confidence in him.
"I know." Fang Ze didn't tell Lin Xiaoxin that he was actually lost. He put the bottle he picked up in the crook of his arm, then reached into his pocket, took out a piece of chocolate and handed it to Lin Xiaoxin, "When you finish eating this piece of chocolate, we can go out."
"It's so bitter." Lin Xiaoxin took the chocolate and put it in her mouth, and she cried out in pain.
"Then eat slowly." Fang Ze repeated again, "When you finish eating, I will take you to the door of your house."
"It's done." Before Fang Ze finished speaking, Lin Xiaoxin suddenly said.
Forehead? !
Fang Ze's eyes widened and he turned to look at Lin Xiaoxin, "Didn't you just say it was bitter? Why did you finish eating so quickly?"
"Because it was too bitter, I swallowed it in one gulp." Lin Xiaoxin said innocently, blinking her big eyes.
Fang Ze, who originally wanted to use dark chocolate to delay for a while, didn't expect that Lin Xiaoxin had such a trick, and was stunned on the spot.
"Would you like some chocolate, little boy?" Time returned to the present again. Fang Ze took Lin Xiaoxin's hand, and then took out a piece of dark chocolate from his pocket with the other hand.
"Don't eat it, it's so painful." Although Lin Xiaoxin took Fang Ze's chocolate, she didn't put it in her mouth.
"Then why did you eat a large piece of dark chocolate in one bite?" Fang Ze asked Lin Xiaoxin curiously.
"Because I swallowed it directly." Lin Xiaoxin lowered her head and said sheepishly, "Didn't you say that you could take me home after eating this piece of chocolate? So when I was anxious, I just stuffed the chocolate into my mouth. in it and swallowed it.”
Hearing Lin Xiaoxin's words, Fang Ze suddenly couldn't help but want to laugh.
He was just afraid that Lin Xiaoxin would cry while walking, so he handed Lin Xiaoxin a piece of particularly bitter chocolate. His original intention was to let Lin Xiaoxin eat it slowly, but he didn't expect that Lin Xiaoxin actually took a bite in order to go home early. Swallowed the chocolate.
On this street back then, there was a little boy who was holding two empty bottles and just wanted to find a place to collect waste and sold the bottles for money to play games; Face, the little girl struggled to swallow a piece of particularly bitter chocolate into her stomach, and just walked forward hand in hand.
"You ate too fast." As a child, Fang Ze didn't understand what gentlemanly manners meant. After Lin Xiaoxin finished eating the chocolate, he realized that he had no way to take Lin Xiaoxin home immediately to fulfill his promise, and frowned.
"Then what should we do?" Tears began to accumulate in Lin Xiaoxin's eyes. She looked at Fang Ze, afraid that he would leave her here alone.
"You can only wait until I find a place with a lot of snacks. You eat slowly, and I will help you find your home slowly." At that time, Fang Ze didn't know if Liang Jingru gave him the courage and made him confident. said this.
"I'm a little curious." Lin Xiaoxin and Fang Ze walked hand in hand on the road that Fang Ze changed into exactly the same as the one in his memory.
She asked, "You told me back then that if you walk a few minutes, there would be a lot of delicious food for me to eat. Do you really know that there is such a place ahead, or are you just comforting me?"
"Mainly because I'm afraid you'll cry." Fang Ze said with a smile, "If I could know what's ahead, I wouldn't get lost."
(End of chapter)