"Mei Fang, where are you going?"
Lin Youxi looked curious.
"Are you here to play with me? I have to go to the hospital to visit my grandma, so I'm afraid I can't do it today..."
"Then I'll go with you."
Lin Youxi smiled and said, "Anyway, I have finished my homework and there is nothing else to do."
"Shouldn't we go play with Xia Yuan now?"
"Xia Yuan has been under house arrest recently, how could you not know..."
Lin Youxi patted Mei Fang on the shoulder and said, "Listen to me, there's a game hall that specializes in playing joysticks that has recently opened on Mingying Street. I've seen it from outside the curtain a few times before, but I've never seen the games inside. Let's go there and play together!"
"You mean the arcade, right? The games there can be played on my computer at home, and they don't cost money."
"But I think the atmosphere over there is more lively, I want to experience it." Lin Youxi pulled Mei Fang's arm, "You always let me play on the computer, I can give you some pocket money to play."
The normal trend of children's gaming experience should be from FC red and white consoles to arcade games and then to computer online games. Rich families may also have a handheld game console.
But the development of the small county of Baimei was relatively slow. Even in 2005, the cartridge-based Subor and arcade halls still had a large market share, and the Internet cafe industry was only just beginning to rise. Lin Youxi was the first to come into contact with online games, and knew nothing about the Famicom and arcade machines.
But this didn't seem to affect her enthusiasm for arcade games. Seeing that Lin Youxi kept talking about the arcade, Mei Fang sighed and said, "You want to follow me to visit grandma today. Don't you want me to take you to play after that?"
"Yes, yes!" Lin Youxi was very frank and did not deny it. "Is it okay?"
"Since you have secretly looked at it, you know that there are not many girls in it."
"What does this have to do with boys and girls? Mei Fang, you are a boy, but you still like to play with me and Xia Yuan."
Mei Fang was left speechless by Lin Youxi's decisive shot.
"Okay, I can take you there, but you can't go alone."
"I know! I just want to see it for myself! I don't have that much pocket money... Besides, if my classmates see me and tell the teacher, I'll be in trouble."
"You know this will cause trouble!"
"whee… "
Lin Youxi smiled brightly.
Mei Fang sometimes regrets whether he should have dragged Lin Youxi into the gaming pit. This girl is a little too addicted to games. Will she still have a chance to become a top student in the future
Lin Youxi got out of the car with Mei Fang. The two asked adults for directions to the location of the surgical ward. When they arrived at the surgical inpatient department, Lin Youxi did not walk with Mei Fang, but stopped in the lobby.
"Then I'll wait for you here."
"Don't run around."
"I'm not a child anymore. I don't need you to teach me."
Lin Youxi patted Mei Fang's shoulder and said, "Go see your grandma! She must miss you a lot."
Mei Fang came to her grandmother's ward carrying some fruits. At that moment, her grandmother was happily chatting with the aunt who was a patient in the next bed. Seeing her grandson Mei Fang coming, her grandmother seemed very surprised. She quickly asked Mei Fang to sit aside. Before Mei Fang started to greet her, she leaned over to peel an apple for Mei Fang.
"Grandma, grandma, no need, you should have a good rest! I brought you some fruit."
"Look at your grandson, he is so sensible at such a young age. You will be blessed when you are old." The auntie on the side couldn't help but envy him.
"Hey, let me tell you, my grandson is not only well-behaved and obedient, but also has excellent grades in school. He is always among the top students in his class. The teacher told us that he has the potential to be admitted to Qinghua University or Imperial University!"
When grandma talked about Mei Fang's achievements, she was full of energy and pride in her words.
Mei Fang was peeling an orange and was about to give a slice to her grandmother, but her grandmother persuaded her to eat it herself.
…
Now, it is still nearly ten years before Mei Fang is admitted to university and her grandmother passes away. The frail and paralyzed her back then is completely different from her current spirit.
Of course, there is a prediction of cerebral hemorrhage, and Mei Fang will not let the tragedy of the past happen again.
When Mei Fang came out of her grandmother's ward, she happened to see a group of medical staff pushing an ambulance bed passing by. The female victim on the bed was wrapped in bandages. The wounds visible to the naked eye were very horrifying, and the bandages were stained with blood. The patients nearby couldn't help but look sideways when they saw it.
When Mei Fang saw Lin Youxi, she was squatting on the ground, staring at the floor in a daze, looking lost in thought.
Mei Fang called her several times before she came to her senses.
“Waiting so long!”
Lin Youxi suddenly became very angry and hit Mei Fang for no reason, which made Mei Fang feel very puzzled. "Hey... why did you hit me all of a sudden? It hasn't been long, right?"
"It's been a long time! You've almost forgotten me, right?"
Lin Youxi said as he punched Mei Fang again, this time also very hard.
Mei Fang is already somewhat dissatisfied.
I'm giving in to you because I see that you're just a kid and don't understand things. Isn't it too much to push your luck
"Stop hitting people all the time, okay? You're not a kid anymore. It hurts when you hit someone. I'm warning you, if you hit me again, I'll ignore you."
Mei Fang thought that Lin Youxi would stop after hearing this, but she still pinched Mei Fang hard in the end.
Then Lin Youxi just looked at Mei Fang, as if waiting for him to lose his temper.
Mei Fang's good mood of visiting her grandmother was completely ruined by Lin Youxi, who left her on the spot.
When he arrived at the elevator and was about to press the button, a father and son appeared at the window sill at the end of the elevator. The child looked only two or three years old. The father was holding the child and trying to coax him, but the child kept crying.
"Mom... I want mom... I don't want stinky dad! I want mom to hug me!"
"Mom is sick. Can I come and hug you when I get better?"
"No... No! I want my mom to hold me!"
Listening to the quarrel between the father and son, Mei Fang retracted his hand that was pressing the elevator button.
He turned around and looked quietly at Lin Youxi, who was still standing alone with his head down in the lobby of the inpatient department.
She was standing facing the end of the inpatient department from beginning to end, which was the direction where the ambulance bed had just been pushed.
The curtains swayed in the wind, blowing in the whistling wind.
Even though the light is right in front of him, Lin Youxi would rather stand in the shadows.
There was no one around her.
After hesitating for a while, Mei Fang walked forward, took Lin Youxi's hand, and coaxed her softly.
Lin Youxi struggled several times, but was finally grabbed by Mei Fang's hand.
"Let's go? You said you wanted to go to the arcade, so I'll take you there now, let's go!"
Mei Fang shook Lin Youxi's arm to comfort her, but Lin Youxi continued to shake her arms.
"I'm just so annoying. Don't play with me anymore. Just play with Xia Yuan! Leave me alone."
Lin Youxi's voice already had a hint of tears in it.
"Why do you say that? We are good friends, right?"
Mei Fang tried to calm Lin Youxi down and patted her on the shoulder. "It was my fault just now. I didn't pay attention to the time. I apologize."
"I was the one who was being unreasonable. I had to follow you and had to..."
Lin Youxi bit her lip, her red eyes sparkling and clear as she stared at Mei Fang with a look of grief and indignation.
"Just leave me here and do nothing!"
"How could I leave you alone?"
Lin Youxi's roar was drowned out by Mei Fang's roar, and the whole person was shocked.
Mei Fang took Lin Youxi's hand and walked into the light.
They got off the elevator together.
She was like a puppet, being led wherever Mei Fang went.
Arrived in front of the bus stop.
"You want to go to the arcade on Mingying Street, right? Then we can take bus No. 2—"
"I don't want to go to the arcade now."
Lin Youxi rubbed her eyes. She seemed to have calmed down.
"Then I can go with you wherever you want to go."
"Is that place okay?"
"Can."
"You didn't even ask where it was... How could you be like that?"
Mei Fang smiled and repeated the word "yes".
And his smile also gave Lin Youxi the courage to speak her mind.
"I... I want to go to the cemetery right now to visit my mother's grave. Can you take me there?"
"Okay, let's go!"
Mei Fang patted Lin Youxi's arm gently, "Let's go. Now, immediately, right away."
I updated the original illustrations of the first five chapters yesterday. Only one was left after being swallowed by Dianniang. I really don’t understand Dianniang’s pingbi mechanism. If anyone knows, please tell me!
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