Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi followed Mei Fang to the store he mentioned. This store was located in a run-down alley. The shops here looked quite old. Some even had door frames made of very old wooden slats instead of iron rolling shutters.
“This is my first time here... It feels like an adventure, so fun!”
Xia Yuan was very interested in the street scenes here, and as they chatted they began to talk about memories of the past.
"Remember when we were kids and we were looking for the pond next to the West River Bridge, but we never found it and kept getting lost?"
"I remember, I remember, that time we walked a long way, and all we saw along the way was wasteland, with no one in sight. In the end, we discovered that the pond had already dried up."
Lin Youxi also fell into the fascination of memories, "And if Ah Fang hadn't been there, we wouldn't have been able to find the way home. Yuanyuan, you were almost scared to tears at that time."
"Well, that's because Ah Fang was there, so I dared to run so far! Also, I didn't cry because I was scared, I cried because I fell and it hurt."
Mei Fang shook his head after hearing this. "We walked 10,000 steps that day, but basically didn't gain anything else."
“But the memories of adventure are wonderful!”
Xia Yuan quickly walked in front of Mei Fang and Lin Youxi, turned around and clapped his hands at them, saying, "But when we grow up a little more, we can take part in real adventures and travel to far, far away places together!"
"You really have a strange obsession with traveling far away."
"Of course not."
Xia Yuan said with a smile, "The world is so big, it would be a pity if you don't travel around!"
The group was talking and laughing along the way, and when they arrived at the place, Mei Fang called them over.
“This is the store.”
This audio-visual store is hidden deep in an alley. There are many movie disc covers displayed at the door of the store. The quaint interior decoration and the old rusty yellow ceiling fan all show that the store has been in business for more than 10 years.
The shop owner was an old man wearing reading glasses and a white T-shirt. He leaned back in a recliner and fanned himself with a palm-leaf fan. His eyes were slightly narrowed, and he looked drowsy.
The alley was shady and the environment seemed a bit eerie, but the children did not feel scared.
Xia Yuan suggested: "Let's each choose a disc!"
"How many movies did you watch?" Lin Youxi asked.
"First, let's see if there's anything we particularly want to watch. Let's each pick one!"
Xia Yuan pulled Lin Youxi to one side to choose a CD, while Mei Fang went to the other side to stop and check.
Fortunately, although it is an old shop, the latest "Kung Fu" from 2008 is also on display on the hot selling shelf. Blockbuster movies from ancient and modern times, both Chinese and foreign, are everywhere, and a large exhibition area is occupied by Japanese anime series.
Since it’s the kids watching the movie together, it’s not that interesting to watch a family movie.
Yuanyuan always likes to mock me for being timid, so I'll pick out a super horror movie that she has never seen for her to watch, so that she can experience what real horror is.
The movie Mei Fang picked was "Lonely Ridge". There's not much good to say about this 2006 masterpiece, but I don't know if it's appropriate to show such a scary movie to Yuanyuan and Youxi... Of course, Mei Fang herself watched it when she was about the same age.
Mei Fang picked out the movie discs and then went to see Lin Youxi and Xia Yuan choosing movies.
As a result, before he could even walk over, he was pushed away by Lin Youxi and Xia Yuan, and both of them looked a little embarrassed.
"You can't look over there, look over here!"
Mei Fang glanced at the disc area over there. It was full of Hong Kong movies, some of which featured some very seductive and sexy female stars on the covers.
oh!
Mei Fang smiled but said nothing.
The movies Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi chose were "The Evil Dead 2: Apocalypse" and "Snakes 2".
Mei Fang sighed after reading it: "None of the discs selected by the three people have immortal characters."
"My family wouldn't let me rent these discs normally, but now that I have the chance, I must take a good look at them! And this one of yours looks like an ordinary horror film, and it doesn't look that scary..."
Mei Fang smiled knowingly, "How about taking a gamble? What if you get scared and cry?"
"I'm no longer a crybaby. How could I be scared to tears by a horror movie? Hahaha."
Xia Yuan thought for a moment and said, "If I cry when watching your movie, I will cook for you every day at noon!"
"Then..." Xia Yuan thought for a moment, "You have to fulfill one wish of mine, whatever it is!"
"Only if I can do it."
"Okay, you can do it."
Lin Youxi interrupted: "Can I also bet together?"
"The bet is the same as Fate?"
"Well, that's the same." Lin Youxi nodded.
"I have no objection. Yuanyuan, what do you think?" Mei Fang looked at Xia Yuan.
"If we... are all scared and cry, then don't we all have to cook for Ah Fang?"
Xia Yuan seemed a little unhappy. She asked Lin Youxi, "Do you want to change the way of punishment?"
Lin Youxi didn't think this was a problem. "It doesn't matter. Why don't we cook for Ah Fang together?"
"Um… "
Xia Yuan scratched his head, "That's right, haha! But I won't be scared to tears!"
"I probably wouldn't either." Lin Youxi agreed.
Xia Yuan put the discs together and came to the boss.
"Boss, we want to rent these discs, what's the price?"
"Deposit 30, 3 yuan a day."
After watching the disc, the boss glanced at Mei Fang and the others. Worried that the boss would not allow rental of discs to children, Xia Yuan turned his head away feeling a little guilty.
"Here's the money, boss." This time it was Mei Fang who paid the bill.
"Um."
After renting the disc they wanted to watch, Xia Yuan eagerly pulled Mei Fang and Lin Youxi home, jumping and skipping all the way. The setting sun infinitely lengthened the shadows of the three people.
"There are three movies in total, which one should we watch first?"
"Let's start from the lowest to the highest level of excitement. Watch Snakes first, then have dinner. After dinner, watch Revelation, and finally watch mine."
Mei Fang’s evil intentions must have frightened Lonely Ridge so much that it couldn’t sleep at the end.
"After dinner, it's six or seven o'clock... After watching two movies in a row, it must be after ten o'clock, right?"
Xia Yuan immediately showed a look of surprise to Mei Fang when he heard this, "Ah Fang, you are so brave, don't you need to go to bed at 10 o'clock at night?"
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Mei Fang couldn't believe it.
"I have to go to bed at 8:30 every night at the latest, otherwise my mother will scold me." Xia Yuan looked at Lin Youxi.
"My dad doesn't have any rules," Lin Youxi thought for a moment, "but I have nothing to do at home, so it's usually around nine o'clock."
Xia Yuan seemed even more excited after hearing this, "Then we must stay up late tonight! This is a very rare opportunity."
Mei Fang had experienced sudden death in his previous life, so he paid special attention to the quality of sleep in this life. In the past, his father tried to stop him from having sweet dreams, so he was spanked by his filial son. Mei Ya was also often beaten for teasing her brother in the morning.
So in response to Xia Yuan's proposal, Mei Fang also added:
"No matter how hard you try, you should go to bed before 12 o'clock. This way you can grow stronger."
Sorry! I was playing AI drawing with my friends in the group and didn’t pay attention to the time.
(End of this chapter)