“… Don’t worry about these details.” Ruan Qiuping said as he brushed off the dust and leaves on his body.
After Xiao Yuhuan stood up, he glanced at the villa behind him, then turned to look at Ruan Qiuping and said, "Ruan Qiuping, let's run farther away, farther away from here."
"Why are you calling me Ruan Qiuping again? You have no respect for your elders!"
If there is something wrong, call Brother Qiuping. If there is nothing wrong, call Ruan Qiuping. Do kids nowadays change their attitude so quickly? !
"Don't you like me calling you by your name?"
"dislike."
"What should I call you then?"
"I think it's fine if you call me brother."
Now that Ji Shen doesn't call him brother, how can he ever have the chance to hear Ji Shen call him brother in the future? !
"But you already have a sister who calls you brother, so I don't want to call you the same as your sister." Xiao Yuhuan said as he walked forward, "I might as well call you Pingping, Qiuqiu, Ruanruan..."
Xiao Yuhuan paused, turned his head and looked at Ruan Qiuping, his eyes brightened: "Ruan Ruan sounds good, I'll call you Ruan Ruan!"
Ruan Qiuping narrowed his eyes and said sinisterly: "Do you want a beating?"
"Ruan Ruan Ruan Ruan Ruan!" Little Yu Huan shouted a few times, then ran away with a smile.
Ruan Qiuping ran up to chase him, and when she was about to catch up with him, Xiao Yuhuan suddenly reached out and held Ruan Qiuping tightly.
Little Yuhuan was still running, running very fast. He slowly closed and opened his eyes. He seemed to be looking ahead, but he didn't know what exactly he was looking at. He seemed a little confused, but also a little expectant. He was like a bird that had just flown out of a cage. He didn't know where to fly, but he was happy after all because he was out of the cage.
Ruan Qiuping turned his head away and said nothing more. He just held Xiao Yuhuan's hand tightly and ran forward together.
After turning a corner, there is a bus stop ahead.
There was a sky blue bus parked next to the station, seemingly preparing to leave.
Xiao Yuhuan sped up again and pulled Ruan Qiuping in before the car door closed.
Ruan Qiuping looked up at the unfamiliar place name on the car window and asked breathlessly: "...Where are you going?"
Xiao Yuhuan's cheeks were red from running. He took a breath and rested for a few seconds, then looked up at the logo on the car window and shook his head: "I... I don't know either."
The two of them simultaneously reached out their hands to wipe the sweat from their cheeks, then they looked at each other and suddenly laughed together.
"You can pay by coin, card or code. It's two dollars and fifty dollars per person and five dollars for two people," the driver reminded them.
etc…
Ruan Qiuping touched his pocket and remembered that he had spent all his money before.
Just then, Xiao Yuhuan took out a thick wallet from his pocket, which was full of checks and various banknotes.
Ruan Qiuping had never seen so much money before: "… Why do you, a kid, carry so much money with you?"
If he remembered correctly, Xiao Yuhuan was supposed to attend a banquet. Could it be that the theme of banquets in the human world is to throw money
"Because I don't know when you will come." Xiao Yuhuan took out a banknote and said, "I just brought enough money so that I can go and play with you no matter where you show up."
"Where can we go to have fun that requires so much money?" Ruan Qiuping found an empty seat and sat down.
"There are many places to go." After paying the fare, Xiao Yuhuan sat next to Ruan Qiuping. "When you were away, I thought of many plans. I wanted to go to the beach with you to pick up shells, and I also wanted to go to the mountains with you to watch the sunset. I wanted to watch a movie with you, and I also wanted to go to a big meal with you. I have so many things I want to do with you."
"But now we are not collecting shells or watching the sunset. We are just sitting on a bus that we don't know where it is going and where we will get off."
"But it's good this way." Xiao Yuhuan opened the car window a little, and the winter wind blew in, bringing in extremely fresh air. The sun had already set, but the west was stained with a gentle blue-purple color.
Xiao Yuhuan and Ruan Qiuping looked at the beautiful sky together and said, "I think it's better now than going to the beach or the mountains. It's great to go anywhere and do anything with you."
Xiao Yuhuan closed the window and turned to look at Ruan Qiuping, his eyes clear as if reflecting light: "Ruan Ruan, you should be able to stay here for about 29 hours. 29 hours is a long time. We can do many things. We even have a whole day and most of the night tomorrow... Let's calculate, it's seven o'clock in the afternoon now. We can go to bed at ten o'clock in the evening, and then get up early tomorrow morning, just in time to watch the sunrise. Ruan Ruan, you have heard of the sunrise on Feijing Bridge..."
"Well, Xiao Yuhuan..." Ruan Qiuping interrupted him, scratched his head and said, "There are not twenty-nine hours left."
Xiao Yuhuan blinked and asked in confusion: "What?"
"I actually came this morning, but I saw you went to sleep in the cabin, so I didn't disturb you. So to be precise now..." Ruan Qiuping looked down at his watch and said, "There are still twenty hours and ten minutes."
Xiao Yuhuan was stunned and said blankly: "That means... we won't have a full day tomorrow, nor a large part of the night... You have to leave at 3:10 tomorrow afternoon."
Ruan Qiuping nodded.
"You...you...you came, why didn't you call me?" Xiao Yuhuan's eyes were red.
Ruan Qiuping was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect Xiao Yuhuan to react so strongly, so he could only say, "I heard that you were very sleepy, so I thought you were sleeping so I didn't disturb you. And it wasn't long, just less than eight hours..."
"It's not that I'm missing more than eight hours. It's that I'm missing eight hours and fifty minutes. If you round it up, it's nine hours. If you round it up again, it's ten hours. You only show up for thirty hours a year, but you tell me that missing nearly one-third of the time is nothing..." Xiao Yuhuan's voice became smaller and smaller, and his voice was a little hoarse, as if he was very aggrieved. "And I wasn't sleeping all the time. I came out as soon as you called me..."
As he was talking, Xiao Yuhuan stopped talking and just turned his head to look at the sky outside the window which was already darkening.
Ruan Qiuping sighed and turned to look at Xiao Yuhuan. Suddenly, he seemed to see something. He opened his eyes wide and asked in shock: "Xiao Yuhuan, are you crying?!"
“…No.” Xiao Yuhuan wiped away his tears and said in a muffled voice.
Ruan Qiuping stretched out his hands and turned little Yuhuan's face over, and little Yuhuan's tears fell into Ruan Qiuping's palms.
Ruan Qiuping suddenly became a little overwhelmed, and quickly reached out to wipe Xiao Yuhuan's tears: "Don't cry, why are you still crying? I was wrong, I was wrong, isn't that enough..."
Xiao Yuhuan removed Ruan Qiuping's hand and said in a low, hoarse voice: "It's not because of you, it's because of me. I just regret it... I shouldn't have slept. If I hadn't gone to the cabin this morning, I wouldn't..."
As he spoke, he couldn't help but cry.
"Chenghua Night Street, we're here. Passengers please get off from the back door."
Ruan Qiuping heard the prompt sound in the car and subconsciously looked up. Through the car window, he saw a brightly lit and crowded night street not far away. There seemed to be an amusement park, street game stalls, clothes sellers, and snack sellers. It looked very lively.
In order to divert Xiao Yuhuan's attention, Ruan Qiuping immediately pulled Xiao Yuhuan up from his seat and said, "This place looks interesting, let's go and play."
After getting off the car, Xiao Yuhuan still couldn't get over his sad mood and still looked uninterested.
Ruan Qiuping squatted down, pinched Xiao Yuhuan's little face, and said gently: "Xiao Yuhuan, don't you want to waste your time with me at all?"
Xiao Yuhuan nodded.
"But you've been sad for ten minutes. If we use these ten minutes to play, we can go on two pirate ship rides. So, is this a waste of time?"
Xiao Yuhuan blinked his eyes. His eye circles were still red and his eyelashes were still wet. But at this moment, he reached out and wiped his eyes again. When he put his hand down, the corners of his lips curved slightly. His voice was still a little hoarse, but his eyes slowly became clear and firm.
"Ruan Ruan... You're right. I can't be sad anymore and waste my time. Let's go play on the pirate ship."
Sea... Pirate ship
Ruan Qiuping looked at the swaying boat and suddenly felt a little dizzy.
As soon as the pirate ship began to move, Ruan Qiuping's whole body tensed up - he usually had problems just swinging on the swing, so what if his bad luck caused the entire gaming equipment to have problems
Ruan Qiuping held the handrail in front of him tightly with both hands, but as he held on, he felt the handrail begin to shake. There were screams beside him and Ruan Qiuping's heart was trembling.
Oh my god, if something goes wrong, that would mean the loss of… one, two, three, four, five, six, seven… a total of thirty-seven lives!
After the pirate ship stopped, Ruan Qiuping still felt a tightness in his chest.
This pirate ship was even more bumpy and exciting than flying with a sword. Back then, when he first started practicing flying with a sword, he fell directly from the middle of the mountain and hung upside down on a tree branch, but he was not as nervous as he is now.
“Ruan Ruan…” Xiao Yuhuan suddenly called him.
Ruan Qiuping looked down and realized that he had been holding Xiao Yuhuan's hand from beginning to end, and his hand had turned blue and white.
Ruan Qiuping thought about it, but still couldn't remember when he grabbed Xiao Yuhuan's hand.
Maybe it was when he felt the armrest begin to shake.
As if realizing that Ruan Qiuping didn't like this kind of exciting game, Xiao Yuhuan took Ruan Qiuping to play several gentle games, such as carousel, bumper cars, Ferris wheel, etc., but Ruan Qiuping didn't like Ferris wheel very much either, and seemed to be very afraid that they would fall from the sky.
Hearing this reason, Xiao Yuhuan couldn't help but laugh: "Why do you always think so much?"
Ruan Qiuping whispered: "Unlucky people always expect the worst."
Xiao Yuhuan reached out and held Ruan Qiuping's hand, and suddenly asked: "... Do you feel sad? Because of bad luck... Because bad things keep happening to you."
Ruan Qiuping thought for a moment, and then said: "At first I do feel sad, but... For example, if my daily life is constantly swinging on the swing, I will be very sad if I fall off the first swing, and I will still be very sad if I fall off the second swing... But if I swing on the swing 100 times and all 100 times I fall off, I will not be very sad. Then when I swing on the swing for the 101st time and it goes well without failure or falling, I will be very happy. So now I rarely feel sad for a failed swing, but I will be happy for a successful swing."
"Do you understand?" Ruan Qiuping took little Yuhuan's hand and shook it gently.
"I understand." Xiao Yuhuan looked up at Ruan Qiuping and suddenly said seriously, "But I don't want Ruan Ruan to be happy because the swing only worked once out of 101 times. I want to make the swing with the best materials and install a safety belt so that you will never fall off again."
Ruan Qiuping was stunned for a moment, then he suddenly laughed: "It seems you didn't understand. The swing I mentioned is not a swing, it's a metaphor... Forget it, children really can't understand such profound rhetoric."
"I clearly understood it." Little Yuhuan muttered softly.
Ruan Qiuping raised his head and looked around.
Because it is winter, it gets dark early and there are fewer and fewer people on the street. Even some amusement facilities and stalls with less traffic have packed up and are ready to leave.
"Let's find a place to sleep." Ruan Qiuping said to Xiao Yuhuan, "It's already half past nine, it's time for the kids to go to bed."
"Are you sleepy?" Xiao Yuhuan asked.
Ruan Qiuping shook his head: "Not sleepy."
Xiao Yuhuan said excitedly: "I'm not sleepy either. Just now when I was riding the pirate ship, I thought of an idea. Let's not sleep tonight and make up for those eight hours and fifty minutes, okay!"
Ruan Qiuping:…
Young Master, you are still thinking about those eight hours?!