By the riverside, Yinglong continued to walk, and a group of teenagers rode bicycles past quickly, shouting loudly and sprinkling a cheerful laughter.

The scene at this time evokes memories of the time when Yinglong learned to ride a bicycle as a teenager.

After entering junior high school, Xiao Yinglong quickly "pumped", from a short man to a thin and tall one

of teenagers. Perhaps because of the "strip drawing", the nutrients of the three meals a day are absorbed exquisitely, and it looks like it only grows but not meat.

Even he found it strange that despite the fact that each meal was two large bowls, his body size did not grow, and he even suspected that what he ate was not nutritious at all.

But there are vegetables and meat at every meal at home, basically meat and vegetables, so why is there no muscle in the body? Yinglong didn't understand this, could it be that he was born with the "slim gene", and he couldn't get fat no matter how he ate.

But Yinglong still has fair skin, even if he is in the sun, he can't tan, and his appearance is worthy of the audience in everyone's comments, and the most obvious thing on his face is two thick black sword eyebrows and a pair of bright eyes.

Therefore, Yinglong felt a little comforted, after all, his appearance was not bad, and he no longer had low self-esteem and was too thin.

Entering middle school, Yinglong is an eye-opener.

The school has tall teaching buildings, a wide campus and sports fields, which are completely different from the original primary school.

Although the primary school is also famous in Ben Thanh, especially in his impression, the ginkgo tree on the campus of the primary school has left many memories.

In summer and autumn, the ginkgo trees drop fan-shaped golden leaves and spread them all over the surrounding ground, attracting children to pick them up or clip them in books as bookmarks.

But middle school is a completely different world in Yinglong's eyes, and everything here greatly satisfies his curiosity.

There are even surprising anatomy classes in middle school.

In the biology laboratory, the teacher taught the students to dissect small animals such as crucian carp in order to observe the physiological structure of these animals and improve their understanding of book knowledge.

In addition, the most interesting is the chemistry experiment class, those strange elements make Yinglong remember vividly, it turns out that in this world, all matter is composed of these simple atoms and elements, the world is really wonderful.

They would use utensils such as test tubes and beakers to do chemistry experiments, and Yinglong discovered a lot of things in the microscopic world in these classes.

When they mix together substances that seem unrelated on the surface, they produce violent chemical reactions, and even emit fires and smoke, which is really jaw-dropping.

But when it comes to the distance to school, the middle school is far away from Yinglong's house.

Usually, he walked to school with a heavy schoolbag on his back, which took about 20 minutes.

At that time, the family gave an old-fashioned Shanghai watch to Yinglong so that he could get to and from school on time, so as not to be late because he didn't know the time.

Yinglong walked to school every day, with a distance in between passing the primary school where he had attended.

Every time he passed by the gate of the elementary school, Yinglong would see the rusty iron gate and the school name with blurred handwriting on the gatehouse, and he would still be full of emotion, and he couldn't help but recall his elementary school days.

And how childlike he was then, some things are still funny when I think about them today.

In the past, because the elementary school stipulated the lunch break, the door was not opened early, and the young Yinglong, who had always been full of energy, would climb the ancient camphor tree from the wall on the side of the school to climb the school wall, and then jump over the wall into the school, and sneak into the classroom without a sound.

Later, some students actually followed Xiao Yinglong's actions and followed him to climb trees and climb over the wall, but were accidentally discovered by the teacher guarding the campus, which attracted a chase.

Of course, the students scattered and fled, and the teacher didn't know which one to catch, so he let all these little guys run away.

Even now, when Yinglong thinks of this, he still can't help but laugh, and he realizes how naughty he must have been at that time, and he can't help but wonder if he is a problem student in the eyes of the teacher.

As Yinglong walked through the alley in front of the school, a few passing students would rush to ride their bicycles from time to time.

But Yinglong could only watch with a blank eye, watching them gradually move away.

At this time, a thought will come to Yinglong's mind: "Why can't I ride a bicycle to school? How good it would be to ride a bicycle! No need to "throw off the sea" anymore, walking so far alone is really a little tired and panicked. ”

So Yinglong buried this thought in his heart, wanting to wait until the right time to discuss it with his parents.

One day at dinner, Yinglong cautiously asked his parents, "Mom and Dad, can I ride a bicycle to school?"

Milan listened and hesitated: "Riding a bicycle, can you do it?"

Yingnan also heard it, glanced at Yinglong, and just lowered his head to eat, and did not make a sound.

Yingyun knew what his younger brother thought, it would be very inconvenient for a boy to not have a bicycle as a means of transportation.

So she put down her rice bowl and whispered to Yinglong, "Do you know how to ride a bicycle?"

Yinglong looked at his sister and felt that there should be a drama in it, so it was better to just make a statement.

He hurriedly raised the chopsticks in his hand and said loudly, "I can learn! This is no problem for me! Riding a bicycle is very simple." ”

Yingyun listened, smiled and said to his father: "Dad, I think it's okay to give my old bicycle to Yinglong, I'm short, let's change to a women's car." ”

Yingnan and Milan saw that their daughter Yingyun proposed this, and they couldn't say anything more. After all, Yingyun has been working for a long time, and he is the boss at home, so he still has a certain right to speak.

Yingyun is Yinglong's sister, who works in the administrative department, rides a bicycle to work every day, and used to ride a men's bicycle and found it very inconvenient, but now it is not too much to change to a women's car, Yingnan had to nod and agree.

As the eldest daughter, he could not refuse such a request.

Yingyun smiled slightly and said to Yinglong: "I'll give you my bicycle, you can take it and ride it tomorrow!"

Yinglong happily thanked Yingyun: "Thank you, sister, great, now I have a bicycle!"

Over the weekend, Yinglong got the keys and used a wrench to make the bike's stool a little shorter to suit his height, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to ride the bike.

Yinglong was full of joy and looked at the bike, which was a 50% new permanent bike, not too old, but not new, and it looked like it had gone through some wind and rain.

Yinglong tried the test car, but fortunately, the brakes and faucets were quite flexible.

His interest was so great that he decided to give it a try right away.

So Yinglong clenched the handlebars and sat down on the saddle, but he felt that his feet were a little difficult to touch the ground, so he had to stand on tiptoe and prop one foot on the ground to maintain balance.

What should I say now, Yinglong really hasn't ridden a bicycle before, and I can't help but feel a little scared.

At this time, a boy from the neighborhood, passing by, saw his embarrassment, so he kindly told him, "You can sit on the bench in the back and ride!

Yinglong was a little surprised: "Is this okay?"

He hadn't tried it before.

However, he also noticed that some children had done this while riding adult bikes, so he decided to give it a try and let the bikes run first.

At this time, there was no room for him to think about it anymore, Yinglong leaned back, sat on the coat rack in the back, and lay on his stomach on the front seat, his hands firmly clenched on the handle.

"But it's going to be a lot of work! I'd better ride it first, no matter what!"

Yinglong muttered in his heart, and he didn't care if it was a little ugly to ride a bicycle like this.

Thankfully, his arms are long enough to get a good center of gravity.

Yinglong settled down, and stepped forward and backward with both feet, pushing the bicycle forward.

Then, the wheels began to roll forward, and when the bike had a certain speed, the handlebars in his hands stopped shaking, and Yinglong began to put his feet on the pedals and rode hard.

Out of the alley, there were not many cars and pedestrians on the road, so Yinglong rode along the familiar road

Get up.

There was relatively little traffic on this road, and Yinglong felt the buildings on the side of the road quickly skimming backwards, and the cool breeze blowing Yinglong's short hair felt very comfortable.

In this way, Yinglong rode his bicycle along the familiar street, and a few children playing on the side of the road saw Yinglong's appearance and laughed: "Come and see! There are also bicyclers like this!"

Yinglong suddenly felt a little shy, but he decided to disdain it, even if there was nothing to be afraid of, after all, he was already running on a bicycle, which was much better than walking on two legs.

Yinglong rode forward on his bicycle, the distance was getting farther and farther, and he had already crossed several roads.

Seeing that there was a downhill road ahead, the wheels were rolling faster, and there was no longer any need to pedal hard.

Yinglong saw that his speed was speeding up, and he was a little nervous in his heart, and his eyes looked directly at the road in front of him.

Suddenly, Yinglong's heart was excited, and his head was hot, "Just ride it up and take a look!"

He immediately straightened his legs and sat on the stool, and the bike only shook slightly to stabilize its center of gravity.

Yinglong was very happy, "This is what riding a bicycle looks like, it's up to me!"

He laughed at the wind, then slowly stepped on his feet and slid down the slope with a puff of smoke.

Yinglong rode his bicycle crookedly on the path alone, turning several times in a row, and walked through all the familiar sections.

He was inevitably a little proud, he didn't expect to learn to ride a bicycle so quickly!

But if you think about it, didn't he also ride a baby bicycle when he was a child, and probably accumulated experience at that time, so it is much easier to ride a bicycle now.

After the excitement of cycling passed, Yinglong felt a little tired, so he went back the way he came.

He rode his bicycle slowly past the children who were laughing at him before he rode his bike, and he thought it was really funny to see the surprised expressions of those snots.

"You were still laughing at me just now! Look at me now, can you still laugh, hum!"

Yinglong was secretly proud, went home and locked the car, went upstairs and lay down on the bed, and kept thinking about the experience just now: "In the future, I can ride a bicycle to school, and I don't have to throw the 'sea road' anymore." ”

Probably too excited just now, he felt a little tired, so he closed his eyes and took a nap, and soon fell asleep.

Since then, Yinglong has ridden his bicycle to school every day.

Perhaps it was because of this old bicycle that Yinglong has traveled farther and farther since then.

He enjoys cycling around the road, admiring the buildings on both sides of the road and enjoying the ride.

As a result, he gradually became familiar with many places in the city, and often rode his bicycle to his classmates.

Later, Yinglong saw many different things and slowly broadened his horizons.

He even knew where the buildings in Ben Thanh were of high class and where the houses were still in the same style as they were a long time ago, and many of them were undeveloped and still retained as they were decades ago.

Perhaps it is these old-era buildings that make Yinglong feel that Ben Cheng is really a bit backward to some extent, and it seems a little dilapidated compared to the surrounding big cities.