Chapter 1: Childhood (1)

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The collapse of the Soviet Union in the 90s suddenly brought the world from the most oppressive Cold War state to calm, which also made peace and development truly the theme of today's world.

In this context, Wu Zhenzhen was born in a second-tier city with steel as the pillar industry 50 kilometers away from the provincial capital, his father was the technical backbone of the steel factory, and his mother was the vanguard of market economy construction - the first supermarket in M City. Overall, it's a very ordinary family.

Because he is a dual-income worker, Wu Zhenzhen still needs his grandparents to take care of him many times, and it just so happens that his grandparents are intellectuals of the older generation, and they happen to have a good three-bedroom house in M City. Therefore, the couple almost always sends their children to their grandparents' houses during the day on weekdays. Although the couple's life is hard, they still have time to adjust the rhythm of life, but it is not so easy to understand for the children - Wu Zhenzhen, who has just learned to call his parents, grandparents, and grandparents, watches all kinds of news with his grandparents during the day, and goes home at night to watch cats and mice. Wu's real and simple logical analysis can't toss the relationship between the two at all.

Of course, the child is still young after all, so small that the plot of the cat and mouse can't be understood, so some thinking is naturally normal.

This kind of day lasted for two years, and Xiao Zhen also entered the kindergarten period. Since the first five days of the week are in kindergarten, the life of grandparents is slightly easier, and only on weekends when parents work overtime need grandparents to step up and take care of the children.

In general, the days are still very peaceful, and Xiao Zhen is also growing up healthily, but the peaceful days are always broken by unpeaceful things, in the last year of kindergarten, Wu Zhenzhen's father fell ill, with a high fever of 40 degrees, and an unexplained viral infection, in order to fight the disease, the couple's small house was sold, and they could only live with their grandparents. But the situation is still not very optimistic, and even my grandfather patted my grandfather on the shoulder and said: "Prepare for the future, it's really not okay, mother and son, we will support you together." ”

However, in the end, Lao Wu was a lucky man and successfully survived the difficulties. Three months later, Lao Wu, who had recovered his health, was finally able to take Xiao Zhen to the park in front of his grandparents' house for a walk. And Xiao Zhen was curious for the past three months, and kept asking, "Why hasn't Dad been standing still in bed? Dad's forehead is so hot? Why didn't Dad take me to the park to see the tigers? Why didn't Dad take me to play tank battles?". Of course, he could not have really understood the seriousness of such a thing at the time. At the same time, the serious flood danger mentioned on the TV news is naturally not something that Xiao Zhen can understand, but the words "emergency rescue and disaster relief" are imprinted in Xiao Zhen's mind.

After entering the kindergarten, every day in the kindergarten and the boys in the class discussed the black cat sheriff, Shuk Beta. Discussing the little bee with the girl, this may be the so-called most simple pleasure, in the process, Xiao Zhen slowly mastered the crooked words.

Occasionally, on Mom and Dad's birthday, you can receive greeting cards with crooked handwriting and abstract images. Looking at such a greeting card, the parents are very happy.

After moving to the grandparents' house, the child is slowly having a little bit of mobility, in the grandparents' yard there are two little girls of the same age and a little girl of one year old, every day kindergarten comes back in the yard, Xiao Zhen and the neighbor's children have a very happy time, until the grandmother or mother upstairs shouts to eat, will reluctantly go upstairs.

However, less than a year later, the girl who had the best play moved away. And the other one of the same age has gradually reduced the number of people who come here to play, so Xiao Zhen seems to be a little depressed at times, although there are two big sisters and big brothers in the same yard, but it always seems that he can't feel the happiness he used to have. As a result, the happiest time of the week for Xiao Zhen is only the moment when another little girl of the same age goes back to her grandmother's house, and he will always wait for that girl for two dimes to buy two pieces of toffee at that time of the week. And the only few days when he went to the girl's grandmother's house to play, every time he came home for dinner, he smiled sweetly, and his smile was shallow.

Of course, adults don't care about these details, after all, parents and grandparents live in the same house, there will be no shortage of various contradictions, these details are not noticed at all, and the truth is about to reach the age of entering elementary school.

However, because he was only a few days away from turning six years old, he could only enter the preschool first, and occasionally a boy from the yard next door often came to this yard to play, and his age was five or five years old with Wu Zhenzhen. But the boy's parents are divorced, and the boy's mother has a bad reputation. Therefore, grandma hated playing with the boy very much, and even stopped the boy directly, not allowing him to play with Xiao Zhen. So there was almost no communication with the boy later, after all, grandma is usually a very gentle person and rarely gets angry.

And after a while, the vacant house of the girl who moved away moved into another family, and there was also a little boy, but one year older than Xiao Zhen. So, Wu Zhen, who had been bored for too long, immediately got into a mess with this boy. Moreover, after going to the boy's house and playing a few times, Xiao Zhen is like discovering a new continent - it turns out that there are not only tank battles in the game console, but also Contra, Red Fortress and other games. So, every day Xiao Zhen dreamed of going to that child's house to play, after all, for a five-year-old child, what could be happier than these. However, the boy soon entered elementary school, and there was less communication with Xiao Zhen, and only occasionally played together on weekends. And the experience of cartoons can only rely on the time of the animation city from half past five to six o'clock. And the computer learning machine at home is always unplugged by my father, and Xiao Zhen doesn't respond no matter how he presses the switch.

At such a time, Xiao Zhen suddenly saw a wall calendar with the theme of dragons, and Xiao Zhen was suddenly attracted by the golden dragon in the calendar, so he held a pencil every day and sketched the dragon all the time became Xiao Zhen's hobby. So we can see that the fifty pencil picture books full of the little real preschool are all kinds of dragons, some breathing fire and some squirting water, with thousands of postures, but most of them, it is difficult for us to see that it is a dragon, if you look at it from an adult perspective, it is a mess of monster graffiti, but in the eyes of Xiao Zhen, this is his treasure. So, as long as someone comes to the house, Xiao Zhen will run over to show the album. And Xiao Zhen's second uncle is an artist, so he saw that Xiao Zhen loves to draw dragons so much, so he took the time to explain to him the appearance of dragons, including the hair of a lion, the horns of a deer, and the scales of a fish... So, after a lot of attempts, Xiao Zhen basically learned to draw dragons. The bottles of watercolor paints, brushes and watercolor brushes that the second uncle threw at home made Xiao Zhen more obsessed with painting, but in general, Xiao Zhen's works belong to the type of happy graffiti.

With the release of happy graffiti, the life of the little real preschool is gradually coming to an end. And the whole year of preschool is a girl named Xiaojie, but there seems to be something in common between the two. Of course, there are still contradictions such as the 38th line, but because of the gentle education of grandma, Xiao Zhen generally does not really care about the thin Xiaojie.

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