Chapter 1: The Passing Years

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The time was around four o'clock in the afternoon, and the location was in a small remote county town.

Yunzhe primary school gate, on both sides of the road temporarily parked a few private cars and many motorcycles, a group of parents to block the road section of the school gate, as the school bell rings, children from the school gate out of the stream, some in the crowd looking for their parents, some carry schoolbags on the road running and jumping, a few children kicking pebbles together to chase and fight.

Several private cars drove from the direction of the street to the school gate one after another, honking their horns as they drove along, separating the noisy crowd, and squeezing a road through the crowd, and the children and parents walking in the middle of the road hurriedly hid on the side of the road, and the adults muttered that they were not qualified while protecting the children, and finally disappeared at the turn at the end of the zebra crossing with the shouting of the grocery store.

Fang Ning sat on the edge of the roof of the nursing home, stretched out his legs and hung them outside, his two white and tender calves dangling in mid-air, overlooking a corner of this elementary school.

He had been in this position for probably too long, and he felt that his neck was a little sour, and when he looked up, he found that under the heavy canopy, those golden clouds were particularly red and charming by the sun.

The flag-raising stands of Yunzhe Primary School are stacked one after another, the fluttering red flags are new, but the sunlight seems to be old, slanting down through the same window, as warm as many years ago.

And in the hallway of the classroom on the third floor, a small, fat-faced girl was grinning at him, showing a mouthful of white teeth.

He patted his forehead with a headache, then stood up and patted the dust on his buttocks, stretched his long waist, and then prepared to turn back and go downstairs.

The little girl looked left and right from the zebra crossing with a pink schoolbag on her back before coming.

It's a school intersection, and there's a lot of traffic.

After a short time, he had already jumped in front of Fang Ning.

This is a very white little girl, probably because of her family's solid background and no lack of nutrition, her face is a little baby fat, her white and tender little hands are behind her back, pacing, looking at Fang Ning curiously, her eyelashes sweeping around, slightly cramped and uneasy.

Ming Nannan.

Yunzhe Primary School fourth-grade student, not fat or thin, tall, half a head taller than Fang Ning, lives in the north of Yunzhezhuang gas station, opposite the health center, because of the weak physique since childhood, three days and two old to the health center to run infusion injections, sometimes the family has no time to accompany her, Fang Ning moved a small stool to guard her, she has long been familiar with it, and many times, she is not willing to play with the girl, prefers to stay with him.

For Fang Ning, Ming Nannan has always felt that he is different from other boys, those boys are naughty and mischievous, they will only snatch her snacks, or push her away and not take her to play. And what about him? Ming Nannan has a hard time describing him in the words he has learned, only that he is as warm as his brother.

"There are a lot of cars going to and from school every day, and it's very dangerous for you to pass through here. Fang Ning frowned and said.

Ming Nannan blinked her eyes narrowly, facing Fang Ning with a straight face, she didn't seem to care very much, or she didn't understand these truths, she was just a little girl who had just passed her eleventh birthday.

Children don't have so many good and evil right and wrong, they only know who is good or bad for her, so their vision of the world is very different from that of adults.

She smiled coquettishly, revealing her cute tiger teeth.

Ming Nannan knew that every time she smiled like this, Fang Ning would not continue to keep a straight face like an adult.

"Still laughing!" Fang Ning shook his head helplessly, this little Lori had already figured out her character, so she gave up, stretched out her hand and pinched her fat cheeks, which were very tender, but his movements were still very light, just clicked, retracted his hand, and said, "What did you bring today......

"Chocolate. ”

Ming Nannan took out the chocolate from her schoolbag, a total of two pieces, and handed one to Fang Ning.

"My mom said I was a little fat. ”

"Don't be fat, your age is just a long body, it's better to eat more. Fang Ning tilted his head, thought about it and added, "It's kawaii!"

"Huh?"

"You just think it's cute!" Fang Ning lowered his head and waved his hand.

"Oh. ”

"Let's go!" he took her little white hand and trotted down the road, his pink bag jolting together.

At last they stopped in the thick shade, and the long stone benches were a little dusty, and thick leaves fell on the ground.

Fang Ning tore the waste paper on the homework book and wiped it clean, ignoring the strange eyes of others, and ate chocolate contentedly at the fork in the road where people came and went.

In the process of eating, Fang Ning was very attentive, and he didn't even let go of the chocolate crumbs on the plastic bag.

He ate with his head down, and his fluffy and silky hair looked good in the sun.

Fang Ning ate quickly, and ate it all at once, while Ming Nannan still had more than half of it left, and there were traces of chocolate greasy on his lips.

"Half of my chocolate for you?"

"Eat it yourself. ”

"Really?"

"Oh well. ”

Just as Fang Ning was about to take it over and eat it after a polite speech, Ming Nannan had already continued to bow his head and nibble on the chocolate.

Fang Ning looked at the sky.

This time period is just the peak period of the road section, this to the northwest side of the gas station and to the direction of the county road on the fork in the road, Yunzhe Primary School parents at the gate of the parents led their children to hurry home, Yunzhe Middle School also got out of school, many junior high school students from the school gate rushed out, most people rarely walk according to the zebra crossing and traffic lights, but through the traffic.

Most of the vehicles passing by here also ignore the existence of the school section, and the speed of the vehicle does not decrease at all, several cars almost collide with junior high school students, and some vehicles that pick up people simply stop on the zebra crossing next to the road of Yunzhe Primary School, so that the children can get on the bus directly on the side of the road before leaving slowly.

Outside the Xinyue Department Store, several business people moved stools and peeled melon seeds to watch the excitement, and Fang Ning and the others came over.

"These vehicles are parked on the school road at random, and no one cares?" Fang Ning couldn't help but say.

"Anyway, why doesn't anyone care? But it's useless...... the uncle subconsciously finished speaking, and he was stunned.

When he looked back, he saw two children, the little boy staring at him without blinking, and there were black chocolate marks on his lips. The other is a white little girl, carrying a pink schoolbag, leaning closely against the boy, timid.

And the question I just asked him ...... It's a little boy!

But is the person who can ask such a question really just a schoolboy?

"Hello uncle!" Fang Ning let the uncle touch his fluffy hair and pull his ears, looking harmless and well-behaved.

He sighed in his heart, it was not the first time he had pretended to be a child, but it was too naΓ―ve.

Ming Nannan also called, anyway, whatever Fang Ning called, she would call her.

The uncle saw that it was two well-behaved little babies, so he didn't be too vigilant, smiled kindly, half of it was talking to himself, usually chatting with Fang Ning, of course, he didn't expect him to understand, "You see that most of these cars are people, as soon as the traffic police come to copy the cards, they will drive away, and when the traffic police are gone, they will stop back, like cats and mice." ”

"That's right. Fang Ning habitually frowned.

Ming Nannan tilted her head and found that he had a habit of always frowning, just like the adults at home and the teachers at school, this feeling made her uncomfortable, so she took a few steps back.

Fang Ning pondered, in fact, he had written to his principal several times, hoping to add a temporary traffic light at this intersection in order to maintain traffic order during the rush hour. But he found that there was no reply after mentioning it several times, and it was estimated that the principal was messing around with him as a child, so he never wrote again, or he was disappointed in the headmaster who was a vegetarian meal.

He is not worried about those junior high school students, after all, their thinking is close to maturity and they have their own sense of behavior, as for those in preschool and second and third grades, it is better to have a parent's pick-up, and the most afraid is that children like himself and Ming Nannan who go to school and go home by themselves in the fourth or fifth grade are easy to be scratched by vehicles, which is very dangerous.

"It's very dangerous, but the road is narrow, what can be done?" the uncle in the store shook his head, "I hope the town government will find a way to solve it." ”

Fang Ning briefly chatted with the uncle for a few words, and then didn't continue the conversation in depth, he was worried that he would be seen as a demon.

And Fang Ning, who didn't want to cause anything, quickly ended the conversation, and after buying something, he turned around obediently, waved his hand and said, "Goodbye, uncle." ”

"Goodbye, uncle!" Ming Nannan also nodded obediently.

Then the two children walked along the zebra crossing to the fork in the direction of the gas station.

"Today's children are so precocious!" the uncle scratched the back of his head and said with infinite emotion.

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