- Mom, will you take me to the zoo? Other classmates said they had been there, but I didn't.

…… Haven't I taken you there several times before?

- Mom, will you take me to the zoo tomorrow? I want to see the monkeys.

…… What's so nice about monkeys, play with children on June 1st.

- Mom, can you take me to the zoo today?

…… Okay, okay, you go home first, and I'll take you when I come back at noon.

Then, the boy waited until six o'clock in the evening when his mother returned, by which time the zoo had already closed.

That night, the boy had dinner with his mother in tears of grievance......

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Riki has long forgotten the scene at that time, and the reason why she is so impressed now is entirely because of the nagging that her mother has been nagging since she was old. When talking to her mother, she would occasionally mention it, saying that the most guilty thing back then was that she couldn't take him to the zoo. Was it a few weeks or months? In short, it was only after his son's hard work that he agreed.

The mother said that when she finally agreed, she saw her son's elated little face and the infinite joy of bouncing. But on June 1st, she came home very late, and when she opened the door, she saw 8-year-old him squatting in front of the TV and crying, while watching the black and white pockmarked TV in a daze. The lonely figure is like a wooden puppet stripped from the whole world.

The older she gets, the more she remembers it, and whenever she talks about the zoo, her dry presbyopia always brings a trace of tears; On the contrary, Riki can't remember how to think about it.,So she always comforts her guilty mother on the grounds that she can't remember.。

Riki likes to watch animal world shows, whether he is 20 or 30 years old, he never gets tired of watching it, and he never gets tired of watching it over and over again. After learning the relevant theories, he felt that as Freud said, the childhood has a great impact on human beings, and the adult needs to make up for the gap in the mind by constantly practicing something. When people reach middle age, they still like to watch the animal world...... Maybe it's to make up for some of the shortcomings.

The old mother is probably the same, and in the continuous narration, the feelings of remorse are drawn out again and again to make up for the guilt caused by that mistake.

In fact, Riki understands her mother's feelings that day.

I was begged for several weeks in a row, and I remembered that I hadn't taken my son out to play for more than half a year, so I finally agreed but didn't choose the right son. June 1, 1998 was a busy Monday, and no one would take a taxi to the street. But this day is Children's Day, many parents have taken time off to spend time with their children, and the unit has also given employees a morning or afternoon holiday. Since it is rare for a family to play with their children once, of course, they are not stingy with money, and they are willing to take a ride from the bridge to the distance of several hundred meters north of the bridge.

On June 1st, there was a sufficient supply of passengers, and the supply of taxis exceeded the demand, so my mother, who was in the taxi business, was naturally very busy, and if she worked this day, she could earn money for three days. His father, who is a gambler, is in the casino every day, so he will definitely not help his mother take over. The whole day's driving work can only be carried by the mother, so naturally she can't spare time to accompany her son to the zoo. However, this is also where Mother Zero suffers the most. On June 1st, many parents take their children out to play, and most of the places they go to are parks, among which zoos are the most important. Thinking of her son waiting at home while other parents took their children to the zoo in her car, the mother's feelings were as complicated as eating five-flavor vinegar

——Drive to the tired, count the money until the hand cramps, take the family on the trip, and think of the son who is full of expectations at home.

Riki is clear......

- This is my mother's five-flavor vinegar at that time.

She chose work and a large amount of money in a day, but when she got old, she felt very regretful, money is important, ideals are important, or family is important? When my mother was young, she thought that the former was more important, but when she was old, she suddenly realized that the latter was more important.

In order not to make the mother feel guilty about the zoo again.

On June 1st, Riki sent her mother away according to the custom of the weekend, and then hid back in her room to catch up with the comics. You know, it's not realistic to finish a comic in a few weeks, or a month, like in a novel.

Professional cartoonists draw 2~3 pages a day and reach the sky!

A cartoonist without an assistant draws a maximum of one page a day.

Riki belongs to the latter group, and he doesn't hire a manga assistant, but he spends almost all of his time in class or at home drawing manga, and omitting the idea of the manga plot in between, so he drew 20 pages in 10 days.

The so-called comic passion probably refers to him like this.

I can have fun by locking myself in my room and burying myself in a pile of comics all day long, without having to communicate with people. He was prepared for the day without anyone to disturb him, but in the evening he encountered something unexpected.

After having dinner with his mother, who had been tired all day, his mother offered to take him to the park. Then, he was really taken to Riverside Park. Of course, although Riki was also a little surprised, but when he thought about it, it made sense, wasn't it stimulated by Children's Day? Seeing other children have their parents take them to play on this day, and their own son stays at home alone, it is definitely not comfortable to be a mother.

When it comes to riverside parks, it is actually a small park next to the embankment of the Green River, which is not as good as those leisure parks that will be built in Nanhua City in the future. A small park occupies only a few acres of land, and you can see it at a glance when you stand on a slightly higher floor. There are only some rockeries in it, and there is a carp pond that can be fed to the carp, and such a small park also needs to charge 10 yuan for the entrance fee.

Of course, Children's Day is free for children.

However, Limu still begged not to go in halfway, anyway, my mother was very tired after a day of work, and this riverside park is not much to see, it is better to watch people fishing by the riverbank and blow the summer river breeze to be comfortable.

With the ten yuan saved, they bought a balloon, two bottles of wahaha, and a generation of happy beans, and the mother and son went around the riverside park and came to the riverbank. The stone chair with the face of the green river can also let people enjoy the river view while resting, whether it is sitting or lying on it or kneeling on it to enjoy the cool breeze of summer, it is a kind of enjoyment for people who are tired for a day.

"Don't you really have to go to the park? Mom remembers how many times you want to go, but Mom doesn't have time. It's Children's Day, and mom is supposed to take you to play, but now the zoo is closed and the animals are sleeping. Mom can only take you to the small park. Li Xiuli touched her son's head and helped him tear open the package of happy beans.

The small park is another name for the riverside park, in addition to the zoo and the small park, the city of Nanhua in 98 also built the People's Park and the South Lake Park. It was not until 05 years later that Shimen Park, theme park, forest park, barbecue park and various leisure parks began to be built, and at this time people's lives began to become rich.

"don'tmind, don'tmind" Limu inserted two bottles of wahaha, handed one bottle to his mother, and then took the open happy beans, and said in an old-fashioned manner: "The mood of children is like autumn, you can't fathom it." ”

"Uh-huh...... If you don't want to go, don't go, those two sentences you just said are in English? ”

"Although it is not taught until the third grade, goodmorning, goodevening, goodafternoon, father,

Mother is too easy for me, so I used to learn it in the library by myself, and I'll teach you if you want to learn it, Mom. ”

"After learning...... Li Xiuli noticed the key point in her son's words, nodded secretly and said: "Mom still forget it, it's hard to learn when she's old, and her brain can't keep up." ”

"Mom is not old, she will be 28 years old when she is in the sky, and the news newspapers don't write that a 60-year-old man goes to college to attend classes."

Riki's mother wore a dark blue blazer, which was quite different from other drivers, looking more professional and also young and upright. If I had been willing to study hard instead of marrying my father, I am afraid that I am also a member of the female surname in the workplace now. But then there will be no birth of a little pear tree.

"It's better to wait until you earn enough money to study, now my mother doesn't have extra time to study."

"Hmm-"

Riki sat on the stone chair and shook his little feet and thought that his tuition fees had always been funded by his mother. The man whose father fished for three days and screened nets for three days and gambled was invariably unable to provide a fixed tuition fee at all, belonged to the type of drunk today. Grandma is rich, and her grandfather's salary and rent are collected by her, and she has never helped her mother pay her tuition.

In a few years, my father's younger brother, the son of Rimu's uncle, will go to school, and from elementary school to secondary school, all of them will be paid by my grandmother. Grandma's uneven behavior of serving a bowl of water made the mother very angry all the time, and often secretly said that it was because grandma didn't like her and affected her son.

"The water level of the Green River is so low......" I didn't want my mother to think about the unhappy place, so Limu deliberately opened the topic and said.

"Don't look at the green river now, it's very shallow, and when the rainy season in June and July comes, it can directly flood the river embankment." Li Xiuli pointed to the embankment to 2/3 of the river.

"When the river is about to rise, it can still rise...... "Riki said halfway through before he came to an abrupt halt.

When he first came back from rebirth, he didn't care very much, but now it's probably a relationship between touching the scene, and at the same time talking about the topic of the rise and fall of the river, he suddenly remembered something! July 1998 - A major flood occurred in the Yangtze River, and embankments and collapses occurred in many places along the Yangtze River.

More than 4,000 people were killed in the waters of the Yangtze River and Huai River, and the state lost more than 250 billion yuan.

What the exact number was, Riki couldn't remember even if he racked his brains, but the loss was definitely greater than what he recalled at the moment, after all, the data he recalled was the data of the disaster time, not the data of the last count. Generally, in the event of a major disaster, the final statistics are often the most accurate, but the losses are often more serious than those at the time of the disaster. In fact, the flood situation at that time was beyond the scope of the Jianghuai River basin.

Although the Nanhua Green River belongs to the Pearl River water system, it was also affected by the weather at that time, and the water did not cross the embankment of the Green River, fortunately, the People's Liberation Army piled sandbags overnight to increase the height, otherwise Pingnan Village would not have been submerged dozens of centimeters so simple. At that time, as long as every household could afford it, they all boiled a large bucket of brown sugar ginger water for the People's Liberation Army, and Liang Minjing, the grandmother of Limu, also steamed a large pot of eggs.

The bucket is a bucket for cooking zongzi, and the pot is a pot for hot zongzi, no matter which one can be stuffed with two small pear woods, the amount is very sufficient!

The eggs were finished, the ginger syrup couldn't be finished, and in the end, the pear family drank the last small half of the bucket by themselves.

At that time, the Yangtze River flood became a hot news for a while.

At this moment, thoughts kept squeezing out of Riki's memory.

In addition to the Yangtze River flooding once in 50 years, New Guinea also experienced an earthquake and tsunami, killing more than 2,000 people in Africa.

At that time, Premier Zhu Rong angrily reprimanded: "Didn't you say that it was solid? Who knew that there was tofu scum in the embankment! Layer upon layer of contracting, layer by layer peeling, creating a series of cutting corners and shoddy tofu slag projects. Such a project should be investigated from the root, and the personnel responsible for design, construction, and supervision should be traced. Human life is at stake, a hundred-year plan, a great cause for thousands of years, and such a tofu scum project, a bastard project! [***] to this extent, how to get it! ”

These are the exact words of the Prime Minister.

Although there is a risk of being traced, Riki feels that it is necessary to remind officials and ordinary people that they should prepare to raise and strengthen the embankment to avoid flooding.

"Don't worry, the river will not exceed the embankment, our embankment is trapezoidal, and every meter of water rises in the river, it has to be twice as much as before." Li Xiuli has not seen since she can remember when the Green River will flood beyond its embankments.

"Yes, we don't have to worry about it, the Green River is only a tributary of the Pearl River, and the Green River embankment project is very well built, not a tofu scum project." Limu pretended not to know. No matter how wide the river is, when the flood comes, it will actually take an hour or two to fill up.

"Even the Green River belongs to the tributaries of the Pearl River, and after all that, do you understand what the tofu slag project is?"

"Isn't it just a building with cement on the outside and tofu residue on the inside? A small workshop that makes tofu and soy milk can be earned! ”

Riki suddenly became very childish, and her mother tried desperately to hold back the smile that kept coming up. Although her son's recent performance surprised her a little, it really made her uncomfortable to be honest. Moreover, it is better for children to do children's things, and they should be allowed to enjoy more carefree childhood, and the words of children often make people feel particularly funny.