Xu Bin held her face and looked at her with great nostalgia: "Keke, did you have other nicknames before?" Did you really call Jiang Tianyi from the beginning? Although my memory is also blurred, but at that time I met a girl named Belle, I first met on the Internet, she picked up the drifting bottle email I sent, and then I begged my parents to take me to Macau for the New Year. “

Jiang Tianyi looked at Xu Bin with a confused look and said, "Is the Belle you are talking about my cousin Jiang Wei?" Because my nickname has always been Keer, you wait, I'll look again to see if there are any other photos from that time. “

Jiang Tianyi and Xu Bin began to dig a mine-like search and investigation against the folder and album in the computer, and compared with many recognizable photos of Jiang Wei and Jiang Tianyi together and other independent photos when they were children, Xu Bin was even more sure that Jiang Tianyi was the Belle who watched the butterfly pavilion exhibition with him in the MGM Casino and traveled at night in the Venetian Grand Canal Shopping Center in his memory, but they were still very young at that time, and they did not leave any conclusive image data at all.

It was a particularly fantastic summer, when Xu Bin was only 11 years old.

Xu Bin and Belle have been exchanging emails since they met once in Macau, replacing the traditional letter writing and mailing functions, and the email is fast and time-saving, and after he and Belle chatted for about another year, he used the pocket money he saved to fly from Spring Airlines to Macau during the summer vacation. This is destined to be an unprecedented and extremely novel journey for Xu Bin.

Because the Venetian Casino in Macau is so big, as the largest single building in Asia, even adults who often spend time here can get lost, so he and Belle agreed to meet at MGM Casino. Xu Bin booked a single room at the MGM Hotel with a credit card in his own name, and also took his black Rimowa suitcase and began to look for his spiritual companion Bella like a little gentleman.

The Belle he knew was two years younger than him, and because he had lived in Shenzhen for a long time, he was no stranger to customs clearance in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. According to Belle's description in memory, she took a boat to Macau from the Luohu port in Shenzhen, and came to MGM through the free shuttle bus from the Macau casino. As a Shenzhener, she didn't need a Hong Kong and Macao pass, and at that time, she used the latest E-pass to enter the Macau area, and the whole process did not leave any paper stamping procedures, so the process of finding Belle was extremely difficult later.

After entering the country, everything went smoothly, and at four o'clock in the afternoon, they met in the interior garden of the MGM Casino, which was decorated with a classical interior. The interior of the MGM Casino in Macau changes every quarter, sometimes it is a large-scale exhibition of calligraphy and painting, sometimes it is a New Year's flower set, sometimes it is a jewelry exhibition, and the year they went was the Asian Rare Butterfly Exhibition.

At the center of the exhibition is a huge ball that resembles a visitor from outer space, filled with rare butterflies. The outside of the ball is covered with green ecological decorations, and there are many small circles on the ball. The fantastical space visitor-like set stunned the two children who had just entered society. To see the butterflies in this large circular sphere of the sealed loop, you need to queue outside, so many tourists are so busy that no one notices that the two children are coming alone.

Xu Bin only remembers that there are many large butterfly decorations hanging on the extremely luxurious European-style interior ceiling decorated by MGM. Queue up to enter the large round sphere, and inside the sphere is a huge vine like in "Alice in Wonderland", and there are man-eating flowers on it that are big enough to swallow children. Xu Bin was so busy photographing butterflies with his mirrorless camera that he didn't bother to take pictures of Belle. The visit to the stadium lasted less than five minutes, so on Xu Bin's mirrorless camera memory card, only a variety of butterflies landed on the flowers and tourists' hands.

After visiting the butterflies, Xu Bin took Belle to the Sky Square of MGM Casino for dinner. He remembers a very opulent Chinese restaurant where they ordered only two bowls of rice noodles in chicken soup. Belle was not as well-behaved and cautious as he imagined, after eating, she took the pocket money that her parents usually gave her into the Swarovski store in Tianmu Square, bought a pair of earrings, and swore that she handed one of them to Xu Bin, saying: "This is our love token!" You can't like other girls in the future! Xu Bin agreed to her, and said to her that he would never regret it.

After buying things, Belle wanted to drag Xu Bin into the MGM casino to play, but was stopped by the administrator of the casino. Macau casinos have implemented a comprehensive ban on gambling, and minors under the age of 22 and children are resolutely not allowed to enter, so Xu Bin took her back to the room he had booked at the MGM Hotel. He took Belle to play online games all night. After waking up the next day, I went to the Chinese restaurant on the first floor of Tianmu Plaza and asked for two servings of chicken soup and pho.

At that time, the mobile payment communication function was not developed, and the Apple mobile phone she was holding had no network signal, and by this time, the two children had been missing from their home for 18 hours. In order to get in touch with his family and not be known to strangers that they were just two children who had traveled to Macau alone, Xu Bin decided to look for a public phone outside. Through chatting with the hotel doorman and consulting with the tour guides, Xu Bin learned that there was a coin-operated phone in the lobby of the west wing of the Venetian Casino.

The two of them boarded the free shuttle bus to and from the casino from the MGM Casino parking spot, and together they arrived at the Venetian Casino through the shuttle bus. This entertainment venue, which has reached the top level in the world in terms of decoration and crowd of tourists, makes Xu Bin and Belle feel like they are in a magical world. The two children finally found a public phone, and he used the dozen or so patacas left in Belle's hand to call his mother, in which he told his mother that he was just staying at the same school for one night, and he wanted to continue playing for a few days, so Xu Bin's mother believed that her son was actually at the same school. Belle called her mother with the remaining coins and the same trick, but she didn't get the same effect, her mother allowed her to stay at her fellow students, but she could only stay one more day, and she had to go home the next morning, or her father would pick her up himself, so Belle hung up the phone. Belle, who is rebellious and independent, ignores the uneasy Xu Bin and pulls him on the elevator to return to the place where they first met: the Venetian Grand Canal Mall. At this point, they had no cash on hand, so they spent the whole night wandering around the Venetian merchants. If you can't walk, you can find the Häagen-Dazs ice cream shop in the Grand Canal Mall, and buy ice cream with a credit card.