Chapter 22 It's not the result that matters, it's not the process
Due to yesterday's plan, Mo Ran and I have completely completed the homework left by school. According to the next arrangement, Mo Ran and I made an appointment to meet at the 21st Century Galaxy Plaza on Maple Leaf Road.
When I got up in the morning, this time I didn't sleep lazily like on Saturday, but quickly changed my clothes, washed my face and rinsed my mouth, ate breakfast, brushed my teeth, and then went out with my wallet.
I was walking on the sidewalk on the side of the road, and I had to walk about 500 meters to the nearest bus stop. In fact, the distance between each bus stop and the next stop should be 400 meters, but due to the restriction of a one-way road, the bus stop is 500 meters away from my house.
If you thought it was almost mid-September, the weather should be getting cooler, so the sun wasn't so scorching. That's really a big mistake, except for the previous cold wave, the weather turned cold for two days, and the rest of the days the sun was still scorching.
In this sun-soaked September weather, I walked more than 500 meters on the sidewalk. Walking to the bus stop, because it is a small station, there is only a simple stop sign, and there is no standard waiting stop sign.
So, I had to stand next to the bus stop, getting in the sun, waiting for the bus to come.
The ring 102 bus, under the eager expectation of everyone, finally appeared in sight. The car was slowly coming towards us in the distance. Slow is not the name of the car, but an adjective that describes extremely slow speed.
It's such a very slow bus, but it has a very enviable popularity, and the feeling of squeezing on the bus, for fear of being squeezed out of the bus, can only be experienced on this bus.
And more importantly, the only advantage of this bus is that the price is very favorable, one yuan at a time, and the mileage is the longest in the city.
From this stop on the bus, it takes nine stops to get to the 21st Century Galaxy Plaza. At the slow speed of this car, I need about half an hour to convert.
So, I'm going to be late anyway, so I can only hope that Mo Ran will be a little late. Otherwise, Mo Ran would have to stand pitifully in the Galaxy Square and wait for a long time.
The bus traveled for more than 40 minutes and finally arrived at the 21st Century Galaxy Plaza Station. The radio voice in the car began to broadcast: "Passengers, the front of this train arrives at the station, the 21st Century Galaxy Plaza Station, please get off the passengers ready to get off." ”
As soon as the rear door of the bus opened, I sped down at a speed of 100 meters. Then at the same speed, I quickly ran to the north gate of the 21st Century Galaxy Plaza to find Moran.
Hasn't Mo Ran arrived yet? I looked around the north gate left and right, front and back, but I didn't find any trace of Mo Ran?
Maybe there is something delayed, or maybe there is a traffic jam on the road. I thought silently to myself.
After waiting for about fifteen minutes, Mo Ran came from the square road next to it. Judging by her panting appearance, she must have been in a hurry, and then rushed in.
The first thing Mo Ran said when he ran to my side was, "I'm sorry, Yongning, the bus I was on just now was stuck on the bridge over there, I'm late, I'm sorry, you must have waited for a long time!" ”
"No, no, I just arrived." I smiled and said to Mo Ran so that she wouldn't feel so guilty. Who hasn't been late yet, the first day of military training is so important, am I not the same as being late?
If I hadn't been late, maybe Li Xinyang and I wouldn't be so familiar!
Mo Ran listened to what I said, and the guilty expression finally disappeared, and she took my arm and threatened to take me to the entire 21st Century Galaxy Plaza.
Threatened, after all, it is just a threat! The 21st Century Galaxy Plaza covers an area the size of 10 football fields, and it takes 15 minutes to walk from the food court to the clothing mall, so it is really difficult to walk through the 21st Century Galaxy Plaza in one day.
Time is precious, and Mo Ran and I began to travel through the 21st Century Galaxy Plaza. Our first destination is the Children's Joy Kingdom, which is closest to the north gate of 21st Century Galaxy Plaza.
Speaking of this children's happy kingdom, I came here with my two-and-a-half-year-old niece during the summer vacation a month ago. There are more than three children under the age of five, two more children under the age of five, and more than parents of children, and three more games that can be played.
Mo Ran and I, two 16-year-old students, actually entered the children's happy kingdom and became the well-known children's king!
The first game I played with Moran was called Marbles, and the rules of the game were very simple, just start the game, and then a small glass bead would pop up on the screen, play the glass bead with different strengths, and then let the glass beads fall into different funnels.
This game seems simple and couldn't be simpler, but in practice, it's really super difficult. Different glass beads have to enter different funnels according to the rules, the forms of funnels are different, and the glass beads are also large and small, and the difficulty level is a nightmare to accurately bounce the glass beads into them!
The second game project that Mo Ran and I played was called Gold Mining, which was an old game that I couldn't be more familiar with. The rules of the game, Mo Ran and I are also very familiar with it, after all, who hasn't played the game of gold mining in 4399 when I was a child.
Although the rules of gold mining are familiar, the level is still the same as before, the first three levels are very simple, and the fourth level is becoming more and more difficult at the beginning, there are poisonous snakes near the gold nuggets, and the poisonous snakes will be dug up if you are not careful, and then the game over.
The third game we played, called Slam Dunk, a simple basketball hoop and a dozen pocket-sized versions of small plastic basketballs, was the main tool of this game project.
Mo Ran told me okay, and we decided to change one for the other, and everyone took turns shooting. The first basketball, Mo Ran was in charge of the slam dunk, she was close to the railing, three-two-one, ready to go, in one go, the pocket basketball was thrown out of Mo Ran's hand.
The small pocket basketball moved in a parabolic arc, slowly approaching the basket, Mo Ran and my hearts both raised their throats, both hoping that this basketball could go into the basket, but regret always came when the hope was greatest.
The first basketball that Mo Ran threw was a missed basket and unfortunately did not score.
Mo Ran sighed, "Alas", and then came over and said to me: "Come on, Yongning, you must throw one." ”
With this expectation in mind, I paid more attention to the result than usual. In other words, sometimes the process really doesn't matter, we only care about the result of whether it can be made or not.
I took a deep breath, held my breath, and threw the ball with all my strength. Don't be in the mood that anyone is looking forward to, eagerly waiting for the result.
The basketball is close to the basket, and it is about to be hit, and it is almost fast, and the basketball starts to spin on the edge of the basket, and the basketball is about to fall.
I held my breath and waited for the final result.
Sure enough, as the old saying goes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. I didn't shoot the basketball, but I was unexpectedly surprised by what I was expecting.
Maybe this is youth, this is the tension and expectation of struggle!