The night before, Shi Jiaojiao called Chen Li, "Lili! Tomorrow Xia Lei will take us to the city to play, and she will come to my house early! Chen Li hummed and perfunctory on the phone, and even had a silence for half a minute when the other party confirmed what time to assemble in the morning, and finally promised to arrive at half past six at the latest. Shi Jiaojiao was so excited that she didn't hear her good friend's embarrassment at all.

"I don't care what you do, safety is the first, watch the time of the bus, don't miss the last train back at the end!" Mother Shi told the two girls while serving porridge, Xia Lei nodded obediently, "I know, you can rest assured." Shi Jiaojiao just held a bowl, looked at the door from time to time, and muttered: "Why hasn't Lili come yet, what time should I get to the city?" ”

Xia Lei knocked on Shi Jiaojiao's head, pointed to the old-fashioned wall clock on the old long cabinet, and said, "It's still a few minutes after half past five!" I regret it, a big family was nagged by your life-urging ghost! Shi Jiaojiao pouted unconvinced, "It's half past six, you see, there's not an hour!" Mother Shi couldn't help laughing, "Why don't you call your father together, he will get up at four o'clock to empty the yellow eel cage!" Shi Jiaojiao didn't hear her mother's irony, and received it very seriously, "I knew I really asked my father!" ”

"Ask me something!" said that Cao Cao Cao arrived, and Father Shi came back with a bundle of reed-woven eel cages on his back and a small bucket and tools. Xia Lei immediately threw down the bowl and went out, shouting, "Quick! See how today's harvest went? Father Shi unloaded the wet cage, pointed to the small courtyard behind him and said, "Go and bring the big bathtub!" "Right now!" Shi Jiaojiao shrugged her shoulders and said to her mother opposite: "Mom, I can see that Xia Lei is really more suitable than me to be your daughter!" Mother Shi's eyelids didn't move, chewing a diced radish, and replied: "You just saw it?" A girl like Lei Lei is suitable for any parent. It's hard for you to say......"

"Yo, another cage of lobsters!" Xia Lei squatted down and tentatively caught a black and red crayfish waving a big crayfish and said, "Be careful of being caught!" Shi Jiaojiao already held one in her hand and warned ostentatiously. Father Shi stuffed the cage, looked up and said to his wife: "There are few yellow eels today, but they are big, I will go to the street for Lao Zhang to sell them in a while." The shrimp are not valuable, plus the one I raised yesterday, I cooked a big pot of thirteen spices, I invited Lao Niu and Xiaoyu to dinner, can it be done? Mother Shi looked at the lobsters scattered in the basin, the loaches scurrying around, etc., and smiled and said, "Listen to you." ”

"Are the two slackers up? I'm coming! Chen Li's babbling voice, accompanied by a burst of small truck stalling from outside the door, Xia Lei looked at her watch, it was not yet six o'clock. Chen Li went to the bathtub in everyone's sight and shouted, "Wow, there are shrimp to eat at night!" I like shrimp the most, uncle! Father Shi bared his teeth and didn't laugh out loud, followed by a sturdy middle-aged man who walked up after Chen Li.

"Ah, Chen Er, I haven't seen you for a long time!" Father Shi hurriedly said hello, Chen Li's second uncle came up and handed Father Shi a locally made cigarette by the way, Father Shi waved his hand, Second Uncle Chen laughed and took it back, "I haven't met for several years, I forgot that you don't eat cigarettes!" The adults exchanged pleasantries, and Father Shi asked tentatively, "I heard the sound of your car, and you want to pull the goods?" Second Uncle Chen spat out a puff of cigarette and nodded, "A bucket of plywood, pull it to the processing plant." Father Shi's tone was full of envy, "Your business is really too busy, so I have these things left." He pointed to the tub where there were living creatures bouncing around.

Second Uncle Chen shook his head, not knowing whether to be modest or to avoid Father Shi's subtle inquiry, and said, "Don't say that, it's really hard to live now." The government also does not support tree planting and felling, and more and more fast-growing timber is imported from outside! There are fewer and fewer people using plywood. Last time, the town government held a meeting and said that it was to support eco-tourism. Roll call, name and criticize our village for planting trees and cutting down trees! Father Shi sighed and said, "Yes, I used to run a boat, how much timber was transported from New Zealand and Australia......" Second Uncle Chen glanced at Father Shi, took off the cigarette holder in his mouth, and said: "Look, you are a person who has seen the world, we have a hard time......

Chen Li poked enough of the yellow eel's head that surfaced, clapped her hands and shouted at the two adults, "Uncle, second uncle!" You want to talk and then talk after we have arranged it, okay? Father Shi laughed when he heard this, "oh oh" in response. Second Uncle Chen pointed at his niece with a cigarette butt and said, "This little pepper is like a soil overlord, you said that I have to deliver the goods so early?" It's all her clamoring for me to deliver! As he spoke, he looked Shi Jiaojiao and Xia Lei up and down, and said to Chen Li: "You can't be on par with other students, Si Swen is so pleasing!" Chen Li turned her head unconvinced, "I don't look at it, you don't want to listen to me, which one makes you afraid of my grandfather?" The two big men looked up and laughed.

The front of the small truck can only sit two people, and none of the three girls want to get into the co-pilot, all of them tacitly stand in the cargo hopper, holding the railing of the front of the car, facing the wind, according to Father Shi's words: Three strong men of Langya Mountain! The summer morning wind brushed the smooth faces of the girls coolly in the acceleration of the car, and the air was breathed overnight, the fresh smell of plants and earth.

"Oh my God! Ha ha. Xia Lei leaned her back against the railing, looked at the end of the cement road covered with lush birches on both sides, and said excitedly: "This feels amazing, I really experienced it for the first time!" Chen Li clenched the railing, laughed at Xia Lei's fuss, and said loudly: "It's not fun, the most fun thing is the tractor, which can turn your lungs out!" Tuk-tuk, tuk-tuk! Saying that, he remembered something, and shouted to Shi Jiaojiao through Xia Lei, "Do you remember how we sang when we were children?" Tractor that! Shi Jiaojiao immediately understood and sang:

"Tractor, tuk tuk, send you to the Public Security Bureau! There is no one in the Public Security Bureau, send you to Tiananmen! Tiananmen two dogs, 'ah-woo-woo' two mouths! Haha...... "Xia Lei had never heard such a catchy nursery rhyme, clamoring to learn, they sang it over and over again, and the laughter spread out, which provoked Second Uncle Chen, who was concentrating on driving, also grinned and silently recited "Tractor, tuk tuk tuk ......"

At the bus stop diagonally opposite the noodle shop, Second Uncle Chen stuck his head out of the window, the big gold chain around his neck fell into the air brightly, and asked, "Does any of the three of you have a phone?" The girls looked at each other and shook their heads in surprise. The big man rubbed his temples and said viciously: "Then from now on, I will stop here and wait until you come back, okay?" The three Nizi actually nodded with a smile in unison, Second Uncle Chen pointed to the sky, and explained weakly: "There is a store in front, call me in the town at night, and I lost the number in Xiaoli's bag!" Come back early and stay safe. The girls nodded earnestly and said goodbye to the little pickup.

"Come on, come on, buy a ticket! Where are you going, how many people? The chubby conductor with curly hair asked Xia Lei, who was sitting on the outside, while twisting the ticket in his hand. Chen Li next to her and Shi Jiaojiao, who was leaning against the window, hurriedly rummaged through their pockets and prepared to take the money. Xia Lei handed over fifty yuan and said, "The three of us, go to the city center." "Eight pieces for one person, twenty-four! Put away the change. Xia Lei collected the money and found that Chen Li and Shi Jiaojiao were looking at her stupidly.

Xia Lei patted her chest, "It's all on me, don't talk nonsense!" I have a lot of money to burn my ass......" and then looked at Shi Jiaojiao meaningfully, Shi Jiaojiao pouted. Chen Li only hesitated for a second, and immediately accepted Xia Lei's kindness. "I don't have much chance to do public transportation, haven't I heard that they are all coin-operated?" Chen Li asked, the car happened to drive through a pit, and the last three people were turned off their seats and fell back to their original places. Xia Lei replied: "The public is coin-operated, which seems to be private." Which one will sit first! Chen Li pouted, "I still want to sit and sit on the coin." Xia Lei touched Chen Li's head, "Good, let's go to the city to sit on the coin." ”

After getting off the bus, standing in the fading exhaust of the bus, the three girls looked at each other: wide streets, endless traffic, dense shops, tall trees, scattered flowers and plants, and rows of buildings...... The city in Shi Jiaojiao's impression is still the outskirts of the port city where I went to see my father in the first year. It was beyond her imagination that that remote and quiet village belonged to such a busy world.

"Well, here we are! If there's anything you've always wanted to go, tell me about it. Xia Lei pulled the two to the stone bench on the side of the road and asked, Shi Jiaojiao immediately raised her hand and shouted: "Xinhua Bookstore, Xinhua Bookstore!" I've heard that this one in the city is super big, and there are so many books that you can sit in and read casually! Xia Lei looked at Shi Jiaojiao's slightly red face and smiled softly, Chen Li's head shook like a rattle, "I'm not going!" There's something wrong, come to the city to find a book to read! I'm going to a big mall to see fashion, the kind of mall that sells cosmetics! ”

Xia Lei nodded and raised her hand, "Okay, you can!" Plenty of time can be satisfied! Let's slow, slow, stroll! "Yay!" "Let's go!" Xia Lei put down her hand and said to Chen Li very seriously: "But if you fancy any clothes in the mall, I can't be satisfied today!" Chen Li rolled her eyes angrily and funny, "I don't have a problem with my brain, I won't buy it myself if I like it!" ”

Shi Jiaojiao nodded pretentiously after hearing this, and said, "That's it, who are we Chen Li, you can save money to buy a few hundred yuan of shopping mall shoes for people in the second year of junior high school!" When Xia Lei heard this, she quickly covered her mouth and snickered, Chen Li couldn't hold it on her face, and glared at Shi Jiaojiao and said angrily: "What old yellow calendar is also taken out and turned over, who hasn't worn open crotch pants yet!" The two friends immediately waved their hands one after another, "I didn't." "I didn't!" Chen Ligan was so angry that she stared!

Xinhua Bookstore has three floors, and it actually sells things other than books, such as stationery, such as learning machines...... At Chen Li's urging, and Shi Jiaojiao was actually curious, the three of them soon arrived at XX Department Store. It was also brightly lit during the day, so bright that people walked in the door. The department store actually had five floors, but they also walked out quickly.

"Mom, that Dai's incense actually costs more than 300 yuan, which is not half the size of Yashuang!" Chen Li's eyes widened and she waved her hand, "A horse clip that can't be covered by the navel actually costs one hundred and eighty yuan!" Why don't you grab it! Xia Lei patted her friend's back and answered: "People have a brand!" Shi Jiaojiao muttered, "It's enough for me to change to a very beautiful bicycle!" ”

The three of them stood at the entrance of the mall full of silver balloons, looking at the colorful potted flowers on the barrier, and then looking up at the sun that had just risen overhead. "What time is it, what are you going to do next?" Shi Jiaojiao asked, Chen Li and Xia Lei stared at each other, and finally Xia Lei was defeated, rolled her eyes and thought about it, and said, "Go to a big meal, there is a food street in front of you!" "Good!"

In fact, the time is less than eleven o'clock, and no one thinks about whether it will be too early to eat, and "eating" is really the easiest thing for girls to reach a consensus.