In the 23rd year of Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty, as soon as the smoke of gunpowder in Wusongkou dissipated, the small fishing village of Shanghai opened its mind to the world unprepared, and countless foreign merchants, missionaries, and doctors poured in with the water of the Yangtze River, and by 1931, that is, the 20th year of the Republic of China, it had swelled into a huge "Oriental Paris" with a population of 2.64 million. After the expansion of Shanghai, it likes to boast of its "bigness", the city is called "big Shanghai", the giants are called "tycoons", and the opening of a playground is also called "big world". While Shanghai thinks big of itself, it also looks at other non-Shanghai things very small, such as Xiao Ningbo that sells groceries, Xiao Suzhou who sings and comments, and Xiao Shaoxing who sells three yellow chickens......

Cheng Huaijin is a little Ningbo, Shen Xiangsi is a little Suzhou, and Zhou Ping is a little Shaoxing. They were refugees in the Jianghuai flood in the 20th year of the Republic of China, and they were forced out of their hometowns by the flood.

On the day the story begins, the "three smalls" meet in front of the "big one", and this "big one" is the big world playground.

"White World", who doesn't know this place in Shanghai, although there are more people who admire it and fewer people go in, but it is the façade of Shanghai, Shanghai since the opening of Fufu, has never been represented by the majority of people who live in Shikumen, shantytowns and roads.

Cheng Huaijin, Shen Xiangsi and Zhou Ping sat not far from the big world begging. Although months of desertion and begging have left every refugee unkempt, sharp-eyed people can still catch a glimpse of three lovely faces under the mud. Cheng Huaijin is beautiful, Shen Xiangsi is beautiful, and Zhou Ping is tiger-headed.

"Hey." Zhou Ping called out to Cheng Huaijin, "Are you a man or a woman?" ”

Cheng Huaijin glared at him, thirteen-year-old Cheng Huaijin had a pair of very fierce and bright eyes: "Are you blind!" ”

Zhou Ping smiled, this is not to blame him, the twelve or thirteen-year-old handsome boy is already male and female, Cheng Huaijin still has messy long hair, and his ears and eyes are still wearing red ropes, presumably his family was very precious to him before the big water, for fear that he would be called away by the king of Hades, so he had to pretend to be a girl.

Shen Xiangsi, who was sitting next to them, smiled: "I'm a girl, so it's like a fake." ”

Cheng Huaijin and Zhou Ping's faces turned red.

A fashionable girl in satin heels walked by with her male companion by the arm, walked up to the three of them and stopped: "Ouch, what a beautiful little girl, do you want to be hungry, bread for you?" ”

A piece of bread that he had only bitten down and threw it lightly in front of Shen Xiangsi, Shen Xiangsi picked up the bread and smelled it vigorously, it was so fragrant, an aroma that had never been smelled in the countryside.

Feeling that two eyes were glued to his back, Shen Xiangsi turned his head to look, Zhou Ping was looking at him with blank eyes, and Cheng Huaijin, he obviously just looked away, but the afterglow glanced at the bread in his hand uncontrollably.

Shen Xiangsi smiled, quickly divided the bread into three parts, and handed two of them to Cheng Huaijin and Shen Xiangsi: "Eat." ”

Zhou Ping and Cheng Huaijin hesitated for a moment and reached out to take the bread, Shen Xiangsi's hand and the hands of the two boys inevitably touched, but only the left hand that touched Cheng Huaijin was hot.

Cheng Huaijin is such a boy, delicate and elegant, as if there is a little stimulation of the motherhood of women of any age - of course, Shen Xiangsi will know later that this is not the case at all.

As soon as she gave the order, the three children immediately devoured it together.

Of course, a small one-third of bread can't be filled, but a child's hunger can be blinded by sweetness, let alone this Western sweetness! This sweetness also shortened the distance between the three children, and after eating the bread, the three people who touched their stomachs had become brothers in life and death like Liu Guanzhang.

Shen Xiangsi sighed: "If only there was such bread to eat every day." ”

Yes, yes, Cheng Huaijin and Zhou Ping echoed and sighed.

At first, they just wanted a loaf of bread.