Why stop it? Childhood is so brief, how can we not leave a bit of a ’dark history’ behind?
So, let’s take photos!
By the time these ’old photos’ are looked at in the future when everyone is grown up, they will have a special flavor.
Full of, the flavor of memories~
Thinking this, Zhen Yu secretly decided to take her mother and brother every New Year to take a vintage family portrait, and also take an ’artistic photo’ of her brother alone.
Bai Xue is exceptionally beautiful, even if her cheeks are painted red and her upper body is wrapped in radiant gold, she still looks like a little beauty, not only not harsh on the eyes but also resembles a movie star from the old calendars.
Just the loli version.
After agreeing to pick up the photos with the receipt in seven days, and explaining that the person coming to pick them up would definitely not be herself, everyone left the photo studio.
The receipt was in Zhen Yu’s hands, she planned to have her mother run this errand.
As soon as they left the photo studio, Zhen Yu called out, "Let’s go to Xinhua Bookstore."
No one objected; they all knew that one of Zhen Yu’s main purposes today was to buy books.
Xinhua Bookstore does not have many English books, besides several specially famous foreign classics, there are indeed some bilingual poetry collections in both Chinese and English.
Before coming here, Zhen Yu had already narrowed her focus down to English poetry, because she needed to consider the length of the text for recitation.
Novels won’t work, too long! Too short poems won’t work either! And prose is truly hard to find.
Thus, after flipping through the poetry collections of Tagore, Pushkin, and Shelley, she eventually chose the latter.
Because Zhen Yu suddenly remembered his classic line in "Ode to the West Wind" — If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
This is the one! Oh! It really is in the book! This is it!
Zhen Yu, filled with the joy of finding a treasure, held the poetry collection in her arms and looked around.
Han Mingyue was near the world classics, right next to the foreign books section, others scattered all over, only seeing individual heads.
Zhen Yu walked over to Han Mingyue, who was holding "The Little Prince" and had already read several pages.
"Ran out of books to read?"
Han Mingyue looked up at Zhen Yu, especially at the book in her arms, then nodded.
Zhen Yu glanced at the shelf, directly pulled out "The Thorn Birds," after a closer look at the shelf, pulled out "Gone with the Wind" and "The Old Man and the Sea."
Han Mingyue had already closed "The Little Prince," now asking curiously, "What’s this?"
Han Mingyue was speechless.
He obviously knew she was selecting books, but she prepared to buy them without even glancing at the content.
Is this random picking? Or still random picking?
Han Mingyue reached for "The Old Man and the Sea" on the top, saying, "Then I’ll take these two."
Zhen Yu didn’t say anything, just nodded.
After starting middle school, Han Mingyue often came out to buy books with Zhen Yu.
After several times, he had figured out her personality; she wouldn’t openly settle accounts with you but would secretly make up for the advantage taken.
Therefore, Han Mingyue gradually got used to going Dutch with her without explanation, tacitly buying the same amount of books and then borrowing from each other.
After completing the task of buying books, Zhen Yu called out, and the four school slackers hurried to the bookstore entrance, each empty-handed.
The two top students looked at each other, silently sighing.
After strolling around for half a day, everyone was a bit tired, so they decided to head back.
On the way back, Zhen Yu mentioned that she and her brother also planned to stop by a shoe store, and Han Mingyue thought for a moment before saying she’d drop by the clinic.
No one objected, since it was all on the way.
Chatting as they walked, they soon arrived at the clinic.
The Han Family Clinic was closer to the street than Sincere Shoe City, and the group of teenagers stormed in, immediately filling the small space with noise and bustle.
"Dad~ Dad~ where are you?" Han Jiayang shouted as soon as he entered and didn’t see Mr. Han.
Mr. Han’s response was a bit delayed, "I have customers here, you guys go ahead and sit for a bit."
Since everyone knew each other well, they made themselves comfortable and each found a seat.
After a while, a young girl came out from the examination room, with Han Youliang following behind advising, "Don’t let it get wet after you go home, to avoid infection. It’s not easy to heal from getting your ears pierced in the cold winter, so be careful."
"Got it." The girl answered perfunctorily, paid, and left.
Once the door closed again, Han Youliang said with a smile, "Wow, everyone’s here? Too bad Uncle Han doesn’t have any treats for you, just medicine! Haha..."
"Hehe~ We wouldn’t want to eat them! You better keep them to sell!" Zhen Yan laughed.
"Dad~" Han Jiayang suddenly came over to Mr. Han, "Do you have any more of those hawthorn pills?"
"You!" Mr. Han playfully poked his son, then turned to go behind the counter.
He pulled out a flat paper box and said after opening it, "One each, can’t have more."
"Okay!" Han Jiayang took the box and distributed one to each person, Zhen Yu took it and looked, indeed it was the big black digestion aids from her memory.
Bai Xue took the pill and pocketed it, hesitated, but still asked.
"Uncle Han~ Was that lady here to get her ears pierced?"
As soon as Han Youliang heard this, he guessed the young girl’s thought, and replied with a light smile, "Yes! If you want to get yours pierced, come here next Tomb-Sweeping Festival, and I’ll do it for you!"
"Okay!" Bai Xue immediately smiled and agreed.
Zhen Yu, like the boys, peeled off the paper wrapping of the hawthorn pill and began to eat, tasting both sour and sweet.
She was nibbling slowly when suddenly Bai Xue called out to her.
"Xiao Yu! Next Tomb-Sweeping Festival, let’s get our ears pierced together!"
"Ah?" Zhen Yu, mid-bite, mouth agape, did I agree to that?
"Well~ I’ll come with you, and you get it done," Zhen Yu felt she could still salvage the situation.
"No way! You have to do it with me!" As soon as Bai Xue saw Zhen Yu’s indecision, she immediately moved closer and grabbed Zhen Yu’s arm.
Stop! Let go! Stop shaking me!
Over the months, Zhen Yu had become completely afraid of Bai Xue’s ’coquettish tactics’, transitioning from refusal to compromise in less than three seconds.
After resting at the clinic, the group left and headed straight for the shoe city.
As it was nearing lunchtime, everyone was getting somewhat hungry and hurried home, walking quickly.
Just as they were about to reach the shoe city, Zhen Yu suddenly stopped.
She blocked several boys behind her, and Zhen Yan came up to ask, "Little sister, why aren’t you moving?"
Bai Xue also turned around belatedly from a few steps away, looking at Zhen Yu without understanding.
Only Han Mingyue, who had stopped with Zhen Yu, quickly figured out the reason.
Mrs. Zhen, Han Family.
As Zhen Yu quickly searched her mind for an excuse, Han Mingyue had already spoken.
"Let’s eat out for lunch! I remember my dad mentioning that the wontons from that place are really tasty!"
While saying this, he pointed across the street.