"Who says women dawdle when they go out? Look at me, the first one." Qin Xiaoyu dressed herself up neatly, in a T-shirt, skinny jeans, and sneakers. She was planning to have a blast today.
Qin Xiaoyu was somewhat taken aback when A Lei appeared. What was he doing with all those bags and packages?
"Mom, you run really fast, but what about the things you were supposed to bring?" Hanhan said with dissatisfaction.
"What do you need to bring? No need to bring anything. We'll just go to a restaurant outside to eat when we're done playing. We can pay for it if we have the money." Qin Xiaoyu smiled, her eyes crinkling.
"Women with big hearts have the best lives." A Lei put the bag on the ground, checked it again, and immediately jumped up to go to the bathroom to get a bottle of sunscreen.
"What is this?" Qin Xiaoyu flipped it over. Goodness, it's just going to the amusement park, do you need to bring all this?
My younger sister and Hanhan each brought an extra set of clothes, plus underwear?
“There are many water rides at Oriental Amusement Park, and the children’s clothes will get wet. Why do you want them to wear those clothes until they’re dry when they come out?” A Lei rolled his eyes at her. “My little sister is a girl. She’s just arrived in Guangzhou and isn’t used to the strong sun here yet. What if she gets freckles?”
Qin Xiaoyu stuck out her tongue and hid to the side. She was becoming less and less of a good mother, while A Lei seemed to be born with the ability to take care of children.
"Xiaoyu, when our family goes out to play, you're not allowed to have any wild thoughts about the shop. Today you only have two roles: wife and mother." With a warning from A Lei, Qin Xiaoyu obediently listened.
In truth, whether in her past life or this one, she had never experienced the warmth of a family, and she didn't know what a happy family was like. This was the excuse she had always used, but now, seeing what A-Lei was doing, she realized there was no escaping it. A-Lei also didn't have a complete family, so why was he doing better?
Oriental Paradise is never short of people. A Lei had already made a plan, otherwise he wouldn't be able to play many rides in a day and would just have to wait in line.
"Take a picture of the little sister first, then you can take Hanhan on the aerial roller coaster. Do you dare?"
"Dare!" These are things Qin Xiaoyu herself has never played with, how could she let them go?
After half a day of fun, Qin Xiaoyu and Hanhan had done all the separately charged attractions. Meanwhile, A Lei and Xiaomei were only focused on taking pictures.
Qin Xiaoyu shook her head. Is this a woman's nature? She's so young and already knows how to be vain.
"I want to ride the rocking horse!" the little girl said sweetly, raising her hand.
She's becoming increasingly fond of acting cute with A Lei and Qin Xiaoyu, which is a sign that she's firmly establishing herself as their daughter, and they're very pleased.
The rocking horse was the kind of toy car that later became popular in front of supermarkets, singing songs like "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" and "Grandpa, come play with me!"
It's still a novelty now, and it's not cheap to ride it once; it still costs one yuan.
In the 1980s, a single yuan was a real bargain, something most families couldn't afford, so many children could only watch longingly as they looked on.
From an adult's perspective, riding a rocking ride for a while is not as cost-effective as riding a Ferris wheel.
Without hesitation, A Lei inserted the coin. The little girl ran over and was about to climb up when A Lei pulled her back and bent down to tie her shoelaces.
But in that short time, a dark-skinned, thin boy jumped on the seat first.
"This is our coin-operated card, please move aside," Qin Xiaoyu said with a smile.
The boy rolled his eyes at her and ignored her.
“This is our place, please move aside.” A Lei repeated himself in Cantonese, worried that he might not understand Mandarin.
"That's right, whoever arrives first is who." A woman who looked exactly like the boy stood beside him, protecting him tightly; she appeared to be the child's mother.
She said it was empty, and whoever got there first got it. What kind of logic is that?
"Comrade, this is our coin-operated card." Qin Xiaoyu waved to the administrator when she saw her.
Unexpectedly, the administrator acted as if he hadn't seen anything and turned away.
"Can't you be reasonable? This is too much!" Qin Xiaoyu snapped.
"That's right, whoever arrives first is whoever!" the boy's mother said aggressively.
"Don't fight her for it, you can't win. She bullies people here every day, and she even beat up a country bumpkin the other day." The old woman selling the goods couldn't tell from her accent that she was a local, and fearing that Qin Xiaoyu would be taken advantage of, she pulled her over. She whispered something and handed over a thin, barely wrapped bar of liquor to comfort the young woman.
Qin Xiaoyu took it from her younger sister and smiled gratefully.
Good people are rewarded, but bad people cannot escape retribution.
Unexpectedly, she encountered a bratty kid and his mother here. Qin Xiaoyu had a sudden inspiration. They say that actions speak louder than words, and this matter must be taken seriously. She needed to teach her younger sister and Hanhan how to survive.
A Lei didn't want to cause trouble, so he put coins into another rocking horse. The little girl sat on it, still pouting. Let alone a child, anyone would feel upset in such a situation.
"Hanhan, did you have fun just now?" Qin Xiaoyu turned around and winked at Hanhan, who was staring at the person who had just bullied her sister, her little fists clenched.
"Happy." Hanhan knows her mother well. Qin Xiaoyu is about to play a trick. She will cooperate fully and keep a close eye on her instructions.
"Do you still have the ticket stubs?" Qin Xiaoyu helped Hanhan take them out of her pocket and unfold them one by one. "Ferris wheel, log flume ride, space cruise, wave swing... Wow! So many!"
"Mommy, you can see very far when you're on the Ferris wheel, and everyone looks like a tiny ant. The double roller coaster is so exciting! And the space ride is so much fun, I want to ride it again!" Hanhan was clever and immediately chimed in.
"What's so fun about that?" Qin Xiaoyu teased him deliberately.
"It's so much fun! Mom, you'll see when you come with me. The sky is full of stars, it feels like you could pluck them down. The feeling of weightlessness is wonderful, you feel like you're floating, like you can fly. I want to play again!" Hanhan deliberately threw a tantrum and stomped her feet.
"I don't want to sit anymore, I want to ride the space tour too!" The little girl opened her arms to A Lei, and A Lei quickly picked her up and put her down.
"Do I want to play?" Hanhan shouted even louder. The little girl tilted her head and looked at him in confusion. Hanhan winked at her.
"I want to go on a space adventure!" The little girl joined in the tantrum; if she weren't worried about her little dress, she would have lay down on the ground.
A Lei was baffled. What was wrong with these two children? He only realized what was wrong when he saw Qin Xiaoyu's expression. She was up to her old tricks again.
"Alright, let's go play space travel." Qin Xiaoyu deliberately sighed loudly and pulled the two children in that direction.
The boy's rocking horse had long since stopped, and his mother quickly gestured for him to go to the little girl's rocking horse.
"No, I want to play Space Odyssey!" The boy's mouth was already watering when he saw how tempting Hanhan's words were; the little rocking horse couldn't satisfy him.
"You're going to spend money, you're dead!" The boy's mother tried to stop him, picking him up and putting him on the rocking horse.
Although the boy was thin, he was quite strong and broke free, chasing after Qin Xiaoyu's family.
The boy's mother had no choice but to pull him along and follow behind Qin Xiaoyu's family.
The space tour was inside an arched building, where two people in uniforms were collecting tickets at the entrance.
A Lei bought four tickets, and the four of them walked into the door together.
Taking advantage of the ticket collector's inattention, the boy cut in front of A Lei.
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