It was already 8 p.m. when we finished dinner.
While the adults were cleaning up the dishes outside, the four of them slipped out of the house.
Although computers are common these days, people are unwilling to stay at home all the time without short videos or similar entertainment.
After all, staying at home means listening to adults nagging, so wouldn't it be better to go out and play for a while?
In October, the small county town had already entered autumn, and the evening breeze was quite chilly.
They planned to go to the abandoned train station behind to look at the stars.
Of course, this suggestion came from Feng Linhao.
I don't know why this single guy had to choose such a romantic place.
Following the route they remembered, the four of them groped their way down the tracks in the dark and climbed back onto the platform.
Yu Mobai considerately took the two girls' hands and pulled them up, leaving only the cursing Feng Linhao clumsily climbing up.
The sky over the small county town is very clear.
At night, you can see many stars twinkling in the sky.
The four of them casually found an abandoned chair and sat down, listening quietly to the cicadas chirping around them, without saying a word.
Yu Mobai looked at the three people, wondering what they were thinking.
But at this moment, he felt surprisingly calm.
This tranquility brought him reflection and introspection.
Since taking the college entrance exam, everything seems to have sped up.
Whether it's supermarket marketing or starting a business, everything is going too smoothly.
This smooth sailing could easily make him complacent and cause him to make a serious mistake.
Having smooth sailing isn't always a good thing.
He supported himself on the ground with both hands, looking up slightly at the sky.
Yu Mobai sighed.
Perhaps it was because his rebirth brought him unique information and perspectives that were too advanced, but he found himself becoming a little restless lately.
This is clearly not a good thing; being too eager for quick success often backfires.
However, he gradually regained consciousness today in such a quiet environment.
Self-reflection is always necessary, no matter when.
What are you all thinking?
Dong Yike suddenly spoke up, putting a hand on Ji Mushu's shoulder, "Mushu, are you thinking about how to be a good younger sister?"
"You're so annoying."
Ji Mushu shook off the hand on her shoulder. "Wouldn't it be better to just quietly look at the stars for a while?"
"The stars aren't as bright as they were when I was a child."
Feng Linhao also sighed, "I don't know when it started, but there are so many fewer stars now."
Yu Mobai chuckled lightly, "This is nothing. In another ten years or so, you won't be able to see the stars at all unless you go to the countryside."
"Did you grow up together?"
Dong Yike asked with some curiosity.
"Yes, we are all children who grew up in the family compound."
Feng Linhao nodded with a smile, "It's just that my family moved to the vicinity of the school later."
"No wonder the three of you like to sit here and look at the stars."
Dong Yike said with a grin, "Actually, I also liked to look at the stars when I was a child. Maybe we were looking at the same star."
"When I was little, there were lots of grasshoppers and dragonflies."
Ji Mushu also recalled, "I remember when Mo Bai was a child, he would catch dragonflies and put them in an electric fan, then turn on the fan. He even performed that bloody scene for me. I remember this very clearly."
"hey-hey.."
Yu Mobai gave a dry laugh, "Did I do such cruel things when I was a child?"
"That's not all!"
Feng Linhao suddenly said, "Once, I went to play by the river with him. It was summer, and there were so many frogs by the river that you could fill a box with them if you put it on the ground."
"And then what?"
Dong Yike's eyes lit up. "What did he do?"
Ji Mushu was also drawn in; she hadn't heard either of them mention this before.
"He was particularly cruel at the time."
Feng Linhao lowered his voice, "He grabbed a frog right in front of me, and then tore its skin off from its rear end all the way up to its head."
"The scariest thing is that the frog wasn't dead yet, and when you put it on the ground, it started hopping around and running away."
"Damn, is it a real or fake mouse? I don't remember it."
Yu Mobai had no recollection of these events, nor did he know how old he was when they occurred.
No wonder he died young and was reborn.
This must be because I did too many bad things when I was a child.
"Of course you don't remember."
Feng Linhao pursed his lips, "When you got into trouble as a kid, I was always the one who cleaned up your messes."
“I was young and didn’t know any better back then, and I’ve already been punished.”
Yu Mobai smiled.
"What punishment? I didn't know about it?"
Feng Linhao said, "When you were a kid, you would run to our house whenever you got into trouble, until we found this secret base."
"Speaking of which..."
Ji Mushu suddenly remembered something, "Once he also came to our house. I wasn't fully awake yet, and he just hid in my bed."
"In the end, Aunt Zheng grabbed my ear and dragged me back."
Suddenly, memories were triggered, and Ji Mushu also remembered something else.
Her first kiss was actually long gone.
This is the guy who took it!
During that time they were hiding under the covers, the two of them were whispering to each other. Yu Mobai said that he would marry her in the future, but it would only count if they kissed, because that's how it's always portrayed in TV dramas.
Ji Mushu was young and naive at the time, and didn't know much. The two of them just lightly touched their lips.
Looking back now, this guy was bad even when he was a child!
"Feng Linhao, if you utter another word, I'll kick you down."
Yu Mobai grumbled and cursed, trying to stop Feng Linhao from continuing to talk about his embarrassing childhood stories, since there were too many embarrassing stories about him, and he was quite naughty when he was young.
"I seem to vaguely remember crawling into the comb-shaped blanket, but I can't quite recall what happened after that..."
Ji Mushu's face flushed, and she quickly changed the subject, "Nothing happened, you're mistaken."
"Oh, maybe I remembered it wrong." Yu Mobai shrugged.
Unable to continue arguing with him, Feng Linhao turned his attention to Dong Yike, "Yike, what kind of life did you have when you were a child? Tell us about it."
When I was a child...
Dong Yike's once bright eyes gradually dimmed, and she gazed at the stars as if lost in the past.
Yu Mobai frowned slightly upon seeing this scene.
He had never heard Dong Yike mention anything about her childhood, and even when he asked her about it by chance, she would never say a word.
Looking back now, it probably wasn't a happy childhood.
She even had a tragic childhood. He had known Dong Yike for so long, and he had never heard her talk about her father.
"Actually, I envy you so much. You had a complete childhood, a complete family..."
Dong Yike lowered her head, memories flooding back, a painful past resurfacing in her mind: "When I was little, I didn't even have a decent piece of clothing..."
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