After wasting two hours, Jin Bao had no time to talk to Zhao Xiaming anymore.
She took the car keys and hurriedly went downstairs with her mother. After a while, she found the bicycle parked in the yard.
The bike overall looks quite new, there is no rust, and other parts are well maintained.
Jinbao knelt down and squeezed the tire. She felt it was too hard to squeeze. She was worried that her strength was too weak, so she raised her little head and asked her mother, "Mom, is this tire inflated? Can you squeeze it to see if it's tight?"
Bai Lu squeezed the front wheel and then the rear wheel, "It's full of energy and full."
"I knew that Aunt Xu was always good at lying. She said before that she couldn't borrow the bicycle because it was flat," Jinbao snorted coldly. "If she had been willing to borrow it at that time, she wouldn't have caused so many troubles later on."
Bai Lu sighed, "Oh, no."
Keeping Xiao Wu in mind, she looked at the time when it was too late. She was suddenly worried about Jin Bao and said, "Jin Bao, why don't you go with your mother and go home first?"
Jinbao shook his head hurriedly, "No, I have to go with my mother."
"Although we have bicycles now, the distance is too far. Jinbao, you are still so young, how can you stay up all night?"
"But if I'm gone, the owl in the sky won't guide my mother..." Jinbao took her mother's hand and said, "Mom, don't worry, I fell asleep on the train for a long time, and I'm still very energetic now. I won't
Asleep."
Seeing her daughter's insistence, Bai Lu reluctantly said "Okay."
After thinking about it, she added: "But Jinbao, you have to promise your mother that if you are sleepy, you must tell her in advance. Otherwise, if you suddenly fall off the bicycle, I will be really scared to death."
"Um!"
Bai Lu felt that her daughter was so well-behaved, and looked at her with eyes full of love, "If your brothers were as sensible as you, mother wouldn't be so worried."
After saying that, she tied the flashlight to the center of the handlebars, then put Jinbao on the crossbar in front of the bicycle and asked, "How is it? Are you still used to sitting on the front? Does it feel slippery?"
"No, I think it's quite stable and I feel like I can fit one more person on it." Jinbao shook his legs.
Looking at the cute baby girl in front of him, Bai Lu showed a gentle smile. After making sure that both her little hands were firmly grasped, he stepped on the bicycle pedal with his left foot a few times. When the car started to move forward, he raised his right hand high.
He crossed his legs over the car seat and sat firmly on it.
"Coo, coo, coo, coo, coo, coo..." The owl lowered its flying height and led the way.
There were not many street lights on the street, and there were very few pedestrians. It was already past eight o'clock, and many people were getting ready to take a shower and go to bed.
Bai Lu was worried that her daughter would fall asleep unknowingly, so she kept chatting with her, asking her every now and then if she was sleepy, and then told her not to sleep. If she was too sleepy to open her eyes, she must tell her mother.
Jinbao said "Okay" repeatedly, and then asked curiously: "Mom, when did you learn to ride a bicycle?"
"When I was very young, probably in elementary school, I remember that your uncle secretly taught me to ride. At first I couldn't control my balance, and my knees even bled. It scared your grandma half to death, for fear that I would have scars on my legs.
scar.
I still remember that your grandpa beat your uncle for this, and then your grandma refused to allow me to learn to ride a bicycle, saying that it was for men to ride, and women could not learn to ride it, as it was not elegant."
"What happened next?" Jin Bao asked hurriedly.
"Then I tried to find a way to learn it behind everyone's back! I was naughty and stubborn at the time, so why did I think? Riding a bicycle is so convenient and fun, so why can only men learn it and not women?
I didn't listen to my mother. The more she didn't allow me to touch the bicycle, the more I had to learn. Hard work paid off. Once I dived down a very long ramp, holding the handlebars without shaking at all, and learned to ride the bicycle.
Already."
After listening to his mother's childhood story, Jinbao couldn't help but ask: "Does grandma agree to mother riding a bicycle?"
"I agree. Your grandparents loved me very much. After making sure that I wouldn't fall and get hurt, they bought me a brand new women's bicycle on my birthday. The bicycles at that time were all imported. I remember
The price is nearly one hundred oceans a car.
Jinbao, you haven’t heard of Dayang. Money in Dayang is different from today’s. At that time, the average worker’s monthly salary was only five or six yuan, and the lowest one might not even be two yuan. One hundred yuan is enough for many families to use for several dollars.
It’s been a year…”
Jinbao exclaimed, "It's so expensive! It's more expensive than today's bicycles."
"Yes, because at that time we didn't know how to produce bicycles ourselves, so we could only buy them from foreign countries. I think in the future, as the country develops better and better, bicycles will become more and more popular, and maybe every household can afford them.
It’s a bicycle.”
Bai Lu chatted with her daughter for a while and found that she could already see the railway tracks.
She didn't know how long she had been riding. The long railway track seemed to have no end. She felt that her legs were a little numb from exhaustion. She could only keep repeating the pedaling movement, hoping to see Xiao Wu soon.
Jinbao's buttocks had already hurt from sitting, so she tried not to say anything. After a long time, she couldn't help but yawn.
"Are you sleepy?" Bai Lu didn't have a watch, so she didn't know how long she had been riding. "Jinbao, why don't you lean on your mother's arms and sleep for a while, and I'll ride slowly."
While talking, she put her arms around Jin Bao's waist.
Jin Bao's eyes were almost narrowed. He glanced at the owl in the sky, and then looked at the moon next to him for a while, wondering where the fifth brother was? He had walked so far alone...
After thinking about it for a while, she felt her mother's big hands supporting her. She leaned back and murmured in a soft voice, "Mom, I will sleep for a while, just... just for a while, ten minutes, and then Mom, you
Please wake me up."
"Well, Jinbao, you can go to sleep." Bai Lu slowed down the bicycle.
She held the handle of the car with one hand and put her other hand around Jinbao's waist, keeping her little body close to her. Once she felt that she was about to slide down, she picked her up in time.
I don't know how much time passed, but when Bai Lu was exhausted, the owl in the sky suddenly called "coo" a few times and stopped walking along the railway track, but suddenly turned to the hill on the right.
Bai Lu, who was originally hesitant to stop and rest for a while, saw this and hurriedly followed.
"Cuckoo..." The owl hovered in a tree, "Cuckoo..."
Bai Lu quickly stopped the car, held her daughter in her arms, and let her head rest on her shoulder. Then she took the flashlight from the handlebar and walked step by step to the tree. As she walked, she called tentatively, "Xiao Wu? Xiao Wu?"
Wu, are you there?"
There was a little movement behind the tree, and after a while, a boy stood up hesitantly.
His whole body was dirty, his face and body were covered with mud, and the original color of the small schoolbag slung over his shoulder could no longer be seen.
When he looked at Bai Lu, he thought he was dreaming and rubbed his eyes with the back of his dark hand, "Mom?"