It turns out that there is always someone walking with me.
Tan Lin twitched the corner of her mouth, glanced at the girl from the same village on the left, and couldn't help but look at the T-intersection behind her that was already far away.
Also, originally, there is only one way home, and everyone who walks together can be said to be traveling together.
As a result, the "kind-hearted" classmate who had been following behind them and rode forward without ever surpassing them must have been riding together before, right?
Kindhearted?
Tan Lin couldn't help but pursed her lips, it was indeed a good intention.
She always rides at a leisurely pace, and the classmate following her must have deliberately slowed down her riding speed.
There was no other reason. When they turned a T-junction, the rider behind them, like the wind, crossed the T-junction they passed and sped northward.
"We can come back at the same time in the future, okay?"
A girl from the same village didn't wait for Tan Lin to speak, and then said to herself, "That way there will be more people on the road."
Tan Lin opened her mouth, but before she could speak, she heard the voice of a girl from the same village again.
"I will tell my mother when I get home that she can buy me a flashlight in the town on the weekend, so that I won't be afraid of leaving late."
"..." Tan Lin didn't reply for a while, she just glanced at the girl walking beside her again.
Is this a problem of having a flashlight or not? This should be a psychological problem, right?
Like her, when it's dark, she goes out alone and walks from her home to the east end of the village and back, and she doesn't feel scared. Even if she doesn't take the path of other people's houses in the village, even if she goes around to the back of the house behind the village, she doesn't feel scared.
She wasn't afraid to walk along the path behind the house that connected the back wall on one side and the fields on the other.
Although there were only a few times, she was still not afraid.
Just like when she was in elementary school, when her mother went to work in the fields behind the village and north of the village, before returning home after dark, she ran to the back of the village to find her mother alone.
Later, my brother was educated by his mother, saying that from now on, he would not be allowed to go out alone at night, and she would go home earlier. If she came back late, she would ask her brother to find her.
In a blink of an eye, when she reached junior high school, her mother never went home at night again. In other words, every time she came home from school, her mother and father were already waiting for her at home.
Ahem, it was already after eight o'clock when she got home.
What's the problem with the flashlight?
Tan Lin thought for a while and curved her lips: "It's better not to buy it."
A girl from the same village immediately answered: "Why? I think it's pretty good."
"What if there really is something like that and you are attracted by the light of the flashlight, wouldn't it be more scary?!" Tan Lin said, holding back a laugh, "It's better than nothing, at least they don't know that we are passing by."
"..." The girl from the same village choked and replied after a long time, "What you said makes sense, so I won't buy it. Let's leave early in the future."
"Okay." Tan Lin nodded, "Leave early tomorrow."
"Well," the girl from the same village responded, "the intersection is coming, are you going to turn?"
"Well," Tan Lin responded and immediately changed the topic, "Do you need me to accompany you for a while?"
"..." The girl from the same village was startled, then shook her head, "No, it's getting late, you should go back. Otherwise, what if your family comes out to look for you and can't find you?"
It seems to make some sense.
Tan Lin thought silently that she had never been so late before, and she had already arrived home by this time.
However, the girls in the same village seemed a little scared.
"Can you do it yourself?" Tan Lin thought for a while and then asked.
"Okay, look, our elementary school is right ahead. Going forward, there are people living on both sides of the road. I'm not afraid."
As if to comfort himself. Gu
Tan Lin nodded slightly: "Okay, then I will turn around in a moment."
"Well," a girl from the same village laughed, "Hey, I noticed that you talked a lot more tonight than before."
"Yes?" Tan Lin smiled lightly.
"Yes," came the laughing voice of a girl from the same village, "you used to not talk when you went home."
Really? Tan Lin blinked and looked ahead.
She didn't notice it herself.
It's getting dark, so I just focus on the road in front of me. After all, the road I'm walking on is still a dirt road, and the dirt surface is always bumpy. When it rains, the car will splash water all over the ground as soon as it rides.
If you pay attention, you may even splash muddy water all over yourself.
"You talk more than during the day." A girl from the same village suddenly said again.
Huh? Tan Lin looked at the girl from the same village who was walking slowly beside her. Did she talk that much tonight? She really didn't pay attention.
It wasn't because this girl from the same village kept talking to her.
"Oh, I know," the girl from the same village said again without waiting for Tan Lin's response, "Did you say a few more words because you came back a little late today and were afraid that I would be scared?"
Ah? Tan Lin was slightly startled. This reason seemed to make sense.
If the girl from the same village hadn't been talking non-stop, I wouldn't have answered the conversation.
So be it.
"Yes." Tan Lin responded, "We will come back early tomorrow."
"Okay," the girl from the same village laughed, "Then it's settled, I'll leave first. You be careful."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the friction sound of a girl from the same village stepping hard on his feet.
"Okay." When Tan Lin said something, the girl from the same village had already passed her and rode forward.
Tan Lin looked forward, blinked, turned along the north road, and walked toward home.
After crossing the road on the west side of the primary school, walking to Aunt Zhao's door and turning west along the road, Tan Lin couldn't help but smile.
Talk less? Talk a lot today?
She had never noticed before that this girl who had been with her for half a year could be so attentive.
When she was in elementary school, she was in Class 1, and this girl seemed to be in Class 2. I had some impressions, but I didn't pay attention. If not, they happened to be in the same class when the third grade of junior high school started, and the girl said that they were from the same village.
Not long after the start of the third year of junior high school, on the way home, when we met by chance, the girl came over and said that they were in the same class and village, and they could get out of school together in the future.
She nodded and smiled and said yes.
Later, they walked together on the road.
But on her way home at night, she would occasionally hear this girl and another girl talking and joking behind her, and sometimes from in front of her. She would occasionally smile, and more often than not,
Then you will focus on the road ahead.
They had been in the same class for half a year. She thought about it carefully and realized that she had not said a few words to this girl.
During the day, everyone was busy studying and hardly chatted together. At noon, they ate separately, and classmates who were in the second and first grade of junior high school would come around to eat together. At that time, the girl from the same village just sat there.
She never came over to her seat.
No wonder she talks more today!
Compared with before, it is indeed a bit much.
Tan Lin smiled and looked forward. She was still thirty meters away from home, and there was a figure swaying in the light of the courtyard gate lamp.
As expected, her mother was waiting for her, and she seemed a little anxious.
Tan Lin quickened her pace and rode towards the figure.