Who Can Keep The Moon Private By Love - Chapter 1.1
In the small southern town of my hometown, it always rains several times before autumn.
The scent of jasmine flowers is in the humid air, which is cool and sweet.
The raindrops rolled down along the umbrella’s edge and sank into the dark concrete ground. The pedestrians on the street hurried to their destination.
The water vapor was wiped back and forth by the wipers. The car’s windows were hazy, probably because Lu Yongfei had turned on the heater casually.
His daughter’s voice was loud at the other end of the phone. “Dad, Dad, did you bring me chocolate?”
“He must have bought it, you glutton.” Lin Wenfang grabbed the phone and said to the child: “Lu Miao, hurry up and finish your radish soup.”
“Oh,” said the girl. As soon as she agreed, she asked loudly: “Dad, when are you coming back?”
Lu Miao put down the phone, and a hurried voice came from there: “Don’t be loud. Your dad is driving.”
Lu Yongfei laughed.
After a while, the phone picked up again, and the woman said concisely: “Lu Miao’s father. Lu Miao is waiting for chocolate. Come back early.”
He responded in a row.
It was raining harder outside. As the car drove down the path, there were fewer pedestrians.
There is a mahjong parlor on the corner of Panhua Road, and the business is better on rainy days.
In the room of less than ten square meters, the people were shouting to deal with the cards. The sound of cards shuffling throughout the day was temporarily cut off by a thin curtain of rain.
Elementary school was over for a long time, but Jiang Haoyue had not come home for a long time.
With his schoolbag on his back, he squatted across the road from the shop’s entrance, where there was a simple flowerbed made of cement, as he intently observed snails.
A snail stuck to the leaf motionlessly.
Jiang Haoyue wondered if the snail had also found him. Because it was in the shell at first, it only came out after he looked at it.
He watched as the tiny snail’s fleshy brown, soft body gradually stretched out, from a little bit to the length of a knuckle.
Its two antennae extend very high.
Jiang Haoyue let out “Yeah” in surprise, and he seemed to be staring at it.
The rain bends the leaves, and his small palm arches like an eave to shield the snails from the rain.
When the car came around the corner, Jiang Haoyue didn’t see it.
He saw that the tiny snail’s shell suddenly became so bright and glazy, and the leaves were shiny, and then he looked at his hand in a trance.
The next instant, he was struck to the ground.
When the pain hit, Jiang Haoyue had pinned beneath the wheel.
The wipers made two “swish” sounds, and there was an illusion of tingling nearby for a second.
When Lu Yongfei rolled down the car window, the rustling rain caught the breeze like a broken seal. They greeted him on his face, one after another.
Apart from that, there was no other sound on the road.
The sky was quite overcast.
Lu Yongfei knew when he turned a corner that the car must have hit something because it was visibly trembling, but he didn’t see what it hit.
After hesitating for a moment, he decided to get out of the car and have a look.
Lu Yongfei couldn’t think that the matter would be so severe — he bumped into a little boy.
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