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Chapter 130 The Winds of Childhood Blow Back to This Moment
Time quickly passed and it was already afternoon.

After lunch, Shen Yuan moved a stool to his front door and began to enjoy the sun.

Soon, two more people appeared beside Shen Yuan.

My older cousin was also sitting in a chair, comfortably stretching out her long legs.

Zhao Yueyang was scrolling through idiom videos on his phone.

Hearing that awkward laughter, Shen Yuan slapped him and went back to playing the game obediently.

Zhao Yueyang did not have a rebellious phase.

The older brother's fist, the older cousin's slap, and Shen Yuan's Great Wilderness Imprisoning Heaven Finger were all weapons that shattered his rebellious phase.

Of course, Shen Yuan also did not have a rebellious phase.

Firstly, Ms. Zhang Yuyan was even more rebellious than him, and secondly, Lao Shen's habit of giving out red envelopes made Shen Yuan exceptionally obedient.

Who would turn down money?
Thirdly, of the three mentioned above, Shen Yuan had tried two.

Don't ask which two specifically.

Just as Shen Yuan and his two companions were sunbathing, the sharp-eyed older cousin suddenly spotted a figure appearing on one side of the alley.

"Yuan, your childhood sweetheart has come to find you."

"Ok?"

Shen Yuan, who was looking up at the sun and feeling the infrared rays, immediately sat up straight.

From a bluish perspective, Li Zhi was slowly walking towards Shen Yuan.

"Have you eaten?" Shen Yuan asked instinctively.

Seeing this, Li Zhi rolled her eyes, seemingly speechless at Shen Yuan's question, and replied irritably, "Otherwise, why would I come here?"

Although the beautiful girl said that, a subtle smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

Shen Yuan chuckled, revealing his signature smile, and teased, "Of course you missed me."

As soon as he said that, the eyes of his older cousin and younger cousin, who were sitting to the side, were instantly drawn to him and fell on Shen Yuan.

No, you're really good at this!
However, before they could be too surprised by Shen Yuan's audacity, Li Zhi's voice rang out.

“I only think about it when the dog runs away.” Li Zhi’s tone was flat, but the sarcasm in it was self-evident.

Upon hearing this, my younger cousin's expression changed slightly; he was clearly struggling to withstand such "attack."

His body involuntarily shrank back, like a startled quail, and he quickly lowered his head, not daring to look at Li Zhi again.

However, even as he turned into a quail, the little cousin couldn't help but steal a glance at Shen Yuan, as if wanting to see how he would respond to Li Zhi's words.

Shen Yuan and Li Zhi had been arguing for quite some time, and he was clearly used to this level of "attacks."

He remained leisurely leaning back in the small bamboo chair, his smile not diminishing but growing even brighter, as he cheerfully replied:

"Then you're not a very good owner. You only think about looking for the dog after it's lost? Shouldn't you feed it more treats regularly?"

Li Zhi scoffed softly, "So what if it's lost? It just loves the outside world. With me, I'll only restrict its freedom."

"Maybe it's an Aimu, hoping you'll find it and then beat it up."

Li Zhi's lips twitched.

In terms of XP, she clearly underestimated Shen Yuan.

Li Zhi immediately became disgusted: "That's too dirty, I don't want it."

Shen Yuan warned with a husky-like gesture: "Hey! Abandoning is immoral!"

Li Zhi chuckled and replied dismissively, "As long as I have no morals, no one can use morality to bind me!"

Shen Yuan slowly stood up from the bamboo chair, stretched lazily, and then said unhurriedly, "That won't do. I still have some morals."

After saying that, he turned and walked towards the door.

Seeing this, Yang Yishui asked curiously, "Where are you going?"

"Go find the dog."

Shen Yuan stopped and looked back at his older cousin, smiling as he invited, "Want to come along?"

My older cousin shook her head decisively, indicating her refusal.

Seeing this, Shen Yuan turned his gaze to Li Zhi: "Shall we go find the dog?"

Li Zhi hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded and said, "Although I have no morals, I still have some conscience."

Just then, Zhao Yueyang, who had been engrossed in playing the game, suddenly looked up and asked in surprise, "Huh? There really is a dog?"

Before he could finish speaking, his older cousin quickly reached out and pressed his head down, scolding him impatiently, "You idiot, go play your game!"

Only after Shen Yuan and Li Zhi disappeared from the front door did the older cousin release Zhao Yueyang.

"Sis, what are you doing? I want to go find the dog too."

The older cousin glared at her younger cousin: "Shen Yuan is a dog, are you going to go find him?"

My little cousin immediately understood what it meant, and shrank back while muttering something under his breath.

"Why make something as simple as dating so complicated?"

Upon hearing this, my older cousin slapped her forehead and laughed, "Yes, yes, that's exactly what I mean."

Zhao Yueyang covered his forehead: "Sis, you can laugh, but why did you hit me?"

"So what if I hit you? Just you wait, I'll use all the same methods I used on Shen Yuan on you!"

"A tonic, sis!"

Shen Yuan naturally didn't hear his younger cousin's pitiful cries.

The midday sun shone through the mottled cracks on the cement wall. Shen Yuan's fingertips brushed against the yellowed putty on the wall, and crumbs fell into the gaps in the moss.

"Isn't it dirty!"

Upon seeing this, Li Zhi immediately reprimanded him.

Shen Yuan withdrew his finger and gave an awkward smile: "Just playing around." "Since you're so free, do a test paper when you get back!"

Shen Yuan's lips twitched; he was no longer happy.

At that moment, the two of them stopped in front of a house whose door was tightly closed.

Shen Yuan looked at the tightly closed door and suddenly said, "I had a fight with his family."

Upon hearing this, Li Zhi turned her head, her hair being lifted by the breeze from the alleyway, revealing her fair neck: "I remember, you seemed to have gotten into a fight. You seemed to have even gone looking for someone while carrying bricks."

"You remember that brick-moving job quite clearly."

Shen Yuan used the tip of his shoe to crush the small grass sprouting from the crack in the stone, the sound muffled.

"However, the cause..."

He suddenly turned around, his gaze fixed intently into the girl's amber eyes: "Do you remember?"

Li Zhi tilted her head to meet his gaze: "I don't quite remember."

The beautiful girl frowned slightly, her pearly teeth gently biting the inside of her lower lip, pressing a faint white crescent mark onto her lips, as if searching for clues in her memory.

"It looks like...it was hit?"

Shen Yuan continued looking at Li Zhi and nodded: "You could say that."

"That dog has a terrible temper; it explodes at the slightest provocation."

A slender finger pointed at Shen Yuan in mid-air, the beautiful girl's face showing a look of disdain.

"You were the one who got hit."

Li Zhi was stunned and subconsciously looked at Shen Yuan. The moment their eyes met, memories flooded her pupils like a tide.

That midsummer evening, Li Zhi and Shen Yuan were still in elementary school.

On the weekend, the two had just returned from boating on the stream. Li Zhi's boat had drifted far away that day, while Shen Yuan's boat, for some reason, had been spinning in circles.

Li Zhi was very happy that day. When he came back, he was jumping around with his little boat, chattering away.

But a series of hurried footsteps shattered the girl's joy.

The high school student in the blue and white school uniform darted out from the other end of the alley.
Li Zhi was thrown to the ground by the impact, his knees were stained red, and his hands were covered in blood. The small boat was also crushed.

The high school student ran very fast, and Shen Yuan couldn't stop him, so he chased after him all the way to his house, where they started arguing.

It wasn't until the whole village was in an uproar that Shen Yuan and Li Zhi's family found out about it.

There were only three people when the accident happened, and there was no surveillance footage.

The high school student insisted that he did not bump into Li Zhi, and even accused Shen Yuan of tripping him.

No one can say anything about it.

Then came what Li Zhi said.

Little Shen Yuan took a brick and went to squat on people.

I've been playing Sett since I was a kid, smash him!

Li Zhi's pupils contracted slightly, as if the amber halo in his eyes was touched by ripples of memory.

She hastily averted her gaze from the boy's burning eyes, the ends of her hair brushing against her neck as she tilted her head, her fingertips unconsciously fiddling with the sideburns ruffled by the alley breeze, tucking a few strands behind her ears.

The slanting sunlight at the alley entrance made her eyelashes flutter slightly, casting dappled shadows on her eyelids, perfectly concealing the fleeting emotion in her eyes.

"I...I don't remember."

Li Zhi lowered his eyes and stared at the small grass that had been bent over in the crack of the stone. His voice trailed off with a slight stagnation, as if even his voice was burning hot from the midday sun.

The beautiful girl's fingers, hidden behind her back, were clenched so tightly they turned white, but she quickly released them as soon as she realized what she was doing.

Just then, a sly smile appeared in the beautiful girl's eyes.

"You're probably mentally impaired from the accident."

The open palms closed again.

They've hardened their fists.

You idiot Shen Yuan, go to hell!
Li Zhi clenched his fist and punched him: "You're the one who's gone mad from the impact! Who's smarter these days?!"

Shen Yuan did not dodge, letting Li Zhi punch him in the back.

"sorry."

Shen Yuan's sudden apology made the air in the alley freeze.

The boy's usual playful expression vanished, and he even breathed very softly.

"What are you doing?"

Li Zhi froze on the spot, his voice trembling without him even realizing it.

Shen Yuan's Adam's apple bobbed: "When we were arguing back then—"

During the argument, Shen Yuan forgot one thing.

The pitiful look of the girl being protected in her parents' arms overlaps with the beautiful girl's appearance now.

The boy suddenly paused, as if choked, and then his Adam's apple bobbed heavily: "I left you here all alone."

The wind swept across the old wall, bringing back the winds of childhood to this moment.

Seeing the expression in the boy's eyes, Li Zhi belatedly recalled that midsummer dusk.

The pain in her body mingled with fragments of Shen Yuan chasing after her, and the last thing she remembered was the tear tracks on the girl's face when she called out Shen Yuan's name.

"Then you should apologize."

The moment Li Zhi turned her back, the halo of light filtering through the eaves just happened to spill over her tightly pursed lips, casting a slightly upturned arc on the mottled wall of the alley.

A breeze swept through the stray hairs tucked behind her ears, scattering the soft humming between her lips among the mottled old walls.

(End of this chapter)