1990s: Spring Water Family

Chapter 33 Three Childhood Friends
"Grandma and Grandpa won't let me climb Mount Tai with my classmates."

Gu Bin caught his old Beijing cloth shoes with quick reflexes and pretended to complain to the curtain with great grievance.

"It's just climbing Mount Tai, what's wrong with that?"

Grandma suddenly lifted the curtain and came out of the room.

"That kid has ulterior motives. He just wants to go mountain climbing, he really wants to..."

Grandpa wanted to argue, but when he met Grandma's disapproving gaze, his momentum clearly weakened.

Grandpa hit me with his shoe.

Gu Bin seized the opportunity to add fuel to the fire by presenting the evidence to his grandmother.

When Grandma saw the shoes, she became even angrier: "The shoes you wore with your stinky feet can give me a headache from three meters away! How dare you take them off and hit Xiaobin?"

"puff."

Gu Bin, hiding behind his grandmother, couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Is it really that smelly?

Grandpa, emboldened by the alcohol, muttered something indignantly, then took off his other shoe and held it to his nose to smell it.

"Xiao Bin, ignore him."

Grandma couldn't bear to watch, so she threw the shoe back in front of her husband and dragged her grandson back into the house: "Grandma made you some mung bean soup, let's go back inside and drink some."

"okay."

Gu Bin suppressed a laugh and agreed, behaving as obediently as could be in front of his grandmother.

An old man and a child entered the house together, and in the blink of an eye, the courtyard was empty.

"You little rascal, you're full of tricks and schemes, and you use them all to fight against your own people."

Grandpa chuckled in exasperation, picked up his shoes, put them on, and reclined on the deck chair under the shade of a tree, closing his eyes to enjoy the cool breeze.

Like Lin Xiyu, Gu Bin grew up with his maternal grandparents in the old town. Children in the old town attend schools nearby, such as Daming Lake Primary School.

Qu Peng, Wang Fan, and Li Liang are his childhood friends.

The four got along well, shared the same interests, and were of similar height. They grew up together from elementary school to high school, inseparable. People who didn't know the truth would mistake them for brothers.

In the words of old Jinan residents, they grew up wearing the same pair of pants.

Qu Peng's grandfather and parents were all police officers, and he aspired to become a police officer from a young age, vowing to carry on the family tradition of police work.

Li Liang's father was a naval officer, and his mother had been sent to the countryside in RZ City as a public school teacher in her early years, and had never been able to transfer back.

The couple had been living apart for many years. The mother didn't want her son to suffer in the countryside with her, so she sent him back to his hometown to be cared for by his grandparents.

Li Liang also grew up with his grandparents, and he only had a handful of opportunities to see his parents each year.

Wang Fan's parents were quick-witted. After the reform and opening up, they saw business opportunities, resigned from their jobs, started a company, and ran a building materials business. They became one of the first people to get rich and make a fortune.

Despite his family's good financial situation, he was also very flashy, riding a Jinan Qingqi brand Mustang motorcycle worth 5400 yuan all day long, swaggering around the city and violating school rules by entering and leaving the campus.

Unsurprisingly, he became a thorn in the side of the dean of students, and was criticized by name at every school assembly.

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The crew of the "Spring Water Family" program moved to Wangfu Pond in the afternoon to film.

Lin Xiyu wore the same blue denim dress she had worn at home that morning. Facing the camera, she was poised and confident, reciting her prepared script word for word.

"Zhuoying Spring, also known as Zhuoying Lake, is commonly called Wangfu Pond and is located in the middle section of Wangfu Pond Street. It is recorded in famous works such as the Mingquan Stele of the Jin Dynasty, the Seventy-Two Springs Poems by Yan Bi of the Ming Dynasty, and the Seventy-Two Springs Record by Hao Zhigong of the Qing Dynasty."

"The name 'Zhuoying' is taken from Mencius, Gao Lou I: 'The waters of the Canglang River are clear, I can wash my tassels.' The name is based on this sentence."

(End of this chapter)