A Young Woman's Heart

"Oh dear, it's a rare treat to come all this way, isn't it normal to have some fun?" Mo Xueyao quickly pointed into the distance and shouted, "Let's go, let's go ride that! The aerial tricycle!"

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(two)

Another distinctive facility of Hangzhou Children's Palace.

That's a tricycle suspended in the air.

The tricycle is fixed on a steel cable track and travels around. Once it completes a full circle, you can see all the sights here.

Although it is very safe and stable, riding a bike at such a height is still a very exciting thing for children.

Not many people play this.

After all, this requires adult accompaniment.

The cost of the tour is calculated per person, not per vehicle.

That means you have to buy an extra ticket.

So there are actually more couples.

This tricycle can seat up to four people, and each person has a footrest to accelerate the tricycle.

In fact, it will move forward automatically even if you don't step on it.

If you don't want to waste money, just let it drive slowly forward and enjoy the view that can only be seen from the air.

“Look at this tricycle, isn’t it amazing? It’s so stable in the air, and it won’t fall off even if we shake it.” Pan Jiexiang seemed even more excited than Mo Xueyao and Li Wanyan. “And it can even move forward by itself! What do you think powers it?”

"Uh... kind of like a pulley?" Mo Xueyao wasn't quite sure.

"Mom, stop shaking me." Li Wanyan looked at her helplessly.

Pan Jiexiang covered the corner of her mouth with the back of her hand and said with a light laugh, "Oh dear, look at me, it's been decades since I've been here. The last time I went to the amusement park feels like a lifetime ago."

"Have you not gone out for fun since you got married?"

"It's been a long time since I went to an amusement park before I got married." She turned her head to look at Mo Xueyao sitting behind her. "Xiaoyao, do you and my Yanyan often go out to play?"

"Uh, actually, cough um, I'm not really into going out either, but I'm a bit better than Wanyan, I guess. I've been the one dragging her out to play several times, haha."

"For example, insisting on going for a walk on a rainy day?" Li Wanyan suddenly asked, but with a gentle smile on her face.

"Don't you think that's very poetic, Wanyan?"

"Hehe—have you two ever argued?" Li Wanyan's mother, Pan Jiexiang, asked curiously.

In comparison, Li Wanyan seems to be more mature and composed.

"Arguing? Uh, never, at most Wanyan just scolds me." Mo Xueyao said, secretly sticking out her tongue when Li Wanyan wasn't looking at her.

"When did I ever curse you?" Li Wanyan asked calmly.

"Okay, okay, that's just nagging and lecturing...like my mom."

"Yan Yan has a lot of bad habits. When you lived together, you must have given in to her quite a bit, right?"

"Hmm, what bad habits? I feel fine. Besides, I have a lot of bad habits myself." Mo Xueyao shrugged. "Anyway, living together is quite pleasant."

"That's good." Pan Jiexiang smiled meaningfully. "Actually, everyone has bad habits. The important thing is how to adapt to each other, understand each other, and then gradually improve together."

“Yeah, that’s right.” Mo Xueyao was completely oblivious to the implication in her words. “That’s how it is among friends.”

When the tricycle comes to the area with the most children, it feels like your eardrums are about to burst.

The screams of children are practically the most terrifying sonic weapon in life...

Even in a noisy crowd, it still has a very strong penetrating power.

Mo Xueyao couldn't help but stomp a few times—she wanted to leave this area as soon as possible, at least it would be quieter later.

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(three)

"Ah—oh—wow—!"

"Wanyan, your mom is having so much fun!"

"Uh... this is the first time I've ever seen her like this."

After riding the frog bungee jump, the three of them finally got on the bumper cars.

There are far fewer people here than before, so we don't have to wait in line for so long anymore.

Most of the people in the bumper cars are adults with children, but there are also couples.

At first, everyone was too embarrassed to bump into each other, and some people even played bumper cars like a regular go-kart game.

Mo Xueyao didn't care about anything else. She stepped on the gas and crashed into it directly. The atmosphere suddenly became cheerful, and the feeling of the collision was particularly exciting.

Pan Jiexiang, as the mother, knocked Li Wanyan so hard that the latter was unable to put up an effective resistance.

"Phew, that wasn't enough."

"Play again?"

"Okay!"

Li Wanyan couldn't stand the two of them anymore: "...Let's keep them to play something else. It's more cost-effective to play more games."

"Tsk, Wanyan has no romance at all."

"Yes, Yan Yan is sometimes too serious."

"mom--"

Li Wanyan couldn't help but stomp her foot lightly.

Mo Xueyao tilted her head and laughed. She thought this was good because Li Wanyan seemed to only act like a child when she was with her mother.

……

(four)

There are two open spaces in the Children's Palace specifically for children to play in. One is for spinning tops, and the other is for driving four-wheel drive cars.

Nearby, several children were even intently assembling four-wheel drive cars, with someone timing them, as if they were having a race.

Children often ask where other people bought their four-wheel drive cars.

The answers varied, but most pointed to the small shops inside the Children's Palace.

—Most of them were bought from there.

The vehicles sold here are all genuine four-wheel drive vehicles. Although they are more expensive, the quality is significantly better than those that cost five yuan each near the school gate.

"Wanyan." Mo Xueyao squatted down to the side, resting her chin on her hand. She had used up all her tickets, but the sky was still bright. She felt that leaving like this was not enough, so she simply watched the children play with toy cars.

To be honest, she also wanted to buy one, but after thinking about it carefully, she realized that it would be a waste of money, so she quickly gave up on the idea.

The older you get, the more you think, and the harder it is to find happiness.

"What's wrong?" Li Wanyan walked to her side and gently fiddled with the grayish-white pom-pom on her hair tie.

"Wanyan, if you could go back to the past, would you choose to go back? Like when you were a child, carefree... like that time."

"I'm not going back." Li Wanyan didn't say why, because Mo Xueyao figured out the reason within three seconds of asking.

She scratched her cheek awkwardly: "But even if I had to choose, I wouldn't go back."

Now it was Pan Jiexiang's turn to be curious: "Why?"

“Because I think growing up is a happy thing in itself, why do we have to go back to the past? Is it to escape something? When we were young, we couldn’t change anything, but when we grow up, at least we can change some things ourselves.” Mo Xueyao said earnestly, gently shaking her head, her two ponytails swaying along with it. “Like right now—I can buy a few more tickets, let’s go ride the bumper cars again!”

“Okay, I’ll buy it.” Pan Jiexiang immediately nodded with a smile.

Mo Xueyao didn't stand on ceremony: "Okay, then leave it to Auntie. I'll go buy some ice cream cones! Do you want some?"

"I won't eat it; I'll leave it for Yan Yan."

"I also……"

"Okay, then let's buy three!"

Mo Xueyao exaggeratedly held up three fingers and ran quickly toward the ice cream stall.

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Chapter 41 Colorful Bubbles

Although the Children's Palace doesn't charge an entrance fee, trying out all the activities can actually cost quite a bit of money.

Mo Xueyao wasn't a willful person, so she only rode the bumper cars one more time before taking the bus back with Pan Jiexiang and Li Wanyan.

The sky on this side of the mountain looked like it had been covered by a black bowl, with bright sky peeking out from the edges, while the center was increasingly gloomy.

Dark clouds have drifted over here; I wonder if a heavy rain will break out.

Behind the fruit shop, the sunlight shone directly on the van, creating an invisible dividing line that separated the sun from the clouds.

"It would be interesting if it rained here but not there later." Mo Xueyao stood on the dividing line, seemingly still excited about going to the amusement park.

"Alright, alright, what are you doing, jumping around like that? Are you a little kid? If you're not going to help, fine, but you're just fooling around." Yang Xiaoyu tapped the wok with the spatula in annoyance. "Go play somewhere else!"

"Godmother, let me help."

"Yan Yan, perfect timing." The look of disgust on her mother's face just now immediately turned into a gentle, tender one. The change of expression was faster than the weather changing. She didn't stand on ceremony, after all, she was used to it. "Help me wash the chili peppers and chop the onions."

"it is good."

"Tsk." Mo Xueyao was afraid that she would be conscripted, so she just pursed her lips and immediately slipped out.

The employees at the convenience store are constantly changing.

The previous one resigned again, and today Zhuang Lianlian is helping to watch the shop again during the day.

She was squatting by the door, stroking the candy that had run out of the fruit shop, while watching Pan Jiexiang stir something in a small red basin.

"Lianlian is helping out at the shop again?" Mo Xueyao waved and waited for the scrap metal tricycle to drive past her before rushing over. "Chen Cheng's parents are here at the noodle shop, so they should be able to manage. Why don't you just work here permanently? That way, Grandma Jin won't have to keep hiring."

The turnover rate is indeed very fast; some people even left after only a month.