Chapter 2 Who doesn't have a childhood sweetheart? The small island where Fang Wei lives has a very delicious name, called Pineapple Island. But this is not because there are many pineapples on the island. In fact, there are almost no pineapples planted on Pineapple Island. There is only a kind of island plant called pandanus, which is very numerous and spread all over the island. Because the pandanus fruit looks very similar to pineapple, the island is named Pineapple Island. It's a pity that these pandanus fruits are somewhat poisonous and cannot be eaten directly, but the leaves are quite useful. Due to the tough leathery texture of pandanus leaves, they can be used to weave straw hats, mats and other handicrafts, replacing bamboo on the island. Fang Wei's family has many such pandanus leaf woven handicrafts, which are very representative of the times. Of course, with the development of the times, such woven handicrafts have become less and less common in later generations. Perhaps for many people who grew up inland, islands, especially such remote small islands, are full of mystery, but for the "pineapple people" who were born and raised here, everything has long become a part of their bones. Pineapple Island is located in the Xuanzhu Thousand Islands of China, far away from the hustle and bustle of the city. It is located in a very rural area. It is the easternmost inhabited island in the motherland and the first place to see the first ray of sunshine rising. The entire island covers an area of only square kilometers. Compared with the inland metropolises, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a place the size of a palm. Even in 2000, it still retains many original natural features and simple rural customs. There is a historic Temple of the Sea God on Diecui Mountain. The islanders believe in Mazu. It is also the highest place on the island, with a height of 212 meters. Standing on the top of the mountain, you can easily overlook the entire island. Before going out to school or work, this palm-sized island was the entire world known to the boys and girls.
As for places like Yanjing, Shanghai, and Yueguang, they are distant places that we can only know about in textbooks, on television, and from the fragmentary words of our elders who work away from home. …… "Fang Wei! Keep watch for me while I go change my clothes!" "Hurry up, or you'll be scolded if you come back late." "You are not allowed to peek!" “…Who wants to watch it?” At the last moment of sunset, the world has been painted with light and shadow by the setting sun. The chirping of cicadas echoes on the island, and the birds that have flown away from the forest also fly back to the forest from the sea. Xu Cailing held her clothes and crawled barefoot into the bushes that were as tall as a person. She observed the movements around her furtively, then quickly took off her swimsuit and changed into clean clothes in her backpack. It would be better if you could rinse it with clean water, but there's nothing you can do if you don't have it. It's much better than having a wet swimsuit sticking to your skin. Of course, if she were alone, she wouldn't dare to go surfing alone. Even if she was a good swimmer, people living by the sea understand the dangers of the sea better than people living inland. Just pull Fang Wei together. Although this bad guy is always reluctant, he will always come out with her in the end. While she was practicing surfing, he was fishing. Occasionally, when the weather was too hot, he would go into the sea to swim with her. The two of them had been playing together since they could remember, and were truly childhood sweethearts. Even when she asked him to help keep watch while she hid in the bushes to change clothes, she was quite confident in him. It was unknown whether she had enough awareness of her unattractive body, which was like a surfboard, or whether she was still young and did not understand the difference between men and women. In short, for the other party, he really did not bother to peek at her. After all, there's really nothing good about a 'surfboard'. Looking back on his previous life, he and Xu Cailing had a fairly harmonious childhood, but they began to drift apart from each other starting in junior high school. At that time, the young him couldn't stand his classmates teasing him that he and Xu Cailing were a couple, and he also felt it was shameful to play with girls. This led to a huge gap between the two people who used to talk about everything in their childhood. Now thinking about it, I was so naive back then. Even if we don’t mention those ambiguous things, just having a childhood sweetheart who grew up with me is a happiness that many people would envy! He probably won't make the same childish mistake again in the future. But he doesn't know if Xu Cailing will become distant from him like she did in her previous life. After all, it's hard to guess what a girl who is about to enter puberty is thinking. It’s interesting to say, but now when I get along with this naive childhood sweetheart of mine, I inexplicably feel like an old father looking at his daughter. What’s going on? Of course, Fang Wei felt that his mentality was not old. With the blessing of his young body, he often felt that he was a real teenager. It was that strange feeling of "noticing the growth and changes of people around him"...
Sitting on the reef, feeling the gentle sea breeze, Fang Wei waited for a while before hearing the voice of a girl behind him. "Okay! Let's go!" "Ah." Fang Wei stood up and looked back, and the girl who had changed her clothes stood in front of him. Her dark brown hair was tied up in a short ponytail at the back of her head because it was not long. Her eyebrows were slightly thicker than those of ordinary girls, which made her look quite heroic. Her lively almond eyes seemed to be full of energy and vitality that seemed to be overflowing. She had a small and delicate nose and natural smiling lips. She looked like she was smiling even without any expression. Of course, she was not smiling at the moment, otherwise, if she smiled, shallow dimples would appear at the corners of her lips. She was holding her precious surfboard in her arms, and her clothes were simple, just a thin sportswear. In fact, Fang Wei had never seen her wearing any other clothes except sportswear. After all, for a "physical girl" like her, wearing jeans or skirts would make her feel as uncomfortable as a blue crab tied with a hemp rope. At her age, she naturally has no figure to speak of, with immature and pitiful breasts. Her skin, due to years of sun exposure, appears much darker than that of girls in big cities, but it is the healthiest wheat-colored skin. The only thing worth mentioning is perhaps her legs, which have straight and slender lines and look quite tight and smooth. Although she does not have muscles, she still gives people a very powerful feeling. Overall, she was a very lively and lovely girl - except that she was the same height as Fang Wei. No, maybe she was a little taller than Fang Wei at the moment... Speaking of this, Fang Wei was also quite depressed. He didn't pay much attention in his previous life, but he discovered in this life that since the fourth grade, this girl seemed to have taken hormones. Her height has been increasing steadily. She surpassed him early and is now meters tall! However, his height had not increased at all, which made Fang Wei feel terrified. He was always worried that he would not have the chance to grow taller in the future... Fortunately, he understood that girls develop first during puberty, so he could only comfort himself and let her grow for a few years, and then surpass her in one fell swoop later. If nothing unexpected happened, he couldn't be much shorter than in his previous life... After all, he was meters tall before. "Hey! What are you daydreaming about? Let's go!" "As the main culprit for the delay, you have no right to criticize me." Fang Wei packed up his things and followed, holding the fishing rod in his left hand and the ten-pound sea bass in the net bag in his right hand. Lifting a fish this big gives you a very satisfying feeling, but it is also very heavy. It’s okay to walk a short distance, but it would be a bit too much to carry it back. Fortunately, Xu Cailing did not just stand there and watch. She picked up the stick she had used to scoop fish on the shore and tied the net bag containing the fish to the stick. The boy and girl then each grabbed one end of the stick and carried the fish back home. Pineapple Island is backed by a hillside and faces the sea. There are no wide squares or roads, but narrow ramps and stairs everywhere, and the houses are arranged in a staggered pattern. There are three villages on the island. Both of them live in Donghua Village. If they walk back from here, they have to pass through Shayang Village first. In fact, the distance is not far. If you walk slowly like this, you can get home in ten or twenty minutes. If you have the leisure time, you can spend two or three hours to basically visit the entire island. Under the setting sun, the path covered with fine sand and each other's shadows stretched out under the feet of the boy and girl. Walking on the country road, Fang Wei and Xu Cailing talked casually. "Are you a lot darker than before the summer vacation?" "It's okay to be dark, you're a lot darker than before the summer vacation." Xu Cailing doesn't care about her tanned skin at all. Perhaps she cares more about the fact that after practicing for almost two months, she still hasn't been able to stand on the surfboard and show off her skills in a handsome and cool way. It's so funny. I just hope that when she grows up, she won't mind her tanning like this. Think about the girls in later generations. Not to mention practicing surfing under the sun, even if they were just a few steps away from office buildings, they would have to hold an umbrella for fear of getting tanned. "Hey, Fang Wei, are all the girls in big cities fair?" "Well, if you don't get sun every day, you must be very white." "That's what I was saying. My sister was much whiter the last time she came back! You saw it too, right? Isn't she super white?"
"Sister Caiwei isn't black, okay?" "That's right. My sister has been whiter than me since she was a child." The girl didn't care about the black and white, but her mind jumped and she asked curiously, "Don't people in big cities get any sun? They just stay in their houses all day long?" "In big cities, sunbathing is hard work, so naturally, most people choose to stay indoors." "Well, I can't do that anyway. If I stay stuck in the house all the time, I'll feel so uncomfortable that I want to die!" "You talk as if you've been stuck in the house. Have you ever been running outside?" The girl's mind jumped again, and she asked, "Fang Wei, have you been to Shanghai?" "I've been there." "You're lying! When have you been there?" "Then you still ask." "I'll just ask." “I’ve been there in a dream.” "How is Shanghai?" "Doesn't Sister Caiwei work over there? Ask her." "I'm asking about your dream. Didn't you say you've been there in your dream?" "Um……" Fang Wei looked ahead, thought for a moment, and replied, "There is the Pearl Tower, which is taller than our highest mountain, Diecui Mountain, countless high-rise buildings, cafes and private cars everywhere, crowded subways, and everyone has a mobile phone and can access the Internet. You don't even have to go out to eat. You can just order takeout on your phone and someone will deliver it to your door. But life is very tiring." Xu Cailing listened, her eyes lost in thought for a moment, then she chuckled, "What you said was really a dream! It's completely different from what my sister said! I can even order takeout through my phone and have it delivered to my door! If that's the case, how can life be as tiring as you said!" "What did Sister Caiwei say?" "Well...anyway, it's a big city, totally different from where we are! She also said that her colleagues have never heard of a place called Pineapple Island." "What? Do you want to go?" Fang Wei turned his head and looked at her curiously. Xu Cailing also did not hide it at all and nodded and said, "I do!" "What to do?" “I don’t know, but I just want to go and see!” After she finished speaking, she asked Fang Wei, "What about you? Don't you want to go and take a look?" "Well, if I have the chance, I will go." "So what do you want to do?" "Reading."
Xu Cailing was stunned for a moment, then laughed again: "Others are going to work or play, but you actually want to go to school. What an arrogant~ and boring idea!" "Waiwai, my grades are still good. Who knows, maybe I can go to a better university like Peking University in the future?" "..." Hate it! How come the conversation turned to studying and grades? The girl's happy mood suddenly became unhappy... "say something." "Did not say!" Along with the chirping of seabirds and cicadas, the afterglow of the setting sun dyed the boys and girls on the coast into the color of sunset. Each other's shadows began at their feet and extended for a long time along the country road. (Starting from tomorrow, there will be two updates a day, at 10 . and 6 ., and the minimum daily update for the new book is about 6,000 words. I hope everyone will read and vote for me. Please, please! Love you!) (End of this chapter)