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Chapter 1 Guangming Street (1)

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    It was around five o'clock in the afternoon that people on Guangming Street discovered a watermelon stand in front of their homes.

    The first to discover this was Zhu Zhu, who was a hostess in the Longfeng Hotel opposite the watermelon stall, and Li Ernuo, a shoemaker on the right side of the watermelon stall.

    The weather on this day was surprisingly good, there were no clouds in the sky, the sky looked blue, and the setting sun hung there like a shortbread just about to come out of the pan, which was very attractive.  There is also no wind. Of course, in our northern city, there is very little wind in summer, just like there is very little wind in spring and autumn.  At that time, Zhuzhu was standing at the entrance of the hotel lobby with a red welcome ribbon on her body, her hands folded in front of her lower abdomen, and her two white and immature thumbs with red nails were circling each other from time to time.  Go, like two children playing happily around a small tree.  The smile on her face is like a beautiful silk flower. Naturally, this kind of smile like a silk flower does not come from the heart. It is a professional smile formed after special training, because her job is to not want to laugh.  She had to laugh all the time, and she had to laugh as if she was real, otherwise she would lose the salary that should have belonged to her.  Naturally there will be no customers at this time, the shop is deserted, only the tables, chairs and tableware that have been scrubbed spotlessly by the hard-working waiters are shining coldly, and some people who are going to eat here are currently doing anti-corruption in the conference room  The mobilization report of promoting integrity, some are watching the news in the evening paper.  Zhuzhu didn't want to waste this kind of smile for nothing, so she raised her eyes for a while to look at the sun like a sesame seed, then stuck out her tongue at it, and then turned to face the pedestrians on the road.

    Guangming Street is a relatively prosperous north-south road in our northern city. Many years ago, it was not called "Guangming Street" but "Changmao Road".  It's like two rows of old people who are over sixty years old are seeing off another old man.

    Changmao Road is extraordinary in the evil old society. It used to be a well-known commercial port, and most of the local famous and time-honored brands are concentrated here.  Since the beginning of this century, it has been prosperous, and many people have made a fortune here, with a lot of money, and many people have suffered here and lost their fortunes.  However, in the 1950s and 1960s, both the rich and the bankrupt were in trouble again, and they came to the same goal by different routes.  Today, compared with the gorgeous and majestic high-rise buildings around it, it looks too dilapidated, like a group of young girls surrounding a haggard old woman.  Therefore, its prosperity is not because it has many commercial or entertainment outlets, but because you have to pass through here to go to any nearby shopping malls or high-end entertainment halls, just like you have to go to the bedroom or kitchen when you come home from get off work. Same goes through the foyer.

    When Zhuzhu saw a girl her age wearing a short black dress walking from west to east, a green fly just landed on her lips after buzzing around her several times.  down.

    This fly is a bit beautiful, with a sapphire green body and a crystal clear purple-red head, just like a honey bee lying on its pearly red lips.  Of course, no matter how beautiful a fly is, it will not become a bee, just like no more clever monkey will become a human being.

    Zhuzhu waved away the flies in extreme disgust, and at the same time spat.

    The beautiful fly is obviously reluctant to part with it. It feels very good to rest on the red lips of this beautiful woman for a while, which is warm and poetic, and after the saliva she spit out spreads like raindrops in the air, it can be seen in the summer sun.  A charming rainbow of seven colors was refracted below, and a trace of it fell on the fly's purple-red head after drawing an indescribable parabola.  The fly lifted its shiny black forepaws and wiped it into its mouth. The sweet taste made it more determined to land on the woman's lips again.

    Zhuzhu couldn't help but look annoyed as the flies didn't disperse. Just as she was fighting the flies, the girl in black skirt had already walked onto the sidewalk in front of Zhuzhu.

    The girl in the black dress was a little puzzled at first, because she didn't know why this beautiful woman standing at the door of the hotel became so restless.  She couldn't help but stop for a while, trying to find out what happened, and when she saw the beautiful fly, she couldn't help smiling, and then continued her journey.  However, before her laughter reached Zhuzhu's ears, she tripped over the cement manhole cover of the sewer that was much higher than the road.  When the girl in the black dress staggered forward exactly three steps, the heel of the golden high-heeled shoe on her left foot was mercilessly separated from the sole.

    Zhuzhu thought it was her turn to gloat this time, but she didn't because the fly was still circling her.

    People who live here or pass by here often know that the manhole cover in front of Longfeng Hotel was not above the ground, nor was it made of cement, but cast iron.  A few days ago, it was lost three times at night without anyone noticing. After falling into three pedestrians three times, the municipal department was forced to replace the manhole cover with aout of cement.  At the same time, the city newspaper reported in an important position on the front page that the public security personnel worked hard for 15 days and nights to crack down on three peasant theft gangs who went to the city at night to steal manhole covers and resell them.  This is undoubtedly good news for everyone who wants to walk!  However, throwing iron manhole covers and pedestrians falling into wells still happen from time to time, and there are almost daily reports on the social news pages of the city newspaper and evening paper.  The public security organs can do nothing about it, and it is obviously unrealistic for a policeman with live ammunition to stand in front of a manhole cover.  After a few days of seminars held by the municipal department, they had no choice but to invest in a prefabricated cement board factory to order a batch of cement manhole covers. When they found that an iron manhole cover was lost, they had to replace it with a cement manhole cover, which triggered a project in our municipal facilities.  important changes.  Smart citizens already have a premonition that iron manhole covers will disappear completely in this city in the near future.  If those thieves are as smart as the citizens, and don't rush for quick success and quick profits, they will immediately sell the iron manhole cover as a waste of iron, maybe after many years, it will have the value of cultural relics collection, and the price will increase exponentially.

    The girl in the black skirt was obviously a little embarrassed. She couldn't accept the role change from laughing at others to being laughed at for a while, so her face blushed and turned pale for a while.  She brushed the hair that fell on her forehead, bounced back and picked up the heels, and was about to leave quickly, but the road in front of her had become as uneven as a mountain road.

    Fortunately, there was a shoe repairer diagonally across the road. At this time, the shoe repairer had already witnessed the whole process of the girl in black skirt from excitement to frustration, and he was happily clinking the small hammer in his hand.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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