Chapter 33: 90: Pump Spring Family Chapter 33 Three Childhood Friends

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Protagonist:

Lin Xiyu

"Grandpa, Grandfather won't let me climb Taishan with my classmates......"

Guben caught his old Beijing cloth shoes with quick eyes and fast hands, feigning grievance as he complained toward the curtain.

"It's just climbing Taishan, what's wrong with going?"

Grandma lifted the curtain with a swish and walked out of the room.

"This kid has impure motives; he wants to climb the mountain, he wants......."

Grandfather wanted to argue, but meeting Grandma's dissatisfied gaze, his momentum visibly weakened.

"Grandfather hit me with a shoe......."

Guben seized the opportunity to add fuel to the fire, handing the evidence to Grandma.

Seeing the shoe, Grandma was furious: "The shoe your stinky feet wore, three meters away it can give me a headache, and you still dare to take it off and hit Xiao Bin......"

"Pfft."

Guben hid behind Grandma, unable to hold back his laughter and sprayed it out.

"Is it really that smelly?"

Grandfather, emboldened by the wine, muttered in dissatisfaction, then took off his other shoe, held it to his nose, and sniffed.

"Xiao Bin, don't mind him."

Grandma couldn't bear to look, threw the shoe back at her old partner, and pulled her grandson back into the room: "Grandma made you mung bean soup, let's go back to the room and drink mung bean soup......"

"Okay."

Guben agreed while holding back his laughter, acting exceptionally well-behaved and obedient in front of Grandma.

One old and one young entered the room hand in hand, and in the blink of an eye, no one was left in the small courtyard.

"Little rascal, a belly full of evil thoughts, all used to fight with family."

Grandfather laughed in anger, put on his own shoes, leaned back on the lounge chair under the tree shade, closed his eyes while enjoying the cool breeze.

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Guben, like Lin Xiyu, grew up in the Old City District with his grandfather and grandmother since childhood. Children in the Old City District attended nearby schools, going to Daminghu Primary School.

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

The four had compatible temperaments, shared interests, and similar statures, growing up together from elementary school through high school, inseparable; those who didn't know the truth would mistake them for biological brothers.

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

Qu Peng's grandfather and parents were all police officers, and he had aspired to be a police officer since childhood, vowing to carry on the family tradition of police service.

Li Liang's father was in the Hujun, and his mother had been sent down to the countryside in RZ City in earlier years, becoming a public school teacher, and had never been able to transfer back.

The couple lived apart in two places for a long time; his mother didn't want her son to suffer with her in the countryside, so she sent him back to his hometown to be cared for by his grandparents.

Li Liang also grew up with the elderly since childhood, and opportunities to see his parents throughout the year were few and far between.

Wang Fan's parents had flexible minds; after reform and opening up, seeing business opportunities, they resigned to go into business, opened a company, operated a building materials business, and became among the first to get rich and eat the crab.

With good family economic conditions, he was also very flashy, riding a Jinan Light Rider brand Wild Horse motorcycle worth 5400 yuan all day, showing off, violating school rules by entering and leaving the campus.

Unsurprisingly, he became a thorn in the Academic Affairs Director's side, and he was the one named and criticized at every school assembly.

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The Pump Spring Program Crew moved their location in the afternoon to film at Wangfu Pool.

Lin Xiyu was still wearing the blue waist-cinched denim dress she had worn at home in the morning; facing the camera, she was poised and confident, reciting the prepared script word for word without missing a single character.

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

"The two characters 'Zhuoying' are taken from 'Mencius Gaozi I': 'The clear waters of Canglang, I can use to wash my cap ribbon,' named after this sentence."