Chapter 21: Gu Zhi, could this be you as a child?
In the photo, there’s a little girl in a floral cotton coat, looking up at the camera with round eyes, yet her eyes are rimmed with red.
It seems she just cried, and she’s still tightly holding a lollipop in her hand.
Han Liheng couldn’t help but laugh when he saw it: "Pfft, Gu Zhi, could this be you when you were little?"
Gu Zhi rolled his eyes at him speechlessly.
[Ah! Is it really Gu Zhi? He was so cute when he was little!]
[Damn, this photo is so adorable that it’s stolen my heart, I’m a fan now.]
Mrs. Qin looked at the photo, then at Gu Zhi, as if it had drawn out some long-lost memories.
She explained: "This photo was taken when Zhi Zhi was four years old. At that time, our family was poor, we didn’t have a camera, and we saved up money for a long time to take her to town for a photo. The clothes she’s wearing were borrowed from the photo studio. That day, when I took her to have her photo taken, she wanted a lollipop from the store. Children, you know, are curious about new things, but we only had enough money for the photo. I coaxed her and said I’d make her one when we got home, but she didn’t want that, she only wanted that lollipop, so she started crying on the spot. She had never cried like that with us before. In the end, we couldn’t bear it, so we bought it on credit from the store, and that was our Zhi Zhi’s first time eating a lollipop."
Mrs. Qin’s voice choked up toward the end.
Because the family was poor, there was no video recording, just this one photo.
Because of poverty, even buying a lollipop had to be on credit.