"Then come play with me!" she told him to put down all the bags, "When we were kids, there was an arcade on Hongliu Road, and after school, it was always packed with boys."
"I know," he had attended school there for a few years.
Tu Hengsha laughed, "Back then, there were always naughty boys who played games until they forgot to go home, and then their parents would come looking for them with sticks. It was hilarious. Oh, and there were boys who asked me to cover for them—my mom's students—asking me to lie, saying my mom kept them to do homework."
He found it amusing as he listened, "Did you help them?"
"Haha, they slipped me candy, so I did!" Tu Hengsha burst into laughter, "Does that make me a little bad?"
He secretly imagined the scene: a dirty, sweaty boy slipping two pieces of candy into her tiny hands, both threatening and tempting, "Remember to lie for me! Or I won't buy you candy next time!"
Suddenly, there was a hint of longing in his eyes.
