Chapter 380
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The most surprising thing was that she had actually seen the bottle of handmade plastic stars that she had kept in her mother's boudoir!
So, when had Lu Xingzhi been secretly brought to the army? Yet, she had been completely unaware.
There were a few photos under the bottle. The photos were inverted, so Jiang Yao could only see the English words of the film brand behind the photos. However, she could tell that the photos were not old. They had probably been developed for no more than one or two years.
Jiang Yao fiddled with the bottle of plastic stars in her hand for a while. She tried to guess how Lu Xingzhi had brought her boring toys from her school days to the army. Then, she reached out and flipped the photos over.
There was a thick stack of photos. The main character of each photo was a girl. The stack of photos recorded the girl's growth.
Jiang Yao's fingertips gently caressed the photos. Looking at the familiar faces in the photos, she felt an inexplicable lump in her throat. All of these photos were of her.
From the first photo taken when she was five years old to the commemorative photos taken when she graduated from high school, sometimes she was alone, sometimes she was with her parents, her two older brothers, and her classmates. However, she was in every photo.
These photos were not the old ones kept by the Jiang family. Lu Xingzhi had probably taken the negatives from the Jiang family and developed them.
The Jiang family was not very well-off, but Father Jiang and Mother Jiang were well-known in the village for spoiling their children.
At the time, many families had many children and did not have enough to eat or warm clothes. Only the Jiang family would bring their children to the county to play every New Year and take photos as nostalgia.
Jiang Yao's first photo was taken when she was five years old. The girl in the photo had pigtails and was wearing a purple-red flower hair clip that was very popular at the time. Perhaps it was because it was her first photo, but the five-year-old girl looked at the camera cautiously. She stood straight and did not move, but she still looked very cute.
There was a sentence at the back of the photo. Judging from the handwriting, it was Lu Xingzhi's handwriting.
The first time his wife took a photo, she was five years old. After the photo was taken, his wife hugged his mother-in-law and cried. His mother-in-law said that she had to use a bag of candy to coax her.
Jiang Yao remembered this incident, but it wasn't in her mind. Her parents and brother had brought it up when she was sensible. Because of the story behind this photo, she had always been teased by her two brothers for being a coward.
Then there were pictures of her when she was six years old, seven years old, eight years old, all the way until she was nine years old. There was another sentence at the end.
It was his wife's first time performing on stage. She had been vain since she was young. Her lipstick was the reddest among everyone. His mother-in-law said that it was his wife who strongly requested the teacher to make her look prettier.
In the photo, the little girl was wearing a pink princess dress, small white shoes embroidered with a row of small flowers, and white tights. She was bowing to the camera with a lovely smile.
Jiang Yao still remembered this scene clearly.
She even remembered the pair of small white shoes that stood out from the rest of the students. At that time, the teacher only asked her to wear white cloth shoes on stage, but the students in the class tacitly bought the all-white type. Before going on stage, Mother Jiang took her to town to buy shoes. She also asked her to buy a pair of small white shoes. However, she took a fancy to the small white shoes with a little embroidery and wanted to wear them differently from the rest of the students.
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