Twelve-year-old Li Yangyang hates three words the most: "Waiting for you to grow up."
He wanted to take the bus to his grandma's house alone, but his mother said, "Wait until you grow up." He wanted to go to bed at ten o'clock in the evening, but his father said, "Wait until you grow up." He doesn't understand, is growing up a door or a wall?
Until that evening, a butterfly with shimmering golden wings landed on his fingertips, leading him through the old streets under the plane trees and turning into an alley that never existed.
At the end of the alley, there is a shop——
Time store.
There is everything in the store, but there seems to be nothing. The mysterious and kind old man said with a smile: "This store only accepts one currency - time. You can use your own time to exchange for the time of anyone in the world."
"Yangyang, you want to grow up so much, aren't you curious about what the adult world is like? As long as you give one second, you can buy a long time for others."
The ignorant Li Yangyang began to exchange time for money. He walked into one piece after another of other people's stories——
He saw Grandma Wang's wife next door lying on the hospital bed and said, "The person I owe the most in this life is you";
He saw his deskmate, who had low self-esteem because of his mother's early death, secretly draw a portrait of his mother, tear it up in tears after drawing it;
He saw the head teacher looking at the photo of his son who was working away from home, waiting for a call that would never come home on time;
He saw his mother leaning on the sofa after finishing her housework every day, looking out the window like a bird in a cage;
He saw his father still working overtime late at night, rubbing his sore waist and staring blankly at the family photo on his phone...
Every second of effort made Li Yangyang feel cold in his heart. He finally understood that sentence——
An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, and the time lost will never come back.
He doesn't want to grow up or change.
He ran back to the alley and knocked desperately on the non-existent door.
"Boss! I want my time back!"
However, the time store disappeared.
It's like it never happened.
Only that butterfly rested under the empty wall, its wings shining like gold.
Purpose: live a good life