Outside the south gate of No. 5 Middle School lay a bustling street, lined with countless shops.
Wang Chen had originally planned to catch a bus at the stop up ahead, but he stopped in front of a bicycle shop by the roadside.
"Student, looking to buy a bicycle?"
The owner had just opened the rolling shutter and was about to carry the new bicycles outside for display. Spotting Wang Chen standing there and looking around, he immediately flashed a broad smile.
Wang Chen pointed. "Boss, how much is that bike?"
The bicycle shop owner looked in the direction Wang Chen was pointing and froze. "Huh? You want that one?"
What Wang Chen had pointed at was, astonishingly, an "antique"-grade 28-inch roadster!
"That's right!"
This kind of bicycle had been wildly popular for decades in the last century. At first, its status in people's minds had been no less than that of today's BBA cars, but with the march of time, it had long since been phased out.
Only some elderly people and those with a nostalgic streak still kept them around.
For a teenage boy like Wang Chen to ignore all those brightly colored mountain bikes and set his sights on a 28-inch roadster was truly rare.
At least, the shop owner had never seen anything like it. He could not help laughing. "This bike is the treasure of my shop!"
Of course, calling it the treasure of the shop was a joke. In truth, his father had bought this 28-inch roadster from someone at the beginning of the year. After riding it once, he had nearly broken his bones in a fall.
So the owner had tossed it into the shop, waiting to see if some sucker would buy it.
And one really had appeared!
Wang Chen could