As Chen Dabe washed the wild peaches, he squatted by the water's edge, his feet in the stream and his hands moving through the water. For some reason, a feeling stirred in his heart.
He had grown up in the countryside, where there had been no real fun when he was a child. All he could do was catch loaches in the fields, feel around for fish in the village river, and splash about with his friends.
But those had been the happiest times, too. They were childhood days, and summer was the happiest season of all.
As the years passed and the pressure mounted, it wasn't just the neglected fields that disappeared. The joys of childhood had faded from his memory, too.
Now, just washing a wild peach had brought back those childhood memories of playing in the water.
It was rather inexplicable.
Chen Dabe had no idea that the +3 Water Play Fun attribute was taking effect.
He could only sigh that he was getting older and had reached an age when he grew sentimental.
Unable to resist, Chen Dabe plunged his hand into the water and held it edge-on, trying to cut off the current.
Hadn't everyone done something so childish as a kid? They thought their little hands could stop the flow. Then they grew up and learned that drawing a blade across water only made it flow faster. They lost that childishness, and something else along with it.
As he kept trying to block the current, Chen Dabe found himself smiling again. There was something fun about revisiting the silly things he used to do. If his boss hadn't been there, he might even have jumped into the little lake.
Clearly, the +3 Water Play Fun attribute was taking effect.
Chen Dabe tamped down the