my summer

The sudden appearance of the summer solstice made the little me worry and scared.

Although my parents are divorced, I have always been their treasure from the beginning to the end, enjoying their unique love without any scruples.But now, will the love from my father be taken away by the summer solstice?Even if it is only a small part, it is a loss that cannot be ignored for me.

Therefore, I couldn't accept the existence of the summer solstice at first.My subconscious mind told me that my father would love Xia Zhi out of his love for Aunt Sun.Then his love for me would be incomplete.

I have a sense of loss from disgrace.

There was a river in the outskirts near the cement factory. At that time, the water was still clear, the water flow was neither fast nor deep, and the bottom of the river was full of large and small pebbles.Every summer my dad would take me there to swim.

After dinner that day, Dad asked Aunt Sun to pack up our change of clothes and towels, and prepared to take Xia Zhi and me to swim in the river.

"Can summer solstice swim?" Dad asked him.

"Know how to do dog planing." Xia Zhi replied with a smile.

"Haha, Yang Yang only knew how to plan with a dog at first," Dad said, "It's okay, uncle will teach you breaststroke and freestyle slowly."

"Okay." Xia Zhi nodded.

Dad put the clothes bag into the basket in front of the bicycle, then turned to look at me and Xia Zhi, "Which one of you will sit in the front? Or rock-paper-scissors, whoever wins will sit in the front."

I don't want to sit in the front!The so-called front is the horizontal bar in front of the most classic [-]-style bicycle seat of the old model. You can only sit sideways, which hurts your butt.Once I sat out of curiosity, and then the curiosity was completely dispelled.

For the first time, I expected myself to lose.However, luck is often the most unreliable thing, and it will come when you don't want it to come.

I decided to deny it, "I don't want to sit in the front, I want to sit in the back."

"You win, you sit in the front." Xia Zhi refused to give in.

Dad looked at the two of us, and said helplessly, "That's okay, let's all sit in the back. Xia Zhi, you are thin, you sit in the middle, and Yang Yang sits in the back."

I was still a little unhappy, but if the noise continued, the swimming time would be shortened, so I had to obediently sit behind Xia Zhi.

"Xiazhi, hold my waist tightly, Yangyang, hold Xia Zhi's waist tightly, the road is not very flat, so hold on tight, if you fall, you will bleed a lot." Dad gave the last warning before leaving.

At first I refused to hug Xia Zhi's waist, I just grabbed the hem of his clothes with both hands.The wheels rolled forward on the gravel road, bouncing back and forth. I clenched my hands tightly, but my center of gravity was still unstable, and my body wobbled.

I don't want to bleed. If I bleed, I can't swim in the water.So I pounced forward and hugged Xia Zhi's waist tightly, my head was almost on his shoulder.

"Itchy..." Xia Zhi tilted his head slightly and whispered.

It turned out that my hair had touched his face.

With an idea, I smuggled my head into the socket of his neck.Hmph, it won't kill you.

Xia Zhi simply turned his head to the side, stuck it on Dad's back, and pointed the back of his head towards me.

That's my dad's back!

I felt sore, and my hands started to tickle his side abdomen.He swayed from side to side and struggled.

"Sit down and don't move around, or you will wrestle together." Dad shouted hastily.

Well, swimming is a big deal, and the rest will be put aside for the time being.I honestly didn't move, and neither did the summer solstice.

When I got to the river, I took off my clothes and pants, and dived into the water naked.

"Yangyang, slow down and swim carefully." Dad's voice came from the shore.

I didn't have time to answer, so I dived to the bottom of the river in a jerk.The water is so cool, the heat of the whole day disappeared without a trace in an instant.

Like a small fish, I shuttled freely in the river, sinking down to the bottom of the river to touch the pebbles for a while, and sticking out of the water to look at the orange sky in the distance.

Not far away, my dad is teaching summer solstice breaststroke swimming, explaining and guiding me with the same patience as before.

I swam to them and stared blankly.

After a while, Xia Zhi was able to swim forward by herself without the help of her father.Tsk, you learn faster than me.I continued to swim with displeasure.

While swimming, I accidentally hit something with my hand, it was soft and slippery.I surfaced, stood on my feet, wiped the water on my face, and it turned out to be the summer solstice.

"Why are you standing here? Don't get in my way." I said.

"Don't touch me!" Xia Zhi gritted her teeth and shouted.

"Who wants to touch you?" I said angrily.

Xia Zhi's expression seemed to be a little uncomfortable, and he seemed to be holding back. After a while, he heaved a sigh of relief and said, "I just had cramp in my calf, but it's fine now."

"Oh." I replied lightly, intending to continue swimming, just took a deep breath, paused, exhaled again, turned my head and said to Xia Zhi: "Remember to warm up before going into the water next time, but not every day Everyone, like me, doesn't need a warm-up and never gets a cramp."

"...Oh." Xia Zhi said.

The sky gradually darkened, and under my father's urging, I reluctantly returned to the shore, wiped it casually with a towel, and put on my clothes.Xia Zhi had already finished dressing, sitting on the grass by the river in a daze.

"Go, let's go home." Dad said, "Come back another day."

The seats on my way back were the same as when I came here, I didn't express any objection, and I didn't have any interest in teasing the summer solstice.All strength and spirit were gone.

When I got home, I lay down on the bed and fell asleep in less than three seconds.As for whether Xia Zhi has adapted to the environment for falling asleep, I have no time to think about it, and I am too lazy to think about it.Whether it fits or not, what does it matter to me?

In addition to swimming, there is another skill that my father taught me before and now I am going to teach Xia Zhi, and that is riding a bicycle, and it is a [-]-style bicycle.Because there is only such a bicycle at home.

This is my dad's main means of transportation when he goes out, and it is also the first bicycle I will ride.

Originally, my father said that he would give me a Phoenix brand children's bicycle on my birthday, but when I saw the price tag, it actually exceeded his one-month salary, so he hesitated.My mother is capable of buying me a bicycle, but she said that she will buy it after I enter junior high school. She is worried that I will ride a bicycle all over the street at a young age.

I don't care, it's just a bike, and it doesn't make any difference.

I'm relatively tall, and I can't sit on the seat completely. I can only stand upright and ride with my legs on the pedals.Xia Zhi couldn't even cross the horizontal bar, so he could only stretch one leg under the bar. He could only switch feet after half a circle of the pedal, and couldn't complete a full circle.

Dad kept his hands on the back seat of the car and walked or trotted behind.

I looked at my father's busy figure and sweaty back, and thought to myself, did he do the same when I was learning to bike last year?Hey, it's really hard for him.

On the third day of learning, my dad followed suit and quietly let go of his hand. Xia Zhi still pedaled happily, and the car walked very steadily.Before he knew it, he learned to ride a bicycle.

I have to admit the fact that Xia Zhi has a very flexible mind and learns things very quickly.

But when it comes to food, I am not at all willing to show weakness.

Drawing on the experience of chicken legs last time, my dad simply stopped buying freshly killed chickens and bought frozen chicken legs, and bought them according to the number of people in the family, two per person, and divided them equally.In this way, the accident of scrambling for chicken legs can be completely avoided from happening again.

But what about the other legs?For example, I also love the frog legs.

Yes, you read that right, field frogs were common when I was a kid.Dad occasionally goes to catch some and comes back to add food.I know that eating beneficial insects like frogs is immoral, but it used to be commonplace.At that time, no one realized that the frog would be eaten one day.

Divide the frog into four parts, stir-fry the meat with some green onion, ginger and garlic, it's delicious!

Wild frogs vary in size, and their legs naturally vary in size.Every time Dad clips a frog leg for Xia Zhi, he will immediately clip one for me.I wouldn't be happy if my frog legs were smaller than Xia Zhi's.This is a bit difficult for Dad, not only to find the frog's legs from a plate of ingredients, but also to pay attention to its size.

I don't care that much.Since you can't enjoy your father's love alone, you must have basic fairness after all.

The author has something to say: the taste of frogs, um, is better than bullfrogs, ho ho