my summer

On summer nights, in addition to squatting at home watching TV or inviting people to play mahjong, residents of Tongzilou enjoy the cool air collectively in the open space downstairs.

At that time, square dancing was not yet popular, and the only sounds that could be heard were the chattering of adults and the noise of children.

After the sun sets, the night has just fallen, and when it is getting dark, the adults who have had dinner will move out the small stools from their homes and put them downstairs. Groups of five gathered together to do homework.

The big cattail fan is definitely a magic tool to repel mosquitoes. Almost everyone has one. If you are unfortunate enough to be greeted by mosquitoes, it’s okay. You can always carry essential oils or cooling oils in your pockets.

We children will shuttle between the stools of the adults, chasing and running, making a lot of noise.From time to time, I snatched the big cattail fan from the adult's hand, fanned it vigorously a few times, and after getting a short period of coolness, I continued to run around.

Of course, there are times when children are allowed to sit still, and that is when watching outdoor movies.

In order to enrich the spare time life of the workers, the factory occasionally plays open-air movies on the basketball court.I have watched a few of them, most of them are old movies, such as the authentic mine warfare soldier Zhang Ga and so on.Although the movie is old and monotonous, everyone is quite supportive, every time the basketball court is full.

Your family brought frozen watermelon, mine brought boiled peanuts, and his family brought spiced melon seeds. When they exchanged each other, the temporary cinema became a tea party.After watching the movie, when cleaning up the garbage, I still don’t forget to discuss a few words about the plot just now.

The movie tonight is called "Red Sorghum".

As soon as the fiery red poster was posted, I was deeply attracted.This movie must be wonderful, I thought.

So I pulled Xia Zhi early, ran over with a small stool, and successfully grabbed the front row seat.Dad and Aunt Sun said they didn't want to watch it, and let us both watch it obediently and then go home.

Waiting left and right, finally waiting until the movie started, I wanted to shout out excitedly, but Xia Zhi next to me stopped me in time, so I had no choice but to applaud vigorously to express my full expectation.

I swear, this is definitely the most immersive outdoor movie I have ever seen.Aunt Li who threw it on the third floor forgot to eat a slice of melon that Aunt Li handed over, and it ended up in Xia Zhi's stomach.

To say that the scene of this movie that shocked me the most was not the overwhelming anger, but the savagely growing sorghum field.

When the hero picks up the heroine and shuttles through the overgrown sorghum field, the heroine's constant panting reminds me of that night of spying.In the camera, only the sorghum was left shaking with the wind, shaking and shaking, shaking and shaking, which made my eyes a little dizzy, and my brain also became dizzy.

What are a man and a woman doing in the wilderness in broad daylight?Is it the same as what you do at home in the middle of the night?Being ignorant, I expressed curiosity.At any rate, I'm sure there is some mysterious connection to what I heard that night.

The impact of this scene on me as a young child can be said to be huge, so that whenever I eat food made of sorghum in the future, the sorghum field swaying in the wind will always appear in front of my eyes unconsciously.

Also, I have to admit that I'm much more concerned with the male lead than the female lead.

The heroine is certainly beautiful, with all kinds of flamboyant and domineering wild beauty, but in comparison, the hero left a deeper impression on me.My eyes were fixed on him from the beginning to the end, the strong chest, the strong back, the unruly face, the ruffian smile... If I knew the word "walking hormone" at that time, it must be for men. The best interpretation of the protagonist.

Later, I also realized that something was wrong with me, but I couldn't make a reasonable explanation.

After thinking about it, I can only do self-hypnosis like this:

The male protagonist's charm is too strong, so strong that it not only fascinates the heroine in the film and the female audience outside the film, but also firmly locks the eyes of the same sex.

I don't know if there is anything else in that gaze besides envy and admiration.

When I came home from the movie that day, I took a shower and went to bed, I didn’t fall asleep right away like I usually do.My mind is full of images of the movie and the appearance of the leading actor.

After I flipped it back and forth several times like turning over an omelet, Xia Zhi finally couldn't bear it any longer. He half raised his body, put his hand on my arm, and asked in a low voice, "Yangyang, what's wrong with you?"

"No..." I said in a daze.

"Are you still thinking about the movie just now?" He asked.

"Well..." I said.

He smiled softly, "The movie is quite exciting, I can't forget it all at once."

I looked at him, it was so dark that I couldn't see anything clearly, but I knew where his eyes were, the brightest ones were there.

I really want to tell him what's wrong with me, and let him use his clever little head to analyze and analyze for me to see what's going on.But at the critical moment, I faltered, the words swirled a few times around my mouth, and finally swallowed them whole.I looked at him silently.

"It's getting late, go to sleep." He lay down again, "We still have homework waiting for us tomorrow."

"Oh..." I turned sideways and turned my face to him, "If I can't fall asleep, tomorrow's homework will be all up to you."

"Good idea!" He also turned to me, and flicked my forehead lightly, "Every time I want to be lazy, huh."

"But I can't sleep..." I said.

"Then what?" he asked.

"Or," I thought for a while, "sing me "Lullaby"."

""Lullaby"?" He was a little surprised, "I can't sing..."

"Hey, well... then I'll try counting sheep..." I was disappointed.

"I'll count with you," he said, "a sheep, get ready, start..."

"...two sheep, three sheep, four sheep..." Thankfully, I finally fell asleep when I counted 99 or 190 nine sheep.

As for when Xia Zhi fell asleep, it seems that there are less than thirty sheep and only my own voice is left.Who is hypnotizing whom, baa~~

The author has something to say: fried chicken classic red sorghum! !Wahaha~~