lost summer

Walking to the door, I found that besides Guofeng and Jiajun, Xiaoying and Weihong were also there.They were still chatting under the corner just now.Xiaoying and Wei Hong saw me and greeted me, I smiled and ran to the middle of them.

My friends and I wandered to the street, it was noisy and there were no children.I suggested: "It's too noisy here, let's go to a quiet place to play?" Guofeng said: "I thought so too." A neighborhood with few people.Because of its remote location, few people come here.

It is close to 2 o'clock at this time, which is the hottest time of the day.The sound of cicadas became louder and louder. Even walking by the wall and under the shade of trees, we were all sweating.

We talked while walking, and I asked Xiaoying and Wei Hong, "Have you two brought sandbags?" They shook their heads.

Going on to a big tree, I said to my friends, "How about we play hide and seek."

"Okay, okay." Guofeng was the first to agree, and then the remaining three also agreed.

"It can't be too far away, it can only be within 200 meters from here." Xiaoying said.

"No problem!" I said loudly.

A few of us gathered around to guess the boxing game. Because of the slow response, Jia Jun, who usually always loses in the boxing game, lost the first time.I was secretly happy, and ran away with the remaining three friends laughing.Turning around secretly, I saw Jia Jun facing the wall, counting: "1, 2, 3..."

While trotting, I chose a path from the side of the three friends, and then followed this path back to the corner just now.I hid behind the bushes on the side of the road, listening to Jiajun counting the numbers, and then listening carefully, I felt that Jiajun's footsteps were getting farther and farther away from me until I couldn't hear them.

I nimbly came out of the bushes and went back to Jiajun Shushu, which is where we agreed to meet.This small road with residential buildings on both sides is empty on the ground, and there is no one there.The sun is scorching hot, so I won't stand here stupidly.According to the original plan, I came to the edge of the wall, climbed on the branches, stepped on the place where I could step on the wall, and performed my usual wall-climbing skills, and quickly climbed to the top of the wall.This wall is really a good place for Tibetans, surrounded by branches full of leaves, it is difficult to see the inside from the outside.I proudly stood on the top of the wall, followed the gaps in the leaves, and saw not far away, Wei Hong didn't seem to have found a place to hide, and was bent over, trotting along the bushes in a hurry.Seeing her, I couldn't help but want to laugh.Tired of watching, I just squatted down on the wall and played with the ants crawling all over the wall.

Because the top of the wall is not very wide, although my feet are small, I am still a little afraid that I will accidentally fall down.I grabbed the branch next to me with one hand, and broke a small branch with the other to tease the ants.

The air was hot and dry, and time passed slowly. 1 minute, 2 minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes passed...my partner still couldn't find the place.My legs are numb from squatting, even if I don't go down to have a look, I still need to change my position.I turned around, facing the side of the house, and was about to grab the top of the wall and jump off, but without anyone noticing, I suddenly wanted to stand up and see if my little friend was nearby.

I stood up, and the moment I got up, I felt like I was unconscious, and my mind went black.For a while, the world was spinning, and the center of gravity was unsteady and fell to the wall.At that time, I didn't know the concept of "postural hypotension". This was the first time I fainted because of this, and it happened in a very dangerous place.

During the rapid fall in mid-air, my right arm and calf were scratched by a tree branch, and I only felt burning pain, and then fell heavily on the ground on the other side.

Fortunately, the fence was not high, and it happened to fall on the grass. It didn't fall hard, but it still hurt.

I sat on the ground, endured the pain in my feet, and slowly turned my right arm around, only to see a gash a few centimeters long had been cut on the back of my little arm, and bright red blood flowed out from the wound.I picked up the trousers again and looked at it, only to see that there was also a wound on my calf.The moment I saw it, I started to feel a burning pain.

I raised my head and began to look around this strange place.Not far away, there is an elegant villa residence with pale pink exterior walls. In the nearby courtyard, various flowers and plants are planted, and the flowers and plants are all carefully taken care of.I think this family should be very rich.

"Who?" Just as I was thinking, a man's voice suddenly came from not far away.I felt the man coming out of the house and walking in my direction in the courtyard.

My heart was pounding.But because of the numbness and pain in my body, I didn't have the strength to escape, and besides, how could I escape in this closed yard.My mother taught me to be brave when I was a child, so I might as well just tell that person the truth.

I stood up slowly while leaning on the wall, and the clear sunlight flashed quickly on my face and clothes.

I was wearing a dull dark blue top and baggy trousers.

Neither tall nor short, with a slender figure, under the short black hair is a delicate and childish face, with bright eyes, exquisite facial features, slightly parted lips, and the brows are full of the unique heroic spirit of a teenager.

I think this is the first time he saw me.

I looked at the man who suddenly appeared in front of me. He was almost a head taller than me, about 1.7 meters, in his 30s, wearing clean clothes, short hair, no beard on his face, and handsome features.The whole person looks gentle and elegant, but there is a trace of strangeness in his eyes that cannot be concealed.There was a gleam of light in his eyes, which made me feel the joy in his heart.

There was no storm as imagined, he calmly walked towards me and asked gently: "Little friend, did you fall from the wall?"

Seeing his benevolent look, the big stone in my heart fell to the ground.Fortunately, this family is not a bad-tempered aunt, otherwise I would just be scolded and kicked out.

I nodded hastily, and then replied: "Yes."

I faintly feel that he has a magical power that makes me want to get close, and a kind of intimacy that makes people feel warm and comfortable.We have never met each other, but there is a feeling of deja vu.

Every encounter in the world is a reunion after a long absence.Perhaps, we have met in a previous life?

I continued to look at him, and then took the initiative to say: "Uncle, you are the owner of this house, right? When I was playing hide-and-seek just now, I hid in the canopy on the wall, and then accidentally fell in."

He smiled and said: "You don't need to tell me, I can guess." Seeing that my grin seemed to hurt, he put away his smile again, and said in a serious tone: "It's okay, don't be afraid. You can see that your hands are injured, let me take you in and bandage them."

He said and put his hand on my shoulder.A feeling of electric shock spread all over my body.

"Let go, I'll go by myself..." I said.

"Okay." He took his hand off my shoulder.

I dragged my painful body and followed him to the house.The first floor of his house is a large living room, clean and tidy, with complete furniture decoration.I walked behind him, walked up the wooden stairs by the wall to the second floor, and came to the man's room.

His room is about 34 square meters. On the left side of the door is a large cabinet against the wall, and on the right side of the cabinet is a large bookshelf, which is tens of centimeters higher than the cabinet.There is a big bed in the middle on the right, which is much more luxurious than the bed in my house.Next to the bed was a door leading to a small side room.The furniture inside is all in brown tones, antique and full of book aroma.Opposite me, farthest from me, is a very large window, on both sides of the window, light yellow curtains are tied very well.There is a desk in front of the window, on which there is only a pen holder, a book and a pen beside the book, nothing else.Strong sunlight shines in through the windows, and the tabletop reflects white light.

"Sit down." I followed him to the desk by the window, and he pointed to the chair beside him.

I walked over and sat down directly on the chair.

Then he went to the side room to get a glass of water, and with a towel and a basin, he returned to the room and looked for the medicine kit in the drawer under the big cabinet against the wall.

Enduring the pain, I stood up from the chair and looked out the window.The courtyard downstairs was empty except for the flowers, plants and shrubs that filled the courtyard. On the street not far away, a few pedestrians hurried past.I think of my little friend.Are they still looking for me?

"Little friend, what's your name? I forgot to ask you." He lowered his head and took out the medicine box, then turned to me and said.

"Xiaohe, the river of the river, that's what my parents call me." I blurted out.

"Is there 'river' in your name?" he asked.

I smiled and said, "Yeah."

"By the way, uncle, don't you have an aunt in your family?" I asked a little embarrassedly.

"Oh, she went to another city last year, but she's gone now..." I looked sad at him.

"Ah? I'm sorry uncle, I shouldn't ask this question." I said quickly.

"It's okay." He stood up, came to me with the medicine kit, squatted down in front of me, and looked up along my legs.

"By the way, uncle, what's your name?" I asked naively.

"My name is He Yuncheng." He said calmly.

"Hello, Uncle Yuncheng." I said cheerfully.

He looked up at me and said with a smile, "Haha, how cute."

I smiled hey.

He stood up and said to me, "Xiao He, raise your arms up now."

"Yeah." As I spoke, I raised my arm and found it a little painful.He gently scrubbed the wound with a wet towel, and then rubbed some medicine on it.

"Uncle Yuncheng, it hurts so much." I could not help shouting as I felt waves of cold pain in my arm.

"It will be fine soon." He continued rubbing the medicine and said while looking at my arm.

After applying the medicine, he slowly wrapped up the wound with gauze.

"Xiao He, where else are you injured?" Yun Cheng asked me.He frowned slightly, with a slight seriousness on his face.This reminds me of my dad, men of this age, seriously, they all look the same.

"Oh, and the calf was also scratched." I replied slowly.

At this time, I saw his shoulders tremble slightly, as if his body twitched inadvertently and unconsciously, not deliberately.I looked at his pants, and there was something different.

He knelt down slowly in front of me.He gently rolled up my trouser legs, and my white, hairless, slender legs suddenly appeared in front of Yun Cheng.When he saw my jade-white calves, his body trembled even more.He must not have known that I had spotted this slight change in him.At this time, I saw again that a breeze was blowing in from the window, and the light yellow curtains swayed slightly in the wind.On the side of my calf, there was a wound three to four centimeters long, with blood oozing out, which was very conspicuous.Yuncheng put the wet towel back into the washbasin, washed it, and then came back to wipe the wound.

"Does it hurt?" he asked softly.

"Okay." I replied blankly.

Soon, after bandaging my wound, he said, "Okay. You can come down and walk."

"How's it going?"

I got off the chair and took a few steps, and said, "Although it still hurts, it will get better gradually."

"Soon, I rubbed the medicine on you, and you will be fine in a few days." He said.

I sat down on the chair again, looked at him and asked, "Uncle Yuncheng, can I stay at your house for a while?"

"Why?" A trace of doubt flashed in his eyes.

"I was playing hide-and-seek with others, and it was stipulated that I could only hide near here, so that they would not be able to find me." I answered honestly.

He laughed and said, "So that's the case. Of course it's fine."

Seeing that I was still a little cautious, he said, "It's okay, you can treat this place as your own home, there's no need to be so polite."

"Ah."

After listening to him, I felt a lot more relaxed. I stood up, turned around, walked to the bed on the left, and lay down on his bed with my hands stretched out.The sunlight outside the window slanted in, with the green breath of midsummer, leaving a bright light on the ground not far away.

"Xiao He, do you like reading?" Yun Cheng sat down by the bed, looked at me and said.

"I like it. My favorite leisure activity is reading. When I was young, my parents always told me stories before I went to bed. Monkey King, Zhu Bajie, □□, □□, Cowherd and Weaver Girl, Chang'e Flying to the Moon, everything."

"Really?" He smiled, walked to the big cabinet, opened the bottom drawer with a key, and saw many books neatly arranged in the drawer.

I supported the bed with both hands and jumped up. Because my feet hurt a little, I walked slowly to Yuncheng's side.

"Uncle, you have so many books. It's been a long, long time since I saw so many books." I said to him.

He said: "You can take it if you want to see it, uncle allows you."

I picked a book with a meaningful name from it, and flipped through it.

"Do you understand?" Yun Cheng asked me with a smile.

I shook my head.He said to me: "Look at this book. It's a domestic translation of a famous foreign novel. Even I find it awkward. Let me choose one for you."

I took the book he handed me, turned and went back to bed.

"Uncle, do you live alone now? Don't you have any children?" I asked.

He said to me, "Yeah, no kids."

"But, you are 30 years old, why don't you have children..." I asked.

"Actually, this is a very normal way of life in the West. Many people choose not to have children. I don't know if you can understand it at such a young age."

"Of course I can understand, I'm almost 13 years old, not too young."

Yuncheng smiled lightly, and said to me again: "Xiaohe, how long have you been in this city?"

"I was born here," I said.

He said: "This world is very big. I lived in the West when I was young, but now I come back and regret it. Hey."

I vaguely understood what he meant, and froze for a moment.He looked at me and said with a smile: "In foreign countries, I can say what I want to say, but here, I can only hold it in my heart. In the end, I even forgot what I wanted to say. Wasted a lot of my thoughts , but nothing can be done.”

He continued: "I believe that we literati are the root of social turmoil, so we carried out an attack to imprison our people's thoughts..."

I felt his voice choked up.This is my uncle's voice from the bottom of my heart, every word sounds so uncomfortable.

I put the book down slowly and lay down on the bed.

"Uncle, are you alone?" I looked at the ceiling and said suddenly.

He smiled lightly and said, "I don't feel it anymore after getting used to it. Why do you ask this question?"

I said sadly: "I feel lonely now, because my favorite parents went away a few days ago, and grandpa said that it will take a long time to come back."

I saw that Yuncheng didn't speak, but listened to me very attentively, responded silently, then got up, walked to the window and quietly closed the curtains.I sat on the bed and looked at his back. I felt that he was so tall. I might not be as tall as him until I was seventeen or eighteen.As soon as he closed the curtains, the light in the room became much darker. The blurred sunlight shone on the curtains, and the room was very quiet, with fine dust suspended in the air.

He came back to me and told him his own story in a quiet, flat voice.

Looking at his expression, listening to his voice, I feel his mood is constantly sinking.

"Sometimes, I feel like I'm on a ship of no return. I can't go back, and I can't wait for the end. I can't wait, I really want to die."

"No, uncle!" I blurted out and grabbed his arm, "I don't want you to die, you are such a nice person, how can you think like that?"

He looked at me and smiled reluctantly.

"You are so cute, just like when I was a teenager. I hope you will never grow up, never have to face the adult world, and face things that you don't want to face but have to face."

"Well." I said.

I saw the clock hanging on the wall on the cabinet opposite, and more than half an hour had passed.I immediately got off the bed and said to him: "Uncle Yuncheng, I'm about to go down, my friends are probably looking for me."

I chuckled: "Although I won this time, they must be angry that I've been 'missing' for so long."

He also stood up from the bed and said, "Xiaohe, can I hug you?"

I said naively: "Yes."

I was standing there, and he came to my side, a head taller than me.He lowered his head and hugged me tightly, a warm feeling spread to me.He looked directly into my eyes with his eyes, his face was almost touching mine, and the hot air from his nostrils made me so nervous that I was about to suffocate.In this dark and quiet room, there was a strong breath.At that moment, I felt that I had fallen in love with him.