lost summer

The sun was scorching, and the cicadas were singing endlessly.Under the shade of the trees at the intersection of the old street, two boys and two girls walked together, kicking small stones while bowing their heads and talking.

"Hey, look, isn't that Xiaohe?" The sharp-eyed Wei Hong quickly saw me not far away.

"Yes, that's him." Jia Jun also saw me.

"Hey, Xiaohe. Come here!" Wei Hong shouted to me.

I ran up to them out of breath.Standing in front of them, I felt a lot of sweat on my body.The heat is the primary cause, and tension is the secondary cause.

"Hey, where are you hiding? We searched for so long but couldn't find it. It's a foul if you go beyond this area." Wei Hong said to me.

I scratched my head in embarrassment, then pointed to the tree that I fell from just now, and said, "Here, I'm hiding on that tree."

They looked at the direction of my finger almost at the same time, then turned to me and said, "No wonder we couldn't find you!"

"By the way, why did you walk a bit awkwardly just now, did you fall?" the kind and caring Xiaoying asked me.

I thought for a while, and said, "I fell a little when I got off the wall just now."

"Ah? Are you okay?" Guofeng, who usually plays the best with me, asked.

"It's okay, it's just a skin trauma." I smiled lightly.

"Oh, it's been so long before I know it, let's go home quickly, or the family will be worried." Jia Jun said.

"Then let's go back." Xiaoying looked at us and said.

"Well." I said.

A few of us walked towards home, talking one after another.

Despite being accompanied by friends, I still feel that childhood is long and boring.Sometimes in the past, I sat with them in the pavilion on the top of the hill outside the city, looking at the city below the hill that we have lived in for many years, shrouded in a suppressed restlessness, as if it would explode at any time.Looking up at the blue sky, the white clouds are as soft as cotton candy, fluttering and disappearing. I only feel that childhood is long and life is long.The wind around us messed up the skirts one after another, and gently scraped across our youthful and childish faces without leaving any traces.

I bid farewell to those little friends at an intersection near my home, and I walked towards home alone.At this time, the scorching sun has been hanging high for a day, and the earth is absorbing the heat of the sun to its fullest. It should be the hottest moment of the day.My back was drenched with sweat, and I thought about taking off my clothes as soon as I got home, and taking a quick shower. When the sun went down, I would sit under the tree in the yard to enjoy the shade and eat with my grandpa. I feel refreshed.

"Grandpa, I'm back!" When I reached the door, I shouted bouncingly, ran into the house, and came to grandpa.I saw grandpa with his eyes closed, leaning against the back of the sofa, motionless, looking lazy.

"Grandpa!" I laughed mischievously, put one hand in front of Grandpa and shook it quickly a few times and said, "Grandpa, get up and play with me for a while."

Grandpa didn't even open his eyes, he just said something perfunctory to me: "Xiaohe, let grandpa take a nap again. Just wake me up at five o'clock and cook."

"It's five o'clock in ten minutes!" I said, looking at the clock on the wall.

"Grandpa is getting old, I just want to rest more, you go to the room and play for a while." Grandpa continued.

I took one more look at Grandpa and sighed, "Well, that's boring! I went back to my room and slammed the door shut.

There seemed to be a huge dark cloud coming from the sky outside, and the sky darkened a lot in an instant, and the whole world turned into a rich and quiet gray-blue, as if there were thick particles flowing smoothly in the field of vision.Anyway, it was almost evening, and I went to the desk and lowered the curtains of the window, only a little light seeped in from the corner and shone on the wall.

Because the weather was too hot, I took off my coat and put it at the foot of the bed, then sat down by the bed and slowly pulled up my trouser legs.In the dim light, I saw clearly the piece of white gauze that Uncle Yuncheng wrapped for me today, and touched it lightly with my fingers.The cold pain spread slowly.

I said in my heart, "Should I tell Grandpa?"

I think of my parents' entrustment, I am already a man.Why should I tell my grandfather about this little injury, and make him worry about me?I lay down on the bed, picked up the fan next to the pillow, and shook it to myself.In the sweltering summer, even the wind is hot.I got up from the bed, went to the window and opened the curtains to the maximum to let the air in the room circulate.

Before I knew it, I fell asleep.I dreamed that I came to an unknown age, flying around in the sky on auspicious clouds, and the same city was under my feet, but it had already changed its appearance.A wind blew up and I fell from the sky when I heard a faint knock on the door.

"Xiaohe, Xiaohe! Grandpa has cooked dinner, hurry up and eat."

I rubbed my eyes, my brain was still in a chaotic state, my body was a little stiff and I walked to the door, and said to the door: "Okay, Grandpa."

When I came to the dining table next to the living room and saw two small dishes and two bowls of rice on the table, I couldn't help but think of my parents.At this time last week, our family was still eating and chatting at the same table, but now there are only two of us, grandpa and grandson, left in the family.I said to my grandpa: "Grandpa, you should rest when you are old, teach me how to cook!"

Grandpa looked at me lovingly and laughed: "Our Xiaohe has really grown up and is sensible. Grandpa is only in his 60s now, and he can still do things. I will teach you when grandpa can't cook anymore. "

I put down my chopsticks, stood up, went to my grandpa, took his hand and said, "No, grandpa, just teach me."

Grandpa smiled and said, "Okay, starting at noon tomorrow, I will teach Xiaohe how to cook."

"Thank you, Grandpa!" I said happily, then went back to the table, picked up the chopsticks and continued eating.

After eating, the sky darkened suddenly, and black began to cover the earth.I moved a small stool and sat on my grandfather's in the courtyard, both of us were shaking cattail fans.The crickets in the corner began to call non-stop. In such a sound, I felt a kind of tranquility on the contrary.In the sky, a few stars.

"Grandpa, look there is a star there, it's so bright!" I said.

Grandpa said slowly: "I'm old, my eyes are bad, and I can't see clearly."

I said, "Oh, I forgot."

At this time, outside my house, a figure walked towards the yard.I looked, it was Guofeng, so I left my grandfather and ran to his side.

"Hey, Guofeng." I walked up to him and said with a smile.

He whispered in my ear, "Xiaohe, I'll take you to a place."

"Where?" I asked subconsciously.

"Don't tell me, you'll know when we get there." After Guofeng finished speaking, he hurriedly ran with me.

When I got to the door, I said to him: "Wait, I'll go back and bring a flashlight, in case I can't see the road clearly later, it will be bad."

Guofeng was waiting for me at the door of my house. I quickly came out of the house and started running with Guofeng.

Both of us were wearing sandals at the time, and we ran quickly across the street, leaving a string of crisp sounds on the ground.

I enjoy this joy, the joy of childhood, makes me feel like a little bird.I know that if I grow up, I will no longer be able to run freely and unscrupulously on the street with my friends.

Because we ran very fast, we came to the back hill of our school in less than 10 minutes.There was no one around, it was very quiet.We were walking on the path, and when we reached an intersection, Guofeng mysteriously dragged me to the side of a bush, then bent down and squatted down.

I asked, "Why didn't you leave?"

Guofeng smirked, stretched out his index finger and gave a little "shh", and then said to me, "You also squat down and look across the bushes."

Although I was afraid that he would take the opportunity to tease me, I still listened to him this time because I heard someone talking.I squatted down and looked ahead through some of the larger gaps in the leaves of the bushes.Under a big tree not far away, a girl about 22 or [-] years old and a boy about [-] or [-] years old were doing the same thing.

I was so engrossed that I even forgot the time and place, as if I was suspended in the air, detached from the world.I sneaked a look at Guofeng beside me, he also looked motionless, his face was reddish, and a few beads of sweat came out.

"Xiao He, do you know what they are doing?"

"Of course I know..." I replied with some embarrassment.In fact, I've seen my parents do this kind of thing before, and overheard grown-up conversations.

"What about you?" I asked.

"I know, hehe." Guofeng said.

While talking, I found that the two people were panting.I grabbed Guofeng's arm and said, "Run, they probably have to put on their clothes, and it won't be good if they are discovered later."

Guofeng reacted quickly, stood up, and trotted secretly towards the south of the path and downhill with me.It was already dark at this time, so I turned on the old-fashioned tiger-head flashlight and shone the light on the ground.Looking at the bright light beams, I still think back to the scene just now. Their joyful and soul-stirring makes me feel that it is a kind of human instinct and nature.

We were going down the mountain along the path, and when we reached a fork, I said to Guofeng, "Guofeng, it's hard to come out at night, why don't we go to the top of the mountain." Guofeng thought for a second or two, and said, "Okay, Let's go then." We walked for a few minutes by another path to the top of the hill.Although this back mountain is not as high as the mountain on the outskirts of the city, it can already overlook half of the city.There used to be a temple on the top of the mountain, but it was destroyed because of the "broken four olds", and now only some ruins remain.The black ruins are very desolate.

We came to the open space at the highest point of the mountain, and then went down to the place next to the open space where the top of the mountain connects to the mountainside, and sat down on a grassy slope.Overlooking the dark city, only dots of lights can be seen.Those lights seem to never be connected together, and they will always be separated from each other.The night wind blows from the woods, and I feel a lot cooler.

"Guofeng, do you have someone you like?" I asked.

Guofeng shook his head and said, "No."

I laughed: "Nonsense, I see you have weird eyes every time you see Wei Hong."

Guofeng smiled embarrassedly.

When I got home at night, my grandpa told me to take a shower and go to bed quickly. Children should not go to bed too late.I responded mischievously and ran to take a shower.The weather was very hot, I took a cold shower, after the shower, I went back to the room, the water on my body evaporated quickly, and I felt hot again.

I kept fanning, tossing and turning, but I couldn't fall asleep. There were a lot of messy things in my mind.For example, He Yuncheng, before I met He Yuncheng, I would never have thought that I would have a crush on a mature man in his 30s.