Years Know Long Summer

The children climbed to the top of the third floor and pushed open the door to the terrace.

In the evening of summer, the golden-purple sunset treats the entire city of Fengcheng equally, making the high-rise buildings on the opposite bank glisten, and also scattered the broken bricks and tiles of the old city.

There is a world that is quite different from downstairs.

Row upon row of houses are connected together, the buildings are crowded together, the roofs are next to the roofs, and the houses on both sides of the alley are connected by illegal shanties and passages, forming a roof world with convenient transportation.

The children are like a group of monkeys descending the mountain, running and jumping agilely and skillfully among the buildings, jumping from one house to the opposite roof, and playing among the sheets and quilts warmed by the sun.

Lin Zhixia looked thin and frail, but her running was no worse than that of local children.He walked at the end because he was not familiar with the terrain, but he never fell behind.

The widest path is almost two meters long, which is not a distance that a half-grown child can easily cross.

Lin Zhixia stood on the edge of the roof and looked down.

With a height of three floors, the unlit alley at dusk is like a deep crack.

"Haha, he can't make it through!" The child on the opposite side giggled.

"Xiao Xia, don't force it." Sun Mingzhu shouted, "Just go downstairs and walk around. We'll wait for you."

Lin Zhixia grabbed her T-shirt, wiped the sweat off her face with the collar, and stepped back to the side of the roof.

The boy's immature face was covered with firm determination, his long eyebrows were raised, and the cat's eyes shone with stubbornness.

Lin Zhixia rushed out, kicked her feet on the edge of the roof, and jumped.

The wide white T-shirt was puffed up, and his slender and flexible body was stretched out. The little boy was like an agile white cat, crossing a difficult ravine in his life and reaching the other side.

His feet landed on the opposite roof, and he rolled on the spot to stabilize himself.

The children burst into wild cheers.

"You can do it, Lin Zhixia!" Sun Mingzhu pulled Lin Zhixia up, "I don't see that there is still some skill. We can take you to play with us in the future!"

Lin Zhixia's elbow scratched a layer of oily skin on the ground, blood oozing from it.

He wiped off his T-shirt and smiled nonchalantly.

The children crossed most of the northern district diagonally, and soon, the sparkling Fengjiang River was ahead.

There is a triangular open space at the estuary of Jinhe River, which is a cultural square in Yongle community, and it is also a holy place for teenagers from the northern and southern districts to fight.

The children occupied a piece of geomantic omen on the roof of the building next to the square, watching dragons and tigers fight from a condescending height.

Sun Mingzhu acted as a commentator, explaining the game to Lin Zhixia, who was from Brother Chai and who was from Zhang Xiaotian, she remembered it better than her own textbook.

Before Lin Zhixia entered the city, she lived in the urban-rural fringe area north of Fengshi, and she had seen too many gang fights, and it was not uncommon.

There was nothing unique about Yong'an's group fight, it was nothing more than two groups of young people swarming up, beating their noses and kicking their stomachs, their fists and kicks were random.

Lin Zhixia also saw some people biting their ears. Could it be that they are not full?

If there is any difference, the fighters are all unarmed and very civilized.I don't know if this is the rule of fighting in the city.

Sun Mingzhu said: "The boss in the southern district said that no one is allowed to fight in Yong'an, and no one is allowed to use knives, sticks and bricks. He said that if the fight is serious, it will not end. So don't look at them fighting so fiercely. It's okay..."

Just as he was talking, a young man refuted Sun Mingzhu's explanation with practical actions.

He suddenly took out a brick for a flower pot from the flower bed, and slapped it on the opponent's head.

The opponent rolled his eyes and fell to the ground with a plop.

This brick can completely reverse the situation of the battle.

While dragging the wounded down, Zhang Xiaotian's men rose violently, chasing and beating Brother Chai's men.

Seeing that something was going wrong, the young man who led by Brother Chai protected the boy who made Brick behind him, and retreated while fighting.

"The one who beat him was the brother-in-law of Brother Chai's second-in-command." Sun Mingzhu sneered, "According to the rules, he must be handed over to Zhang Xiaotian and the others to clean up."

Brother Chai obviously didn't want to make friends.

Just when the two sides were arguing, a figure rushed over from Zhang Xiaotian's side and shot into the crowd like an arrow.

Wherever they passed, people turned on their backs, screaming and screaming.

Before Lin Zhixia and the others saw it clearly, the figure retreated from the crowd again.

It was a thin boy in black, not tall, but his hands and feet were so long that he looked like a bamboo stick man from a distance.

The boy held a steel pipe in one hand, and dragged the brother-in-law fiercely with the other, like a wolf that has caught its prey.

This half-grown child forced no one within a five-meter radius to approach him.

In full view, the boy in black dragged the young man who was a head taller than him to the edge of the river bank, then jumped up, stepped on the young man's chest, turned around 180 degrees and kicked the young man with the back of his foot. face.

The young man couldn't even make a sound, so he was kicked into the golden river!

Jinhe said it was a river, but in the dry season it was just a stinky flood drainage ditch.It is the rainy season now, and the muddy water in the river is rushing towards the river.

The young man thrashed about in the mud soup, crying for his father and mother.Brother Chai's people hurriedly tried to rescue him.

And that young man just stood on the shore, aloof and aloof.

Lin Zhixia has mild myopia, the boy stood far away with his back to the light, he could only vaguely see a pair of thick black sword eyebrows, deep eye sockets, but fair skin.

"Damn it!" Sun Mingzhu whispered, "I really don't want my life!"

Her voice expressed the aspirations of the children on the roof.

The boy in black bent down to pick up the steel pipe, and suddenly turned his head to look towards the roof.

The children retreated in unison, as if they were on fire.

"Hurry up, let's go!" Sun Mingzhu pulled Lin Zhixia, "Sheng Lang has gone crazy again. Don't let him notice!"

In a panic, Lin Zhixia only caught a blur of green, and was dragged away in a daze.

"Sheng Lang, the most famous lunatic in the Southern District." Sun Mingzhu said to Lin Zhixia, "He's out of his mind, he's very crazy, and he's desperate to fight. If you meet him on the road in the future, you must stay away from him. , don't provoke him."

"Is he easily provoked?" Lin Zhixia asked seriously.

"Someone took a second look at him, and he beat him up." Sun Mingzhu was very serious, "He is only one year older than the two of us, and he is only in the first grade of junior high school. I heard that it is not illegal for minors to kill someone. So Zhang Xiaotian likes to use him to fight the most. His father runs a small hotel and usually doesn’t care about him.”

"I thought he was a high school student."

Sun Mingzhu said: "You can't see clearly from a distance. He is actually a mixed race, and his father is a foreigner, so he is a head taller than others, and he is also very strong."

"A foreigner runs a hotel in our community?" Unexpectedly, this place in Yong'an is so international.

"No way!" Sun Mingzhu laughed, "Sheng Lang is a bastard, born to a foreigner when her mother was working in the city. His father is not his real father. His mother ran away with a man outside, and he Dad likes to beat him when he's drunk. When Sheng Lang gets angry, he comes out and beats other kids. Anyway, their family is all perverted."

Sun Mingzhu suddenly thought of something again, and took a deep breath like a toothache: "No... It seems that Sheng Lang is going to go to Ninth High School too!"

Lin Zhixia was surprised: "Is his grades good?"

"It's good to pass." Sun Mingzhu rolled his eyes, "but he is very good at sports. He is in the provincial children's swimming team and won several gold medals. So the Ninth Middle School specially recruited him. Alas, in the future you will be in school. If you meet him, remember to stay away.”

The summer vacation has just begun, and it will be a long time before school starts.Lin Zhixia wouldn't worry so far.

Lin Zhixia received a lot of study material fees from the teacher of No. [-] Middle School. Apart from sending his father to and from get off work every day, he just wrote papers at home.

He is too young to find a part-time summer job.

It was still Sun Mingzhu who had a wide network of contacts. Through her cousin, she found Lin Zhixia a job delivering milk at a milk station.

Every morning just after dawn, Lin Zhixia rode a small tricycle carrying a cart full of fresh milk, and shuttled through the streets and alleys of Yong'an Community.

The roads in Yong'an Community are complex like a maze, and illegal buildings have created many dead ends.

Lin Zhixia worked for two days and planned the most convenient route on the map. It was longer than the route given to him by the milk station, but it miraculously saved half an hour.

After delivering the milk, Lin Zhixia bought hot soy milk and freshly cooked fried dough sticks at the breakfast stand at the entrance of the alley, and went home to have breakfast with Lin Anwen.

The residents of Yong'an gradually got acquainted with this handsome boy.Rain or shine, he was punctual and his bottles were always wiped clean.

The power of summer is getting stronger day by day, but the wind in the morning is still as cool as water.

Lin Zhixia stared at the tricycle, deftly bypassing the pothole on the concrete road.The baby bottles rattled in the trunk of the car, and English listening exercises were played in the earphones.

It was this sound that prevented him from noticing the chasing and yelling at the side.

When the boy in black rushed out from the oblique side, Lin Zhixia suddenly realized.

But it was too late to react by this time.

The black-clothed boy jumped up, stepped over the small tricycle blocked in the middle of the road, kicked his foot on the side of the cart, and fled far away like flying.

The kid borrowed his strength, but the little tricycle was kicked over by him, and the milk bottle smashed to the ground!

Lin Zhixia also fell to the ground, dumbfounded.

"Fuck! You are so sick!"

A good student does not mean that he will not swear.Lin Zhixia was so angry that she cursed.

The boy in black looked back, with sword-like eyebrows and a high nose, cheekbones hanging brightly, and a pair of emerald-like green eyes.But because of his gloomy expression, he looked more like two clusters of will-o'-the-wisps in the daytime.

Lin Zhixia's pupils dilated slightly.

"There he is!" A few punks chased him out of the alley.

The boy in black ran away and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The people behind chased after him, thinking that Lin Zhixia's small tricycle was in the way in the middle of the road, and kicked it away.

The unspoiled baby bottle in the car finally ended up with the broken glass bottle on the ground.

There were two hundred baby bottles in a car, and Lin Zhixia only gave half of them before, and the rest almost moistened the earth.

When I went back to the milk station and settled the bill, the fresh milk was connected to the bottle, and the total cost was more than 400 yuan.Lin Zhixia's eyes turned red immediately, she bit her lip and was speechless.

Half-grown boy, with a beautiful snow-white face, teary eyes, so pitiful.

The eldest sister at the milk station was full of maternal love, and she decided to wipe away the change, and did not let Lin Zhixia pay now, and agreed with him to deduct it from her salary at the end of the month.

"Don't cry." The eldest sister also brought a bottle of yogurt from the freezer to Lin Zhixia, "It's because you were unlucky that you met those little bastards in the southern district, even if they came to your door, they wouldn't be able to pay for it. I turned around and told the station master to let him speak to the people in the southern district. You can't bully us honest people..."

Lin Zhixia sucked on the iced yogurt and wiped the corners of her eyes, her aggrieved look was still on her face, but in her heart she had already greeted Sheng Lang's eighteen generations of ancestors all over.

Broken glass bottles are still piled in the yard of the milk station.Lin Zhixia stared at the big glass slag for a long time, her eyes were sharper than broken glass.