The small Chinese-style courtyard of the Qin family is located in front of a pond, with several steps extending to the water.The pond is full of lotus flowers at this time, and a big white goose is swimming happily in the water, raising its slender neck to peck the small insects on the lotus leaves next to it, which reminds people of the ancient poems they memorized when they were young.

A few ducks shivered and hid in the corner, not daring to compete with the king goose for control of the water.

A row of fruit trees is planted on the side of the yard near the pond, and flowers and plants are planted in the middle, thriving.The ground in the yard is paved with bluestone slabs, washed bright and clean, and looks very ancient.

The house was built taller than ordinary houses. It is estimated to be nearly four meters high from the roof to the ground. Therefore, although it is a Chinese-style courtyard, it looks grand but not inferior to other small western-style buildings in the village.

Behind the house is a vegetable garden, with a circle of fruit trees planted on the edge, and dense thorny vines climbing in the middle, which can effectively contain the creatures that want to invest.But even these thorns bear beautiful flowers that dot the surroundings.

As these details came into the eyes of the students little by little, everyone spoke in admiration.

This set of yards can be said to fully satisfy all their imagination and yearning for rural life.There is no mud and mess, only the beautiful artistic conception of returning to the garden and living in the mountains.

As soon as the bus stopped, grandpa came out of the yard and stood at the door to greet them.

Qin Lian was the first to jump out of the car and was about to speak when he suddenly sniffled, "What is this for? It smells so good!"

"Knowing that you are coming, I have someone butcher a pig, and today I will eat pig-killing rice! The time is just right, you go in and put away your things, take a rest, and the dinner will start soon." Grandpa finished speaking in a good mood, and then He specially greeted Yuan Xuan.

Although they have always known how to entertain themselves, living in this country won't make them feel lonely, but he is obviously very happy to have so many children here and live a busy month.

Besides, this is the first time Yuan Tao has come to the house!

"I'll take you there." Grandma was busy in the corridor, but she also got up and walked over at this moment, leading everyone to the side, while introducing, "Your rooms are all arranged in the East Wing. There is also a rose flower planted outside the side window, which can last until October."

The window on one side of the room faces the courtyard, while the other side directly faces the road outside, so people in the village can look in directly through the window when they pass by.That's why I set up an extra small area to plant flowers, which can not only increase the distance, but also cover the line of sight.

In addition to the hall without beds, there are eight rooms in the East Wing. It is just right for everyone to share a room by two.

Moreover, the rooms are connected to each other, and it is easy to "drop in" and feel more like living in a dormitory.

However, as soon as she entered the door, Jiang Tingting was attracted by a staircase in the hall, and couldn't help asking, "Grandma, is that staircase going upstairs? There are rooms upstairs?"

"The upstairs is not a room, it's an attic. I usually put some sundries that I don't use very much." Grandma Zhang said indifferently.

Jiang Tingting immediately became excited, "Attic!"

She turned her head to look at Qin Lian, her eyes were shining with the words "I want to live in the attic" written all over her eyes.After all, she was a newcomer, so it was inappropriate to make such an unreasonable request, so she didn't say it directly, but planned to save the country with a curveball.

When Qin Lian was a child, the attic was her paradise. If there was anything unpleasant to do, she would hide up there and no one would find it.

Moreover, the upstairs is used for the other party's sundries, but some foods that can be eaten are inevitably mixed with them: dried dates, walnuts, melon seeds, peanuts... Some of them are still reserved for seeds, but they are often eaten by her when they find them. about there.

So when Jiang Tingting saw it at this time, she hesitated, "Can't people live in the attic?"

"There are piles of things on it. Even if there is room to make room, we can't fit so many beds. We can only make beds on the floor. Besides, there are no windows on the top, so the light is very dim." Grandma Zhang explained the inconvenience of the attic in detail with a smile. I counted it again, but seeing that everyone didn't intend to retreat, but looked forward to it even more, so I changed the subject, "If you want to live, it's not impossible, you have to clean up yourself."

"Let's clean it up ourselves!" Several boys said immediately.

"Okay, then put your things down first, wash your hands and eat. If you are full, you can work." Grandma Zhang is still smiling.

To let these children live here in peace and contentment for a month without causing trouble, they must have a sense of belonging to this place.And finding something for them to do is one of the less obvious ways.After I started working, I was less likely to treat myself as a guest.

The pig-killing rice is very enjoyable.The dishes made by the countrymen are solid, and the meat is thick and large. What is rare is that it does not use firewood, and it is full of umami and rich in meat.The only problem is that the students who are used to the refined food in the city basically feel tired after eating a few slices, so they can only turn their chopsticks to side dishes that are also mixed with oily and meaty aromas.

After dinner, they began to clean the attic.

There are no rooms in the attic, and it looks very spacious, but because the roof is a tiled sloping roof, the area where people can really stand up and walk around is not too wide.But now, the place is full of sundries, leaving only a narrow aisle in the middle.

There is a faint smell of dust on the tip of the nose, which proves that no one has been here for a long time.

"Let's start, first move all the things down to make room." Qin Lian stood up and directed.

This tidying up takes a whole day.It wasn't until the sun was about to set that they finally finished their work. The attic was cleaned up, the things they moved were also sorted out, and they each had their own homes.However, the weather was already hot, and everyone was sweating and covered in dust. Under the arrangement of Grandma Zhang, they lined up to take a bath, and then prepared to have dinner.

Compared with the meal during the day, the dinner was much lighter, almost all vegetarian and cold dishes, and a pot of soybean and pig's trotter soup was also stewed.

After dinner, while the sky was still bright, Zhao Zixuan led the male classmates to turn on the lights in the attic, and sent the mattresses and quilts up to the girls to lay them out. The residence for the next month will be completely completed up.

The hall in the center leads directly to the roof, and you can even see the beams and stringers when you look up.This just divides the attic into two parts, male left and female right, which also saves trouble.

This day is full of driving and busy, and there is nothing else to play except for my mobile phone.So after it got dark, everyone yawned one after another and was driven to sleep by grandma.

But when they really lay down in the attic, everyone couldn't fall asleep, and they naturally started talking at night.

"When I was a child, I really wanted to live in such an attic. I felt like a princess living in a castle in a fairy tale, or a lady living in an embroidery tower in ancient times." A girl said with a smile.

Although everyone knows that if you are in it, the life of the princess in the castle or the lady in the embroidery tower is absolutely inferior to them, and the degree of freedom and happiness is far behind.But because it is something in the story, and it is far enough away from my own life, it is unavoidable to yearn for.

It's a pity that the houses in the city are all built on top of each other, with neither attics nor spires.

This sentence is like a switch, completely opening the topic.Everyone talked about their various fantasies when they were young, such as wearing a bed sheet and pretending to be a fairy with fluttering clothes in a costume drama...

I always feel very ashamed when I think of this kind of topic, and I don't even bring it up.Moreover, the relationship between everyone is just classmates, and they are not close enough to exchange such little secrets.

However, this night, everyone was lying side by side on the attic in a relatively strange place. This new experience gave birth to the desire to talk.Moreover, listening to other people revealing their shortcomings, I also feel that the secret in my heart is not difficult to reveal, and I can even find more sympathy.

"By the way, I'll show you something fun." Listening to everyone's words, Qin Lian suddenly remembered something.

She got out of the bed, walked around the others carefully, walked to the innermost gable wall, fiddled with the wall for a while, and opened a window—this is not accurate, it should be said that she opened the wall. A hole is right.

The light of Xingyue came in through this not-so-small hole, Qin Lian smiled and turned around and said, "This is a ventilation hole in the attic, you can't usually see it, you have to open it specially."

Everyone got up one after another, walked to the window, and looked out from here.

"The stars and moon here are so bright!" Someone said with emotion.

On a clear summer night, when you look up at the sky, you will always be attracted by the vast sea of ​​stars.But this feeling has obviously faded a lot in the city.Because the lights in the city are too bright, they often overshadow the light of the stars and the moon, and many people don't even look up at the stars in the night sky.

After being quiet for a while, someone asked again, "By the way, it's summer now, so you should be able to see the Morning Glory and the Weaver Girl? Can you find out?"

There was silence.The position of the Milky Way is easy to see, but it is obviously a difficult job to find two not-so-obvious stars on both sides of the Milky Way.A few girls squeezed together at the window, gestured for a long time but couldn't figure it out, and finally they could only bring this question to their dreams.

In the dream, there should be a sky full of stars, right?

Although the night talk delayed the time to go to bed, it was still earlier than the usual time to fall asleep, so the next day, they also woke up early.Jiang Tingting looked at the time and couldn't believe it, "It's not yet six o'clock? And I woke up?"

To be reasonable, she was never so active and self-conscious when she was in school!

Fortunately, she was afraid that it would be embarrassing to oversleep in someone else's house, so she secretly set the alarm clock for seven o'clock.

It felt like several hours of time had been stolen for no reason, and I didn't know what to do for a while.

Fortunately, Yuan Wei's words brought everyone back to reality, "Get up when you wake up. Call and wake up the boys, let's go out to get some fresh air, and find a place for morning reading class. As for all kinds of things in your heart With emotion, I will save it for a while, and I can write it into a composition later, and I can also write down events or describe scenes.”

"Are you a devil?" Jiang Tingting wailed immediately, feeling that all the thoughts that had been active in her mind were extinguished by her words.

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