Sleep on the roof

In the summer when I was a child, every household in the village had no air conditioning. In the hottest dog days, with the permission of parents, you can sleep on the roof with a mat at night.

The roofs are all made of cement. When harvesting crops, you can dry the crops on the roof, and you can dry them soon. In dog days, after a day of baking, the roof was burnt. Bare feet can burn your feet. Mother always carries two barrels of well water at dusk to wet the roof and cool it down. In the evening, we three sisters couldn't wait to pick up our bedding and lie on the roof watching the stars. Growing up, the stars in the sky have never been seen before. The roof seems to be very close to the sky, and you can reach out and pick the stars. We told many stories and talked a lot together, and fell asleep most of the time. There will be a lot of mosquitoes, but now I can't remember if I can't sleep because of mosquito bites. The old yellow dog also sleeps at our feet. It also likes summer nights. Only then can he sleep with us instead of sleeping alone in the kennel. It lived in our family for almost ten years, and finally it died peacefully after we left home for high school and college. We have never had a dog in our family. ...

My mother steamed purslane steamed bread and garlic juice at the back end of our sleep every night, and we rubbed our sleepy eyes and ate it. Now I'm worried about my weight, and I can't find the feeling of eating under the stars anymore! The roofs of every street in the village are connected. My mother will give steamed bread to her neighbors, and they will also give us new fruits in the yard, such as grapes, pears and pomegranates. Sometimes when I'm asleep, there's a child's crying and a mother's reproachful voice in the distance. ...

Once it suddenly rained in the middle of the night, which family was awakened by the rain first would stand on the roof and tell the whole village loudly: "It's raining, go back to sleep!" " "So we can only go back to the stuffy room with bedding and sleep angrily.

Occasionally, children wake up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet or fall hysterically. Of course, this situation is rare. Children who are used to sleeping on the roof have long been used to waking up in the middle of the night and telling themselves that the place to sleep is the roof.

Nowadays, every household in the countryside is equipped with air conditioning, and no one goes to the roof to sleep and enjoy the cool. Time will not go back, and none of us can go back to that time. Only with memories, every summer comes, I always feel a little cold when I think of it.