that summer

In my memory, it was a long summer after the senior high school entrance examination, which was endless.

Everyone has no worries about homework, no pressure to study, and calls friends all day. You come and go, thinking about where to play and planning how to play tomorrow. Nobody knows or thinks about the future.

It started as a series of students.

They are all small classmates, and everyone knows where to live with their eyes closed. Ride a bike, go from one house to another, find one, and then make an appointment to go to the next one. Those who haven't found it yet may meet at the next home. People gathered more and more, and a group of people rode their bikes in the street, and there were no classmates on the back frame of the car, whistling away.

A group of people have nowhere to go. Sometimes they gather at the crossroads of the county to talk about trouble, and sometimes they go out to play on the shallow grass beach by the Sanggan River outside the city. Suddenly someone said that the strawberries outside a classmate's house were red and sweet, so we rode there immediately, no matter how far it was, there was plenty of time and energy anyway.

I am not at home at night. The intersection near home is the assembly point. All the students in the neighborhood ran out as soon as they finished eating. Everyone together is nothing more than laughing and cursing and chasing the whole thing, or taking out poker under the street lamp to upgrade and catch a black gun. Stealing cards, mixing cards, cheating and cheating are common things, and the ending is often laughing and cursing, or wrestling. When you are tired of playing, go to your classmate's house to play games. Super Mario, Contra, tank battle, everyone should have fun.

We were busy for a while, but it changed slowly. Sometimes I ask someone out, and my family says I have gone to work in other places. We don't care. We chased the fields and helped with the work. After that, we continued to play. Sometimes, when I ask someone out, I see him pushing a cart of vegetables out of the yard to sell. In the yard, his parents shouted: "The food is rotten to the ground, I know how to play!" " We must take a passive approach. Sometimes we go to find someone and are told to do odd jobs at the construction site when we are not at home. Then I won't take the initiative to have fun.

After such a period of time, there are only some fixed playmates left.

People sometimes get together to chat, mostly about martial arts novels. Tell me about Jin Yong, Gu Long and Liang Yusheng, who wrote better and who is the boss of the new martial arts. There are different opinions about whether An He can be one of the four martial arts writers, as well as the representative figure of the old-school martial arts novels, Pingjiang unfilial voice and who the landlord is. Talk about who wrote more absurd and bloody, Liu, Zhu Ge Qingyun and He.

When there are few people, someone will play Go. We can't sit next to Weiqi and watch them fight for life and death in a small corner and watch them slaughter dragons. After counting the figures for most of the day, we can take over chess and gobang, and they don't like it.

Sometimes I play chess. A group of people are looking at chess, and the bystander's argument is sometimes worse than the player's. Often in the end, the chess player will rob the chess player and play chess by himself. Some people hide aside and play the electronic organ to simple music, all of them are self-taught, and some songs are also good. Some people recruit cats and dogs in the yard, which often makes chickens fly and dogs bark, attracting reprimands from adults. Blink for half a day.

There were fewer people coming out at night, so we rode bicycles to the street and circled back and forth along the main road of the county. When you are tired, sit on the steps in front of the cinema and see if you can meet anyone you know. Sometimes, one leg straddles the station on the side of the road, watching groups of girls. If those girls come back and forth more often, they will have the courage to get together and strike up a conversation. If there are two or three girls riding in circles, ride over and strike up a conversation.

Occasionally, when a male classmate comes to ask for an appointment, he goes to find a female classmate. In girls' homes, we will be very quiet and honest, talking about novels or TV plays by Qiong Yao, Yi Shu and Cen Kailun, and talking about which hero plays well and which plays badly. Girls talk more about which is more handsome, Andy Lau or Leslie Cheung, Chow Yun Fat or Wan Ziliang, and who likes which tiger in Little Tiger better. Learn to sing the songs of Wang Jie, Zhang Dongjian, Zhao Chuan, Julie, Pan Meichen and Chan Sarah. Girls who can dance will hug boys and teach us 3-step dance and 4-step dance.

Girls also like fortune-telling games and enjoy it. They know every stripe line of your palm print, what career line, fate line, wisdom line, lifeline. I can hold your hand and tell you that your destiny or life is smooth sailing, but your old age is miserable, or you are full of emotions, and then I can force you to ask how many women you have in your heart, or that you have been disturbed by mean people all your life. There is also a kind of fortune telling, that is, take out a deck of playing cards, pray that you have a good mind, carefully wash the cards three times, and then have your own "witch" to deal with it for you. Finally, tell the diviner with the card you have drawn. The content is almost all about a girl you like recently, whether she likes you or not, and whether you two can make it; There is a girl in the west who has a crush on you. If you go to the south, your career will flourish. If you go north, you will meet a noble man. If you can't go to the East, you will meet a little person who stands in the way of your love.

Everyone who listens to the lecture is very serious and thoughtful. Nodding in agreement or shaking your head in denial will not stop the witch from going on. Sometimes I think, every day, can everyone's fate change so quickly? Nobody understood this at that time, or nobody cared.

There are also boys and girls who go out to the movies, but they all meet privately with people they like. Sometimes we meet each other in the cinema and see them sitting in the dark without disturbing them.

The days passed day by day. My admission book finally came, and the school is thousands of miles away from home. Everyone comes to congratulate. Naturally, I am busy again. Students go home for dinner. We used to drink only fruit wine and beer together, but now we also drink white wine, and our parents don't stop us. Set the table and play mahjong after drinking. Sometimes I don't enjoy myself, so I pick up mahjong at night and go to another home without adults. It is often a whole night of World War I, even the day before school.

Slowly, other people also received admission notices, either vocational schools, county towns, technical schools, and one was admitted to the Agricultural College. That's as good news as the list. Many people go home to congratulate each other. Everyone was busy for a few more days.

A few days before I left, a female classmate came to see me alone. We came to the willow embankment by the river for a walk. Cicadas are screaming desperately in the trees, and butterflies are flying around in the endless green space. We hardly talked, or I forgot, except when I sent her back, she was sitting opposite the front beam of my car. The weather was sultry, and I rode very fast. Her hair kept hitting her face, but she couldn't dispel a trace of heat in her chest.

The day before he left, I carefully copied a poem by Xi Murong in my notebook at home:

characteristic

Don't let it change.

He refused to say that beautiful oath.

Don't be separated because it is possible.

Dare not ask for confidence.

There's always a way.

Will you stay?

Leave it as an immortal mark.

So, those.

People you don't know can know.

How much I loved you.

If I really love you,

I won't forget it.

Of course, I still have to go.

Continue quietly

Said it was a nice day.

The wind is soft.

I can still smile wearily in the sunset.

Say that life is really ordinary

No twists and turns and troubles.

But if I really love you,

I won't forget it.

It's at this intersection.

Young you waved to me.

Separate from now on.

I read it many times, but I finally tore it off and tore it to pieces. Fuck it, where are the waves? No separation!

I copied another lyric in my notebook, although I hadn't heard it with my own eyes at that time.

real man

Efforts have succeeded and failed.

Interested people should not be afraid of being late.

I don't care who is here.

Achievement depends on real skill.

Be a real man

Suffer pain and frustration.

I am willing to invest.

Do your best to do what you should do.

Who pretends sincerity with hostility?

Forget it. Don't make words.

This kind of mood is very charming.

Who doesn't have a sad past?

Be a real man

People will die once after all.

There is no point in asking me to be reasonable.

Heroes can be crazy.

Be a bloody man together.

Willing to go to the world once.

Emphasis on creating touching stories with my hands.

Don't hesitate about success or failure.

With my heart.

Chasing the competitive circle full of fighting spirit

Life has a special meaning.

Can change my destiny (life is of great significance)

Can evolve into a touching story (you will remember it for the rest of your life)

Seek dedication to uphold justice

Then put the book in my bag.

Many years later, whenever I think of that summer, I will always see such a picture in my mind: in the afternoon, under the blue sky and hot sun, I stood at the door with my arms in my arms, looking at the empty and foggy streets on both sides, which was dazzling.

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Ps:

My child graduated from junior high school this year. Looking at his excitement these days, I slowly remembered the past events that I had forgotten for a long time. At that time, after graduating from junior high school, we also went our separate ways, and the trajectory of life never crossed again.

All I remember are trivial and specific things, and people may not be right, but it is these messy things that prove that I really lived in that era.

That summer, our hormones were squandered wildly and our days were squandered desperately. However, we don't feel any pressure, let alone discipline our parents. Reorganize yourself at that time, compare your child's appearance now, and hope that you can be as calm as your parents.

The wisdom of farmers is that they know that as long as seeds are sown, seedlings will appear, blossom and bear fruit. All they need is companionship and waiting around them.

The rest of my life is long, so why panic! This is the original intention of this article.