The scorching heat has arrived, and the fire is everywhere. The dogs in the village are stretching out their long tongues and panting. The old sows cannot drown out in the sewage puddle. The adults are fanning their hands, wearing wet towels on their shoulders, and like hot pans, they go everywhere to find shade and chat about the mountains.

The child is like a fish, soaked in the pond all day long, with relish on his body and skin on his face and shoulders.

On summer nights, people wear boxers with their chests and arms exposed one by one, dressed like boxers about to appear. The hot weather forces people to minimize their clothes. They should not be exposed and feel uncomfortable if they should be exposed. []

When the sun was west, smoke rose in the village. Sun's mother brought the hot porridge and steamed buns to the stone table in the yard to cool down. In the evening of the cool office, it was as hot as a steamer. Adults and children gathered around the stone table to eat in a hurry, eager to go out and cool down.

There are many cofferdams around the village, and there is also a river passing by. In summer, the clear water is vast. The surrounding area of ​​the pond is green, far and near, high and low. The village enjoys the breeze, clear water, fresh air, and comfortable mood, as if it has surpassed summer and entered a wonderful and ideal world.

The night finally fell, and the earth slowly covered with a layer of gauze from far to near, and the treetops were filled with chirping birds. The unbearable heat seemed to have eased a little, and the stars slowly squeezed out from the clouds.

It was not long after dark, after dinner, everyone put away the bowls and chopsticks, patted their stomachs and burped, carried a cup of them, and ate coarse tea during the day (it was not fragrant, but it was strong to quench their thirst), carried bamboo stools, and had a palm-leaf fan under their armpits, and went out to crowds.

People who came to enjoy the coolie came to the pond one after another. They put together a few straw mats and lit dried mugwort on the side.

Several old men with long beards sat together, talking about "Three Kingdoms" and talking about "Water Margin", and sometimes they would wince over the plot in the book.

Several middle-aged people who often go out and are well-informed are willing to talk about topics such as national affairs and crop harvest. Not far away, there is a "deputy army of women", which is even more talkative and laughing, crying and making trouble.

An old lady told the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl with interest. She pointed to the sky and said that the bright Cowherd and the Weaver Girl star was facing each other from afar, and the two dim stars behind the Weaver Girl were the heavenly soldiers who detained her.

A man took advantage of the opportunity to cool down and secretly brought some beer out to drink to avoid his wife saying "Drink, drink, and have three bottles at dinner" - because once he drinks with his neighbor, his wife will be embarrassed to scold him.

The hot summer is cool at night, and the clear lotus and dew drops still fragrant on the wind. The ice wheel slowly moves to the middle of the sky, and the stars turn to sink and sink to the summer night.

It is a happy thing to cool off on a summer night. Because no one stays in the house to endure the stuffiness and watches the hustle and bustle of TV.

So Sun Gang drank porridge early, stood by the pool and took a simple shower with cold water, moved out of the bamboo bed and placed his body with water droplets on the bamboo bed. The waning moon outside was like a hook, and the stars were blinking in groups of three or two, and sometimes a few barkings came from the village, which was so quiet.

Although it is a crescent moon tonight, the night is not dark. There is a layer of clear blue between the sky and the earth, and the texture is even, like carefully fired fine porcelain.

Sun Gang watched the stars in the sky appear one by one in the distant sky. Occasionally, the agile figure of a swallow slid skillfully in the night sky, which always reminded him of the mythical magpie bridge...

The evening breeze gently blows by, bringing these coolness that never exists during the day. The indescribable comfort is definitely better than Magu's itchy place scratching.

The most helpless thing is the mosquitoes that blow the trumpet and show their power. They always bite you when you are enjoying your comfort, making it difficult for you to guard against. The mosquitoes in the countryside are very wild, and a big bump will bulge in the place where they are bitten by mosquitoes, which is extremely itchy.

I had to hold a palm-leaf fan and swear it all the time, not to fan the air, but just to drive away mosquitoes.

After a while, the neighbors around also had dinner one after another and came out to cool off. The gate of Sun Gang was relatively spacious, and there was also a big locust tree. When the wind blew, the leaves clattered, so many people were willing to come here to cool off.

Some people didn't move stools when they came, and sat directly on the bamboo bed. The bamboo bed that seemed wide just now immediately became cramped. The adults began to paddle the banana fan and pull Sun Gang was not interested in family matters.

When I was a child, I often ran to my grandmother's house at this time because Sun Gang's grandparents put a simple bed at the door and also had a mosquito net to block the mosquitoes. Lying on the dark red old mat, the slight coolness could be comfortable to the bone.

Suddenly, there were crickets chirping in the grass. Several children from the neighbor's house walked over gently, stretched out their hands, and retracted. They thought they were afraid of the little insect being scared away, so they slowly turned around and took out an old straw hat at home, took a look, pounced down, caught it, and put it in a cage. The varieties of crickets are different, and it can be heard that this is not the authentic variety that has pulled apart and flapped its wings and sang high, but the one that is lying quietly in the grass. My childhood friends all called it "oil gourd".

The big dog, Big Hei, Xiao Hei, seemed to have also infected the children's joy. He followed behind and shouted excitedly, rolling on the ground from time to time. The night fell in the children's play and laughter.

Their grandmothers cursed behind him, "I've taken a shower and ran away! I'm going to sweat! I've got to take a shower when I go back!" But it's only a few words of cursing, and I can't really chase after him.

I had many beautiful and unrestrained summer nights when I was a child, lying on the ground in the courtyard of the old house, resting my head on my mother's legs, and before I fell asleep, I felt that it was both lively and safe.

The sky is a bright moon that has transformed the heat, surrounded by the breeze and the fresh fragrance of the ripe grains. Just as I was sleeping and waking up, my mother was taken back to the house, but the smell of mugwort was filled with a faint fragrance all night, and people were surrounded by grass fragrance and the shadow of flowers fell into their dreams.

Nowadays, I am not as popular as I saw you in the past. Most of the people who love to enjoy the cool are old men and women, some of whom do not want to consume electricity bills, and most of them want to meet friends, complaining about how frustrated they are at home, so that they can appear empty-handed only after they come out.

Later, there were more and more TVs, more and more computers, and more electric fans and air conditioners. Young people in rural areas gradually became like people in cities, no longer came out to cool off on summer nights. They all hid under the fans at home and smiled foolishly while watching the TV, or sat in the air conditioner air conditioner and met the beautiful girls on the Internet.

Nowadays, there are many cars in the city and many people in the building, and the temperature continues to soar. Every summer, the heat is unstoppable, so people have to hide at home and rely on air conditioners to cool down in the summer. Although the home is cool, they cannot escape the invasion of air conditioners. Only the beautiful summer night in the countryside brings a cool charm, which makes people miss and fascinate.
Chapter completed!