Fallen grid shop

Chapter 10 Collection Summer
In July 241 of the Western Sena Continent, the summer in Sanqing City was humid and hot.Houses that are close to the sea can get wet sea breeze from the sea from time to time.

Ah You sat in front of the drawing board by the window, earnestly sketching the sparkling blue sea under the clear sky not far away.Suddenly, there was a knock on the door behind him.

He put down his paintbrush, got up and opened the door.The little boy at the door excitedly held up the transparent bottle in his hand and handed it to him.

There was a little cicada singing with all its might.

"Look, brother, I caught a beautiful cicada in the park."

"Xiao Xing, if you do this, it will suffocate it. Quickly open the cap, play with it for a while and let it go home." Ayou said while unscrewing the bottle cap, and handed him the body of the bottle.

"Well, I know brother." Xiaoxing picked up the bottle and ran out of the room excitedly.

The cicada's cries echoed throughout the room, but Ah You didn't feel irritable, instead he felt a rare peace in his heart.

The cicadas in midsummer are especially loud.Every year when the cicadas in Sanqing City are noisy day and night, summer comes.

Ah Yu likes summer very much.I like the sunny sea in summer, the lotus in the pond, the sweet watermelon, the golden cicada slough, and when I met her, I liked her sitting in front of him in a white dress and drawing seriously in the studio.

That is something only available in summer.

The corners of his mouth raised unconsciously, every time he thought of her, he would feel particularly good.

Ah You was thinking, but he didn't know that the person in the painting came in from the open door behind him, and was looking at the short-haired girl in the small white dress on the seaside in the painting, blowing the sea breeze.

"You still draw so well." Xia He's voice sounded from behind him.

The pen in Ayou's hand paused for a moment, without stopping, and calmly asked Xia He behind him: "Why are you here?"

"There is nothing left and right, so I finished reading the book and brought it back to you. Xiaoxing opened the door for me. Seeing that your door was open, I came in."

"Then wait for me, the painting will be finished soon, and we will go to the park."

That is their agreement, to collect one thing about summer every year, and keep summer forever.This year, it is the golden cicada slough on the tree in the park.

Xiaoxing was bouncing in front of him with the transparent bottle in his arms, and the three of them came to a tree. Xiaoxing carefully put the cicada back on the tree, and Ah You rubbed his hair.

"Ayou, you should spend more time with Xiaoxing recently. When we move out after marriage, you will have very little time to see each other again. Xiaoxing has always relied on you, and he will be sad."

"Okay." Ayou replied with a gentle smile.

That night, a cicada flew in front of Ah You's window, singing softly. Unexpectedly, Ah You felt that he had slept well. He woke up the next morning and opened the window to look for it, but it disappeared again.

In this way, the sound of cicadas continued for a week.Until the day Xia He came to his house with snacks.

"Ayou, do you know, it is said that there is an elf who left the Tibetan Spring City and traveled around. She opened a shop and can fulfill a wish, but she has to exchange the bond between the thing she meets and the person she loves." Xia He took a sip of the juice and chatted with Ayou who was reading a book about it.

"The elves don't like dealing with people. This should be a rumor."

"At first I thought so too. But yesterday I received a letter from a friend saying that he had encountered that store in Aurora City. The owner looked very easy-going, but his tone was cold and he couldn't hear the emotion. The design of the store is very Simple, numbered grids occupy a wall, and there is a bead curtain on one side, and I don’t know what is behind that wall.”

"It sounds very interesting. The elf always only appears for guidance and judgment, but I don't know why it left the Tibetan Spring City and lived with humans." Ayou smiled softly and closed the book.

"Yeah, probably he was excluded and treated unfairly by the whole family, just like my father." Xia He sighed.

Ayou gently touched Xia He's head, and comforted him: "It's okay, it's all over. God will treat every soul equally, even if he can't speak or see."

"Thank you Ayou, the luckiest thing in my life is to meet you."

"Me too. Thank you, Miss Xia He, for being willing to marry me who is not so dazzling." Ayou opened his arms and hugged Xia He into his arms.

For three consecutive days since that day, there was no more cicadas chirping in front of Ah You's window. He was a little insomnia, and after tossing and turning, he got up to lay the canvas and started painting.

It was Central Park, deserted under the sun.A delicate girl with a single wing and a beige skirt is practicing singing under the plane tree.Green leaves, golden sunshine, and flocks of birds, everything is peaceful and peaceful.

Ah You was amazed by his own painting. It was the first time he was a realist and couldn't control his rapid drawing as if he had seen this scene with his own eyes.That gentle singing voice seemed to be lingering in his ears:

People of summer night, go to sleep
There is that in the dream, gentle lover
Don't be afraid, she is far away from you

The night is soft and the stars are twinkling
Xia Chan, who loves you, sleeps with you

When Ah You put down his paintbrush, he was exhausted, turned around and collapsed on the bed, and fell into a deep sleep.When he woke up again, it was already noon on the second day, his parents had already left for work, Xiao Xing stood in front of his painting, his mouth opened wide in surprise.

"Wow brother, you are amazing. Is this an angel you drew?"

Ayou sat up, touched his head with a gentle smile and said, "I drew the cicada singing in front of my window every day."

"Brother, have you seen her in your dream?" Xiaoxing raised her head and blinked at him and asked.

"Should have seen it."

"Then is she prettier or sister Xia He is prettier?"

"In my brother's mind, sister Xia He is a unique person in this world, just like Xiao Xing and her parents are as important to my brother, she is the cutest and most beautiful person in the world."

"That's it." Xiaoxing held the painting and said seriously, "But I think sister Cicada in my brother's painting is more beautiful, even more beautiful and gentle than sister Xia He."

Ayou smiled and patted Xiaoxing's head without saying a word.

Half of July has passed, and Ah You will hold a wedding in two weeks. After the wedding, the summer will be over, and the life of the cicada will come to an end.

Ah You felt a little sad when he thought of this, he held the golden cicada slough and looked at it carefully, silently thinking about this sad thing.

Ah You doesn't know, in the short life of the cicada, is the meaning of living just to sing?
He couldn't figure out why there were always people who hated the cicadas and always tried to get rid of the noisy cicadas, but they still sang with all their might day and night without stopping.

Their life will be sad after all.

Did that little body ever think about giving up its dream when it slept underground for several years or even more than ten years and endured the darkness?

Give up such dark waiting for new students, waiting to break out of the ground, waiting for the so-called singing but not understood, waiting for the short but happy summer?They just endured the darkness alone, shed tears and lived aimlessly.

Just like him, chasing dreams all day long, but achieving nothing.

(End of this chapter)