Nongben is passionate

After several days of rain, the sky quickly cooled down, and the air began to be filled with the sweet scent of sweet-scented osmanthus.The village is bustling again. The film projection team after a long absence is coming to the village to show a film, and the curtains have already been set up in the drying yard——

There is a large cement drying yard at the head of the village, and two basketball hoops are set up. In another month, the cement boats will come to harvest rice from the field one by one, and the drying yard will be busy, threshing and drying rice—— ——The scene is very spectacular, dreamy, and mysterious—spread the golden millet on the ground, grab a handful, it is golden and heavy, and there is a fragrance of grain and the smell of sunshine, and you can feel the abundance of life in an instant—Rectangular, square , each household has its own land, and a small path is left in the middle for people to pass through. From time to time, a rake is used to comb the millet so that every grain can enjoy the sunshine.

Evening is the busiest time for the sun-drying field. When the sun goes down, the millet has to be put away. Otherwise, if it gets wet, the work during the day will be useless, and the quality of the rice will deteriorate and it will easily become moldy.At this time, the skinniest children will be told by their parents to obediently help them carry the sacks, and watch the adults gather the millet together and pour them into the sacks one by one with a bamboo dustpan.Children are always thinking about playing and cannot concentrate. If they neglect to lift their pockets and let the millet fall to the ground, they will be scolded mercilessly by adults.

But usually this drying ground is a paradise for children, riding bicycles around the basketball court - the children in the village basically learn their driving skills without a teacher, and adults are impatient to teach them. Five or six children Two or three bicycles, take turns to ride, with a lot of energy, after learning, they will never waste their skills, and there is also an element of showing off in it-leading people to ride, leading one person, leading two people, riding with one hand, Even let go of your hands.Children are always brave and not afraid of falling, and they don't know what the brakes on the bicycle are for.

There was once a basketball game between the two villages on a summer night. The whole night was brightly lit, crowded with crowds, children screaming and running wildly, hawkers hawking, cheering and applauding on the court, street chats on the sidelines, parents chatting and clapping their feet. The slaps of mosquitoes are intertwined into a summer night sonata. Life in the country is always very attentive, as if you miss life if you neglect these things. This kind of intention is very ordinary, without poetic exaggeration or dramatic publicity, but Expectation, gratitude and nostalgia are all in this ordinary life.

It was already getting late after school, and the lights were on.Today Zhou Nansheng did not go with Xie Xuan. Xie Xuan rode his bicycle slowly away from the school under the night, and saw Sun Lanye pushing a bicycle in front of him from a distance——

"What's wrong?" Xie Xuan rushed to ask.

Frustration and irritability were evident on Sun Lanye's face, "It's nothing, I was plucked out again, even if it was a prank, it was too much. This week, I was plucked out almost every day."

Xie Xuan was taken aback, got out of the car and walked with Sun Lanye, "Every day? How could this happen?"

Sun Lanye's delicate eyebrows were twisted into pimples, a little self-defeating, "Who knows, I don't know who thinks I'm so displeased——"

Xie Xuan was silent for a while, "Isn't Li Rong with you today?"

Sun Lanye forced a smile, "I let her go first, how dare I let her go with me every day, and her home is far away." She paused, looked at Xie Xuan and waved her hand, "I don't care, you go first , the sky is getting darker—”

Xie Xuan was unmoved, "It's okay, I'll walk with you for a while, we'll go together anyway."

Xie Xuan, who Sun Lanye couldn't say enough, had no choice but to acquiesce, lowered his head slightly, but his palms were sweating while holding the handlebar. From the corner of his eyes, he could just see the boy's hand holding the handlebar—because he was playing the piano, Xie Xuan His hands are larger than ordinary boys, with slender fingers and well-defined joints.Further up, there is his chin and side face, which were beaten into a honey color by the street lights. They are not beautiful, but they are warm and clean, like the bright and refreshing autumn sky. His face has always been calm and unhurried. But it seemed as if he would never be able to reach it——Sun Lanye's cheeks were scorching hot, fortunately covered by the darkness of night, he randomly searched for topics, breaking the silence between the two of them——

"We're going to show a movie there, you know?"

"Yeah." Zhou Nansheng told him about this early in the morning, and Xie Xuan can still recall his excited expression.

"I don't know what to put?"

"do not know.

"...Are you going to see it?"

"...Go."

The two walked slowly, talking occasionally, and soon arrived at the car repair shop.

When Xie Xuan returned home, the food was already on the table, and the old lady didn't say anything about his late return.After dinner, the old man urged Xie Xuan to take a seat, but it was still a bit late, the drying ground was already packed with people's heads, and acquaintances were chatting about the harvest in the field, the dishes for dinner, and the hawkers who came from all directions Shouting, the child crawled around in the crowd.Grandpa met his card partner, squeezed over to sit on a stool with him, shared a cigarette, and chatted.

Xie Xuan turned around, but didn't see Zhou Nansheng, but met Sun Lanye.She got out of the crowd and saw him, with a smile on her face, slightly surprised, and brushed her hair on the sideburns, "Many people—"

Xie Xuan nodded, "Yes, are you alone?"

"Ah."

"Have you finished your homework?"

"No, I just had dinner and haven't had time to make it yet."

"Well, I wanted to ask you the solution to the last question in the math paper, it seems quite difficult."

"Have you finished? So fast!"

Sun Lanye smiled embarrassingly, and suddenly pointed to a small stall not far away and shouted in surprise: "Hey, Xie Xuan, look, is that the kind of sugar poured at the gate of our elementary school?"

Xie Xuan looked in the direction she was pointing, and also smiled, "It seems so, why did you come here—"

"Go and have a look—" Sun Lanye was the first to walk towards the small stall surrounded by a group of children, and Xie Xuan followed along—

Sure enough, it was the kind of sugar booth. An old man in an old-fashioned dark blue workman’s suit sat on a small horse, and on a cylindrical pillar made of straw, there was a completed work-a lifelike phoenix, A galloping horse, a naive little mouse, and a majestic rooster—the old man is using a little syrup and a small iron spoon to make a butterfly on a clean white chopping board, Skilled, the children around stared without blinking, and they were all amazed—the butterfly was ready, the old man touched the eyes with the handle of a spoon, and then sliced ​​up the whole sugar butterfly with a long thin knife and handed it to the There is a boy beside him.

The child took it carefully and left surrounded by his companions.

Sun Lanye looked at the child who left with nostalgia in his eyes.Xie Xuan glanced at her, took out a coin from his pocket, and put it in the old man's lunch box, "I'll try once——"

Sun Lanye turned her head and stood next to Xie Xuan, watching Xie Xuan turn the pointer with a little excitement - the pointer turned around a few times, swayed from side to side between the dragon and the mouse a few times, and finally stopped with a slight difference. On the grid of dragons—

Sun Lanye grabbed Xie Xuan's arm and shouted happily, "It's a dragon, I've never turned to a dragon before, you're so lucky—" Her cheeks were flushed, her eyes were shining like stars in the night ,very beautiful.

The old man also echoed, "Yeah, luck is very good, very few people can turn to dragon!"

Sun Lanye was as happy as if he had won a dragon, and told him carefully: "Master, make it bigger!"

"Okay!" said the old man, and he has quickly scooped up a small spoonful of syrup in his hand, poured it on the cutting board bit by bit, and started to work. The handicrafts of dragon and phoenix are the most complicated, uncommon, and also hooked. It brought back some memories of Xie Xuan's childhood - that time Zhou Nansheng was taken to the street by his uncle, and his uncle specially paid a craftsman to make a dragon for him.Throughout the afternoon, he held the dragon carefully but was reluctant to eat it, and excitedly ran to Grandma Xie Xuan's house to show him - the two sat on the piano bench, staring straight at the hard-won dragon After watching it for a long time, I was both excited and reluctant. In the end, Zhou Nansheng made a big sacrifice in pain, and let Xie Xuan take the first bite—hard, crunchy, sweet, and seemed to have warmth .

When the dragon was ready, it was really majestic and arrogant. Xie Xuan took it from the old man and handed it to Sun Lanye who was beside him.

Sun Lanye was flattered, "Give it to me?"

"Yeah." Xie Xuan moved forward again, "I don't like food——"

Sun Lanye lowered her head slightly, as shy as a water lotus that cannot withstand the cool breeze.The right hand took it carefully and whispered, "Thank you."

The ever-dark curtain lit up, and there was a commotion in the crowd, "It's started——"

Xie Xuan said, "The movie has started." He said and walked a few steps forward.

Sun Lanye followed closely and stood shoulder to shoulder with him.

The movie is "Shaolin Temple" played by Jet Li, and it won the love of men, women and children from the very beginning——

When Zhou Nansheng went to Xie Xuan's grandmother's house, he was in vain, so he went straight to the drying yard at the head of the village. From a distance, he saw dark heads under the lights, and the sound of movie stereos resounded through the night sky.Zhou Nansheng trotted up——

"Hey, Nansheng! Zhou Nansheng!"

Zhou Nansheng turned his neck and looked towards the source of the sound. It was Zhou Jin, standing on the pile of rocks by the wall with a group of young people from other villages, standing on tiptoe, waving at him desperately, "Here, here, here The view is good, you can’t see it even if you squeeze in, it’s all people—”

Zhou Nansheng ran over, "Did you see San'er?"

Zhou Jin scratched his itchy neck, "I didn't see him, he's here too?"

"His grandma said that he came here with his grandpa after dinner. What's the matter?"

""Shaolin Temple", very handsome—hey, Nansheng, have you finished today's math homework, copy it for me tomorrow morning, I heard that two movies will be released today, I must not have time to do homework—"

Zhou Nansheng raised his eyes, disdainful, "Go away, and make excuses—"

Zhou Jin was grinning, his small eyes were almost gone, "It's decided——"

Zhou Nansheng waved his hand impatiently, "I'm going to find San'er—" After running for a few steps, he suddenly turned back to the pavilion stand next to the drying yard, bought two packs of Huamei, and then rushed into the crowd——

Almost all the people in the village were mobilized. Those in the front row were still sitting on the stools and chairs they brought with them, while those in the back row were all standing and crowded. The most peripheral ones simply stood on the chairs.Zhou Nansheng squeezed back and forth among the crowd, sweating all over, and receiving a lot of curses, and finally saw Xie Xuan's figure in the northeast corner—"Three—" He called him excitedly, but his voice was And abruptly broke——

Xie Xuan is not alone, and standing side by side with him is Sun Lanye - the two of them did not talk, just standing together, there is a kind of harmonious beauty of a golden boy and a jade girl, and the bright light of the screen projects the shadows of the two on the screen. Together, lingering and beautiful——Zhou Nansheng didn't know why he suddenly felt like a bucket of cold water had been poured into his head in such a fiery mood, and his heart was so stuffy.Standing in the crowd, he felt that he didn't even have the strength to lift his feet. In his heart, he felt lost, angry, angry, sad, and irritable, all kinds of things were intertwined. He turned around and got out of the crowd. Lively was suddenly far away from him, as if separated by a layer of hood——