The price of rebirth

A few people wandered around the mountain for half an afternoon before starting to go back down the mountain. At the foot of the mountain, looking at the clear lake, Qin Yue suddenly said: "Don't rush back, I want to go swimming, okay?"

Lin Qiang was startled: "This is October, not summer, aren't you afraid of the cold when you go into the water? Better say goodbye..."

The boy also said: "That's right, even my dad has to wear a waterproof jacket when he goes into the water. Don't think it's not cold in October, but the temperature here in our countryside is lower than in the city, and the lake is deep. It's also much colder than being in a swimming pool."

Qin Yue was sullen, and sighed: "I just want to go down and see how deep the lake is, if it doesn't work, forget it."

Su Yan stared at Qin Yue for a while, then stretched out his hand to pat his head: "We can come and swim next summer, but don't play today, hurry back and eat crabs, and pick lotus seeds tomorrow."

Liang Kui slapped Qin Yue's head lightly: "You are convulsed, what are you playing with now?"

All the way home went smoothly, and in the evening there was another delicious crab meal, and I didn't want to stop eating.

The farm is very lively after nightfall. There is an art hall in the farm where karaoke can be sung. Every day after dinner, some men and women who are busy during the day and want to have some fun at night go to the art hall to sing, dance and sing.But most of them are middle-aged people, dancing tango, and there is a group of women dancing. They don’t know what they are dancing, twisting and twisting with fans. Although the dance is not necessarily good, these people are smiling. , is their most relaxed moment.

There were also those who felt embarrassed and watched the fun from the sidelines, and were reluctant to join in. For example, Lin Qiang's uncle and aunt, her aunt said: "I want to dance too, but your uncle doesn't like it, he says I'm ugly, and it's embarrassing to dance."

His uncle immediately reprimanded: "Why aren't you ugly, look at your bucket waist, do you still want to twist like others?"

"You don't want to dance? Then why do you come to see it every day?" My aunt retorted.

Several young people burst out laughing, Su Yan smiled and said, "Why didn't you see young people come to play?"

"Many young people are working outside and haven't come back. The few who are still in the field are not willing to hang out with the old guys. They say that they pollute their eyes. Those bastards just want to be beaten. I think they just want to play game consoles and touch them. Cards. What do you guys want to do? Would you like to sing with them? Would you like to play cards and games?"

Liang Kui scratched his head: "I don't know how to play the cards here, I'm going to sing and play, hehe, my throat is itchy, Su Yan go, let's go sing together!"

Su Yan was dragged away, Lin Qiang ran to the game hall, Qin Yue and Chen Yan sat aside, listening to Su Yan and Liang Kui sing.

The two have good voices, and they sang almost all of Huang Jiaju's songs. Then Jacky Cheung and Liang Kui sang Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. As soon as the first sentence came out, the art hall trembled and all the dancers The man and the woman covered their ears and shouted angrily: "Which boy is begging for beating! You are still very tender just because you still sing about the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau with your broken voice!"

The women with big arms and round waists glared at them, Liang Kui shrank back in fear, and quickly changed the track, never daring to challenge the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

Su Yan and the others laughed loudly, and Qin Yue exaggeratedly beat the sofa, shouting: "Break throat~~Break throat~~~"

Liang Kui rushed over and gave him a few kicks, then leaned on Su Yan's shoulder injured and muttered: "Why did I break my voice? I have sung since I was a child, and if you want me to be a singer, I will definitely be a new generation of heavenly king. Obviously it is that The song is too difficult, Su Yan, don’t you think so?”

Su Yan smiled tremblingly, stroked Liang Kui's hair and said, "You should sing about my motherland."

Those women really wanted to hit Liang Kui's inflated self-confidence. As soon as Liang Kui stopped, a carrot-like woman picked up the microphone and chose the song "Qinghai-Tibet Plateau".

Liang Kui pricked up his ears, and a woman's shrill voice came out from the microphone, with [-]% impact.

But people sang it out, and gradually got better and better, Liang Kui had to be convinced.

Qin Yue got excited, and when the woman left, he immediately got up and said, "I'll sing too."

Liang Kui thought he was going to challenge the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, but Qin Yue chose Jay Chou's nunchaku.

Humming and dancing, my aunt stared wide-eyed and asked, "What is this kid singing? Why can't I understand a sentence?"

Qin Yue walked down with a dark face: "Just don't understand if you don't understand!"

Liang Kui laughed and went back: "Our family is becoming more and more like a little girl, who likes to chase stars. Today Jay Chou SHEs tomorrow, all songs are used to scold my grandparents."

Qin Yue grabbed Liang Kui's neck: "I don't know who secretly practiced hip-hop at home and got their pocket money deducted. Eating bread every day is so miserable."

"How do I remember that someone learned to spacewalk and twisted his foot, and lay in bed for a week." Liang Kui chuckled.

Qin Yue was angry: "Obviously you insisted on teaching me! I was scolded by my father."

Liang Kui giggled, and suddenly recalled the past, and casually said: "That time you twisted your foot, and I was chased for several streets by Guan Wen, who is next door to you, why can't you blame me ?”

Qin Yue's expression twisted and twisted, and his face became a little paler.He let go of Liang Kui and sat beside him silently.

Liang Kui wondered, "What's wrong?"

As soon as the question was over, the familiar singing sounded again, it was Jacky Cheung's "Forget to Cry", Su Yan stood in the middle, and the emotion overflowed from the singing.

Liang Kui jumped over to pick up another microphone to cooperate with him tacitly, and the matter of Qin Yue was left behind.

Chen Yan watched them sing with a smile, and couldn't help humming along. She thought this was the happiest holiday, and everyone was full of laughter. If these friends could still be together after many years, what would they want in their life.She is glad that she has changed and that she has friends. When she is no longer young, she will not be gloomy and pale when she recalls it.Everyone has a diary in their hearts, but her diary was tightly sealed before, and she didn't want to record any day, and she couldn't be happy every day.The diary she wants is the same as that of many girls, pink, youthful, dreamy, and beautiful. It records longings and dreams, and there are many little things in it, as well as bits and pieces of laughter and tears.She will also have a youth photo album, which must be treasured for a lifetime.

Chen Yan picked up the camera and clicked a few times on the two singing.

Turning around, she turned the camera to the dancing crowd. These people are no longer young. They are called fishmongers. They have been exposed to the sun, their faces are dark, and they have long since lost their former beauty.

Click, click, every picture in the camera is full of smiles, shy, straightforward, unrestrained, and reserved. Chen Yan can't help laughing with them. The faces of these people reminded her of her parents at home.She suddenly remembered that there was no group photo at home, and her parents were always too busy, so no one mentioned it.

"Little girl, can you take a group photo for us?"

Chen Yan smiled: "Of course."

"Everyone stand neatly and dance well, let's take a group photo."

After the dead of night, everyone should sleep.

Su Yan shared a bed with Lin Qiang, Liang Kui shared a bed with Qin Yue, and Chen Yan slept in the next room.

Although it was almost eleven o'clock, Liang Kui couldn't fall asleep, tossing and twisting, the sleepy Qin Yue kicked him vigorously: "Don't sleep and get out!"

Liang Kui simply got up: "I'm going to get out, look at you." He happily jumped onto Su Yan's bed, kicked Lin Qiang: "Xiaoqiang, hurry up, brother wants to sleep here."

"CAO, you're the only one who has a lot of shit!" Lin Qiang scolded angrily, and jumped onto Qin Yue's bed.

"Hey." Liang Kui lay contentedly beside Su Yan, Su Yan closed his eyes and did not move.

Liang Kui suddenly felt bored and pulled his ear: "Did you really fall asleep? Su Yan, wake up and talk to me. I have a sore throat. Listen to me, is it hoarse? You can't sing so silly next time."

Su Yan didn't say a word, he couldn't even hear his breathing.

Liang Kui simply leaned against his cheek and blew into Su Yan's ear, screaming like a ghost, but Su Yan remained motionless.Liang Kui immediately said: "I can tell, you pretend to be asleep."

Seeing that Su Yan was indifferent, Liang Kui smiled grimly: "If you don't wake up again, I'll take off your pants!" As he spoke, he put his thief's hand on Su Yan's waistband, Su Yan finally woke up with a face, picked up the pillow and patted Liang Kui's face: "You Fuck ADHD kids! Shall I tell you a story to lull you to sleep?"

Liang Kui laughed: "Okay, tell me, I'll listen. Is it the story of Grandma Wolf?"

Su Yan snorted softly, tightened the quilt and said impatiently: "Don't disturb me, I'm sleepy. If you can't sleep, go out and climb the roof."

"It's really shameful." Liang Kui sighed.

Su Yan slept very deeply this time, and he didn't have to worry about being late in the morning, and he could sleep a hundred times more easily.It was 07:30 in the morning, and several people showed no signs of waking up, and uncle and the others did not bother.

Su Yan was dreaming, but he couldn't tell what was in the dream.

Suddenly, a scream woke him up, Su Yan sat up sleepily, Lin Qiang and Qin Yue also got up one after another: "What's wrong? Is it my aunt screaming?"

Outside the house, my aunt's loud voice came clearly.

"You scared me to death. What are you doing on the roof early in the morning? Oh, look at you, don't you just sleep on the roof all night?"

Su Yan turned pale in shock, quickly put on his clothes and ran out, Qin Yue said confusedly: "It's not my silly cousin, right?"

Su Yan ran to the backyard of the house and saw Liang Kui sitting on the roof at a glance. Liang Kui had obviously just woken up, with a confused and stupid look on his face.

The roof here is the kitchen roof in the backyard. It is very low and can be easily climbed up from the courtyard wall.Not far from the back of Liang Kui's head was a chimney.

Su Yan said sullenly, "Come down!"

"Oh..." Liang Kui scratched his hair, moved his body, and immediately grinned in pain, "Oh, my waist, my legs... the back of my head! Ah, why is my voice so hoarse?"

"..." Su Yan stroked his forehead: "You idiot, get out of here!"

Liang Kui was immediately dissatisfied, covering his mutated throat: "How can you scold me? It's not that you said you couldn't sleep and go up to the roof. I really couldn't sleep, so I went up. The result is really effective, and I fell asleep unconsciously. I rely on it Fortunately, I didn't turn over while sleeping..." Liang Kui looked at the roof and the ground with lingering fear, and if he accidentally fell, he would suffer again.

Su Yan sneered: "I didn't expect you to be so stupid."

Qin Yue laughed loudly in his pajamas, "God gave you a smart brain, and for unnecessary reason, he gave you a stupid cerebellum."

Lin Qiang smiled wryly and shook his head: "Next time, don't mess around, what if you get hurt."

"That's right, it frightened me." My aunt agreed.

"I'm sorry, I won't do it next time."

Liang Kui climbed down from the roof, his back hurt and his legs seemed to be cramping.All of a sudden, he complained endlessly, his appetite was not as good as before when he ate breakfast, and the most important thing was that he was listless and unable to cheer up.

"I'm so sleepy." Liang Kui yawned.

"Go catch up on sleep." Su Yan urged.

"But aren't we going out to play?"

"Go to bed first, we'll wait for you to go out in the afternoon."

My aunt nodded: "You slept on the roof all night, maybe you caught a cold. Take some cold medicine and go to sleep, and you will get better soon."

Liang Kui did show signs of catching a cold. He was sweating from time to time, covering his head with the quilt.Su Yan wanted to wait for him to wake up and drive him to the hospital for an injection so that he would heal quickly.

When my uncle heard that someone was sick, he turned around and brought back two wood turtles for his aunt to stew.

It's a pity that Liang Kui didn't have a good meal, and he slept until noon, only got up and took medicine, and then continued to sleep.

Today I couldn't go out to play, so Lin Qiang and Qin Yue went to the game hall, and Chen Yan went out to collect pictures with her camera.

Su Yan was sitting at the door of the house where the cool breeze was blowing, teasing the dog. This silly dog ​​kept staring at the water chestnut and lotus seed rice in his hand, and he played with it while eating.

"Jie Jie Jie, Yanyan, throw this dog to me."

"What? Is it good?"

"I think it's so silly and fun."

"Jie Jie, I won't give it." Su Yan imitated him with a weird smile.

"Yanyan, you don't learn well, you want to be like this, jie jie jie jie, regular, rhythmic, musical, and stylish. Jie jie, jie jie jie, jie jie jie jie~~~"

"Jie Jie Jie, Jie Jie, Jie Jie... Jie your sister!" Su Yan cursed angrily with a red face.

"Jiejie, you can't learn it! Jiejiejie, Yanyan, God also gave half a stupid cerebellum."

"roll!"

"Jie Jie, by the way, who is God?"

Su Yan laughed loudly: "Jie Jie Jie, you must be illiterate, I won't tell you."

Liang Kui was dumbfounded when he opened the door. He looked at Su Yan and smiled strangely. He thought he hadn't woken up and had a strange dream.Liang Kui scratched his cheek and called him cautiously: "Su Yan?"

Su Yan turned back and stared at Liang Kui.

Liang Kui smiled timidly: "You...what were you doing just now?"

Su Yan turned his head and pointed at the dog calmly: "I'm teasing the dog."

Liang Kui suddenly realized: "So that's it! I said you are weird, how come you laugh like that, just like the BOSS in the cartoon, it's scary."

Su Yan coughed lightly, and touched his forehead: "Fools are blessed with fools, healed up so fast, are you in good spirits?"

Liang Kui nodded vigorously: "Yeah! It's all right. I'm in good health, and I've been fine since I've been sleeping with a little ailment like a cold. Where did the others go?"

"I went out to play, and I left hot soup for you in the kitchen."

"Exactly, I'm almost starving, are there any crabs?"

Su Yan stared: "Forget about it, you still think about crabs when you have a cold."

Liang Kui laughed, holding the hot soup and gurgling, looking at Su Yan who was sitting at the door and continuing to tease the dog, Liang Kui fell silent, and said in an embarrassing tone: "Su Yan...don't be angry if I say something."

"Huh?" Su Yan didn't turn his head.

Liang Kui took a sip of the soup, supported his head and said, "I had a weird dream when I was sleeping. It was very unlucky and a very annoying dream. The old man said that some dreams come true when you tell them. I'd better not talk about it."

Su Yan turned around, confused: "What kind of dream? Aren't dreams all anti-dreams? What are you afraid of if it's unlucky? You're superstitious."

"You really want me to tell you?"

"Say."

"I...I dreamed that you died..." Liang Kui whispered.

The lotus seed rice in Su Yan's hand spilled all over the floor, Gululu rolled far away, the earth dog barked, and stretched out its tongue to lick Su Yan's cheeks and eyes, the licks were wet, like tears from crying.

"What else did you dream about? Why did I die? How did I die? How old did I die?" Su Yan asked a series of questions with a smile while touching the dirt dog.

Liang Kui stared at Su Yan's back, and said for a while, "I don't know, I just saw your grave when I was confused. At that time I..." I couldn't come out, and I didn't remember the details, but he knew that there was a picture of a young man on the tombstone. Face, holding flowers, he is not old either.

He still remembers sitting by the grave and weeping.