round spring

Twilight is coming every day, but it is getting more and more uncontrollable.

——An Yuan's Diary

The luck was not on An Yuan's side, the outcome was decided in one round, An Yuan missed the bull's-eye, he checked it several times, but he was still a little short, standing beside the dartboard with a sullen face.

Shen Xingchun walked over and patted An Yuan's arm, "Come on next time."

An Yuan took Shen Xingchun's arm away, reluctantly took off his short boots, and sent his grandfather and Shen Xingchun to the gate, where they stood beside the wooden fence.

In the spring, grandma sprinkled a lot of flower seeds around the yard and planted a lot of flowers. Now the wooden fence is covered with trumpet flowers and red roses, and Gesang flowers are all around.

An Yuan grabbed a red rose, pursed her lips, and looked dissatisfied.

Shen Xingchun held the snakeskin bag and the small spatula in one hand, pinched his angry face with the other and said, "Go home and practice again, maybe you can hit the bull's-eye next time."

Grandpa teased him beside him, "Don't pull it, you will lose it if you pull it again."

An Yuan honestly stopped, Shen Xingchun didn't make sense, he wanted to start from his grandfather, he walked up to his grandfather, took the small shovel from his grandfather's hand and said: "Grandpa, I heard Brother Chun say that Yes, you bring snake traps with you when you go up the mountain, you are amazing, you can catch snakes, take me there."

Grandpa glanced back and forth between the two of them, then pulled the small shovel in An Yuan's hand, smiled a few times and said, "It's useless for you to flatter me, this is your brother's business, you two It's up to you, grandpa doesn't get involved, if your brother says you can go, I'll take you with me."

Shen Xingchun answered, "I can't go."

An Yuan pulled her face, "Grandpa, you are still facing my brother."

"I'm not going to your brother." Grandpa smiled and turned his head away. "It's what you two said at the beginning that you use darts to count."

"I would like to bet." Shen Xingchun saw that his grandfather had gone far away, touched the top of An Yuan's head, turned his head to follow his grandfather, and said, "Stay well at home, and when I come back, I will pick some day lilies for you to make day flowers Vegetable cakes for you to eat."

"I still want to eat persimmons." An Yuan added.

"Okay, come back and pick it for you."

The sun hangs on the top of the mountain, it is red, the light shines on the ground through the rose leaves, the mottled light and shadow fall on Anyuan's feet, the wind blows the rose, and the elegant fragrance of the rose brushes Anyuan's hair, cheeks, and neck... …

He squinted his eyes against the light, and Shen Xingchun's back changed from light to dark, and finally became smaller and smaller. Before Shen Xingchun's back disappeared at the corner of the path, he shouted again: "Brother, don't pick daylilies and persimmons for me, I don’t want to eat, you and grandpa don’t do too much, it’s too tiring to carry down the mountain, so I’ll be back soon, and I’ll pick you up on the path next to the back mountain forest with a flatbed cart in the afternoon.”

Shen Xingchun turned his head and waved at An Yuan, "Understood, let's go back."

An Yuan spent the whole morning weeding with his grandma in the vegetable garden. After weeding, the vegetable garden was tidied up, and he picked a lot of cucumbers and beans. Grandma planted too many vegetables. The vegetable garden alone is only two acres. The four of them can eat whatever they want. Every family has grown vegetables, and they can’t send them out. The excess will only be dried into vegetables and eaten in winter.

"Your brother likes to eat beans, and you like to eat potatoes. I will cook potatoes and beans for you in the afternoon, and we will eat them at noon." Grandma said while picking beans.

An Yuan picked a few tender cucumbers, and found that some grown cucumbers were buried under the leaves and turned slightly yellow, so she asked grandma whether to pick them or not.

Grandma glanced at it and said that she would not pick it, and she would keep it for next year's seeding when she was too old.

An Yuan picked a lot of small green cucumbers and a few melons, washed them in well water and put them in plastic bags.

Grandma asked: "Aren't you going to eat?"

An Yuan tightened the mouth of the plastic bag, "When I pick up Grandpa and Brother Chun in the afternoon, I will bring them food."

"It's not that fast. It's estimated that I won't be back until four or five o'clock in the afternoon."

"I'll pick them up on the path at the back of the mountain in the afternoon. A snakeskin bag of herbs is too heavy." An Yuan washed another cucumber for grandma.

Grandma took a bite of the cucumber and said, "Grandpa said before going out that the mountain they went to today is mainly for picking flowers and stalks and other medicines. They are not heavy, just come back and dry them in the yard."

"It's tiring to fill a bag full of flowers," An Yuan said, "I'd better pick them up."

"I'll make some herbal tea, you take it with you." Grandma said.

An Yuan responded with a "yes" and said, "Next time, go with them."

Grandma smiled and asked, "Aren't you afraid of snakes?"

"It shouldn't be... not too scary..." An Yuan said without any confidence, "I saw a real snake that time, and then I saw it on TV. I didn't feel so scared when I watched TV. gone."

"That's because I didn't see it with my own eyes. I'm not afraid of it through the TV," grandma said. "I'm also afraid of snakes. When I was young, I went up the mountain with your grandpa. I was also scared by snakes. A small green snake is poisonous. It bit my leg directly, although it didn't hurt very much, but I was so scared that I couldn't walk all of a sudden. Your grandpa is amazing. He directly crushed the herbs from the mountain and applied it on my leg. Later, your grandpa refused to let it go. I went up the mountain and said that he was afraid of scaring me again, but when I wanted to go with him later, he wouldn’t let me follow.”

An Yuan tilted his head and looked at the unstoppable smile in grandma's eyes. He heard grandma talk about her and grandpa. They grew up together. Grandpa went to school and studied with the old doctor for several years , Grandma married grandpa when she was 16 years old. The two loved each other for a lifetime. Sometimes they would quarrel, but most of the time it was grandpa who let grandma go. He listened to what grandma said.

He remembered that Shen Xingchun didn't let him go up the mountain, his eyes were as sweet as grandma's, "Brother Chun didn't let me go up the mountain either."

"He is also afraid of scaring you." Grandma said.

An Yuan smiled, with soft arcs at the end of her eyes, she nodded and said "Yes", "Yes, he is also afraid of scaring me."

After lunch, An Yuan couldn't wait to push the flatbed cart out the door. He didn't stop until he reached the small road fork next to the back mountain. He didn't know which road his grandfather and Shen Xingchun went to, so he had to wait at the fork. more than an hour.

At the beginning, he sat directly on the ground, and a few red ants crawled on his body along his legs. He slapped the ants away with his teeth bared, and then sat on the flatbed cart, dangling his legs, and ate two cucumbers and one melon before he saw his grandfather. With Shen Xingchun.

An Yuan saw their direction clearly, pushed the cart and walked for a while, first took the snakeskin bag from grandpa and put it on the flatbed cart, then went to pick up the one from Shen Xingchun.

Shen Xingchun took the bag away a little, put it on the ground, and took out two convenience bags from above, which were filled with day lily and day lily, "I'll take out the day lily and day lily first, be careful not to crush them."

An Yuan looked at the red mark on Shen Xingchun's arm, and said, "How heavy, I won't let you pick it off."

"This little thing has no weight at all. It's everywhere on the mountain. I just picked some. Grandpa and I were half full on the mountain just eating those wild fruits. These are for you and grandma."

Shen Xingchun was sweating all over his head and body. An Yuan raised his hand to wipe his forehead, but his heart was very sweet. He turned around and took out two water glasses from the flatbed cart and unscrewed them, one for Grandpa and one for Shen Xingchun, "Grandma Boiled herbal tea, drink some first."

"I've been thinking about the herbal tea your grandma made all afternoon when I was on the mountain." Grandpa took the water glass with a smile and took a few swigs.

An Yuan said: "Grandma knows you want to drink, so she boiled it for you specially, and it also contains traditional Chinese medicine for relieving summer heat and reducing fire."

Shen Xingchun also raised his head and drank half of the cup, the sweat on his forehead dripped down his eyelids, his eyes were stinging from the sweat after drinking the herbal tea, he closed his eyes and handed the water cup to An Yuan, lifted the hem of his clothes, and bent over He put his clothes on his head and began to wipe the sweat on his face.

After one summer, Shen Xingchun was tanned a lot, the skin on his neck and body was no longer the same color, and it was even more obvious under the sun.

His neck is black, and his exposed belly is white. When he bends down and tightens his abdomen, his muscles are smooth and powerful, and he is also sweating, beads of sweat dripping down his chest and across his lower abdomen.

An Yuan thought, his brother is really different, under the youthful vigor that has not faded away, he already has the strength and elegance of an adult, he still has to look up, his brother now has deep eyebrows, broad shoulders, Long legs, only the eyes have not changed, they are still as pure as before.

After wiping his sweat, Shen Xingchun put down the corner of his clothes, saw An Yuan looking straight at him, then bent down to look at An Yuan.

An Yuan's skin is very fair and delicate, and it seems that he has never been tanned. Shen Xingchun thinks that it may be because he pays attention to cleaning things all the year round. When An Yuan looks at him, his eyes are very focused, and his dark and bright eyes shine in the setting sun. Moving, the soft light spread a layer of warm yellow on his face. When he blinked, the long and dense eyelashes fell on the lower eyelid, and at the same time, a small shadow fell, flashing past, an indescribable sense of tranquility.

Shen Xingchun stretched out his hand and waved it in front of An Yuan's eyes, "What's wrong? Looking at me like that."

An Yuan blinked, lowered his eyelids, turned around, turned his head to look at the distant mountains stacked in the sky, and said, "It's nothing, just watching you wipe your sweat with your clothes."

Shen Xingchun carelessly brushed the short stubble on the top of his head, "Isn't your brother very handsome now?"

"Super handsome, no one is more handsome than you."

An Yuan looked at the sun that was still setting, pursed his lips and smiled, and spoke very seriously...

Tired all day, Shen Xingchun fell asleep lying on the kang after dinner, An Yuan always felt itchy legs, itching so much that he couldn't sleep.

Shen Xingchun woke up when he heard An Yuan's continuous turning over, he moved to An Yuan's side in a daze, raised his hand and patted through the quilt, "What's wrong?"

"I don't know what's wrong, my legs are itchy, I only feel it when I sleep at night."

Shen Xingchun moved to the edge of the kang again, felt the light cord being pulled down, lifted the quilt and sat up, thinking that he was not used to the light, half-closed his eyes, "Let me see."

An Yuan also got up from the bed, still scratching her legs.

Shen Xingchun grabbed An Yuan's arm, lifted his trouser leg and looked at it. There were two red spots on An Yuan's left calf. Shen Xingchun rubbed his eyes and looked carefully, "Why is it swollen? It doesn't look like a mosquito." Bite."

An Yuan thought of the red ants crawling on him during the day and said, "Maybe he was bitten by the red ants during the day."

"The red ants are fine, the red ants are not poisonous." Shen Xingchun was still not sober, and judged by instinct, found the mosquito bite ointment that was always on the bedside, unscrewed it and squeezed it on his fingers, and supported An Yuan's ankle with one hand, Put the ointment on Anyuan's calf.

An Yuan moved his toes and accidentally touched Shen Xingchun's knee, he shrank back again, looking at Shen Xingchun's sleepy eyes, he said slowly: "Brother, you are so kind to me .”

"You are my younger brother, so I must treat you well." Shen Xingchun closed his eyes and yawned.

An Yuan had asked this sentence many times, and Shen Xingchun always gave the same answer every time.

An Yuan asked again: "Brother, if I do something wrong in the future, will you still treat me well?"

"Correct what you did wrong, and it will be good for you if you correct it." Shen Xingchun's voice was very vague.

"Then what if it can't be changed?" An Yuan looked a little lonely.

"What mistakes can't be corrected?" Shen Xingchun finished wiping An Yuan's legs, pulled down his trouser legs, and pulled the light cord after lying down. He was so sleepy that he fell asleep again before An Yuan could answer. .

An Yuan lay next to Shen Xingchun, listening to his gentle breathing, and after a long time answered the question: "It seems that I can't change it..."