August is the season when the sun is at its peak, and it is also the best season for midsummer flowers to bloom and bloom.

In the mountain villages of southern Gansu, the winding river is like a water dragon swimming out of the canyon of the lofty mountains, the country road built along the river hovers on the side of the water dragon, a bunch of paddy fields, and slowly spread along the river, the grain ears are verdant, and the rice flowers are like snow.

Thousands of miles of rice flowers should be beautiful.

A wisp of spring leeks is green, and ten miles of rice flowers are fragrant.

In the early morning, the dew and tide were clear in the field, and Lin Yan accompanied his father to the field to inspect the growth of rice. Every morning when the weather is cool, my father will go around the ridges, the sun is scorching in August, and the rice likes high temperatures, but the rice fields are inseparable from water. My mother is still in good health, and there are a bunch of eggplants, peppers, leeks, and beans in the vegetable patch near the house, which is all due to my mother.

In the afternoon, the scorching sun is scorching, and the dolls in the alleys are playing barefoot and playing the game of "hopscotch", and the old people are shaking their fans, making a pot of tea, and lying on the deck chairs listening to the radio or opera. The shady bottom of the well is a natural refrigerator, and adults always like to use iron buckets to wash melons, watermelons, tomatoes and other home-grown melons and fruits at the bottom of the well. "Under the willow shed of the childish children, the thin dogs chase butterflies in the narrow alley". The lively alley mouth, the midsummer style through the hall, and the soft whispers of the three generations in the same hall......

Lin Yan came back this time, as usual, to help his parents with farm work, talk about intimate words, and greet the neighbors in the alley warmly.

At night, the moonlight was like water, the courtyard was breezy, and Lin Yan and his parents chatted while enjoying the shade. His father was concerned about Lin Yan's schoolwork and living expenses, and his mother was more worried about Lin Yan's health. Lin Yan chatted with his parents about the trivial matters of the school, and roughly talked about his winning the lottery and the establishment of the company, and gave his parents a bank card with 350,000 yuan in it. I hope that my parents will not be overworked, and they must not go to work as lumberjacks and do heavy work in order to earn more money.

The parents didn't believe Lin Yan's words at first, until Lin Yan showed them the bank card collection information, and the two were pleasantly surprised, looking at Lin Yan with tears in their eyes. The parents were still very worried about Lin Yan's living expenses at school, but now they finally put their minds at ease.

"Lao Lin, are you at home?" At this moment, the voice of Boss Li, a timber buyer, sounded at the door.

"Oh, Lao Li, you're here, come in and sit, come in and sit. Lin Yan's father, Lin Fa and Boss Li, grew up together since childhood, so they naturally warmly greeted Boss Li to come in and play for a while.

After opening the door, the first to come was a pretty girl, slim and elegant, jumping two steps, looked at Lin Yan's family, and immediately shouted with a smile: "Uncle Lin, Aunt Xu, hello!"

"Oh, Jiaqi is back! Come and sit here with Auntie, I haven't seen you for a few years! Tsk, the eighteenth year of the female college has changed, and the more she changes, the more beautiful she becomes!" As soon as Lin Yan's mother saw Jiaqi, her face was immediately filled with surprise and happy smiles.

Boss Li's daughter, Li Jiaqi, is two years older than Lin Yan. Lin Yan's mother likes Jiaqi, she has watched her grow up with Lin Yan since she was a child, and she has always been treated as her own daughter when she was a child.

As early as the 90s, when graduating from junior high school, it was still more popular to read technical secondary school, and the early secondary school students were assigned in packages, which was higher than the score line of high school. And Li Jiaqi studied at a technical secondary school, majored in tour guides, and after graduation, he worked as a tour guide in tourist attractions in southern Gansu, and Lin Yan hadn't seen Jiaqi for a long time.

When Lin Yan was a sophomore in high school, Jiaqi graduated from secondary school and came out to work. There will be fewer opportunities to meet in the future, but Jiaqi always takes a week out of the winter and summer vacations every year to come back to see her parents, and she always comes to Lin Yan's house to hang out. Lin Yan came back late this summer, but he didn't expect to see Li Jiaqi so coincidentally.

"Xiao Yanzi, I'm not happy to see my sister!" Li Jiaqi sat next to Lin Yan after saying hello to Lin Yan's parents, and habitually touched Lin Yan's head and asked.

"Uncle Li is good, Sister Qiqi is good. Lin Yan was touched by Jiaqi's head, a little embarrassed, after all, he has grown so big now. A few years ago, Lin Yan's body developed, and his height soared to 1.75 meters, and Jiaqi's height was only 1.6 meters, but even so, Jiaqi still tiptoed every time she saw Lin Yan, touched Lin Yan's head, and said, "Xiao Yanzi grows so fast, she is a head taller than her sister."

"Sister Kiki, I'm older, don't touch my head. Lin Yan said embarrassedly.

"Haha, Xiao Yanzi has grown up, look, there is all the slag. Li Jiaqi did not let him go because of Lin Yan's embarrassment, but poked Lin Yan's stubble with a smile.

Lin Yan was also very happy in his heart, Jiaqi was his best partner when he was a child, and no matter how bad he was, he couldn't be angry.

"Xiaoyan is back. It's been a long time since I've seen you, and I'm getting taller again. "Boss Li is in his 50s, there is not much silver wire, it is becoming more and more rare, his forehead is high and round, and he has been in the business all year round, and the wisdom and ability he has exercised are deeply engraved in the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes. Boss Li was very enthusiastic when he saw Lin Yan.

Lin Yan also responded enthusiastically, calling him "Uncle Li", his father and he were good friends, and they had a good relationship, in his memory, when his family was in trouble in his previous life, Boss Li would always reach out to help. But his father is not the kind of person who accepts people's kindness for no reason, so Boss Li will collect some wood from his father, or order some goods in advance to help the Lin family solve their urgent needs. Seeing Lin Yan go home this time, he thought that the next semester would start soon, so Uncle Li wanted to come over and visit the door, I don't know if Lin Fa's family is in financial difficulties. If you need it, you will naturally come to "order".

Lin Yan is very grateful for Boss Li's care, and Lin Yan actually knows that it is quite difficult for Boss Li to do some timber purchase business. Boss Li could not complete the acquisition plan of the timber mill and lost many customers, many large furniture factories have imported timber from the coastal areas, and only some smaller processing factories have asked Boss Li to buy wood.

The peasants in the mountains rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, and now the forests are forbidden, and most of the people do not know how to plant forest farms and cut them down in a planned way, so after the national policy came down, everyone sighed and sighed, and they were at a loss. In the previous life, the mountain people secretly cut down trees and secretly sold some timber for money. Once caught, they will be fined or jailed, and even if they find a buyer, they will be fined.

Those forest areas that are not forbidden are basically high mountains and long roads, and the roads are steep. If it is cut down, not to mention the cost of manpower, there is also the danger of injury and even life.

Boss Li and Lin Fa chatted, Lin Yan listened very obediently, Lin Yan is not familiar with the timber market at all now, listening to his father chatting with Uncle Li, he can't help Boss Li, but thinking that Dawei's father is also in the furniture business, and there is also a small processing factory, maybe he can build a bridge in the future, let the two of them discuss how to do it, it is too early to say these things at this moment, these things cannot be done for the time being, and rest assured.

Li Jiaqi was talking to Lin Yan's mother about her parents' shortcomings, and at the same time she was concerned about Lin Yan's college life, and jokingly asked Lin Yan if he had a girlfriend. Jiaqi's work is also smooth, the tourism industry has been getting better and better in recent years, and the country is running everywhere, but there are still several scenic spots in the province that go more, and every time she repeats her lines, it seems that she is a little tired.

Jiaqi said, and Lin Yan listened. Jiaqi's faint worry, Lin Yan could also see it. Some feelings are like this, you can know the other person's mind with one look.

The primary school of Xiaoworm Village is built on a piece of artificially unearthed flat land in the center of the village, and the building in the shape of a flat treasure cover, although there is only one floor, still has an ancient style of intrigue, pink walls and tiles, a bit like a private school before the Republic of China, and a bit like a new-style commune. Two large oval-shaped flower beds are embraced by a treasure-shaped school building, like children in the crook of the arm, and there are moons, roses, impatiens and plantains, and the flowers are clustered and exploding in the middle of summer. The high flagpole stands in the middle of the flower garden, and the fluttering five-star red flag is waving in the wind. The playground is naturally a paradise for children, and it is also the widest, larger than the area of all teaching buildings, and the ground is a little potholed, but there are basketball hoops, horizontal bars, double bars, and sand pits, and the entertainment facilities are very complete.

7-year-old Jiaqi was in the first grade, and for the first time, she brought Lin Yan, who was only 5 years old, to play at school, and was asked by many senior classmates, which scared Lin Yanyan so much that she didn't dare to move. A naughty big child looked at Lin Yan timidly and naïve, and deliberately picked up Lin Yan and put him on the double pole, which scared Lin Yan to cry. Because of this, Jiaqi broke the head of the boy who was taller than herself with a broom, and even the teacher couldn't pull it.

Since then, Jiaqi has established a prestige among the children, and Lin Yan has become Jiaqi's little follower. A small hand holds a small person and guards a small eternity. When I was a child, every day of Jiaqi's life, it seemed that she wanted to come to Lin Yan's house, take Lin Yan to play around, and a few children hid and played with stones at Uncle Li's timber purchasing station, and went to the creek to catch fish, shrimp, crabs, and pick beautiful stones.

Maybe Jiaqi and Lin Yan ran too fast, and suddenly left their childhood years behind, people have grown up, but childhood is still in place, now looking back, Jiaqi is more and more unreal, Lin Yan, why did you grow up.

Lin Yan's mother sincerely likes Jiaqi, looking at Jiaqi who has grown up and become beautiful and demure, she interrogates a lot, and asks a lot of questions about her current work, eager to know all her secrets, and Jiaqi is also shyly responding to all questions.

When she heard that Jiaqi wanted to change industries and planned to stop being a tour guide, Lin Yan's mother even agreed, feeling that girls were too hard in the sun and rain every day, and encouraged Jiaqi to help Lin Yan do things.

When Jiaqi learned that Lin Yan had started a business, her eyes lit up, and she could see the sparkling gaze even in the moonlight.

Lin Yan didn't hide it, he told Jiaqi about the fact that his current company had just started, several important partners, and what he wanted to do, and sincerely invited Jiaqi, the family didn't say kind words, and was waiting to come over to help at any time.

Jiaqi didn't twist it, saying that she would go to the front desk first, if it suited herself, she would stay there and not leave, if it wasn't suitable, she would leave at any time, but it would be easy to please God and it would be difficult to send God.

When Jiaqi said this, Lin Yan was relieved, knowing that this matter was okay, this sister was very kind.