The cicadas chirp endlessly, and the temperature is thirty-five or six.

The bright sunlight penetrated ferociously through the large foliage, like the most advantageous giant sword, making people have nowhere to hide.

The fence wall of the No. 2 Middle School campus is overgrown with tall weeds, spreading and stretching in all directions frantically, only a small piece of exposed soil is vacated by the playground equipment, such tall weeds effectively prevent students from going out over the wall to eat takeout, so the school did not cut it down, and continued to grow by default, after all, there is some value in existence.

Fang Ning and Cheng Xi sat on the edge of the rooftop, he shook his feet, his hands were propped on the edge of the cement, and his trembling body shook slightly, making people suspect that he would accidentally fall from the library on the second floor, and his nose and face would be swollen.

Cheng Xi's sitting posture is a hundred times more elegant than Fang Ning, this is a girl's reserve, but Fang Ning didn't see it, she sat on the edge of the rooftop, as clear as a female warrior, the breeze blew and drove the tips of her hair, the elegant feeling dissolved the momentum of Jin Ge Iron Horse, her eyes were much softer than ever, looking at the clear blue sky, the clouds of the white horse passing through the gap, silent.

She has been through many summers, and this summer has never been any different for her, but things are the same, only people's hearts.

Above their heads is a large banyan tree with a dome, the banyan tree is on the steps below the library, deeply rooted in the soil, absorbing water, so that this big tree can flourish, the leaves are wide, luxuriant and cover the sky, can cover a lot of shade, and then the sun falls through those gaps, and the mottled spots of light hit Fang Ning and Cheng Xi's faces, and the particles are squirming, as if they are in another world.

"What should summer look like?" Fang Ning turned his head sideways.

Cheng Xi didn't think about it, and said: "There are watermelons, barbecue, popsicles, electric fans, high temperatures, mosquitoes." ”

This is indeed what summer should be, as soon as it comes to summer, it seems that he can feel the heat, Fang Ning stood still, and said with a smile: "I'll buy some watermelon to eat." ”

Fang Ning's movements were very fast, he came back with the watermelon, gave Cheng Xi a piece of the reddest and sweetest, and said with a smile, "Speaking of summer, I have to say that when I was a child, there was no such high-end thing as air conditioning at that time, only electric fans. Random rummaging of pirated copies. There is also half a large watermelon next to it, hollowing out the melon pulp, eating popsicles, I feel that this is the most beautiful time in the world......"

Fang Ning squinted his eyes and recalled the events of his childhood, and it seemed that with his words, Cheng Xi's gaze seemed to have traveled back in time to that era.

The world swelled in bright and dazzling tones, in the hot but not restless afternoon, cartoons were playing on TV, and the summer vacation homework had not yet had time to be written, the child named Fang Ning was lying on the cement floor, sleeping so hard that he fell asleep, and he could see that he had become a hero of the sword world, with two swords in his hand, all kinds of martial arts, and all kinds of dreams all summer. In the end, he was woken up by the gray football, and the sweaty friends called him downstairs. Then Grandpa would always stand on that little hill and shout for him to come back early for dinner.

At that time, I was carefree, I didn't have to care about anything, I just needed to do my homework, get good grades, and dream of being a hero.

A little older, his impression of summer is even deeper, especially after going to junior high school, summer means that girls can wear very little, thin school uniforms can't block their gaze at all, if it's obscene, just stand in the corridor and look at the girls who come over, and privately guess what color the cotton vest is, which has nothing to do with morality, the hormones that begin with youth, the impulse to the opposite sex.

In the summer, you can eat barbecue, drink beer, play football, sit on the edge of the basketball court and listen to the senior students boast about their previous things, talk about a very awesome student, good grades and handsomeness, if you still have a little spirit of resistance, it will be even more desirable to be criticized by the school, of course, the most awesome student Fang Ning heard in junior high school is Xiao Xiong, the person with a flat head and looks like Qiao Feng, but unfortunately, after high school, he will never see Xiao Xiong again, at least he has not heard of him in the major high schools in the county。

Cheng Xi listened very carefully to Fang Ning's recollections, it turned out that there were so many things to remember in the summer, she thought back carefully, her own life was also in the countryside with her sister, listening to the stories of grandma and grandpa in the past, those princes and generals will be in the imperial family, grandpa also said that those emperors are fleeting, nothing can be left, only history is eternal, he has said many things, but Cheng Xi did not understand when he was young, and when he understood, grandpa was no longer alive.

Fang Ning and Cheng Xi were holding watermelons, chatting about the unclear past under the banyan tree, the sun carefully passed through the leaves, and a slight sigh overflowed from the corners of their mouths, dissipating like a burst of smoke and dust.

As the sun gradually moved south, the bright sunlight that fell on their faces seemed to disappear.

Fang Ning stood up and took a deep breath.

Life is still so long, and the road must continue to walk.

It's just that it's summer again......

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It was another sunny afternoon, the sky was clear, there were no clouds, no breeze blowing, no white clouds drifting, calm as water.

With the arrival of July, not only the sound of cicadas on this side of the community, but also the sound of cicadas on the elm trees outside, as if there will never be a chance if you don't call it thoroughly in this season.

Fang Ning was a little irritable in his heart, perhaps affected by this heat, he always felt that there was another fire burning in his heart, after buying watermelon on the street and eating it, he didn't quench his thirst, until his grandfather came back with some herbal tea, and after drinking a few sips, he completely extinguished the fire in his heart.

"I know you're a little angry, so I got some honeysuckle chrysanthemum herbal tea from Aunt Six's house for you to drink. "Grandpa also holds a cup of herbal tea, and now this season is the time to drink herbal tea, and there are honeysuckles floating on the tea surface, which looks a little cool.

"These herbal teas are good, much better than those Jia Duo Bao and Wang Laoji on the market. Fang Ning held the teacup with some emotion.

He also thought of this, Wang Laoji itself is herbal tea, if you really want to compare it with the cool fire, it may not be compared with these pure herbs honeysuckle chrysanthemum.

"I also have this idea, seeing that your sixth aunt has saved a lot, and the farmers in the countryside generally have gold and silver to reduce fire, so I want to collect them all, and then use them in our store for my own use. Grandpa said.

Fang Ning's thinking expanded a lot, it is not wrong to use this fire-lowering honeysuckle to make tea for diners to consume food and reduce fire after meals, and you can also think about it in another way, that is, to send a pack of herbal tea bags of a few taels after the meal, so that they can bring it back by themselves, one is in line with the psychology of small citizens who are greedy for small and cheap, and the other is that you can promote the spicy shrimp pot, and you can print advertisements on the packaging of herbal tea.

Grandpa thinks it's okay, it doesn't cost much anyway, and the effect is definitely obvious.

Summer for more than ten consecutive days without rain, the earth has dried up, the weather forecast has issued a high temperature warning, the sound of knowing is much less, the leaves are wilting, no vitality, the cats and dogs outside are gathered at the door of the supermarket with air conditioning and air conditioning, lying on the ground to try to absorb cold air, the staff in various positions, especially the personnel working outside, bring their own herbal tea, and wear very little clothes, which is to prevent heat stroke from high temperatures.

Grandpa saw that the weather was still so hot, so he wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to publicize it, so he called Aunt Six, Aunt Jin and other relatives and asked them to help purchase sun-dried honeysuckle, and the price was easy to say.

The sixth aunt here learned that her brother-in-law wanted to collect honeysuckle, and she also remembered that the old Liu family had piled up a warehouse of honeysuckle and chrysanthemums, which were useless, I heard him last time, someone originally came to purchase, who knew that the Naga herbal tea processing factory was closed, and the boss ran away, and no one wanted his honeysuckle, which was piled up in the warehouse, and was worried that no one wanted it, so he went over to collect more than 1,000 catties at the lowest price, and all of them were sold to Fang Ning's family at a price two points higher than the market.

Fang Ning asked someone to do market research before, and he knew what the price of honeysuckle was, but he also turned a blind eye, anyway, they were all relatives, and they didn't make much money.

Grandpa took a few skilled people to the sixth aunt's house, and the rest went to Aunt Jin's house, Aunt Jin was more honest, and she didn't have the sixth aunt's mind, so she only made less than a hundred catties, and in addition, there was very little honeysuckle on the side of Tear Luo.

Fang Ning originally wanted to take advantage of this summer vacation, and he was not very busy, so he and Cheng Xi went outside to take a walk more, see the time, and increase their experience, but unfortunately this was just his good wish.

How can Cheng Xi have time to accompany Fang Ning, an idle egg-hurting person, to play, she is the assistant teacher of Shanying Taekwonxing Gym, mainly in the training of newcomers, for example, the training teacher is too busy, she has to come over to help.

It can be said that during the summer vacation, except for the weekends when she has time to rest, she usually has to go to work and work.

It's very busy every day, so I don't have time to mess around with Fang Ning.

So Fang Ning couldn't go, so he had to tutor Fang Wei at home in the first year of high school.

Fang Wei's grades are still good, after all, she is also in the top few in the class, but she was a little unlucky, she played abnormally in the exam, and she did not play to the level she should have, otherwise her name would definitely be on the admission to No. 1 Middle School.

It is undeniable that strength is important, mentality and luck are equally important, the former is a necessary condition for success, and the latter is an inevitable requirement for success. All three are indispensable.

Of course, all this has become a foregone conclusion, Fang Wei's failure is not necessarily a bad thing, it is this failure that makes her, who is already a little impetuous, mature a lot, and can make her better see her own shortcomings.

Fang Ning felt that this failure did not mean that he would fail in the future, and it was the college entrance examination that really determined his fate, not this small high school entrance examination, which was only two or three times in a person's life.

Moreover, the descendants of the old Fang family have always been arrogant, just like the eagle on the prairie, the chick was pushed down by the eagle on the edge of the cliff, if he didn't want to die, he could only wave his wings desperately.

Fang Wei's class, most of the students who were admitted to the first or second middle school were immersed in the madness and detachment of the summer vacation, like a group of loose horses, their minds couldn't be contained, they just thought about how to play to spend this summer vacation, and they didn't have the mind to study at all.

It was this long and dim summer vacation for Fang Wei, she had previewed most of the first semester of high school in advance, at least Fang Ning took out his previous exercises for his sister to do, and basically could quickly solve them.

Without experiencing the baptism of storms, how can you transform into a phoenix of nirvana?

Fangwei has always been a proud phoenix.

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Grandma came back from her parents' house, but her face was a little unsightly, she looked tired, Fang Ning and her sisters hurriedly asked what was going on, do you want to go to the hospital to see if she is sick, after all, she is also a little old, and some diseases cannot be delayed, like the grandma downstairs, she has a tumor in her neck, thinking that it is okay, it is a tumor of conscience, so she didn't pay much attention to it, but it was serious within a few months, and when she went to the hospital to check that it was cancerous, it became a malignant tumor, and if chemotherapy was carried out, it was estimated that she would have two or three years to live.

Grandma has nothing to do physically, she is just tired, the weather is so hot, she has not gone home, has been serving her grandmother in her hometown, taking care of her food and clothing, and at the same time doing her filial piety in front of the elderly, don't look at grandma is an illiterate person who has not read, but it is very filial piety to the elderly, and she knows that filial piety is the first.

Grandma drank a few sips of herbal tea, called grandpa out, and directly said that we may not survive the end of this month.

Grandpa's expression changed greatly, frowned and said, you know so?

"I can't eat anymore, I often can't wake up, only the breath in but not the breath out, saying that it is the end of the month or extended, maybe this week will be ready for the funeral. Grandma shook her head, at her age, she should have seen it, and her mentality about whether the old man is dead or alive has not fluctuated much, after all, her mother is also eighty-seven years old, this age is considered a high life, even if it is gone, it is a joy and mourning. It's just that the funeral after death is a bit torturous.

At this time, it is nearly 40 years of high temperature, and the outside can not stay for a long time, if the funeral is held, the mourning hall is done, and the children and grandchildren will cry and mourn, and the mourning hall will definitely stink and die hard.

Grandpa called grandma's brothers, they are all in charge, after asking, the reply is almost the same as grandma's answer, and even Li Xibao is already preparing for the funeral, and even the cook for the funeral has been invited.

There are also young people who are working and doing things all over the country and their grandchildren, and the old ancestors are dying, and they are all rushing back home.