At dusk, the sunset covered the treetops, two children sat on a concrete bridge pier and watched the scenery, opposite the health center, covered with continuous thick shade, under the crisscrossing roads were vehicles coming and going, and middle school students lined up from the entrance of the junior high school.

Ming Nannan longs for those senior students, and heard Fang Ning say that they will have a lot of friends when they grow up.

For a long time, she only had one friend, Fang Ning, so she hoped to have many good friends.

Fang Ning was in a daze towards the sky like this, and slowly hummed a song:

On a banyan tree by the pond

I know that I am screaming about summer

On a swing by the playground

Only butterflies stop on it

The teacher chalked on the blackboard

Still desperately chirping and writing.

……

There's everything in the welfare house

It's just that you don't have half a dime in your pocket

Zhuge Shiro and the Devil's Party

Who grabbed the sword?

The girl in the next class

Why haven't you passed by my window yet?

…

The sound is long and long, and it seems that it can really echo far away in the dusk of summer, when cicadas and frogs are chirping!

Ming Nannan listened very carefully, she liked to listen to Fang Ning sing, but he rarely sang, because Fang Ning said that he would get tired of listening to songs, and beautiful things should be cherished, rather than squandering and wasting.

Although she didn't quite understand what profligacy meant, judging from the way he frowned, it should be bad.

The two of them were very peaceful in the dusk, the sun was shining on his face, and he squinted his eyes, and the contours of his face were clear.

Ming Nannan frowned and poked Fang Ning's shoulder with her fingers.

"Huh?" Fang Ning tilted his head.

She was a little timid, and asked cautiously, "Won't you be studying here next semester?"

Not an interrogative sentence, but a declarative sentence, which is clearly already known.

"Hmm. Fang Ning nodded indifferently.

Ming Nannan didn't ask why, she just stared blankly at the red sunset on the horizon.

"When will we see you again?"

"To be honest, I don't know. Fang Ning didn't have any illusions about her.

"Oh. Ming Nannan was a little disappointed, hugged her knees, and became silent.

"Later in life, you will have a lot of friends passing by you, to the left, or to the right, and then leaving your world non-stop, you have to learn to adapt. Fang Ning knew that this girl with an honest appearance actually had another delicate side in her heart. Girls have been precocious since they were children, so he thought that Ming Nannan would understand sooner or later......

"But I only have one friend. ”

Fang Ning froze, and his heart hurt inexplicably.

Turning around, staring into her eyes, he said very seriously, "In the future, you will have a lot of friends." ”

That afternoon, Fang Ning pulled Ming Nannan to talk a lot by the bridge, about future life, and some strange ideals.

He also said that he was going to study in a place where no one knew about him.

Although Ming Nannan didn't understand, Fang Ning still nagged like an old woman, saying many, many things.

And so on and on, and so on.

It wasn't until the sunset completely dyed the sky red that he took Ming Nannan home.

It's getting dark.

Fang Ning and Ming Nannan were separated under the bridge of the gas station, her family lived here, and he had to walk in the direction of the end of the gas station.

Fang Ning crossed a cedar road, asphalt, because of the age of the road, it looked a little potholed, especially the road surface washed by the rain, even the smooth pebbles were exposed. He walked slowly for a distance of two hundred meters, and soon arrived home, on the left side of this cedar road, one next to the other, gradually stacked with two-story residential buildings, and his house was here.

The turquoise pond is tightly surrounded, the frogs are noisy, the cement pier is exposed to the water surface of the pond, covered with mottled moss, and a group of crayfish with gray-blue shells are bubbling in the algae, or burrowing into the mud puddle to hide from the sun, this is the lobster pond that the household next door to Fang Ning breeds.

Fang Ning's house is a two-story residential building with a red brick exterior wall, a cement balcony, a corridor full of clothes, and green painted wooden windows. There is also a large concrete floor in front of the house, which is half mottled with moss and half dried gravel.

There are also several plane trees planted on the left side of his house.

The arrival of midsummer has made the broad sycamore branches more and more luxuriant, obscuring the sky and the sun, and cutting the dim sunlight into pieces.

"I'm back!" Fang Ning looked around twice and found that his grandmother was not at home, so he immediately sighed and relieved himself.

"Where did you go to play? All of a sudden, I was gone. Fang Jiefang asked slightly.

He was still cooking, and the smell of stir-fry wafted out through the kitchen and into Fang Ning's nose.

Fang Ning tilted his face slightly, took a deep breath of the aroma of vegetables, and then said casually, "I just went to school, say goodbye to a few people who had a good time." ”

"Oh, hurry up and wash your hands and eat, just the three of us are at home today, I'll just get some food and deal with it." Fang Jiefang came out with a plate of vegetables and paused, "Your grandmother went to her mother's house, your grandmother is a little uncomfortable, and several of her sisters have passed, and it is estimated that they will have to stay for a few days, so we have to rely on ourselves for these days." ”

"Then what should we do if we move?" Fang Ning's eyes widened, but he was quickly relieved, even if she had her grandmother there, it wouldn't be of much use, and she couldn't move anything heavy. On the contrary, she was not at home, Fang Ning's little life was more comfortable, at least she didn't have to worry about her grandmother's thoughts in her ears.

Fang Ning washed his hands with soap in the pool, came to the dining table, and put a plate of steaming food on the table, Fang Jiefang had already begun to serve the meal.

Stir-fried meat with green peppers, shredded meat is very finely chopped, the oil is greasy and smooth, verdant and dripping, a plate of golden fried eggs, evenly sprinkled with chopped chives, fragrant, three bowls of rice bowls full of rice grains are placed on the table.

"Go wake up your sister, she's still sleeping. Fang Jiefang took off his apron.

"She didn't go to school today?" Fang Ning walked into the room.

"Come on, put it early in the afternoon, go home early, it's like you know crazy all day long. ”

Fang Ning coughed twice, didn't dare to squeak back, and knocked directly at the door, "It's time to eat! If you don't come again, even your favorite fried egg will be eaten by me......"

This trick really tried and tested, and as soon as he finished speaking, there was movement in the room.

"I got up a long time ago, you think it's all like you, you know how to eat and eat all day long, sleep and sleep, you can't see you when you do housework, and you eat faster than anyone else. ”

Before you see him, you hear his voice first.

A little girl wearing a small floral cotton skirt came out of the room wearing one-legged sandals, melon seed face, small eyebrows, big eyes, this appearance is far beyond Fang Ning's street, no way, the good genes of her parents are concentrated on her, and she has inherited double eyelids and a pair of dimples.

"It's like you're doing housework?"

Fang Ning's housework was all done by his grandfather alone, and he never needed a second person to help.

"Brother, what are you talking about?" the little girl gritted her little tiger teeth and looked unkind.

"I didn't say anything. He muttered under his breath.

"Huh?"

"Let's talk about it first, you have seven and I have three points for fried eggs, don't eat them all. Fang Ning took the lead.

"Okay, okay. She rolled her eyes.