The summer grain has almost been snatched up, and the villagers and educated youths have gradually relaxed, no longer needing to get up in the early morning to go to the field as they did a few days ago, but only doing one job in the afternoon every day, and doing it for an hour or two; The reduction of labor intensity made this group of young people regain their spirits, and they talked all the way to their homes.

"Hey, Xiaoxiao, don't waste the ice you saved last year, go back and call Cao Xun, and then find a chance to go to the city and get some beer back?"

Xu Yunjian's words reminded Zhang Qingye, "That's right! Ming'er called. Luli, you have worked hard, take a trip? We pooled our money to buy beer and bring back a few watermelons. Lively and lively? ”

"Okay." Luli naturally nodded, "I'll go tomorrow...... Branch...... Call and ask Cao Xun to come. By the way, what time is it today? ”

"July 25."

"Okay, then the 27th will be lively...... Make trouble, please also ask the branch secretary to ...... Come. ”

"Wow!" In a house on the side of the road, there was a sudden fierce barking of dogs, Liang Xin's childlike heart was undiminished, and he learned to bark through the gate, "Wang, Wang!" ”

The domestic dog barked even more frantically, not only barking, but also the sound of iron chains rubbing on the ground, which caused the owner to scold all the time. "Shout? You pestilence brute! Oops, you bite me? I'll kill you dog! ”

Lu Li suddenly said: "Dog, isn't it just a dog?" This guy is not wrong! ”

A couple of bad guys chuckled, stepped up, and left the path.

The next day was the 26th, Lu Li arrived at the branch in the morning and used the commune's only hand-cranked phone to call Lei Zhuang, wait, wait, wait, I don't know how long it took, Cao Xun's voice also came from the microphone, "Who?" ”

"I, Luley."

"Hey, hey!" Cao Xun giggled, "Xiaoxiao, why did you remember to call me?" Something? ”

"Yes, please come and drink...... Beer, tomorrow, free? ”

"Yes!" Cao Xun agreed very simply, "Hey, Xiaoxiao, you don't know, since the last Chinese New Year, after I fought with our mine manager, he is now more honest, he will do whatever I say!" ”

"Which of you leads whom?"

Cao Xun laughed unscrupulously! "Come on, I won't talk to you more, I'll come to you tomorrow, let's have a good talk."

Putting down the phone, Lu Li sat down opposite Shang Kang, "Uncle, please go too, drink beer." ”

"You little babies are drinking, why should I go with them? Don't go! ”

"I'm still a little baby, don't you always tell me to drink? That's it! By the way, I've got to go to town in a moment, and I'm driving away with the tractor? ”

Shang Kang said that he watched him leave the office without looking back, and laughed, "Damn, a little cub!" ”

Bought the beer back, and brought back twelve huge watermelons as big as balls, and threw them all into the ice cellar, Xu Yunjian couldn't wait, and now he wanted to taste it in his mouth first, "Xiaoxiao, you bought it in the afternoon, and now it's dark, it's almost frozen, right?" Don't wait for Cao Xun to come tomorrow to take a look, and then freeze it? ”

"If you're hungry, take two watermelons out and eat them, and wait for tomorrow."

"What's the point of just eating melons? Is there no such thing in the merchant forest? Please, please, little one, would you like some beer? ”

Luli ignored him and stood at the door, where flying dragonflies and bats formed a square formation from west to east, hundreds of meters wide, wings stirring the air, emitting a violent and noisy buzzing sound, which took fifteen minutes before gradually disappearing! He thought it was strange, dragonflies were fine, bats rarely appeared during the day, what happened this summer?

"Xiao Lu, what are you looking at?"

"It's nothing, uncle, are you here?"

Shang Kang said that he walked into the small courtyard with a smile, sat down on the bench, and lit a dry tobacco, "Oh, this mother's weather is so hot!" Xiao Lu, didn't you say to buy melons? Don't wait, don't you take it out and quench your uncle's thirst? ”

"Oh, oh." Luli agreed, lifted the plank on the ice cellar, and a cold air came to his face, "Drink!" Shang Kang exclaimed, "It's still your spirit!" Catch up with Ming'er and I'll move you here to sleep, just by the edge of the ice cellar, set up a marching bed. It's too hot at home. ”

"Old man, are you okay? Freezing your old waist again? What should I do if my aunt comes to us to settle accounts? ”

"Why not? Big man, can't you be the master of the girls? That's it! Little Lu, come home with me in a moment and bring me my camp bed! ”

"Done. I'll go in a minute, and you won't run. ”

"Or you kid will hurt people." Shang Kang said that he didn't refuse, took the watermelon cut by Liang Xin, and gnawed it down, "Oops! I'm freezing to death! My teeth are down! ”

Everyone laughed, and Lu Li and Zhang Qing went out. Shang Kang said that he was too familiar with his family, and said a few words to Aunt Shang, and the old man cursed while helping to pick it up, "Good and decent, what kind of moth?" On a hot day, he is not afraid of mosquitoes biting him? You turn around and tell him that if you don't dare to come back to sleep, you won't want to enter this house in the future! Our mothers don't want him anymore. ”

The old couple quarreled all day long, Lu Li listened to it a lot, and he didn't take it seriously, so he nodded naughtily, "I'm afraid that my aunt will be reluctant?" ”

"Why can't I give up? Without him, our mothers would have been doing well. She handed Lu Li the marching bed, mat, mosquito net, and sheet, and patted him on the head, "Xiaoxiao, your uncle can afford you, do a good job in the future, huh?" ”

"I know. Auntie, then, let's go. ”

"Don't let him drink too much, he's no younger than you."

"Don't worry, auntie, beer, you can't drink it."

So he moved the marching bed home, and when it was nearly dusk, he took out the liquor, and drank a few of them. Xu Yunjian's alcohol consumption is not good at all, a cup of belly, like a braised pork that has just been stewed, his face is purple; Zhang Qing, Luo Yaohua and others were much better, but they still couldn't do Shang Kangyu and Lu Li, they were so drunk that their eyes were blurred, their speech was slurred, and their stammering was worse than when Lu Li was at his worst.

On the contrary, Lu Li felt that it was not enjoyable, summer was not a good season for drinking liquor, and there was not much wine in storage, and if he gave it to so many people, he would get even less. He is famous for his large amount of alcohol, he used to be able to drink, but he didn't have any alcohol addiction, but since this merchant Lin cut the queue, the more he drank wine, the more he drank, and the alcohol addiction began to grow.

Smacking his lips a little unsatisfied, he helped Shang Kang put the bed in the corner of the courtyard, moved a bench, and sat next to the old man, "Uncle, let's go in and sleep with me?" There are too many mosquitoes at night. ”

"No, there are mosquito nets!" Shang Kang looked at him with a smile, "Hey, Xiao Lu, I see that your recent stuttering is getting better and better?" ”

"I don't know, maybe it's too big...... Right? ”

Shang Kangyue laughed, "Look, it's okay if you don't say it, but as soon as you say it, it's here again!" Ay? He gestured with his hand, "Why aren't you sleeping inside?" ”

Lu Li turned his head to look, and sure enough, the light in the house was still on, he thought that his companion had drunk too much and forgot to turn off the light to sleep, and when he entered the house and pulled the lamp rope, the light did not change at all, and it was still bright! Is the switch broken? After tossing for a while, the lamp tube stubbornly lit on, and after a while, it was suddenly pitch black.

Only then did he put his mind at ease, turned his head and went out, Shang Kang was lying on the marching bed, and he was already asleep.

Luli did not feel the slightest sleep, he always felt that the weather had been a little abnormal in recent times, the water level of the well suddenly rose and fallen, the countless dead fish that suddenly jumped ashore in the river, and the large flocks of bats and dragonflies that appeared during the day, and the weasels and voles that scurried around the fields, like a strange net, surrounded a small merchant forest, but he could not guess what these meant!

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Early in the morning of July 27th, Cao Xun arrived, and they didn't see each other, so naturally there was a joy and jubilation, and there was no need to talk about it, the weather was too hot at noon, and it was not good to set the table, so everyone chatted in the shade at the gate of the courtyard, I don't know how it started, Lu Li talked about the abnormal situation in the past few days, "We are too!" Cao Xun said loudly, "I'm cao, I thought we were there, you also have it?" ”

"You have that too?"

"No! Evil sect is amazing! Cao Xun said: "Let me ask you, have you ever heard of a fish calling?" Or goldfish? ”

"What goldfish?"

"It's a goldfish raised at home! Our mine manager and his family have a tank of goldfish, and since the past two days, they have been jumping out of their own adzes and adzes! Pick it up and put it back, this thing is called! Really, whoever lied to you is your son, our mine manager said. ”

Xu Yunjian sneered, "You pull it down, the goldfish is still calling?" Did you hear that? Didn't you listen to your mine manager? I didn't see or hear it with my own eyes, but I didn't believe it. ”

"Don't believe it, pull it down. Let me tell you one that I saw with my own eyes, on the 14th of this month, there was a machine well not far from the shed in our mine, and I saw it when I went back to Xiaoxiao, right? From the fourteenth, it was steaming out of it, and this is not a lie, as many of us have seen it. ”

With his drive, brothers, you and I have said a word, and I have seen a lot of people in this village, and all kinds of strange things I have heard from other neighboring villages, all of which are told to them as anecdotes, such as which family raised a dog suddenly committed rabies, and scratched the door for a night, and the owner wanted to bring him in, and it bitten; Another example is the swallow that lives under the eaves, and suddenly throws the bird down from the nest, and the people help to put it back, and when he turns his face, the big swallow throws the little bird down again; There are also some big mice running with small mice, and the little mice bite the tails of one by one, and they are connected in a string; And then there is some unknown yellow fog - how can there be a fog in June and July of the lunar calendar? It's still yellow, with a strong stench (later known to be sulfur)?

These are all the news they have heard in the village, and the people who say it tell it as a story, and the listeners also regard it as an after-dinner conversation, and they don't pay attention to it at all.

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