When the sun set, we said goodbye to our friends here, and through these few days of play, our relationship became very close. The world of children is very simple, a small plaything can promote a friendship, the occasional dispute will soon disappear, a group of people together, even if they simply run and run, they will laugh happily, as if the whole world is clear, as if all people are friendly.

Xin'er and Chen Lin and I rushed back to dinner. Maybe the excitement of the day has not dissipated, Chen Lin came to my house at night and called me and Xin'er out to play, my father and mother originally disagreed, thinking that it was not safe to go out at night, and then we said that we only played at the door of the house, and they promised us to go out to play after repeated advice.

We came to a meadow and lay down, and tonight the moon was relatively round, shining softly and sprinkling on the earth.

"What do you two do for the future?" Chen Lin suddenly popped up with an inexplicable question.

"I haven't done anything yet, isn't it a little too early to think about it?" Xin'er replied softly, for fear of breaking the silence of the night.

"Your plan is to marry me and be my lady." I said jokingly, and couldn't help laughing, Chen Lin laughed too, and Xin'er gently hammered me with her fist next to me.

"Hahaha, seriously, what are your plans for the future?" Chen Lin asked again.

"I may follow my father's wishes, gain fame and enter the official career." I said, "And then marry Xin'er in style." "This time I said it in a very serious tone.

"Seriously, I really don't know what a girl can do in the future? Maybe it's best to be a virtuous woman, husband and child. Xin'er asked Chen Lin, "Have you figured out what you're going to do in the future?" To be a civilian or military attaché? ”

Chen Lin sighed, and said in a very mature tone: "What kind of official, a child like me who has no power or power, and I myself have no talents that are different from ordinary people, maybe I can study for a few years, and after knowing a few words, I will go home to inherit my father's rice shop, occasionally make some clay figures, and it is best to open a grocery store to sell my handicrafts." After saving some money and marrying a wife and having children, this should be the best life I can think of. ”

"Isn't that a good life? I don't want to be an official, the officialdom is sinister, and I also want to live an ordinary and simple life like yours! I said.

"In this society, it is easy to be bullied without power or power." Chen Lin stretched out his hand to wrap his arm around my shoulder and said, "You are a good official, be a good official, I will rely on you in the future, haha." ”

"Don't worry, either I am not an official, or I must be a good official, and I will definitely take care of you when the time comes, and see who dares to bully my brother!" I said with a smile.

"You're going to take extra care of me, too." Xin'er said in a coquettish voice, "You can't be eccentric. ”

Xin'er is too cute, I gently touched her face, and said softly, "Definitely, you are my lady!" ”

……

We lie quietly on the grass, it is now midsummer, and the sound of frogs and cicadas can be heard one after another in the quiet night, which is really like a grand performance - the singer sings a moving ballad with the accompaniment of the guzheng, qin and other musical instruments, and there is a very elegant way of expressing the word, what is it called, yes, the aftermath is lingering.

We lay down, and fell asleep under the gentle blowing of the breeze, and then woke up in the call of my father, "I fell asleep just now, and I don't know how long I slept, it seems that it is not early, let's go home and rest, see you tomorrow!" Chen Lin took the lead in getting up, and after saying goodbye to us, he went home.

"When is it, if we hadn't come out to look for you, wouldn't you two be going to spend the night outside?" My mother reprimanded us softly.

"It's really comfortable outside, but there are a lot of mosquitoes, and I have been bitten a lot."

……

I opened my eyes, and it was another sunny morning. My mother urged me to get up, wash up, and eat breakfast. Mother said; "Today is a special day, hurry up and freshen up."

"What holiday?" I asked, lazily opening my eyes.

"Today is the Dragon Boat Festival." My mother said, helping me put on my clothes, and then hung a rice dumpling made of ayara on the back of my clothes. I know it's to keep me safe.

"Brother Xiao Sheng, I don't know what's going on this morning, my eyelids are always jumping, I always feel that something bad will happen recently." Xin'er saw me and said.

"Oh, that's all superstitious, what bad things can happen?" I said disapprerovingly, "Don't think about it, today is the Dragon Boat Festival, let's go out to play with Chen Lin." ”

"Okay."

Today is the Dragon Boat Festival, so I don't have to read in the morning, I took Xin'er's hand and prepared to take her out to play, "Hey, why are your nails red?" I asked curiously.

"It's your mother's red nails that dyed me, she said it's a red dye mashed from impatiens, it's really beautiful!" As she spoke, Xin'er raised her hand slightly and looked at it carefully in the sun.

"Come back early at noon today!" The mother stood at the door and said.

We walked in the direction of Chen Lin's house, and along the way, there were wormwood and calamus on the doors and windows of every house, and a special fragrance filled the air.

"Where are we going to play today? Still going there? Xin'er asked.

"Don't go, don't go, today's Dragon Boat Festival, the market must be very lively, and there will be a dragon boat race by the river in Zhuo County, let's go to see the dragon boat race after lunch at noon, go to the market now." Chen Lin said.

Every festival, the market will be very lively, the most striking is all kinds of playthings, we are overwhelmed, of course, there are a lot of people, we are a group of children crowded in it can not see the road ahead, but the body is also good, we can squeeze from the crowd of people, they see that we are a child will not say anything.

In fact, there is nothing fun in the morning, the main thing is that there are too many people, and it is completely crowded around, and the silk dumplings on my body have almost been squeezed out several times, and it is a little hot, and this squeezed all morning, and my body is sweating. Seeing that it was also approaching noon, we decided to go home for lunch first, and then come to the river in the afternoon to watch the annual dragon boat race.

Xin'er's father and mother also came, except for my father who was still busy with the daily chores of the county government, the three of them gathered around to wrap zongzi with chopsticks and leaves.

"Why did you come back so early today?" Mother asked.

"There were too many people in the bazaar, and we didn't have to play, so we came back." I replied.

"Xin'er, what's the mess these days, right?" Xin'er's mother asked.

The mother smiled and said: "Xin'er is very well-behaved, the two of them study at ease in the morning, and play with Xiaolin, the son of the boss of Mipu Chen's family in the afternoon, they play crazy, sometimes they can't take care of eating, and they don't go home." ”

Xin'er's mother also laughed and beckoned the two of us over: "Come, you two are okay now, come and I'll teach you how to make zongzi and pass the time." ”

We walked over, but anyway, we have nothing to do now, just to learn how to make zongzi.

"I dyed Xin'er's red nails this morning, so Xin'er shouldn't wrap zongzi, so as not to lose the color of her red nails." The mother said, "The leaves are all washed, Xin'er, you cut off the tail of the leaves, and the rest depends on how we get it." ”

"Xiao Sheng, you learn from your aunt." Xin'er's mother said to me carefully, "Like me, fold the cut leaves into a funnel shape, remember, the bottom of the funnel can not be empty, it must be folded tightly, and then put glutinous rice, red dates, meat pieces or something into the funnel, pat it flat, press it a little tighter, fold the top of the leaf down, press it with your index finger, fold the extra leaf on the left down, press it with your thumb, fold the extra leaf on the right, press it with your middle finger, pinch out the front corner with your hand, and fold the excess leaf back from the right side after pinching out the sharp corner. Pull the thread from the middle finger, wrap it around the palm, tighten the thread and tie it up, don't tighten it too tightly, otherwise it will burst. ”

Xin'er's mother taught me by hand, and after a while, there was an extra shaped zongzi in her hand, I watched and learned, and finally tied the whole leaf with a thread, as soon as I let go, the glutinous rice and red dates inside all leaked out, and I looked at Xin'er's mother helplessly.

"It's okay, it's good to do it like this for the first time, you guys go play, and I'll call you when the zongzi is ready." I saw Xin'er's mother trying very hard to hold back a smile and said, Okay, I'm disgusted.

Finally it was time for lunch, there were several plates of zongzi neatly placed on the table, and I had always liked to eat glutinous rice food, and I immediately ate it regardless of the image, "You eat slowly, there are many zongzi, and no one will rob you." My mother said to me with a smile.

The glutinous rice food is really delicious, but I can't eat much to be full, I just ate two zongzi, and my stomach is already very strong. The two zongzi I ate were the date-flavored zongzi and the meat zongzi, which were really delicious.

After lunch, Xin'er and I were going to go out to find Chen Lin to go to the river to watch the dragon boat race, "You two pay attention, there are many people today, so be more careful by the river." The adults instructed that they were still drinking, eating zongzi, and chatting at the dinner table.

The river is full of people, there are several teams in the river still training, and the bridge is so blocked that it is impossible to walk, what can I do? The good places to watch the dragon boat race are all occupied, how can this be good.

"Let's climb up the tree and see." Chen Lin suggested.

It seemed that there was only one way, so Chen Lin and I climbed to a big sturdy tree first, and then pulled Xin'er up, and we sat on the thick branches, which happened to have a bird's-eye view of the whole river.

We waited in the trees for a while, and the dragon boat race finally began.

There are five teams in the river, the colors of the dragon boats are red, yellow, green, blue, black, the red dragon boat rushed to the front, and then the green one caught up, and has maintained the first place, the blue dragon boat turned over in the river, the whole team of people and horses all fell into the river, the black and yellow ones were not up or down, and finally located in the third and fourth place respectively......