Summer.

The weather is very hot, the home is like a big steamer, ordinary people can't stay in such an environment, but somehow I just don't want to go out, I just want to stay at home.

"Xiao Jiu, go! Let's go to the river for a cold shower! "

A group of friends outside the door called out my nickname and invited me to take a cold shower in the river, which I would have promised in normal times, but that day I just didn't want to go, so I shouted to them, "Go by yourselves, I want to stay at home!" "

Seeing that I didn't want to go, they didn't say anything, and ran towards the river in the village, while I was still steaming and roasting in the heat at home. The scorching summer sun made me feel tired, so I fell asleep on the mat at home.

My name is Qiu Zaishan, this name sounds a bit old-fashioned, I didn't call it this name originally, but what happened in junior high school not only changed my name, but also changed my life, this incident has already been told in part, and part of it is still watched, this thing is a little weird.

When I woke up, the sun was already setting in the west, but it was still not low, and my skin was covered with fine beads of sweat. The cry came so suddenly that I couldn't help but startle me.

I hurriedly ran out of the house and found that there were many adults standing in the neighbor's house, among which was the neighbor's hostess, whom I called the fourth aunt. At this time, the fourth aunt was sitting on the ground, her hair was scattered, her eyes were blank, and her face was sad.

I vaguely heard the words "festival mourning and change", and as soon as I heard this, I realized that someone must have died, but who died made the fourth aunt so sad, I couldn't help but think of the fourth aunt's son Qiu Zhige. That's when I noticed that one of my playmates who had invited me to go swimming was coming up dejectedly, so I stepped forward to ask him.

When my hand touched his arm, he was startled and tried to break away, but when he saw that it was me, he gave up struggling, and his face was terrified. When he had settled down a bit, I was about to ask him what was going on, but he was the first to say.

"Xiao Jiu, it's good that you didn't follow us to take a cold shower, otherwise you would have suffered."

It turned out that when they went to the river, they felt a chill and were very comfortable, so everyone jumped into the river in a hurry, and everyone swam in the river very comfortably. The weeping willows by the river swayed slightly in the breeze, and the surface of the river sparkled and shone in the sun, and there were many adults cultivating the fields around.

They swim in the river, or play, they have a lot of fun, and the adults who work in the fields are all from the village, we call them uncles, uncles, aunts, etc., and when they are tired of farming, we will watch them play for a while. There are also a lot of plants around, swaying slightly, and it seems that they are also infected by the joy of children playing.

It was nice at first, just a normal rustic scene. But suddenly a ball rolled out of a bush by the river, fell into the water and floated to the middle of the river with the microwave in the river, and Qiu Zhige somehow swam towards the ball.

At this point, my playmate's expression turned horrified, and I knew immediately that what was going to happen next must not be easy.

When Qiu Zhige swam to the side of the ball, he caught the ball, but he didn't expect the ball to sink directly with Qiu Zhige, and the water surface kept churning, but after a while, all the children in the river began to churn in the water, and the playmate felt that someone was pulling him into the water at the bottom of the water, and there was a cold feeling in his hand, and the strength was also very great.

He found that the other people were also writhing in the river like him, and they must have been pulled to the bottom of the river by something in the river just like him. The adults who were farming by the river also found that the situation was not quite right, and they all hurried to the river, but fortunately these friends of mine took cold showers by the river, and there were more adults, and they were all rescued soon.

After being rescued on the riverbank, they all felt frightened, but when they asked each other, they all realized that they all felt that someone was pulling them in the river, and finally counted and found that Qiu Zhige did not come up. As soon as those adults heard that Qiu Zhige had not come up yet, they went to the river to search, but they still did not find anyone, and there was only water rippling slightly above the river, and there was no other sign.

The adults searched for a long time by the river and in the middle of the river, but they couldn't find Qiu Zhige's people, not even the body, according to that time, Qiu Zhige must have drowned in the water.

The adults also panicked, some of them stayed by the river to look for it, and the other part went to the fourth aunt's house to report the funeral, so that there was a scene where I saw the fourth aunt crying so sadly, and after hearing this, I felt sad for Qiu Zhige's death and felt a little happy at the same time.

If I had gone with them, with my bold character at that time, I would definitely swim towards the ball when I saw it, and it is estimated that in addition to Qiu Zhige, who had an accident at that time, it was possible to catch me, but I felt more sad.

Brother Qiu Zhi is a few years older than me, so I have always called him brother, he was in high school at the time, he usually took care of me, often bought me food, and taught me a lot of knowledge, I didn't expect to go like this, after a short period of happiness is a deep grief, this is also the first time I came into contact with death, let me realize that death is really gone, never come back.

After talking to the playmate for a while, he went home in despair, and I had no choice but to go home, after all, although I was very sad about this matter, I could not help much.

The people in the village are relatively harmonious, although they usually quarrel over some trivial things, but they are quickly reconciled, and the death of a family is the business of the whole village, and Qiu Zhige's body has not been found, even if he is dead without a body, he cannot be buried, so all the middle-aged laborers of the village went to the river to fish for the body.

Most of the rest of the people in the village went to Qiu Zhige's house to help with the funeral, even my grandmother and mother also went, but because this was a funeral, I couldn't go, so I had to stay at home.