In the hot summer, at two o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was like fire, and I knew that I was screaming happily in the trees.

A small village in S County is very quiet surrounded by greenery.

There is a family at the west entrance of the village, three low mud-walled grass houses, five neat rows of willows in front of the door, tall and straight, as thick as the mouth of a bowl.

There are a few peach trees next to the willows, the peach with a slightly red color has long been picked by the villagers, only grows at the height of the trunk, the villagers really can't reach, and a few sporadic peach are hidden in the sparse leaves.

Walking through the peach tree is a small pond, from a distance, I saw several teenage children, playing and frolicking by the pond, the boys are shirtless, wearing only a small pants, some are standing in the water, some are squatting in the water, and some are lying in the water.

Some of the little girls stood on the ridge of the pond, and some squatted on the edge of the pond.

At this time, Li Zhenfu smiled and walked from the grass hut to the door, his facial features were straight, his hair was slightly curly,

The skin is white and pure, wearing big blue pants, a white coarse cloth bath towel on the right shoulder, medium stature, not fat or thin, wearing sandals, snapping, crookedly walking towards the pond.

Li Qing, with short black hair, slender eyebrows, curved eyes, black and bright, ruddy lips is particularly stylish, thin, about eleven or twelve years old, wearing a cotton sleeveless shirt and cotton pants, is sitting under the small bamboo forest by the west wall, lying on the wooden bench and flipping through the villain book, covering the villain book with a thin white paper, and using a pencil to trace the outline of the villain in the book.

Li Qing looked up and saw Li Zhenfu walking towards the pond, with a happy face, looking at the middle-aged man and asking.

"Daddy, are you going to take a bath by the pond?"

Li Zhenfu said to Li Qing with a smile

"Yes, it's too hot, dad go to the pond to take a bath, cooler, Qing'er, you can also go to the pond to wash your face"

"Hmmm! I'll go home and get a towel."

Li Qing agreed, picked up the villain book, quickly stood up, put on sandals, turned around, walked quickly into the door of the grass house, twisted his waist and stepped into the door of the west house, gently put the villain book and pencil on the table in front of the window, ripped off a towel from the hanger behind the door, and retreated back to the hall.

On the bamboo bed in the hall, there was a girl with a round face and a chubby face, with two scattered pigtails on her head, who turned over and sat up, raised her hand and rubbed her big ring eyes, and asked Li Qing in a low voice,

"Second sister, where are you going to play?"

"Feng'er, you're awake, hehe, I'll go to the pond to play, and Dad will go to the pond to take a bath."

"Hehe, second sister, then I'll go to the pond to play"

Li Feng moved his fleshy buttocks on the bamboo bed, and when he reached the edge of the bed, he turned over and climbed down, pouted his buttocks, and landed on his feet with a bang, touching the sandals with his toes, and put on the sandals.

Li Qing stuffed the towel to Li Feng and said with a mysterious expression

"Feng'er, you take the towel and go to the pond first"

Li Feng blinked his big eyes and looked at Li Qing.

"Second sister, why are you going?"

Li Qing stepped to the West House, walked to the back of the door, moved out the round wooden basin for bathing at home, picked out the largest wooden basin, grabbed the edge of the wooden basin with both hands, leaned to the left, slowly moved his feet, and moved to the edge of the pond step by step, his face was flushed, and he was panting.

Li Feng sat on the stone bar by the pond, put his two feet in the water, and hit the water one after the other.

"Little Fengzi, look! Your second sister brought the wooden basin here,"

Li Feng twisted his neck to look back, grinning

"Haha, second sister, are you going to row?"

"yes, hehe"

Li Qing put the basin into the pond, pushed it to a deeper place, slowly went down into the water, and stepped into the wooden basin, but the wooden basin kept sinking, and it was filled with water all at once.

"Huh? Can't float? ”

"Xiao Qingzi, your boat won't go in the water, hehehe"

Li Feng scooped up the water with his hands and splashed it at the boy in the pond, and the boy laughed and splashed the water on Li Feng.

Li Qing was a little disappointed, tried twice, but the wooden basin couldn't float, so he had to pull the wooden basin to the edge of the pond, sit in the wooden basin, stretch out his hands, and paddle on both sides of the wooden basin.

Paddled and sang loudly, Li Feng and the little boy also hummed along

"Let's swing the oars, and the boat pushes the waves,"

Li Qing paddled the water, imagining that the wooden basin could float to the middle of the water like a boat in the movie, to pick lotus roots, for a long time, his clothes were also wet, and the wooden basin did not move.

Li Zhenfu, wearing big pants, swam across the pond and stood waist-deep in the water to look at the children.

Li Zhenfu pushed the water in front of his chest to both sides with both hands, came around from the side, his feet regularly slapped the water, his outstretched arms were like wheels, one in front and one behind, and his body swam forward on the water.

Two older boys also swam around in the water.

There was a sharp-eyed child who shouted at Li Qing

"Little Qingzi, someone is stealing your peaches"

Everyone turned their heads to see that a plump middle-aged woman, standing under the peach tree, pulled the branch with one hand, pulled it down, and stretched it up with the other hand, picking the peach at the height of the trunk.

Next to him stood a boy about two or three years old, chubby, shaved head, naked, round buttocks, covered with mud all over his body, sweat flowing down his head, mixed with saliva dripping down the corners of his mouth, leaving marks one after another, leaning his neck, opening his mouth, staring at the round eyes, staring intently at the height of the peach tree.

The middle-aged woman finally picked two green peaches and grabbed them in her hands, and the little boy shook his body, shook his hands, and hummed

"Mom, I'm going to eat-peach"

"Let's go to the pond and wash and eat"

The middle-aged woman grabbed the little boy with one hand, stepped the bamboo basket with the other, and turned to walk towards the pond.

The big black dog lying on the ground also slowly stood up, drooping his head, "Ha, ha" kept sticking out his tongue and followed behind.

The middle-aged woman walked to the edge of the pond and said to Li Qing and Li Feng with a smile

"My iron egg wants to eat uncle's peaches, why do you want to? I look at the peach trees, they've all been picked, hehehe."

The middle-aged woman stretched out her hand and pulled the iron egg over, and the iron egg stepped into the water, grinned, sat in the water with one butt, and started the water with two fat arms.

"Iron eggs, come and wash, look at it, dirty! It's like a mud monkey, you can't see the water, and when you get into the water, you can't pull it away, hehe"

"Fourth aunt, the peaches have already been picked"

The boy next door standing in the water pointed to a tall chestnut tree on the other side of the pond and said to Li Qing with a smile

"There are still chestnuts after eating the peaches, hehe"

Li Qing said

"Okay, let's go hunt chestnuts one day, oops, that tree is so tall."

"We went up the tree to fight, and this tree has the most chestnuts"

"My mother watched so tightly that she wouldn't let me go up the tree"

"Then we'll go at noon one day, and we'll go when your mom and dad are asleep."

"Okay"

At this time, a few more people came from the peach tree, talking and laughing as they walked, wearing long-sleeved clothes, straw hats, towels on their shoulders, barefoot, trouser legs were muddy, passing by the peach tree, leaning their necks up to the tree, looking east and west.

Walk to the edge of the pond, plop down into the water, and wash your hands and face with a towel.

"Fourth aunt, have you finished planting seedlings?"

"Not yet, I'm not free today, I'm going to plant tomorrow"

"Xiao Qingzi, where are your peach tree peaches? I wanted to pick two peaches and eat them."

"These bear children, in the summer, soak in the pond every day,"

"Haha, big brother is also here, in the evening, I still come to listen to your story, big brother, your story is very good, hehe"

"Old, there seem to be a few peaches on the tree, tell Qing'er to go home and take a long bamboo pole to beat"

"Big brother, I'm joking with Qing'er, we're going to plant the seedlings in the field right away,"

Everyone was gossiping, and the small pond was boiling.

After a while, a few people went to the seedling field to plant seedlings.

Li Qing went down from the basin to the edge of the pond, and also learned his father's movements, leaned over in the water, played with the water backwards, and hit the water with his feet, but he couldn't swim up for a long time, so he had to prop up the bottom of the water with his hands and play with his feet.

After swimming a few laps, Li Zhenfu jumped up from the water, like a fish, and plunged into the water, only to see ripples on the calm pond.

Li Qing looked up and didn't see Li Zhenfu's figure.