The summer vacation of 1998 was a relaxing one, and I was relieved when I got my offer.

For a child in the mountains, being admitted to university for more than ten years means a twist of fate, and now in retrospect, this is the reality of that era. Therefore, no matter how difficult the process of studying is, as long as you want to go out of the mountains, the only way to go is to keep learning and succeed.

High school life is completely over, and for me, the years of youth have slipped away in a hurry without savoring them carefully. However, in this period of eternity, the irresistible growth has left a permanent imprint in my youth memory, in the process of several years of study and life in the county, there are too many hopes, longings and pursuits, too much confusion, loss and hesitation, too many regrets, and too much unswerving perseverance.

When I parted, I walked in the familiar campus again, and I was full of emotion. "Things are people, everything is resting, and tears flow first", about to leave, under the willow tree, next to the birch forest, the memories and laughter of the past, but can no longer be found.

Da Gang was going to stay at a relative's house in the county seat, so I packed my bags and went back to the town alone. In the evening, I got off the bus in the town, went to the town hospital to find the fourth uncle, borrowed a bicycle and prepared to go back to the village.

The weather was hot and the sun was fierce, and I had nowhere to hide under the scorching August sun, sweat seeping out of every cell in my body, and soon my close-fitting clothes looked like they had been washed with water. I rode for about ten kilometers, the sky gradually darkened, suddenly, a hot warm wind mixed with the fragrance of green grass and black earth blew through, a few dark clouds drifted, after a few thunders, the clouds gathered more and more, bean-sized raindrops rushed down from the dark clouds, first like a pearl with a broken line, and then, suddenly connected into a line, and finally became a downpour. I was caught off guard by the sudden heavy rain, soaking wet, panicked everywhere looking for shelter from the rain, but on both sides of the path, except for the endless green gauze tent, there was nothing else, I wanted to return to the town, and I was afraid that the fourth uncle would worry, so I continued to walk, and I didn't know when the rain would stop, hesitating, I didn't stop, and rode out a few kilometers, closer and closer to home, and finally convinced myself that it was better to keep walking, maybe the rain would stop after a while, but the heavier and heavier rain made me a little desperate,

"Oh no, I guess I can't cross the river." I thought to myself, suddenly remembered that there is a dry water river a few kilometers ahead, is the only way home, due to the town's financial problems, has not built the bridge, the dry water river is dry in autumn and winter, as soon as the spring will have the river slowly rise, the usual rainy season, everyone is wading through, today it is such a rapid rain, it is estimated that it will not be able to pass, I am anxious, although very tired, the foot is still desperately speeding up the speed of pedaling.

The rain became more and more urgent, mixed with lightning and thunder, and the white water vapor gradually connected into a vast piece of fog, and with the wind it was rolled up again, thrown out at will, with a loud and majestic sound.

I don't know how long I rode, I finally came to the dry water river, as expected, the river swelled, the turbidity current overturned, the golden waves surging, the momentum of the turbulent and deep river frightened me, I held the car, standing on the bank, at a loss for a while, the pouring rain, still falling.

In the distance, the sky gradually glowed, but it was getting late.

There was a lonely hut on the bank of the dry water river, and there were melons growing in the black soil around the house, which was probably the temporary residence of the farmer who watched the melons, and I was like a man who was gradually losing hope and floating in the sea, and after enduring a long and lonely wait, I suddenly found a new world, and rushed over eagerly with a cart, walked to the front of the house, threw the cart, and pushed open the small door and broke into the house, the rain was too heavy, and I endured it for too long.

A girl's exclamation came from the hut, and I pushed the door in, and the foot that had just stepped into the threshold shrank out as if it had been burned by coals.

"Who?" A crisp girl, "I, can I come in and shelter from the rain for a while?" "I didn't actually see anything in the house, but the female voice coming from the house still made me feel a little embarrassed." Isn't it too reckless to rush into the house without permission just now? I muttered to myself, standing outside the door, a little overwhelmed.

After a while, the girl leaked half of her face through the curtain and looked at me, probably amused by my embarrassed appearance, she giggled twice, "Come in." ”

The hut was small, and the owner had built a mud bed, and the space from the bed to the wall was less than a meter, and some daily necessities were piled up. The hut should have been set up not long ago, and there was a smell of black earth.

The girl sat in the corner of the earthen bed, staring at me up and down with big black eyes. She was in her twenties, beautiful, tall, and dressed very plainly.

"You're a student, aren't you? Where did this come from? She asked me.

"I'm coming back from the county and I'm going to cross the river and go home." I walked into the cottage and was a little embarrassed by her.

"Oh, then you can't cross the river today, just now I was checking the melon field by the river, and I saw a pig washed away in the river." After she finished speaking, she realized that there was something wrong with her words, giggled, and added, "I didn't scold you, there is really a pig that rushed down from the upstream." She giggled again.

The atmosphere in the room was softened by her laughter.

"Are you here alone?" I wish there was a third person so that I could be more comfortable.

"What's wrong? Are you scared? Afraid of me? She laughed again. I'm alone, and I've been looking at the land here for half a month. She pouted. Pointing to the land outside the small door, a piece of melon seedlings grew luxuriantly in the dark earth, and half-ripe melons loomed.

A gentle breeze blew, and the house was filled with the scent of black earth.

"Why can't you smell melon?" I sniffed, "Oh, you're a student, you don't know anything about farming in the countryside, and the melons aren't ripe yet, besides, it's raining so hard, and the smell of the melons is covered by the smell of the earth." She has a point, when the weather is fine, every time I pass by the melon field, I can smell the melon fragrance from afar.

"You can change your clothes." She looked at me, "I'm soaking wet, I'll catch a cold if I don't change my clothes," she said, realizing that the hut didn't have a separate space for me to change clothes, and hesitated again, and her face suddenly turned red.

"I, I should be fine." "You don't have to change it." I also realized that something was wrong, and quickly waved my hand to refuse. "I sheltered from the rain for a while, and when the rain stopped, I had to hurry to cross the river. It's okay to wear it like this for a while. After I finished speaking, I suddenly sneezed out of place.

She laughed again, "You're still a big kid. "What village are you from?" What is your name? "The awkward atmosphere was eased again.

"My name is Great Power." I replied happily.

"You're a big country, I've heard of you." Her words surprised me a little, "Are you the big country that has won an award for some kind of essay?" I nodded. Oh, great writer, giggles. "I'm a little restrained by the compliment." My name is Lan Gu, and you definitely don't know me. I'm two years older than you, graduating from high school in town. She introduced herself generously. You're a good name. I sighed, "What's good?" "People you don't know have to call you aunt." She giggled.

"Don't be unconvinced, I'll rank you in seniority, you really call me aunt." She laughed.

We fought for a long time, and it turned out that we really turned around through the relationship between an aunt's grandmother's aunt and grandmother, and I didn't know how many turns, and I got a relationship with her. "It doesn't count." I was a little unconvinced, "What kind of relationship is this, it's been five generations." Lan Gu was so amused by my serious appearance that she burst into tears of laughter.

The rain outside the house was still falling, and it was getting darker and faster.

"Don't rush to leave, just wait." "It's more dangerous to walk now. Recently, there have been wild boars in the field at night," Lan Gu lit a candle. I had planned for the worst, if I couldn't cross the river, so I planned to go back to town the way I came, but she said that the wild boar in the field had dashed my last hope of going home, "Are you hungry?" She asked me, if I was really hungry, "You don't have anything to eat here, do you?" When she asked, my stomach gurgled, "One more point," she turned around and took out a plastic bag from a box in one corner of the earthen bed, which contained two slices of bread, she handed it to me, and then took a melon from the side of the bed, "You can make do with it." There is nothing else. I took it and gobbled up the bread and melon. Her eyes softened as she watched me eat.

Before I knew it, it was late at night, and the house gradually became quiet.

I sat in the corner of the dirt bed by the door, staring at the crackling rain outside, dazed.

The candles were about to burn out, and Lan Gu suddenly stopped talking for some reason, looking at the rain outside the hut like me, with a faint sadness on her face.

"Something?" I broke the silence.

"I'll get married at the end of the year and go to the province." Lan Gu replied, suddenly sighing.

"It's a happy event, and it's a good thing." I tease her.

"However, I don't know that person, but the matchmaker brought me a photo, and I received the bride price at home, so the matter was settled." She looked a little distraught.

I was speechless, I didn't know what to say.

A gust of wind blew, the candles burned out, went out, and the hut fell into darkness, and the house was silent, as if there was nothing but the sound of rain, and only the roar of the sudden rise of the dry water river a few meters away.

"Are you sleepy?" She asked in the dark.

"Uh-huh." I'm still really sleepy.

"You change your clothes and go to sleep." She said softly. "If you change your clothes now, I won't be able to see it." She regained her joy and giggled. In the dark, she handed me a set of dry clothes, "This is my pajamas, I am taller than you, you should be able to wear them, change the wet clothes, give them to me, I will wring them out for you to dry, and you can wear them tomorrow morning." ”

I still felt that it was inappropriate, and I wanted to refuse her kindness, but she was a little impatient, "Oh, how did you twist and pinch, like a." "Are you afraid I'll eat you?" For the first time, I was laughed at by the girl for cowardice, blushed in the dark, and took her clothes.

"Okay, I'll change." I took Lan Gu's pajamas and felt her face twist in the dark, facing the wall.

The pajamas in my hand had a faint smell of black earth. After taking the clothes, thinking that Lan Gu was close at hand, the young me was a little inexplicably excited and nervous, I panicked and took off the wet clothes I had glued to my body, threw them on the dirt bed, picked up her pajamas and put them on my body.

A flash of lightning illuminated the hut at an inopportune time, and Lan Gu had turned her head at some point, and her big shining eyes were looking at me naked, and I looked at each other, and my head roared, and my hands seemed to freeze, and I was stunned.

A stronger smell of black earth enveloped me, and at the same time I felt a fiery and youthful arm bend that softly wrapped around my body.

The rain outside the house stopped at some point.

In the melon field, there were bursts of waw screams.