When she went to bed at night, Xiuhan talked a lot to Hedi, whether it was in life or school, her mouth opened and she didn't seem to have the meaning of closing it, and kept nagging until more than eleven o'clock in the evening. The summer nights are hot and stuffy, and the crickets crouch under the window and keep croaking, which makes people feel upset but also feel comfortable and beautiful. When he was in the city, Xiuhan had never heard crickets so closely, and at home in the city, the night never seemed to be really quiet, all he heard was the roar of cars, and all he smelled was impetuous fireworks. Only in this beautiful night in the countryside will her heart be truly calm, her eyes are all beautiful green, and her nose is full of grass. Xiuhan was tired of talking, so she closed her eyes and took a deep breath, she suddenly got up, leaned on the window and looked out, the yard was quiet, there was a lot of grass growing messily at the door, and there was a little hay next to Xiuhan that took a lot of effort to remove, only a small narrow piece of cement in the middle of the courtyard was still clean. Xiuhan turned his head to Hetu and said excitedly, "Let's go sleep outside!" ”

He Tu was taken aback, and hurriedly said, "How do you sleep outside?" What if a bug crawls into the ear? ”

"We took out the couch in the big room and laid it on the ground where there was no grass." Xiuhan said and climbed under the kang, "That couch is very big, enough for the two of us to sleep." ”

"You're a fool." He Tu was too lazy to move, she closed her eyes and listened to the sound of Xiu Han's clothes, until Xiu Han's footsteps disappeared outside the door, He Tu opened her eyes and propped up half of her body from the kang. Through the glass window, she saw Xiuhan enter the big room with a candle in her hand, and with a snort in her mouth, she quickly jumped off the kang, lit a candle again and followed out.

"It's so heavy, how can you lift it?" He tilted the candle and poured a few drops of melted wax oil on the table, fixing the candle to it. Xiuhan had already started to lift it, and he couldn't lift it with a lot of effort. He Tu stepped forward to help, and the two girls were busy for a long time, and the mahogany couch didn't move a little. Xiuhan first went limp, she shook her head and looked around, suddenly ran to a corner and picked up two bamboo mats, and said excitedly: "Let's spread the mat on the ground and sleep, how about it?" ”

"Wake up tomorrow morning, and your ears will be a nest of worms."

Xiuhan didn't pay attention to Hetu's words at all, she ran out with the mat and spread it in the middle of the courtyard, and hugged several beds of bedding on it, before patting the quilt and shouting, "Okay! Come and sleep! ”

He Tu reluctantly lay down, facing the beautiful starry sky, and her mind kept showing the image of insects crawling into her ears, making her toss and turn and fall asleep.

Xiuhan put her two arms under her head, her futon was thinner than Hedi's, and the ground under her was hard and thick, but she didn't feel uncomfortable. Her eyes wandered across the starry sky overhead, searching for the occasional tiny twinkling star that fell from the horizon. There is a galaxy in the sky where the stars are gathered and the Milky Way is particularly dense, and they twinkle in the sky, like bright eyes as sung in a song. Xiuhan sighed, drew a circle in front of him with his hand, and said, "You can't see such a starry sky in the city. ”

"Why, don't you have any stars in the city?" He Tu turned his head to look at her curiously. When she was a child, she still lay in the yard and counted how many stars there were in the sky, but she couldn't count them, so she gave up.

"Yes." Xiuhan nodded, his expression a little solemn, "But there are only a few of them, and sometimes I can't see them." ”

"Why? Isn't your city the same as our village? ”

"It's a piece of heaven." Xiuhan suddenly smiled, "But the sky here is cleaner, and there is nothing to block the stars, so you can see a lot of stars." ”

"Then tell me." He Tu turned sideways and squeezed in front of Xiuhan, "What is blocking your sky so that you can't see the stars?" ”

"That's too many to count." Xiuhan closed his eyes, but quickly opened them again, "Although our life is improving, it is also regressing while progressing. ”

He Tu shook his head, the broken hair in his ears made several cracks on the pillow, "I don't understand, I'm not as knowledgeable as you." ”

"Ugh." Xiuhan sat up and took something out of his pocket, "I understand now, technology and nature, you can only choose one, even the smartest person can't let the world have both of them at the same time." ”

"What are you doing here?" He Tu also sat up, looking at the lighter in her hand and the cigarette in her mouth in surprise, "You actually learned to smoke?" ”

"What's wrong?" Xiuhan ignored her, one hand protected the flame swaying in the breeze, and put his mouth up to light the cigarette in his mouth.

"No way!" He snatched the cigarette and threw it into the distance, "Smoking is not good for your health!" The black egg in our village died of lung cancer after smoking! What's more, you're a girl, what kind of style does smoking become! ”

"You're getting more and more like your mom now." Xiuhan frowned and looked at her, "Let's not talk about whether smoking is good for your health, what's wrong with me as a girl?" Now pay attention to the equality of men and women, except for the difference in body structure, which is decided by God, and there is no way to force manpower, but all other aspects are equal! If a man can smoke, I can smoke, and if a man smokes, it will become a system, and if a woman smokes, it will not be a system? What kind of feudal ideology are you? The Qing Dynasty has long since perished! ”

He was stupid, and he was choked by Xiuhan's words for a while, and he snorted for a long time: "Anyway, it doesn't look good, women are very ugly when they smoke." ”

Xiu Leng snorted, continued to take out a cigarette, and lit the cigarette butt with a lighter.

He Tu looked at her with a calm face, feeling that Xiuhan had suddenly changed, and he was no longer the same as before. She remembered the first time she saw Xiuhan, wearing a little skirt like a little fairy, how beautiful, but look at her now like a gangster, holding a cigarette in her hand, spitting clouds and fog into the air, and one hand is still patting around the smooth thigh.

"When you can think about it here, I wish you could think about it." Xiuhan suddenly said, "In that case, I'd rather stay here for the rest of my life." ”

He snorted coldly as she did, turned around and lay down.

"Hey, angry huh?" Xiuhan craned his neck to look at her and grinned. She took a few deep puffs of the cigarette in her hand, extinguished the cigarette butt on the ground, lay down against Hedi's body and said, "Do you know how I learned to smoke? ”

Hedi's eyes were rolling, she wanted to know, but she was angry and didn't want to speak so easily.

"Do you remember Xing Siyun?"

He Tu thought about it in his head for a long time, and then he remembered that Xiu Han had told him about this person a long time ago, so he hummed sullenly.

Xiuhan sighed, "My smoking is what he taught." ”

"Didn't you say you liked him very much?" He Tu searched in his mind, "You still said that his voice is very good, why did you learn from him badly?" ”

"Actually, smoking is not a bad thing, there are a lot of girls in our school who can smoke."

He Tu turned to look at her, his eyes worried and deep.

"He told me that although my voice sings beautifully, it is too mellow and unremarkable, and if I learn to smoke, my voice will be hoarse, and my singing will be more flavorful." Xiuhan said while reminiscing, "I think it makes sense for him to say this, so I learned it." But later, I couldn't quit, I wanted to smoke when I was annoyed, and when I smoked, all my worries ran away. ”

"I think you sing beautifully, and if there are so many people singing far away, I can hear your voice at once."

"That's because you're a good friend of mine, but not everyone is a good friend of mine, and I can hear my voice from many people's voices at once."

He Tu stroked the broken hair around his ear, "But I still think you don't smoke well, so you better quit." ”

Xiuhan pursed his lips and smiled, "Hey, how are you doing with that Zhu Hai?" ”

He Tu blushed, looked away from her, and said as if carelessly: "I haven't seen him for a long time since I went with you to herd sheep last time. ”

"That's all for you two?"

"And what do you want?"

"If you like him, say it to him."

It was the first time for Hedi to hear such a straightforward language, her face turned even redder, and she hurriedly turned around and said angrily, "You are really talking nonsense. ”

"You like him, don't you?" Xiuhan came up reluctantly and shouted with a smile. He Tu hurriedly covered her mouth with her hand, but she could cover it, and the courtyard was filled with laughter like a silver bell for a while. In the end, when she got angry, she stopped, still smiling at the corners of her mouth, and teased: "We are angry, shy and angry." ”

He Tu pouted and watched her take out a cigarette from her pocket again, "Your parents would be angry if they knew you smoked." ”

"How could I possibly let them know. But even if they knew, they wouldn't interfere with me, anyway, I'm going to go to college, and I'm already an adult. ”

"Where do you go to college?"

"Do you know Guangzhou?"

He shook his head.

"It's a city very south, it's beautiful, there's no winter there, can you imagine? They don't snow in winter. ”

"If it doesn't snow, what kind of winter is it?"

"It's because it's close to the equator, it's too hot. You can wear short sleeves to go out in winter. ”

He Tu opened his mouth wide in surprise, "It's so hot." ”

Xiuhan covered her mouth and showed a wicked smile, she suddenly remembered something, got up and ran to the house, and ran out with her guitar in a few seconds, shouting excitedly: "I always remember what to do, but I always forget." I wrote a song, I'll sing it to you, do you listen to it? ”

He sat down cross-legged and looked at her expectantly.

Xiuhan also sat down cross-legged, holding the guitar in her arms, her fingers quickly hooking the strings, and a stream of notes exploded from under her hands, like a little elf stepping on leather shoes in the air and dancing passionate dance music. Xiuhan's head flickered little by little, and her face had a dreamy and passionate expression, as if she was immersed in the world constructed by that note. Her fingers kept moving rapidly on the strings, and when the prelude was about to end, she opened her peachy red mouth, and a heavenly sound slipped out of her throat, and the human voice notes slowly floated to the passionate dancing elves in the air like a dance queen at a ball, and she shook her hands to hold the wide skirts on both sides, and her high heels knocked out a lively music under her feet, dancing among the elves. She occasionally bends down and bows her head, occasionally straightens her back, occasionally turns in circles quickly, but no matter what the action, she has a smile on her face, it is a smile that loves life and will never give up, it is a smile that really comes from the heart. Hop Tu was blown away by the ensemble of instruments and voices, and her heart beat violently, as if she were dancing with the girl. As the song was about to end, Xiuhan smiled and started again, played from the prelude, and said to Hedi, "You get up." ”

"What?" He Tu didn't want to disturb the beautiful music, and asked quickly.

"Dance."

Hedi's face turned red all of a sudden, and she squirmed and rubbed on the quilt. When the climax of the song came, her heart became excited again, and she finally couldn't help but stand up, stretch out her hands and start dancing clumsily in the air. Two candles burned on the low table next to her, and the flames of the candles fluttered in the breeze, casting Hedi's slender figure on the wall, as if dancing with her. Xiuhan showed an encouraging expression to her, and the notes under her hands became more fanatical, masking the crickets that kept screaming under the window. He closed his eyes and let his mind soak up the beautiful music, no longer caring about anything, letting go of his hands and feet and dancing on the ground.

The song ended again, and Xiuhan stopped what he was doing and looked at Hetu with a smile. Hedi's face turned red again, and she woke up from the world of music, but she felt that her action just now was clumsy and ridiculous, and hurriedly sat down in her place, covering her face with the quilt.

"Why are you shy in front of me?" Xiuhan put away his guitar, "You dance so well." ”

"Really?" Hedi peeked out of the quilt with a pair of shy eyes.

"Of course, I want to dance with you, but no one sings when I dance." Xiuhan giggled, and then He Tu put down the quilt and laughed with her.

"You're singing so nicely." He Tu pointed to the guitar case, "It's nice to play." ”

"Do you think if I used this song to compete, would I win first place?"

"That's for sure." He nodded vigorously, "If this song doesn't win the first place, then who can still win the first place." ”

Xiuhan smiled happily, she generally put her arms around Hedi's shoulders, and the two of them fell on the futon together, staring at the starry sky.

Because it was the first time to hear such passionate and frenzied music, Hetu couldn't sleep with excitement. Her head kept echoing uncontrollably, as if she had a Walkman in her head that would never run out of power. I don't know how long it took, but she turned her head to see that Xiuhan had fallen into a deep sleep. Her face shimmered with a strange brilliance that made her feel like life was full of enthusiasm and positive power. He Tu smiled, she reached out and gently touched Xiuhan's smooth face, and said softly: "No matter what, I hope you will be as happy as you are today for the rest of your life." ”

When Xiuhan woke up, Hetu had already left. The candles on the low table at his feet had burned out, leaving only two pools of dried wax. Xiuhan rubbed her eyes and sat up, the sun had just peeked out of the sky, and the cool breeze blew her sleepy body, making her mind gradually become clearer. The futon that Hedi slept on had been packed into the house by her, leaving only an empty mat, which was Hedi's fear that Xiuhan would not sleep honestly and get out and get covered in dirt. Xiuhan got up, rolled up the bedding casually, and stuffed it to the top of the cabinet, while he sat on the threshold in a daze.

Suddenly, there was a rush of footsteps outside the courtyard gate, and a bowl full of vegetables and steamed buns appeared at the courtyard gate, followed by a happy game with an excited face. The two of them walked in, and when they saw Xiuhan sitting on the threshold in a daze, they were also stunned. He shouted, put the dishes and chopsticks in his hand on the small table, and shouted, "Hurry up and eat." ”

He Yi ran to Xiuhan's side, looked at her face carefully, turned his head and shouted to his sister, "Sister Xiuhan hasn't washed her face yet!" ”

"You go and bring a basin of water to Sister Xiuhan."

He Yi immediately stood up and ran to the kitchen, and after a while, he ran out with a copper basin in his hand. Xiuhan touched her head, washed her face with cold water with her hand, took a towel to dry, sat on the mat that had not been picked up and ate, and said vaguely while eating: "Hedi, your cooking skills are simply getting better and better." ”

"Later, at noon, you can go to my house for dinner."

"Don't."

"Why?" He Tu looked at her in surprise, and the hand that collected the mat stopped in mid-air.

"I'm cooking my own food, so I'm going to have to fend for myself, right?" Xiuhan swallowed a mouthful of steamed buns and said with a smile.

"I'll do it with Sister Xiuhan." He Yi hurriedly raised his little hand. Xiuhan turned his head to look at her and asked, "Do you know how to cook?" ”

"Yes, my sister taught me." He Yi said eloquently, "Sister Xiuhan, when the autumn begins, I will go to the city to study, and I will go to play with you when the time comes!" ”

"Really?" Xiuhan laughed, "Then you must tell me which school you are in, and I will bring you delicious food when the time comes." ”

"Well, when I finish cooking for the house, I'll bring it down for you to eat." He Tu sighed, "As long as you two have never had any work on your hands, can you eat the food you cook?" ”

"Look at your sister, is it out of the same mold as your mother, and even the tone of speech is the same." Xiuhan turned her head to Heyi and said, Heyi nodded hurriedly, and she smiled happily, "In the future, she will definitely be a very good wife and mother." ”

Hedi's hand stopped in mid-air, and he didn't understand what Xiu Han meant for a while. She turned her head to look at her, and saw Xiuhan pursing his lips and smiling at her, his eyes were deep and dark, as if he was full of a vast ocean. He Tu hurriedly turned his head and wiped the table uncertainly.