That year, Bai Chuan was 7 years old and Xiao Ting was 8 years old, and I remember that it was very hot in the summer at that time

The two villages are separated by a small river that is so shallow that it can only be wiped over the ankles, and the connection between the villages is a few smooth stone slabs in the small river that expose the water, and the water is quiet and clear, and it flows without hurrying or slow.

In those days when there were frequent power outages, people from both villages liked to come to the river in groups to cool off. The men all brought their own mazahs and gathered in the shade of the trees, smoking choking thick cigarettes and fanning round fans made of pampas leaves. A dozen or a dozen of them are either playing poker or Kan Dashan. The women were all by the river, beating their waterlogged dirty clothes on the smooth river rocks, gossiping about all kinds of people and people in this village, and from time to time whispering and laughing. The children like to strip their butts and flutter in it, or dig here with a shovel that is taller than their height brought from home, and dig here to make a mud hole on the shore, like a thrilling adventure.

Shirakawa is relatively shy, with a slightly thin body, and short black and shiny hair, which has not been trimmed in any way, and is completely naturally separated from the middle, accompanied by a high-quality pink face. The pants that are a little too big and black plaid have been mentioned to the place where they can't be higher.,The upper body is bare.,The small short sleeves that I was wearing have been forcibly taken off and washed by my mother.。

may think that the relationship between the timid is relatively small, Xiao Baichuan does not dare to touch the mud hole like other children. Alone digging the sand in the water, trying to build a dam, or digging a big pit, over and over again.

"I'm here to do the laundry, hey, I've brought out the eldest girl today, she looks so beautiful!"

There was a small commotion. A mother and daughter gradually approached.

That was the first time Xiao Baichuan had seen Xiao Ting, and her mother was leading her with a wooden basin containing several clothes in one hand and the other in the other. Xiao Ting's mother put down the basin, spread the hand that was holding Xiao Ting, and pointed to Xiao Baichuan, who was still pouting her ass and stupidly stunned in the water. motioned for her to play with Shirakawa, and then ignored it and began to find a slate and start washing clothes.

Xiao Baichuan felt that his brain was twisted by something, and looked at Xiao Ting in a little confusion, like a ghost, staying in place.

Xiao Ting didn't move where she stood, like a painting, the white and clean standard melon seed face, the two small braids combed smoothly without a little mess, the white broken plaid dress, the white plastic sandals, the buckle and a small pink flower. For the first time, the little mind felt that the word "like" was ignorant.

Bai Chuan just stood there stupidly, watching her come over without blinking, more than a meter away from me, and stopped with her hands behind her back Xiao Ting also looked at Xiao Bai Chuan. In this way, the two children did not speak, Xiao Ting should be thinking at this time: "Is this boy a fool"!

For the first time in my life, "insomnia" seems to be a little unbearable, and this sudden first "like" Xiao Shirakawa keeps regretting not asking her name, regretting how he became a fool at that time.

How to express your like, never bare-chested, wearing small pants, but changing into clothes that Xiao Shirakawa feels very handsome, and walking to the river every day. The tacit understanding is that Xiao Ting always appears by the river, either washing with two small clothes, or following her mother.

1 day, 2 days, 1 month, 2 months,

It's early autumn. The weather is getting colder. The riverside is no longer bustling, and adults are busy with farm work in the fields.

Kobaikawa is becoming more and more keen to go to the river. Finally, he knew that her name was Xiao Ting, she liked to eat toffee, she liked to jump rubber bands, and she liked to see Shirakawa's fool the most.

At the point of showing affection. All little boys and girls may be the same, wanting to attract his or her attention with their handsome, pretty, or even bad looks. But how much I hope that the other party will treat themselves gently. In his spare time, Shirakawa always thinks: Will she look at me again? Don't take me for a fool ? Look how handsome I am! Did she notice that I liked her, her heart beat and blushed, maybe she praised me a little, or because of a sentence two people chased, she deliberately slowed down so that she could kick me, not heavy but to fall to the ground and wait for her to stretch out her little hand to pull me up. Xiao Ting's little hands always have temperature.

Two little children are always so easy to play crazy, their hair is messed up, and their faces are muddy. There was no bleeding when the skin was cut here, but he had to shout and scream in pain so that he could get Xiao Ting's unexpected attention.

Happy and carefree age, Shirakawa knew for the first time that liking is not deliberate, liking is liking, it is impatient to throw down the schoolbag after school and run to the river, it is you who don't come, I will not be happy to sit and wait until it gets dark to come home, it is you who say that I am a fool.

At that time, there was no kindergarten, and each village had its own Yuhong class and primary school. So Bai Chuan didn't become elementary school classmates with Xiao Ting, Bai Chuan is quite well-behaved, and his studies are okay, but Xiao Ting is one year older than Bai Chuan, so he has always been one level higher than Bai Chuan, and every time he plays a learning game, Xiao Ting always asks some questions about bullying Bai Chuan. In order to be able to shave Shirakawa's nose or pull out a hair of Shirakawa. Xiao Ting seems to be content to bully Bai Chuan, and Bai Chuan also seems to enjoy being bullied by Xiao Ting.

From that time on, Shirakawa had a secret, a secret that he knew, and he didn't know if she knew it. Sometimes I don't know what to do with insomnia, and Xiao Tingde's face always comes to mind. Oops, why can a girl look so good? Maybe in my mind, I like to play together, and I have to sneak a few more looks. My Snow White is not her, should I be a prince with a sword and a white horse? There is also the kind of witch who defeats evil with a long red cloak in armor, and wakes up with a gentle kiss on her. I fell asleep thinking about it. Many years later, Shirakawa's mother said that he always dreamed and laughed.

There is a commissary in Xiao Ting's village, it is the kind of window that is always gloomy and scary when looking from the outside in, every time I walk by, there is always a little monster old man who comes out and asks if he wants to buy sugar toys, smiling like the sinister villain in TV martial arts dramas, Bai Chuan is not often there, but his mother is sometimes too busy, and he drinks to make Bai Chuan go to buy some oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea. Because Xiao Ting said that she often helps her mother go shopping, and she also goes there. So Shirakawa has developed a habit of chasing after his mother when he has time and asking if he needs to help buy things by himself. Maybe it's just a chance encounter

Sometimes Shirakawa also thinks: If this old man is the witch in the fairy tale...... but after thinking about it, isn't it right, shouldn't the witch in the story be an old woman in rags and a horned hat? . Could she still be transformed? .

Youth, or childhood, time always flies by anyway.

It snowed heavily, and the sky was full of white. The boys of the two villages, invariably, all gathered to the side of the river to have a snowball fight across the river, sometimes scolding and scolding, and a few more naughty children wrapped the snow with small stones, and there was a tragedy, some of the heads were broken, naughty ran away, like Bai Chuan, who reacted slowly for more than half a beat, was chased by the parents of the children with brooms for half the village. Of course, Xiao Ting never came to such a thing, and I never told her, but she should always know about it later. Because Xiao Ting is always used to using the attitude of a big sister to check whether Bai Chuan is injured.

At that time, the weather was cold, and the farm work in the countryside was busy, and every house was heated by a small briquette stove, and a long chimney pipe was formed in a large circle in the house before sticking out of a hole in the wall. In order to keep more warmth.

The children always can't stop it, Bai Chuan still goes to the river almost every day, Xiao Ting comes less, a few days and sometimes more than ten days, although she can play crazy with other friends when she doesn't come, but she always thinks about why Xiao Ting didn't come? So Bai Chuan secretly took the fruit candy that his sister bought and bribed Xiao Ting's village friends, and asked them to take Bai Chuan to her door, of course, she had to pretend to have bitter hatred with Xiao Ting, pretending to write a big bad guy on the wall in front of Xiao Ting's house Draw a big turtle or something, of course, after seeing Xiao Ting, Bai Chuan would always be twisted to wipe his ears off. Xiao Ting stood behind her like an annoying policeman in a Hong Kong drama, where some were not wiped clean, Xiao Ting would pretend to kick Bai Chuan's ass vigorously. In fact, I'm afraid that I have no strength just after touching the pants.

Xiao Ting has always been very strong. So Shirakawa also seems to be used to his weak role.

Later, Xiao Ting told me that her mother had been asking her to do some housework after school, and she could do housework at home, and she could say that she came out to do laundry in summer, and there was really no reason to come out to play in winter. It's just that occasionally she can come out to play for a while when there is no housework at home. In this way, I spent a winter with a little bit of longing.

The Chinese New Year seems to be the most anticipated thing for every child in the countryside, new clothes, new toys, and the cloth pocket is full of candy melon seeds, the difference this year is that Bai Chuan is lifeless and begged his mother to buy two catties of milk candy, and his mother asked Bai Chuan: "Don't you only eat fruit candy?" How to modify the sex to eat toffee ". Bai Chuan casually found a reason why the toffee was soft and easy to bite. After returning home, he took two bags full of toffee and ran in the direction of Xiao Ting's fake.

In fact, Bai Chuan's house is only two or three hundred meters away from Xiao Ting's house and crossing the river, and the toffee is in hand to please Xiao Ting, so that Xiao Ting can laugh. Of course, with a few words of praise, Shirakawa will be even happier.

One summer, one autumn and one winter, accumulating day by day, day by day. Or like it, or imagine it.

The days are still like that, learning more and more after school is still the same to walk by the river, Xiao Ting seems to be used to this small river as a companion even if Bai Ting does not appear. Doing homework and dating a few friends who are still iron enough to play all the games that can go crazy in that era, of course, if Xiao Ting appears, Bai Chuan will find all kinds of reasons to get rid of the iron companion, of course, I still hope that in my world, there is only her when there is her.