Suddenly, one day, we found that the mud bird's nest on the beams of our house was empty, and the swallows flew away at some point, and the ears of rice on the field were getting fuller and fuller, and the rice leaves were floating in golden colors, and there were some yellow leaves between the dark green leaves of the small hills around us, and we knew that autumn had come.

The peaches by the bronze tree at Grandpa Hao's door have long been stolen and eaten by the "gluttonous cats".

Every year we want to make the peaches ripe and make the green taste sweeter, but we can't help but think about it, those "bad" children are greedy, we can't keep it, and when we see that the peaches are getting fewer and fewer day by day, we simply pick the last few of them.

But the dates can be kept. Because there are more or less several jujube trees at the door of every house.

Grandpa Hao's door is very wide and very smooth. Diagonally across the door is a large jujube tree. To the east, there are jujube trees. There are seven or eight of them. It is the most planted family in the village.

However, the jujubes of other jujube trees are not as big and sweet as the one with the gate diagonally opposite.

The jujube tree was different from other jujube trees, and its bottom was surrounded by a circle of dirt bags, and the soil bags were padded with long, slippery little bluestones. I suspect that the large, sweet fruit it bears has something to do with this round clay bag.

Later, after learning the relevant knowledge, I realized that this soil bag played a role in stabilizing the soil and water.

Because the location of Grandpa Hao's entrance is a high slope, the surface layer of the ground is a mixture of mud and broken stones "Huogan Stone" - the villagers at the East Gate call it so, and the next layer of Huogan Stone is a stone wall.

As a result, the area is extremely dry during the hot summers. The round soil bag can store water, and the fruit of the jujube tree is big and sweet when it absorbs enough water.

Hao Junqi loves to eat dates the most. At the end of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, the dates were still green, and Hao Junqi made up her mind.

"Brother, I want to eat dates."

"It's not ripe yet, even though it looks that big."

"No, I want to pay for one."

"Okay, just one."

I shot down one or two with a bamboo stick, and she tasted it and clamored for it, and I couldn't bear to brush her, so she had a stomach upset.

Hao Junqi was upset and I was criticized, but I was still happy in my heart.

The most attractive thing is that after the dates are ripe, Old Man Hao collected the dates and dried them into dried dates, and even the dried dates were put away, and the red dates hidden between the overlapping leaves of the date tree became our temptation.

We wandered under the jujube trees. It was no longer possible to shoot it down with a bamboo stick, so I had to climb a tree to find a way. Don't forget, I already knew how to climb trees when I was catching Zen.

I climbed up the jujube tree, but I couldn't reach the first fork of the jujube tree, so I had to climb up again. The further up the trunk becomes, the more it shakes, and I'm a little timid. However, Hao Junqi's expectant eyes made me unable to retreat.

So I climbed as high as I could, stepped on the branches of the jujube tree, and with one hand on the trunk, I stretched out my body diagonally, trembling to pick the dates that were a little closer. At first, you can often pick up a handful.

Some of them are rotten, pinched by the fingers, sunken, cracked, thrown away, but there are also many hard ones, red and purple, quasi-sweet. I dropped the dates on the ground, and Hao Junqi happily ran to pick up the dates.

"Do you want more, Kiki?" I asked.

"Anything else? Elder brother. Hao Junqi tilted her head.

"Yes. There are a lot of them. ”

"Is it enough?"

"Reach."

"Then I want more." Hao Junqi jumped.

At this point, it is no longer possible to reach it with your hands. I thought of a way - in order to make Hao Junqi happy, there are ways - find a bamboo stick, stand on the trunk of the tree, stretch it through the crack of the branch, aim at the dates, knock lightly, and it will fall. No matter how far and tall the dates are, they have become our bag.

"Brother, you really have a way." Hao Junqi said.

"Thank you for that." I say.

"Why?"

"Didn't you force it?"

"Brother is bad."

……

Autumn is the harvest season. The rice on the field was ripe in patches, and the sweet potatoes in the vegetable field at the foot of the mountain were also ripe, but they were not frosted and not sweet enough. We have already eaten a few oranges from Granny Li's house, they are sour and delicious. But what we are most worried about is the pears of Grandpa Zhang's house.

There is a large vegetable garden behind Grandpa Zhang's house, and several pear trees are planted on the vegetable garden. There are two pear trees with trunks thicker than my waist.

Grandpa Hao said that those pear trees are decades old.

Those few "shit pears" are just that, the trees grow so tall, but the fruits are small and hard, and they are astringent, so we don't want to give them to us; The pear (not the green-skinned gourd-shaped pear we see now) is really hungry for us. It is bigger than a duck egg, round, yellow, crispy skin, loose and tender, a bite, a bite of water, so sweet. I've always dreamed of eating it. How can Grandpa Zhang send a few?

So we look forward to the storm (but it's better not to come to the kind of dark sky, lightning and thunder, it's too scary. It's okay to come to that kind of storm).

When a storm comes, it will tear down the thatch on the roof, and that's okay, the adults will pick it up; When the storm came, our room was leaking everywhere, and my mother was filling the washbasin with footbath, and it didn't matter, as soon as the rain stopped, it didn't leak.

As long as the storm comes, we will secretly rejoice. Because, as soon as the storm comes, there must be pears in Grandpa Zhang's backyard. We know that Grandpa Zhang also knows that the pear falls to the ground, but he will ignore the bush of hoops on the side of the pear tree, for sure.

So, as soon as the storm stopped, we couldn't sit still, but my mother still told me to do this and that. Finally coping with my mother, we hurried to set off. At that time, the sun came out again, the adults went to work, and there was no one left in the village.

We quietly came to Grandpa Zhang's backyard. From a distance, there were still a lot of pears hanging from the pear tree, which had been washed by the rain, and it became more and more attractive, as if they were still shining. Grandpa Zhang used a bamboo fence to enclose the back garden to prevent chickens and ducks, but how could we prevent it. Seeing that there was no one on either side, we quickly approached the fence, and I gently squeezed the bamboo to both sides, and the fence opened a gap so that I could get in.

Hao Junqi stood guard outside.

The vegetable patch was wet, a foot of mud. The clumps were wet and full of droplets. I burrowed into the bushes. The spider silk stuck to my face, and I wiped it with my hand, and it tickled, but I didn't care.

I'm bent on finding Sydney. It's not easy to find, maybe under the leaves of the hoop, you have to remove those leaves; Perhaps, rolling into the small ditch on the side, you have to go to the edge of the small ditch to see. Finally found one, round and yellow. I picked it up and continued to drill in. Another one. And then another, and another! I can't finish it with either hand. I carried it around with the hem of my clothes.

Not good, it looks like someone is coming. Hao Junqi learned to call a toad, although it didn't look like it at all, but I already understood. I didn't move.

"Kiki, what are you doing?" An adult voice.

"I, I, oh, I'm here to play with Dandan."

"Isn't the Dandan family on the top?"

"They said she was here."

"I think Kiki wants to eat pears."

"Not really."

"I'll ask Grandpa Zhang to give you one to eat. Hurry home. "Very kind voice.

"Then I'm going home."

"You're going in the opposite direction."

"I'll go back this way."

There was no sound, but I still didn't move. After a while, there were footsteps outside.

"Are you alright?" Hao Junqi's anxious voice.

"Wait." We all held our throats.

"Hurry up."

I couldn't finish my pocket, so I had to turn back. I quickly got out of the fence. I didn't forget to put the fence in order before leaving.

……

The Mid-Autumn Festival has finally arrived in our anticipation. I've been secretly watching the mooncakes that my mother buried in the rice jar a few times. Hao Junqi's family also has it. It was brought by my father on a trip back to his hometown.

We were still sitting at the table, but our friends were already frolicking at the door. The adults hurriedly cut the round moon cakes, and we each chose the largest one, and exchanged a bite with each other, although the taste was exactly the same, but we still exchanged and ate in a good way.

When we came to the door, Yongri, the four cubs, and Ah San came around, and I broke the moon cakes in my hand into small pieces and distributed them to everyone. The taste of this Hua'anlai mooncake is different from the mooncake bought locally. So everybody monkeys.

Of course, the one I gave to Zhu Jinshan should be bigger. He ate with relish. His own mooncakes have long been eaten.

The moon is so round, rounder than moon cakes. The light outside the house seems to be brighter than the home.

Let's start the game of "Eagle Catches Chicken". Of course, Zhu Jinshan is an eagle, and his nose is a bit similar. Of course I do hens. Hao Junqi grabbed the first one behind me and grabbed the back of my coat.

The eagle swooped down fiercely, and I tried to stop it, but the poor chicks were still caught by the eagle one by one.

In the blink of an eye, Hao Junqi was left.

Zhu Jinshan pounced even more fiercely. I spread my hands and did my best to protect them. Zhu Jinshan pounced to the left, we quickly flashed to the right, Zhu Jinshan pounced to the right, we quickly flashed to the left. Zhu Jinshan made a false move, made a move to the left but immediately threw to the right, and Hao Junqi suddenly shook under his nose. Hao Junqi ran backwards and screamed. Zhu Jinshan chased straight after. I stepped in and stopped in front of Zhu Jinshan first. A false alarm.

At this time, three children about seven years old jumped in front of us, and they rapped as they went: "Zheng Qihang, Hao Junqi, play games together, you go east, he goes west, you can never be together, you can't be together." Hahahaha. ”

Hao Junqi froze in place. Zhu Jinshan grabbed her, but she was unconscious. Several people who understood the tune laughed.

After a while, the three of them jumped back again, but they changed their tune: "Hao Junqi, Zheng Qihang, play together every day, you go north, he goes south, forever separated by a mountain, separated by a mountain." Hahahaha. ”

Hao Junqi cried loudly.

I stopped the three children, "If any of you tell Qihang who taught you to rap this tune, I'll give him mooncakes to eat." ”

"Is it a copy for everyone? The thin brother is given by everyone. One of the little girls said.

"Didn't you already say it?" A little boy said angrily.

"How can I have? Didn't the skinny brother give one each? By the way, Brother Qihang, do you also have any tunes for us to rap, you give us mooncakes to eat, and we will definitely rap for you. ”

"I don't have a tune for you to rap. You can go. "I pulled my face down.

"Where's the mooncake?"

"Besides, I'll beat you with mooncakes."

The children went away disappointed.

I walked over to Hao Junqi and comforted her. Zhu Jinshan also said something about the eagle catching the chicken, and I motioned for him to leave. The friends parted unhappily.

Hao Junqi kept crying. Zhu Jinshan went home extremely helplessly. There were just the two of us left on the field. The moonlight seemed to dim.

I took Hao Junqi's hand and went to the easternmost two jujube trees. This is our favorite place to stay. The jujube tree has a very low fork, like two chairs, and we sit on one of them, facing each other.

It's quiet all around. Insects chirped in the grass. The dense branches and foliage of the jujube tree blocked the moonlight, and the ancient tomb nearby looked black. But we're not afraid at all. You know, the grave is also our playground.

"Brother." Hao Junqi called me softly.

"Hmm."

"Everybody's laughing at us."

"Not everyone. It's a few people. It was made up by the thin man. He's always against us. I said.

"I can hear it, even they know you're leaving."

"I'm not leaving."

"Don't lie to me. I know you're going to have to go eventually. Didn't the several people who came with my uncle and aunt all leave? ”

"My parents aren't leaving." I say.

"It's not that your parents won't leave, it's that Yongtai Primary School has no teachers for a while, right?" Hao Junqi said.

"So mom and dad won't leave, they're going to give everyone a lesson. Yongtai Primary School cannot be without teachers. ”

"As soon as the new teacher comes, they're leaving."

"New teachers won't come."

"How do you know?" Hao Junqi asked.

"I'll knock them away when the new teachers come." I say.

"Brother, don't you really want to go?"

"I don't want to go."

"Those city kids are clamoring to go back, why don't you want to go?" Hao Junqi asked rhetorically.

"Because I have Kiki." I say.

"What?"

"And Zhu Jinshan, and Grandpa Hao."

"Oh."

Silent.

There was silence all around. The silence is a little scary.

"Let's go home." Hao Junqi slowly descended from the jujube tree to the ground. It seems that this night, Hao Junqi's mood is difficult to improve.

"Okay." I jumped down from the jujube tree, "I'm going to give the thin man who made the music a good meal." ”

"Don't. It's not his fault. ”