The rainy weather after the summer solstice this year has not stopped, and Wei Xiaoyu, who received the transfer notice, resigned and returned to his hometown Ming City after thinking twice, preparing to resubmit his resume online and find a suitable job.

After returning to Ming City, she lived in the old courtyard of the Wei family, where there were two small two-story buildings in front of and behind, which were more than 30 years old and used to be full of her family.

After my grandfather passed away a few years ago, the Wei family has all moved out of here one after another. The first to move away was the uncle's family. followed by Wei Xiaoyu's family, her father was the third in line and the youngest son in the family.

The house was later owned by his daughter's second uncle, who married into Huaishi, and since last year, he and his wife have also moved to live in Huaishi, which is often vacant.

Wei Xiaoyu's father's work unit is in Chushi, about 100 kilometers away from Ming City, and he lives in a one-bedroom apartment allocated by the company, and her mother also takes care of and accompanies her there.

Because her family's two-bedroom apartment on Jianshe Road had just been sold and she was looking for a new house, she temporarily lived alone in this old courtyard, lying on the square table in the living room of the north building during the day to find a job and submit her resume, and sleeping on a small wooden bed placed in the southeast corner of the living room at night.

In the past, when her grandfather was alive, he used to watch TV on the recliner in this room. In the winter when there is no air conditioning, a stove is placed in the house to burn honeycomb coal with many holes.

At that time, in addition to heating, you could also put some oranges or pears on the side of the stove to roast, the oranges would turn sour after roasting, but they smelled very good.

When Wei Xiaoyu and his older siblings were young, they often took out a few vermicelli for cooking from the sack in the kitchen of Nandong and roasted them on this stove. The transparent vermicelli quickly explodes when heated, turning into a long white rice flower with a crunchy and fragrant texture, making it a fun snack in winter.

Now that the living room has been air-conditioned, the children of the dangerous family have grown up, and the stove has been placed in the kitchen, so they no longer have to be moved around. The stock of honeycomb coal in the stairwell is much smaller than before.

Sometimes in the early morning and at night, passing through the yard, Wei Xiaoyu can feel the breeze blowing in the yard from nowhere, this very light wind can not carry the sound of the leaves of the locust tree under the east wall, but it can disturb the fragrance of gardenias outside the window of the west house of the north building.

Most of the neighbors are old neighbors, and when they meet, they will greet each other, and the tone of their voices is similar to that of their childhood memories. Some families have three or four more children, and they already have to call Wei Xiaoyu "Auntie", and she is no longer a small character in this street and alley.

On the morning of the previous two days, when the weather was occasionally clear, she weighed half a watermelon, three apples and a bunch of green grapes from a nearby vegetable market. When I passed by the bookstore, I went in and bought two books, one "Ancient Chinese Mythology" and the other "Five Thousand Years in the World", which were her spiritual food in her leisure recently.

The TV in the old yard can only receive two or three stations, and the Internet access password borrowed from a neighbor's house is also slow, which is just right for concentrating on reading.

I have long lost the pressure of entrance exams, but it is easy to pick up the simple joy of reading, ancient legends, fables, the valley of the two rivers, Egypt, Greece...... Her mind travels with lines of words, constantly shifting and jumping in time and space, and the chapters and chapters are read with relish.

When she closed the book, she was filled with joy, and that night she was ready to buy more. Although the contents of the book may seem of no practical use at this time, it is a good way to rest and relax the brain.

In comparison, those lively occasions with dogs and horses, and staggered bargains, although they could have fun at that time, they were inevitably empty after the end.

Living in this old house, I can feel the passage of time more clearly, and every minute and second becomes clearer, and Wei Xiaoyu's mood seems to be no longer so impetuous.

The habit of staying up late because of work or parties has also been significantly improved. She rarely goes to bed late, gets up at dawn, and goes to bed early when it's dark.

And in terms of dressing, you don't have to follow too many rules. Formal wear has many advantages – it is formal and neat, but after a long time, the monotony is obvious.

During the two years she worked in a towering office building, she often wore a women's shirt and suit pants, and barely felt the change of seasons, except for the change in the thickness of her coat when she commuted to and from work. Often one day, when I see the yellow leaves and trees on the side of the street, I suddenly feel that a year is almost over.

At that time, she often longed for the summer to be able to wear short sleeves and slippers to the mountains to smell the fragrance of flowers and plants, and in the winter, she was wrapped in a thick coat and often had sunny days.

However, it has been raining lightly in the Ming City recently, and the incandescent lights in the living room must be turned on in the afternoon to make it less dim. The balcony on the second floor blocked some of the rain, and some splashes still splashed under the curtain hanging outside the door.

The old gauze curtain was a little crooked since it was hung, with traces of patching with strips of cloth, and it was used as long as it could block mosquitoes and flies.

As the sky grew darker and the rain stopped for a while, she ate a quarter of a watermelon and a bunch of grapes for dinner, and browsed the recruitment website for a while. Then he read the idle book until nine o'clock, and then he yawned and fell down on the wooden bed, and fell asleep comfortably.

At this time, it was raining lightly outside the house, and the shadow of the locust tree was swaying on the window.

Four or five hours later, at nightfall, there seemed to be some strange movement in the courtyard, and this sound disturbed the dream of the dangerous little fish while munching on the head of a pencil and writing homework. She rolled slightly to the right, her palms slightly pressed over her eyes, blocking out the light from the window.

However, she couldn't go back to her dream, frowning and thinking about whether it would be dawn so soon? She got up and found the slippers that had been kicked to the end of the bed before going to bed, brushed back the broken hair on her face, got up and opened the door.

The dazzling light immediately sprinkled in, and she panicked a little for the first second, thinking that there was a fire somewhere, and after opening her eyes that were shaky and couldn't see clearly, she stood in place in surprise, this is not still in a dream!

I saw a large bird perched on the branches of the locust tree in the yard, which shone faintly, and in the eyes of the small fish that was only five or six meters away from it, this white bird was as dazzling as a round of sun.

Soft white flames continued to rise around it. Two long, ornate tail feathers dragged on the ground, two or three meters long. The feathers on the body are as fluffy and light as fresh snow, and crystal clear, as if each tiniest fluff exudes a brilliant brilliance.

However, such a brilliant and dazzling extraordinary creature did not show the slightest pride, and at this time it lowered its head slightly, and let out a pleasant chirp softly, sounding like saying "hello".

"Sure enough, it's a dream...... Wei Xiaoyu opened her eyes and raised her eyebrows, feeling that the reality of this dream was too strong, she wanted to retreat into the house, close the door and calm down.

Just as she lowered her head to press the doorknob, before she could push it, a gray mass "suddenly" flew out of the branch, heading straight for her.

Before she could react to what had happened, she was slapped on her right temple with a bang, and then her eyes were painfully starry.