The rain has finally passed, and the long-lost blue sky has come to us singing.

The sun shines, the warmth is warm, and the birds and insects chirp more than the noise of the ground.

In the summer, I suddenly came to the front of my house.

In front of the door, all the weeds that like the tide and are tired of the sun are hidden, and they can't find a single one, just waiting for the river breeze to blow the moisture quietly at night and sneak out with the toads and passers-by.

When the sun is good, I want to dry my books, and my grandfather asked my mother to remind me early in the morning to go downstairs to help after breakfast.

Breakfast is a large wonton with vegetables and meat, my mother said that drying books is manual work, one by one to move down, one by one to put up, your grandfather is tall but his legs are not good, you still have to help Lixia more.

"With such delicious ravioli, I have a lot of strength now. Besides, Douzi will help later. ”

"Beans? You've been with beans all day, do you want to talk about love? ”

My mother asked casually, as if she was asking me if I was going to Dafugui for cold noodles at noon.

"Ahhh......h ”

"You haven't brought your boyfriend home in four years of college, is no one fancy us Lixia?"

"How is that possible!" I took a sip of the soup from the bowl, and the smell of green onions and sweet egg skin was there.

Crack the eggs in a bowl, stir well, pour into a pan, spread the egg mixture and fry until fragrant, and the egg skin is ready.

Then put it on a cutting board and use a kitchen knife or scissors to change the thickness of shredded potatoes, sprinkle it into the wonton soup, and eat it with the wontons......

In my opinion, this is the taste of memory, no matter where you are, no matter how old you are, the smell of egg skin will always be the same.

"It's delicious. Praise Mom. ”

"I'm asking you, are you and Douzi a good match?"

Today, the weather is fine, and my mother seems to be particularly concerned about emotional matters, and as a child, I also seem to have an obligation to reassure her.

"It's not a match." I answered truthfully.

"Then you are so old and have such a good relationship, you eat together all day and are busy together, yesterday Grandma Axian asked me if the two children finally opened their minds and planned to fall in love."

Burst! "Grandma Ah Xian really asked that?"

"Yes, otherwise I wouldn't be able to remember this, Lixia is still young in my eyes."

Mom is really inconsistent, and she just said that she didn't see me bring a boyfriend home in college, and now she says that Lixia is still young.

"Mom should make your attitude clear first, you two want to get married, and your father and I have no opinion, anyway, just 212 is the house, and I will make a wedding room for you, and there will be no more."

"Huh? Isn't 212 a bookstore? How did it get involved with the marriage room? ”

"The conditions of Douzi's family are also good, but we must not grieve our daughter, we are all only children, and our parents will definitely help if they can help, your grandfather has long said that this house is the most suitable for Lixia, and the family can help manage these books in Lixia."

"Does my mother know why my grandfather started selling books?" My curiosity rose again, and this time I grabbed my mother and asked.

"It seems that my grandfather encountered something when he was young, I don't know, your grandfather never said it, and I am not interested in knowing, it was more than 20 years ago, who remembers. By the way, remember to bring the corn down when you go downstairs after eating, I will cook it in the morning, you don't want to take the sour plum soup, I will send it down when I go to work later. ”

"Okay." I replied.

Mom turned around and went about her own business, picking out the topics of boyfriend, marriage, and beans, and forgetting about it in a blink of an eye.

I chewed on what my mother said, "love and affection", I and Douzi should be considered compatible, most of the things when I was a child were not so impressive, I have known each other for so long, I really want to say that there is something special in my mind for a while, and Douzi has been helping me with the recent opening of a bookstore.

But Grandma Axian and her mother both made a mistake, they didn't understand Douzi's thoughts, so they mistakenly thought that Douzi's side completely recognized the "love match" or even "childhood sweetheart"? Maybe Douzi has a beautiful woman in his heart, on the water side.

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Cicadas chirp and summer is scorching. The heat is approaching, and Shanghai is finally starting to clear up.

Although the temperature rises by leaps and bounds as soon as the sky clears, the cool climate of 25 degrees was just yesterday, and today, before 8 o'clock after breakfast, the sun is already high, and the temperature climbs to 34 degrees.

One word – hot.

In the heat of Shanghai, there is nowhere to hide, and complaints can often be heard in the chirping of cicadas.

My grandmother turned on the air conditioner early and waited for me to go down, hoping that the fan would prevent the heatstroke and cool down, but it would only get hotter and hotter the more the fan was blowing.

"You see, the dehumidifier you bought has been used for a few days, and suddenly it has sunken."

"I read the weather forecast that it will rain again, this year there is a lot of rain, the dehumidifier should be used often, and I also bought some moisture-proof bags on the bookshelf, and I will replace them with new ones when they are wet."

"Okay, the boss of our family Lixia has grown up, and my grandfather will listen to you."

Seeing that my grandfather was in a happy mood, I was full of motivation and ready to start organizing the bookshelves.

I found a solid chair and stood up, and handed five or six books to my grandfather in a stack starting from the top shelf.

After my grandfather took the book, he went back to the courtyard and placed it in a row against the wall.

"The planks for drying the books are all set." I asked.

"It's all set." Grandpa replied.

I jumped out of my chair and walked out into the courtyard, where the wooden planks were originally placed now with two bamboo sieves, both about 60 centimeters in diameter.

My grandfather said behind me, "The planks are all moldy, that kind of composite board is not a good wood, there was so much rain this summer, I took it out the day before yesterday and saw that it was all mildew, green, and the boards were all overgrown." ”

"It's so uncomfortable." The thought of the green mold spots on the surface of the wooden planks made me feel uncomfortable, irritable and itchy.

"This sieve is still for your mother to find me, now I can't buy these things, I thought about it all night, tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, and then I thought of getting two bamboo sieves, light, and there is a place to grip it, usually dry books, suddenly encounter rain and don't have to be nervous, both sides can be moved back to the house."

I nodded, and then put the books into the sieve, I have the impression that the sieve is curved, there is a big sieve hanging on the wall in the attic of the old house, I have never seen it taken down, I played in the attic when I was a child, and when I was bouncing for a while, I accidentally bumped into the sieve, thinking that it would be smashed, but it turned out that the sieve was not as heavy as I thought.

After "escaping", he hurriedly returned to his original state, and when he grabbed a sieve and hung it up, he suddenly found a black handbag hanging on the wall.

It turned out that the bag had been hiding in the sieve, and no one usually found it, and if it hadn't fallen from the sieve, I might never have known that there was a small mechanism behind it.