When he returned to Yaoshan from Liu Shengshui, Meng Shi didn't want to do anything.

originally promised to give Xiao Jue and Lin Feng the entire laser rain, but they were not interested in getting it.

The season goes from the great heat to the sixth day of the seventh lunar month.

At the end of June, Meng Shi went to his grandmother's place with his mother for a few days, and then ran back to Yaoshan to nest.

Maybe I spent my childhood here, or maybe I came here directly after returning from Sijiu City.

Meng Shi felt that he was much more comfortable staying in the small village of Yaoshan than the seaside tourist destination like Zhilu Island, where his grandmother's family lived, and a small county town like Yangjiang.

He held a camera during the day and ran around the village with Liu Xia and a few other children.

In the evening, I enjoyed the cool with Liangzai Ah Gong on the edge of the loofah shelf in the yard.

The small days pass slowly...... Videos are not done.

The bitter summer days are long.

At seven o'clock in the evening, there was still a faint light, and the shadows illuminated the courtyard in a hazy light.

Meng Shi pulled a power strip from the old house to the yard, and then moved the TV out and put it on top of the stone grinding plate.

The shelf of the stone mill is long gone, and the two cyan grinding stones are washed and stacked on top of each other, and although the TV is a little low on it, it is still alive.

The TV is an old-fashioned CRT TV with a long, large tail and no set-top box installed on it.

Meng Shi skillfully put a "pot" on top of the loofah rack, and then let the antenna face the north.

This "pot" was bought by Chen Zhufeng many years ago.

At that time, the village canceled cable CCTV and modified set-top boxes.

The initial installation fee of a family is several hundred, not only does each room need to buy a separate set-top box, but also the signal fee is about 200 per year.

So someone sold a "satellite TV receiver", a few dozen yuan a piece, claiming to be able to be used for a lifetime.

At that time, Chen Zhufeng renovated the old house.

Because the shape and size of this thing is similar to that of a wok, it is commonly known as a "TV pot" in the village.

However, the "pot" is really not easy to use, the signal is unstable, and there are not many stations that can be seen.

Especially in the south, there is a lot of rain, and there are typhoons every year, which is even more damn-down, so no one uses it after a while.

The "pot" now on the loofah shelf was found by Meng Shi from the utility room of the old mansion.

The antenna was in the right direction, barely able to receive national television and a few channels in the province.

There aren't many channels, but they're enough.

Liangzai Ah Gong was lying on the rocking chair, and his skeleton was shrunk when he was old, and he looked very thin.

Meng Shi moved a small bamboo chair, held a pu fan in his hand, and stayed next to him.

Between the two of them was a small bench with a plate of peanuts and a few pieces of "pine melon" cut into circles.

The peanuts and melons were just harvested in the uncle's field, and they didn't do anything, the peanuts washed the mud of the shell, and the melons were only washed, and they didn't even go to the skin.

On the eleventh channel of the national television station, tonight's show is the traditional Qin drama "Quanmei Case", and Mr. Bai Jiangbo sang Bao Zheng, which was just released the day before yesterday and rebroadcasted.

However, Liangzai Ah Gong and Meng Shi both love to watch it.

The play, especially the classic drama of the famous actors, is not tired of chewing it over and over again.

In the TV, Chen Shimei wore a red python robe, shook a folding fan, and appeared, full of majesty and officialdom, full of smugness between her eyebrows and eyes:

"I am in the Jinluan Palace, long live to go to the palace to say hello, with the princess and to the harem courtyard, the queen mother smiled at first sight, I am the court horse lordship, civil and military officials who dare to participate, come to the palace gate to get off the chariot, swaggering back back."

Grandma just came back from her sister-in-law for a few days, and she watched it for a while at night, but later saw that the two got along very well, so she didn't come.

She has bad ears, and the two of them want to talk to her for a few words, and she has to guess when she listens, so she is tired, so she simply goes to sleep in the house early.

At the beginning, when I was watching TV in the courtyard, Yu also moved a small bench and ran over to join in the fun.

But every day is just watching the show, and the fish don't come.

She can't really be blamed for that, though.

Not to mention anything else, just Chen Shimei sang the opening few words, which were enough for five minutes.

This effort is enough to watch a few short videos, whose child can withstand it.

So after a few days, Meng Shi and Liang Zaigong were left in the courtyard at night.

These two masters, one in his nineties and the other in his early twenties.

The age difference was longer than that of a new nation, but they got along very well.

Liang Zai Ah Gong lay on the rocking chair, his head shook slightly, his fingers followed the drum beat and gently knocked on the armrest of the recliner, and said: "Tomorrow is Qixi Festival, and the eighth day of the first month is the beginning of autumn, do you know when the heat will disperse?" ”

Under the "persecution" of Ah Gong, Meng Shi gave up the mobile phone perpetual calendar, and then learned to calculate the "sexagenary branch" with his finger joints, which is commonly known as "counting".

When does the heat dissipate? This is a very simple question, just answer a "summer heat".

However, Meng Shi's answer must not be enough, so he could only stretch out his thumb very sharply and start counting this year's "dog days".

Dog days are the hottest time of the year, with the first and last days being fixed for ten days.

According to the different times of "ambush" each year, the length of "mid-ambush" is divided into 10 days and 20 days.

Meng Shi used the "Ganzhi Chronicle Method" to calculate, and there were five "Geng days" from the summer solstice to the beginning of autumn.

So this year, there are 20 days in the middle of the dog year, and there are 40 days in the dog days.

"The beginning is on the 10th day of June, the last is on July 11, and this year's summer is scattered on July 23."

After Meng Shi finished speaking, he felt as if he was looking for a dragon point, and he was visibly improved by the naked eye.

What can be done, looking at the perpetual calendar on his mobile phone, a matter of a few seconds, he was stunned by his finger twitches and brain cramps, and after almost five minutes, he could only comfort himself like this.

Ah Gong nodded with satisfaction, stretched out his hand to stroke the taller white beard, and said, "Tomorrow is the seventh day of July, what does your grandmother say?" ”

The customs of other places are not clear to Meng Shi.

However, in the local area, July 7 is the begging festival, on this day the grandmother will give the grandson pastries, which has the meaning of praying for the grandson to be well-behaved.

However, now Tanabata has been hyped into my country's Valentine's Day.

Meng Shi felt that the matter of Valentine's Day on Qixi Festival was quite nonsense.

The Cowherd met the Weaver Girl once a year, which was a good thing.

After all, Xiao Biesheng is newlywed, and the parting love is deeper. Dry firewood meets fire, and desire/fire gives birth to newcomers.

But the problem is that there are two children, a cow, countless magpies, and a vote of immortals on the side, what is this called.

The poor cowherd could only hold his wife for year after year, and he couldn't do anything.

And the Weaver Girl's side.

One day in heaven and one year on earth.

This fairy looked at the magpie and didn't say anything, but also listened to the cowherd who had to see every day, and talked about the pain of lovesickness that she hadn't seen for a year like a nervous disorder, and she didn't do anything.

Who can stand this day?

But these two bitter stories were made Valentine's Day by unscrupulous merchants, and it makes people feel tired just thinking about it.

Meng Shi, a single dog, choreographed Qixi with great malice.

Then he peeled a peanut from the plate and put it in his mouth, and said, "Now the begging festival is not happy, and people are celebrating Valentine's Day now." ”

"Also, in the past, the child gave red eggs and red cakes to his neighbors when he was one year old, and now there are two packages of salted duck eggs and two buckets of instant noodles, but it is also very good and convenient."

Ah Gong didn't judge the good and the bad, he only accepted.

Times are changing, and customs are changing.

He has a very open-minded attitude towards the customs that keep disappearing from his memory.

The two chatted for a while as usual, and began to watch the play quietly.

On TV, Qin Xianglian was singing to Chen Shimei: "You Lilu Xun forgets the roots, how do you know that wealth is like floating clouds, my heart is like a knife and tears are unbearable, and robbers are actually iron-beaten." ”

The old man shook his fan and said, "Listen to Liu Jiye's family, Liu Xia and Liu Hao fought a few days ago, and you watched from the side and didn't say anything?" ”

Meng Shi was holding a handful of peanuts in his hand, and he didn't know what to say for a while.