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Hi, I'm Nanchi, a 93-year minimalist life who loves writing, and a gentle and firm working mother of her second child.
The correct way to open the summer in a small county town is inevitably to be caught.
Looking back on the past ten days, it seems to be a summer night fantasy in the whole town. And the people who played this piece were those who had not been named.
in Chi
01
On early summer nights, life has another kind of carnival from nature: catching knowledge.
For people living in small counties, in addition to the special gourmets will purchase special tools to capture, many people rely on their eyes.
And this fate is often attached to everyone who travels at night.
As long as you go out for a walk, you don't need to choose a special route, you will always meet along the way. Even in our community, we can catch three or four by walking a few steps.
Roadside caught / Nanchi
You can eat it if you know it, but you don't want to eat it.
When you meet, catch it in your hand and walk along the way, or give it to your child to play with, or reach the end and let it fly.
The instinct of hunting allows people to enjoy the natural pleasure of catching.
in Chi
02
One night, I suddenly heard movement on the road outside the wall. There was a faint hum, and the sound was muffled. After a few short sounds, it was completely silenced.
Intuitively, I seemed to know what it was. Holding Dabao's hand, he mysteriously went out of the door.
The cat bent his waist, and didn't walk a few steps along the street lamp, he saw a dark shadow, Dabao learned from me to look down and bend over, and the next second, he exchanged two feet in place and stomped straight, grabbed my fingers tightly, and excitedly shouted "Got it!" Cicada! It turns out that I know! ”
I'm afraid of insects.
It seems that the older people get, the more cowardly they become. In the past, it was a temperament that could eat even if it was known, but now it is as if it is a different person, and I dare not touch it.
I got up early to send rice dumplings and corn to my grandparents who lived nearby, and when I saw his coffee table, a few of them who had no stomach were packed in a small paper bowl, and I only thought that I had died early, so I curiously picked up the bowl to see, but I didn't expect to lie on my back and flutter my feet, so scared that I threw the bowl and retreated far away.
Grandma laughed and said that she just stuffed her stomach into her body.
It was only then that I realized that the vitality of Zhizhi is so tenacious, even if it turns around and stuffs its stomach, it can still live vigorously.
Perhaps, this is the power accumulated after a year of dormancy.
in Chi
03
When I met the intact wings at night, I naturally didn't dare to catch them.
Hurriedly went home and got the net bag, and a pounce covered it. He also told Dabao to move the rescuers, so Xiaobao's mother also came out.
I stretched out my hand to take Xiaobao, and my mother caught Zhi, which was considered to have completed the handover of some kind of ceremony, and the three generations and four people of the grandmother and grandchildren started the journey of catching Zhizhi.
Although I am afraid to know, I enjoy the process of searching, which may be the so-called "cowardice and fun".
But strange to say, whether it's going up the mountain to look for fungi or catching them at night, my eyesight is always exceptionally good. My mother said that I was "eating".
I remember last year, I proudly held up that huge wild mushroom to show off, "Those videos I watched are not for nothing!" As a result, Dabao naturally took over and said, "It's not for nothing, it's for red." ”
Originally, I just planned to take Dabao to eat with Dabao on the pretext of catching it, but what I didn't expect was that I only walked around the community for half a circle, and I caught four or five people.
Interested in this, when passing by my grandfather's house, I simply handed over Xiaobao to them, and devoted myself to the great cause of catching and knowing with peace of mind.
in Chi
04
In such a "red look", we constantly found the figure of Zhizhi on the wall and roadbed illuminated by the white weaving lamp.
Dabao is naturally happy.
But his greatest pleasure is not to catch it, but to use it to scare the timid me.
I ran in front, and Dabao chased behind.
The knowledge in his hand is a spear, and the net in my hand is a shield, and he ran fast, rested for a while, and the two parties temporarily fell into a state of stalemate between you and me, so that in the whole community, in addition to the chirps of knowledge, there were also ups and downs of my frightened screams, and the children could hardly get up and laugh.
I really couldn't catch up, so Dabao went to complain to my grandmother. My mother, naturally, was on her daughter's side, and only said, "If you scare your mother, of course she will run away." ”
Dabao, who was instructed to the maze, suddenly opened his mind, pinched his two hands together and tinkered for a while, spread his steps and ran towards me, while running, he straightened his right hand and raised it to comfort me, "Mom, don't be afraid, I squeezed it tightly." ”
I slackened a little and stood there waiting for him. When I got closer, I saw his clenched fist, and his whole thumb was deeply clasped into his palm.
I had a bad feeling in my heart.
The mother, as a mediator, laughed when she saw it.
It's like folding paper, the living one knows it, and it was folded into a "deflated scum" by Dabao, a completely small paper ball.
After that, several rotations, somehow, the mineral water bottle filled with knowledge arrived in Dabao's hands. Even though I was separated from the plastic, looking at those hands and feet dancing for no reason, the fear of insects in my heart still rose up for no reason.
The clever treasure saw my flaw, quietly lifted the corner of my clothes, and together with his hands, stuffed the bottle into my back.
The cold touch of the plastic mixed with the child's hot fingers, inadvertently teasing my sensitive nerves, causing me to erupt in a wail.
This kind of laughter is like a roaring bonfire, and the people around the fire have a smile on everyone's face.
For people living in a small town, the joy of catching knowledge does not lie in knowing itself, but in those times when they have fun with each other.
in Chi
05
Later, when we returned to our hometown, we happened to meet my brother's Zhili Lantern on the way into the village.
A 2000W incandescent lamp, a deep cardboard box, and a large basin with water in it are all the tools that trap and know.
Knowing the light / Nanchi
I don't know if I know the joy of light, or I was dazzled by this bright light, in the dark night, from time to time there is always a knowledge coiled around the white weaving lamp flying low, and then in a casual moment, I fell with a bang, facing the sky on my back, and was trapped on the ground with my stomach up.
They can't be flipped over, and it's a breeze to catch nature.
When he caught it, he plucked his wings and threw it into a cardboard box. The black lines are densely covered in light brown cardboard boxes, like thunder sand into a tower, and in the middle of the night, it is molded into a cicada pavilion.
There are two types of knowledge.
One is the big knowledge with an empty belly, which is large and has an empty stomach that is light brown and transparent. Most of the things we encounter in the community are of this kind.
The other type is the flesh, which is small, with a tender light green color on the sides of the eyes, a full belly, and white flesh inside. Gourmets love it, it's such a little knowledge.
According to the market price, a person can point 5 cents, and turn on a lamp, one kilowatt-hour of electricity, is also 5 cents.
Naturally, a shrewd brother will not make a loss-making deal.
In addition to knowing this, there are many other flying insects that will also welcome the light. They stumble into the basin of water, and the belly of the chickens and ducks is their final destination.
Let everything come from nature and return to nature.
This may be the greatest respect for nature among farmers today.
in Chi
06
On the summer solstice, the rainy season in the small county town arrives as scheduled. When the sky was overcast, the air was filled with invisible moisture.
The water vapor fell on the wings of Zhizhi and soaked the shallow wings. When he got his wings wet and drank the rain, he knew that he would not go down from the tree again.
At night, I often carry a net bag to the secret base in the community to find the shadow of the acquaintance.
The so-called secret base is nothing more than the high wall of a house at the end of the alley. Because it is an intersection, the incandescent street lights are placed extremely low, but they are also extraordinarily bright.
In the past, I could always find three or two known traces there, but gradually, the days of returning empty-handed became more and more.
At night, I can't hear the sound of flapping wings on the ground.
The summer that belongs to the knowledge seems to be far away.
And such an experience may only become a limited childhood memory for people living in a small county.
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