It’s not yet green | It’s just summer

Some people say that their summer starts with drinking mung bean soup, and some people say that their summer starts with turning on the air conditioner, while ours Summer starts with hanging mosquito nets.

Maybe it’s because my kids and I love to eat sweets or sweat. Every summer, the breath of the body can attract mosquitoes. Five or six people sit together, and the two of us are always bitten. Whenever I hear mosquitoes chirping or see little red dots on my child, my wife always urges me to hang up the mosquito net. It is not difficult to hang the mosquito net, the steel nails have been on the wall a few years ago. This moment of “picking and hanging” always makes people feel that what happened last year seems to have happened yesterday. In the blink of an eye, it is really fleeting, time is not forgiving.

When the child is at home, the mosquito net will be hung for a little longer. He always grinned from one end of the article to the other when we were so busy, as if he was playing a kindergarten game of “drilling a cave”. His mother finally coaxed him away, and after a while he ran back. After the mosquito net was hung up, this place seemed to be his exclusive place, a paradise for him. After eating every day, he took off his shoes and sat on the mat playing with toys. Sometimes when he was not happy, he threw the car, the small plane, including his socks, onto the mosquito net, and shouted loudly. , help him take it down. However, soon he will throw it up again. So back and forth, never tired of it.

Summer should be the fastest growing season for crops, and it is also the hope of farmers. My father always likes to call after dinner to tell us how tall the cotton in the family is, how the beans and loofah look like, which field has just been watered, whose watermelon is fortunate to be sold at a high price, and what is the price? How soon can I go home and eat my own grapes?

If spring is a season for sowing and autumn is a season for harvesting, then summer is A growing season, green season. Look at the lush mountains and plains, the grass and the big trees, because they have harvested the essence of the sun and the moon, the spiritual energy of the heaven and the earth, and enjoy the rain and dew from time to time. In the woods, birds sing and cicadas sing, butterflies dance in the flowers, and bees are busy gathering honey, which is a prosperous scene. I can’t help but think of the famous Zen poem “There are hundreds of flowers in spring and the moon in autumn, cool breeze in summer and snow in winter. If you have nothing to worry about, it is a good time in life.” Yes, each season has its own characteristics and personality, which will never change because of your personality. Whether you like it or not, it will come every year as scheduled, the key lies in your heart. If you are in a good mood, what if there are mosquitoes? What about the high temperature?

When I get home from get off work, open a watermelon soaked in cold water, or wash a few peaches , took a few bites fiercely, and the coolness was refreshing. Wake up from a nap, make a cup of tea, open the glass window, let the wind blow in slowly, sit on the sofa, hold a copy of Tao Te Ching or Cai Gen Tan, sometimes recite in a low voice, sometimes close your eyes Meditate, make friends with the ancients, leisurely and contentedly. In the evening, when the whole family returns from a busy day, they sit at the table, make a few cold side dishes, eat a bowl of rice or cold noodles, talk about street gossip, or go out to catch a few cicadas after dinner. Or sit downstairs in the leisure plaza with a mazza, listen to cheerful music, and watch the eldest sisters in the community dance the square, isn’t it a pleasure?

Yes, the beauty of life is not only in the reincarnation of the seasons, but also in your heart and mine. The most important thing in life should be to cherish the present and live in the present.

So, summer is also a landscape.

About the author: Wang Dongliang, born in the 1980s, a member of the Provincial Prose Society, a member of the Binzhou Writers Association, a member of the Zouping New Class People Association, Class of 2001 Outstanding provincial graduates. Worked for Shandong Xiwang Sugar Co., Ltd. Occasional articles are published. In 2020 and 2022, he won the Great Plains (Bi-annual) Literary Creation Award of Binzhou Daily.

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