How will you spend the summer without air conditioning?

"What would you do without air conditioning in summer?"

"Absolutely hot ..."

The fact is that in those few summers without air conditioning, we didn't die of heat, but lived happily, happily and contentedly.

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"On the banyan tree by the pond, cicadas are crying in summer ..."

When cicadas are screaming, summer comes.

They rammed long bamboo poles and wire from their homes and searched for cobwebs under the eaves of the village in droves. Once I heard cicadas chirping, I ran around like a bee.

In the evening, the friends came to the cemetery with flashlights, found a small hole in the ground and dug a cicada without wings. If you are lucky that day, you can dig a lot, take it home, marinate it with salt and fry it in a hot oil pan, which can definitely be called delicious.

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In summer, burning umbrellas hang high in the air. Boys will sneak into the river to swim when their parents are not looking.

Civilization is swimming, in fact, the rural dialect is called "crossing the river". A group of boys just flopped around the deep water beach naked. The scene was like going to jiaozi, stuffed with meat.

The boys had a good time in the water, but their families were not at ease. I can always hear young daughters-in-law shouting around the village and asking, "Have you seen our baby?" "I haven't seen this. I just saw playing under the tree with a group of boys. " Then, I heard my daughter-in-law mutter, "That son of a bitch disappeared at noon. It is estimated that he went to the river to fetch water again! " He hurried to the river.

The unattended children had a good time in the river during the day. I thought I could get away with it, but I never thought that at night, as long as my parents scratched their nails on their arms, the white seal could expose the lies, and it was natural to be beaten and scolded.

But after all, it is your own baby, and it hurts to be scolded. While preparing delicious food, I earnestly asked: whose baby plunged into a crack in the stone, broke his head and died. Whose child knocked out a tooth? ...

Boys naturally think that their parents are alarmist. Usually the left ear listens to the right ear. The next day, they still came to the river and were beaten. ...

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Girls, by contrast, are much more obedient, and often help grandma choose vegetables and prepare lunch at home. Even if something happened to pass by the river and saw a group of naked boys from a distance, they always turned away shyly.

Girls are also fluttering in the river, only at night when no one is around.

At night, when the adults came home from work, there was no one in the river. Two or three good friends sneaked to the place where they stepped during the day, and the water was very shallow and clear. Take off your clothes shyly and dive into the water slowly when no one is around.

By moonlight, friends sit in a circle in the water, whose legs are white, who develops early ... You say a word, I say a word, discussing the little secrets belonging to girls, and laughing like a bell from time to time. ...

As long as you hear the sound of someone walking by the river in the distance, everyone will gently "shh, shh, someone, someone, come on, stop!" " "Everyone hurriedly hid their bodies in the water and calmed down. After the footsteps faded away, I slowly leaned out of the water. ...

Now, those flowers, where are they? They have all grown up, maybe they have married someone else's wife, maybe they are still holding a fat doll. ...

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Summer vacation is over, and there are many fart children in the village. The children are beaming, but the families who grow fruit trees in the village are miserable. I can often hear the aunts in the village swearing: "Shit, whose baby stole my walnut again ..."

In rural areas, almost every family has walnut trees. However, we children just like to steal other people's food and think it's interesting and exciting to eat like this.

Walk in twos and threes behind the slope far away from the village and work together. Some people are responsible for keeping watch, others are responsible for carrying bags, and the rest are responsible for picking walnuts from trees. Soon, the bag was full.

Everyone will find a shade, sit on the floor, share the spoils and enjoy the joy of "harvest". Some people pry with tools, some people hit them with stones, and some people step on them directly. Stone, fast is fast, but it is easy to hit your hand. The green juice that pops up may enter your eyes and make you cry for a long time. ...

Fresh walnuts are very delicious, not as greasy and bitter as dried walnuts, but tender, crisp and sweet, which is even more addictive with freshly baked steamed bread.

During a holiday, the whole palm turned black, and everyone looked at each other and knew that no one was laughing at anyone.

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"Sell watermelon! Selling watermelons! " You can hear such crying every few days in the village.

Whether to buy or not, every family will come from home to join in the fun. Some people eat with rice bowls all the way; Some people are jiaozi, who just put down the smell of leek eggs, because he can tell from the leek leaves stuck to his teeth and the burping sound; Others directly hold dumb children. ...

Vendors always pat watermelons on the forehead first, and judge whether watermelons are ripe or not by sound. After that, you can click everything with a polished broadsword, and you can hear the crisp click. The watermelon that pops out is bright red and looks good at first sight.

The villagers tasted the sweet sand one by one and couldn't help saying, "Yes, yes, this melon is very sweet."

Everyone goes home with half a bag of wheat to exchange. Basically, every family will buy two or three. Go home and eat one, and soak the rest in the newly pumped well.

In the era without refrigerators, cold well water is the best natural refrigerator, saving electricity and money.

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In summer, the most rare home-cooked dishes are "Fish Fish" and "Ciba".

In the countryside, a colander is hung on the wall of every kitchen. Fresh corn flour must be used for leaking fish. The criterion for judging the quality of fish is smoothness, which is directly related to the uniformity of stirred corn flour. According to the old people in the village, the standard for choosing a wife is to look at the level of leaking fish. It's no wonder that this fish is simple, but not many people can really do it well.

When making Ciba, you must choose fresh potatoes in season. Peel potatoes, wash them, steam them, air-cool them, pound them into paste with a wooden hammer, hammer them hard until the paste surface is smooth, bubbly and shiny, and then pour in the juice made of tomatoes, leeks, green peppers, onions, ginger and garlic. At this time, a group of unique high-quality potato Bazin was completed.

These two kinds of home-cooked meals are not often cooked by families, so ordinary meals become special. That is, whoever cooked it today, everyone goes to whose house to eat, and everyone cooks it at home the day after tomorrow, and everyone tastes it from home. After a long time, this ordinary home-cooked dish has become a link for villagers to convey their feelings.

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In summer, the farm house is the most lively, with sharp peppers, slender beans, cucumbers with thorns, eggplant with purple robes and round heads, tomatoes like red lanterns, zucchini lying on the ground, and green wheat dishes. ...

Grandma always said, "Cucumber is the favorite for drinking water. The more water you pour, the faster it grows. "

I always water and pick cucumbers without washing. All I have to do is click and take a bite, and the sweet taste will directly penetrate into my heart from my mouth.

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After dinner, the villagers walked to the big walnut tree in front of us in twos and threes according to their usual habits, each holding a cattail leaf fan to enjoy the cool.

Adults got together and talked about it until an announcer on TV said, "Today's news broadcast is over, thank you for watching!" Someone got up and patted his ass: "Go home, the TV series is about to start." Naturally, the rest went home one by one.

We children play together. Hide and seek, bungee jump, somersault in the wheat straw pile, catch fireflies for a while ... When you are thirsty, you rush home directly, scoop a spoonful from Weng and drink it. You have forgotten the warning of adults (drinking cold water will cause worms in your stomach).

At that time, we were always carefree, only knowing that we never knew what fatigue was.

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One year, Princess Pearl was a smash hit. At 9 o'clock in the evening, my cousin took out their black and white TV set and put it on the steps.

Girls in our village, big and small, naturally have some noisy boys, who move stools of different shapes from their own homes and keep them in front of the TV, just waiting to watch Princess Zhu Huan, which starts at 10 and ends at 12.

Before the TV series starts, everyone will fight together or discuss the plot. When the classic melody "wow ... wow ... wow ... wow, wow ... wow ... wow ..." started, everyone sang along, and the TV series officially started. Everyone became quiet, often without moving their eyes.

I remember when Sister Rong stabbed us, our hearts would be broken. I saw many girls secretly wiping their tears. And when the swallow roared, "How dare you hit me, you onion" and slapped Sister Rong hard in the face, we were relieved. Well played, well played, and another slap.

Now every family has a color TV, so you don't have to rub other people's TV sets; Everyone has a smart phone, so you don't have to wait anxiously to watch a TV series; Everyone has trifles, and there is no need to get together in groups to be happy.

The day when everyone watches TV together will eventually leave us.

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The weather in summer is always unpredictable. It is often sunny, and suddenly it thunders and thunders, and the raindrops as big as peas come down. I finally got home, drenched like a drowned rat, and then the sun came out again. I rushed back to the field, but before I got to the farm, the rain came. Repeated several times, people are tired, and they just go home to pack a jiaozi in their spare time.

Naturally, it will be stormy for several days and you can't go out. I can only stay at home and watch TV, rain, chat and shoes. ...

The terrain of our yard is lower than that of our neighbors. When it rains, the water in the yard can't get out, and it will gradually accumulate into a small river. If you put some ducks on it, you can float directly.

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After the heavy rain, the river is crystal clear, flowing quietly and shining with stars under the sunshine. People can't help but think of Xu Zhimo's poem: the golden willow by the river is the bride in the sunset; Beautiful shadows in the waves ripple in my heart.

After dinner, the girls went to the river with a big basin of clothes.

It's called washing clothes, but in fact, I spent most of my time playing with water. The slow-moving one is still holding the trouser leg, but the fast-moving one has already raised a handful of water and spilled it, giggling. Not to be outdone, he bowed a handful of water and was about to pour it over, only to find that his feet slipped by moss and fell into the water with a splash, becoming a drowned rat, and he was already bent over with laughter. People sitting by the river enjoying the cool air couldn't help grinning.

As the sun slowly set, the girls began to worry, put away their interest and washed their clothes seriously.

Soon, big white bubbles began to float on the river, like waves, and they also exuded the clear fragrance of Taibai washing powder. ...

At that time, in summer, we could find a big tree to enjoy the cool. A bucket of well water is a refrigerator, and a dime popsicle can quench your thirst. ...

The summer at that time was the summer of a group of people, and it was a carnival of a group of people. Little friends don't need to make an appointment when they go out at noon. Their arms and legs are tanned like briquettes and they don't worry about jokes. ...

At that time, in summer, we didn't have mobile phones and computers, and we couldn't go to the cinema several times a year, but no one felt monotonous and boring.

Now we have everything. As summer has just arrived, the business of air conditioning, swimming pool, water park, holiday villa, barbecue, frost prevention, iced watermelon and iced drinks has become extremely hot.

Now we have everything, we have supreme enjoyment, but are we happy? Happiness? Are you satisfied? I don't think we have.

In this way, it seems that material improvement is not the core factor that determines our happiness or not. Now we obviously enjoy more and have more.

Happiness only exists in our hearts.

If, in this materialistic society, money and power are in power, we can not go with the flow, not love vanity, and keep our original heart. If we are less jealous, will we be happier?

Is it hot in summer? Sometimes it can be really hot. Even hotter than the sky is our desire.

We need air conditioning not only to cool our bodies, but also to cool our hearts!