The peach blossom generally blooms from March to June every year, with March to April being the peak flowering period.
It is now August, and the peach trees on the bank of the pond in the back mountain are silent.
In previous years, after the flowers bloomed, the scenery here remained pleasant for a long time.
Even if the flowers fall, the shore is still covered with fallen petals, which is beautiful beyond words.
After soaking in the pool for more than ten minutes, Aunt Thirteen felt a little uncomfortable.
The temperature of the lake water is too low, which is more unbearable than people wearing summer clothes and staying outside in a temperature of over 10 degrees in winter.
Thirteenth Aunt looked at Liu Qianqian, who looked five or six years younger and had a good physique.
If you think about it carefully, Liu Qianqian hasn't graduated from college yet and is still clinging to the tail of her youth.
At that time, Thirteenth Aunt also felt that her physique was as good as Liu Qianqian's now.
You can indulge your body without any deliberate exercise.
"I don't want to swim anymore. I'm going back to the shore." In the center of the lake, Aunt Thirteen, who was shivering from the cold, dropped her swimming ring and prepared to swim towards the shore.
"Put on a swimming ring." Yang Fan, who was lying on Liu Qianqian's swimming ring, saw this scene and quickly reached out to grab Aunt Thirteen who wanted to swim back.
Thirteenth Aunt was about to say no, and it wasn't far away, so Yang Fan said, "The pool is very deep, and it is said that the bottom reaches the foot of the mountain."
Isn't this the abyss
Aunt Thirteen hurriedly swam back and lay on the swimming ring, looking terrified: "Is it that deep here?"
"Yes." Yang Fan said: "This pool is actually an abyss filled with spring water. When you stare into the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you."
"Pah~"
"Pah~"
Two sounds.
Yang Fan received two slaps on the back.
One was beaten by Aunt Thirteen, and the other was beaten by Liu Qianqian.
Although it doesn't hurt, it's uncomfortable.
"You sound so scary. I don't want to swim anymore. Xiaofan, please take me back!" Aunt Thirteen was so frightened that her upper body almost climbed onto the swimming ring. She felt like there were unknown creatures underwater.
Liu Qianqian was also very nervous. She felt cold all over and her legs were weak.
Fortunately, I had a swimming ring to lie on.
"Yang Fan, I... I found out I'm afraid of heights." Liu Qianqian's voice was tearful. She felt like she was high in the sky with a bottomless abyss below.
Yang Fan disagreed and said, "Don't be afraid. When I take off my pants, Shen Yuan will blush and won't stare at us anymore."
"Send us back quickly!" Aunt Thirteen pushed Yang Fan again, feeling that she was standing at the mouth of a giant beast, which was extremely dangerous.
Yang Fan felt that he had been soaking in the water for long enough and was shivering from the cold. At least Shisan and Liu Qianqian's wet bodies could no longer tempt him, so he stepped into the water and pushed Shisan and Liu Qianqian's swimming rings towards the shore.
Guoguo didn't know what the gaze from the abyss was, but like a newborn calf, he was not afraid of a tiger. He paddled happily, followed beside, and even helped Yang Fan push his mother's swimming ring.
After reaching the shore, Aunt Thirteen and Liu Qianqian climbed ashore first, and then pulled Guoguo up.
Yang Fan was speechless. It seemed that he would not be able to look for Thirteenth Aunt and Liu Qianqian anymore. “The water of Peach Blossom Pond is a thousand feet deep, but it is not as deep as the love Xiaofan gave her.”
There is still a glimmer of hope for Liu Yueyue, but she doesn't know it yet.
"Mom, I still want to play." Guoguo was reluctant to go ashore, even though her lips had turned a little purple due to the freezing cold of the mountain spring.
"That's enough. I'll freeze you to death if you continue playing like this!" Aunt Thirteen wiped the girl's face and hair with a towel regardless of whether the girl agreed or not.
Liu Qianqian squatted on the bank, shivering, and asked with concern: "Yang Fan, is this pool deep?"
Yang Fan said honestly: "It should be quite deep. No one in the village can dive to the bottom, and it has never dried up."
Liu Qianqian pinched the flesh on Yang Fan's leg, who was standing next to her: "I told you not to scare me. I will never come here again."
"It's not that scary. When I was a kid, a group of kids from our village would come here to swim almost every night in the summer. We would bring shampoo and shower gel with us and not have to take a shower when we got home." Yang Fan said, "No one in the village has ever drowned. The reservoir at the foot of the mountain is not that deep, only a few meters, but people drown almost every year."
"I don't care. This place is sparsely populated. No one from the village comes here to play. When you say that, I feel very panicked." Liu Qianqian wiped her face and hair with a towel. Her thin dress stuck to her body, and the outline of her exciting figure was clearly visible.
Yang Fan leaned close to her ear and whispered, "Basically no one from the village comes to the back mountain now. Let's go to the woods and play for a while."
"What's fun in the woods?" Liu Qianqian asked with a persistent look on her face.
She was still very naive and never thought that it was those dirty things.
Not to mention Liu Qianqian, even Aunt Thirteen this afternoon did not expect that Yang Fan brought her to the back mountain to lust after her body and have ill intentions.
Liu Qianqian's voice was quite loud, and Aunt Thirteen must have heard it.
Yang Fan was a little embarrassed, I was just saying that.
I was freezing just now and I don’t have the energy to think about anything else now. It will be fine in a few minutes.
"Go home, go home, my parents should be back from the orchard soon." Yang Fan looked up at the sky.
It was still early, and the setting sun was trying hard to squeeze in through the branches of the woods, spreading its sunshine.
The ground beneath my feet is like a floral skirt, swaying in the wind.
Liu Qianqian tried hard to wring out the water on her dress so that it would not stick so tightly to her body.
Now, no matter how close she is, she can let Yang Fan see her at will, but what if she meets someone on the way back later
Aunt Thirteen was the same, trying hard to wring out the water from her clothes.
"Take it off behind that tree and I'll help you untwist it." Yang Fan said to Liu Qianqian.
Liu Qianqian looked around at herself for a while and felt that it would be difficult to wring out the water if she didn't take it off.
If there is too much moisture, the clothes will stick to your body.
"Yeah." Liu Qianqian didn't act pretentiously and followed Yang Fan away from the shore and into the woods.
Although she had taken a bath with Aunt Thirteen and let Yang Fan touch almost everything on her, she felt ashamed like a normal girl when she took off her clothes and gave them to Yang Fan in front of Aunt Thirteen.
At the same time, this is also a question of etiquette.
In the woods, Yang Fan skillfully helped Liu Qianqian take off her clothes and wrung out a large puddle of water.
Yang Fan handed the dress to Liu Qianqian only when he could wring out no more water.
"Bad boy, stop having those nonsense thoughts." Before taking back the dress, Liu Qianqian noticed the unseriousness of the serious Yang Fan and said in a low voice.
"It's because you are too charming, don't blame me." Yang Fan hugged Liu Qianqian.
Two minutes later, Guoguo's voice calling "Dad" was heard from the pond.
Liu Qianqian stood up, her face flushed, and wiped the corners of her mouth.
Who told me to love him
"You go back first and ask Aunt Thirteen to take it off and wring it dry. I also need to calm down for a while before I go back." Yang Fan said helplessly.
Liu Qianqian went back with a red face.
Ten minutes later, the four of them brought Monkey King and Gungun, who had just gone out for a walk, back home.
The two dogs were in a bad mood.
That hornet's nest is gone!
I don’t know if it’s because they’re still resentful about not being able to take revenge, or because they miss their loved ones, but in any case, the two dogs are feeling very complicated.
night.
When it was time to go to bed in the countryside, Yang Fan moved two mats to the roof.
The night sky tonight is just as the weather forecast said, clear and cloudless.
There are stars in the sky and fireflies sparkling all over the mountains on the ground.
Aunt Thirteen and Liu Qianqian, who climbed onto the roof with Yang Fan, were stunned and felt like they were in a sea of stars.
"If I could turn into a star to shine with you, let the moonlight soften the appearance of this season, run after time, and pray when a shooting star passes by. At a certain moment, I begin to become important, throw all your troubles into the Milky Way, and then the breeze is not dry, everything is just right, and the dreamlike freedom draws romantic symbols, so that this long distance can slowly turn upside down, you fall into the starry sky and I am in the sea of people..."
When Liu Qianqian couldn't help but share this moment with her sister via video, Yang Fan sang softly.
Liu Qianqian stopped talking to her sister, sometimes looking up at the sky, sometimes looking at the earth, and sometimes looking at Yang Fan with smiling eyes.
She knew that Yang Fan was singing for his sister.
Aunt Thirteen and Guoguo were beside him, so it was not convenient for him to talk to his sister.
Even though Yang Fan was singing for Liu Yueyue, Liu Qianqian and Thirteenth Aunt were still fascinated by the song.
It turns out that the starry sky can be so romantic.
In Liu Qianqian's opinion, the wonders and vastness of the universe here are even more shocking than what she saw on Mount Tai.
"Sister, you must come here to take a look." Liu Qianqian said nothing and sent a message to her sister: "This is where you can really feel the universe at your fingertips. No, I'm sitting in the sea of stars right now."
After Yang Fan finished singing the song, Guoguo rolled around on the mat and asked him to tell her a bedtime story.
Yang Fan did not refuse and sat cross-legged on the mat.
Tonight, he tells the story of "Father and Daughter".
With the breeze blowing in my ears, a father and daughter were riding bicycles side by side on the path. As they rode, they climbed up the embankment and stopped in front of some big trees.
The little girl got out of the car, ran to her father and hugged him.
Then, my father turned and walked down the slope. There was a body of water at the bottom of the slope, which looked like the sea, but also like a vast and boundless lake.
My father’s footsteps stopped in front of a small boat on the shore.
As if he had thought of something, he turned around and ran up the hill quickly, ran towards his daughter on the shore, lifted her up high and held her in his arms.
But no matter how reluctant they were, the father and daughter finally had to say goodbye.
My father got on the boat and rowed.
As the boat went farther and farther away, the young girl, about four or five years old, paced back and forth restlessly, looking in the direction her father left.
After a long time, she rode her bicycle back alone.
As the little girl grew up, she would still ride her bicycle to the place where she said goodbye to her father, get off the bicycle, stand alone on the shore and look into the distance, as if waiting for something.
No matter it was windy or rainy, the girl rode her bike here regardless of the weather and looked into the distance in the direction her father left.
Gradually, the girl had a group of friends and they rode past this place together.
They would ring the bell to urge the girls when they stopped.
Later, the girl also found a boy who loved her.
As they rode past, the girl's eyes were always looking towards the place where her father had left.
In the blink of an eye, the girl started her own family and became a mother of two children.
But she would still bring her family to the shore. The ignorant children would play carefree by the lake, and her husband would sit behind the children, deep in thought.
The girl stood on the shore, looking in the direction her father left.
The seasons keep changing and the years pass quickly. The girl today has quietly changed her identity from the old lady she met when she was young.
The girl gradually grew older, but coming to the lake and waiting seemed to have become her life belief.
Finally, one day, she was so old that she had to struggle several times to lift her bicycle. She came to the familiar place again, but found that the lake had dried up long ago, leaving only a lush grassland.
She walked slowly down the hill, into the meadow, and toward the center of the meadow.
The lush long grass covered her ankles, then her knees, then her waist, then her neck...
As she walked, the view in front of her suddenly became clear and she arrived at the center of the grassland.
A small boat was lying quietly on the ground, half of it sunk into the sand. It was the same boat that my father took when he left.
After staring blankly for a while, the old daughter gently stroked the side of the boat, climbed into the boat, and finally curled up and lay on the boat, contentedly, as if she was nestling in her father's arms.
There was only a cloud left in the sky. The girl seemed to have seen something and stood up and walked towards the place she was staring at.
As she walked, she started to run.
As she ran, she slowly turned back into her youthful appearance.
When she turned back into the little girl she was back then, she finally stopped.
A tall figure stood there waiting for her. It was the girl's father who had been waiting for her.
She looked at the person in front of her in disbelief.
After a long time, she ran over quickly and they hugged each other tightly.
…
The story was told very well, and Aunt Thirteen and Liu Qianqian were already in tears as they listened.
Especially when I heard the girl climbed into the boat, curled up, and lay down next to where her father was sitting, my eyes instantly filled with tears.
They didn't know how much emotion was contained in the hug at the end.
Maybe there is the emotion of seeing each other again after a long separation, and also the relief of reconciling with one's inner self.
In the long life, people are experiencing separations to varying degrees, leaving their loved ones, friends, lovers, and saying goodbye to the world.
But as long as there is love in your heart, there will always be someone waiting for you not far away.
"Actually, the story ended when the old lady snuggled in the old boat, right?" Liu Qianqian asked Yang Fan with red eyes.
Yang Fan didn't answer.
But Liu Qianqian had already guessed that her daughter left in the illusion of reuniting with her father.
A girl who cannot wait for her father, no matter how old she is, even if she becomes a grandmother, she is still her father's little daughter in her heart.
"He always tells these tear-jerking bedtime stories." Aunt Thirteen couldn't find a tissue, so she used Guoguo's pajamas to wipe her tears.
The sea, or rather the lake, symbolizes death.
So at the beginning the father was not going to work somewhere, but was already dead.
It was very touching to think that the father turned around and ran back to the high ground, hugged his daughter tightly, and then left reluctantly.
It was death that summoned him.
Then there is the daughter who comes to the shore every year, waiting for her father to return.
This story has another translated name: "Two People on the Shore".
On and off the shore, the boundary between life and death.
For children, death is a mysterious sea that is seen from afar, taking away their loved ones.
People grow old slowly, and the sea water covering death gradually recedes and turns into a mudflat.
When the sea turns into a mudflat, the girl becomes an old woman.
When she reached the shore for the last time, her old bicycle fell over several times. She picked it up, but it fell over again. She picked it up, but it fell over again.
Finally, she gave up, looked back, and stopped helping.
The bicycle lying horizontally is left behind, symbolizing that there is no way back.
She walked down the embankment.
Before reaching the core of death, you have to walk through neck-deep grass.
Finally, she finally entered the land of death and met her father who had been waiting for her.