Fujisawa Xiuping's "Cicada"
"... thinking of July of that year, the sky gradually went away quietly, and the faint thunder roared in the distance. Mother put the red beans under the umbrella and hoped that I would take them away. Her smile and the taste of red beans are as clear as cicada rain around, and they come back from memory again and again ... "
"Counting the lost seasons/the summer is coming to an end/the cool wind chimes/why it sounds so lonely/in the pouring sunshine/Qiu Chan singing in the distance/climbing the hills they walked together/when they want to stop/the stream is infiltrating their hearts/the forest tells us where to go/you will always hold my hand quietly/tightly in the future."
"It's always like this/in the endless summer sky/Qiu Chan is singing in the distance/listening to you/it's dusk before you know it/it's going to sunset soon/the warmth of your hand/why do I remember it gently/two long shadows are shaking side by side with their backs to the sunset on the slope/you are shaking with laughter/in such a natural time/the smell of seasonal changes is floating in the wind/even if Qiu Chan goes away at dusk/.
"Realize the gradual disappearance of the shadow/in the summer sky shrouded in dusk/quietly look for a star/I will be with you next year .../as if to cherish the leisurely time/try to stop."
Only the first chapter was found
Fragments of cicada
The first chapter The rising snake of the sun
The public houses of the Haiban Dining Shop Group have a feature that the stepping public houses and other public houses do not have. That is, there is a small river flowing through the public backyard, and the team members regard this small river less than six feet wide as a treasure.
There is a raised hill in the southwest not far from the city. There are several water systems flowing from the depths of the hills, and rivers are one of them. The river runs through the vast Pu Tian, flows to the northwest corner of the city where the public housing is located, then flows out of the city and winds to the northeast.
The river was finally absorbed by the lower reaches of Wujianchuan, where people in public houses washed clothes, carried river water to irrigate the vegetable garden and cleaned up. This shallow river flows all the year round, so the water quality is clear. You can see the sand and flowing stones at the bottom of the river, and sometimes you can even clearly see the dark dorsal fin of the upstream fish. Therefore, in the warm spring season in bloom, people who come to the river to wash their faces early in the morning can be seen everywhere.
Wujianchuan, which flows through the urban area, is the river of cargo ships. On the deep water surface, there is a passage made of stone, which leads to the shore and forms a dock for loading and unloading goods. Merchants wash here, but I don't know whether it is because of the soil quality or because the water quality is polluted when it flows through the urban area, and the river water in Wujianchuan is filthy. Nobody wants to wash their faces with it.
In contrast, there is a clean stream in the backyard of the residence, which is used to wash your face. For people in the general group, it can be said that it is unique in water. Although the people in the group didn't show off to outsiders in particular, they all liked this favor from God. Muwen Shiro has the same idea.
As soon as Bunshiro walks out of the porch, he will walk around the backyard with a towel. His mother, who always follows the rules, always feels unsightly when she sees her family washing their faces with the river in the backyard instead of well water. But on sunny days, Bunshiro can't help but be attracted by the outside and come to this river.
His father often washes his face by the river and greets his neighbors quietly, so Bunshiro thinks there is nothing wrong with it. Wen Shiro is the adopted son of a shepherd's family, and his adoptive mother is his biological father's sister, that is, Wen Shiro's aunt. But if anything, Bunshiro has more respect for adoptive parents who are not related by blood than adoptive mothers. Adoptive father Sukezaemon is taciturn, but full of masculinity.
In the public houses of Puao Group, people who earn less than 30 stones live in humble positions, so the building itself is not large, but perhaps it is because it is located in the suburbs outside the city, and the house covers an area of about 250 to 300 square meters, which is more than enough to turn it into a vegetable garden. In the backyard of every household, beech, oak, maple, Pu Shu, Chinese fir, plum and so on stand together, forming a boundary with neighbors. In the cold winter when the dead leaves of beech trees and oak trees are gone, I feel that there are not many trees, but in summer, it suddenly becomes gray, and even the neighbors in front of the fence are covered with leaves.
When Bunshiro came to the river, Afu, the girl next door, was washing clothes.
"Good morning. 」
Bunshiro called out to him. Alfred turned to look at Bunshiro when he heard this. Then he got up and bowed his head, but he didn't make any noise. Then she lay on her side and squatted down, as if she didn't want to let Bunshiro see her face. In this way, Ah Fu's face was covered, but her round hips were facing Bunshiro.
Hmm.
Bunshiro smiled slightly. Afu, the daughter of neighbor Xiaoliu Jinbei, was a quiet girl since she was a child, but she never forgot to say hello when she saw Bunshiro before.
When did her attitude get cold? Bunshiro thought. About a year ago? Did I do something Alfred didn't like? Bunshiro thought hard and never had a clue.
"Don't think about such a thing. It was that girl who learned to long for love. 」
Bunshiro remembered how vicious his good friend Owada and Yiping were when he talked about it earlier. At that time, Yonosuke Shimazaki, another friend of Bunshiro, was also present. Yonosuke has a serious personality and doesn't understand the meaning of "longing for love". Wen Shiro and Owada broke out in a sweat to avoid this problem. However, Wen Shiro's assertion about Owada is still dubious.
-Ah Fu is only twelve years old this year.
Bunshiro's mother married Sukezaemon at the age of thirteen. It used to be natural for girls to get married at this age. But times are different now. Bunshiro knows that today's girls only need to get married before the age of twenty. Jizhi, the younger sister of Bunshiro, married Kazuo Ishizuka, a courtier, last autumn at the age of 18. At Alfred's age, it seems a little early to know how to long for love.
Bunshiro washed his face with the river and made a loud noise. If mother stood by, she would surely call him rude at once. However, it is not his mother who is by his side now, but Ah Fu, who is silent because of his longing for spring.
Bunshiro washed his face, picked up a wet towel and wiped it from his neck to his chest and arms. In this way, the skin covered with sweat due to the sultry night is much fresher. Bunshiro felt this carefree sense of liberation and looked at the vast Pu Tian across the river.
The following is the meaning of cicada rain
Cicada しぐれ, しぐれ means timely rain, which refers to the shower that suddenly drops and stops at the turn of autumn and winter. Together, the two are cicadas when it rains, which means cicadas sing one after another, just like a shower, but at this time the cicada is already a cicada in late summer. From long summer to the end of summer, cicadas have been singing all summer. When summer is over, cicadas' life is over. It is said that cicadas have changed from larvae to cicadas. Cicadas have to sleep in the soil for seventeen years, and they can only change a summer song in seventeen years. This is similar to Muwen Shiro's novels, in which he endured humiliation for many years and finally broke out in anger and rebelled against his superiors. At the same time, the feelings of Muwen Shiro and Ah Fu were hidden in each other's hearts and only expressed at the end. After holding back for so many years, two people finally recognized each other's intentions clearly and clearly, but then it was farewell immediately. A moment that should last forever came and went unconsciously. What should I say? However, it is "this makes sense. I forgot to say it when I wanted to defend it." At such a moment, perhaps only cicadas falling like a drizzle can tell all the joys and sorrows.