Some people say that in Japanese, the phrase "summer is over" contains many meanings. It means growing up overnight, which is a sign that love will end in vain, the season when youth disappears completely, the dividing point between dreams and reality, the night when people lose their innocence and become adults, or the life falls from the unknown full of expectations to the unchangeable confusion.

So the swallows that fly away in spring will fly back after summer? They are swallows flying in the sky that day, and they are also five sisters of an ordinary farmer in the rural areas of southern Anhui. Where did these swallows fly? What kind of stories do they have?

Author Shen Shuzhi, a native of Nanling, Anhui Province, born in the 1980s, holds a master's degree in ancient literature from Nanjing University. In 2005, my sister won the first prize in the non-fiction group of the second essay contest of Douban Reading. Later, he published Where did the Swallow Fly Last, Eighty or Ninety Flowers, Puge and so on, which were well received by readers.

Where did the Swallow Fly Last? This book mainly records the life of five sisters from childhood to adulthood, and it is also a review of family life memories.

First, the love given by sisters is enough to warm the lives of sisters.

The author was born in a relatively special family, especially because she has five sisters. She and her sister are twin sisters, the youngest two. Since their birth, the patriarchal ideology in rural areas has made them experience many strange eyes, even looked down upon, and even their parents are looked down upon because they have no sons.

This was very common in rural areas at that time, but it is still the case in many rural areas today. Fortunately, there are several sensible sisters on it. So that as the youngest two, they can always get the love of their sisters in various ways.

In rural areas, there are many children, and parents are basically stocking because they are busy with farm work or housework. As for children with lice on their heads, usually several sisters help each other to "eliminate". It's busy farming time, but anyone who can do some simple housework should go to the fields to help.

Shuzhi's family and sisters are many, and working together is also lively, but it is lively and interesting. If you want to spend a day in the hot summer, bend down to cut rice and carry rice back and forth in the field, even if you wear long sleeves, you will still be cut into thick red silk by rice leaves and rice stalks, and sweat will seep in. That kind of pain is like being cut by a knife and then immersed in salt water.

There is an eight-year gap with the elder sister. In the third year of junior high school, she went to the health school without being admitted to high school. After graduation, she went to the Nanjing Military Region Hospital for an internship, and then began to earn money independently.

After work, my sister's salary is not high, but she is still willing to save some money from her mouth and send it to her sisters, or she will always bring snacks home to satisfy her sisters. You can imagine how much she is looking forward to her coming home.

Like the elder sister, the second sister went to the health school without being admitted to the third grade for three years, but unlike the elder sister's gentle and forbearing personality, the second sister is more frank and energetic, and likes to accept new things and integrate into the trend. This can be seen from her costume when she came home from a year in health school.

The second sister was not satisfied with being a nurse like the elder sister. She honestly lived her whole life, changed her job halfway and finally entered the sales. She has to pull her face down in business, know how to read minds, go out carefully, and endure the eyes of people who don't understand. All this is endured by the second sister, and high salary is the best reward for her. At that time, she brought back many strange things to her sisters, and she had the foresight to buy a house in Nanjing before the house price began to rise sharply.

Third sister is different from second sister. She loves to cry, but when bullying her illiterate sisters, pointing to the little girl in the book and solemnly saying that she is herself, pointing to the textbook and coaxing her sisters to say that she jumped from the parachute, she is so amiable and lovely when the sisters are bullied by the boys in the class.

The third sister who didn't go to high school went to learn to make leather shoes, but after all, she didn't stick to it and ran around. Third sister got pregnant and had children not long after she got married. Later, in order to make a living, Ben's third brother-in-law planned to open his own small restaurant.

The restaurant opened and business gradually stabilized. Looking at the days getting better and better, I never thought that at this time, my third brother-in-law fell ill, and before long, he died, leaving my third sister and a very young child.

Sometimes fate is like this. I always like to play a joke on you. Many families collapsed because of this joke.

But even after all the hardships, the feelings between sisters are still like a trickle, with tenderness and tenacity, and finally merge into the sea of years.

Second, Gemini is deeply in love and flows silently in the fleeting time.

Because they are twins, they must spend the longest time together, because they are about the same age, and the pace of school and work is similar. Because they are twins, all kinds of disputes and struggles over trifles in life are inevitable.

Not suffering from widowhood but suffering from inequality, that's how contradictions come about. Even two identical skirts, because one of them has a red heart pattern, will cause a fight. Go to school together, eat pickles in the same jar, sleep in the same bed, and thus go through childhood to high school.

School life, especially high school life, is austere and single, and winter in the south is particularly difficult. Sitting in a ventilated classroom in winter, my feet are numb with cold, and the numbness with dull pain has been stimulating my nerves. Entering adolescence, the girl's mind is more delicate and affectionate. At this time, if she is under the pressure of her studies, she can still have a little secret to talk about and share. That kind of happiness is hard for others to realize.

Fortunately, the efforts were not in vain, and the twins were admitted to good schools. It's just that they may have been together since childhood 18 years. Curiosity and desire for independence made them apply to schools in different provinces and finally separated, but the past will become more and more precious.

Parting doesn't mean estrangement, just like a movie said, sisters are snowflakes in the sky, and when they fall to the ground, they become water and ice, which can never be separated.

I saw a reason for having a second child on the internet before: having a second child and having three children is not because of money, nor because it is necessary to have boys and girls, but because in this era full of competition, indifference and utilitarianism, the most important thing for parents is not to leave money and a house for their children, but to leave him a relative.

Many netizens have also exposed the warmth they have experienced enough to melt their inner brotherhood:

"When I was a child, I was hungry because my mother hadn't come home yet. My brother stood on the stool and fried rice for me. I also clamored for eggs. My brother said that eggs should be left to my mother. My mother came home to see us eating delicious food with our hands, and cried with distress. "

"My elder sister takes care of me like a mother. I remember when I was a child, it was very cold in winter. My feet always rest on my elder sister's stomach. Elder sister rubbed my back and fell asleep. My elder sister is still sleeping in my urinal. Maybe she was afraid that I would accidentally roll into the urinal and get cold. "

"When my sister sent me to kindergarten, I saw a boy riding a bicycle and rushing towards me quickly. She instinctively stopped quickly in front of me. Later, she had eight stitches in her brow corner, and I could still see the scar. "

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From birth to growth, the love between sisters will always accompany and never give up. Just like swallows nesting under the eaves, even if they are thousands of miles apart, they will still fly back along the remembered road after the end of next summer.