Children Are Ordinary
by Guo Benlong
About This Novel
On the day when his son's admission notice was delivered, Chen Yougui and Zhang Xueyi were watching the water in Tian Chongli. This year there was a severe drought and an unusually hot temperature. From the beginning of spring to the mild summer heat, and now the beginning of autumn, there has been no drenching rain in half a year. There was no wind either. The cicadas on the top of the old elm tree, almost calling for help, screamed endlessly day and night, making me extremely upset, as if there was a prickly heat in the pit of my heart. When I get up early every morning, I want to go into battle shirtless. As soon as I put my coat on my body, I am half wet, and my sweat beads are thrown to the ground and smoke. When people suffer like this, animals suffer even more. The chickens lay motionless in the ashes under the trees all day long; the dogs sat at the base of the wall and stretched out their tongues to survive; the geese and ducks were forced to stay on the shore with the chickens because there was no water in the pond, and they failed to live up to their passion for cutting through the waves. Nine of the ten ponds were empty, and the mud in the ponds was all cracked and shelled, and the lines were like hungry lips.
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