The summer of 1990 was extremely hot.
Those old locust trees in the family compound of the military area are annoying when cicadas crow. Wen Zhixia moved a small bamboo chair and sat under the grape trellis at the door of her yard, shaking the cattail leaf fan in her hand. She was wearing a goose-yellow dress, with the hem just above her knees, revealing two fair legs. She had plastic sandals on her feet, and her toes were round and painted with light pink nail polish.
"Xia Xia, where are you waiting for your brother Tingxiao again?"
Aunt Wang next door came back from outside with a vegetable basket. When she saw her like this, she smiled and said, "It's such a hot day. Go back to the house and wait. Be careful of heat stroke."
Wen Zhixia's face heated up and she shook the cattail leaf fan in her hand faster: "Who's waiting for him... I'm just outside enjoying the cool air."
"Come on, no one in the whole compound knows about your little tricks." Aunt Wang walked towards her yard with a smile, "The same goes for that kid Ting Xiao. He left for half a month after going on a mission, but he really misled us Xia Xia."
