The acacia tree in the mountains
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The village is under the hill, the hill is surrounded by half a village in more than half a circle, the hill is like a treasure in the village, the ancestors said, the mountain is a treasure, our village is a feng shui treasure land, life is good. At the top of the hill, there is an acacia tree, this acacia tree is as thick as a bunch, more than ten meters high, the branches are very many, if it is a little rain, there is no light rain under the tree. The trees around the locust tree are not as tall as it is, nor are they thick, especially in the spring, the branches of the acacia tree grow out soon after the young leaves, there are strings of silver-white bones, and the people in the village will come to pick the locust flowers, and the faint fragrance comes to the nose, making people reminisce, making people feel the breath of spring.
This acacia tree is said to have been planted by the Germans, listen to the ancestors, at that time, the German missionaries came to our place in Shandong, after the missionary, to carry out missionary work, to develop church members, some people also participated in this church, later, these missionaries transported some saplings, that is, the acacia tree, these missionaries let everyone plant the acacia tree, the more they wanted everyone to plant, everyone just did not plant, the missionaries saw that everyone was not willing to plant, they led their church members to plant, during the day they planted, at night, It was all uprooted by some people, repeated several times, they did not dare to plant around the village, the missionaries had no way, so they planted on the top of the hill, the people in the village believed that the soil on the mountain was thin, that is, planted, and could not grow into a big tree, let them plant it, from then on, no one paid attention to the acacia tree on the hillside, slowly growing, inadvertently, the acacia tree became a towering tree. Every spring, the locust flowers are fragrant, some children love to climb to the tree to pick locust flowers, there are some thorns on the branches of the locust tree, the children are also very smart, they climb to the tree, first remove the thorns of the branches, and then go to pick the locust flowers, the time is long, the branches are rubbed by the children Some smooth feeling, the children will pick the locust flowers, put them in the mouth to eat, the sweet silk, light and fragrant feeling, enhance everyone's appetite.
After liberation, the production captain built two houses on the top of the mountain, sent people to the mountain to see the trees, there are apricot trees, peach trees, elms, pepper trees, etc. on the mountain, the people in the village get a lot of apricots, peaches, peppercorns, etc. from these trees every year, the village sent a bachelor named "two walnuts" to the mountains to see the trees, "two walnuts" This person is very powerful, when he was young in the northeast, he fought with Japanese devils, killed three Japanese devils, and quietly returned to his hometown in Shandong, he had two northeast sickles, often said that sentence ." It doesn't matter if you try hard", scaring the children into not being able to speak, afraid to see him. "Two Walnuts" in order to see the task given to him by the village, made a ladder himself, placed on the locust tree, he often climbed to the locust tree, to see if there was any movement around the hill, often said that scary sentence on the tree, I see you, no longer go, desperately it does not matter.
In the summer, the people working in the hillside are tired, so they go to the locust tree to rest for a while, at this time, the "two walnuts" will bring the boiled water up, let everyone drink water, everyone is cool, while laughing, while losing the "two walnuts" to see the mountain well. At that time, there was no air conditioning and electric fan at home, the hot day could not sleep at home, the men carried a cool mat, to the mountain under the locust tree cool, the hill is not much high, the altitude is about 60 meters, there are almost no mosquitoes on the mountain, and the cool silk mountain wind, is a good place for everyone to cool off. Go to the mountain under the locust tree cool more people, some people do not bring cool mats, benches and other things, two walnuts "have to take from home outwards, after everyone leaves, but also have to clean up every day, at this time the children often follow the adults to cool down, two walnuts see the children together to make a fuss, just tell you some stories of demons and ghosts, scared the children dare not go, so the two walnuts told everyone that he was in the northeast to prostitute Japanese women and Japanese devils fight things and some meat strips, often caused everyone to laugh.
During the day, Er Walnut also likes the children to play with him, and often takes some delicious food to the children, happy, he is high in the village, and often laughs and giggles at the children a sentence of "your grandmother's", the children also know that his generation is high, no one talks, just smiles. Children play in his place, play on the locust tree, the branches of the locust tree are many, the branches are long, the branches are solid, the children play to improve the foundation, the children play in the locust tree, the name of the game is called "touching the frog", the specific method is that a group of children go up the tree together to see who is on the tree fast, the last person on the tree is a frog, this person has to close his eyes, and then touch these people, as long as he touches a person, even if he wins, in order to easily find the target in the process of touching, the game stipulates that the frog says in the process of touching: "Frog, frog, frog, Not a frog is a toad", so everyone followed the lesson, and the children's voices near the frog were small, and the frog had to keep saying that sentence, and if the frog opened his eyes and everyone found him, they would continue. Children often do this kind of game on the locust tree, the branches of the locust tree are polished smooth and smooth, sometimes when the children do the game, they wake up the sleeping two walnuts, or the two walnuts are not happy, he will say, you wang eight lambs, do not go home, or the adults in the family can not find you, and they will start to scold the mother again. However, the children do not have fun and do not go home.
The locust tree has to bear a lot of locust flowers a year, but no one has calculated, after the locust flowers just came out, the two walnuts began to collect some to hide, which is what he told us later, there is a temple under the hill, the temple lives an old man who looks at the temple, the relationship between the two walnuts and the people who watch the temple is very good, often drink a little wine together, there is a well in front of the temple, there is a hole under the well and the place where the water is in contact, this hole is where the two of them hide things. Two walnuts on the locust flowers plucked, placed in a ceramic jar, filled, with red clay to seal the jar, two walnuts will be reeled down the well, the ceramic jar in the hole, until the end of the year to eat, then there is no refrigerator, in the New Year can eat fresh locust flowers, really happy to die. At that time, it was the third day of the Chinese New Year, everyone went to the two walnuts to play, saw him drinking the locust flower soup, the eggs in the locust flower soup, the vermicelli, the fragrant aroma, our saliva was about to flow out, the two walnuts gave each of us a little, let us taste, we felt that the locust flower soup that time was absolutely the first in the world.
Now, the hill in the south of the village is gone, the old locust tree is gone, the hill has been opened into a deep pit by some people, and whenever I walk through this big pit, I think of the hill in my heart, and I think of the big locust tree and many stories related to the locust tree...
About the Author:
Man Changxue, a native of Juye County, Shandong Province, a member of the Heze Writers Association, a member of the Heze Photographers Association, has been engaged in office text material work since joining the work, likes literature, news, photography, published 600,000 words of press articles in the news media above the city, and many novels and essays have been published in central, provincial, and municipal newspapers and magazines, and his works have won many awards.
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