"I must cut it."
After the mountain saw the unknown tree, his heart could no longer be at peace.
On this day, before dawn, the mountain used a cloth pocket to put on a kitchen knife and rode a bicycle to Tianxing Lake, which is more than twenty miles away from the small town.
The small tree called Shan Chao Si Si Wei Grows on the south side of the lake.
It was a rainy day seven days ago, and When Shan and his newly married daughter-in-law came to play, Shan found the little tree.
"Look how straight this little tree grows." Shan put his arm around her daughter-in-law's flower umbrella and said.
"Yo, but isn't it, it's good to cut it down and make a whip." Shan's daughter-in-law, who was teaching in middle school, also straightened her eyes to the small tree by the lake.
"You can also make a scale rod, so long you can make two or three." Shan was a laid-off worker in a chemical factory and now works as a greengrocer in a wet market.
The mountain wanted to go down and break the little tree. Shan's daughter-in-law would not let him fold, saying that it would rain heavily in the sky, so let's go home quickly. If you fold it again, it will be broken, so it is better to take a knife and cut it when you have the opportunity.
The mountain said that when he came again, he might ask someone to get it and cut a fart.
Although the mountain said so, he still left with his daughter-in-law, and the rain did get heavier.
The mountain "snapped" the bicycle, drew a kitchen knife from the cloth pocket, saw that no one was paying attention to himself, and walked toward the small tree.
In fact, it is not accurate to say that small trees grow on the edge of the lake.
Because the heavy rain in recent days has significantly increased the water level of the lake, the water surface is much larger than before.
The small tree is surrounded by a lake of grass, and it seems that the small tree has grown in the lake.
Shan had to pull up his pants legs and "bang" in his high-barreled water shoes and go into the water.
As soon as he got into the water, the mountain realized that he was going to pay some price.
The depth of the water spread across his waist, and there was soft grass and mud under his feet, and the mountain suddenly felt like a cold snake, wrapped around his waist from his feet to his waist, and he couldn't help but shiver.
The small trees in front of you are also really cute, and the body of the tree that is slightly thicker than the thumb is a green bark, sporadically dotted with white dots, much like the star flowers on the scale pole.
The upper part of the exposed water of the small tree is two meters long, with no side branches, only a handful of tender green branches and leaves on the treetops.
The straight body of the tree, from the treetops to the foot of the tree is not so slightly curved.
The thickness of the tree body is also quite symmetrical, almost as thick from the root to the top of the tree.
No wonder the mountain could not rest assured of this little tree even when he was asleep and awake.
Since the week since I saw this little tree, the mountain has been enchanted like a first love, and I can't forget this little tree day and night.
Sometimes, as soon as the eyes are flowered, they see the daughter-in-law as a small tree that is green and quiet. Making the daughter-in-law cry and laugh, she asked the mountain which sub-evil you had or what neuropathy you had.
Yamaichi grabbed the small tree, and was just about to insert a kitchen knife into the water to cut down the tree, when he suddenly found a green snake coiled under the small tree.
The snake's head that emerged from the surface of the water resembled a side branch growing from a small tree, facing the mountain fiercely.
Shan was born afraid of cowards such as caterpillars, and when he only heard the cry of "Ma Ya", Shan's hand with the knife shook and almost threw the kitchen knife into the water.
After the mountain came back to his senses, he turned around and fled to the hillside by the lake, "whooshing" and "huffing" for a long time, only to find that one of his water shoes had long been glued off by the silt in the lake, and there was a large blood hole on the surface of his feet, and he was hotly flowing out of the blood.
All resent this abominable snake!
The mountain angrily picked up the stones under his feet and smashed them against the small tree, and with the sound of "fluttering" and "fluttering", a cluster of water waves splashed around the small tree, and the snake had long disappeared.
The courage of the mountain grew unconsciously, and he threw himself at the small tree again like a madman...
The mountain started a high fever on the night of the cut down of the small tree, and the tea and rice did not think about it.
Often shouting "There are snakes!" in confusion! Then he got up in horror.
After eating hundreds of kinds of Traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, Shan's condition still did not decrease, but it became worse day by day.
Even the most scientific and least superstitious mountain daughter-in-law had to obey the persuasion of the locals and bury the small tree on a small hillside in the southeast of the town.
The mountain was really buried on the night of the small tree, and it was normal and mental like a good person.
Shan also talked a lot to his daughter-in-law.
The daughter-in-law of the mountain remembered the most clearly, that is, the mountain said that the small tree was buried well, originally it grew well in the Tianxing Lake, and went to cut it down for what it did.
After speaking, the mountain fell to sleep.
He never woke up again.
The year after the mountain died, in the place where the small tree was buried, there was another small tree that was unusually smooth and straight, and it grew green and quietly.
But no one can tell what the name of this beautiful little tree is.
【About the author】:Jiao Nianhong, male, born in 1966, a native of Wang Yan Village, Chishang Town, Boshan District, Zibo City, has been a soldier, has worked as a worker, loves to write, and has published the collection of essays "Life Sunrise".
In March 2002, due to illness, he had a high-level amputation and passed the god of death several times, but he survived tenaciously. The current honorary president of Yiren Elderly Apartment of Boshan Derun Hospital and the editorial board member of "Literature Boshan" has been carefully cared for, and has also received countless love and care from all walks of life, full of gratitude, and firmly believe that tomorrow will be better!
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