Streamers are easy to throw people, red cherries, green plantains!
Jiang Baobing
Cherry is the earliest arborvitae fruit on the market, known as the "first branch of a hundred fruits". It is said that the yellow warbler is particularly fond of pecking at this fruit, hence the name "warbler peach". Although the fruit is as small as a pearl, but the color is bright red and smooth, exquisite like an agate gemstone, the taste is sweet and slightly sour, it can be eaten fresh, pickled or used as an embellishment for other dishes, so it is favored by people.
There is an old Chinese proverb that says, "Cherries are delicious and difficult to plant, and they cannot be flowered without hard work." "Trees are difficult to plant", that is to say, cherries are pampered, afraid of cold and heat, afraid of drought and afraid of flooding, that is to say, although cherries are delicious, it is difficult to cultivate, and cherry planting waits for the fruit for a particularly long time, fruit trees are generally "peach three apricots and four plums five years", and cherries have to wait for seven or eight years.
The cherry tree in the bungalow yard was planted in the year of my father's death, and it has been 12 years now, and in the past few years, it has been a flower and a flower, but there is no fruit. When I planted the tree, I still had enough fertilizer under the tree, watered it from time to time, and waited for her to blossom and bear fruit. However, in the first few years, the cherry tree only grew very vigorously, five or six years of kung fu grew to the height of the roof, the tree body was also thick, the shade covered most of the yard, in those years, when the cherry tree blossomed, the jade tree qionghua full of trees, a yard of aroma attacked, but there was no fruit hanging. I also asked the technicians of the Forestry Bureau to prune the branches, and pointed out the heavy weight to press the branches, and open the tree shape into the sun, but the cherry tree is still calm, and the flowers bloom and fall every year, and the first two years are a few small red fruits, hanging alone on the branches, looking lonely and self-congratulatory.
The neighbor's persimmon tree is tired of fruit, and our cherry tree is still bearing fruit. When the neighbor's bride brought us a few large golden persimmons for us to taste, I said hatefully to the cherry tree: "Next year, I will cut you down without fruit, and plant another persimmon tree!" "But in the end, I didn't bother to cut her down, after all, this cherry tree pinned our hopes on us, and it also cost us a lot of hard work." Maybe it was my threat that played a role, as cherry trees hung a lot of small green fruits after they bloomed last year. We looked up and watched the fruit swell day by day, and our hearts were filled with joy. Unexpectedly, after a cold snap, a spring rain once again extinguished the fire of hope, and watched the small green fruits on the branches shrink and dash their hopes again.
This year, the wind and rain are smooth, the cherry trees bloom early and full of branches, and the yard is full of flowers and flowers. Behind the flowers, behind the tender green leaves, we found clusters of small green fruits, and the fire of hope was lit in our hearts. Before and after the Qingming Dynasty, the weather was changeable, the temperature was high and low, and it lasted until May Day, when the weather stabilized, the cherry tree also survived, the green fruits on the branches slowly expanded and became larger, and the color changed from cyan to goose yellow, and finally into a dazzling ruby red. Strings of red cherries hang from the branches, like sparkling pearls onyx, and the cherries are ripe!
The family stood under the cherry tree, happily picking cherries, and the mother sent some cherries to the neighbor to taste, and the neighbor's wife said that your cherry tree finally came to fruition! Looking at the fruity cherry tree, looking at the cheering daughter, I aroused the association and fell into contemplation...
As the saying goes: ten years of trees and a hundred years of tree people. Raising a child is much more troublesome than planting a cherry tree. From falling to the ground to learning language, from toddler to walking like flying, how much effort has been spent on parents! I also "hated iron not steel", and also "hoped that the son would become a dragon, and the girl would become a phoenix", poor parents in the world! Finally, when the children grow up, the sideburns of their parents are as white as snow. It's really "streamers are easy to throw people, red cherries, green plantains!" ”.........
About author:Jiang Baobing, Zi Jianmei, Owner of Jianmei Building, Master of Qingfeng Hall, Member of China Prose Literature Association, Member of the Whole Committee of Dezhou Writers Association, Member of Dezhou Calligraphers Association. He is a director of the Yucheng Writers Association and an editorial board member of Yucheng Literature. The work "Night Reading Lu Xun" won the second prize of the national "Walking with the Republic, Good Books Grow with Me" Reading essay competition, and "Looking at Social Changes from Dietary Changes" won the first prize of the National Day Essay contest for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. "The Green Plane Tree" won the third prize for outstanding literary and artistic works in practicing the core values of socialism. "Growing Up with the Great Motherland" won the first prize of the "Lucky Color Cup, I and New China" with an award for essays. "The Ancient Road of the Yellow River" won the Excellence Award in the Prose Group in the 4th China Xiajin Yuguo Poetry (Prose) Competition.
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