The Great Plains (265) | the wind and snow under the locust tree that year

That year, the wind and snow under the locust tree

Li Xueying

The origin of the cause is extinguished, and the flowers blossom and fall to dust.

That origin began under a locust tree.

In early summer, April and May, clusters of locust flowers are as white as snow, and the wisps of locust fragrance are even more ethereal. In a village by the Tujiao River in the 1970s and 1980s, there was an old locust tree, which was covered with bunches of white jade-like locust flowers, which became a plate of eight precious jade foods in the hands of gentle and virtuous women.

This wisp of locust incense is thus wrapped around the quiet little village, wrapped in the heart of every girl with red sleeves. They came in pairs, although they did not have the charm of the girls in the city, but they also responded to He Sicheng's praise of "flattering eyes with smiles, and Dan lips smiling one by one". One of these girls was particularly top-notch, her name was Lan Xiang, under the crooked willow eyebrows, a pair of eyes that were looking back and forth, a small mouth tightly with a hint of stubborn charm, and long black hair draped behind her like black brocade. Smile under the locust tree, like this flawless locust flower. Other girls in the village often joked that she was a crow's nest and a phoenix, and she was also blushing after listening to it, and it was difficult to face it.

At that time, the girls were naturally beautiful, cute, and warm. They are cheerful, dare to love and hate, and have their own vision and expectations for the feelings between men and women. Although materially extremely scarce, the girls also do their best to dress themselves up beautifully, more beautifully. Lan Xiang is no exception, the family road wall in the village has become commonplace in every family, but only Lan Xiang's parents died from childhood, and she is dependent on her grandmother. This made her more sensible, and the experience of the years also gave these northern girls more tenacity.

Looking back at thousands of degrees, we met in the red dust.

On that day, Lan Xiang and her sisters from the same village came to pick locust flowers under the locust tree, and it happened that a young man squatted on the tree, and was stuffing a large number of fragrant locust flowers into his mouth. The bronzed complexion made the facial features more distinct and deep, and when she saw Lan Xiang coming, Junxiu's face was filled with an embarrassed smile. Lan Xiang and the other girls all hid their smiles when they saw his embarrassment. The young man couldn't get up and down on the trunk of the tree, and hesitated for a while before he jumped off the tree and fell right next to Lan Xiang. Lan Xiang quickly reached out to help each other, and when the two looked at each other, joy instantly arose. Whether it was the ancients who said that the heavenly fate was a coincidence, or the red leaf inscription poem, at that moment the two began the story between them. Because it is the age when love sinuses first opened, love at first sight is even more shocking and chaotic, and soon they agreed to this life.

The young man's name is Yu Hua, who is a newly adopted apprentice of Wang Carpenter's family on the other side of the river, because the poor family wants to learn a craft early to maintain a stormy home, and can save a person's rations, so they simply left home and moved to Wang Carpenter's house. Wang Carpenter was an extremely miserly and harsh person, because at that time, craftsmen were rare, and their lives were relatively well-fed, and it just so happened that there was a lack of male labor in the family, and recruiting Yu Hua as an apprentice into the family was the best of both worlds. Yu Hua is not a good person, he is hardworking and never lazy, almost taking care of all the work in the Wang carpenter's family, but the Wang carpenter's craftsmanship is not much to teach but often makes Yu Hua hungry, Yu Hua is an open-minded and generous person, never worry about these things with The Wang Carpenter.

The heart is like a double silk mesh, with thousands of knots.

There is light in young people's eyes and fire in their hearts. The two of them under the locust tree have to see each other once a day, and she leaves a hot sweet potato for him, and he eats it sweetly in his mouth; He plucked the most beautiful flowers from the mountain for her, and she smiled so much that her eyes were full of stars. They whispered softly under the moon, snuggling up to each other in the wind, and the love between the two was sincerely hot, filling the ground with red dust, and blushing the faces full of locust flowers.

The wind rises, and the flowers fall into the pond and the water is miserable.

This good fortune, which should have been blessed, slowly became a bad rumor in the village. The village of the seventies and eighties was both closed and stubborn, and the feudal moral shackles kidnapped all the yearning for love. Yu Hua and Lan Xiang only wanted to express their feelings warmly and pour out to each other as much as they wanted, completely ignoring everything around them. The first to jump out of the decadence was Wang Carpenter, who first taught him as a master not to miss the boy's great future for the sake of the private affair between the children, and then threatened to move out of Yu Hua's parents to interfere, warning Yu Hua to break off his feelings with Lan Xiang, and if he insisted on going his own way, the family would not tolerate him. Although Lan Xiang's grandmother was like a candle in the wind, she was blind. In the village, chickens, horses, and dogs barked, not to mention the sounds of some good people who exchanged ears and whispered to Yu Hua and Lan Xiang. The old lady didn't say a word when she heard it, but her heart had already turned over the river and the sea, and she regarded Lan Xiang as the bi of the city, and she couldn't tolerate a slight flaw. She wanted Lan Xiang to abide by the rules, clean herself, and not to get entangled with Yu Hua again.

The two are obsessed with each other, and only wish to live together.

Young people have a natural resistance, not to mention the fearlessness of love between them, the righteousness of love, and cherish every meeting. Under the locust tree, they laughed, laughed, and cried. The locust blossoms and flowers fall, they have been staying together, she hopes that he will learn the craft, set up a door, and through the words of the male media, and marry him for a hundred years.

How many lovers, only sigh empty looking back, dark souls.

Often things are not satisfactory, Yu Hua's parents insist that Yu Hua marry the second daughter of the Wang carpenter family as a door-to-door son-in-law. Wang Carpenter's family has no sons, only three daughters, the eldest daughter has long been married, the younger daughter is too young, only the second daughter and Yu Hua are of the right age, and the second daughter has already secretly promised Yu Huafang. The carpenter wang was getting older, and the family was now in urgent need of a young man to take over his door. Wang Carpenter took a fancy to Yu Hua's character and saw through the heart of his second daughter, so Shunbi Slipper Ze said that Yu Hua's parents and daughter's falling flowers were also agreed. At that time, marriage was the order of parents, and the love between Yu Hua and Lan Xiang seemed to be a person who drilled into a hole and peeked into each other and followed the wall, and naturally could not get the blessings of his parents and villagers. In order to make Yu Hua break his mind with Lan Xiang, Wang Carpenter quickly set a wedding date with Yu Hua's parents. Yu Huabai's thoughts were gray and cold, Lan Xiang was also sad, the two were originally two lovely love, why was it so desolate. Lan Xiang understood in his heart that Yu Hua was a person who cherished love and righteousness, and the kindness of his parents and her mountain alliance would only make him embarrassed and sad. Lan Xiang couldn't bear her lover to be so miserable every day, and she took the initiative to leave Yu Hua with a fierce heart, and letting go was perhaps the best fulfillment for her lover. Yu Hua did not agree, he pulled Lan Xiang to leave with her, but Lan Xiang understood that the worries behind both of them would not make them Yucheng.

It has always been deep, but the fate is shallow.

No matter what Yu Hua asked, Lan Xiang never saw him again. She understood that the pain in Yu Hua's heart was only a lot more than her own. It is enough for the two to truly fall in love. If the two of them get entangled again, they can only add to each other's grief. Lan Xiang locked himself in the room, stubbornly biting his lip and refusing to shed tears, whether it was the love of the past life or the debt of this life, it turned into a dream of red dust, and there was no reluctance in his heart that could only delay my actions.

Only sighed last year's flowers, and now it seems like butterflies flying apart.

One day, there was a melodious scream on the other side of the river, and she finally burst into tears. She ran to the big locust tree and buried a section of her own hair, and she and he met and loved each other under the locust tree, and it was very good to end here. From then on, he and she really had no intersection, and he could not look back in this life, but I hope that he will be safe for the rest of his life!

The locust tree was full of locust flowers like the first fall of snow, and when it was blown by the wind, it sounded like it was reminiscing about the wind and snow under the tree that year, and it was like whimpering and tear-inducing obsession.

About author:Li Xueying, a native of Zhanhua District, graduated from Binzhou College and has been engaged in the tourism service industry.