The osmanthus flowers in the laurel garden are fragrant

□ Youyang Yizhong Tian Jingyou

In the summer of 2022, the campus of Unitary No. 1 Middle School was much quieter, on duty on campus, passing by the osmanthus tree on the old campus court, and remembered it.

The trees on campus are lush and beautiful. Camphor, green and tall; Peach tree, scorching its brilliance; Plum, fragrant; Ziwei, lush and splendid... And I love a seemingly ordinary osmanthus tree on campus.

The fate of the osmanthus tree and me, starting from the old house of the hometown incense burner rock. When I was a child, there was a big eight-immortal table in the hall, and that was where I did my homework. Whenever I was tired of writing, I looked up and stared at a tree in the courtyard dam. A tree of turquoise leaves soothed the fatigue of my eyes and relaxed my mind.

There are very few osmanthus trees in the hometown. My father said that the tree was an osmanthus tree that had been transplanted from a meeting at Jinggang Central Elementary School. It is evergreen in all seasons, blossoming season, fragrant and fragrant, refreshing. Therefore, it is much more valuable than the average tree, and it is planted in front of the house and behind the house. When I first read, my father also told me that both the names of my widow and my aunt had the word "Gui". Since then, I have paid more attention to the osmanthus tree, and I still feel that this tree is humane and always has an inseparable fate with people.

Later, I walked out of the old house in the township. In many places, you can see osmanthus trees, small courtyards, parks, streets, nurseries, there are carefully cultivated, selected grafted, and transplanted from north to south. In addition to osmanthus trees, there are also a variety of trees. The more you see the tree, the more you don't think it's strange.

A few years later, an ordinary osmanthus tree made me change my mind. This osmanthus tree seems to be the most commonplace, but it is not ordinary.

On campus, it is not the thickest plant, nor the burliest and most eye-catching one, but it is the cutest and brightest plant. Simple and introverted, I can't help but look at it a few times every day when I pass by.

I can't tell you what's unusual about this osmanthus tree, which stands lazily on the right side of the podium of the old campus, resembling a short giant umbrella with a thick shade. Compared with the handsome branches of the huge camphor around it, although it is not tall and tall, the roots are thick and leafy, lush, steady and graceful, and the rings rooted in the soil show the elegant Zhengzheng years, which really has a kind of simple and thick vicissitudes; I asked the elderly teacher about its origin, but it was unsuccessful. I think that perhaps the predecessors who established the school at that time deliberately stayed here, intending to let it accompany the students and grow up with them; Or maybe it was just a teacher who planted it casually, and then the tree landed here, quietly recording the imprint of the school with the rings.

No matter how to explore the source, I only know that this tree has a large bowl thick mouth at the beginning of the century, lazily lying on the edge of the stone wall, unattended. It seems to know that the conditions were harsh at that time, and deliberately occupied fewer places to make more room for the readers. Therefore, this tree has only stayed at a height until now, just struggling to stretch its branches around to bring more shade to the students.

To the west of the osmanthus tree is a seven-storey large chapter building. The original prototype here was a row of wooden houses, surrounded by many osmanthus trees of different sizes, which have been called the Laurel Garden for generations. In that year, in order to run the school, the school built a new Dazhang Building on the site of the original Gui Garden. In order to protect the osmanthus tree and the camphor tree, after several arguments, the old principal insisted on modifying the original design plan, and the building retreated more than one meter to retain the original trees, he said that these trees were left by the predecessors, and these trees should become the eternal memories of the students. It is precisely because of the protection and inheritance of culture by generations that Gui Garden, which is "simple, humble, diligent and courageous", has become a witness to the endless inspiration of Xinxin students. The osmanthus trees in the guiyuan garden have persisted year after year, blooming beige fragrant flowers, and the students of the first class have been admitted to the ideal university under the moist luster of the flowers in the laurel garden, and have continued to forge ahead, jointly casting the glory of the school.

As if to be grateful for the care, this osmanthus tree grows more leafy, with thick branches and leaves for the children to grow up healthily. In the golden autumn of October, it is permeated with a unique fragrance, wantonly intoxicating people in the sea of incense, teachers and students smell the incense and stop, refreshing the lungs, the heart is relaxed, the whole campus is immersed in its floral fragrance. August Gui has become a tacit understanding between teachers and students from generation to generation. This osmanthus tree also firmly gives every student a dream.

This osmanthus tree has always stretched its enthusiasm, embracing every teacher, student, employee and visiting friend, regardless of age, industry and talent, it is just a hug. Along with the rich and rich fragrance of osmanthus flowers, the osmanthus tree complex has long been deeply rooted in the soul of the "freshman" unconsciously.

Nowadays, the school conditions are better, there are more places to read on the campus, the Gui Garden has been moved to other places, and the osmanthus tree in the garden seems to have gradually been forgotten by people, and there is no longer the situation of reading aloud surrounded by teachers and students at that time. However, this does not affect its luxury in the slightest; Even if it is not given extra territory, it will never complain; It doesn't need more attention, just stays in the corner of the trees. It also doesn't care about the squeezing of the cement and bricks underneath, even if the sunlight is stingy for it, it only needs a small place to breathe to burst out a majestic upward force.

Since ancient times, the literati have praised osmanthus with great fauna. "A few clumps of golden leaves are hidden, and the dangui can flutter the lung incense" praises the floral fragrance of the laurel tree; "Toad Palace Folding Gui", described in the middle of the list of Dengke; "Laurel falling flowers" is an auspicious blessing. The osmanthus tree deserves much praise, and this plant, without succumbing to the predicament, only needs a corner of the courtyard, and can immediately scatter the simplicity in all directions. The emerald green does not change its color all year round, the fragrance is simple and elegant and not charming, and it is not good to grow gracefully, sticking to it, waiting, and expecting. It is embedded in the deep soil of the No. 1 Middle School campus, and also grows in the hearts of thousands of no. 1 Middle School teachers and students.

Next to this tree there is a "thanksgiving stone", Xue Changyun: "The former Guiyuan, Xingjiao School, Sericulture School, Hanying Tsuihua, Laurel Tree, Several Times, Vicissitudes, Witnessing the Unique Path of the Apricot Altar, Guiyuan Immersed in Cultivating Talents, Humanistic Holy Land, Hundred Years of Continued Writing Chapter, Generations of One Chinese, Fragrant Books, Under the Laurel Tree, The Temperament of the Guiyuan Garden, the Simplicity of the Laurel Tree, the Fragrance of the Osmanthus Flower, the Hongzhi Excitement in qingyun, the Stroke of The Forgery of the Guiyang, the Stroke of The Forgery of the Guichuan Pass the Youyang." Now, many alumni who have studied here have returned to the campus, they have not forgotten the osmanthus tree and the surrounding bricks and tiles, nor have they forgotten the glory years when they were studying, when teachers and students once felt nostalgic: "The students in the cold window dream of sleeping at night, nibbling on the English rice, five days an exam, chewing ancient Texts, drinking pumpkin soup; Half moon to fight back the tooth sacrifice, the new warbler milk swallow, the beginning of the ambition of the bird, hammer casting, to lay the foundation for the future." It shows that this is the spiritual home of Qingyunzhi that is not reduced in pride and pride.

Now, every graduating grade will give a osmanthus tree to the alma mater as a souvenir, concentrated in a large forest, in addition to the osmanthus forest, the school also has the gui garden swing dance square, the gui garden book square, the gui garden landscape stone, etc., to send a message to the guixing school.

Editor: Ran Weinan