Zheng Zheng T
The plum blossoms in the garden are a little wilted this year!
There was little rain and no snow before and after the Spring Festival, and more than a month ago it was dead cold, and more than ten days ago, it suddenly jumped to more than 20 degrees. The buds are not yet fully nourished, and like a baby under the age of months, reluctantly showing a slightly shriveled sad face. And most of the flower bones that do not have buds can only be wiped out by themselves. The high temperature is dry and the sun shines, and the flower cannot see a trace of water aura. There are few flowers, and this year's plum blossoms are really less interesting.
Lamei has also bloomed symbolically this year, and now it is dead yellow and hanging weakly on the branches. Magnolia flowers also feel pitiful, the flowers seem to bloom more hastily than plum blossoms, and the nutrients are insufficient, and the flowers bloom in all directions. Magnolia flowers as big as a silver platter and shaped like a white dove, this year they are small and thin, only the size of a sparrow. The cold wind and cool dew were gray, and I felt even more haggard and pitiful. The flowers lost their spirit, the branches did not leave much, and the petals began to fall off long ago. The flowers were dragged hard by the fierce winds for days, and the already thin flowers had almost flown out. It was the best season, but I didn't see the heroic posture of its jade tree.
Magnolia is lucky again, because the worm does not dare to mess with it. And the plum tree, its biggest enemy of survival is the worm. The "drill worm" (the stem bee larvae are also called two-headed worms) bite its core day and night in the branches; Bud worms, spiny moths, caterpillars, etc. bite its young leaves and young shoots. The greedy insects all bully the tin tofu core Mei. For Meihua, survival is a life-and-death struggle, an ordeal of survival.
Several iron plum main poles in the garden have been mothed to pieces, the bark of the main pole has long been hollowed out and fallen, and the densely packed large and deep moth holes and deep crisscrossing moth grooves are shocking. The roots of the tree were almost empty, and only one of the three main branches was still breathing. Stop and meditate, is it the weakness of insects bullying trees? Or are trees too indulgent and tolerant of insects? The tragic conflict between the tree and the insect reminds me of the Greek sculpture "Laocoon", where the father and son were slowly hanged by a giant snake and slowly sucked to death.
The plum blossom king in the garden has been less than 200 years old, and most of the main rods with large basins have withered. Will it die? No! The wind blowing insect moth can't destroy King Mei's arrogance and can't dampen its kingly qi. Tie Mei has a naturally strong character, it will concentrate its nutrients on a certain breakthrough point, and then burst out of vitality for the breakthrough of life. Look at this plum king, a cluster of new branches will emerge from the bark of a small blood-flowing tree, and flowers will bloom, and it will soon be restored to its former glory. The plum blossom is not afraid of the cold, nor is it afraid of insects, it has confidence, because it has strong roots, its roots are deeply rooted in fertile soil, and its strong foundation is unshakable.
The ideal spring is a sunny and windy spring, but sometimes the wind can roar and faint. The ideal Merlin is a delicious, colorful flower, and flowers like snow. The flowers come from the sky, quietly and playfully roll on the lawn, which is the ideal fragrant snow sea, because the plum always shows its best side to the people who like it, and the plum tree's own suffering is terrifying.
"There are trees in the worm soil, and these plum trees have all withered like this, I am afraid that they will not survive!"
People walk past plum trees that are almost bald, and they always regret it.
Everything can't crush the plum tree, because the plum blossom knows that there will be spring next year!
March 16, 2023
Yuzhiqing Cultural Street
Nguyen Vinh Shan
