Essay 79: Green Plant Affection
At 4:30 p.m., a bench chair was moved to the archive room with a colleague. On the windowsill on the south and west sides of the reading room, many beautiful greenery are laid out. Plump and transparent and delicate and cute, bare and leafless single tree, rich and attractive money strings, small and delicate leaves with strange shapes like brocade tails...
"If you like, pick a few pots." Sister Yunqin in the archive room saw me taking pictures, and she liked it very much, and said to me with a smile.
"Then how can I be embarrassed, I can't take people's love." I replied.
"I moved to the class from home, there are too many of them, and I don't want to raise them. Besides, if you don't take it, I will also give it away, and several pots have already been sent. Sister explained.
Think about it, why not yourself. Remember, when I first started to raise green plants, I was full of interest, full of energy, greedy for more, seeking freshness, and I couldn't wait to serve it well every day. Slowly, slack, three days of fishing and two days of drying nets, drought death when drought, waterlogging death when waterlogging, after all, it is not the same. In the end, only tiger piran, keel, roundleaf pepper grass, large-leaf green rose and other vigorous and easy-to-care green plants remain. Interest eventually lost to time, and the vows of the past slowly wore off in the bland and uneventful days.
It was difficult to be enthusiastic, but in fact, I was moved, and I took a fancy to a simple small glazed clay pot, thinking that it could be paired with a larger clay pot in the class. Sister Lehe agreed, "Move, as long as you like it!" I said happily: "Then really move away, put it on the class first, if one day, you want it, I will pay you back." So, full of joy, he took the pot and flowers away, and found another companion for the keel in the class.
Every flower and grass is life, and a pot and a can are always related. The green plants in the class, raised on the windowsill, see you every day, sit for a long time, stand up, admire it, watch the changes day by day, grow up little by little... They seem to be very sensible, and with a little care from me, they give me the most beautiful scenery. I can't remember how many times I stayed up late overtime, and I had you with me; I can't forget the joy of meditating and pondering, worrying about it, changing drafts several times, and finally completing the manuscript, I have you to share; Looking forward to tasting the sweet, sour, bitter and salty on the road of life in the future, with you by my side...
Winter to spring, summer to autumn, all year round, cycle after cycle... These lovely greenery, in my life journey, never abandoned, bring me a different experience and joy.
It's nice to have you with you!
(As at night of March 22, 2022)
