Please be kind to those fruits
Text/Zhang Chunyan
Green plants are planted, lawn inlay, low plot ratio, large leisure space... These constitute the basic characteristics of my community. Walk in the community every evening, listen to the wind singing, watch the birds flying, admire the flowers and smile, and smell the fragrance of grass. Pleasure and satisfaction, like patches of grass, sneak up on the inner lawn.
Among the many green plants in the community, there are also some fruit trees. The main ones are red leaf plum, bayberry and grapefruit. The first two mature almost in late May each year. Because of differences in light and nutrients, the fruit with dense turns on the branches has a significantly different ripening period. Some are close to maturity and are pale purplish-red; Some are half bruised and half purple; Some look very green. At this time, there are parents in the community who take their children to climb, some specially bring plastic bags, plastic basins, they divide the work, some climb the branches to pick, first choose the large, purple, then choose the light red, some people below, put into bags or basins to take home.
Although I was worried that adults and children who were unwilling to get hurt if they didn't pick the fruit, I didn't see anyone who was obviously injured. But the scars on the trees can be seen everywhere: dozens of branches of the red leaf plum have been broken, and this originally vigorous plant with no leaves in all seasons has been pulled weakly by the torn branches, and the leaves have fallen all over the ground. The fate of the bayberry tree is even worse, because it has fewer trees, the fruit is more edible, and the people who pick the fruit are more enthusiastic and motivated. When the fruits were about to ripen, their pickers rushed up, and several trunks were broken abruptly. It may take a year or more for them to regain their vitality, return to their original shape, and have their previous posture.
Looking at their loose and weak appearance after injury, it feels like most of them can't go back, especially in certain states and certain moods, which can never go back.
Those who pick the fruit, the way they look at the fruit, their relationship with the fruit of the community, can they go back to the past, to the time when they admired it from afar? Some of the fruits they picked back were inedible, and these still sour fruits were originally in the wind and under the sun, writing about their growth experience and their ripe yearning. A pair of hands reached out to them, abruptly stopped their writing, and then threw away all their joys and vitality, hopes and dreams.
Our community is a new development area in urban planning. In order to attract more people to buy houses here, schools, hospitals and business districts have been built in this area. The school is a high-quality primary school and a high-quality junior high school under the city's leading education group. Many people in the community come here to buy houses for these two schools. They have high hopes that their children can go to good schools and win at the starting line. In their hearts, children are freshly grown, green fruits, and they look forward to the fruits they carefully cultivated can grow up and mature in a good environment, under the love and care of teachers and parents, and the whole society, full and full, beautiful and sweet, and endearing.
All fruits deserve to be appreciated; All fruits deserve to be cherished. Please be kind to all the fruits around you!
(The author is a member of Chongqing Writers Association)
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Editor: Zhu Yangxia
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