"The Hawthorn Tree" in the forest of "Zhiqing Past"

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Hawthorn Tree in the Forest

Author: Ning Bai

At that time, it was a young age, walking through the forests of the north every day, and that place was very close to Russia. Somehow, Especially likes to hum this song. Not only me, but almost all of my companions. Later, I understood that in the melody of this Russian love song, a faint sadness fits the minds of young men and women who are thousands of miles away from home, there are sorrows, and there are also love that is germinating.

In fact, this is still an age that does not understand love. As a result, this song has become an emotional channel for us to express the confusion, sorrow and yearning in our hearts. It accompanies the daily life of our lives, and it is also accompanied by important events that happen in life.

The car pulled us to our destination at night, and we walked to the tent in green army coats in knee-deep snow. When we first lay in a tent deep in the dense forest, someone hummed "Hawthorn Tree" . Seemingly unrelated to the lyrics, he hummed vaguely, expressed in melody, and he was homesick.

Leading us in the development of the igaki farm was a Shandong man who had broken into the Kanto Region, stout, with a face full of pimples, and a ghostly and slippery speech, and we suspected that he was a fugitive. He pitied us, despised us, and mixed with jealousy of the townspeople. When we cut down a big tree, the movements were clumsy, we couldn't make it strong, and we couldn't even lift the logs that we had sawed off, and the sarcasm on his lips made people hate.

During the break, we leaned against the tree pile, and the youngest "white-faced student" hummed "Hawthorn Tree" again, and he hummed the melody of the song slowly and long, which made me hear the sadness in his heart. I leaned over and asked him softly, "What are you scolding?" He was two years younger than me, and the "fugitive" spoke in front of him without scruples, often dumping him in serious words. He didn't answer, but the singing stopped. Two eyes looked at the treetops in the distance, full of melancholy looks. I looked at the back of the "fugitive" in the sun and scolded him fiercely.

A year later, we Zhiqing of LinPi and Zhiqing of Linpi got into a fight on the train, and there were people bleeding on both sides. The train has not yet left the forest area, and when it is found that someone in the Zhiqing disturbance has been injured, he immediately asked the driver to drive the train backwards back to Linpi Station. At that time, the Zhiqing disturbance was a sensitive topic. Both groups were a little nervous. What a big deal the train is going backwards and back to where it was! I only know that the train is punctual, can make it upside down, and must be treated as a major event.

Both sides were frightened and uneasy. After a while, someone sang "Hawthorn Tree", and immediately someone sang along with it, singing fast and loud. It seems that "the train is running fast, and the lights in the carriage are brilliant", much like the situation at that time, and when the song is sung "beautiful hawthorn trees, white flowers are full of trees", this lyrical song has almost become a march. The big man who shot the fiercest, "Black Charcoal", screamed like a vent. Later, some people said that he was hiding his fear; others said that the song could actually hear the confusion in his heart.

That evening, my friend "Dr." and I were strolling along the railway line on the mountainside. In the distance, in the newly built gray-white brick house, the song of "Hawthorn Tree" was heard. He suddenly said a word to me by Mr. Lu Xun: "If you do not erupt in silence, you will perish in a deep depression." ”

I don't know why he said this at this time, but my silent and hopeless heart had a sense of excitement. As a result, the picture of listening to the "doctor" speaking of Lu Xun's quotations in the melody of "Hawthorn Tree" has been left forever. After decades of separation from him, this picture, I still keep talking to people.

A song accompanies a person's life, and this song must carry the emotions and thoughts of youth. "Hawthorn Tree" is the melody of youth in my forest. After returning to the city, it also became the reason for my insistence on traveling to Russia.

In the vast forest, we begin to face life and grow up with difficulty...

Source: Corps comrades