Red
Author: Mao Dun
Friends are very happy to see the autumn leaves.
The autumn leaves are just red maple leaves, which are very ordinary, but people here regard them as rare, so it is fashionable to see the autumn leaves. If spring is cherry blossoms, then autumn should be autumn leaves. You don't go outside, you only walk on the lively road, and you can see the "lucky" autumn leaves everywhere: in mid-October, the café is already decorated with artificial maple trees, the waitress's pink cheeks are hidden by the transparent fake autumn leaves of wax paper; the large glass window cabinet of the dim sum shop always has a two-branch artificial red leaf lying on the goose yellow or emerald green cake; if there is a "autumn sale" product over there, then the dazzling red light will make your eyes shine. "Lucky" autumn leaves Oh, you are simply the seasonal god of autumn.
On a rainy day, we were very happy to go to a scenic spot in the suburbs to see the autumn leaves.
It's not a surprising mountain, and it's not necessarily how tall it is. Clusters of red light dotted in the verdant green are all the scenery that attracts tourists. The trail is steep and rocky; on one side is a valley that flows slowly through a shallow stream; when you look down at the top of the mountain, the shallow stream is as bright as a silver belt.
The top of the hill is a flat field. Surprisingly, there is not a single maple tree, but only a small stall selling fake autumn leaves. A row of reed mat sheds divided into more than twenty small rooms, is the "elegant seat" of a certain tavern, which is almost full at this time. We also occupied one, and there were no autumn leaves to look at, just looking at the green bushes of high peaks on the opposite side.
Two drunken tourists, dancing on the mud with their arms crossed, and the other playing harmonica and whimpering sounded in a "sad" tone. Suddenly they all laughed; it was such a noise that it was deafening on our side.
There were stalls selling small pieces of white clay roasted at the edge of the ash shed, shaped like two-inch plates; tourists bought them and threw them into the sky, and the small white discs flew up in front of the verdant background, and when they could not be higher, they swept down like white swallows (because of the wind), sometimes becoming ripples, becoming arcs, and still seemed to tremble in clusters, for about half a minute, and then lost in the rich grass in the valley; and some fell in the shallow streams, then saw a silver flash - you may as well say that this is the welcome of the water.
It had been raining for a long time, and now it was getting bigger. Tourists have lost a lot of time. The square at the top of the hill (that is the center of the tour) is very silent, and only the scarlet felt lies neatly in the "private seat" under the reed shed, and the time is about three o'clock in the afternoon.
It was already raining heavily when we descended the mountain; the piles of fallen leaves on the side of the road had now been washed out in a reddish color, as if to compare with those who were still on the branches.
"Go to the top of the mountain to eat and drink, throw a small round piece of white mud, and then go back: this is called watching the autumn leaves." Whoever has ever seen the grand scene of artificial autumn leaves on the streets of the city will never expect to see the autumn leaves as such and such a thing! ”
When I picked up a few autumn leaves on the side of the road, I couldn't help but think so.
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