Chapter 6 Section VI

The first typhoon of the year hit, just on Sunday. I was still worried about changing classrooms, and the thunder outside the window startled me. Outside the window, there was heavy wind and rain and dark clouds, and suddenly a flash of lightning flashed in my heart: Acacia tree at the school gate! There is an acacia tree near the school gate, and it is said that acacia beans will drop occasionally. Many students bow their heads before entering school, not because they are humble about knowledge, It's to find out if there are any dropped acacia beans. It's a pity that there are always people coming and going at the school gate. In addition to the students coming in and out, there are also nearby residents.

If there were acacia beans on the ground, they would have been picked up long ago. I haven't heard of any classmate picking up this legendary lovesickness bean. But it’s different now, the typhoon is on a Sunday, and no one will go to pick up acacia beans. And the storm outside should knock down some Acacia Beans, right? I immediately picked up the umbrella, rushed out of the house, and staggered under the acacia tree at the school gate in the wind and rain. Although it was around two o'clock in the afternoon, the surrounding area was so dark that it was impossible to see clearly.

I was too impatient just now, I should have brought a flashlight. I was groping on the ground, and there was a mess under the tree, red and broken green and branches. More than half an hour passed, and the umbrella bloomed early, and I was soaked all over. Finally, I found a half-open pod in the fallen leaves, and when I opened it, there were two beans. One is completely red, and the other has a little green. I was so proud that I couldn't help laughing, and I didn't care about the rain in my throat, because there was no one around anyway. I wrapped these two acacia beans and took them to school on Monday morning.

I was happy going to school, giggling as I walked, and even when I was waiting at a red light. Although this thing is nothing special, it is said that girls like this kind of ethereal thing. "Hey, here's something for you. I picked it up under the acacia tree at the school gate yesterday." "It's acacia beans, thank you. Let me tell you, I have an acacia bean bracelet, which I bought in Kenting. The beans are full and thick heart-shaped, bright red in color, and the inner circle of the beans has a heart-shaped curve. It can be said that there are two hearts inside and outside, and a heart-to-heart bond.People say that acacia beans are hard in texture and red in color.

Timeless, it is a symbol of eternal love. " Judging by the tone of her words, she should be very excited, but I don't feel excited at all. She already has a shiny acacia bean bracelet, and I even gave her a dark red, Another acacia bean that is not yet fully ripe. Stupid, really stupid.I hit myself on the head hard. "Your acacia bean bracelet must be beautiful." "No matter how beautiful it is, it can't compare to the two lovesickness beans you gave me." "You don't need to comfort me." "Consolation? Why do you say that?" "It's okay. Let's stop this topic here."

"Hey, I remembered a poem. I asked with a smile where the orchids grow, but the orchids are hard to navigate. Competing to plant flowers on the temples, don't be sympathetic as gifts with clay hands. " "My aptitude is blunt and I don't understand." "Most people will buy beautiful orchids in flower shops, and put them affectionately on girls' temples. But some fools will walk the rugged mountain road to pick orchids, so their hands are covered with mud. Because I was afraid that my hands would get dirty, I didn't dare to put flowers on the girl's hair on the temples, so I could only use a cloth covered with flowers.

Sludge hands offer orchids.You even went to the school gate to pick up these two for me during the typhoon. Beans, although beans are not beautiful, but what is valuable is not the beans, but your "clay hands". I'm very moved, really.Also, you're not wet, are you? " I should have blushed when I read these words. So I pretended nothing happened and wrote: "I just had nothing to do during the typhoon. When I walked to the school gate, I saw two lovesickness beans on the ground. That's all.It's not too wet, so don't worry about it. " "I will keep these two acacia beans well. By the way, the beans from the acacia tree are not called acacia beans.

Acacia beans are beans from peacock trees.So acacia beans are also called peacocks. " "The beans borne by the peacock tree are called acacia beans. What are the beans borne by the acacia tree called?" "Stupid, of course it's called peacock bean. It's called Yi Zi and it's called (Jiao)." "I see." "You'll believe me when I say it casually. I don't know what the beans from the acacia tree are called." It doesn't matter what the beans produced by the acacia tree are called, the important thing is that I picked up two acacia beans and gave them to her.

And she likes it. I don't know why I have the urge to go to pick up acacia beans in typhoon days; I didn't know that the tree at the gate of the school was not called the acacia tree, but the peacock tree. I just know that she is really happy, and I am happy because she is happy. This kind of happiness is happier than a hundred points in the math test. I believe she will cherish those two acacia beans, because she said she would. She also said that acacia beans are a symbol of eternal love, but she and I are just 17-year-old high school students, "Eternity" is too far away from us; "love" is too strange to us.

I can't help but feel curious, is it friendship between me and her?or love? And, will it last forever? "Tomorrow is the final exam. Guess what I played for you last night? It's an Irish folk song, "Dannyboy." Oh Dannyboy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glentoglen, and down the mountain side The summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying 'Tisyou,'tisyoumustgoandImustbide..." Oh Danny boy, the flute is calling. Through the valley, to the other side of the mountain. Summer is gone and the flowers are withered. You have to go and I can only wait.

She took the final exam a day earlier than me, which surprised me a little; But what surprised me even more was that she once said not to play sad tunes for me, And "Dannyboy" sounds like a sad song to me. The melody of "Dannyboy" is melodious and poignant, if you listen carefully in the silent night, It is easy to be moved by the lyrics, and even have the urge to shed tears. Do I have a different understanding of this song than her? Although I am puzzled, although I feel faintly uneasy, the final exam is too important for students. So all my thoughts are still on the final exam, and I think she should be the same. So I wrote on the note: "I only start the final exam tomorrow, one day later than you. Let's all work hard." Yet come back when you come to the steppes in summer, Or come back when the valley is silent and gray with snow. Whether in the sun or in the shadows, I'll be here for you. Oh Danny boy, how I love you. "After the final exam, you will be promoted to the third year of high school. As you said, you are about to enter hell the lowest level.But I still want to remind you, don't let textbooks and reference books fill up your heart. Take some space for yourself. " As long as he thinks that he will be promoted to the third year of high school, his whole body will feel blood rushing. Once in the third year of high school, I think I must be in a state of mental tension anytime, anywhere. But I have to pass the final exam first, so I have no time to think about anything else. After thinking for a while, I wrote: "Well. I will try my best. If I talk about the entrance exam, please persuade me." If you come back, all the flowers are withered. And I have died, perhaps peacefully. You will come and find my resting place. Kneel down and say goodbye to me. "It might offend you to say it, but I want to say it anyway. In my heart, you're like Shines like a diamond, but me, a remedial student, is like rust.So you have to work hard, in the future It will definitely be a gold medal title. " She used Joan Baez's "Diamonds and Rust" as an analogy. After listening to the story of this song, I can't help but feel blushing and heartbeating. In my 17 years of innocence, never has my heart beat faster than it is now, But the heart is very soft feeling. "Don't underestimate yourself, don't compare yourself to rust. You know? Actually, in my heart, You are also like a diamond, and you have more carats than me. " I will listen, even if you just step on me very softly. If you haven't forgotten to whisper to me that you love me, All my dreams will be warmer and sweeter. Then I will rest in peace until you come to me. "Maybe one day in the future, you suddenly have a whim and want to see what you wrote in high school. So I photocopied a copy of the note we wrote during this time for you. " On the last day of the final exam, the note in the drawer said so. And there is a stack of papers under the note, about 40 sheets. When I picked up the stack of papers, the first thing I saw was the blank space in the upper left corner of the first sheet. she wrote: "The Buddha said that you looked back five hundred times in the previous life, only to pass by in this life. I believe that we must have looked back more than five hundred times in our previous lives. So I don't want to say goodbye to you, and I don't want to make an appointment with you. Someday in the future, we will definitely meet again. " She probably forgot that we have never met, and there is no need for "again". And we don't know each other's name, even if we meet or even have a relationship in the future, But as long as we don't mention the past of the note, Who knows who is who? The mathematical formulas I had memorized by heart suddenly became blurred. I didn't have time to look carefully, so I immediately took out a blank sheet of paper from my schoolbag, and wrote down on it: "can I see you?" The font is three times larger than usual. The bell rang, and the exam was about to start, but I was still sitting there. The classmate sitting next to me shook my shoulders and reminded me to take my schoolbag to the corridor outside. I stood up, felt my legs were a little weak, and sat down slumped again. At that moment, I felt that the final exam was not important or meaningful at all. When I go home after the exam, I should be able to breathe a little bit, because tomorrow is a holiday. But I couldn't catch my breath, and my breathing became more rapid. I played Dannyboy in the background all night, like a maniac. I looked carefully at the 40 pieces of paper that had photocopied the conversations between me and her, and I was so excited that I never calmed down. Seeing the blacked-out part, which was a pretense of "in case we didn't meet", I started to regret it. It's not just in case at all, as long as you don't grasp it, everything will leave. Although it was already a holiday, and although I knew the chances were slim, I still ran into the classroom the next morning. There was no one in the classroom, so I walked to my seat and sat down slowly, looking down, On the note in the drawer, there was only "Can I see you?", without her handwriting. I took out my pen and kept writing on the paper: "Can I see you?" Over and over again, write anywhere on the slip of paper. After the note was filled with almost invisible blank spaces, I stopped writing and looked at the note quietly. I suddenly felt that the whole world was floating and shaking. Then a strong sadness welled up from the bottom of my heart, which was so endless that it almost overwhelmed me. I thought, I should cry. ※Note: There are too many singing versions of "DannyBoy", and the lyrics are not the same. Attached is the singing version of the little boy DeclanGalbraith.