Chapter 21 autumn leaves waiting for spring

It was late autumn last year, and the north wind blew overnight. I went to check the small courtyard outside the country study, and the ground was full of fallen leaves and dead branches.Four seasons reincarnate, autumn comes and leaves fall, there is nothing to blame, and there is nothing to regret.I swept the leaves with a broom, and the small courtyard seemed to me like a revised article, gradually refreshing.After dealing with the fallen leaves, I walked slowly in the small courtyard and observed carefully, and found that there was still an autumn leaf on the lower branch of the purple magnolia.According to the experience of previous years, compared with other trees in the small courtyard - walnuts, cherries, and cloves, the number of leaves of magnolia tree is small, but the leaves are larger and thicker. , often, the leaves on the other trees have not yet fallen, but the magnolia branches are completely naked.Although I was slightly shocked by the observation that day, I was also shocked afterwards.

just forget. After returning to the city, I was busy with secular affairs, and was invited to go to Australia, and then went to the country study, it was already the middle of winter.It’s midsummer in Australia at this time, and there are green trees and flowers everywhere. When I suddenly returned to this small country courtyard in Beijing, it was an authentic winter scene. Hengxie, this earth is really wonderful, and air travel is so convenient... Just thinking about it, suddenly, I saw the autumn leaf on the magnolia tree, and I was still quietly guarding the dead branch, and then I looked around at other trees, and there was no leaf left. !Therefore, when staring at the piece of magnolia leaf, it seems that in an article that needs to be revised, there is an eye-catching word. Is it a tumor that hinders the style, or a wonderful pen that refreshes the mind?

Throughout the winter, when I arrived at the small courtyard, I was going to observe—later not only to observe, but to appreciate, and even inquire about that leaf.As an autumn leaf, it maintains its fresh vitality for a long time.At first, although it changed color, from dark green to dark red, it still had a waxy glow.Later, its edges curled up a bit, but Ye Xin was still bright.At the end of the twelfth lunar month of the Year of the Horse, the branches of Magnolia quietly swell, which is the initial stage of the buds that are slowly gestating.After the Spring Festival of the Year of the Goat, the earth is slightly heated, and the buds of magnolias are like small script brushes in sheaths.That day, the earliest ray of spring air passed by like a gossamer. I was stretching my limbs in the small courtyard, and when I saw the autumn leaves on the magnolia tree, I finally called a curtain call, with an extremely beautiful rotating curve, It curled up and fell to the ground.This surprised me again.For a long time, I got used to its not falling, thinking that it was greedy for the enjoyment of life, and I tried my best to resist the laws of nature.During the few seconds it was falling, I felt that the growing buds on the tree, at least a few, seemed to vibrate with emotion.Ah, the buds are singing a carol of gratitude for the late autumn leaves.It was an autumn leaf waiting for spring.Although it has long been unable to photosynthesize nutrients for trees, and cannot actually contribute to the new generation of flowers and leaves, its spirit of watching the spring for the birth of a new round of life is like a strong light, illuminating the new generation. Huaxinye's future!

Every time I go back to the city in the early morning, I always like to book a taxi for Xiaoxie in the village.Today is no exception.On the way into the city, our father and I always talked happily.There are still a few households that drive taxis in the village, but they are all renters and drivers, or a couple, or two brothers, rent a car together, and only need to pay a sum of "car share", and they can travel day and night. There are credits.Xiao Xie's lover is weak and can't drive a car, so he drives alone.The village is about 30 kilometers away from the city. The process of entering the city in the early morning is often empty driving. When luck is good at night, there are people on the way who can solicit customers and go home, but most of them have to return empty driving.In such a situation, compared with the method of driving a car with two people, it is naturally much more difficult, but the income is half that of others.Xiao Xie has passed his forties. He originally worked in the maintenance department of a real estate company in a real estate developed near the village. With a monthly salary of 1,000 yuan, it is not too difficult to support his family. To train two daughters into college students.Of course there is a middle school in the town, but the chances of graduates being admitted to a university are extremely low, and there is still no breakthrough in the case of being admitted to a good university.Xiaoxie's eldest daughter and youngest daughter are both admitted to a well-known 12-year boarding school in the district. One goes to the second year of junior high school and the other goes to the first year of senior high school.It was not easy for his daughter to pass the exam, but it was even more difficult for a villager like him to be able to pay all the fees for his daughter.According to him, it costs at least 30,000 yuan a year for his two daughters to attend such a school.He now goes to the city to do work every day, an average of about 14 hours.When he came home late at night, his wife always brought hot food and rice from the stove to the table immediately, and then put a pot of hot water under his feet, waiting for him to eat and scald his feet.He has 365 days, only five days off from the car, four of which are to go to school for parent-teacher meetings, and one day is the first day of the Lunar New Year to reunite with his family at home.Once I chartered his car to go to Peking University to hold a seminar on novels by Sister Zongpu. After leaving the venue, I saw only his car, and I hadn’t seen anyone for a long time. It turned out that he was entering Peking University for the first time, and I couldn’t help it. After looking around and driving me home, his eyes seemed to be fully charged, and he said repeatedly: "I want them to pass the exam! I'm going to fight for another 10 years! Don't ask me if I'm tired anymore. , I’m worth it for them! It’s worth it!” I asked him to send me back to the city, and the topic was naturally his two daughters. He said he would support them until they finished their master’s degree. Once he was paid, he would have completed his task at that time. He wanted to tell the two sisters that they should take a good rest and visit scenic spots with their mother... Because he was too familiar with him, he would talk freely , I blurted out and asked: "What if one of them can't get into college?" He said confidently: "There won't be such a thing." "Moments", most of the other students wrote about their emotions when they left home, but she wrote about the feelings of witnessing her father driving out of the house early in the morning to work in the city during the holidays. The teacher gave full marks and recommended it to a magazine for publication.As for the eldest daughter, she called home early in the morning and had a string of conversations with her mother. Her mother asked her to talk to her father. The phone was in shared listening mode, but she suddenly fell silent. Her mother asked what was wrong?He also thought that the phone was broken, but he understood that when his daughter heard his voice, thinking that it was he who had worked so hard to provide for the two sisters to go to such a good school, she couldn't help crying, and was speechless for a while. ... When Xiao Xie told me about these trivial matters, tears flickered in the corners of his eyes, so I stopped talking.Ordinarily, Xiao Xie should be compared to a strong tree trunk or green and thick leaves, and the pair of little sisters who know how to work hard should be compared to purple magnolia flowers that are about to be released. It was at this time that I escaped from the general logic and entered a more complex and rich realm. It was at this time that I thought of the autumn leaves waiting for spring on the magnolia tree in the small courtyard, and the leaves that had not yet emerged from the sheath when the leaves finally fell slowly. But the slight trembling of the inflated buds...

The song "Go Home and Have a Look" has been popular for a long time and has been sung repeatedly.Reminding the younger generation to comfort the lonely old man in time has even become a frequent routine in TV commercials.It is not a pity that the leaves fall when they should fall, but it is only a case that the leaves do not fall when autumn leaves wait for spring.Upbringing and support should be a beautiful cycle of life.In fact, the most important kindness we receive from our parents is often not when they are old, but during the most precious period of their lives.It is old and has no practical value, but a piece of magnolia autumn leaf waits for spring bitterly, and it is not released until the eve of a new round of bud expansion. This tragic and elegant case inspires us to appreciate it more deeply. Parents all over the world.We may all be able to "pity the world's (acting) parents' hearts", and we must also be able to "poor

Do you feel pity for the world's (unable to act) parental heart"? Human beings, how many such details and cases are there on the land you inhabit, which are worthy of your closeness with your heart...