Chapter 109 only one cherry

Last year, I planted a cherry tree outside the window of my study in the country. In the early spring of this year, some reddish-white flowers bloomed. I went back to the city for many days. When I went there in mid-spring, the first thing I did was to see if the cherries had grown.I leaned closer and inspected it carefully for a while, before I found a green fruit the size of a pea in the axil of the branch, and I couldn't help being very disappointed. Although it is said that "cherries are delicious and trees are difficult to grow", the fact that only one cherry has been produced this year still makes me sad.I remember when I planted this cherry tree last year, my heart was always filled with grand and erratic thoughts.I thought of Washington chopping down cherry trees when he was a child. After being admonished, he worked hard to build his career and finally became the first president of the United States.There is also Chekhov's play "The Cherry Orchard", in which young people bid farewell to their musty old life to the clang of felling cherry trees.It may be a sentence from Song Dynasty Jiang Jie: "Nianguang is used to throwing people away, the cherries are red, and the plantains are green." Cherries have become the standard symbol of the passing of spring.There is also Qi Baishi's painting, which is a plate of fresh cherries.Since ancient times, women's "cherry mouth" has been regarded as beautiful in China. I can't remember who said it in the Qing Dynasty: "People in the alley throw fruit, but the sheep cart is late." The fruit thrown is red cherry.It implies that many women are blowing kisses to a Pan An-style man.There is also the movie "Red Cherry" shot by Ye Daying a few years ago. The red cherry in the lens has become the emotional carrier of a special time and space.An Iranian director who has become popular in the international film industry in recent years also filmed "The Taste of Cherry", which raised the philosophical thinking on the issue of life and death to a new level.Cherries can really lead to very rich associations.After planting the cherry tree, I had a beautiful dream. In the dream, I rubbed my hands in admiration in front of the plump red cherries, and gave many bright red cherries to others as gifts.

Facing the only green cherry on the tree that reached my eyebrows, I had the idea of ​​all hopelessness swirl from the bottom of my heart.Is this a sign of my aging, atrophied creativity?Will this green fruit swell and ripen red after some time?I remember the sentence "the imperial garden was picked up by a bird". A bird can reduce the spring color of the royal garden by taking a cherry from the tree, and if many birds come to pick up the fruit, it can end the vitality of the entire garden.How should I guard the only cherry on this tree?If a bird came to carry it away, wouldn't I have no harvest this year?

Because my cherry tree only bore one cherry, I was so upset that I couldn't read and write peacefully in my study, I walked out of the village, across the fields, and walked a long way, and finally came to a newly developed community Next to it, there is a supermarket there, I used to ride there to buy daily necessities.Because I didn't want to buy anything, I didn't go into the supermarket that day, I just paced around it aimlessly.So I found that three new trash bins with different colors were newly set up on one side of the supermarket.Suddenly there was a voice calling me, and I took a closer look, and it was the retired cadre Lao Qiao who I usually met when I was walking by the Wenyu River.We asked each other, "What are you doing here?" I couldn't help but rush to tell about my frustration that there was only one cherry on the tree.At this time, a middle-aged man who threw garbage came, and Old Qiao went up to meet him, kindly instructing the man to throw it into the bucket according to the classification rules. Tell him the meaning of garbage sorting.Later, two more women came, and they asked why the waste batteries had to be thrown in another place?Old Joe explained the truth to them.When no one came to take out the garbage, Old Qiao said to me: "It would be great to be able to bear a cherry! I used to be full of ambitions, and I wished I could do my best to do ten thousand things, and they were all big things. And I also hope to complete the work... Now I feel that it is better to start with the smallest things, and to do them very patiently, and do not expect to have the ultimate effect. I am like a cherry The old tree, the goal I set for myself this year is this: I volunteer to do publicity and supervision work for garbage sorting and recycling in the community. If by the end of this year, the garbage sorting and recycling in the community can persist, and develop a habit of sorting and throwing The number of people getting used to it has increased, so my cherry will be red, ripe and sweet..." I was pondering, when Old Qiao patted me on the shoulder and said, "Why are you so sad? Your cherry tree is still young, as long as you Take good care of it, and the cherries will only bear more and more year after year!"

On the way back to the study, the gloom on my face must be dissipating quickly. I feel the spring sun pouring down on the lake in my heart, and the ripples of my thoughts are like roses blooming.I walked to my own cherry tree, bent down to look at the small green fruit, and wondered how I should wake up from impetuousness, start from small things, and work hard for the community I am in, even if it’s just hard work. A ruddy and bright cherry comes out...