Chapter 57 magic loofah

This spring, the children cut the grass and dug the soil in the open space in front of the house, and opened up a small garden with a square meter.A fence was built around with bamboo poles, a magnolia tree was moved, a few roses were planted, and a few lentils and two loofahs were randomly planted under the bamboo fence.The soil is not fertile. Although a layer of river mud has been spread, it probably won't play a big role. Everyone is just playing. After a while, the loofah actually grew out, and it grew stronger and stronger day by day.This certainly increased our interest.But we didn't have high expectations either.I myself am tired from work every morning, and I often go to the small dirt hill next to the house to take a walk, stand for a while, and look at the busy traffic on the road outside the wall and the colorful flags of the Asian Games. Just a loofah.

Loofah is an ordinary plant, and I didn't expect any magic.But suddenly one day, I found that the loofah seedling had climbed out of the fence and onto the wall of the building.From now on, looking at the loofah every day, I climbed a long way upstairs than the day before; in the end, I climbed from the first floor to the second floor, and from the second floor to the third floor.It is no exaggeration to say that it grows half a foot every day.The seedlings of the loofah are only as thick as thin strings. If you don't pay attention, you won't even be able to find where its roots are.Such a thin seedling can transport so much water and nutrients overnight, supplying it to the front, making the leaves on it grow fat and green, climbing on the gray-white wall, a thick green, adding to the earthen wall. Infinite vigor and vitality.

This of course surprised me, and my interest grew enormously.Looking at the loofah every morning has become my main task, and climbing the hill has become secondary.I often stare at the thin melon seedlings and thick green melon leaves, and fall into deep thought, thinking very far, far away... A few days later, the loofah bloomed yellow flowers.In a few days, some yellow flowers will turn into small green melons.The melon grew longer and longer, and the weight of course also increased. The first small melon that grew out actually dropped the melon seedling a little, hanging straight in the air, swaying with the wind.I was really worried about it, for fear that it would not be able to withstand the weight and would fall from upstairs to the ground in its entirety.

However, it soon proved that my worries were unfounded.The melons that grew at first stopped growing, as if ordered to stop growing.Up there, on the sill outside the window of a 102-year-old lady on the third floor, two melons grew.These two melons came from behind and grew like crazy, and soon became as thick as a child's arms.These two melons may weigh five or six catties together. How can that thin seedling bear it?I'm worried again.Within a few days, the facts proved that my worries were unfounded.The two melons suddenly bent up at some point, and put their bodies on the old lady's window sill. Looking from below, they looked like two thick and curved green horns.

I don't know from which day, I suddenly discovered that under the two big melons, between the second and third floors, on the top of a thin seedling, another melon grew out, hanging there vertically.I suffered from worry again: the top of this melon can’t reach the window sill, and the bottom is empty; one day, it will grow bigger and bigger, and the two big melons on the top will fall, and they will fall to the ground together, and the fallen leaves will return to their roots. together with its roots. But this morning, I saw a miracle.As in the past, I used to look up at the melons: the smallest one at the bottom had stopped growing long ago, hanging alone in the air, as if it had no weight at all; the two big ones on the windowsill of the old lady above seemed to have grown bigger, Mighty and majestic pressed against the windowsill; the one in the middle was gone.I looked at the ground and didn't see any fallen melons.When I took a few steps back and looked up again, I saw the melon that I thought was missing, lying flat on a platform that protruded close to the wall of the building during the seismic reinforcement.This really blew my mind.How could such a melon, which was hanging vertically in the air, suddenly lie flat there?This protruding platform is impossible to go up from above or below, and no one will level the loofah.

I couldn't figure it out, and wandered under the loofah, like the ancestor Bodhidharma, meditating on the wall.I seem to think that this loofah has a mind, it can think about problems, and it can also act. It can stop the growth of melons that cannot bear the weight; The melons get a special treat, making them grow like crazy; it makes the dangling melons lie flat.If this is not the case, the phenomenon I have mentioned above cannot be explained in any way.But it would be unbelievable if that were the case.What does the loofah use to think?What does the loofah rely on to guide its actions?For thousands of years and tens of thousands of miles, no one has ever said that loofahs have thoughts.I think left and right, and the more I think, the more confused I become.I can't talk to the loofah, it's a silent miracle.The melon seedlings seem to have become a mysterious rope, and the green leaves are still thick and emerald.I stood under the loofah and fell into a dream.But the loofah seems to know it well, silently watching, it is calm and calm, as if facing Qiuyang with a smile.

October 9, 1990