Chapter 11 Centennial smiling

In a courtyard in the countryside, an old man took me to see a century-old Michelia flower, saying that it was planted by his father himself. The century-old Michelia tall made me very surprised, because the Michelia flowers we usually see are only a few feet high, but the century-old Michelia flowers are two or three feet high. What's even more amazing is that the tall Michelia tree blooms densely and densely, and the fragrance is as strong as a perfume factory. The ground within a few feet is covered with white Michelia petals. I think of the few Michelia trees planted at home when I was a child. When they are in full bloom, I like to pick some and put them in pencil cases, schoolbags, and pockets, and they will smell fragrant wherever I go.The fragrance of Michelia flowers has a penetrating power. Sometimes after spring has passed for a long time, after all the smiles are gone, the fragrance of Michelia flowers in spring still remains on the pencil, which makes me feel happy when I write.

When I was in a trance, I heard the old man say: "This hundred-year-old Michelia blooms with the same fragrance as when it first bloomed. If I can be like it, I can return to the dust with a smile on my face after a hundred years, that would be great!" I said, "Abozai, there's nothing wrong with it, you can definitely go home with a smile on your face." The old man smiled, smiling like a smiling flower, so white, pure, and exuding fragrance. "No matter what the course of life turns out to be, we should smile and open up every day, so that the fragrance will flutter!" ——Looking at the old man's smile, I thought in my heart.