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Chapter 80 news of spring

Sitting at the desk and looking out, there are only long and rectangular dormitory buildings around me outside the window, and there is no tree between the buildings!On the large open space in front of the window, many long, rusted steel bars have been piled up over the years-this is for the construction of several new dormitory buildings nearby-it is really desolate and silent.I couldn't see any color from outside, so I had to "create" some color in the house.I hung green curtains in the main room, spread green tablecloths, and placed some poinsettias and cyclamen gifts from friends on the window sills, as well as spider plants grown by the children themselves.Serve a bottle of roses, chrysanthemums, carnations or Ten Sisters in front of the prime minister's oil painting on the wall.It was sent by the Northern Rose Company every week according to the season at my request.On the windowsill next to my desk is a pot of Clivia that hasn't bloomed yet given by a friend.Sometimes a bottle of roses is also placed.This trace of greenery, or spring, is "comfort is better than nothing".

I think of the open space in front of my window, where the steel bars were piled up in the past. Every spring, very green grass will always grow from the gaps in the steel bars.When the summer rain comes, it grows up and spreads around the steel bar.That exuberant vitality cannot be suppressed even by steel.Now, these steel rods have been removed, and I heard that the open space in front of our building will be planted with flowers and plants.In the cold spring, my expectations are as indifferent as the cold spring. A few days ago, bursts of noise and laughter outside the window startled me.When I looked outside, it turned out that dozens of male and female students were tidying up the open space!Female students wear down jackets, sweaters, red and green; some male students wear green military uniforms, and some wear dark clothes.They carried all kinds of tools, those who hoeed the soil, those who shoveled the soil, and those who placed the short rails placed small iron railings on the edge of the field.It seems that this large piece of land in front of our building will be turned into a park full of green grass and flowers by these young people... It is a slightly cloudy sky outside the window, and these young people are still busy working .Today the heating stopped, I took off my sweater and put on a cotton jacket, but my heart was warm because I got the news of spring!March 16, 1987 Gaozhi Building, Central University for Nationalities

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