Chapter 21 Chapter 20 A Trick of the Imagination

Spring has come to Green Gaybrutz again, which is unique and beautiful in Canada.Seasons change. From April to May, people enjoy the fragrance of the soil, breathe the fresh air with a bit of chill, and yearn for the sky dyed pink by the sunset. The earth rejuvenates and everything recovers. In "Lover's Path", the new buds of the maple trees are just turning red. Around the "Druyard Spring", the ferns also sprouted cute little green heads like curly hair.The fields behind Silas Sloane's farm, white.The pink star-shaped hawthorn flowers showed smiling faces from under the tea-colored leaves almost at the same time.

One afternoon, the sky was golden yellow.The students in the school all went to pick the bougainvillea and play, and it was not until dusk that everyone came back laughing with the bougainvillea in their hands and baskets. "How pitiful it would be for a person to grow up in a country without mountain plants," Annie said. "Diana said that there might be something more beautiful and better, but she didn't think that Sanzhihua was so beautiful. Marilla, Diana also said that if she didn't know what Sanzhi was like, she wouldn't feel any regrets I think, what is sorrow, this is the greatest sorrow. I don’t even know what Shanzhi is, and I haven’t seen it, so I don’t feel sorry? Isn’t this a tragedy? Marilla.

"Marilla, let me tell you, what do you think I took the mountain plant flower? I took it for the soul of the flower that withered last summer, and there is heaven. "I had a great time today. There was a mossy depression near the old well where we had lunch and it was a very romantic place. Charlie Sloan challenged Artie Gillies to jump the old Well, it turned out that Artie Gillis jumped over. Now that you accept the challenge, you have to fulfill it. Everyone is like this. Now this kind of 'challenge game' is popular. "Ms. Phillips gave Prissy Andrews all the wild flowers she picked. I heard the teacher say, 'Lovely things should be given to lovely people'. Although this is what the teacher quoted from the book, but I think this proves that the teacher has imagination. Someone also gave me a bouquet of mountain plants, but I refused to accept it with a straight face. I can’t say who he is, and I can’t say his name. I have already sworn up.

"We made flower crowns out of mountain flowers and decorated them on our hats. When we came home, everyone took bouquets and flower crowns. Two people stood in a row and sang "My Home is on the Hill" and walked towards the street. That scene It's exciting. People from Silas Sloane Mountain are running out to watch, and passers-by are stopping to stare at us, hey! We're making a big splash." "Of course there's going to be a sensation when you do something as stupid as that!" said Marilla. After the mountain plant flowers bloomed, the purple flowers bloomed again. "Purple Flower Diding Yuan" has been dyed purple.When Anne passed by here to school, she always looked at it with reverent eyes, and walked past here with pious steps.

"I don't know why, as long as I pass by here, I have a feeling that I don't care even if Gilbert or someone else wins the first place." Anne said to Diana. "But as soon as I arrive at school, I will fall into the distress of being competitive again. I seem to have multiple personalities, so sometimes I think, is it because of this that I always cause trouble? If Anne only has one personality, she should have That's great, but it wouldn't make much sense if that were the case." One evening in June, Anne was sitting by the window of the East Wing.Orchards are hidden among pink flowers. In the swamp upstream of "Bibo Lake", the crisp calls of frogs echoed in the night sky.Surrounded by rich aromas of alfalfa and fir.Annie did her homework first, and later, when it got dark and couldn't read, she stared absently at the blurred branch of "Snow White Queen", while falling into fantasy, as if "Snow White Queen"

The branches grew heavy and huge flowers again. The east wing room has not changed much from before, the walls are still white, the needle bag is as hard as before, and the yellow chairs stand as usual, but the atmosphere of the room is different from before, making people feel that there is something A vibrant new personality permeates every corner of the room.It was completely different from the atmosphere created by the schoolgirls' books, skirts, and ribbons, and it had nothing to do with the blue vase with apple blossoms on the table.This room is full of the little master's lively day and night dreams. Although you can't touch it with your hands, you can feel its existence with your eyes.It adorns an otherwise haunted room with soft moonlight and rainbow tapestry.

After a while, Marilla walked in quickly with Annie's school apron just ironed in her hand. She put the apron on the back of the chair and sat down with a slight sigh.This afternoon, Marilla had another headache, and when the pain stopped, she was exhausted and, as she said, completely collapsed. Annie looked at Marilla sympathetically and said, "I wish I could take your headache instead. I think so from the bottom of my heart. I will suffer for you." "It's not that you left all the housework to me and didn't let me rest. Your life is not going well today, and there are too many mistakes in peacetime. You didn't even wash Marshall's handkerchief, and the pie for dinner was in the oven. When it was hot in the oven, it was scorched and didn’t take it out, usually it was taken out and brought to the dining table, I think what you did today seems wrong.”

After her headache was over, Marilla was always fond of taunting and making fun of Anne. "Ah, I'm so sorry," said Annie, seemingly guiltily. "After I put the pie in the oven, I forgot about it until you reminded me, which is why I felt like something was missing at dinner. "When you left me with the housework this morning, I was determined to do it right, to stop thinking about it, and everything was fine until I put the pie in the oven, but then I finally couldn't resist the temptation to fantasize about it again." The story of a handsome knight on a black horse who rescued me, a princess from a tower, forgot all about pie baking.

"I don't remember a thing about washing Marshall's handkerchiefs. While ironing, I was thinking of what to name the new island. Diana and I found it just up the creek. There are two maple trees growing on the island, and the small river splits into two branches and flows slowly on both sides of the island. I thought about it for a long time before I came up with it. Let's call it 'Victoria Island', isn't it nice? We are in the Queen's[Note ] Diana and I who discovered the island on Her Majesty's birthday, swore an oath of loyalty to Her Majesty the Queen.

"It's my fault about the pie and the handkerchief. Today is a day to remember, so I want to be a good boy. What happened to this day last year, Marilla, do you remember?" "Didn't think there was anything special about it." "Isn't today the anniversary of my coming to Green Gybrutz? I will never forget it! For me, it was a turning point in my life, but for you it is certainly not that important. I have been here for a long time. It’s been ten years, and I feel very happy, yes, although I have suffered a lot, I will forget all the hard work after a while. Marilla, do you regret adopting me?”

"No, I don't regret it," Marilla replied very simply.Frankly speaking, when Anne was not here, even Marilla wondered how she managed to spend her days at that time. "Yes, I don't regret it at all, Anne, and when the homework is over, won't you go to Mrs. Barry's and borrow the pattern for Diana's apron?" "But...but..., it's already dark!" Annie seemed unwilling to go. "It's dark? Isn't this the dusk? Besides, didn't you always go out after it was dark?" "I'll get up early tomorrow morning, Marilla," said Anne, leaning forward. "I'll be up as soon as it's light tomorrow, and I'll be going at once, Marilla." "What the hell are you thinking, Anne? I've got to use it to-night, and cut you a new apron, and now you go at once, quick!" "Then I'll have to walk around the street." Anne said dawdly as she picked up her hat. "Walking around the street? Are you going to waste thirty minutes? What's the matter with you today?" "I can't go through the 'ghost forest'!" Anne yelled hysterically. Marilla looked at Annie in surprise: "What's the 'ghost forest'? Are you out of your mind? What's going on in the 'ghost forest'?" "'Ghost Forest' is the needle fir forest beyond the creek," Anne whispered. "Nonsense! There's no such thing as a 'ghost forest', where did you hear about it?" "I didn't hear that," Annie confessed. “It was just a random thing Diane and I imagined. We thought it was funny to imagine a devil in the woods, and we’ve been imagining it since April. "The name 'Spirit Forest' is very romantic, isn't it? The needle fir forest is named so because it is quite dark, and it conjures up a horrible and miserable scene. I imagine a woman in white appearing on the other side of the creek, Going away, crying heartbreakingly, she will appear there when someone dies. Then, near Edelveld, the ghost of the child who was killed appeared again, quietly from behind. Stretch out cold fingertips to the hands of passers-by. Ah! Marilla, just thinking about it makes me shudder. There is also a headless man wandering the path, and the skeletons among the dead trees stare. squinting. "Ah! Marilla, as soon as the sun goes down, who knows what will happen in the 'Ghost Forest'? I dare not go. The woman in white will surely reach out and grab me from behind the tree." After Annie finished speaking, Marilla was also frightened, with her mouth open and motionless. "You are such a rare child! Didn't you say, Anne, that you would never believe your foolish fancies?" "I didn't say the letter," stammered Anne. "I don't believe this during the day, but it feels different when it gets dark. Darkness is when ghosts come out." "What ghosts don't exist, Annie." "What, there is, Marilla," said Anne, straightening up. "People who have seen ghosts are honest people. Charlie Sloan's grandma said that one night a year after Grandpa Charlie's death, she saw him driving the cows. I heard Charlie say Yes, Grandma Charlie doesn't tell lies, does she? She's a devout Christian. "And Aunt Thomas' father, who was chased home one night by a sheep covered in flames. It is said that the head of the sheep was only attached to a layer of skin and hung down. The sheep was the spirit of his brother. Come and tell him he's going to die in nine days, and though he didn't die in nine days, he died in two years. So it's true, and Ruby Gillies..." "Annie, I won't forgive you if you bring this up again," Marilla interrupted forcefully. "I used to doubt your imagination, but now you have become suspicious. I can't leave you alone. Now you go to Mrs. Barry's house right now, and you have to pass through the needle fir forest. I think that's right. You will be a useful lesson. Also, if you talk about 'ghost forest' again, I will never forgive you." It was useless to let Anne cry and plead for mercy at this time.Annie wasn't lying when she said she was terrified of the Needlewood, her imagination was too rich.The needle fir forest after sunset was a place more frightening than hell for Annie, but Marilla didn't seem to sympathize with her. She pulled Annie, who was scared into a ball by the "ghost", to the spring, The order said: "Cross the bridge quickly and go to the forest where there are crying women and headless dead souls." "No! Marilla, this... this is too much." Anne sobbed. "What if I was really captured by the woman in white?" "You'll have to try your luck," said Marilla mercilessly. "What I said is always serious, do you understand? What ghosts are purely created by your wild imagination. This time, I will let you taste the pain of wild imagination. Go forward, go!" Annie had no choice but to bite the bullet and staggered across the bridge with both feet, trembling and walking towards the path full of terror ahead. Annie regretted her imagination from the bottom of her heart. She felt as if there were ghosts and ghosts hiding everywhere in the dark, and they all stretched out cold, bony hands to grab herself who was trembling with fear.Although it is Anne who created the so-called ghosts and monsters, when she saw the birch bark flying up from the depression along the wind, Anne was so frightened that her heart seemed to stop beating. up.The ancient trees rubbed against each other, making a moan-like cry, and cold sweat broke out on Annie's forehead.In the darkness, bats were flying overhead, and the sound of whizzing by was eerie. Anne approached the field of William Bell's house with trepidation. At this moment, she felt as if she was being chased by groups of monsters in white clothes. She ran desperately, and when she reached the door of Barry's kitchen, she was already exhausted. Out of breath, she panted heavily and asked to borrow the apron pattern. Unfortunately, Diana was not at home at this time, so she had no excuse to grind here, so she had to go down that horrible path. Anne ran forward with her eyes closed, thinking that if she really encountered a white-clothed demon, she rushed straight ahead. Hit the tree, hit your head and break your blood.She struggled and scrambled across the bridge, only then did a stone fall to the ground, and finally let out a sigh of relief trembling. "You don't seem to be caught by the monster!" Marilla was still deliberately teasing her. "Ah! Marilla," said Annie, who was so frightened that her teeth chattered and rattled, "From now on, I don't dare to think about it. I'm satisfied if I can live in the ordinary world."