Chapter 4 a snowy night story

A Snowy Night's Story Naoko Anfang (translated by An Weibang) On the snow field, the sun sinks. The far horizon changed from a vague rose color to lavender, and directly above the fir trees, a star shone.The stars blinked tremblingly, looking down at the endless white field. It was a cold night with no wind.Although new stars flashed in the sky one after another, the biggest, brightest, and most beautiful of them were the first to come out.However, no one looked up at the star, because there was not a single person or house in the field. Late at night, a truck passed a road in this field.The truck, with its gray canopy and its tire chains squeaking, ran past.

"Huh—it's so cold!" The male driver wearing a fur hat breathed out a white breath. "Go harder!" The man in the passenger seat raised his voice as if encouraging.The cigarettes were on fire, bright red. At this moment, the truck jerked and swayed, and an apple rolled out of the gray hood. The truck just ran to the distant town. On a snowy field, a red apple looks at the sky motionless.It thought: what a cold and empty place it has fallen into. At this time. "Apple." Suddenly, someone is calling.It was loud and clear, like a small silver bell. "Apple, are you really lonely?"

said the voice again. "Well, it's loneliness." After Apple answered, he thought: Who is calling himself?Suddenly, the star above the fir tree flashed in a circle, and Apple noticed it immediately, and said happily: "Hey, it's a star!" Then it called out again in a rather loud voice: "I know you!" Apple seems to have met a former acquaintance, and his mouth is about to open up with joy. "I knew you a long time ago. That was when I was still growing on my mother's tree. Well, before that, when I was still a white flower, I would look at you every night."

"Then I'm so happy!" After the star finished speaking, he went on to say: "However, there are many orchards here and there, and there are also many apple trees. Sorry, I don't know which orchard or apple tree you grew up in." "I'm not an apple in the orchard." "Well. So, where are you from?" "A house on the hill... Well, can you see it from your side? North, an old, dirty house with low eaves. In the yard of that house, there is a surprisingly beautiful apple tree, right? " Xingxing nodded. "That's the tree I grew up on. It's a good tree that doesn't exist in any farm or orchard in this area. That tree can bear a lot of sweet and beautiful apples. But what about this tree? The master, however, is astonishingly poor, and can only live on porridge every day. There is almost only one thing to wear, and there is only a little firewood to warm the room."

"It was a really hard life." "Well. There are five children and an old grandmother living in a small family. The father of the children has passed away, and the mother works far away, so she doesn't often send money. Therefore, it is better for the grandmother to start a side job by herself. It is easy for the children to eat porridge. Even so, life is too hard, and one day, I decided to sell the apple tree in the yard to a nearby orchard.” Xingxing nodded.Then, looking at the little house on the hill beyond the field.The house looked like it was about to collapse due to the weight of the packed snow.On the apple trees in the yard, the snow almost bends the branches.

"If you want to ask how the orchard owner buys apples, he sets the price according to how much he pays for one tree. That is to say, the same money is given in harvest years and non-harvest years. As for disinfecting apple trees, The people in the orchard do the bagging and boxing of the apples. However, none of the apples left on the trees belong to the orchard. The miserly owner of the orchard often tells grandma and children : ——You are not allowed to pick any apples in the yard, because the tree no longer belongs to you. The faces of the children are sad.Some children pouted, others cried.Seeing this, we say this in unison:

—Wind, wind, shake us! —Wind, wind, shake us off! Then, from the far side of the mountain, the wind blows and shakes the tree as hard as it can.The fully mature partners dropped many in a row, so we sang on the tree: ——Whose is the falling apple? ——Whose is the falling apple? Hearing the singing, the old lady came to the yard, straightened up a little, looked at the road below, and after confirming that the truck from the apple orchard did not come, she picked up the fallen apples.Then, they are quietly hidden in the kitchen, and at night, they are eaten by the children.Good apples are eaten raw, and rotten apples are boiled.The old grandma prayed while cooking, hoping that more apples would fall tomorrow.In this way, the next day, a stronger wind blows and more apples fall.

"So it is. But you never fell." "Well, because I'm not ripe enough, no matter how the wind blows, I can't fall off easily. During this period, I was picked by the people in the orchard together with other partners. Later, I was in the orchard warehouse. I slept for a long time, and I just woke up this morning. I was stuffed into a box, loaded on a truck and thought, ah, which distant town to go to, and my heart brightened. "I didn't expect it, what happened? It fell in such a place halfway! No one can eat it, and it's buried in the snow... I will freeze like this, and when the snow melts, it will rot."

"Who do you want to eat you?" "That's right. Frozen and rotten, it's a sad thing. How happy I am to be eaten by the lovely children on the hill! And I'm more happy to plant my seeds in the ground." Be happy. One day, I'll be a tree." Having said that, Apple let out a sigh.It thought nostalgically of growing up on the Hill.Then it called: "No, no, the stars." But the answer from the stars was no longer heard.Yun'er came over, and the stars disappeared.Apple thought, ah, maybe it will snow again.He looked up at the fir trees in the distance, and thought of his comrades who had been trucked away, of bright big towns he had never seen before, of applesauce bubbling over the round stove at Granny Hill's.In this way, it fell asleep in a daze without knowing it.

I had several short dreams, how long did Apple sleep for? Someone approached stepping on the frozen snow.The man came to the side of Apple and called out in a clear voice: "Apple girl, apple girl." A sound like a silver bell. Apple opened its eyes.At this time, the apple had already been picked up, picked up by white and soft hands without gloves. "Who are you? Where did you come from?" Apple asked dazzlingly.That was an overly beautiful boy. The boy's hair and eyes are blue.Moreover, the clothes he wears are the color of commelina flowers. "I am a star," said the young man, "the former star. I just came down from the sky. I really want to eat you."

"Huh?" Apple smiled, "Really? The stars can come down to pick up apples and eat them. Is there such a thing?" The boy nodded slightly, took out a knife from his pocket, and peeled the apple.The apple peel stretched long enough to reach the snow. Apple giggled. "Is it ridiculous?" "It's ridiculous. The stars can actually peel apples!" The star boy ate the peeled apple slowly.Concentrate on eating cleanly all the way to the core. In the end, five black seeds remain. The young man gently held the seed, and stuck the seed to his ear. And then... the voice of the apple came from the seed: "Star, star, take me to heaven!" The young man smiled relievedly: "Okay. This time, it would be nice to be a tree in the sky." The boy exhaled a warm breath towards the apple seed. Then he walked up. He turned toward the fir trees in the distance.No, towards the horizon beyond.And, towards the invisible stairway leading from there to the sky... No one knows what happened that night.On the endless snowy field, only the red apple peel, thinly rolled into a spiral shape, fell there. It is a blessing to have my own notebook It is really a happy thing to enter your beloved fairy tale with the beloved music Thinking that there are still many stories that are collected like treasures, From now on, you can tap out slowly, Let's share together, This is really a happy thing!