Chapter 7 Chapter 5 Caicai, Caicai

The Dongjiang River has been flowing continuously for thousands of years, year after year, the flowing water will never dry up, and the long hair will always be green.But life is so short, people die from time to time, and people are born again from time to time, the wrinkles of the old people are getting deeper and deeper, and the gray hair is getting more and more gray, and those newly born children——Caicai can see the steps of their growth. Like that girl named "Jiang Hanxiao", not long ago she was lying alone on the bamboo bed kicking her feet, but when she saw her again, she was already running on the ground.

Caicai has also grown up, and her mother takes her to school.Before going to school, her mother taught her to sing a song—— sun sky photo Flowers smiled at me. The little bird said: "Morning! Early! Early! Why are you carrying a small schoolbag?? ... From then on, she no longer ran wildly all over the village. She sat on her little stool obediently in class, and she always felt unfree. But the school is also a different world.There are more than a dozen students in the class. They play together every day. The girls who I didn’t know much before are getting familiar with them gradually. Caicai has learned the things of girls: playing seven children, jumping rubber bands, jumping on the grid, and putting colored The thread is wound around the fingertips, turning out all kinds of tricks... Caicai is no longer keen on boys' things, and gradually becomes involved with girls.There is a teacher in the school. When she goes to class, she raises her hand high and answers questions loudly. The teacher likes her. She can do every question in the exam. She always gets high marks. The teacher likes her even more.Gradually she was able to read and do math problems, and she grew taller year by year.

Time has changed her, her hair has grown long, and she is tied into a messy braid. On the surface, she is no different from other girls in Jiangcun.But time seems to have failed to smooth her innate corners. In the crowd, she is still sharp and blunt, and she always feels pain. Why can't she be as smooth and happy as other girls? Summer is here again.She likes summer best. It was fiery May, and the noon sun was the source of the fire, and the old man said the sun had killed the buffalo.People tie the buffalo's rope to the water weng tree by the river, so that the buffalo can soak in the water comfortably.But children in the country are not afraid of heat.On the scalding drying field by the river, three girls are dancing squares.The barefooted, black and strong little girl is Caicai. The other two little girls wearing embroidered shoes look two or three years older than her. Their bodies have begun to develop, and their movements seem a bit unnatural. The sun shines through them thin shirts, you can see their small green fruit-like breasts.But Caicai was still a little girl, when she had a runny nose, she would wipe her face with her sleeve and dance, her hair was messed up like a chicken coop.

After a round of jumping, Cai Cai won again.The older little girl said that she didn't want to play anymore, and she wanted to go home and do things.The three of them broke up.Caicai looked for her shoes everywhere, but she couldn't find them. It was almost two o'clock in the afternoon, so she had to go to school with bare feet. The school is very beautiful. After the kapok falls, the thick branches grow soft and soft leaves. They shake gently in the sun and smile slightly.These big trees seem to be running a long distance. In May, the kapok tree finishes its journey and hands its red torch to the phoenix tree.The two huge phoenix trees in front of the school are blooming at the moment, and when the wind blows, the petals fall like raindrops, blowing all over the head and face.Caicai was very happy, she blew her whistle, started to run, and rushed to the classroom before the second bell rang.

But Teacher Chen is already standing on the podium.Caicai had no choice but to stand at the door of the classroom and shout loudly: "Report, late!" Now it's all right, the whole class is staring at her feet. It's hard to finish class.After class, the boys gathered around and yelled at her, "Barefoot!" Cai Cai swallowed and ignored them.But the matter did not calm down because of her humiliation, and later it developed into a duet of "Black Girl-Barefoot". "Black Girl" is Cai Cai's nickname.In the class, she is the darkest and the smallest - her feet are nothing to say, but who told her to go to school without shoes?It's a shame for a girl to go to school with bare feet...

In the second class of art, Mr. Chen replaced the language book with a picture book and came to class again.It turned out that there were only two teachers in this class, and Teacher Chen also taught Chinese, nature, physical education and art.Teacher Chen took the white chalk and wanted to teach the children to draw and plant trees.I saw that he drew two people first, a boy holding a shovel, a girl carrying a bucket, and then drew a few big butterflies on the blackboard, and then drew a tree in the middle.After drawing, he asked the children to follow the pictures in their respective picture books.At this time, Jiang Ming pulled the braids of the girl in front of him with a trick, and Teacher Chen punished him to draw in front of the blackboard.

At this time, Principal Jiang came out of the window and beckoned Mr. Chen to go out, saying that the Municipal Education Bureau had come to inspect the work.When Mr. Chen returned to the class, the classroom had already turned upside down.It turned out that Jiang Ming drew six fingers for the boy and a pair of huge bare feet for the girl. On the bare feet, ten toes looked like two rows of big sausages.At this moment, he was holding a pointer, pointing to the boy on the blackboard and saying, "This one——thum, thump, thump! That's Mr. Jiang Liang!" The so-called Jiang Liang—Jiang Liang is Jiang Ming's cousin, and he has six fingers on his left hand.Then he pointed the pointer at the girl, "Hee hee, who is she?"

The whole class burst into laughter. Jiang Caicai's lungs exploded with rage, and she ran out barefoot, holding a pencil case in her hand, like an enraged wasp.Caicai is the smallest, but everyone is a little afraid of her.Jiang Ming saw her aggressive, so he ran around the desk, and Cai Cai chased her closely, and was about to catch up. The students were divided into two factions, one supported Caicai, and the other supported Jiang Ming, shouting "Come on! Come on!"Teacher Chen stood in front of the classroom door for a while, and then it slowly became quiet inside.Teacher Chen stood on the podium with a straight face. He didn't want them to draw, and the whole class was fined to copy books.

Cai Cai and Jiang Ming were punished to stand, one on the left side of the door and the other on the right side of the door. Later, school was over. Cai Cai walked down the school road in a dull manner, and stopped when she reached the foot of the phoenix tree.She stood there, looking up blankly.The leaves of the phoenix tree are as light as feathers, and the flowers of the phoenix tree are as red as a fire.What a magical tree, no wonder it is called the "Phoenix Tree". When thinking about the phoenix that Grandpa told in the story, the beautiful divine bird that was revived in the fire, she was very yearning.

Caicai was just thinking about it, she was so engrossed that she forgot to go home. After an unknown amount of time, Teacher Chen walked in from outside the school with a big-headed fish.The big-headed fish was strung by a straw, and its tail was still bouncing and swinging. "Caicai, why don't you go home? Shuida has entered your house! Your mother is looking for you everywhere." Caicai came back to her senses, agreed, and walked out, looking back while walking.Teacher Chen looked up along her line of sight, and saw a sea of ​​fiery red flowers. The phoenix flowers were crackling and burning, but the phoenix leaves were peacefully stretched, spreading out like feathers, revealing gaps, allowing people to see Wisps of blue sky.

Caicai ran all the way to the river, and the river had already reached the alley.Clusters of water lilies are moored by the red brick wall. Jiang Ming's black-skinned pig is standing by the water and gnaws on the leaves of water lilies. The flood has submerged its four legs. The black pig looks like Like swimming.Cai Cai stood there and watched hard. She thought the situation was very interesting and couldn't help laughing. "Caicai - Caicai -" Caicai heard her mother's call.With such a big water, my mother must not be able to get out, so she can only stand at the door of the house and call. Caicai walked into the deep water and plunged into it. She circled the water weng tree and swam to the front of the house.Sure enough, the water from the Dongjiang River had flooded into her house, and her father was blocking the kitchen door with a fishing net to catch fish.But the mother pointed at Jiang Xin and asked her husband to pick up things.The father ignored the mother, he finished the fishing net, put the peanuts into the shrimp cage, and then threw the shrimp cage out vigorously-he was going to put the shrimp, there must be prawns to eat tonight! "Abba!" Cai Cai shouted happily. "Caicai, where did you go? I thought you were washed away by the flood! Come back quickly! Look, your shoes are leaking out." Mother pointed to the middle of the river, and Caicai's shoes were there. It's floating leisurely. Picking up the twigs and leaves from the surface of the water, she swam to her red shoes.She was very happy to think that she would not have to go to school with bare feet tomorrow.She no longer disliked her little shoes getting in the way, right in the middle of the river, she put the shoes on her little feet, tied them tightly, and then swam back. Jiang Ming and Jiang Liang were picking fruit from the water apple tree to eat, when they saw Caicai swimming near the shore, they both picked the overripe apple fruit and threw it at her, the fruit hit Caicai on the head, "divination" broke open. "Thank you!" Caicai stuffed the fruit into her mouth, the water apple peaches in May were very fragrant and sweet. The days are getting hotter and the water is getting hotter. The sun burned from the sky to the ground like a fire, and it boiled the Dongjiang water.The river has risen, the river has risen, it has risen to the base of the litchi. When the river water rises to the base of the lychee, the lychee will mature.The fiery red cones are extremely delicious, so delicious that they can teach foreigners to forget their homesickness. Su Dongpo's lychee poems prove it: "Eat three hundred lychees a day, and never give up to be a Lingnan native." But this is a fruit cooked by the sun. The lychee fire will burn the liver, spleen and stomach, making the throat hoarse and speechless. At this moment, on both sides of the Dongjiang River, all the grass and trees grew crazy, and the aquatic plants grew taller than people, and they were so black that they scared people.Early in the morning, Nangni flew on the grass in groups. Teacher Chen said they were eating mosquitoes.Jiang Ling laughed but thought they were having a wedding. "There's a couple of nannies getting married, and they're having a dance." Ling Xiao is a child from the city and always watches foreign movies, no wonder she thinks that way.Caicai looked at them, pointed at them, and counted them one by one. There were too many Nangni, and they flew too fast to count. "Ling Xiao, you're right. They must be getting married. They keep getting married and having babies. You can see that there are more and more of them." Jiang Lingxiao likes those little sacs that have just learned to fly, she calls them "baby dragonflies" - they can fly at such a young age, they just stop on a blade of grass foolishly, and sometimes fly from a blade of grass It's a lot of fun to move to another blade of grass. Xiao Nangni is the beautiful elf in Lingxiao's heart.But to Jiang Xia Zai, they are just a bunch of idiots. When Nangni was tired from flying and landed on the tip of the grass, Jiang Xiazai approached quietly, and his hand had already reached Nangni's tail. Ni was caught by him. Jiang Xiazai tore apart the Nangni and put it under the third uncle's wall to feed the ants.When the ants are all out, they will work together to move the food into the hole, and the shrimps set fire to them again.Seeing the group of poor Hercules running away in the raging fire, Jiang Xiazi laughed out loud. "Xiaozi, you twisted wood. The Bodhisattva will blame you." The third uncle came out on crutches, trembling and cursing, Jiang Xiazi ran away in a hurry. He ran all the way to the swamp at the end of the village.There, shirtless men are digging dragon boats out of the muck. "Hey-hey-hey!" They worked hard together to lift the dragon boat and put it under the old banyan tree to dry. Every year, Caicai's father puts tung oil on the dragon boat and repaints the dull dragon scales.But this year, my father called my brother when he was doing this job.Because he felt that the child was old enough to help. "Gold on the first, red on the second, blue on the third." But my brother ran away after painting a piece. He didn't like to do things, he was too tired to do things, not to mention the oil paint sticking to his hands was really dirty, and he couldn't wash it off no matter how he washed it. "Abba, let me paint! I will paint very well." "No, you are a girl. Girls can't touch the dragon boat. If a girl touches the dragon boat, the dragon boat will be in bad luck. If the dragon boat is in bad luck, the game will be lost to others." Jiang Caicai was sitting on the big bluestone on the bank sullenly.Jiang Ling smiled and sat beside her. "Ling Xiao, do you like being a girl?" "Like it." "why?" "Girls can wear skirts. Girls' clothes are much prettier than boys'." Caicai is indifferent to clothes.She always wore clothes her brother couldn't, and she didn't even own a skirt. The dragon boat raised its flag on the river, and people rowed it into the air. Jiang Xiazi has already learned to play gongs on it. Jiang Caicai has never longed to be a boy like this moment. In May, the heavy rain was like washing, and the thunder roared in May. The thunderstorm not only awakened the dragon sleeping in the mud, but also awakened the man who was increasingly addicted to livelihood. They threw down the hoes in their hands, the heavy burden of carrying dung, their wives and children, and the big and small things that bothered and tortured people. They took up the dragon oars and ran on the dragon boat, shouting and shouting loudly. Throw a brute force into the river. The dragon boat swam in the waterway, calling the wind and calling the rain, and the raindrops and drums intertwined into a cheerful movement, and their hearts became relaxed and joyful.On the Dragon Boat Festival, the men in the village were reduced to children again by borrowing the mysterious and huge toy of the dragon boat. There are more and more dragon boats on the river every day. There are countless villages up and down the Dongjiang River, and each village has a dragon boat.In the season when the dragon is playing in the water, the seedlings in the fields grow on their own, without human care, and they grow lush and green. The undisciplined children became even crazier. As soon as school was over, they threw away their schoolbags and ran into the river.What a joyous race it was. The first runner jumped directly from the edge of the paradise, opened his hands, and flew up like a big bird, "Boom", "Boom", "Boom"... Everyone fell down one after another. Going into the water, it's like a child raining on the river. When they emerged from the water one by one, they all laughed. The nimble ones were not in a hurry to get into the water, but they all climbed up the tree.They clambered like monkeys, clung to the long branches sticking out of the water, and swung triumphantly back and forth.After swinging enough, he suddenly let out a strange cry, let go of the branches, hugged his legs with his hands, shrank his whole body into a big rice dumpling, flew towards the center of the river like a cannonball, and then fell into the water like a meteorite, and it took a long time for his head to emerge. Cai Cai likes to look at the golden dragon head on the dragon boat.There are dragon horns on the dragon's head, and long dragon beards on the dragon's chin, which hang down to the water, but the dragon's mouth is wide open, and a trembling dragon ball is spit out.The boy dancing the dragon head stood on the step beside the dragon head, waving the broken sunflower fan in high spirits. Cai Cai likes to listen to the lively gongs and drums of dragon boats.Her heart beat with that simple rhythm until the red voice filled her little heart, and she felt excited and happy, eager to join the torrent of joy.But she is actually a girl, even Jiang Xiazi knows that she is lowly and unlucky, let alone going on the dragon boat, even touching the dragon flag is impossible. Cai Cai sat on the old water man tree in front of the door, and she watched the dragon boat with the colorful flags flying in the wind.She watched the dragon boat screaming and flew from upstream to downstream, and from downstream to upstream.She watched the dragon boat go from one village to another, and her heart followed the dragon boat, swimming in the river. She observed carefully and found that each dragon boat had a main flag. Jiangcun's main flag had a huge "Jiang" character written on it, while other dragon boats had "Yellow" and "Zhu" written on them. Some said "Li", some wrote "Zhou"...Suddenly several dragon boats met on the river, and the gongs and drums competed with each other.The sound of gongs and drums made people run to the river, and those who caught up ran and shouted.The big boy who came out late, because he missed the most exciting scene, picked up the pebbles on the bank and threw them towards the dragon boat going away, and even cursed "lose your mother"... But all of this It has nothing to do with her, Caicai sits alone on the tree, feeling that she has become a closed fruit, a sick bird that cannot fly, a speechless lone cicada.Unable to join the chorus of the season, she felt as if she had been thrown out of life. The third day of May is the Little Dragon Boat Festival in Jiangcun. Every year on this festival, Cai Cai looks forward to her aunt's arrival. Caicai has two aunts, one elder aunt and one younger aunt. As usual, the Dragon Boat Festival is a holiday. Like many children, Jiang Caicai climbed up a tree and occupied a seat with a wide view.She looked at the dragon boat, then at the road, and finally saw her aunt coming, and she slid down from the tree in a flash.The eldest aunt greeted her with a smile, and opened the large basket with two red mandarin ducks painted on it. Caicai saw lychees, big hairy peaches, rice dumplings, and freshly made cakes with the fragrance of eggs. "Caicai is still so small, she needs to eat more and grow taller." The aunt touched Caicai's head and spoke very gently. Grandma said: "Caicai looks like her sister-in-law, looks like her, and has a similar temperament. She runs around the village wildly all day long, like a boy's head, formally twisted." The aunt distributed the food to the children, and Caicai sat on a small stool and ate the cakes, reminding her of her cousin. My aunt is married well.My uncle has relatives in Hong Kong and the United States. Because of these relationships, my uncle had a hard time in the past.But life has gradually improved over the past few years, and their relatives often come back, bringing back some money each time.The eldest uncle opened a restaurant in the village, and he has also made money over the years.Two years ago, my aunt's eldest daughter married a very old American. It is said that she runs a restaurant there and her family is very rich.The eldest cousin is very good-looking and has a good temper.Once on the Seventh Sister Festival, Caicai visited her aunt's house, and her eldest cousin told her the story of Seventh Sister and Dong Yong.The eldest cousin's way of telling stories is very different from her grandfather's, so Caicai has become a little attached to her.Caicai feels a little regretful about her eldest cousin's marriage.The eldest cousin married to the United States and never came back. And the aunt is very kind. Every time she goes back to Jiangcun, she will give Caicai a red envelope, which contains five yuan, sometimes even ten yuan.Ten dollars is a lot to Caicai, but she gives the money to her mother every time. Xi Gu came later.Xigu's basket is very old, there are no peaches and cakes in it, Xigu's lychees are very sour, and there are very few rice dumplings.Xigu took two children with her, the older boy was called Ashan, and the younger girl was called Shuimei. They were both pale and thin, and they hid behind Xigu when they saw anyone.Caicai took out her treasured pebbles and wanted to play a game of seven sons with Shuimei, but Shuimei shook her head and refused, she shyly sat on the small stool next to Xigu. Every time Xigu went back to her natal home, she would sit in the room talking to her elder aunt and grandma, and every time she would lift up her shirt to let people see the scars on her body, and she would cry while talking.Caicai sat beside and listened, the sadness in her heart was like dragon boat water in May, swollen to the brim.She sat in the lord's sorrow, unable to speak a word. "It's all fate, who do you blame? You raised two children with all your heart, and you will have a good life in the future." Uncle Xi went to the banyan tree every day to play mahjong and gamble, and my uncle did all the housework and field work by himself.Xigu said that she couldn't make it through anymore, and in order to pay off her gambling debts, she even sold all the rice at home. "If I divorce him and bring my child back to Jiangcun, will grandma still take me in?" "Don't think that way. If you get divorced, our family will die of laughter." After eating, Xi Gu wiped away her tears and left. Caicai climbed up the tree to see the dragon boat.After the dragon boat meal, the event gradually came to an end.Those dragon boats that came from afar, where did they come from and where did they go back.Watching them disappear into the distant waterway, the water surface gradually calmed down, leaving no trace of the dragon boat, today's bustle is like a dream. The dragon boats were all gone, and Xi Gu's back appeared before her eyes again.Caicai suddenly remembered what her aunt and grandma had said. They said that Caicai looked a lot like Xigu, and that Xigu's temperament when she was a child was exactly the same as Caicai now.Will her fate be the same as Xi Gu's? Cai Cai's heart fell into a great fear. Grandpa's illness gradually became serious. He couldn't sit up and could only lie on the bamboo bed.Caicai stood in front of the bed for a long time before asking: "Why did Xi Gu marry Xi Uncle?" "Marriages are determined by heaven—there is a god in the sky called Yuelao, who tied Xigu and my uncle together with a red rope." "Uncle Xi is not good, can't we ask Lao Yue to untie that rope?" "Don't talk nonsense, kid, go out and play." Caicai knew that she couldn't ask any more questions. She left her grandfather's house and passed the Earth Temple at the east end of the village.When she saw the kind-faced land father and land mother sitting there, Caicai knelt down on the ground: "Elder land, please tell Yue Lao, don't tie me with a bad guy. " She stood up, thinking that her grandfather said that the land father is the lowest god, and the land father wondered if he could go to the sky to say it. She ran all the way to the end of the village. There was a dilapidated Pak Tai Temple at the end of the village. The Pak Tai master had a long beard and sat on it majestically. Jiang Caicai knelt in front of Master Beidi: "Master Beidi, please tell Yuelao, don't tie Jiang Caicai with a bad guy. Also, ask him to untie the thin rope between Xigu and Xigu. open it!" She kowtowed three times to the statue of Lord Pak Tai, and when she stood up, she felt that it was not enough, so she knelt down again and kowtowed three more times. The season of dragon boats is over, and the rice is ripe.Immediately afterwards, there was the breathless busy work of farming, harvesting, drying the grains, letting the fire-like sun bake the rice fields white, and then bringing in strong and powerful buffaloes, plowing the paddy fields, and starting a new round of work.Soon, it will be August.On the first day of August, my mother got up early in the morning, wiped the altar clean, and offered incense to the landlord, the door official, the kitchen king, the four lands...all kinds of gods, big and small, and solemnly burned the paper money, and then she knelt down I prayed in a low voice in front of the Goddess of Goddess of Mercy: "Greatly Merciful and Greatly Compassionate Goddess of Mercy, please bless my family with safety and prosperity. May my family, Alin, make more money, meet noble people when going out, and have good luck every day; bless my family with a wave of smart reading and success in the world. Glory to the ancestors; bless my family Caicai with good health, sweet tea and delicious food..." Caicai stood leaning against the door frame, and finally felt happy when her mother read her name.She was about to run out when her mother called her: "Caicai, come here and kowtow to your mother." Caicai walked over, knelt down in front of the altar, and respectfully kowtowed three times to the image of Goddess Guanyin.After knocking, Caicai stood up and retreated behind her mother.The statue of Avalokitesvara seems to be alive in the curling cigarette.She gracefully holds a branch of wicker in one hand, and holds a graceful long-necked bottle in the other. With half-closed eyes, she smiles mysteriously at Cai Cai.Caicai also smiled at her, and then she ran out the door like a small arrow. After lunch, grandma brought Dongqiu—as usual, carrying two lanterns, one large and one small.The elder brother picked out the big lantern quickly, and the remaining small paper lantern belonged to Caicai. Cai Cai looked at the lantern in her brother's hand with a sore heart, because she knew it would not belong to her, she looked at it hard until she remembered its appearance completely in her heart, until she could figure out its meaning even with her eyes closed. From the appearance, she felt that she had it in another way, and the desire for it slowly subsided. But when she took the little pleated lantern made of colored paper into her hand, she quickly forgot about her brother's lantern.She tied the lantern to a piece of bamboo, lit a candle, and let its beautiful, faint light illuminate her way.At this time, she cherished this little lantern very much, and she thought it was the most beautiful among all the lanterns. The next day, the second day of August.The floor was only half-swept, and my mother sighed, sitting on a small stool in a daze.Caicai took the broom from her mother and cleaned the house.Then she went to the river to wash clothes, and picked a few wedelia by the river when she came back.After drying the clothes, Caicai kept the golden little chrysanthemums in a glass bottle on the windowsill.Then she took two steps back, feeling that those little flowers were so beautiful, as if several little suns had bloomed on the window sill. "Look, Mom." She said to her mother. Mother raised her head and looked at her strangely, but she ran away quickly.She ran outside until she was completely away from her mother's sight, and she felt safe and at ease.There was a strange panic in her heart, she was very afraid that her mother would catch her and ask her: "Caicai, what's wrong with you today?" She was afraid to face the question.She was an emotionally closed child who hadn't yet learned to express her feelings with words.Can she throw herself into her mother's arms like those city children, present beautiful flowers to her mother and say "Mom, happy birthday to you"?Can she walk over to her mother when she is crying, hug her trembling shoulders tightly, and say "Mom, I love you" to her? Ah, it is obvious that she does not understand that there is an eternal wall of mystery in front of her.But even if she understands, she will never dare. There is still an invisible abyss in front of her.The second day of August is her mother's birthday. When she was very young, her mother once said it once, and she remembered it firmly only once.Every year when this day comes, she always thinks about it. She doesn't understand why her father and brother never remember.Every year on this day, adults always quarrel. And tonight, after dinner, my father disappeared.Ever since the grocery store in the village bought a few sets of mahjong, the normally honest father would go around to watch it every day. He lost all the few dollars the family had.For this matter, there has been more than one quarrel, and the dishes at home have been broken a lot. As the night gradually deepened, my mother sat under the lamp and sewed clothes, crying as she sewed.Caicai put the quilt on her head and did not dare to move. The mother's weeping sound was like a fierce little beast, biting her heart one by one. Caicai felt that her heart was gradually breaking, and tears flowed from her cheeks. onto the pillow.Later, she fell asleep in a daze. "Bang, bang, bang..." There was a loud knock on the door. "Open the door!" my father yelled angrily. Mother didn't answer, and didn't go to open the door. The knock on the door lasted for a while, and then there was no movement, and there was no movement for a long time.All I heard was a mouse squeaking under the bed, the sound was very clear.Caicai didn't dare to let out the atmosphere, and a heart was raised in his throat.After a long time, my mother finally got up from the bed and opened the door with a "creak". The moment my mother opened the door, a crisp slap landed on her face.It turned out that my father had been standing outside the door, and he was very annoyed when he stood there.Caicai curled up in the quilt like a small animal, thinking that there would be another war between them.But the mother was very calm, she didn't cry, she didn't make any noise, she went back to bed and fell asleep without a sound. It wasn't until midnight that Jiang Caicai was sure that everyone had fallen asleep before getting up to go to the toilet in fear.She walked outside the door, there was no moon outside the door, the stars in the sky were reflected in the river, blown by the autumn wind, broken and restored, restored and broken again.Caicai stood under the giant water weng tree, staring at the river water raptly, as if she could hear the tinkling sound of starlight colliding with the water surface.The tears on her face gradually dried up, and the breeze carried water vapor, mixed with the scent of grass flowers, blowing into the depths of her heart, opening door after door in her heart, so her little thoughts , and was completely exposed in the night of Jiangcun.She stretched out her hands and hugged the tree trunk tightly. The tree body is thick, thick and warm, like a reliable relative.Jiang Caicai pressed her small chest tightly against the tree, and the wind blew the leaves, making a "rustling" sound, as if to soothe her sorrow.She wept softly again. The wind picked up and blew her hair into a mess. It was still early autumn and the weather was not cold at all.A night boat came up from far downstream, and a few brave lights on the boat, facing the cool night wind, broke through the waves of the river and came straight towards her. If it could stop in Jiangcun, just for a while, and then take her to a distant place, that would be great!But the boat passed by on its own, sailing to an unknown distance, the lights on the boat gradually became weaker and darker, and finally it was no longer visible. Jiang Caicai's heart went away with the boat. Finally she came to her senses, she was very sad. But the moon in the sky doesn't care about Cai Cai's sadness, she becomes fuller, rounder, and full of love day by day, like a gentle monarch, she smiles and reigns over the earth, spreading her beautiful luster with extraordinary magic power on the river water On the river, the water turns into gold in an instant, and the surface of the river is full of reverie-inducing ripples.Under the reflection of this magical wave of light, the heaven and the earth are connected. Grandpa is sitting on a bamboo chair under the moonlight, telling the story of Wu Gang in the moon. Because Wu Gang violated the rules of heaven, the Jade Emperor punished him to cut down the evergreen sweet-scented osmanthus tree next to the Moon Palace, and he could not be free until the tree was felled.Then Wu Gang raised his axe, and with all his strength he slashed at the osmanthus tree. The ax hit the tree, and a cut appeared on the tree.However, when Wu Gang raised the ax for the first time, the incision on the osmanthus tree had healed itself.Wu Gang danced the ax vigorously, and chopped it down again fiercely... The children looked up at the moon and were fascinated. "Cut down like this, when will the tree be cut down?" Caicai was very surprised. "That tree is a sacred tree, and it will never be cut down." "Wu Gang kept chopping, and the osmanthus tree kept growing back. It's really fun." Thinking about the situation, Caicai found it very interesting. Grandpa smiled and told her: "In August, the osmanthus tree is full of osmanthus flowers. When Wu Gang cut down the tree, he shook the osmanthus flowers off the tree, and the fragrance of osmanthus flowers is everywhere in the world." There are no sweet-scented osmanthus trees in Jiangcun, and Jiang Caicai has never seen sweet-scented osmanthus before.But adopting a strong sniff, he felt that the moonlight in August smelled like magnolia flowers.She thought, the moonlight must have been incensed by that sacred tree.So, she forgot about that poor Wu Gang, and only thought about that sweet-scented osmanthus tree all night long. Caicai realized without a teacher that the trees in the story are different from the trees in the village.They are magical and noble, like the flat peach trees of the Queen Mother, bearing the peaches that Sun Wukong loves to eat, and can live forever if eaten; the ginseng fruit of Zhenyuan Daxian is Zhu Bajie’s favorite, bears fruit like a child, and cries like a child ; the purple bamboo forest of Guanyin Bodhisattva, it is said that each tree has a mystery; the osmanthus tree on the moon can't be cut down no matter how hard it is There are many wild trees in the village. Caicai believes that those wild old trees are spiritual. They comfort the children in the village. They bloom in spring and bear fruit in summer—most of the fruits are edible, with sweet and sour flavors. There are endless watermen, there are sweet and delicious water apples with endless aftertaste, and there are guavas that you can't poop if you eat too much... Among the branches and leaves of the big tree, there are sparrows singing day and night, and some clumsily lurking to fight. Nang Niang, who yelled desperately, the children climbed up the tree and did not come down for a long time-every tree is a paradise, a small paradise-even though it is so, if the flat peach tree of the Queen Mother can be Wouldn't it be more perfect to plant all the sweet-scented osmanthus trees on the moon in Jiangcun? On nights when grandpa didn't come out to enjoy the shade, Jiang Caicai stood by the river for a long time.She looked into the distance, saw the distant village across the Dongjiang River, and thought of those little fireflies, which were flying and moving in the distant water plants.She couldn't see them, and she didn't want to seek them out, catch them. The moonlight is too bright, and the night is reflected mysteriously and beautifully. This month, the moon is destined to be the protagonist.The stars dimmed more and more under the light of the moon, and they withdrew their brilliance and sank deeper into the wide and deep heart of the sky.The tree shadow swayed in the autumn wind, the leaves rustled on Caicai's head, and Caicai felt that they were talking to each other.She listened quietly, hoping to understand their fairy-tale language. When Cai Cai was very young, before she went to school, she couldn't sit with Jiang Lingxiao every day. At that time, she didn't have any friends. Every time she was wronged, Cai Cai always liked to talk to the girl in front of the door. She talked to an old waterweed tree, and she thought it understood her.She likes to hold it and treat it as a gentle old relative. When she puts her little heart against it, the sadness and grievance in her heart will subside. But now, she has a good friend, and having a good friend is no different from a friend! "Caicai, you are here! I have been looking for you for a long time." Ling Xiao walked over with a lantern and smiled.Like her name, Ling Xiao always likes to laugh, she brings so many happy times to Cai Cai, they are always so happy together, whispering endless words. Ling Xiao took out a beautiful small candle, and the two of them lit Cai Cai's small lantern with the wind behind their backs.The two girls carried lanterns and walked into the group of children holding hands. When they walked to the drying ground, the night was as broad as the sea, and the night was as soft as the sea. The children played with lanterns, like glowing tropical fish swimming. 采采看看天，又看看地，心里渐渐生出了奇妙的想像，觉得地上的灯笼就是天上月亮化出的一个个幻影，她走进这幻影中，仿佛也成了这幻影的一个部分。 村庄儿童手里提的灯笼，其实是最便宜最简陋的灯笼。灯笼的架子是削得很薄的竹子扎成，外面糊着半透明的彩纸。彩纸上画着花草，画着故事，有的写着简单的灯谜诗，像“远看山有色，近听水无声；春去花还在，人来鸟不惊”，就完全从小学课本上抄来的，毫无创意。但当灯笼点亮，烛光一照，这些花草、故事，谜语就全都活了。采采和好几个女孩儿站在谷仓边，靠着墙，把手上的灯笼上下高低地举着，那摇着扇的孔明，洗着马的张飞，荡着秋千的貂婵便都跳到墙上去打起架来，好像正在上演一场影画戏。 玩得很高兴了，好多人便围过来看。 正热闹，冷不防雨点一样的蛤蟆、蟛蜞、水蛇直从头上掉下来。有个傻乎乎的癞蛤蟆从采采脖子滑到她肚皮去了，采采大叫一声把灯笼扔掉，那灯笼飞到另一个蛤蟆身上，“逢”一声着火了，那蛤蟆带着这把火没命地跳着，老榕树上的顽童怪叫起来，笑岔了气。 水蛇早逃命了，惊魂未定的蛤蟆也不见了踪影，只有那些少胳膊断腿的小蟛蜞还慢悠悠地朝江边爬去，江采采看着化了灰的小灯笼，泪从脸颊流到嘴角。她捡起地上了小石头，奋力朝树上掷去。不用说，江明、江亮、江虾仔或者还有其他人，早就跑得没影了。 几乎每年八月，采采的灯笼都点不到中秋。江村顽童恶作剧的工具除了可怜的小蟛蜞和癞蛤蟆，还有一种百发百中的弹弓。不过在江铃笑转学之前，采采的秋天是很快乐的。 “不要哭，我这个给你。”江铃笑回来了，把手上的灯笼给她，“你拿去，我家里还有一个。” 采采破涕为笑了。 地堂上就剩下她们两个小女孩，采采说：“我教你唱歌。” 她把爷爷教的那歌儿念出来了： “月光光，照地堂；年卅晚，摘槟榔；槟榔香，嚼子姜；子姜辣，买蒲达；蒲达苦，买猪肚；猪肚肥，买牛皮；牛皮薄，买菱角；菱角尖，买马鞭；马鞭长，起屋梁；屋梁高，买张刀；刀切菜，买箩盖；箩盖圆，买只船；船浸底，浸住两个番鬼仔；一个蒲头，一个浸底；一个摸茨菇，一个摸马蹄。” 采采唱一句，铃笑跟着唱一句，唱了好多遍都记不住，唱着唱着，两个人都弄糊涂了。 铃笑笑了，采采也跟着笑了。 “我们不唱这个了，我还有一个。” 她大声念道： “黄旗岭顶挂灯笼，市桥春涨水流东。 彭洞水濂好景致，宝山石瓮出芙蓉。 凤凰台上金鸡叫，觉华烟雨暗朦胧。 靖康海市亡人趁，海月风帆在井中。 " 这是爷爷教她念的“东莞八景”诗，打她刚会说话的时候就开始念了，采采上学之前，几乎每天都要念好几遍的，所以一字一句她都记得清楚牢固。 “铃笑，你认识我爷爷吗？” 铃笑摇摇头。铃笑是去年才跟江老师回江村的。 “以后我爷爷讲故事的时候你也来听吧，我爷爷会讲好多好多的故事。” 铃笑回家去了，采采也提着灯笼回家了。她一路走着，一路想着爷爷。父亲说，爷爷生了一个治不好的病，如果再发作一次，爷爷就要死了。采采想，如果爷爷死了，就会变成了一个鬼，那也一定是一个最温和最慈善的鬼。她在黑暗里走着，这样想着，觉得一点儿也不害怕了。 终于到了中秋。母亲把桌子摆放在门口的空地上，大家都搬了凳子出来赏月。采采喜欢中秋，中秋的食物丰盛极了。桌子上有月饼，有沙田柚，有红柿，有煮熟的芋头。 “阿妈，阿妈，可以吃月饼了吗？” 母亲不在外面，她在厨房里炒田螺。 采采跑进厨房。锅里的田螺香极了，她在旁边站着，一个劲咽口水。 母亲慢悠悠地把田螺装上碟子，让采采端出去了。 端出去好久了，母亲还是不过来。 “阿妈，阿妈，可以吃田螺了吗？” 母亲却从里头喊她：“采采，快过来，田鸡粥煲好了。” ... 采采吃得饱饱的，肚子撑得像个小鼓。 月亮升上了树梢，又升上了屋顶。采采睡熟了。月光透过屋顶的明瓦照在她的脸上，照进她的梦里。她的小灯笼，就是江铃笑给她的那一个，正挂在门前的龙眼树上，小蜡烛早就烧完了，中秋清凉的微风吹拂着，月光正温柔地照耀着它。（3。10修改稿）