Chapter 12 Chapter 10: Eternal Childhood: The Eternal Water Weng Tree

The summer vacation was coming to an end in a few days, and Jiang Caicai's business was getting better and better because many children who sold snow sticks stopped coming out.That evening, after a torrential rain, the sky was as blue as a bottomless abyss, like a boundless lake of fragrant wine.Jiang Caicai walked out of the door, and the surroundings were extremely clean, as if someone had cleaned the whole world once.There are huge old trees in Jiangcun, with thousands of water-drenched leaves, each one is as green as blood, and each one has no specks of dust. She walked along the embankment until she reached the entrance of the village. The setting sun, like a magician who loves beauty, sprinkled golden light on the thousands of bamboos across the Dongjiang River without hesitation.In the evening, the refreshing wind blows on the bamboo leaves, and she hears the sound of the waves in the bamboo forest, just like the sea she listened to in childhood, calling her irresistibly.

The beauty she felt at that moment was unparalleled.She felt that her little life gradually merged with the surrounding bamboo forest, sunlight, and river water, gradually becoming rich and rich.As an adult, she often walked alone at the fork in a foreign land. She thought of this evening again and again, and her heart returned to this evening again and again. Again and again, she was full of gratitude and love for nature. When she raised her head and looked at the road ahead, she saw her most beloved boy.He was wearing a white jacket, blue trousers, and holding a thick book in his arms. He was walking towards her step by step along the green path facing the glorious sunset.

She stood under the water weed tree by the side of the road, staring at him. She looked hard, trying to see him in her heart, and wanting to engrave his appearance in the deepest part of her little heart forever. Su Fanxing came to say goodbye. Tomorrow, he will go to Guangzhou with his parents to study. "I thought that next semester, we could study together in middle school. I also thought, maybe, we will be in the same class." Jiang Caicai twisted her ten fingers together, and took her boy to the quiet little pier next to the Earth Temple, where they sat under the lush water weed tree.

It was a young waterweed tree. It grew so vigorously and vigorously, and the tree was full of fruits. It was the time for sweet and sour. "It would be nice if I were a boy." Jiang Caicai looked at the river and tore off the ancient roots of the water weng tree with his dirty fingers. "I will go to you every day without feeling embarrassed." "I like you as a girl." He raised his lowered head, looked at her, and smiled. His smile seemed contagious, and she smiled too.She thought, that's right, of the two of them, one must be a boy and the other must be a girl.

"Have you ever eaten a water onion?" she asked him. "No." "I invite you to eat." As she said that, she went to climb the tree, and suddenly she was among the branches and leaves. The afterglow of the setting sun shone on the top of the tree. Looking at her figure, he felt that she was as light and agile as a squirrel.She vigorously shook the fruit-bearing branches, and many purple-red waterfowls fell into the water. He took off his shoes and socks, stood barefoot in the shallow water, and scooped up the small ripe fruits. "Is it sour?" She sat on the tree and asked.

"Well, it's a little sour, but it's delicious." He stood under the tree with a sour fruit in his mouth, looking at her. She laughed and jumped down, the roots were uneven, and she didn't stand firm.He immediately hugged her.The sky was getting darker and darker, and the lights in the distance were all on. She was at a loss, and felt the warmth of his body flowing onto her body. She felt him trembling, and she trembled involuntarily.She felt that she was in a bottomless abyss, falling with no one to rely on, falling, unable to hold on to anything solid, as if she was about to fall into hell, so she clung to him tightly, as if catching him. A life-saving straw was caught.

In this way, without saying a word, they leaned on each other tightly under the silent tree by the water. It's been a long time. Then, as if realizing something, he let go of his hand.He heard her sobbing.He looked down at her face and saw that she, like himself, was crying. She has always been a person, a person who grows up alone, a person who fends for herself, as if she is the only one in this world. It has been many years, many years, I can't tell how long, she has not been hugged, it seems that she has never been hugged. For many, many years, I can't say how long, she had not been so close to another human being, as if she had never been close to her own kind since birth.

She cried in a low voice, and her heart gradually became more comfortable. Her heart, which had been closed all the time, seemed to be opened all of a sudden.All her concerns, all the desires and dreams in her heart are like budding flowers, one after another, slowly opening. She felt as if her heart was full of flowers. At this moment, she felt that her emotions were sad, warm, moist, and fragrant. She kept crying without saying a word. Like her, he kept crying without saying a word. The flowing water of the Dongjiang River flowed slowly in front of them, following the rhythm of thousands of years of life, without saying a word.

Time is beside them, like an eternal river, flowing slowly, passing by without saying a word. (End of the full text) (3.17 Revised Draft)