Chapter 3 The first chapter is full of branches and leaves

According to the observations of scientists, typhoons in the northern hemisphere sweep all the nearby clouds in a counterclockwise manner, forming a swirling storm.Therefore, if you have the opportunity to look down from a height of 40,000 feet, it is easy to understand why the sky outside the typhoon is so clean and cloudless. Marty's last glimpse before losing his vision was this blue, clear, jewel-like sky. The young policeman elbowed the crowd away, beads of sweat rolling down his cheeks.He looked down at his leather shoes stained with green juice, and wanted to wipe them clean with the broken wood and branches under his feet.But under the gaze of so many people, he felt the need to maintain his majesty, so he spread his hands and forcefully pushed the crowd behind him.

In people's memory, there has never been such a violent typhoon.A night of violent wind and rain destroyed all the trees in the city, leaving behind a blue sky that hardly belonged to the city. The young policeman has been performing district duties for more than two years, and for the first time he feels at a loss about his work and life.People always complain that there is too much dust and too little greenery in Taipei, so this typhoon is really a wishful spell.Overnight, Taipei became a verdant city.The twigs with slender buds and green leaves covered the roads, vehicles, and eaves, and the strong winds swept them into the dark arcades, underground passages, and into the rugged stacks. illegal buildings.The soft leaves live in situ, maple leaves, banyan leaves, camphor leaves, terminal leaves, kapok leaves, yellow locust leaves, king coconut leaves, seven lixiang leaves, acacia leaves, linden leaves...all the greens that people can think of, all Falling from the sky, like a happy and fanciful movie, after flying in the sky, colorfully sprinkled on every plane facing the sky.

People didn't get to see the movie.In the morning, after the rain stopped and the wind died down, people opened the windows and saw the green Taipei.People rubbed their eyes and felt as if they were still in a dream. After a whole day, the young police commanded the workers to shovel up tons of branches and leaves and transport them away by truck.The young policeman recalled squatting on the beach in his underwear as a child, digging in the sand with a plastic toy shovel.It felt similar to now, and no amount of shovels would make much of a difference.He felt very tired and hungry, was waiting for his shift, and now he received a report that he had to deal with a road fall.

It was not difficult to find the location of the event, and the crowd of onlookers formed an obvious landmark.The young policeman walked along the green branches and leaves, and saw Marty lying quietly on the road. The police thought that what he saw was a light pink stamen blown by the wind perched on a soft green bed covered with branches and leaves.