dream village

"Watering? Will the peach trees in this forest still need to be watered?" Xue'er asked curiously.

Zhang Tao smiled embarrassingly, and quickly said in a serious manner: "We are not watering in general, we are watering him with our saliva under the root of this peach tree! I reckon the peach tree was as tall as it was then. Such verdant plants and such big peaches have a lot to do with our saliva watering them."

"So that's how you water it!" Xue'er couldn't help but burst out laughing.

After a while, Xue'er stopped laughing, pulled Zhang Tao's arm and shook it, and begged coquettishly, "Go on! Brother Tao, what you said is so interesting."

Zhang Tao's heart fluttered, and he almost had the urge to put his hands into Xue'er's chest to pick peaches.However, with such a thick mosquito around his neck, he couldn't move his hands, and felt a little out of place and emotional, so he could only put away this impulse and continue talking about peaches.

"Of course we got angry, it was very, very angry! If he upset our group of fearless children, would he have any good results at all? We started stealing his peaches the next year. As soon as he fell asleep, we Dozens of children swarmed up, smashing them with stones and long poles, and scattered after getting a few peaches.

"Gen Gen was naturally furious, rushing over to arrest people. Even if he caught someone, he would not dare to beat him. The arrested person would play tricks, cry and make trouble, and get entangled with him. But we Others will take this opportunity to continue stealing peaches.

"When there was almost one peach per person, we stood far away from him and ate peaches. We ate them with relish and flamboyantly. He was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

"Later, he went to our school to sue, and we were all criticized by our teachers and beaten by our parents. We hated Gengen even more, and hated him so much that we listed him as our number one enemy. The next year we launched a more thorough revenge. We started stealing the peaches as soon as they came out, and when the peaches were ripe, the whole tree was so clean that only a few leaves remained. He is submissive, he can only negotiate with us for peace, and promise to help him with things in the future in exchange for peaches."

"What can I do for him?" Xueer asked again.

"Help him chop the mountain! After working hard for a day to exchange two peaches, how can this dead root do any loss-making business?" Zhang Tao said angrily.

"You only get two peaches for one day's work, no wonder you hate him so much!" Xue'er said empathetically.

Zhang Tao sighed and said, "What I'm talking about is just what happened when I was ignorant when I was a child. In fact, Gengen is a good person. He has had a very difficult life. After I got to know some things about him in junior high school, I have a warm relationship with him. Get up, and become friends who can almost be said to have made friends over the years. I will tell you about these things slowly in the future!"

Having said that, Zhang Tao pointed forward with his hand and shouted, "Look! It's that peach tree."

"This... this..." Xue'er was so surprised that she couldn't speak.Looking in the direction of Zhang Tao's finger, all she saw was a half-dried peach tree.

"It was struck by lightning unexpectedly the year before last, which scorched its torso and took away its youth..." Zhang Tao said with a gloomy expression.

The roots of this peach tree are protruding from the ground, covered with moss.The trunk of the tree, which was broken by lightning at the waist, was about five meters high, and it pointed at the vast sky in despair.The bark is a little scorched black, with a few emerald green soft vines clinging to it.Most of the twisted branches have withered, without exception pointing to the sky, relying on the faint breath of life coming from the trunk to stand firm.A gust of mountain wind passed by, and their stiff bodies swayed with difficulty, as if they were angrily scolding the injustice of the sky, and they seemed to be showing off the glory of yesterday.The branches with sparse leaves are not as free and easy as the dead branches. They lower their heads shyly, avoiding the scorching eyes of the sun, sometimes sighing long, sometimes whimpering about their helplessness and misfortune.

Zhang Tao stared blankly at the peach tree, and couldn't help feeling filled with emotion, how fragile life is!The wind is always blown away by the wind and rain, what an eternal truth!

At this time, a cool and gentle mountain wind blew, and dozens of birds came to meet the wind, landed on the almost lifeless dead tree, and sang this inconspicuous landing spot.It can be seen that they like this dead tree that has been with them for a long time.The birds lightly pecked at the brittle branches and smoothed their feathers with their small beaks.

In the chirping songs of this group of birds, under the sunshine, and encouraged by the smiles of the green soft vines on the trunk, the dead tree seemed to be alive again, and it actually showed signs of life again.It stands tall and straight proudly, showing its tenacity and brilliance to the mountains and forests.Thunder and lightning cannot knock it down, and wind and rain cannot take it away. What a magical peach tree this is!

Every plant and tree in childhood can evoke a memory, either sad or sweet.A lot of things are changing, things are changing, and childhood dreams are smashed.

Xue'er could quite understand Zhang Tao's mood at the moment, so she didn't disturb him, but just quietly leaned against him, looking at the surrounding scenery.

Gengen lived in a few houses completely made of trees and planks.In front is a courtyard fenced in by tree branches.From the fence gate to the house, there is a grape trellis with bunches of green grapes hanging on it.There are other fruit trees around the courtyard, mostly plum, orange and peach trees.Except for the orange trees that are full of green peel oranges, the fruits on other fruit trees have almost been picked.What interested Xue Er the most was the clusters of blooming flowers in the courtyard.Standing far away from the fence, you can smell the refreshing fragrance of these flowers.

"Woof!" Two tall wild dogs suddenly sprang out from the forest on the left and rushed towards where Zhang Tao and Xue'er were standing.