槐花 The Sophora Flower

1st December 2015  /  life upon life

我从小是在农村长大的,这是一个发生在我家乡农村一位老奶奶身上的故事。村上的人都十分淳朴,对彼此都相当友善。老奶奶已年过八旬,两个儿子都已各自成家,她独自一人住在空旷的院子里,陪伴她的只有院里的槐花和他养的一群鸡鸭,以及我们这帮村里的“猴孩子”们。老奶奶人很和蔼、慈祥,也许是年纪大了吧,说起话来都很缓慢,而且很轻。心虚是他经常给我们发零食吧,我们都很爱陪她玩,她也很乐意。我从小就喜欢老奶奶家的槐花树上的槐花,觉得它又香又白,很想要一朵。可是我当时太矮,够不着树上的槐花,又不好意思跟老奶奶开口,有一天早晨,七八岁的我便想爬上树去,自己摘一朵。可是稚嫩的我哪会爬树,刚爬了两步,手一滑便摔了下来,虽然地上都是泥,并没有摔伤,但还是很疼,望着树上的槐花,泪水不争气的在眼眶里打转。刚从屋里出来的老奶奶看见我狼狈的样子变猜到了我想摘槐花,便慈爱却又无奈地责备我道:“小小年起就把这么高的树偷花,真的是够‘野’得,真拿你没办法。”说完便牵着我去把身上的泥洗干净,正在我快要离开之际,心里还惦记着槐花,突然一阵幽香拂过,一串洁白美丽还带着露珠的槐花插在了我的衣肩上。我一转头,看见的是老奶奶带着微笑的慈爱的脸庞。虽然岁月带走了她的美丽,但我总觉得也留下了一种“美丽”……邓清源I grew up in the countryside, this is an old granny's story that happened in my rural hometown. All the people there were very simple, and do very friendly with each other. Granny had been over eighty years, her two sons have their own family, she live alone in open yard, that accompanied with her were only the sophora flower in the yard and a flock of chickens and ducks she feed, and we "monkey boy" of the village. Granny was very kind, and speak slowly and lightly. Owing to she often send us snacks, we all love to play with her, and she was also very happy. I very loved the sophora flower tree of the granny’s, it was fragrant and white, I really wanted a flower. But I was too short and could not reach the pagoda tree, and I was shy to ask granny for it. When I was seven or eight years old, one morning, I would like to climb the tree to picked a flower by myself. But I was too young to climb a tree, just climbed the two steps, I slipped and fell down. Although full of the mud on the body, I did not get hurt, but I felt still very painful. Then looking at the pagoda tree, my tears do not live up to drop in the eyes spin. Just the old grandmother came out from the house and saw me, she got it, and blamed me with loving but also helpless tone: "As so young child, you are so 'wild' to climb such a high tree to steal a flower. I really don't know what to do with you." Then she pulled me to clean the dirt on the body. When I was going to leave, my heart still misses sophorae flower, suddenly a burst of fragrance brushed, and a bunch of beautiful white with dew flower appeared on my shoulder. I turned around and saw the granny with a smile of loving face. Although the years took away her beautiful, I always feel that it has left a beautiful".Qingyuan Deng