There is a lotus pond in front of her house.

I haven't seen that girl named Mei for many years.

Mei's garden is separated from mine by a row of bamboo fences.

White-walled bamboo fence,

The border garden is full of flowers.

Yellow bamboo scaffolding,

Twisted shredded tender melons are intertwined.

Purple flowers are strung together,

Pick green peas on the vines.

It's the Mid-Autumn Festival in August.

Jingui branch is fragrant.

Mei's garden is still there, but where is the owner of the garden?

The tea tree seeds sown by my mother many years ago have grown into a small tea tree with uneven height; The garden is full of weeds, and Aunt Mei has planted several beds of vegetables.

The yard of Mei's family was originally a Chai Fei hut. I wait for her at school every day, and sometimes she is eating. When vegetables are green and yellow, her mother dries the skin of bamboo shoots and cooks them with rice. Her yellow dog is always lounging in the yard.

There is a lotus pond on the left and a fish pond on the right in front of Meijia. Every June and July, white and pink lotus flowers are slim and graceful, and a gust of wind blows, and lotus fragrance floats into my yard with the wind.

May is the boss of the family like me. She has a brother and two sisters. Her mother got intermittent mental illness for some reason, sometimes normal, sometimes crazy. Every time I go to wait for Mei to go to school, her mother greets me with a smile and speaks in a normal way. She is tall and has big eyes. I think she must have been beautiful when she was young.

Mei's sister inherited her mother's mental illness, and her brain is a little abnormal. When she grows up, she feeds pigs and cooks at home. In the blink of an eye, several years passed and she grew as tall as a mushroom. She walks like a thin bamboo pole, bouncing around, rarely talking, and looking at you with big eyes and white eyes.

Mei's father was the captain of the production team. May is a lot like her father. She is not tall.

Mei and I are primary school classmates and go to and from school together every day. Mei's academic performance is average. On the way after school, she always tells me stories, which are told by her mother. She blinked her eyes and told the story of dog essence in a leisurely tone.

There is a family in the mountains, and the family is very poor. The poor man has a son named Dalin, who works for the landlord every morning. Year after year, their lives are still poor.

This spring, the poor family in peach blossom powder was dusty and the vegetable garden was green, which brought spring vigor and vitality to this poor family. Dalin is twenty years old, and he is standing in a daze in the spring behind the house.

There is a maid named Cui Yu in the landlord's house. She is an orphan. She is seventeen years old and looks just like her name, which is a pity.

When Dalin remembered Xiaoyu, he folded a peach blossom and a plum blossom and came to the landlord's house. He found Jed.

"Xiaoyu, send you flowers."

"How beautiful!" Jade flowers, peach blossoms set each other off.

At noon, Xiaoyu went to the mountains to deliver meals to the long-term workers. Wild flowers are everywhere in the mountains, and the peach forest and pear forest of the landlord's house are already a sea of flowers.

Emerald lingers between pink and white flowers and leaves. Her green shirt looks so green and dazzling against the flowers. Dalin, who was eating, looked at Xiaoyu's back and froze.

After the long-term workers finished eating, Xiaoyu picked up the lunch box and returned to the landlord's house.

"Xiaoyu is back!" The old landlord, wearing a silk robe and jacket, shook his head and read. When he saw the jade, he stopped and squinted at it from his round glasses, hoping to swallow it in one gulp.

"What are you looking at? You can't be serious! " The landlord's wife's face is covered with thick white powder, which looks like donkey dung and egg icing. Her fat body and trembling flowers were tightly tied to a silk cheongsam, and she squinted at the old landlord.

The old landlord snorted and looked away reluctantly.

Xiaoyu walked into the kitchen smartly and quickly. She is clever, diligent and simple.

At this point in the story, Mei and I have crossed the stone pier of the river from school, crossed an empty street in the evening, walked halfway and almost got home.

The road from school to home is about two miles. How many times have we traveled back and forth? Four trips a day from grade one to grade one.

A road, from childhood to adolescence.

From the lush greenery of the mountains and plains, the blooming spring of the mountains and flowers, to the summer rain in which everything grows, the green straw in the field glows with green waves in the wind; From sweet-scented osmanthus, golden rice, chestnut covered with tile beams and fruitful autumn colors, we walked towards the snow-covered and mountainous path far and near.

May went on telling her story.

That night, Dalin came home, didn't want to take a shower, and lay down with his clothes on. His parents called him and he didn't say anything.

In the blink of an eye, another year passed. Dalin 2 1 years old, he is already a handsome young man. /kloc-at the age of 0/8, Xiaoyu really changed from a big girl to a big girl, and she became more and more beautiful.

At this point, we have reached the crossroads.

"What happened later?"

"Let's talk about it after school tomorrow."

We go home separately.

Mei's father became ill later, and his throat was hard to swallow. At that time, his hometown people called this disease "Sturged disease". In the past, when old people quarreled, they would viciously curse others: "Why can't you get sick and die!" It's actually esophageal cancer.

At that time, there was no cooperative medical care. When she was sick, she could only carry it on her own, and her father's body gradually weakened. Later, when I was twenty, I left my hometown to work. I heard that her father passed away.

Mei's mother is getting worse and worse. She often listens to herself when hoeing in the garden. Sometimes she suddenly swears. She's completely crazy!

Mei's mother became pregnant shortly after her father died. That little sister is 18 years younger than her. When I came back from other places to pick vegetables in the garden, I saw her mother weeding with a little girl. That little girl looks like an angel! I am surprised to see such a beautiful little girl! Looks like a child in a fairy tale. She's standing next to crazy mom? Look at me with big black eyes. I sigh, it is a pity to be born in such a family!

Thankfully, the little girl is very healthy.

It is an open secret that the women in the bay whisper to each other in private. They don't know who the girl was born to by her mother. I want to know which man took advantage of someone's danger to invade this crazy woman who was about thirty-eight years old at that time. So far, no one has been able to solve this secret.

May has gone to work in Beijing. Later, I heard that she and her lover sold pirated books in Beijing and made a lot of money.

Times have changed and people have gone their separate ways. They haven't seen May for many years. I heard that she has never given birth to or adopted children, and their lives are very happy.

Mei's younger brother also went to work in other places when he became an adult.

Mei's elder sister will be fifteen years old in a flash. I don't know why, Dale's women found her belly getting bigger. Everyone thought she was suffering from abdominal distension at first, but as time went on, her stomach became bigger and bigger. How can a little girl with mental disorder be pregnant without marriage?

Her kind aunt began to interrogate her. What happened? She was confused and couldn't say for sure. All she knew was that a man had bullied her, and she couldn't name her.

Her aunt took her to the hospital for examination, and as a result, she got pregnant. What a sin! Bullying a mentally retarded woman, who did this! In the countryside, who can I talk to without proof of such a thing? Her aunt accompanied her to have an abortion.

Less than two years later, Mei's mother died, and she may not be sixty when she left.

I returned to my hometown in June and July. Standing in the yard, a gust of wind blew and smelled the fragrance of lotus. I stood at the gate, my thoughts drifting away, thinking of the story told by Mei. ...

Dalin likes Xiaoyu, and Xiaoyu likes Dalin. They hit it off with each other, and they decided to live together for life.

Besides, the rich man has taken a fancy to jade and is ready to accept it as his second wife. His first wife could not stop him. Choose an auspicious day, the landlord's house will be decorated with lights and the wedding will be jubilant. Xiaoyu vowed to die, but she was a poor orphan, weak, and Dalin was very worried.

Just when everyone was depressed, only one person shouted, "No! Not good! Jade beam and jade girl! " The rich old man drank the wedding banquet happily. When he heard that he was half awake, everyone fell into chaos. At this moment, I suddenly saw a hairy dog jumping out of the room with jade in its mouth! Dalin and some young people followed him all the way to a cave. When Mao Goujian saw it, he put down the jade and fled!

Besides, the rich old man died because he was in a hurry and choked on his throat with phlegm!

Dalin untied the jade neckline and cried sadly. After all this trouble, Xiaoyu suddenly began to cry with a "wow", and Dalin also cried with joy in her arms.

Dalin returned home with Xiaoyu, and a couple of young people in doomed love finally got married.

In order to thank Mao Goujing for saving his life, Dalin came to the cave with jade, but Mao Goujing had already disappeared without a trace.

The legend of childhood remains in the depths of memory. They accompany us through childhood and adolescence when we are short of materials, and also accompany us through the pure friendship between our companions.

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The sunset glow reddened the western sky and painted a golden glow on the distant mountains. I strolled through the ridge in front of the door, and the path leading to Mei's house was covered with grass and wild flowers. I saw blue flowers blooming among the leaves like bamboo leaves on the roadside. Those familiar flowers remind me that both sides of the road where Mei went to school were once full of such blue flowers. I pinched a branch and held it in my hand and walked slowly to the lotus pond in front of Mei's house.

Lotus leaf is like a lid, higher than my head. I was very low when I was a child. Lotus leaf is like a green umbrella, swaying gently with the wind, and a drop of water ripples in the center of the lotus leaf like a pearl. Elegant lotus flowers grow freely in this lotus pond. The slate for washing vegetables and drying clothes by the old lotus pond is still there. Things are different. The Chai Fei straw house of Mei family has already been replaced by a new tile house with cement stone walls.

I met Mei's elder sister. She looks exactly like her mother, tall and thin. I wonder if she is doing well. I haven't seen May for a long time. I wonder if she remembers the story of her childhood?