I saw that this person was about forty years old, with a dark and red face, and he looked very honest, as soon as he entered the house, he asked Yun Mei'er and Xiao Ye with a kind face: "Why, two young people, I was listening to the dot in the yard just now, and I heard that you came to our hundred-year-old willow in the willow ditch?" ”

"You're ....... Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" Xiao Ye asked suspiciously.

"He is my nephew, the village chief of Liushugou Village." When the old man saw that his nephew was coming, he introduced Xiao Ye and Yun Mei'er.

After a pause, the old man seemed to suddenly think of something, so he asked the village chief, "By the way, Xiaowei, how is your father doing?" ”

It turned out that the village chief's nickname was Xiaowei, and his father was a stroke patient who had been lying on the kang for nearly a year, and had even been to the hospital countless times, but to no avail, and was now in a semi-paralyzed state.

"It's still like that, it's not getting better."

Village Chief Xiaowei sighed bitterly, and as he spoke, he sat down on one of the most comfortable looking chairs on the ground.

"Sit, children."

Village Chief Xiaowei pointed to the two seats beside him and motioned for Xiao Ye and Yun Mei'er to sit down and speak.

Seeing that this Xiaowei village chief was very decent in terms of appearance and tone of speech, the young boys and girls also sat down beside the village chief.

The old man then introduced: "These two children are from the city, and they have just done good deeds and brought me a bad old man." Oh, by the way, Xiaowei, they want a willow fork of the hundred-year-old willow in our village. ”

"yes, we're going to have a fork." Xiao Ye took the opportunity to hurriedly answer.

"Want a fork?"

After Xiao Wei finished speaking, Village Chief Xiaowei was silent for a while, looking at Xiao Ye and Yun Mei'er's expectant eyes, he finally spoke: "That's it, two children, I'll take you to the hundred-year-old willow first, and then explain to you the hundred-year-old willow." Finally, let's look at the question of whether to fork or not, shall we? ”

"That's a good feeling." When Yun Mei'er and Xiao Ye heard that the village chief was going to take them to see the legendary hundred-year-old willow in person, they couldn't help but be confused by Dole's fart.

The boy and girl said goodbye to the old man happily and followed the village chief out of the gate of the old man's house.

Looking at the two young people who were gradually moving away, the old man sitting on the kang couldn't help but show a wicked smile on his face, and said to himself: "These two stupid children, it's still happy, after you see the real hundred-year-old willow, there will be a time for you two to cry." ”

Following a few winding paths and sparse doorways of a few households, after about ten minutes, the village chief Xiaowei finally led the boys and girls to a graceful willow tree.

It is said that it came to the side, but in fact, it is not, because the hundred-year-old willow is surrounded by a low wall made of red bricks and green tiles, and in the south, an incense burner is also built, which is undoubtedly a special place of worship for local people. From these two points, it is obvious how much importance the locals attach to this century-old willow.

On closer inspection, this large willow tree with a height of tens of meters has a vigorous momentum that covers the sky and the sun, and I can see that the leaves of this tree are in the shape of a lanceolate, narrow and long, about 6 to 14 centimeters long, about 5 to 12 millimeters wide, and there are thin serrations on the edges.

And what about willow branches?

After an introduction by the village chief of Xiaowei, the boy and girl learned that this willow branch originally belonged to a deciduous tree, and the willow branches of the willow tree were slender and long, soft and drooping, brownish green, and graceful in shape.

"Village Chief, is this hundred-year-old willow really a hundred years old?" Yun Meier quietly admired the hundred-year-old willow for a long time, and felt that this willow tree stood here, and its temperament was really a little different.

"It's not just a hundred years, it's six or seven hundred years old." Village Chief Xiaowei said with a smile.

"Oh my God! Six or seven hundred years? Yun Mei'er and Xiao Ye opened their mouths wide in surprise at the same time.

"So, if you want to easily cut down a branch of a hundred-year-old willow, to be honest, it's really difficult, even if I want to, even the local people won't."

When the village chief said this, he couldn't help but point to the incense burner in front of the hundred-year-old willow, and then said to the young man in a serious tone: "You see, our local people regard this hundred-year-old willow as a treasure and want to worship it. Therefore, in the hearts of the people of Liushugou, this hundred-year-old willow is a god-like existence, and it cannot be trampled on by outsiders. ”

"How can we trample on it, we want to ......."

Xiao Ye was just about to explain the reason to the village chief of Xiaowei, but he was cut off by the other party and said: "This hundred-year-old willow is full of treasures, and the leaves can cure people's diseases, this leaf, after being washed with water, can also cure malaria, diuretic, laxative, and can also cure a disease of urinary retention, I heard that the disease of urinary retention can be tormenting, but as long as you drink the potion soaked in the willow leaves of the hundred-year-old willow, you can be safe." ”

"Village chief, it is precisely because it is full of treasures that we want a tree branch, and we also want to treat ......." Yun Mei'er faced the chattering village chief, and hurriedly interjected, but unexpectedly, as soon as she inserted it, she was interrupted by the village chief again.

Village Chief Xiaowei only cared about introducing the benefits of this hundred-year-old willow, and as for the rest, he didn't seem to be able to listen to half a word at all.

"Our whole village loves and respects this hundred-year-old willow, and all take care of it, whether it is the elderly or children, as long as we see the hundred-year-old willow, we will bow down to it. If there are outsiders picking willow branches, dried willows, or even picking leaves, the leaves can only be divided from house to house when they fall off naturally, unless there are people who are suddenly ill, they can be divided into some fresh leaves, in short, every leaf is a treasure. ”

"Village chief, do you know, since this hundred-year-old willow is full of treasures, then this is the purpose of our trip, my old man, that is, my father, he ......." Xiao Ye was so anxious that he was about to cry, this village chief, why didn't he let people interject. This...... What's wrong with this?

When Yun Mei'er saw this situation, she also hurriedly looked at Village Chief Xiaowei with her eyes.

As Xiao Ye expected, the village chief just didn't let them interject, he cut off Xiao Ye's words again, and then said: "These hundred years of willows have never given birth to insects, and it is said that they have never given birth to insects since they were children. ”

"Village Chief!"

Xiao Ye was in a hurry, and slapped on a big bell next to him, only to hear a muffled sound, it turned out that this was the alarm bell, and as soon as this bell rang, it meant that all the villagers were going to have a meeting in front of the hundred-year-old willow.

But Xiao Ye, who didn't know anything about it, slapped three times in a row, and in this way, in front of the hundred-year-old willow, he began to gather villagers here in twos and threes.

"What's wrong, village chief?" People asked the village chief Xiaowei one after another, their faces were full of surprise, thinking that something big had happened in the village.

The village chief saw that everyone was coming, so he simply said to Xiao Ye: "Young man, you see everyone is here." If there's anything to talk to, tell the big guy, about this willow tree, I said it's not me alone. If you want a branch, you've got to nod from the big guy. ”

In order to make the villagers gather more, the village chief rang the bell for a long time, and then some of the households in Liushugou came with a representative, and some came to two or three, and in a short time, fifty or sixty villagers gathered in front of the hundred-year-old willow.

When the village chief saw that the people who came, he said to Xiao Ye again: "Young man, in front of the big guy, you can tell the reason for asking for the willow fork." Then every household votes to see if they can agree with you. ”

"What? He's going to use a willow fork, and that's not going to work. ”

"This hundred-year-old willow belongs to the god in the hearts of the people of Liushugou, and it is inviolable."

"If you want to use a willow fork, there is no door."

"Yes. There are no doors. ”

Before Xiao Ye could explain the reason for the willow fork, the people in the village stopped it one after another.

Feelings, there is a problem between the people in this village and the village chief, and they really don't let people interject, in this regard, Xiao Ye couldn't help but want to jump around.

Finally, a thin woman in a purple plaid top asked Xiao Ye: "What, this kid, what are you going to do with this willow fork?" ”

Xiao Ye glanced at the purple woman gratefully, breathed a long sigh of relief, and then after everyone was completely calm, Xiao Ye explained the reason seriously.

"Village chief, folks, do you know, my father turned out to be a polio patient, one leg is good, the other leg is not good, recently, unfortunately, there was a car accident, the good leg was also broken, so, he is now in urgent need of treatment, the rest of the drugs are almost found, just a hundred years old willow branch. So, the village elders, and the respectable and lovely fathers and villagers, can you break all the rules, behave well, and give us a little branch? ”

"No, absolutely not......." After everyone heard the reason, the opposition came again .......