The warm winter sun shone thinly over the village, and Bai Lotus and Qin Xiaozu sat side by side on the ridges, with tall jacarandas and a low tomb behind them.

"For as long as I can remember, my whole family has told me that my mother died when I was born, that person was not close to me, and that my aunt was like my mother, the closest person I was to in the world other than my grandparents. It wasn't until I was eight years old that I overheard my grandparents' conversation, and I didn't know that my mother was still alive, she lived in Jacaranda, and she gave birth to me without marrying that person, and the reason why my grandfather talked about my mother with my grandmother was because my mother was very sick at that time......"

Qin Xiaojin fell into the memory, and the sadness in his heart overflowed and flowed all over his cheeks.

"It turns out that I don't only have an aunt, I also have a mother, she must love me very much, she just can't walk into the big villa of the Qin family because she didn't marry that person, she must miss me very much, miss her biological son me, but she lives alone in this village, not only can't see me, but also has a serious illness, she is so sick that she is dying, she must miss her only son very much, right? She must have loved to see her son before she died......"

Qin Xiaojin's tears fell in strings.

Bai He stretched out his hand, took Qin Xiaojin into his arms, and patted his head like a mother.

In the final analysis, she and Qin Xiaojin are both fallen people at the end of the world, and each has its own pitiful.

And she is a mother, and she can't see a son so sad.

Qin Xiaojin leaned on Bai He's shoulder, like a small boat drifting for many years, and finally found a ferry port where he could rest, and his tone was much calmer.

He said quietly: "I cried and begged my aunt to take me to the Jacaranda Dock to see my mother, my mother is dying, I will never see my mother again, I want to know what my mother looks like, but the person refuses, no matter how I cry and beg, the person just refuses, until I finally cry and faint, my aunt secretly brought me to the Jacaranda Dock......"

Qin Xiaojin's tears blurred his vision again.

"When I first came to Jacaranda, it was spring, and the whole Jacaranda was full of blue-purple jacarandas, which were as beautiful as a fairyland......

Bai He listened to Qin Xiaojin's slightly vicissitudes of life, and said in his heart: At that time, you were only a seven or eight-year-old child, and now you have gone through twenty or thirty years, just like this jacaranda.

"My aunt pointed to a woman who was working on the side of the road and said to me, that is my mother, but I have an agreement with my aunt in advance, she can take me to Jacarando, but I can't recognize my mother, I have to appear in front of my mother as a stranger......"

Qin Xiaojin said and walked away from Bai He's shoulder, turned his head to look at Bai He fixedly, with a self-deprecating smile.

"My aunt let go of my hand, and I walked towards my mother with excitement, but I stood in front of her and could only call her 'Auntie'......"

Qin Xiaojin bit his lip, as if he wanted to bite the claim of twenty years ago, but he couldn't go back.

"My mother finally looked up and saw me, and I looked down to see her, and it was the first time we saw mother and son. As my grandfather told my grandmother, my mother was very sick and haggard, but she was still beautiful and kind......"

Qin Xiaojin looked at the white lotus in front of him, and he found that the woman in front of him had a temperament quite similar to the mother in his memory, they were all women with clear eyebrows, with a clean and ethereal temperament.

No wonder when he first saw Bai He, he felt that she had a sense of intimacy, as if he had known him for many years.

"At that time, my mother was still planting jacaranda ...... with her sick body"

Qin Xiaojin's thoughts seemed to return to that spring morning twenty years ago.

He stood in front of his mother, his head bowed, and his eyes were on his mother's long hair, and a jacaranda petal fell from the end of it, and the soulful blue-purple set off the dark serene and cold.

His mother first saw his little feet, standing in the dirt, his white shoes with scattered mud stains.

When his mother raised her head, he wanted to cry, but the tears were replaced by an excited smile.

"Auntie, what are you doing?" He glanced at his aunt under the jacaranda tree in the distance, held back his excitement, and asked as if nothing had happened.

"I'm planting trees." The mother's voice is very gentle, and her smile is very sweet, but her sick appearance is already very haggard, which makes people feel distressed and want to cry.

"What kind of tree did Auntie plant?" He crouched down and watched his mother's every move curiously.

"I'm planting jacaranda," my mother patiently explained, "and they can be planted by sowing seeds or cuttings. ”

"Is that auntie cutting now?" Qin Xiaojin looked at the very thick branch in her hand and asked.

His mother smiled and complimented him, "You are so smart. ”

"For cuttings, we should choose thicker branches as cuttings, which will improve the survival rate of jacaranda." Although my mother was sick, she was very quick to work.

"Then can I still see how Auntie sows seeds?" Qin Xiaojin asked, he just wanted to see his mother for a while.

Mother shook her head, "I can't see it now, the jacaranda fruit is ripe around November every year, and the fruit should be placed in a windless place for exposure after picking, and then stored after the seeds are dried, and then sown in the spring of the next year, but last year I was sick and didn't have time to pick the jacaranda fruit...... So you can't see it. ”

Qin Xiaojin's tears quietly floated into his eyes, yes, he couldn't see it anymore, because his mother was going to die.

"Auntie, won't you ask my name?" Qin Xiaojin asked expectantly.

"Oh, what's your name?"

"My name is Qin Xiaozu." He pronounced his surname very seriously, such a special surname, exactly the same surname as that person, his mother should always guess his identity, right?

But no, the mother just said "oh" and went on planting her jacarandas.

He cried and walked back to his aunt, who touched his head and said, "Ozu, it's time for us to go back." ”

"No, I want to stay, I want to spend time with her, she's very sick, she's dying." Qin Xiaojin had to make a request inch by inch.

Qin Hu said: "Ozu, you can't be so willful. ”

"I'm not willful, but I'm going to cry." He said with a well-behaved and sensible appearance.

Qin Hu sighed, so he stayed in the Blue Flower Dock......