The old willow tree in Liuying Lane is wrapped in a circle of neon, and it lights up at night, like it is dotted with stars, making people think that it is a fairy tree in the sky.

Every time I see it, I think of the brilliant nebula I saw through the telescope. Is there such a tree in the nebula, rooted in a black hole, with branches spread in the Milky Way, standing in the night sky year after year and waving a little starlight?

The atmosphere of the New Year is not as good as it is every year, and there is no sign on the streets except for neon, lanterns and safety signs that no firecrackers are allowed. There are few people and cars on the street, except that it is deserted or deserted.

Lifelong flowers came out of the back door, habitually brought out a pot of Jivalian, and put the key under the pot. For more than a year, she did it every time she went out, what if she came back?

She came to Front Street, stood at the bar entrance for a moment, and then walked slowly along the street.

Lao Li's small supermarket was still open, and the old air conditioner was buzzing on the side wall. This is the first supermarket opened in Liuying Lane, and it was opened before the birth of the lifelong flower. I heard that it was a good time and business was very good. Later, there were more and more supermarkets, and there were hypermarkets nearby, so the small supermarkets were not very prosperous. Lao Li is also old, so he guards the tepid small supermarket to live for a long time.

Most of the people in Liuying Lane are looking forward to demolition, and they are resolutely opposed to being the only one who is like a lifelong flower, but there are still people who don't want to be demolished, and Lao Li is one of them.

Bishenghua lifted the plastic curtain of the supermarket, and the sensor at the door sounded "welcome", I don't know if it was out of power, or it was too old, and the voice was hoarse like an old man.

Lao Li was tidying up the shelves, and when he saw Bishenghua coming in, he smiled and said, "Yo, Huahua, what do you want to buy?" ”

"If you don't buy anything, just come in and have a look." Bishenghua said.

Lao Li was very happy: "Sit down, sit down, you know that the young people who come to see the old neighborhood if you don't buy anything these days, it's you!" ”

Bi Shenghua didn't sit down, just leaned on the front desk casually, and asked, "Brother Zhengyang and sister-in-law haven't come back yet?" Tomorrow is the New Year! ”

Lao Li sighed: "Alas, I married my daughter-in-law and forgot my father, saying that the doll was going to school, and she was in Australia for the New Year this year, and she won't come back." ”

"Isn't Australia on summer vacation right now?"

"Who's to say it isn't? I guess I have to make up for it. But Zhengyang said, when I am demolished here, let me also go to Australia to enjoy it. There was a hint of happy yearning in the wrinkled folds on Lao Li's face.

"You're not against demolition, are you?" Lifelong flowers are a bit strange.

Lao Li said: "Sooner or later, it will be demolished, and it is useless to oppose it." I said flowers, you can also look at the point, your grandfather said when he was there, the times are different, and the debts owed by the older generations do not need to be repaid by your juniors. ”

"I know." Bi Shenghua smiled, chatted with Lao Li for a few more words, and went out.

Further on is Boss Wu's Wusheng Noodle Restaurant, but it's closed. This is also an old shop, Boss Wu is a foreigner, he came to Wuzhong to do small business in the early years, starting with wonton picking, and later opened this shop. Bi Shenghua loved to come here to eat noodles when he was a child, and his family's Austrian stove noodles are well done, including fried fish, braised duck, stewed meat, and shrimp, which are full of delicious food and are not worse than those made in the century-old shops in Kunxian County.

Aoki and the crow also like to come here to eat noodles after they come, and the crow often chatters, except for the flower-like sauce elbow, the favorite thing to eat is the noodle toppings of this house.

Boss Wu has to go back to his hometown every year for the New Year, and once he goes back for more than half a month, he doesn't come back until after the Lantern Festival.

Next door to the Wusheng noodle restaurant is the ready-to-wear shop of the sixth aunt. Aunt Liu'er was a tailor in the old state-owned garment factory in the last century, and after the garment factory closed down, she opened this ready-to-wear shop in Liuying Lane.

At that time, many people were used to cutting a few feet of new cloth to make new clothes, and later everyone was used to going to the store to buy clothes, and they had to talk about the brand, and the ready-to-wear shop became a patching shop. A few years ago, Aunt Six was still wearing reading glasses and stepping on the sewing machine in the shop, repairing a zipper for the neighborhood, knocking on the hem of her pants or something. Later, the daughter of the sixth aunt gave birth to a second child, so she asked the sixth aunt to help take the child, and the shop was rented to a Shandong couple who made pancakes, but there was still the word "Nannan Garment Shop" on the door. Nan Nan is the milk name of the sixth aunt, and some people still call her that when she is old.

In front is Uncle Qian's house. Uncle Qian is arrogant, he doesn't open a store if he has a store, and he decorates it into an old-fashioned tavern, but he only entertains his old drinking friends to drink, and a sign is erected at the door: Private places, idlers are not allowed to enter. Some people say that he is overkill, and he can entertain friends at home and rent out the shop to make money. He said that he wanted to leave himself a comfortable face and make it easier for friends to enter and leave the door.

Uncle Qian likes to raise birds, has a starling, and used to always show off his starling's intelligence, but since the coal boss came to Liuying Lane, it seems that his starling is not very smart. Every time Uncle Qian saw Aoki come out to walk the birds, he would say: "Chat with the eighth child for a while, take us with you, my eighth child still can't speak!" The coal boss always turns his head in disgust: "The dead starling is too stupid!" ”

Bishenghua smiled when she thought of this. She walked forward slowly, looking from shop to shop, and the past was vivid.

However, sooner or later, it will have to be demolished!

No matter how much Bi Shenghua opposes, no matter how Huang Ziqiang helps, this place will be demolished sooner or later, and the old willow tree will be removed sooner or later.

And after the surveyors from the Garden Bureau came that day, she became more and more worried. She clearly remembered that the man said that there were tree roots for several miles, and this was similar to what she had heard from her grandfather!

She didn't know if the surveying and mapping union would go back to report 1510, if the leaders of the Garden and Cultural Bureau really took this seriously and came to study the bottom of this tree, what would happen? Maybe it will be protected as a particularly precious tree species, which is also a good thing, but the most afraid thing is that they have to dig out the roots of the tree to take a look, or use it as a gimmick to make money from tourism, then the tree is probably going to be finished.

She walked for a while, and before she knew it, she turned into the old alley on the side. Entering the alley is the old farmer's market, and the last vegetable farmers are holding their positions, shouting over and over again: the last half day, sell out and close the stalls!

Bi Shenghua walked through the alley next to the farmer's market and stopped in front of the Internet café.

The fire that made the people of Liuying Lane sigh more than 20 years ago was burned from here, and the old Liu family and the workers who worked in their woolen mill died that night.

Now it is known that the fire was planted by Liu Huai, but people at that time did not say so. At that time, it was rumored that it was Tianhuo, and it was someone in the Liu family who did something lacking in morality, which made God angry.

But when I was very young, sitting on my grandfather's lap and listening to the story, I heard a different version

Since a fire in the Hua family that year, all the mulberry trees around the mulberry camp have died, and since then there has not been a single mulberry tree for decades, whether it is transplanted or cuttings, it cannot be lived, but the willow trees have grown row after row. But a mulberry sapling grew in the compound of the Liu family's woolen factory.

Grandpa said that it was the revival of the soul of the thousand-year-old mulberry. So he went to the woollen mill to find work, and secretly took care of the mulberry trees. Later, the mulberry seedlings gradually grew up, but the Liu family cut them down because they thought the mulberry tree was in the way, leaving only a small tree root on the ground. Then Liu's house caught fire.

Grandpa actually didn't talk about the fire because the Liu family cut down mulberry trees, but Bi Shenghua automatically connected the two things in his mind.

Grandpa escaped the catastrophe because he went to the hospital when the fire caught fire, waiting for his little granddaughter to be born.

It was on that night that the lifelong flower was born.

Grandpa loves her very much, probably because she saved her grandfather's life when she first came to the world.

Although the fire has nothing to do with the life flower, after all, so many people have died, every time I hear someone mention it, I will feel creepy, as if I am a witness, struggling in the fire, and when there is nowhere to escape, I have to abandon my body, escape my soul, and hurriedly reincarnate.