"Watering? Do the peach trees in this mountain forest still need to be watered? Cher asked curiously.

Zhang Tao smiled embarrassedly, and soon said seriously: "We are not ordinary watering, we are watering him with our saliva under the roots of this peach tree!" I guess that the peach tree was so green and the peaches were so big had a lot to do with our saliva watering it. ”

"That's how you watered!" Cher couldn't help but burst out laughing.

After a while, Xue'er stopped laughing, pulled Zhang Tao's arm and shook it, begging like a coquettish: "Go on!" Brother Tao, what you said is too flavorful. ”

Zhang Tao's heart fluttered, and he almost had the urge to put his hands into Xue'er's chest to pick peaches. However, the presence of such a thick mosquito around his neck made him feel a little out of place and mood, so he had to put away this urge and continue to talk about the peaches.

"Of course we were angry, and it was very, very angry! Provoke us children who are not afraid of heaven and earth, does he have good fruit at his roots? The next year we started stealing his peaches. As soon as he took a nap, dozens of us children swarmed up, stoned and struck with long poles. I got a few peaches and scattered them in a hurry.

"Gengen naturally jumped like thunder, rushed over and wanted to arrest people. He just grabbed people, and he didn't dare to hit people, and the arrested people would play tricks, cry and make trouble, and get entangled with him. The rest of us will take advantage of this opportunity to continue stealing peaches.

"When we had almost a peach in our hands, we stood far away from him and ate it, and ate it with relish, and ate it with great vigour, so angry that he barely vomited blood.

"Later, he went to our school to complain, and we were all criticized by the teachers and beaten by our parents. We hated him even more, hated him so much that we made him our number one enemy. The following year we took revenge even more thoroughly. As soon as the peaches grew, we began to steal, and when the peaches were ripe, the whole tree was so clean that only a few leaves remained. Now he can be obedient, he only needs to negotiate with us for peace, and promise to help him do things in the future, so he can exchange peaches to eat. ”

"What do you do for him?" Cher asked again.

"Help him cut down the mountain! After working hard for two peaches a day, where will this dead root do anything loss-making? Zhang Tao said angrily.

"You only change two peaches for a day, no wonder you hate him!" Cher said empathetically.

Zhang Tao sighed and said, "What I said was just when I was ignorant in my childhood, but in fact, Gengen is a good person, and his life is not easy." When I learned some things about him in junior high school, I became a warm relationship with him, and I became friends who could almost be said to have forgotten the years. I'll tell you about these things later! ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Tao pointed to the front with his hand and shouted loudly, "Look! It's the peach tree. ”

"It's... This ......," Cher was speechless in surprise. Looking in the direction of Zhang Tao's finger, all that fell into her eyes was a peach tree that was half dried up.

"The year before last, it was struck by an accidental lightning strike, which scorched its torso and robbed it of its ......youth," Zhang Tao said with a gloomy expression.

The roots of this peach tree are exposed to the ground, and moss has crawled on them. The trunk of the tree, which had been broken by lightning at the waist, was about five meters high, and it pointed desperately at the vast sky. The bark of the tree is somewhat charred and black, with a few green vines clinging to it. Most of the twisted branches had withered, and without exception they pointed to the sky, and the faint breath of life that came from the trunk of the tree stood firm. When a gust of mountain wind passed, their stiff bodies swayed with difficulty, as if they were angrily denouncing the injustice of heaven, and as if they were showing off the glory of yesterday. The branches that still had sparse leaves were not free and easy, they hung their heads shyly, avoiding the scorching gaze of the sun, sometimes sighing long, sometimes whimpering about their helplessness and misfortune.

Zhang Tao looked at this peach tree blankly, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion, how fragile life is! The wind is always blown away by the wind and rain, what an eternal truth this is!

At this moment, a cool, gentle mountain breeze blew, and dozens of birds came to the wind, landing on this dead tree that was almost lifeless, and sang the praises of this inconspicuous landing site. It can be seen that they like this dead tree that has been with them for a long time. The birds pecked at the brittle branches and smoothed their feathers with their beaks.

In the chirping of these little birds, under the light of the sun, and encouraged by the smile of the green vines on the trunk, the dead tree seemed to come alive again, and actually showed signs of life again. It stands proudly upright, showing its tenacity and brilliance to the mountains and forests. Thunder and lightning can't knock it down, wind and rain can't take it away, what a magical peach tree this is!

Every plant and tree in childhood can evoke a memory, either sad or sweet. A lot of things are changes in people, what changes are things, and what is shattered is childhood dreams.

Xue'er can quite understand Zhang Tao's mood at the moment, so she didn't disturb him, just quietly snuggled up to his side, looking at the surrounding scenery.

Gengen lived in several houses made entirely of trees and planks. In front is a courtyard fenced off by tree branches. From the fence gate to the house, there is a grape trellis with bunches of green grapes hanging from it. There are other fruit trees around the courtyard, mostly plum, orange, and peach trees. Except for the orange tree, which is full of green-skinned oranges, the fruit on the other fruit trees is almost completely plucked. What interests Cher the most is the clusters of blooming flowers in the courtyard. Standing far beyond the fence, you can smell the refreshing fragrance of these flowers.

"Wow!" Two tall wild dogs suddenly burst out of the mountain forest on the left and rushed towards the place where Zhang Tao and Xue'er were standing.

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