Flos Sophorae

It is said that when the locust blossoms, summer is coming. Some chance encounters are better than deliberate arrangements. I met the locust blossoms. One afternoon at the end of April, I accompanied my old father to the Changshou Island Wetland Park to see the peonies. After Grain Rain, the peonies had withered and there was little left. We followed the country road and came to a forest on the island. It was originally aimed at the peonies, but I didn't want to meet the fragrance of locust flowers all over the tree.

Walking in the verdant woods, the air in the Wetland Park is more fresh after Grain Rain. My family and I talked softly as we walked along a winding path paved with square bricks. The trees quietly exude the smell of nature, the green leaves cover the whole sky, and the grass stays cleverly at the foot of the trees.

Suddenly, a sweet smell came to the nostrils. The kind of sudden burst into the fragrance, there are strong, but also tranquil, temporarily do not know how to describe this unique fragrance. Following the taste, we walked to a row of locust trees. Still a little far away from the locust tree, led by the fragrance, I saw a white flower blooming in the distance.

The locust blossoms bloomed before and after the Beginning of Summer. No, no, no. Seen from afar, it seems that it has snowed. Taking a closer look, there is a girl wearing a hat and a long skirt under the locust tree, taking a picture of the locust flower. Sophora flower and girl set off each other, elegant and lively combination, outline the most beautiful picture in spring.

I stood under the locust tree and looked affectionately at the clusters of white locust flowers in front of me. The fragrance of the locust flowers has been shrouded in the whole body, and the internal organs are soaked by the fragrance of these locust flowers. The past comes to mind, in the old year, I met a flower girl, carrying a basket of locust flowers, while the red light, knocking on the windows of each car, hawking her locust flowers.

When I met someone who sold flowers, I went on a business trip to the streets of Wuhan. The long queue stopped at the red light and I was sitting in the taxi when I heard the sound of knocking on the window, rolling down the window, and the florist warmly greeted: miss, buy a bunch of flowers, one yuan a string. Looking at that one in the sun, with a yearning face, I handed out a dollar and bought a bunch of locust flowers.

Although it is a yuan of flowers, this string of locust flowers is exquisite and moving. The florist uses the white bottom line of the soles to string the locust flowers into the shape of a bracelet. The fragrance of the flowers can be worn on the wrist or hung in any place they like. It is with my heart, even if it is a small business, there are all kinds of thoughts in it.

Put on the locust flower hand string and thought: if there is a way out, the flower girl will not be shuttling through the busy traffic. In order to make a living, do not consider being exposed to direct sunlight, regardless of their own safety. Is what kind of life, should have been delicate women, become so rough. Everyone has his own difficulties in life, and so is everyone.

The mind returned to the locust tree in front of me, and the flowers hung on the tree trunk like a string of wind chimes. Elegant white, meticulous broken flowers, completely from the ancient poetry, come out of the appearance of a woman in a white cotton dress. The timid beauty is careful and cannot be concealed. Huaihua, that's what it is, little Jasper.

We talked about locust flowers, the aunt said: everybody pick some locust flowers, tomorrow I will make you locust flower cakes. The aunt told us that we can make many kinds of food with locust flowers, including fried locust flowers with eggs, white flour locust flower cakes, steamed locust flower dumplings, and brewed locust nectar. As soon as I heard about making locust cakes, my father rolled up his sleeves and began. The branches of Sophora japonica have thorns. I am not very skilled, so I can only take my time. A string of plucks, while an experienced father shuffles several strings. Because the locust flowers bloomed densely, they were soon filled with plastic bags.

I don't know when eating locust flowers was handed down. I wonder if Shennong, when picking medicine, smelled the sweetness of locust flowers, picked them and put them in his mouth. As a result, there is an allusion that the entrance of Sophora japonica can eat later.

I picked a few extra strings of locust flowers with leaflets and got a willow stick on the next willow tree to wear together. A bunch of beautiful locust flowers bloomed in my hand. Put it in the car, the car is immediately filled with the smell of locust flowers, human affection, locust flower fragrance, are melted together.

It was about six o'clock in the evening when I left Changshou Island. A chance encounter takes the place of a special arrangement, and life is really live and very interesting. We do not know when we will meet what kind of people, where will meet what kind of things, will meet a tree of locust flowers in a certain afternoon, will think of the past in the fragrance of locust flowers.

Locust flowers are probably accustomed to being born in the wild and are not kept in captivity, so they can never meet each other only by chance. The seemingly docile locust flower actually has its own personality. It has its own ideas in its simplicity and elegance and strong in its tranquillity. Bai Juyi wrote in the poem: when a cicada makes a sound, the locust flower takes two branches. Some poets also wrote: in front of the independent Buddha hall at dusk, the ground is full of locust flowers and tree cicadas.

When the locust blossoms, summer is coming.

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