The Most Simple Wish

At the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, the weather is still hot in Dai Township, where there is no obvious distinction between the four seasons. Autumn lotus looked up at a corner of the sky, the whole clear sky high cloud light, not a bird. Transparent silk cloud, in the infinite height of the air gradually dispersed, become no trace.

"It's so blue." Qiuhe looks at the background of the sky, like the pupil of cat's eye gem, and engraves the blue. Silk cloud, as if flowing on her eye mask.

She had dreamed many times that she could fly out of thin air, towards the sun, towards the place with light. All the constraints life brought to her were gone. The farm work and housework in the tea field were knocked down by her like a shackle. In the dream, she suddenly felt very relaxed, she got rid of her grandfather and grandmother, life has never been so good. In reality, only when she dances peacock under the stars can she feel the freedom.

She wanted to fly. She felt that she longed for wings more than anyone else. When she devotes herself to her inner world, she will become more powerful.

But after waking up, Qiuhe feels guilty again. How can she get rid of her grandparents? She's the only spiritual support in the family. She has the ability to leave and wants to be free, but she just can't. She is imprisoned by life, but not defeated by it. She would not flinch, lying on the bamboo bed in the hut, her eyes open in the dark, she thought so.

In the quiet afternoon of dachacun, there is no activity. Even dachacun primary school can't hear the students' recitation. They are all on lunch break. Only Qiuhe is active. She takes back her sight from a corner of the sky and walks by the stream outside the village. She is returning from the tea field.

Compared with half a year ago, Qiuhe's hair turned yellow and black. It can be seen that she has changed a lot, her height is growing, and her eyes are more and more bright. Inside the white eye like egg white, there are always water lines flowing on the crystal like cat's eye gem. God has given the girl a pair of eyes that people dare not look at each other and can speak. It seems to be endowed with life.

Qiuhe cut her hair by herself. For the convenience of work, once her hair was over her shoulder, she cut it at the waist with scissors, leaving her hair just under her chin and over her ears. This is contrary to Dai women's habit of growing long hair or braiding. Besides, she was tanned even more.

Also tired of more thin.

She picked some tea. This is the last time in autumn. It should be counted as autumn tea. There are only one basket of tea. Look at the leaves. The quality of tea is not very good. The tea field managed by her little child is not as good as other families. This is mainly because her family has no money to buy fertilizer, herbicides and insecticides.

Autumn lotus looked at his palm, which was covered with green pulp of grass leaves. In the whole summer and autumn, she used her hands to weed hundreds of times, but the weeds still grow wildly. After the rain in the tea field, weeds like recovery in general, three days can make the red soil become green.

"If only there was a bottle of herbicide. This tea field of my family has never been sprayed with herbicides. The land is the most fertile, so it is most willing to grow grass. The vitality of grass is too strong. " Qiu He often talks to himself. No one listens to her and few people talk to her. She has an active self deep in her mind. In her inner world, she has countless words to talk to. She has to talk to herself to release her inner world.

——The wild fire is endless, and the spring wind blows again.

As she walked along, she looked back at the vast tea terraces, and went up step by step. The tea terraces were like dark green waves, rushing towards the top of the mountain, where they met the sky. She thought of the poem she overheard outside dachacun primary school. She only listened once and learned.

Passing by the gate of dachacun primary school, Qiuhe saw the five-star red flag fluttering. She hesitated to think, do you want to stay here for a while? After noon, she listened to what the children of dachacun primary school learned. With luck, she could hear something of value. But on second thought, she thought it was better to forget it. Those people didn't like themselves. They were born with malice towards orphans. But Qiu he doesn't have the same opinion with them. She thinks that she also has more important things to do. Why do you want to compromise and compete with xiaowazi for the study time that originally didn't belong to her?

She comforted to think that she and those little kids are people of two worlds. Little Wazi will never understand the taste of working in the hot sun, let alone the joy of dancing in the starry sky.

It was her own paradise.

It is her strong inner world that makes her have amazing self-healing ability. She can not care about the discrimination, disgust and dislike of her peers. She can even look directly at the malicious eyes of others, quiet as if the earth has stopped rotating. She felt that a "grown-up" should not be bothered with a little boy. Even though she is just a humble orphan.

Qiuhe was not born an orphan. Her grandparents told her that when she was a baby, she was probably less than three years old, and her parents never came back because of an accident. Qiu he asked how he died, but his grandparents pondered and did not answer. After that, Qiuhe never asked again.

But as she grew up, she gradually understood the truth about her father and mother leaving her without saying goodbye.

She hid it in her heart and covered it with a pile of pebbles. She didn't go to her grandparents to confirm her guess, because she knew that what she heard must be the truth.

The complete male peacock's tail plume tells everything. She didn't cry even once because of the rumors of her parents. The stretched string was deeply pressed in her heart. Sometimes she could even hear the sound of splitting the silk because the string was stretched too tightly.

In her memory, only a few memory fragments often come to her mind. It was a few fragments of the Dai Peacock dance. As for the appearance of her parents, it was vague in her memory. After being sensible, Qiuhe also danced the peacock dance, and regarded the traditional peacock dance as his greatest pleasure.

She is always dancing in a silent environment, intoxicated with herself. In her mind, she constantly flashed the blurred and distant figure of her father and mother, as well as the green plume inserted on the frame. Because no one beat the elephant foot drum for her, all the sounds she felt came from the bottom of her heart. I remember that a Liang made a little elephant foot drum, and promised to dance with it during the celebration of the open door Festival. But it didn't end up.

Qiuhe is not disappointed with such a promise, but she has no hope at all.

She soon passed dachacun primary school, and no one noticed her figure. She picked up the basket and passed by the gate of her house and the small temple at the foot of the mountain. Go straight to dacha mountain.

I have been going up the mountain every day for some time. From the foot of the mountain, she followed the mountain road to the hillside of dacha mountain and walked back to the zigzag route to drive away the animals that might disturb the Green Peacock. Green Peacock likes cool environment, gregarious and quiet. Any little disturbance will affect their habitat and reproduction. Dai township was once known as the "hometown of peacocks", green peacock is the auspicious bird of Dai people. Qiuhe almost stubbornly believes that as long as the environment is suitable for green peacocks to survive, they will eventually fly back, or they have never left Dai Township, but they are too scared to come out.

After walking all over the hillside, Qiuhe went to the deep of dacha mountain, or walked through every bush with a zigzag route. She knew that this was a drop in the ocean, because dachasan was so big that it surrounded the whole Dai Township and even the whole Mengla County. Besides dacha mountain, there are more and more lofty mountains, which are more and more steep. That's why Dai people can't get out of the mountains.

No one can go all over the mountains, and no one has ever been to the depths of dacha mountain. But Qiuhe thinks that she has already set foot on this road, and she can't stop until the last moment. She vaguely heard that kind of melodious with the end of the call, melodious like the migration of geese, the pilot of the only sound, and the cat's whine similar. It's not the sound of pheasants, not even birds. She must find an answer, either let her see the animal making the sound with her own eyes, or let her go further, otherwise she will never be reconciled.

Even if you just walk around the mountains near dacha village, it will take at least three years. Qiuhe thinks his time is not worth money, just years. She is willing to spend more three years and go as far as possible. If she can't walk, she may not have any hope. If the mountain could swallow a person, she would like to swallow her as well.

In the afternoon, Qiuhe had already climbed the hillside. She took a sip of the water she brought with her and went into the dense forest of dacha mountain. Straight fir forest endless, the top of the sun can only squeeze in from the crevice of the high crown, fall on the ground with thick leaves, leaving only a little light. Qiuhe stands in the forest, surrounded by tree trunks, as if into a four-dimensional space, surrounded by tree trunks, from every angle and direction, are neatly lined up in the endless darkness.

Here is a real primeval forest where Dai people never come in, full of the smell of decaying leaves. The girl was in the same place, and at one time she shrank. She knew that if she wanted to go deep, she had to find a way to mark it, otherwise she would be swallowed by the mountain.

If such misfortune happens, grandparents will have no support, and they will miss her very much.

She began to think of a Liang, the only one in the village who was willing to talk to her. A few days ago, he also began to walk around the mountain all day. But he didn't believe there were green peacocks on dacha mountain. But Qiu he didn't understand why he was doing the same thing with her. Maybe now with him, he would be able to go deep without turning back. But he wasn't there.

Finally, Qiuhe chose to go deep. She left a mark on the tree trunk with the tea in the basket.

Birdsong is very lively and reverberates in the forest.

I don't know how long I've been walking, the fir trees in front of me become sparse, and more sunlight falls on the ground. Qiu he licked his cracked lips. Suddenly, a familiar cry shocked Qiu He. Then she saw that in the mottled light and shadow cast by the sun from the sieve, there were several blue-green chicken species pecking at each other, dragging their long tail feathers

Qiuhe felt that in an instant, blood flowed back in his body, and the basket of tea fell to the ground. Her tired body trembled. She held the tree trunk beside her and couldn't move her legs any more.

She felt as if she had suffered a great shock, and the muscles of her mouth could not help beating. The eye mask was immediately covered with water mist.

Then, the Green Peacock's call came one after another. It was the kind of voice she had ever heard.

Qiu He's eyes gradually softened, and she swallowed her saliva. Little body more and more heavy, she was quite tired, sliding down against the trunk, squatting there. She breathed heavily, but she felt satisfied. Now, she can firmly say that her persistence and dedication are completely worth it.

At this moment, no one can understand her happiness.

The discovery of Green Peacock is like a light in her world. In Qiu He's outlook on life, the suffering of life is not bright. If you want to stick to it, you need to use extra light. And light is not within reach, it needs to be found. Finding the Green Peacock, or dancing peacock under the starlight, is her hard-earned light in the lightless life. Over time, it has become her belief.

Green peacocks are naturally vigilant. They peck at each step and look at each other. She didn't dare to make any noise so as not to startle these delicate fellows. Now that they are found, it is enough to show that the environment of Dai village is suitable for them to survive. The decision of autumn lotus to travel all over dacha mountain can also be put down temporarily.

Qiuhe concentrates on watching the peacocks' movements and tries to record all their appearances and characteristics. There are five of them, some with gorgeous tail feathers, some with short tail feathers and crown feathers on the head, and two of them are smaller. They should be young birds.

This is a group of green peacocks, no doubt, as long as there is this group of perched here, there may be another group.

A few years ago, Dai township was recognized that the Wild Green Peacock had disappeared. They may have left for a short time, or they may be in the deeper part of dachasan, which makes it difficult for people to trace them. Ten years ago, several young people in Dai Township spontaneously organized to do their part for the peacock habitat, in order to drive the wild boar out of the Green Peacock habitat. They went deep into the great tea mountain.

Qiu he heard that several people went into the mountain and never came back. Unconsciously, ten years later, a little girl of hers is doing the same thing with those young people. Is it a coincidence or a fate?

She was obviously lucky. She saw the Green Peacock playing freely in the depths of the big tea mountain. She witnessed the fact that the Green Peacock is now in the depths of the big tea mountain. This is the result of countless times she went up the mountain. Maybe it is because she scared other animals away that the Green Peacock can have a quiet home. But she didn't dare to take the credit alone. Maybe the Green Peacock won't stay until now without those people who drove wild boars ten years ago; Or maybe not back home. But those people can no longer see today's gratifying scene, and can no longer hear the cry of the Green Peacock.

Several people's wishes came true, ten years after they never came back.

Qiuhe didn't want to recall the past ten years ago, but she already knew that was the truth. Although she buried in the bottom of her heart and did not want to admit it, she was just cheating herself. She was an orphan! The tight string at the bottom of her heart couldn't be tightened for an inch any more. She heard a "clatter" in her heart, like a broken screw or spring.

She looked at the deep fir forest and finally began to cry.