Lagerstroemia indica

? "changchang, you know? There is also a nickname called osmanthus purple. " When I was a child, my father said to me.

? Shortly after the fourth grade of primary school started, my father was transferred from the middle school in the town to the nearby Nakamura Middle School to teach because of his job change. It's already night after I moved home to clean up. I saw a big tree growing on the steps in front of the dormitory. The trunk is straight, smooth and slender. I walked down the steps and looked up at the tree. It is so high that I look down at the top of it. The crown of the tree is full of light purple flowers, and the green leaves are beautiful.

? I observed it carefully and let out a slight sigh, which made me wonder what kind of tree it was. In a short time, mom and dad also came to the door. They looked at me and looked up at a tree full of flowers, holding their breath. Suddenly, my father said to me, "This is Wei Zi." Then, he added, "changchang, you know what? There is also a nickname called osmanthus purple. " Hearing this, I turned to look at my father. I thought he was joking. There is no such vulgar alias. It seems that he just made it up. It's not credible at all.

Mom doesn't believe it either. Dad said, "No, just scratch." So my mother walked down the steps, approached the tree, and reached out and scratched the trunk a few times. I stood there and saw that the crown of the tree was really shaking, just like a person being tickled and shaking all over.

Although I was surprised, I still stubbornly thought that maybe it was just a gust of wind that made the treetops move. When the leaves were still, I also learned my mother's movements and reached out to scratch the trunk. The trunk of Lagerstroemia indica is smooth and smooth, unlike pine and fir trees. I scratched two or three times, and immediately looked up at the top of the tree after withdrawing my hand, only to see the crown shaking again. I was a little discouraged, as if my idea had been defeated. Shaking the crown twice further confirmed my father's statement, but I still stubbornly refused to believe that Wei Zi's alias was an itchy tree. Even if this tree is Wei Zi, I'm not sure and I can't prove it. I just shouted after my dad. This can't be entirely my fault. After all, dad is not a professional biology teacher, is he?

In this way, our family began to settle down in the schoolhouse in Nakamura, until four years later, my parents bought a house in the county town and the family of three moved to the county town. Such purple flower trees are also planted in the green belt of the county, with short and thin trunks and drooping branches in the grass, which are not as tall and lush as the Lagerstroemia indica trees in Nakamura. I once saw a writer write in an article that planting flowers can add a lot of color to ordinary home life. While eating, he complained to his father, "We haven't planted a flower in our family for so many years, and there is no vitality at all." He thought about it, smiled and said, "Don't you forget that there was a crape myrtle tree in front of our dormitory in those years in Nakamura? Every year when flowers bloom, purple petals fall all over the floor. Isn't it beautiful? " As soon as he reminded me, I remembered that when I lived in Nakamura, I didn't see Lagerstroemia every day. I thought it was common to grow in front of the door, just like Zhang Xiaofeng wrote "I wonder if there are any flowers", but I forgot to thank Ziwei for her gorgeous face, which is a natural gift left by our predecessors.

? In four years, Ziwei bloomed four times. When I left, the flowering period of Lagerstroemia indica had not faded. I looked at the flowers in the canopy, just like when I first came to Nakamura four years ago, standing quietly in the sun and full of flowers. When I lived in menstruation's house in Chongqing during my sophomore summer vacation, I planned to stay at my classmate's house in Rongcheng for a few days because it was close to Chengdu. It happened that my aunt was coming to Chengdu to apply for a visa to the United States, and my uncle wanted to spend the weekend in Chengdu with my cousin, so we took the bullet train to Chengdu together. After visiting Du Fu Caotang, on the way to the ruins of the Tang Dynasty, I saw a touch of familiar purple in the distance. Take a closer look, and it really is a crape myrtle tree. The signboard on the tree reads "Common name of crape myrtle: itchy tree". I cried the moment I saw the billboard, and then I laughed. It turned out that my father really didn't lie to me, and the answer to my childhood mystery was finally revealed.

? Dear friends, if you happen to live in this rainy city in the south, and if you happen to pass the bluestone path between the former residence of Caotang and the exhibition hall of Tang Dynasty ruins at around1/kloc-0 on the morning of July 27th, 20/4, will you remember a boy crying and laughing at a crape myrtle tree? Please don't be surprised or confused. He only remembers what his father said to him when he was a child:

? "changchang, you know? There is also a nickname called osmanthus purple. "