Why did the Liuyue Fairy in Song Dynasty pick lotus flowers?

Song Cailian stuck behind the iron gate and eavesdropped on the music outside.

There are four or five couples dancing in the square of the community. As long as the weather is not bad, leisurely music will be played at 8 pm. Hazy lights, warm music and graceful dancing wrapped Song Cailian in the dance steps, and flowers swayed in her heart, blooming warmly one after another, and then warmly thanked her.

At the age of seven or eight, Wang Xiaoni, Song Cailian's little friend, lost a little cousin in the city. The little cousin was clever and polished the eyes of the villagers. My little cousin can sing and dance. Once when she was happy, she jumped up in the middle of the yard.

Song Cailian suddenly froze and looked at her little cousin. She was wearing a white dress and danced very hard. At dusk in midsummer, the big willow trees beside the yard are green and cover more than half of the yard. Sunlight floated down through the thick leaves and hit my little cousin. The little cousin jumped and jumped out of her body and became a fairy. The little cousin's fairy dust covered Song Cailian, and she jumped into the depths of her body and mind. Song Cailian felt that she had become a little cousin and a little fairy.

Many years have passed and Song Cailian has been dancing in the depths of her body. Sometimes Song Cailian can't figure out whether this little fairy is a little cousin or herself.

Song Cailian is addicted to dancing. She often dances secretly alone, stretching herself like a little cousin, filtering the time of the four seasons, and jumping for many years.

Little Square, Song Cailian skated for many days in a row, her eyes flashing on the dancing men and women. Dancing men and women are all residents of the community, and they all have their own circles, so it is difficult for outsiders to integrate. Song Cailian strolled in the square, and the dancing couple was a little embarrassed, but no one asked her to dance together. Song Cailian also felt a little embarrassed, so she went back to her rental house and lived in a small rental house. Sometimes she can't help but twist her body while standing on the music. Footsteps passing by in the corridor outside the door came from time to time, like birds at gunpoint, disturbing her soul again and again. Stay in the rental house, Song Cailian always has a guilty conscience. The rental house used to be a garage with a small bathroom, so the landlord rented it out. Song Cailian has worked in Longzhou for three years, and she is afraid of being squeezed into the dormitory of more than a dozen people in the factory. She just wants to have a small room of her own to settle down. Song Cailian came to look at the house at eight o'clock in the evening, just to see several couples dancing on the nearby Little Square. Without saying anything, she paid a deposit and moved here the next day.

Song Cailian seldom goes shopping on weekdays. Seeing that the goods are clearly marked, she still has to take a few days of hard-earned money. I have been in Longzhou for several years, and Song Cailian didn't dare to fall in love. Those men and women who work together are only temporary indulgence of the body, and there will never be a boundary with emotion. Song Cailian is guarding her own body, and she is also guarding an emotional island and living a personal life. Song Cailian never expected to gain anything in this city. Her body and mind will go home, and she will go back to the place she raised and called her hometown. She wants to earn more money, so she will go back to her hometown, find someone who loves her or doesn't love her, marry her and live, go back to her mother's old road, have children and finish her life well.

Song Cailian fell in love with dancing because of her little cousin who can dance in the city. The little cousin let her know that besides doing farm work all day, there is also a way of sports and entertainment. No one dances in the village, and the body is used to deal with heavy farm work. Dancing is a pleasure for city people. Song Cailian came to Longzhou after two years of farm work after dropping out of school. She thinks this city is a good place to dance everywhere. After entering the city, she found that there were not many places to dance in the city, and not many people went dancing every day in the city. Even in the open-air dance floor like the community, she couldn't find her own partner.

The rental house is thirty or forty paces away from Little Square. Sometimes, after she dances to the music, people will suddenly feel out of breath. She leaned against the iron gate and gasped, feeling that the fairy in the sun light had flown away and never looked back.

A woman named Ma Jie sprained her foot while dancing. She was about to go to the hospital when Song Cailian stopped her. Song Cailian pinched Ma Jie's feet with a few hands picked up from my grandfather who specializes in treating people's injuries, which opened the eyes of these dancing men and women.

Song Cailian gradually got to know this group of men and women and learned a lot. These are people with stories. Only one of these five couples is a husband and wife, and the others have been partners for many years. Sister Ma has been divorced for many years and lives alone. Sister Ma's dancing partner is called Cao Ge, which doesn't look simple either. She and her wife have been separated for many years, and only wait for her daughter to go to college before getting divorced.

Standing at the edge of Little Square watching them dance, Song Cailian was no longer embarrassed, and it was natural with them. They didn't invite Song Cailian to dance with them, and Song Cailian didn't have her own partner. They probably think that she can't dance at all, but just likes to have fun.

Sister Ma had a bad cold, so she jumped and didn't want to jump again. Cao Ge has just started dancing. In the next song, he glanced at Mager and reached out to Song Cailian. Song Cailian had a crush. She glanced at Mager, who was staring at Cao Ge. Song Cailian was half a beat late, but she said hello to him and handed her hand to Cao Ge.

Cao Ge hugged Song Cailian tightly and whispered, Xiao Song, I know you dance well. Song Cailian fainted for a while, and Cao Ge danced really well. Song Cailian felt that her body and mind were led by Cao Ge, flying like an angel. She is jumping happily, jumping out of an elf and becoming a fairy.

Cao, you have no conscience. You hooked up with Song so soon. I didn't expect Ma Jie, who was resting, to see something, suddenly let out a cry and pounced on Cao Ge, who was dishonest in his hand. ...

Mager was taken away by Cao Ge and the dancers, leaving Song Cailian standing on the Little Square. She suddenly giggled and something jumped out of her body. The fairy ran out and danced around her eyes, flying farther and farther and never looking back. Song Cailian looked up and lifted her face. Her heartache made it impossible to stop crying.

Dongfeng literature and art, issue 2, 20 12.