#Open your eyes#Unforgettable mangroves
Li Guanxia
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Once upon a time, there were large mangroves on the seashore in our hometown, which was on the beach from Tiantou Baixiao to Guanghai. Lush and endless, like a green barrier, under the background of the blue sky and white clouds, seabirds are flying, like a beautiful picture.
It was at the end of the 1940s, when our hometown was in chaos, and people with a little money in the village walked and fled, because bandits were rampant, arresting people everywhere, and seeking wealth and killing people. Our children's families ignored this, always in groups of three or five, carrying bamboo pockets, and went to the mangrove forest together.
Mangrove tree, called the wave tree by the hometown people, grows on the beach, soaks in the sea, can resist the erosion of the waves, and has the effect of protecting the sea wall. The tree is salty tolerant, with a reddish-brown trunk and green leaves. Walking into the mangrove forest, it is indeed very interesting that there are many small crabs, what white pincers, red pincers, as soon as you see people, you can't catch them, some of them move slowly, only to see it holding up two pliers high, demonstrating to you, making you afraid; There is a small jumping fish called "on the tree dog", has climbed the trunk very high, as soon as there is movement, immediately "ping-pong" jumped into the water, and then climbed up from the trunk on the other side, the most pleasant is some "on the tree snail", it is nailed to the trunk like a nail, let us go to catch. You don't know, the taste of this snail is delicious! So we always tirelessly tread on the water in the mangroves to find and chase. We have been tired of playing, and the bamboo pockets we brought are also heavy, so we reluctantly go home to the mangrove tree branches and there are still fruits called "wave boards" and "wave pens". Long, pointed pencils are not good, and only in times of famine do people reluctantly collect them to fill their hunger.
The next time I passed by the mangrove forest was in the late 1980s. Only to see that a long levee like a python on the seashore, it replaced the mangrove forest to block the vast sea, guarding the hometown of thousands of acres of fertile land, the magical mangrove forest, in the absence of you, more feel your beauty, your cuteness. Your fearlessness, your merits, make me unforgettable. How I wish I could see you again in what year and day, beautiful mangroves!
Excerpt from Zhu Jiashen