Spring is the most beautiful time in the Western Sichuan Plain where the climate is warm and green all year round. Peach blossoms and white plums, grass grows long, and orioles fly, Anzhi Tinglan is blue and blue. The rapeseed flowers covering the earth make the sky filled with the breath of spring.

For a qualified Chengdu native, having an entertaining spirit is the minimum standard. Of course, he cannot and will not live up to such a good spring. People have gone to the suburbs to go green and enjoy flowers. Recently, peach blossoms, plum flowers, cherry blossoms, magnolia flowers and other flowers have emerged in the sun in the circle of friends. Naturally, we cannot lag behind.

On March 3, the weather turned better near noon, which is rare in the western Sichuan Plain in spring. We seized the opportunity and drove to Lianghe Village, which belongs to Mouli Town, Qionglai City.

Lianghe Village, also known as Lianghekou, is located at the junction of Qionglai and Xinjin, about 50 kilometers away from Chengdu. It is named because the Nanhe River and Pujiang River meet here. In spring, rapeseed flowers bloom all over the mountains and fields here. The golden sea of flowers, the clear rivers in early spring, the small green sandbars in the water, the distant blue peaks and the scattered Linpan farmhouses all over the place constitute a wonderful beautiful picture., spring is full of.

In spring, rapeseed flowers can be seen everywhere in western Sichuan, and there are many well-known flower viewing attractions. However, like the two estuaries, there are both huge flowers of flowers and rivers and small continents, and the terrain is slightly undulating. It is really rare to see what constitutes a three-dimensional picture. It is this unique beauty that is different from other western Sichuan rapeseed flowers that makes Lianghekou naturally crowded into the most famous rapeseed flower celebrity spots around Chengdu.

"Love to play" has been the style of Chengdu since ancient times and has become a gene implanted in the bone marrow of Chengdu people. It is not a festival or a weekend. However, the flowers and fields are crowded with people, and the parking lots are full of vehicles. The popularity is staggering. If it is a weekend, the popularity is even unimaginable. The "flower viewing economy" has also brought many benefits to local villagers. The biggest business opportunities are parking, catering, and sales of vegetables and local products. The prices are reasonable and the customs are simple. It's just the garbage and broken flower branches that can be seen everywhere bring some discordant notes to the sweet sound of spring.

Rape is a large cash crop and is grown all over the country, especially in the south. Its flowers can naturally be seen everywhere and each has its own characteristics. For example, in Luoping, Yunnan, the rapeseed flowers are large and have deep colors. At a glance, you can see a golden ocean stretching directly into the sky, and green peaks stand in them. Set against the plateau blue sky and beautiful sun, it is like a heavy oil painting, a kind of shocking beauty.

The rapeseed flowers in the Wuyuan area of Huizhou are very Jiangnan style. The flower fields are divided into small pieces. Yellow flowers alternate with red peach blossoms and white plum flowers. They are complemented by small bridges and flowing water. The emircular-style houses are fresh and elegant, slender and flexible, just like a graceful and elegant watercolor painting is peaceful and long-lasting.

Rape flowers in western Sichuan are generally interplanted with wheat. If you look down from a high place, you will see that the flat land is intertwined with large patches of yellow and large patches of green. This intertwining of yellow and green is the main color for viewing rapeseed flowers in western Sichuan. The flowering period is cloudy, the air is humid, and the petals often carry dripping dew. The feminine style is not lost without losing its atmosphere, but the local flavor is impressive. This is the quality of rapeseed flowers in western Sichuan and the quality of my hometown.

When it comes to rapeseed flowers, what I will most unforgettable is the increasing production team of Jiepai Commune at the foot of Longquan Mountain in the countryside in my youth. This place belongs to the transition zone from the Chengdu Plain to the Longquan Mountains. The hilly terrain is red and the water from the Dongfeng Canal passes through it. Every spring, cauliflower, yellow, green wheat seedlings, combined with red land and undulating terrain, form colorful three-dimensional pictures that are beautiful. I took Zhai Yin there in the 1990s, and even now she still thinks it is the most beautiful western Sichuan rapeseed flower she has ever seen.

Song Yunli, the female director of the brigade, is about twenty-seven or eighty-eight years old. She is particularly kind to educated youth and often helps everyone solve problems. Therefore, she is affectionately called "Sister Song" by these young people, the oldest of whom is no more than twenty years old. Sister Song is gentle and decisive, which is rare among rural women. However, my body is really weak, suffering from severe heart disease and asthma, and often goes into shock when it attacks, making my condition high-risk. Fortunately, there is a husband, Brother Chen, who can be called a "wife's slave" in today's language. He takes good care of her. In Sister Song's words, thanks to Brother Chen, she can "live to this day."

The reason why Sister Song was mentioned was because Sister Song was particularly good to me in those difficult times. It was as good as an older sister to a younger brother. Among the educated youth group, I belong to the type who is pure and honest but has poor physical strength. Perhaps this is the reason that Sister Song takes special care of me in terms of labor and life.

The most impressive time was when Sister Song came to the group of educated youth. Everyone laughed and joked with her casually. Naturally, they said all kinds of "blind eyes" words, of course, they were "not seeking progress" words. I also made fun of saying a few words. Sister Song smiled and responded to everyone, but turned her back to scold me because she felt that I would "turn bad" if this continued. Her tone was completely like a big sister lecturing her brother for his insensitivity, which reminds me of it to this day. Warm in my heart.

In 1978, when the flowers were in full bloom, I left the countryside to go to college, and I never saw Sister Song again. Ten years later, when it was another rapeseed bloom season, I returned to the countryside for the first time. Visiting Sister Song was the most important purpose of this trip. However, in the production team, I received the sad news that Sister Song had been dead for several years.

After I left the countryside, I soon entered the era of reform and opening up. As a rural woman, Sister Song was naturally at the forefront and took the lead in starting a fruit transportation business with good results. However, it was difficult to start a business and long-distance transportation was extremely difficult. The road conditions at that time were not good, especially when climbing the mountains in the west, where the conditions were extremely poor. Sister Song's extremely weak constitution finally couldn't support it, and she suffered an asthma attack and died while transporting goods "in Xichang". Moreover, due to limited conditions, the body was buried on site. "There is no tomb for her here," the villager told me.

The sky was exceptionally sunny, and large tracts of rapeseed flowers gave off dazzling light in the sun and spread into the distance along the Dongfeng Canal. The terrain is undulating, and various colorful colors such as yellow, green and red dance with it, forming a melodious melody of spring on the earth. Sister Song can't see the most beautiful spring in my hometown.

More than 30 years have passed, and now I have entered the ranks of retirement. The red clay hills under Longquan Mountain have long been leveled and turned into an industrial park. The scene of rapeseed blossoms in full bloom no longer exists, only in the depths of historical memory. Sometimes I think of Sister Song. For some reason, I always stubbornly think that at the last moment of her life, the beautiful woman who died in a foreign country must have spring in her hometown and the most beautiful rapeseed flowers, definitely!

The Qingming Festival is approaching, so I would like to dedicate this article to my dear Sister Song!

on March 3,2021