Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 4088 (Four Thousand and Eighty-Eight) Leaf Veins
Wu Xunsheng remembered that the words he said next at that time were as if he treated the tree as a person. He told her what he imagined the tree to be thinking. Thinking about it again now, his heart was still filled with waves.

That day he said to Tie Hongyan: "Maybe it is thinking right now: Since leaves growing and falling is very common, why do people want to come and see what the leaves will look like next spring? Maybe it is thinking: What is so good about leaves growing and falling?"

After that, Wu Xunsheng said a lot more, mainly for the tree, saying that maybe it didn't want too much attention, and that it might drop its leaves due to stress. At the end, he said, "It would be bad if I passed by here again tomorrow and found that the tree was bare. Well, let's go!" This was his way of hastily ending the topic. Then, he immediately quickened his pace and walked forward, a little further away from her.

In fact, it had been a while since the previous incident, but at this moment, in this secluded place, Wu Xunsheng, who had already turned around, thought about the scene when he saw the huge leaf before, and felt as if what happened at that time had just happened. He seemed to be still in that situation, as if he had just seen the huge leaf fall just before he saw the fallen leaf in front of him.

He suddenly thought, if a person always stays in a secluded place with trees, just quietly watching the leaves fall and remembering them in his heart, then would time become more special in that person's eyes.

He thought again: Time has always been moving like that, and it won’t change because of anything. But people have different experiences, see different scenes, and hear different sounds, so their feelings about time will be different. If every leaf has a thought before it falls, and it will review all its experiences from when it just grew to when it is about to fall, and the person watching the falling leaves has a way to know what each leaf is thinking before it falls, then the person watching the falling leaves should also be like watching many processes from birth to fall...

Wu Xunsheng shifted his gaze to the leaf that had fallen before. The leaf did not turn yellow, and it seemed that it would remain on the tree for a long time. However, at this moment, it was just lying on the ground.

He thought: If it had any thoughts at the moment of falling, it probably knew why it fell so early, right? It might have had some special reason, perhaps something it could not control, or perhaps it was its own choice. Did it have a lot of time to recall before falling? Maybe the time needed for recalling was actually very short? Maybe at the moment it left the tree, it had reviewed its life in a short time?
Wu Xunsheng glanced at the sky through the gaps between the leaves, then moved his gaze again to the leaf that had fallen before, and thought again: If it had memories, would it remember the color of the sky on the day it just grew out, and would it remember whether there was sunshine that day?
He looked at the veins on the leaves and wondered: Could those be the leaves' record of their life from birth to death? Like a diary that no one could read? Could there be words written there... "Today, I came." "I saw the sun for the first time." "Today, I heard the sound of rain falling for the first time."

(End of this chapter)