我老家在孔城老街后面,童年记忆中老街后的程氏祠堂南面有个空场子,那里耸立着一棵高大的皂角树。大树上部有许多个分枝,每个分枝都很粗壮。树叶很小,密密匝匝,阳光拼命地穿插,也难以钻进树缝,只是在树的上方,炫出一大片金色的光晕。那棵皂角树应该有数百年的树龄了,底部靠东北部分烂空了心,未朽烂的部分仍竭尽全力支撑着庞大的树身。皂角树是那空场子上唯一的一棵树。如若把那空场子比作老街的一个 My hometown behind Kongcheng Street, the childhood memory of Cheng’s ancestral hall behind the street there is an empty field south, where stands a tall gleditsia tree. The upper part of the tree has many branches, each branch is very thick. Leaves are small, dense turns, sunshine desperately interspersed, it is difficult to get into the tree stump, just above the tree, showing off a large golden halo. That samphiren tree should have hundreds of years of age, the bottom part of the Northeast by the rotten heart, the decadent part is still doing its utmost to support the huge tree body. Gleditsia tree is the only tree in the empty field. If the empty ground like a street