第一次见到沙枣树并没有引起我的注意。那是三年前,我援疆到新疆建设兵团第二师工作的第一个秋天,到团场去调研季节工的服务与管理工作(每年9、10月份的新疆尤其是建设兵团会迎来数以万计河南、四川等地的拾花大军)。在返回驻地的途中,发现路边有一个茂密的树丛,叶子呈银灰色,密密匝匝,间不留隙,树上还结着一簇簇的红黄色小果实,那果实实在太小,比野生枸杞还要小,而且还长有细小的黑色斑点,像是缩小了的山楂。在以 The first time I saw the date tree did not attract my attention. It was three years ago when I came to Xinjiang for the first fall of the second division of the Xinjiang Construction Corps and went to the field to investigate the service and management of seasonal workers (Xinjiang, especially the Construction Corps in September and October, ushered in the number of To thousands of Henan, Sichuan and other places to pick up the army). On the way back to the resident, he found a thick bushes on the roadside, the leaves are silver gray, densely rolled, without gaps, the tree is also a cluster of red and yellow fruit, the fruit is too small, than the wolfberry But also small, but also grow small black spots, like a reduced hawthorn. In