“白梅”“白梅”实非梅,具其形而已。一九六八年初冬,我下放到德兴山区。次日,队上派我去剥木子。所谓木子,即是乌桕的籽实。这个山区的田埂平畴及山坡脚都种了一树树的乌桕,秋冬取其籽卖予供销社,以补充收入。据说乌桕籽可以制白蜡烛。剥木子的皆女子和老弱者,其工作就是将一枝枝的乌桕籽实的外壳剥去,将那一粒粒的籽实剥下。我去时,晒场四周已摆满了一捆捆从树上砍下的枝丫。乌桕籽实似麦豆大小,每朵四粒、对生。剥去壳,即露出籽,色白如雪,又因对生四粒,遥看绝似一朵白梅。其枝茎色褐黑细劲如铁,非用劲,其籽不脱。我初剥时,因肤嫩,一日即手掌起泡,手皮生起老茧。与老农一般不再畏疼,还是以后几年的事。我见新剥乌桕籽实似白梅,即将数枝带回,寻一竹筒插上,置于案头,又衬以山边水竹数茎,竹叶绿而木子白,映以 “White plum ” “white plum ” Real non-plum, with its shape only. In the early winter of 1968, I devolved to Dexing Mountain. The next day, the team sent me to peel wood. The so-called wood, that is, the seeds of the black beans. In this mountainous area, the fields and slopes of the fields are planted with a riparian tree, and their seeds are sold to supply and marketing cooperatives in autumn and winter to supplement their income. It is said that Ukraine can seed white candles. Peeking of all the women and the infirm, whose job is to peel a branch of the shell of walnut seed stripped, the seeds of the grain peeled off. When I went, there was a bundle of sheaves cut from the trees all around the drying yard. The seeds are like black beans, size 4, each 4, opposite. Peel the shell, that is exposed seed, white snow, but also because of the four births, see a quasi-like white plum. Its stem color dark brown fine as iron, non-useless, its seed does not take off. When I first peel, because of tender skin, the day is the palm of the bubble, hand callus callus. Generally no longer afraid of pain with the farmer, or a few years later. I saw a new stripping Wuyi seeds like white plum, about to bring back a few branches, looking for a bamboo inserted, placed in the desk, and lined with a few bamboo shoots of mountain water, bamboo leaves green and white wood,