3 桂花雨

Lesson Three

Rain of Osmanthus Flowers

1. Around Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the season when osmanthus flowers bloom in my hometown.

2. When I was a child, I didn’t appreciate any flowers.

3. My father always pointed and told me that this is plum blossom and that is magnolia...

4. But I don’t like it except remembering some names.

5. I like sweet-scented osmanthus.

6. The osmanthus tree looks stupid, unlike the plum tree.

7. When the osmanthus tree is not in bloom, you only see leaves full of trees; when blooming, you should look carefully in the bushes to see those little flowers.

8. But the fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus is too charming.

9. My hometown is near the sea, and August is the typhoon season.

10. When the sweet-scented osmanthus blooms, the mother begins to worry, “Don’t have a typhoon!”

11. My mother walks in the front and back yards once a day, and reads in her mouth, “As long as there is no typhoon, I can collect more sweet-scented osmanthus.

12. One basket of that is sent Mr. Hu and one sent to Mrs. Mao. They make more cakes.”

13. When the sweet-scented osmanthus is in full bloom, there are at least a dozen neighbors who are immersed in the sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance.

14. When sweet-scented osmanthus matures, it should be “shaken off ”.

15. The sweet-scented osmanthus shaken down are complete and fresh.

16. If you let the flowers bloom, fall in the soil, especially by the wind and rain.

17. the fragrance of falling flowers is much worse than that of shaking them down.

18. Shaking flowers is a big deal for me.

19. Therefore, I always pester my mother and ask, “Mom, why don’t you shake the sweet-scented osmanthus?”

20. Mother said, “It’s still early, the time for flowers to bloom is too short to shake down.”

21. But when my mother saw that the sky was full of clouds, she knew there was going to be a typhoon, so she told everyone to shake the sweet-scented osmanthus in advance.

22. This time, I am happy, help adults hold the osmanthus tree, and shake it vigorously.

23. Shaking, shaking, sweet-scented osmanthus falls down one after another, and our heads are covered with sweet-scented osmanthus.

24. I shouted, “Ah!

25. It’s like rain. “What a delicious rain!”

26. After the sweet-scented osmanthus is shaken off, we picked out the twigs and leaves, basked them in the sun for a few days before putting them in an iron box, and making tea. You can also make cakes in Chinese New Year with them.

27. Throughout the year, the whole village is immersed in the fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus.

28. When I was in middle school, my whole family moved to Hangzhou.

29. There is a hill in Hangzhou, which is full of sweet-scented osmanthus trees. When the flowers bloom, the fragrance floats for ten miles.

30. In autumn, I often go there to enjoy sweet-scented osmanthus.

31. When I go home, I always pick up a big bag of sweet-scented osmanthus for my mother.

32. But my mother said, “The sweet-scented osmanthus here is not as fragrant as those in our hometown yard.

33. Then, I remembered the “happiness of shaking flower” in my childhood in my hometown, and the intermittent rain of osmanthus flowers.