我办公室的花瓶里插着一束干枝梅。闲暇之时抬眼凝望,思绪就会飘到千里之外的塞外草原。那是多年前的一个秋天,我到位于内蒙古锡林郭勒草原的二连油田调研。冀中大地正值天高气爽时节,北国边陲却已是草色枯黄,寒意阵阵。汽车行驶在辽阔的草原上,我好奇地发现窗外的草丛中,不时有朵朵云霞飘过。同事告诉我,那是草原特有的花,叫干枝梅。 A bouquet of dried plums stuck in my office vase. Look up in his spare time stare, thoughts will float to miles outside the Great Wall grassland. That was a fall many years ago, and I went to Erlian Oilfield in Xilin Gol Grassland, Inner Mongolia. Jizhong is the height of the earth during the season, the northern border is already the grass color yellow, chill bursts. Car driving in the vast prairie, I curiously found in the grass outside the window, drifting from time to time blossoming clouds. Colleagues told me that it is a grassland-specific flower, called dry plum.