在一阵大雷雨以后,当你走过一块荞麦田的时候,你常常会发现这里的荞麦又黑又焦,好像火焰在它上面烧过一次似的。这时,种田人就说:“这是它从闪电那儿得来的。”但为什么它会落得这个结果?我可以把麻雀告诉我的话告诉你。麻雀是从一棵老柳树那儿听来的。这棵树立在荞麦田的旁边,而且现在还立在那儿。它是一株非常值得尊敬的大柳树,不过它的年纪很老,皱纹很多。它身体的正中裂开了,草和荆棘就从裂口里长出来。这树向前弯,枝条一直垂到地上,像长长的绿头发一样。 After a thunderstorm, as you walked through a field of buckwheat, you often find the buckwheat here dark and charred, as if the fire had once burnt on it. At this moment, the farmer says, “This is what it got from lightning.” But why is it going to end this result? I can tell you what the sparrow told me. The sparrows heard from an old willow. The tree is set next to the buckwheat field and is still standing there now. It is a very respectable big willow tree, but it is very old, a lot of wrinkles. The middle of its body broke apart, and grass and thorns grew out of the rift. The tree bent forward, branches hanging down to the ground, like long, green hair.