珠珠

珠珠是一个女孩。她看起来和其他的女孩并没有什么不同。

但是，她实在是感觉太不同了，而且，她还感觉自己很落伍。她感觉跟同龄人不大合得来。因为，她们总是在谈论什么苹果手机香奈儿LV皮包NBA世界杯等等地。

她还感到非常笨拙，在公众场合，她好像从来都不知道要说什么，手脚也不知道往哪儿放。

还有，更糟糕的是，对于各种世俗事务，她也都很淡漠，而且弄得乱七八糟地，这真是让人头痛啊。

但是，她对于各种古董都很感兴趣。所以，一天，她去了湖北省博物馆，这样就可以沉浸在那古老的被掩埋的东西的神秘芳香中了。

在那光线隐约的大房间里面，透过玻璃窗户，各种各样的宝物被展览着，比如陶、瓷器，青铜器，漆木器，简牍、兵器、古乐器、金玉器，古代字画，古钱币，郧县人头骨化石、曾侯乙编钟、越王勾践剑、元青花四爱图梅瓶等等。

她好像完全被这些展览品所吸引住了，以至于都忘记了时间的流逝。那天晚上，她还做了个梦。在梦里，她好像又重新看到了陈列在博物馆里的各种各样的物品，然后，那些物品都一个个地飞走了，一幅最清幽宁静的画面展现在她的面前。

那是一个散发着月亮清辉的傍晚，空气中余香袅袅。

月光照耀在一条铺着青石街道的山间小路上。青石上苍苔斑驳，布满了裂痕，落叶纷飞。路边是苍松，一阵风吹过阵阵松涛。

在树荫下，有一个人在弹奏着古筝，他纤细灵活的手指在琴弦上飞舞着，轻灵的音乐飘扬在空气中，好像是一条小溪清脆婉转地流过。

当珠珠走上青石板道的时候，最后一个潇洒的拨动后，古筝突然停了下来。

“你来了。”他抬起眼睛，他那纤秀的剑眉飞扬向上。珠珠有一种很古怪的但是却又很难描述的感觉。

“你现在一定过得不好，过来吧！”然后，他就把珠珠领到了一个小竹楼里面。虽然，这个竹楼很简陋，但是，仍然不失那种自然的韵味，很清凉光滑。

他们在一个五边形的竹桌旁边的竹椅上坐了下来。桌子上放着一套茶具。

他提起那个红棕色的茶壶，在一个小圆形的茶杯里面倒了一杯茶。这是竹叶青，它有一种清新的竹叶的芳香。

“我是一名中医。既然你过来了这里，那么你一定是需要帮助的了。”

喝完了茶，他就给她把了下脉搏，然后，又上上下下观察了下她。然后，他说，“你的眼睛有点儿浑浊，不能够清醒地看见事物，因为，我从你的眼睛中看到了世俗的各种诱惑和沉迷，你总是太急躁而且紧张兮兮地，因为，你的皮肤好像是热炭在燃烧，你还缺乏自信，因为，你的额头上出满了汗，最后，你还充满了各种各样的疑虑，因为，我从你的脉搏中，读到了一种非同寻常的跳动。这里是我开的处方。”

然后，他就展开了宣纸，拿起毛笔，开始写了出来。他的笔迹好像是宋代书法的描摹。

1. 拿一两柴胡，一两草决明，研成末，和人奶调匀，敷在眼睛上，过一段时间后，可以让你的眼睛更加地清明，然后，你就能够更好地看清楚你自己。

2. 拿一两黄芩，两杯水，混在一起，喝下去。那会让你更加地平静，让你的神经放松，这样，你就能够更好地享受你的生活了。

3. 拿半两当归和，同一对猪腰子一起煎好，然后，同枣汤服下。这会医治你的出汗症状，让你重新树立自信，然后，你就能够充满信心地肩负你的使命走下去了。

4. 准备二两当归，一两橘梗，一些阿胶，把它们搅拌均匀，然后喝下去。这会帮助你释放你肺中的热气，这些热气在你的肺中日日夜夜地积累，让你变得充满了疑虑而且不开心。

“虽然说，你被上帝赋予了很多的潜力，但是，你根本就没有利用这些潜力。错误的观点和想法把你变得面目全非。因为你追求错误的东西，所以你不快乐。这些中药会让你回归你原来的状态，这样你就能够更好地了解你自己了。”

在珠珠呆在那个小竹屋的一个月中，她每天都去山上采集中药，然后，她就照着药方煎煮中药。她在山上度过了很多美妙的时光。山上充满了各种各样的珍奇古怪的花草，还有很多稀有动物。一些石山很陡峭直插云峰。秋天枫树红透了整个山谷。有时候云彩飘来飘去，珠珠感到好像是飞在雪白的云中一样。当那金红色的太阳升起来的时候，它照亮了最黑暗的山谷，所有的一切都好像带着太阳的金黄色～～～

早晨，珠珠醒来，当她照常去照着摆在桌子上的铜镜的时候，一个非常令人吃惊的事情发生了。通常她脸上的那种苦涩和郁闷的表情都消失了，而映照在那面铜镜的是一个非常可爱的古典美人，她的脸好像是清晨的朝霞那般红晕。

她感到非常地迷惑，到底发生了什么呢？然后，她开始一点点地记起了那个梦境。她几乎不能够相信那个非常古怪的梦。所以，就去旁边的小花园里散了下步。天空是淡灰色的，雨雾朦胧，牡丹花在淡雾中好像是羞红了脸。这风景真像是一幅传统的水墨山水画作啊。但是，除了她，还有谁能够欣赏到呢？

珠珠突然看清楚了她的未来，她的人生目标。是的，现今，当这所有古代的珍宝文化都好像被全球化的浪潮所淹没的时代，她决心拾起这些被淹没的珍宝，尽力去珍惜和保管这些珍宝，把它们推广到全世界。因为，她不想让这些宝物淹没在熊熊物质的浪涛中。

Zhuzhu

Zhuzhu is a girl. She doesn’t look much different from other girls.

But, she feels very much different, and also out of fashion. She feels that she doesn’t fit well with her peers, when others are all talking about iPhone, Chanel, LV, NBA, World Cup, and so on.

She also feels very awkward, and seems never knowing what to say and where to put her hands and feet in public.

And what’s worse, she is also indifferent, disorderly and messing about in practical matters, which are really a lot of headaches for her.

But, she is always interested in all kinds of historic relics. So, one day, she goes to Hubei Provincial Museum, and to be immersed in the mysterious fragrance of the buried and the past.

In the dim and big rooms, there, in the glass windows, exhibit all kinds of treasures, such as the gold ladle and gold bowl, pottery, porcelains, jade, bronze vessels, ancient weapons, and ancient musical instruments, an exquisite bronze vessel known as 'Crane Standing on the Antler', ancient halberds, triangle-shaped swords called Shu, and the bamboo slips that were used for writing on in ancient times, pieces of chariots and horses of the Chu State and so on.

She seems to be so absorbed and fascinated by the exhibitions that she forgets the passing of the time. And, that night, she dreams a dream. And in the dream, she seems to see all those items in the museum, and then, they fly away, and, a most tranquil and serene scene appears.

It is a moonlit night, with the air mingling with the fragrance of burning incense.

The moonlight shines upon a mountainous road along the Yangtse River. It is paved with gray stones. The stones are scratched and split somehow, and also covered with green moss, and some yellow leaves are scattered here and there. There are also a lot of deep green pine trees roaring as the wind blows.

In the tree shade, there is a man playing a zither. His flexible fingers are dancing upon the strings, and beautiful and silvery music is flowing in the air, like the murmuring of a brook.

When Zhuzhu walks up, the zither is suddenly stopped with one last casual stir of the string.

“So, you are coming.” He looks up, and his eyebrows are like a pair of swords. Zhuzhu has a strange and indescribable feeling.

You must have a bad time now. Come along.” So, he leads Zhuzhu to a bamboo hut. Even though, the bamboo hut is very simply built, it still has the kind of natural charms. It is very delicate. And the bamboo feels very cool and smooth.

And they sit down upon the bamboo benches around one pentagon shaped bamboo desk. Upon the desk, there is a set of tea things.

He picks up the round handle of the brownish red kettle, and pours out two cups of tea into the small round cup. It is green bamboo tea. And it has a refreshing and faint fragrance of the bamboo.

“I am a doctor of the traditional Chinese medicine. Since you come here, I know that you are the one who needs help.”

After drinking the tea, he feels her pulse on her wrist, and looks her up and down. And then, he says, “your eyes couldn’t see clearly and your vision is distorted because your eyes are reflecting the vanities and worldly splendors, and you are too much nervous because your skin is like hot charcoal burning, you also lacks self confidence because your forehead is all sweating, you are also filled with doubts because I hear an unusual beat in your pulse. Here is my prescription.”

So he takes up a writing brush, and starts to write upon a white rice paper. His writing seems to be like the calligraphy of the Song Dynasty.

1. Take some root of Chinese thorowax, and semen cassiae torae, grind them to powder, and mix them with human milk, and then apply the ointment upon the eyes. After some time, your dim eyes would become clearer, and you will see yourself better.

2. Have one liang of Scutellaria baicalensis, two cups of water, and decoct them, drink it down. That will make you less nervous and calm you down, so that you could enjoy your life better.

3. Take half liang of angelica and ginseng, decoct them with a pair of pig kidneys, and then, drink it down with Chinese date soup. Then you will be cured of your sweating symptoms, and building up your self confidence, so you could carry on with your life’s goal.

4. Prepare two liang of fried liquorice, and one liang of the stalk of the orange plant, and some donkey-hide gelatin, mix them, and drink them down. It will help relieving your lung heat, which is accumulating day and night, and make you very doubtful and unhappy.

“Even though, you are blessed with a lot of potentials by God, you are not using them. False outlooks and ideas are distorting you. You are unhappy, because you are pursuing wrong things. All these medicines will restore you to your original state, and you will be able to find out about yourself better.”

During the month staying in the hut, Zhuzhu goes to the mountains everyday to pick up all those necessary herbs, and then, comes back, preparing the medicines according to the prescription. She has a lot of great times there. The mountains are filled with rare herbs and flowers, also a lot of strange creatures. Some stone mountains are very sharp and straight. The maples are turning red in autumn, brightening up the whole valley. Sometimes, a lot of clouds are drifting about, and Zhuzhu feels like flying among the rising clouds. When the red golden sun rises, it lights up the darkest valley, all seems to take on colors from the bright sun~~~

In the morning, Zhuzhu gets up, and looks at the bronze mirror as usual, a most astonishing picture appears. All those usual sourness and depressing looks are gone, instead, reflecting there, is a most lovely classic beauty with her face glowing like the rosy dawn.

She is very much puzzled, what has happened? Then, she starts to remember her dream bit by bit.

She almost couldn’t believe that most fantastic dream. So, she takes a walk in the small garden nearby. The sky is gray, ready to rain. Red peonies seem to be blushing in the light mist. The scenery seems to be like a traditional splashed-ink landscape painting. But, who is there enjoying it like her?

Zhuzhu is suddenly clear about her future path, her life’ goal. Yes, now, when all those essences of the past seem to be crushed down in this modern globalized world, she is determined to pick up all those buried treasures, and try to preserve and cherish them, and introduce them to the world. She doesn’t want them to be blown away by the wind.

所属专题：2013春节诗歌散文