人面树

母亲是个务实的人。
每次听我讲一些怪力乱神的故事，总是眉头深锁，好似在抗拒什么的样子。
她通常会不发一语，耐着性子听我把故事说完，然后开始搬出一堆人生大道理，好教导我走上正途。
所以，我总尽可能避免说一些超出常识范围以外的神祕体验，怕母亲听了不能接受。
然而母亲却曾作过两个神祕而超出常理的梦……

母亲说她作过两次印象最深刻的梦，一个是在她还没有认识父亲之前，梦见有一个老婆婆站在像是巨大馒头似的地方，用外省腔说话，内容大致是说「很高兴你能做我的媳妇」。

母亲和父亲结婚后，有一天忽然想起了这个梦，便告诉了父亲，他听了很讶异，因为奶奶身体不好，在父亲两岁时就过世了。
根据母亲的形容，梦中的老妇人长得很像奶奶，她所站的位置，看起来像巨大馒头的地方，其实是家乡的祖坟。
那时候父亲家中还算兴旺，爷爷给奶奶安葬时，是按照传统的方式，立了一个圆形的坟塚，这是南方人的习惯。

母亲完全不知道这回事，听了之后也觉得很神奇，感觉上是奶奶来托梦，预先告诉母亲将会嫁给她儿子作媳妇。
开放大陆探亲时，父亲辗转拿到了奶奶的相片，由于年代久远，照片都泛黄了，就请人依照片重新用炭笔绘制一幅画像，挂在客厅里。
奶奶的画像确实跟母亲留存的印象近似，真教人啧啧称奇。

另一个梦，跟我有关。
时间是冬天，母亲在梦里，走进了别人家的园子，在那里她看见了一棵树，有几根树枝垂了下来，沉甸甸的，似乎有什么东西挂在上头。
仔细一看，原来是小孩子的小小脸蛋，像果实一样挂在枝头。

每个小孩都开心的笑着，大声对母亲说：「吃我呀！」「吃我呀！」。
好像《爱丽丝梦游仙境》里出现的奇妙饮料，上头用标签写着「请喝我」的字样那样。
母亲稍微数了一下，树上挂了十颗小孩的脸蛋，还有一颗隐藏在树枝深处，小小的一颗，却是熟透了被虫蛀过的果子。
母亲摘下了树丛中那颗，当场吃下去。

她醒来后深觉不可思议。
更奇妙的是结婚后，盼了好久都生不出孩子的母亲，没多久就怀了我。
因此母亲坚信，那是神明赐给她孩子的预言梦。

我曾查过古老的解梦书，上面提到，如果梦见吃了虫蛀的果子，生下的孩子身体比较虚弱，常会生病。
如果那熟透了的果子真的是我，还真有点儿灵验，因为我从小就患气喘，动不动就感冒，令父母很头疼。

最近，我翻阅鸟山石燕的《妖怪绘卷》，找到关于人面树的资料，忽然想起母亲作的这个梦，心想：自己果真是妖怪呀！

听我的母亲讲在我出世前的连续几个晚上也有做过相似的梦呢，只不过是很朦胧的景象，眼前有很重的白色雾气，只得见有点遥远的丛林里一棵枝条不断摇曳的树， 挂满不同色泽的酷似笑脸的花朵，母亲不断想要接近那树，但却又像是周身没有力气，迈不开来脚步，只得远远的浸入树周遭散发出的浓郁香气之中……

Introduce:The mother is the person of a deal with concrete matters relating to work.
Listen to me to tell the story with fantastic chaos of a few strange force every time, always be brows deep lock, seem is in the pattern that what defies.
She can not send one signal normally, be able to bear or endure strength allows I say the story, begin to move general principle of one caboodle life next, good teach me to walk up road.
So, I always avoid to say as far as possible a few exceed the divine  Dai  experience beyond commonsensible limits, be afraid that the mother listened to cannot be accepted.
However the mother ever had made two gods  Dai  however and the dream …… mother that exceeds constant put in order says she has made the dream with the deepest impression twice, one is to be in before she has not known father, dream of a granny stands in resembling is tremendous steamed bread like place, talk with provincial accent, content is to say roughly " very glad that you can do my son's wife " .
After mother and father marry, remembered this dream suddenly one day, told father, he listened to be surprised different, because grandma body is bad, in father died when two years old.
According to maternal appearance, the old woman in the dream grows very to resemble a grandma, the position that she stands, look like the place of tremendous steamed bread, it is the ancestral grave of home town actually.
Still calculate in home of that time father flourishing, when the grandfather buries to the grandma, it is the means according to the tradition, established the graveyard    of a circle, this is the habit of southern.
The mother does not know this returns a responsibility completely, after listening, also feel very magical, it is the grandma comes on the feeling appear in one's dream and make a request, tell a mother to will marry her son to make daughter-in-law beforehand.
When open mainland visits his family, father flounder took the photo of the grandma, because time is ages ago, the photograph floats fizzled out, ask a person to use charcoal pencil scale afresh according to the photograph a picture, hang in the sitting room.
The impression that the picture of the grandma follows maternal keep really is approximate, true click of the tongue teaching a person says to surprise.
Another dream, concern with me.
Time is in the winter, the mother is in the dream, walked into the garden of others home, over she saw a tree, a few branch hanged down, of heavy, it seems that what thing is hanged in above.
Look carefully, it is the small cheek of dot so, hang in branch like fructification.
Every child's happy laugh is worn, say to the mother aloud: " eat me! " " eat me! " .
Seem " Alice somnambulate elfland " in occurrence wonderful beverage, above is being written with label " drink me please " model of written characters in that way.
The mother was counted a little, the cheek of 10 children was hanged on the tree, still one is concealed in the depth of branch, one small, it is squashy however the fruit that is crossed by bug eat by moth.
The mother picked covert in that, eat on the spot go down.
After she awakes become aware greatly mysterious.
More wonderful is after marrying, longed for ages to not be born to give the child's mother, conceived me before long.
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