不许爬树？小诺的「不听话」冒险

四月的风裹着梧桐树的新芽香，刮过星野社区的水泥滑梯时，总会先把小诺的羊角辫梢吹得翘起来。七岁的小诺裤腿永远沾着洗不掉的泥点，书包拉链上挂着磨掉漆的奥特曼挂件，课间别的女生围成圈跳皮筋，她总蹲在花坛边看蚂蚁搬半块掉在地上的水果糖，指尖捏着狗尾巴草逗地上的小蜗牛爬。 *The April breeze carries the scent of fresh paulownia buds. When it sweeps across the cement slide in Xingye Community, it always lifts the ends of Xiaonuo's twin ponytails first. Seven-year-old Xiaonuo always has mud stains on her trouser legs that won't wash off, and a chipped Ultraman keychain hangs from her backpack zipper. During class breaks, while other girls form a circle to play jump rope, she crouches by the flower bed watching ants carry half a piece of fallen fruit candy, holding a foxtail to coax little snails crawling on the ground.*

“野丫头”“假小子”的标签从一年级开学就跟上了她。上周她在社区后的小树林爬老槐树，只是想凑近看看树洞里鸟妈妈孵的蛋，刚爬上去就被路过的男生看见了，喊得整栋楼都听得见：“你们快来看啊！小诺又爬树掏鸟窝了，一点女孩样都没有！”她趴在树杈上气得直鼓腮帮子，我根本没掏鸟窝，就是看看，鸟妈妈还在里面孵蛋呢，我怎么可能伤害小动物？可男生们笑成一团，说“女孩爬树就是不像话”，连路过的张奶奶都摇着头说“小姑娘家家的，爬那么高，成何体统”。 *The labels "tomboy" and "wild girl" have stuck to her since the first day of first grade. Last week, she climbed an old locust tree in the small woods behind the community, just to get a closer look at the eggs the mother bird was hatching in the tree hole. As soon as she climbed up, she was spotted by passing boys, who shouted loud enough for the whole building to hear: "Come look! Xiaonuo is climbing trees to rob bird nests again, she's not acting like a girl at all!" She puffed her cheeks angrily while perched on the branch. I wasn't robbing the nest at all, just looking! The mother bird is still hatching eggs inside, how could I hurt the little animals? But the boys laughed and said, "Girls climbing trees just don't look right," even passing Grandma Zhang shook her head and said, "A young lady climbing so high, how improper."*

连班主任陈老师也找她谈话，把她带到办公室的椅子上坐下，递给她一颗水果糖，语气温和却带着规训：“小诺啊，老师知道你喜欢玩，但是小女孩要文静一点，别总跟着男孩爬树掏鸟窝，太调皮了，别人会说你的。”小诺捏着手里的水果糖，糖纸在手里皱成一团，她抬起头问：“老师，为什么女孩不能爬树？我爬树的时候帮三楼的张奶奶摘过挂在树梢够不着的晒衣杆，上次还帮小区里的小弟弟把卡在树上的遥控飞机拿下来，大家都夸我呢。而且我上次爬树根本没掏鸟窝，我就是看看鸟妈妈有没有孵出小鸟，还摘了野草莓放在树洞旁边给鸟妈妈吃呢。”陈老师被她问得愣了一下，想反驳却又说不出话，最后只能轻轻拍了拍她的肩膀：“老师是担心你爬树摔下来受伤，以后注意安全，别爬那么高了。” *Even her homeroom teacher, Miss Chen, called her in for a talk. She led Xiaonuo to a chair in the office and handed her a piece of fruit candy, her tone gentle but full of instruction: "Xiaonuo, I know you like to play, but little girls should be quiet and well-behaved. Don't always follow the boys climbing trees and robbing bird nests, it's too naughty, and people will talk." Xiaonuo crumpled the candy wrapper in her hand, and looked up to ask: "Teacher, why can't girls climb trees? When I climb trees, I help Grandma Zhang on the third floor get the clothes pole she can't reach at the top of the tree. Last time I also helped the little boy in the community get his remote control plane that was stuck in the tree, everyone praised me. And last time I climbed the tree, I didn't rob the bird nest at all, I just wanted to see if the mother bird had hatched the babies, and I even picked wild strawberries and put them by the tree hole for the mother bird." Miss Chen was stunned for a moment, wanting to refute but having no words, so she could only pat Xiaonuo's shoulder gently: "Teacher is worried you'll fall and get hurt climbing trees. Be careful in the future, don't climb so high."*

那天回家的路上，小诺踢着路边的小石子，把奥特曼挂件摘下来捏在手里，有点委屈。她喜欢爬树，喜欢在树上吹风，看远处的小鸟飞，喜欢玩泥巴捏小动物，喜欢蹲在地上看蚂蚁搬东西，这些都不对吗？难道女孩就一定要文文静静的，坐在教室里折纸，跳皮筋，不能爬树不能玩泥巴吗？她没想通，回到家就把这个疑问丢给了正在做饭的奶奶，奶奶擦了擦手，笑着摸了摸她的头：“我们小诺想做什么就做什么，只要不伤害别人，不危险，做什么都是对的，不用管别人说什么。奶奶小时候还爬树掏过鸟窝呢，你太奶奶还追着我打了两条街。” *On the way home that day, Xiaonuo kicked small stones on the roadside, taking off the Ultraman keychain and squeezing it in her hand, feeling a little wronged. She likes climbing trees, likes blowing in the wind on the tree and watching the birds fly in the distance, likes playing with mud to make small animals, likes squatting on the ground watching ants carry things. Are these all wrong? Do girls have to be quiet and well-behaved, sitting in the classroom folding paper and playing jump rope, not allowed to climb trees or play with mud? She couldn't figure it out, so when she got home, she threw this question to her grandma who was cooking. Grandma wiped her hands, smiled and touched her head: "Our Xiaonuo can do whatever she wants, as long as she doesn't hurt others and it's not dangerous, doing anything is right, you don't have to care what others say. Grandma used to climb trees to rob bird nests when she was little, and your great grandma chased me for two streets to hit me."*

小诺的心情好了点，可第二天上学，男生们还是喊她“野丫头”，说“女孩爬树就是丢人”，她撇了撇嘴，没理他们，心里想着，等周末我要去爬更高的树，看有没有更漂亮的鸟窝。 *Xiaonuo felt a little better, but the next day at school, the boys still called her "tomboy", saying "girls climbing trees are embarrassing". She pouted and ignored them, thinking in her heart, when the weekend comes, I'm going to climb even higher trees to see if there are prettier bird nests.*

转折发生在上周六的下午。那天小诺蹲在小区门口的便利店门口吃冰棒，忽然听见一阵慌乱的猫叫，紧接着是一群小朋友的哭声。她扔了冰棒就跑过去，看见楼下李奶奶蹲在地上，怀里抱着个空猫盆，眼泪吧嗒吧嗒往下掉，周围围了一群小朋友，都仰着头往上看。 *The turning point came last Saturday afternoon. That day Xiaonuo was squatting outside the convenience store at the community entrance eating an ice cream, when she suddenly heard a flustered cat meow, followed by the crying of a group of children. She threw the ice cream and ran over, seeing Grandma Li, who lived downstairs, squatting on the ground holding an empty cat bowl, tears falling drop by drop, surrounded by a group of children all looking up.*

社区门口那棵最高的梧桐树，树顶的枝杈上蹲着一只炸了毛的橘猫，正是李奶奶养的小汤圆。小汤圆平时最爱追蝴蝶，今天追着一只黄蝴蝶爬上了树，爬到了最高的枝杈上，往下看了一眼，吓得不敢动了，站在枝头“喵喵”叫，声音都抖了。物业的张叔叔搬了个三米高的梯子过来，试了试，梯子最高只能到树干的一半，离小汤圆还远着呢，他试着往上爬了两步，树枝晃得厉害，赶紧又爬了下来，皱着眉说：“这树枝太细了，我体重太大，上去肯定压断，摔下来就麻烦了。” *On the top branch of the tallest paulownia tree at the community entrance, a fluffy orange cat was perched, its fur standing on end. It was Grandma Li's cat, Little Tangyuan. Little Tangyuan loved chasing butterflies most, and today it chased a yellow butterfly up the tree, climbed to the highest branch, looked down and got scared, standing on the branch meowing, its voice shaking. Uncle Zhang from the property management brought a three-meter-high ladder over, tried it, but the highest point of the ladder only reached halfway up the trunk, still far from Little Tangyuan. He tried to climb up two steps, but the branches shook violently, so he quickly climbed down, frowning: "These branches are too thin, I'm too heavy, if I go up I'll definitely break the branch, and if I fall it'll be trouble."*

“怎么办啊，小汤圆会不会摔下来啊？”一个扎羊角辫的小妹妹急得直哭，旁边的男生也你看看我我看看你，都不敢说话。小诺挤进人群，抬头看了看树顶的小汤圆，又看了看晃来晃去的梯子，把手里剩下的半根冰棒塞给旁边的小弟弟，撸起袖子说：“我能爬上去。” *"What should we do, will Little Tangyuan fall?" A little girl with twin ponytails cried anxiously, and the boys next to her looked at each other, no one daring to speak. Xiaonuo squeezed into the crowd, looked up at Little Tangyuan on the top of the tree, then at the swaying ladder, stuffed the remaining half of her ice cream into the little brother next to her, rolled up her sleeves and said: "I can climb up."*

旁边的男生立刻起哄：“你一个女孩，爬那么高摔下来怎么办？”“就是，上次爬树被老师骂，还敢爬？”李奶奶也赶紧拉住她的手，手心里全是汗：“小姑娘，太危险了，你别上去，摔下来可怎么办啊，奶奶给你买冰棒吃。” *The boys next to her immediately started making fun: "You're a girl, what if you fall from such a high place?" "That's right, you got in trouble with the teacher last time for climbing a tree, and you dare to climb again?" Grandma Li also quickly grabbed her hand, her palm full of sweat: "Little girl, it's too dangerous, don't go up, what if you fall? Grandma will buy you ice cream."*

小诺没说话，她把书包往地上一放，摸了摸梧桐树的树干，树皮糙得磨手，但是她记得这棵树的枝杈很结实，上周她还爬过，到树顶的那个粗枝杈刚好能站一个人，她之前还坐在上面吃过橘子呢。她脱了外套塞给旁边的小朵朵，往手上吐了两口唾沫，搓了搓，抓住树干就往上爬。 *Xiaonuo didn't speak. She put her backpack on the ground, touched the trunk of the paulownia tree, the bark was rough and rubbing her hand, but she remembered the branches of this tree were very strong. She had climbed it last week, and the thick branch at the top was just big enough for one person to stand on. She had even sat on it eating an orange before. She took