神树下
神树下-
那是去年春天一个星期天上午的11点44分。在鱼塘旁，一排出售食品、茶叶和书籍的商店无人光顾，就连镇里的神树下也没人许愿；
It was 11:44 on a Sunday morning last spring , and the row of shops selling food , tea and books by the pound stood empty . Even the town 's sacred tree lured no supplicants ;
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杨维的父母好像并没有特别迷信，但是他们愿意支付很高的租金，就为了住得离神树及树下大约三尺高的香灰近一些。
Yang 's parents did not seem especially superstitious , but they paid high rent to live close to the mystical tree and its three-foot-high pile of incense ash .