(a)

Kaohsiung is a person who likes to buy a home. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Info: He's much more interested in this area than I am.

Many people believe that this is based on the need to store all kinds of women. But I know that's not the case.

The reason why Kaohsiung is particularly interested in buying a house is that his desire for a home has always been very strong.

Although he has a large number of places to live, many times, in fact, he feels homeless in his heart. To overcome that feeling of wandering, his solution was to buy more shelter. And the growing number of dwellings often creates even greater hollowness. In this way, he slowly fell into a vicious circle.

There is one thing in particular that proves Kaohsiung's thirst for a sense of belonging.

After he bought the famous castle, many people made a special trip to visit it.

Once, after visiting the castle, a noble lady exclaimed, "Mr. Gao, your home is so beautiful!" ”

When Kaohsiung heard this, he bowed politely and corrected: "My house, madam, my house is too beautiful." ”

Kaohsiung later said to me, "In this world, I have a lot of beautiful houses. It's like this old castle. ”

He looked around the majestic halls of the castle and said, "There were. ”

Later, the lady said to the people, "Many people say that he is a complete scoundrel, but I think he is also a gentleman at times." ”

I think what she means is: Kaohsiung is a person with classical values and behavior, and a deep sense of doom in his bones, and he is slightly self-deprecating and does not resist this sense of doom.

But that's how things are in the world. Seon lost his horse, and he was not blessed. It is difficult to judge whether a thing is good or bad.

After Kaohsiung's death, the properties he purchased became an important lifeline to save his family's fate.

(b)

I haven't looked at all the properties in Kaohsiung. In fact, I've only seen a handful of them. Two of them are in the Windermere Lakes area. One is a commercial property he bought and opened a small resort villa hotel. Due to its very scarce location, the hotel was well-run, business was booming, and its reputation spread far and wide, and the property later appreciated to an astonishing extent. Kaohsiung wisely sold it at the height of its appreciation, and after paying taxes on the proceeds, invested it all in an expensive life insurance policy that included suicide claims.

This was his last gesture of affection for his family.

About 8 km away from this property, there is another property in Kaohsiung. This is where he often lives. The couple often invites friends' families over for vacations. I have also been invited to stay here a few times.

It is bordered by a lake and can be reached by car and boat from the lake. Inside, the rooms are dotted with winding corridors, and the décor is full of Victorian style, and the gardens in the front and back are full of bellflowers and tulips. Seeing these flowers, you can understand that Kaohsiung's heart has always been very soft and warm.

He likes to act rough and domineering, just because he doesn't want many people to see his soft heart.

(c)

Kaohsiung has had a lot of contacts in his life, but he is very picky about one thing. This is the choice of the neighbors. All the neighbors in the vicinity of his residence, all of them are very nice.

His neighbor in the Windermere Lakes District was an English aristocrat.

Judging from the appearance of the house, it is clear that this gentleman's financial resources are much better than those of Kaohsiung.

I once had dinner with this gentleman, and he was very talkative, funny, fond of poetry, played the piano playfully, and although the fingering was a bit informal, the musical sense was excellent.

He also plays well as a flying saucer. Kaohsiung often sparred with him. But I only heard Su say it, and I didn't witness it myself. It's been a long time since I don't participate in shooting-related activities.

Near the highway from London to Windermere Lakes, Kaohsiung also bought a small farm in the countryside that included a few classic English farmhouses. He hired a housekeeper to run the farm, and sold one of the farmhouses to his British secretary, Manny, and his family at a low price as her family's summer holiday home. Kaohsiung himself is rarely on the farm, and often stays for a day or two when he goes. However, Manny often goes to Kaohsiung to oversee the operation of the farm, and secondly, she and her husband love the scenery. Although Kaohsiung's real estate investment vision is accurate, and the price of farmhouses here has soared many times, Manny has no idea of selling for arbitrage. She plans to live here after she leaves the workforce. Unexpectedly, there was a problem in Kaohsiung later, and the entire farm was forced to sell to pay off the debt. Manny had to give up her retirement plan as well.

Things in this world are really impermanent. No one knows where that turn will begin.

When I was a child, I heard a Zen poem, the last two of which were: "When a person crosses a bridge, the bridge does not flow." ”

At the time, I thought it was so strange and hard to understand. But now, I know it's happening.

In the years and years, what flows away is our personal small life and our life achievements, but what is left behind are the houses we once lived in, the rivers we once boated.

We are the first to disappear. In the blink of an eye, the flowers fell, and the whole life passed like this.

(iv)

However, the most attractive thing about Kaohsiung's house in Windermere Lake District is not these.

There's one thing in this place that I can't forget. It was a white swan named Dudu.

I met Dudu when I first lived in this property in Kaohsiung. At that time, Kaohsiung took me to the pier to enjoy the lake and mountains of the entire luxury residential area. What makes me strange is that when I went out, Kaohsiung held a bag of popcorn.

Some ripples spread on the still water. A white swan swam across the lake towards us.

It glides gently and smoothly across the water, as reserved and noble as a fairy in the sky.

Its feathers shimmered with silky light.

It bent its long neck, and it swam over, and Takao squatted on the shore and handed it the popcorn in his hand.

It slowly ate in Kaohsiung's hands.

Its eyes fixed on me curiously.

It looked so tender that for a moment I felt like it was smiling at me.

"It's called Doodoo. My pets. Kaohsiung said, "Actually, it's wild, just one of the countless swans in the lake area." One day at noon, when I was boating on the lake, it followed me all the time. It followed me for most of the lake and back to the docks. I was so touched by the way it followed me so loyally, so silently, that I went through the cabinets and found a lot of food, and came to the docks, and fed it a lot of delicious food, as it is now. ”

I don't want it to be addicted from now on.

Every subsequent noon and dusk, it would swim to the Kaohsiung family's boat dock and wait.

And so the friendship began. Kaohsiung's house has slowly become Dudu's royal restaurant, and Kaohsiung has become its royal chef.

Later, I became familiar with all kinds of people in the Kaohsiung family, and Dudu's courage grew. It often staggered ashore and strutted in the courtyard of his house in Kaohsiung.

Later, it went into the room.

When I was on vacation in his house, I woke up one morning and saw Dudu walking slowly and proudly past the front of the kitchen on the first floor.

I heard that it also patronized Kaohsiung's beds.

For this reason, Kaohsiung often jokes that his charm is so amazing that even a swan is willing to share a bed with him.

He laughed aloud to himself. That laughter still rings in my ears today.

That day, I watched Kaohsiung feed this swan with popcorn and couldn't help but be fascinated by the beauty of Dudu.

I reached out and stroked the top of Dudo's head. Dudu scrutinized me and decided to take my touch calmly and not stop eating popcorn.

Its eyes were half-open and half-closed in pleasure as I stroked it.

I said, "She could be your lover in a past life." It's just that you don't remember her. She can't open her mouth to you. ”

Kaohsiung said: "You are so kind, just say it to me instead of her." That way, I can hear. ”

After the accident in Kaohsiung, the swan somehow became aware of it. It has never swam near the dock where the ship is moored in Kaohsiung.

(5)

After the Kaohsiung accident, his private property was constantly auctioned off to pay off his huge business debts.

Although Sue was reluctant, in the end, she finally made up her mind to sell the house in Windermere Lake.

According to the new owners, they never saw the white swans that came to shore on their own initiative.

The last time I saw a doodoo, it was near the public pier in the Lake District. Together with a large flock of white swans, it squats in the middle of the visitor passage.

I bought something delicious and put it in the palm of my hand and approached it.

It crouched there quietly. It looked at the food. It tilted its head to look at me. Its mouth was close to the food, but it didn't eat.

It pecked lightly on my hand.

It turned around and looked at the lake, and stopped looking at me.

Will it be nostalgic for the dock and the figure it once was?

Dudu is the name given to it by Kaohsiung, and Kaohsiung's sons have always disliked this name, and they have always insisted on calling it "Little Feather" in private.

Actually, as a swan, Dudu doesn't mind what people call it. It also doesn't know where Kaohsiung has gone, why it never reappeared.

None of this constitutes any sadness for it.

I looked at Dudu who was crouching on the sidewalk, refusing to eat the food in my hand, and I couldn't help but sigh in my heart:

I don't know if in its swan heart, sometimes I miss the existence and care of Kaohsiung by chance.

Probably not. Animals' memories are very short.

In fact, our human memory is also very short.