【Chapter 76】Encounter in Taoyuan
In half a year, I was willing to spend a long time talking about the courses with my dormitory sisters, after graduation, and about the future. Towards the end of the summer of my sophomore year, I successfully persuaded them to form a team and go with me to the study hall to take a seat and review their homework.
Therefore, before the summer of that year, the dormitory sisters said that they had done something more relaxed than before. That year, everyone's results improved like never before.
In order to reward themselves, several girls were enthusiastic, and finally decided: before leaving for the summer vacation, the sisters went to a picking garden near Funiu Mountain in Luoyang to pick peaches.
It is the largest picking garden in Luoyang, the ticket is 20 per person, but the peaches in the garden can be eaten openly, and you can also take away 5 catties of freshly picked peaches when you leave the garden.
That peach mountain, as far as the eye can see, the green leaves and red spots are dense, and you can't see the edge.
The winding mountains are full of peach trees that are not tall but fruitful.
Dense, pink and tender fruits, each area, there are different varieties.
Fluffy peaches wrapped in a circle of stubble, fragrant butter peaches, red lovely apricot peaches, garlands, pumpkin-like small peaches, pink star peaches...
Each kind of peach is entrenched in a large hillside. As far as the eye can see, all kinds of varieties come and go.
The summer sun shone in through the cracks in the branches of the peach trees, fell to the ground, and shattered into bright spots of light.
Butterflies, bees and ladybugs, all kinds of warm-day animals lie on the peaches and secretly kiss them, mischievously sucking sweet juices.
Growing up, I had never seen so many fruits, and I didn't know how to describe the mood at that time.
It is allowed to take 5 pounds out of the park, and the dormitory sisters have prepared plastic bags in advance.
In order to find the biggest, sweetest and reddest peach, I shuttled through the forest, and everyone had long been separated, and before I knew it, I walked to the deepest part of the peach forest.
The peach trees seem to be dense, but in each area, there will be a pool with a faucet around it.
Under the faucet is a one-meter-square cement pond for friends who come to the garden to pick fruits in time.
Next to the pond are piles of peaches that have been discarded by tourists.
Some have been drilled by bugs. Some of them were really bitten off by a picky sage.
Looking at the remnants of peaches, I suddenly felt a little distressed.
At that moment, I began to count: How many fruits have I eaten in this life?
The earliest memories related to fruit are five years old. During the heavy summer rains, the water level of the Huai River soared, and the yellowing turbid water collected from the upstream, and the melon fields of the melon farmers were washed clean. Watermelons, pumpkins, and branches were all swept down by the yellow waves.
At that time, like many children, I could just stand on the bank of the river and pluck with a bamboo pole to catch the drifting watermelons from the yellowed surface of the river.
At that time, I picked at the watermelon pulp that was rotten on the ground and put it in my mouth. At that time, I thought watermelon was very sweet. Compared with the white sugar used for porridge seasoning by grandma who can't afford to eat vegetables, it is sweeter.
The older memory is to look enviously at the grapevines climbing out of the walls of other people's houses, committing crimes with other children, and successfully stealing a bunch of purple grapes and distributing four of them.
The moment you put the grapes in your mouth, the moment your teeth rub through the skin of the grapes, a sweet and sour aroma softly stimulates the tip of the tongue, and the fragrant juice swirls in the mouth. Although I cut a big hole in the summer clothes that my grandmother cut and improved and my cousin gave me, I also thought it was worth it.
Later, I remember that a man named my mother came to visit my grandmother, and a red plastic bag contained 5 round and hard fruits.
That's when I realized, oh, there is another kind of fruit with shiny skin, and the white inside is called apple, which is much bigger than grapes, and much sweeter than grapes.
Later, a cousin of my cousin came to visit her and brought her a bunch of bananas.
It was the first time I ate a banana, and I thought: how can there be such a soft and delicious thing in the world? Bananas are probably the most delicious fruit in the world.
And later? My grandmother began to shrink my clothes and go on a diet to provide for me to go to school.
Through the peach forest, my eyes were empty, and I seemed to see the girl who bent down to pick up bagasse on the way out of school. At that time, I was in elementary school. In order to make up for my tuition, my grandmother sold all the grain she had accumulated by picking ears of rice and wheat in the fields.
Only a basket of white noodles with small noodles and cows was left. At that time, the food I ate to and from school was always the sauce made by my grandmother with batter, with some sugar or some chili noodles. That thing doesn't starve, and after a few visits to the toilet, it's all gone.
After school that day, I was hungry and dizzy. In the empty stomach, only stomach acid rolled and screamed inside. My hands and feet were weak, my legs were shaking, and my eyes were full of points of light that shook like stars.
At that time, I couldn't walk anymore.
The sour water in the stomach stirred and stirred inside. I pressed my stomach and walked slowly, step by step.
I walked next to each other, and suddenly, I saw a white bagasse on the ground in front of me.
At that time, I stopped.
Seeing that there was no one around, I silently squatted down, quickly picked up the bagasse that others had chewed on the ground, put it in my mouth, and began to chew.
I chewed and chewed, and the sweet juice fell into my stomach, and my stomach immediately stopped twitching.
At that time, I suddenly felt that sugar cane was the most delicious fruit in the world.
See, though, it has been chewed, but it can still be sweet.
I was under a tree full of pink peaches, and the scene was of a thin girl, crouched on the side of the road with no one around, chewing bagasse in panic. It was like a movie picture, clearly hanging in front of my eyes.
Suddenly, there was a "click", and the picture seemed to be taken away in an instant, and I woke up suddenly.
I hurriedly wiped a handful of salt water from the corner of my eye, looked up at the sky, and blinked. When I felt no longer embarrassed, I turned my head.
Not far away, beside me, was the long leaning figure.
When I looked at him, I was pleasantly surprised. Avoiding the peaches that had fallen on the ground, I walked towards him with a cheerful step.
As I walked, I happily called, "Huaming! Why are you here too? What a coincidence! ”
He was dressed in a silver-gray shirt, like a silver pillar, standing quietly under the shadows, motionless.
It wasn't until I got to him that he looked at me and said, "Well, Liu Zijun, it's a coincidence."
I didn't see him reach out, so I stretched out my arms and prepared to crash into his arms.
As if he saw through my movements, he shook his head and took two steps back....
Yes, that's right, I went to him, but he took two steps back....
At that moment, my mind and face suddenly went white together.
Looking at his pale face like a pear blossom, and the seriousness that was completely different from the gentleness of the fifth day of the new year, I suddenly became empty, confused, and my steps were so heavy that I couldn't pull it up anymore.
It was like being poked hard by something.
I tried to smile at him as hard as I could. I wasn't sure, so I lowered my tone and asked him tremblingly, "Hua Ming, what's wrong with you?" Are you—Are you hiding from me? ”
He didn't shake his head, he didn't nod, he just looked at me so complicated.
I was a little flustered at that moment, and asked, "Huaming, I, we haven't seen each other for 6 months." In the past 6 months, I have wanted to call you every day, but I dare not bother you. Are you afraid to disturb me too? ”
He shook his head, and his voice suddenly was very low, "No, I'll tell you another day, you can go quickly." ”
"Let's go? Why? What's wrong with you? ”
I couldn't tell the emotion in his eyes, and there was another squirting sound, only to hear him sigh at the end. He said, "Come out, Orb." ”
"Orb?" I turned my head in amazement.
More than ten meters behind him, in a peach shade, a figure emerged.
She was tall and graceful, as graceful as a boneless weeping willow on the side of the road, and only the red lip color could be seen under a sunhat.