After the winter vacation, Wu Dao returned to Fangzhou College.

One day in March, Meng Yihong found three photo albums when tidying up her room, which contained hundreds of photos of her from birth to work and marriage.

Looking at the photos of himself when he was young, and then looking at his current appearance in the mirror, Meng Yihong sighed that time flies, life is short, and before you know it, you will be old.

In the evening, Wu Dao went to Meng Yihong's dormitory to have dinner together, and the two chatted about the past, Wu Dao said that he wanted to see the photos of Meng Yihong when he was young, and after eating, Meng Yihong took out the albums.

Wu Dao and Meng Yihong looked at the photos together, and Meng Yihong told Wu Dao one by one when the photos were taken, how old she was at that time, what grade she was in, and so on.

Wu Dao found that Meng Yihong grew up in a very warm and harmonious family, and her parents were very good people at first glance.

Meng Yihong's father has passed away for a long time, and her mother has just passed away not long ago.

Meng Yihong in childhood was a little fatter than in adulthood, and she looked very cute. Meng Yihong didn't wear glasses in the photos she took before she went to high school, sometimes she wore them during high school, sometimes she didn't wear them, and many photos during college didn't wear glasses, and she looked better without glasses. Wu Dao asked Meng Yihong:

"Sister Meng, when did you start wearing glasses?"

"When I was in high school, my eyes started to be myopia, but it was not serious, it should be pseudomyopia, and if I protect it well, it can be completely recovered. But at that time, I was not sensible, and I thought it was fashionable to wear glasses, so I matched my eyes. Because myopia is not serious, sometimes it is worn and sometimes it is not worn. After going to university, myopia became more and more serious, and then I couldn't do without glasses. Meng Yihong said.

"Sister Meng, you wear glasses and don't wear glasses, it's completely different, I think you still look better without glasses."

"Yes, but now I can't take my glasses off, I wear glasses all year round, and my eyes are deformed. What's more, I was young then, and now I'm old, and I still say what is good-looking or not. ”

"Sister Meng, you used to look good, and you look good now. Cangyang Gyatso once wrote this poem: I asked the Buddha, why don't you give all women a face that is shy and closed? The Buddha said, it is just a flash in the pan, used to blind the eyes of the world, there is no beauty that can withstand a pure and loving heart, I give it to every woman, but someone makes her dusty.

Sister Meng's appearance may have changed with the passage of time, but her beautiful heart has not changed, and it is even more moving, which is the most important thing. ”

"I have also read that poem by Cangyang Gyatso, and it is very thought-provoking. Listening to your words, I feel a little fluttering, thank you. ”

"No thanks, I'm telling the truth." Wu Dao also said, "In the poem by Cangyang Gyatso, I asked the Buddha, how to make the heart no longer feel lonely? The Buddha said that every heart is born lonely and crippled, and that most people spend their lives with this cripple because when they meet the other half who can make it complete, they either miss it by negligence or lose their qualification to possess it. ”

Meng Yihong didn't speak, she understood the meaning of Wu Dao's quote from Cangyang Gyatso's poem, he wanted to tell himself that the hearts of the two of them were lonely and crippled, and if they chose to be together, they could make their hearts complete, but she had long lost the qualification to have a complete heart.

Wu Dao flipped through the photo of Meng Yihong when he was a graduate student, and saw his mentor Tian Mowen on it, Tian Mowen's age at that time was like his current self. Meng Yihong said to Wu Dao:

"Mr. Tian is the elder brother of our mentor and the first doctor of my mentor. His research ability is very strong, and we juniors and sisters admire him very much. ”

"Mr. Tian wasn't as fat as he was back then."

"Yes, he only slowly gained weight after he joined the work."

"At that time, he didn't dress as casually as he did later."

"It should be our mentor, that is, your master, he saw that Senior Brother Tian was dressed too casually, so he asked him not to be like that. No matter how much personality Senior Brother Tian has, he still respects our mentor very much. Later, he studied abroad, and after returning to China, he went to work at Jeju University, and no one cared about him anymore, he just wore whatever he wanted. ”

"Sometimes I think that living like Mr. Tian is really living and understanding."

"However, there are few people in this world who can live so freely like Senior Brother Tian."

In the end, Wu Dao flipped to the photo of Meng Yihong when he got married, and his heart suddenly felt a little jealous, and he even imagined what a beautiful thing it would be if the man who married Meng Yihong in the photo was himself. Meng Yihong said to him:

"Back then, getting married was very simple, not as grand as it is now. After getting married, I said that I was going to go on my honeymoon, but I just went to the beach for a few days. ”

"Sister Meng looks very good in a wedding dress, do you want to wear a wedding dress again?" Wu Dao said.

"I'm so old, and I'm not in shape anymore, so I definitely can't wear it now."

"As long as Sister Meng wants to wear it, she can wear it."

"I don't want to wear it."

Wu Dao didn't say anything more. After looking at all the photos in the album, he returned to his dormitory. He stood by the window, looking at the night sky in the distance, remembering the photos he had just seen and the conversation between himself and Meng Yihong, he couldn't calm down for a long time, and suddenly felt something, so he wrote a poem:

Look at a rainbow photo with feelings

Your bygone years

It's so fragrant

I want to go back in time

Watch every day with you

The rising sun

But time is a big ship

It carries all the people

Been to endless places

But there was no one

It is possible to return home

Because of this

I cherish the present even more

The time we spent together

Every minute and every second

All treasures of future memories

Wu Dao planned to show the poem to Meng Yihong after getting up the next day, but remembering the conversation between the two just now, he felt that if he did that, both of them would be very embarrassed.

However, Wu Dao still hoped that Meng Yihong could see it after all, so he opened QQ space, took the poem as a log, and posted it on it, but changed Yihong in the title to M.

In order not to let unrelated people see it, the permission of the poem was set to only Meng Yihong could see it. Wu Dao expects Meng Yihong to open QQ space and see the poem.

Wu Dao didn't expect that when he met Meng Yihong the next day, the first thing the other party said was the poem:

"Wu Dao, I know you are very literate, but I didn't expect you to write poetry, and write so well. I was very moved when I read the poem in your QQ space, but you really can't do it anymore. You should go find a real girlfriend. ”

Last night, Meng Yihong saw the poem, she was moved by Wu Dao's sincere emotions, and her heart was very happy, she didn't want the poem written by Wu Dao to come true, but after all, it was just a poem, but the reality was very cruel, she was almost fifty years old, and she still had infertility, and Wu Dao was still a young man who was not married, how could the two of them be together?

"When did you read that poem?" Wu Dao said.

"I saw it last night."

Hearing Meng Yihong say this, Wu Dao was very happy in his heart, because Meng Yihong's words showed that she was very concerned about herself and would often watch her network dynamics. He said to Meng Yihong:

"Actually, I don't know how to write poetry, but after looking at the photos yesterday, I suddenly had an inspiration and wrote nonsense."

"Write it, write it, you shouldn't post it on the Internet, although you didn't write whose photo it is, but the M in the title is easy to remind people of me."

"Others won't see it, because I set permissions, and only you, Sister Meng, can see it."

"That's fine. Wu Dao, you have become calm now. ”

Soon, Fangzhou College ushered in its most beautiful month of the year - April. The college is full of cherry blossoms, and the campus is full of flowers.

The second volume of "History of Foreign Literature" taught by Wu Dao is arranged in the second semester of the sophomore year, and the three classes of the Chinese Department are taught together. One afternoon, after he finished class, he was walking out when a female student came up to him and called him "Teacher Wu".

Wu Dao looked back and saw that it was Su Hongmin from the first class, she had always been very active in class and often took the initiative to speak, not only that, but she also reported the elective courses she offered, and she would listen to every class on time. Wu Dao said to Su Hongmin:

"Su Hongmin, are you okay?"

"Mr. Wu, I want to talk to you, okay?" Su Hongmin said with a smile.

"What's wrong with that? Want to talk about something? ”

"Let's talk while walking, you see, there are cherry blossoms blooming outside, wouldn't it be nice to talk while walking?"

"Then let's go outside and talk as we go."

The two of them came to the road and walked under the cherry blossom trees, Su Hongmin said:

"Mr. Wu, do you believe in love?"

"Why did you suddenly talk about this topic?"

"I just want to know what you think about love."

"Of course I believe in love, you know, we are majoring in literature, and love is the eternal theme of literature."

"I seem to be in love with you."

"What did you say?"

"I said I might be in love with you."

Wu Dao stopped and looked at the girl next to her, she was of medium height, very thin, even very thin, she was wearing glasses, although her appearance was not as good as Si Baifang, but she was also a relatively beautiful one among the female students in the class, and most importantly, her eyes were sincere.

"You're too young to understand love."

"I'm not young, I'm twenty-one years old, I understand love."

"We're too different in age."

"I know that you are Chinese New Year's Eve one year old today, ten years older than me, but Ba Jin is thirteen years older than Xiao Shan, and Lu Xun is seventeen years older than Xu Guangping, aren't they all together, and they are very happy? Isn't this exactly the love that literature praises? ”

"They're not the same as us."

"What's the difference?"

"Ba Jin and Xiao Shan, Lu Xun and Xu Guangping, are all like-minded, and they finally came together after experiencing the baptism of life together, they love each other because they know each other, and we don't know each other."

"So from now on, let's get closer to each other and get to know each other. Mr. Wu, do you have something to do tonight? ”

"It's okay, what's wrong?"

"Then I'll invite you to dinner, at six o'clock in the evening, still here, see you or leave."

After Su Hongmin finished speaking, he ran away without waiting for Wu Dao to answer. Looking at her distant figure, he remembered Su Hongmin in the usual class, it turned out that she was so active because she had a good impression of herself.

Wu Dao couldn't help but smirk and said to himself, "How could this young girl fall in love with me?" ”

After returning to the dormitory, Wu Dao saw Meng Yihong and told her about Su Hongmin. Meng Yihong said:

"Are you talking about Su Hongmin the very thin girl in the first class?"

"Yes, that's her." Wu Dao said.

"I know Su Hongmin very well, she is a very good girl, her academic performance has always been very good, and she is very beautiful, she is completely worthy of you."

"But she's still a college student, so much younger than me."

"What does it matter if you are a college student? When I was in college, it was forbidden for university teachers to fall in love with students, and now there is no such regulation, you and Su Hongmin fall in love, and no one objects. ”

"But I ......"

"Nothing, I always want you to start a real relationship, Su Hongmin is a good object. A girl who is so good has taken the initiative to confess to you, what are you hesitating about?

You let go of the burden in your heart, forgot Si Baifang, and forgot me, and looked at her and accepted her with simple eyes. Believe me, Su Hongmin will be a very good girlfriend. ”

"I'm really going to see her at night?"

"Of course you want to go, there's no reason not to."

"Okay then."

"You're going on a date, you should get dressed in a nice outfit."

Meng Yihong chose a set of Wu Dao's clothes that she thought was beautiful and asked him to change them. Wu Dao felt that his behavior was a little ridiculous, but the matter had come to this point, and he had to go to the appointment.