One day in the summer of 1982, Yuan Yuxiao was faced with a major choice that would determine the future of his life.

In the morning, he received a registered letter full of sunshine, which was an admission notice from Wuhan University. The mood is as clear as the sky, and it is boundless.

Of course, this university is not Yuan Yuxiao's first choice. But it was enough for him to give an explanation of the ten-year cold window. To parents, to themselves.

He carefully placed the notice back in the envelope. Then he grabbed the envelope and walked to the small grocery store at the corner of the alley, where he wanted to use the public phone there to inform his parents, who were still at work. He walked steadily, unhurriedly, as if to enjoy the feeling in detail. It's a habit of him, for example, when he tastes a delicious food or reads a book that he likes, he deliberately slows down.

He first dialed his mother's unit, and his mother's reaction when she heard the news was as pleasant and enthusiastic as he imagined, which he enjoyed very much. Mother first congratulated, and then said, you hurry up and call your father, ask him to go to Wanshanhong Hotel after work, and our family will eat dumplings to celebrate.

Then he called his father again, as he expected, his father's voice was far calmer than his mother's - at least it felt so, his father only said one was very good, and then asked your mother if she already knew, Yuan Yuxiao said, mother knew, said to go to Wanshanhong Restaurant at noon to eat dumplings to celebrate. Father said that dumplings are not a little simpler - but your mother is in charge.

In general, my father ended with the phrase "your mother is in charge".

Wanshan Red Hotel was the largest hotel in the city at that time. Although Yuan Yuxiao is an authentic southerner, he has loved dumplings since he was a child.

In 1982, for an ordinary family like them, if it weren't for a very grand event, it was very rare to go to the restaurant, and in Yuan Yuxiao's memory, it was rare to go to the restaurant for the New Year's festival or to entertain distinguished guests.

And my father, who has always advocated hard work and simplicity, actually said that it was a little simpler. At this moment, Yuan Yuxiao can personally feel the importance and extraordinariness of this matter. Nothing that has been imagined before is as real as this kind of real experience.

In the past few years since the resumption of the college entrance examination, the acceptance rate has only reached a few percent, and it only reached 11 percent last year. It is indeed a single wooden bridge crossed by thousands of troops.

Yuan Yuxiao's personality was a little slow, and his excitement was ignited by these two calls at this time, so he immediately prepared to call his two best classmates, Mo Qing and Yu Xiaolu, but hesitated when he picked up the microphone, because the phone numbers of both of them were from their parents' units and had to be relayed, which seemed a bit too ostentatious, especially before I didn't know if the two of them were admitted to any school, this kind of good news was a bit of a show-off, and after thinking about it for a long time, he finally put down the microphone. Holding the admission notice, he slowly paced towards Wanshan Red Hotel. Although it was at least two hours before lunch.

When he walked to the hotel, it was still quiet and empty. He chose a window seat and sat down, and then looked at the admission notice over and over again, like an endorsement, like the endorsement he had been preparing for the college entrance examination for several months.

Nearly two hours later, the family finally sat down at the table. Mother was smiling, and her smile seemed to have grown on her face, and she couldn't peel it off. And my father, who has always been unsmiling, is also smiling today, which is shallow at first glance, but through his eyes, it is actually deep in his heart.

"The Yuan family has been going on for generations, and finally there is a college student!" , the father's words are synchronized with his seat, others sit down, but this sentence is to raise the meaning of this matter up, and to an extraordinary historical height.

Then he devoted all the opportunity to speak to his mother, who was as happy as a magpie.

Yuan Yuxiao's father has always been more than serious, and he has criticized him more than ten years and praised him less. So he's long since adapted to the way he looks. If my father had rejoiced as my mother did, I am afraid he would not have gotten used to it.

Now, Yuan Yuxiao's mother is chattering about all the precautions she can imagine. The son has never left home when he is so old, and now he is suddenly going to study in other places, her advice is naturally all-encompassing, and for a moment, Yuan Yuxiao strangely felt that it seemed that it was not in the hotel now, but on the platform of the train station. So he felt that he was going to fly far away to a very strange world, but the attack of this feeling did not bring excitement to his excitement today, but seemed to be a faint suppression.

Yuan Yuxiao is not a person who has a strong curiosity about new things, on the contrary, his nostalgia is particularly strong. Since he was in school, he has never changed schools except for elementary school to middle school, junior high school and high school, and so on, and it is these two times that the environment has changed due to higher education, and it takes him a longer time than his peers to adapt. All his textbooks, workbooks, test papers, transcripts, etc., have been kept very well since he read the book. Although he likes to read, when there are no new books, he can read the limited books he owns over and over again. In his elementary school work, he could do a simple job of pasting paper boxes, and he could do it tirelessly, and it seemed to be endless.

Since entering junior high school, with the change of the country's general situation, the goal of college has been firmly locked in him, which has never made his four years of middle school 100% easy, and he has imagined countless times in the past four years - once this goal is achieved, how relaxed and ecstatic he will be.

Now that the moment had come, he did have a brief moment of relief and euphoria, but the peace after the ecstasy also came unexpectedly early, and when his mother told him at this moment, he suddenly had a faint uneasiness about going to study in a strange environment, just as he had always had a kind of uneasiness about the arrival of strange things.

He ate dumplings with a stuffy head, ate a lot, and ate until his parents finished eating, and looked at him kindly for a long time before he reluctantly put down his chopsticks. The heart is empty, but the stomach is full.

Naturally, no matter how many dumplings there are, they are far less than my mother's instructions, so today's lunch time will take up all the usual nap time. When the afternoon time came for work, the mother still had endless words, and the father had to remind her again and again of a simple fact, and the evening and tomorrow, tomorrow's tomorrow......

After his parents left, Yuan Yuxiao felt that his brain was full of fat, and he wanted to take a walk for a while, so he slowly walked under the shade of the trees on the sidewalk, and the white and fine sunlight sifting between the leaves sprinkled all over his body like Milanese flowers.

He was dragged by the sound of a wisp of cicadas, and unconsciously walked to Guiyuan Park, which was not far away.

There is a corner of the shady grass in the park, he used to sit there to endorse books, and after a long time he has inertia, sitting there, his mind will be particularly clear, and now it seems that the success of the college entrance examination can be regarded as his blessed land.

He came to his blessed place and sat down, and suddenly he felt like he was saying goodbye to this place. Although life has not been easy in the past few years, my heart is full of melancholy when I want to say goodbye to those days...... Ade, my crickets, Ade, my raspberries and mullies...... Now he understands the feelings described in the textbook.

But no matter what, the sense of relief and relief is the undertone after all. At that time, there were many short-term indulgences after the completion of exams, and there were many winter and summer vacations, which seemed insignificant compared to today.

He lay down on his back, letting his body sink into the center of the earth as softly as water, while his limbs spread out and seeped into the wilderness.

The blue sky in the afternoon was a little too dazzling, and he turned sideways and covered his face with his hands, he now felt that the future was like this blue sky, shining but a little dazzling.

He needed a moment of quiet time to digest the converging emotions on his own.

At this moment he has been combined with the earth, the grass and flowers float on every inch of his skin, and also tickle his internal organs, the fragrance of grass and flowers and the fragrance of the earth filled his nose and heart, he carefully combed and distinguished, which wisp of incense came from which kind of flower or grass, these incense are the breath of flowers and grass, the breath of flowers and grass, he can use his nose to distinguish their direction and frequency.

He has an extraordinary nose.

Yuan Yuxiao's nose is very peculiar and is more sensitive to various smells than ordinary people. Often he can smell smells that others can't feel.

This trait was discovered by his parents at a very young age.

For example, he can distinguish through the door whether a visitor is a family member or a familiar classmate, friend, or relative just by smell. Another example is the ability to clearly detect slight odors in food that others can't smell. Wait a minute.

This seemingly romantic special ability has played a very realistic role over the years.

In the days when there were no refrigerators, his family's leftovers were served overnight in bowls and placed in buckets with cold well water. Naturally, this is not 100% effective, and whether the overnight meal is still fresh or not depends on his unusually sensitive nose. He is the sapper of the whole family, and his nose is his mine detector.

Now, he is lying in the sun, and the smell of the park grass forms a large platter of summer, and it is rare for him to play with his nose so leisurely, and in enjoying the scenery, he has more pleasure with his nose in addition to relying on his eyes like everyone else.

Suddenly, a peculiar scent caught his extraordinary nose on the spot—a wisp of fragrance similar to osmanthus flowers.

Even though it's Guiyuan Park, the osmanthus doesn't bloom so early - so the smell is just similar, and the point is not here, but the point is that the fragrance is mixed with wisps of ...... The girl's body fragrance!

After entering puberty, his extraordinary nose is especially sensitive to the breath of women. Therefore, he can judge every girl in the class by smell, which is now called smelling and knowing women.

He twitched his nose to find the source of the mysterious fragrance.

It wasn't too difficult for him, because the source of the incense wasn't too far away, and he turned his head slightly, and his eyes were in the direction where the fragrance came from.

A twinkling light in the grass shone on him.

He got up and walked a few meters, reached out and picked up the twinkling starlight.

It turned out to be a copper key.

There is also a cute little velvet bear hanging on the key.

He sniffed carefully, and made sure that the girl's body fragrance came from the key and the bear, and though it was faint, it was sufficient for the discernment of his extraordinary nose.

As far as the eye can see, there is no one around. It's afternoon work time, not a weekend, and there aren't many visitors to the park, let alone this relatively remote corner.

Obviously, the owner of this key is a young girl. This was his first judgment.

In this way, the imagination behind is logical:

With such a refreshing body fragrance, she must be very beautiful......

Maybe one day I will be able to meet her......

Then he said: The weather is so nice......

She said, "Yes, spring is coming......

And then a beautiful story begins......

When Yuan Yuxiao was a student, Chinese has always been her strength, and her composition is often used as a model essay for the class. Therefore, he also quietly wrote a little poems and novels for himself in his diary, which may have stemmed from his personality that is prone to indulge in fantasy.

After thinking about it for a long time, he was a little stupid, and suddenly a bird skimmed his face, and he woke up from meditation.

The bird here is accustomed to seeing tourists coming and going, and is not afraid of people, so it landed two or three meters in front of him and tilted its head to look at him.

He felt a little ridiculous when he was stared at like this, and he looked up to the sky and roared.

Looking at the sun, if you walk, you can now walk slowly home. At home during the holidays, cooking is naturally his business. He had to get it done before his mother got off work.

With the key and his mind full of thoughts, he slowly paced home. As long as he is not in a hurry, he mostly chooses to walk. He loves to walk. It's especially easy to get inspired when walking. So when he writes, he is used to pacing in the alley of his house. Even in an essay contest in junior high school, his Chinese teacher, who favored him, allowed him to pace in the back of the classroom with special exceptions. Think of what it was like to feel like the other students were sitting at their desks while he walked behind him like an invigilator. Fortunately, he did not live up to the special care of the teacher, and won the award for his essay in the whole grade.

Slowly pacing home, I walked to the door and dug into my pocket, only to find that I didn't bring my own door key, and took out the key that I picked up......