Chapter 94: Looking Back (3)

(3) Lettuce as a child

Li Jie, a high school roommate, went to a suburban farmhouse for a day on the weekend, and came back and said to me excitedly, "Have you ever seen lettuce when you were a child?"

It's four leaves lying on the ground, so short!" she gestured excitedly.

I didn't dare to say that when I was younger, it was a sprout and then a leaf, so I asked her solemnly, "Then what did you think it looked like?"

"Isn't it such a long cylinder?" she continued, "I thought it was a little cone when it first came out of the earth. ”

I was straight at the time: The daughter of the secretary of the state party committee is really not diligent and does not distinguish between the four bodies and the five grains!

Many years later, when I arrived in Chengdu, she came to the hotel alone to see me.

"Your current essay is becoming inflammatory, far worse than when you were in high school! I think you should go and worship Manjushri as soon as possible, Wenshu Monastery is nearby. ”

I don't think so, but I went to Chongqing last year and Chengdu this year to receive the award, do you still think lettuce is cute when you were a child - four leaves crawling on the ground!

Years later, I heard that she had been in the United States for many years, and I wondered if it was the boy she was younger than him who she had told me that year.

When I was in high school, we were all fans of Momoe Yamaguchi and decided to marry a man who was seven years older than him, no more, no less, just seven years apart from Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura. At that time, the anime we watched was "Volleyball Girl", which was also Japanese. They said I looked like the one who could shoot "shooting stars to catch the moon", and I would often hit other people's heads with my serve. They also said that my arms were like rolling pins and that I was too thin. These sounds very harsh to me, because that You Jia later had bone cancer, and I have a faint uneasiness in my heart.

But Li Jie didn't think so, she said: Like means to feel like, how beautiful it is, you call me "Junko Xiaolu", I also want to grow into a cartoon face with a pointed chin!

I remember that she still had a wide face, and her eyes were still two and one single, but her eyes were devoid of pure joy, and became full of melancholy, and she sighed that the boys who followed her were too young, probably younger than the difference of seven years!

What lettuce looked like when she was a child! Alas, she is probably seventy or eighty years old, and she is still excited about what other people looked like when they were children, and that is bad.