Chapter 22: Changing Faces (4)

(4) About Belly Pearl

One night in August 1997, I woke up from a strange dream and turned on the TV to try to forget the foreboding in my heart.

Because it is in a holiday inn, it is not easy to get a familiar face, a cartoon is painted by Han Chinese, so I stopped to look at it, talking about Zhuge Liang when he was born, I have never seen it, and if you look closely, it is a Japanese TV station!

The picture is in the style of Chinese painting, very simple and ethereal, and Zhuge Liang's father walked out of the door to the courtyard because he was in a hurry.

At this time, a solar eclipse occurred, the sun gradually lost its light, the sky and the earth were dark, and Zhuge Liang's father felt hopeless.

However, at the moment when Belle-Franc appeared, a loud baby's cry pierced the darkness between heaven and earth.

The baby's father then named the child: "Liang", the word Kong Ming.

Because when Belle Pop appears, it is like a small hole in a black hole in bright light.

I wanted to name my collection of essays "Belle Pearl" and publish it one by one.

But after that, I struggled with the disease until the "**" came.

When I came, I was running to the publishing house to proofread my first collection of essays, Belle Pearl.

I rode along Chang'an Avenue all the way east, all the way to the green light. The streets are sparsely populated. There were only three or two foreigners, staring at me strangely.

The foreigner is tall, the child is also in the chest, in a position of more than one meter six or seven, I thought: either the "**" virus is a low-altitude suspended solid, tall foreigners can't breathe; or these viruses are spread by them, they have an antidote; or they just don't understand Chinese, don't watch Chinese programs, and are stupid to think that the streets of Beijing are so quiet, different from others!

I deliberately went out that night, it turned out that around the noisy New World Mall, there were more foreigners than Chinese!

The next day, I didn't dare to go out.

If you can't even save your life, the other qiē is equal to zero.

Because of "**", I am no longer interested in publishing those short poems and essays.

The first edition of "Bei Lizhu: Selected Essays of A Lan" was published by China Culture and Art Publishing House in December 2003. To date, the second series has not been published. I use "Bel Pearl" as my screen name, as I said in the title page inscription of my essay collection: The first point of light that passes through the darkness after a total solar eclipse is Bel Pearl, and here it is the Bel Bead of my heart through the night......

There are many instances in the work of calling themselves Hei Mi Zhima, Ah Lan and Bel Lizhu, which are different names in the family, in life and online. I hope you won't feel like you're reading a foreign language.