Natural beauty, inspirational nature

Chapter 42

Xiaoyu and I chatted on the Internet for more than a month. It coincided with Valentine's Day on the seventh day of July. The annual meeting of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl on the Magpie Bridge is a festival that many male and female friends pay special attention to.

I think it must be a godsend to meet a handsome guy of the century like classmate Xiaoyu on the eve of Qixi Festival.So action is worse than action. I took the time to visit the market in Qingguo Lane two weeks in advance, and wanted to buy one or two commemorative gifts for my future sweetheart.

After get off work, I, dressed in a cheongsam, went to this old street and took a walk by the ancient canal, and my mood became bright, fresh and poetic.

The historical and cultural district of Qingguo Lane was built before 1581. Qingguo Lane faced the canal section of the urban area. At that time, there were many ships and it was the distribution center for fruit products from the north and the south. It used to be called "Thousand Fruit Lane"."Qian" and "Qing" in Changzhou dialect are difficult to distinguish, so the current "Qingguo Lane" came into being.

Qingguo Lane is famous all over the world for Baguitang.Baguitang, the century-old former residence, is a gathering place of humanities, crouching tiger, hidden dragon, where the footprints of heroes of the past dynasties and the books of celebrities and elegant scholars have been left here.Walking around the ancient streets, you can often hear the tour guide explaining the celebrity stories of Baguitang to tourists from afar.

It is said that Mr. Jing Chuan accidentally planted eight osmanthus trees in the courtyard. Unexpectedly, it really left a little aura for Changzhou, which lasted for a hundred years. Anyone who has lived here will be famous in Chinese history. .The outstanding people truly interpret the auspicious and noble temperament of sweet-scented osmanthus.

There is a newly opened aromatic gift shop next to Baguitang, and you can smell the fragrance of flowers from a distance.

I smelled the fragrance and moved. As soon as I stepped into the store, I saw a whole cabinet of perfume bottles. When the clerk saw me, he greeted me very warmly and asked me what perfume I need to buy?
I didn't make a sound because I'm not very interested in perfume. I glanced inside the room and saw that besides the perfume in the center of the room, there were also two rows of notebooks neatly placed on the bookshelf against the wall.

I asked her: "Apart from perfume, do you have any special gifts in your store?"

"Well, our store mainly sells perfume and incense, and there is nothing special about it." When the clerk was answering the question, I saw a notebook on the bookshelf that had fallen down, and quickly went up to hold it. Notebook, but unexpectedly found that this kind of notebook is very special. The cover of the book is glued with natural pink dried flowers, and the words "Time Tree" are engraved in the upper right corner of the cover. It looks like a classic and romantic natural and fresh beauty.

Open the cover, each page of the inner page is a herbarium, all kinds of leaves and pulp fibers are made into a unique page of rice paper.

I couldn't help but sigh in admiration: "Wow, this looks good, so special."

Seeing that I was happy, the clerk smiled and said to me: "If you like it, girl, you can look through all the stacks on the shelf and let you choose."

When she said that, I was naturally happy, so I opened and admired each book one by one, and finally picked two books with different flower specimens pasted on the cover, one was lavender, and the other was peach petals.

Because the materials are real dried flowers and leaves specimens, so the price is not cheap, I want to take them all back, give one of them to myself, and give the other to Xiaoyu as a gift for Qixi Festival.

When the things were packed, I saw the small bookmark under the bookshelf again. The small box is surrounded by classical pattern borders, and a line of calligraphy is written on the light yellow environmentally friendly paper box: Spring breeze ten miles is not as good as you.

I think the design of this small box is very elegant and antique, so I opened it and took a look. I couldn't put it down after seeing it. Inside is a feather-shaped bookmark holder carved with metal copper products.The clerk said: "This is used as a bookmark in the book." I smiled and said: "Well, I can see it, and it's quite special. How much is this, I want it too."

On the way back, I also visited a ceramics shop. I really like the handicrafts made by these artisans.

I saw a sunny doll made of ceramics, hanging on the display stand, with two beads hanging down, swaying back and forth with the breeze, lightly bumping against the edge of the ceramics, making sporadic and crisp sounds.

There are also heart-shaped patterns painted on the body of the sunny baby, which is really beautiful.

I asked the clerk to bring me a pair of sunny dolls, one with a red heart pattern and one with a blue heart pattern, and wrapped them separately.I want to give him the red one and keep the blue one for myself.

Before I knew it, I had already prepared two small gifts, and I felt as if I had returned to the lush campus days, carefully preparing holiday gifts for my sweetheart with the thoughts of a girl in my heart.

And such an extremely excited and expectant mood has never been seen in the campus days.Maybe it was me when I was in college, and I never met a boy who made me so excited like Xiaoyu.

After buying the presents, I sent him a message, very tactfully mentioned the Qixi Festival to him, and asked him if he had any plans for that day.I said that everyone has been chatting for a while. If you want to date, you can meet in reality first. After all, the online world is illusory, and there will be discrepancies between photos and real people.

I also told him very frankly that I had been deceived in the online world before, and told him that I believed in the true feelings of the two people after meeting in reality, and I was looking forward to meeting him on Qixi Festival.

He thought about it, but didn't answer my question directly, didn't say he was free, and didn't say he wasn't free.There was only a "hmm" and there was no further text.

I was puzzled, thinking that my male god was going to reject my proposal, but after an hour or two, he suddenly sent me another message asking me: "Do you like hot pot or Japanese food? Can you eat spicy food?" ?”

I told him that I can only eat slightly spicy food, hot pot or cooking is fine, I like both.

When he asked me this question, my mood instantly changed from cloudy to "clear", because everyone asked me this way, didn't they just agree to meet me on the Qixi Festival in disguise, otherwise it would be impossible to even arrange what to eat for me that day up.

I thought to myself that this boy is really careful and caring enough. It is usually difficult to book a restaurant location on Valentine’s Day. He knows what I like to eat in advance, probably because he is planning to book the restaurant and location in advance, right?

He is so sincere, so I naturally have to take it seriously.So for this first appointment, I took an extra day off work on weekends, just so that I would not have to deduct my salary on the day of the date, and take a day off to spend an unforgettable Chinese Valentine's Day with him.

The night before I met him, I took out the time tree notebook, and carefully wrote a small poem with a pen on the title page of the book——

Xiao Yu'er: I am grateful to God for allowing you and me to meet in the online world. Once the golden wind and jade dew meet, they will win but there are countless people in the world. In this special festival, I want to give you a tree of flowers, Xu Jun's eternal beauty "Philippines". May your friendship last forever.

After finishing writing, I closed the notebook and put it in a packing box, imagining the happy expression on the face of my sweetheart receiving this simple holiday gift, and I was so satisfied that I lay on the bed and prepared to go to bed.

A netizen posted on the square and said in an instant: True love can only be encountered when you are young, and love in adulthood is full of the smell of money.

I really want to tell him loudly that you are too pessimistic, love may be encountered at any age in life.

In the youthful years, perhaps many people have encountered their own young love, but sorry, I have never encountered it.

I think not everyone is so lucky to meet the person they love the most at the simplest age. Love is obviously too late for me, but once it comes, I will take my purest Treat it with sincerity.

Because some people can "never change their original intention" for a lifetime, I know that the innocent and cute fat girl who lives in my soul is always there.

(End of this chapter)