just passing by you

Chapter 28 Palm Lines (2)

Then one day, she accompanied her girlfriend to a banquet. During the banquet, men kept coming over, toasting her girlfriend, and saying some ambiguous words, some of which also brought sincerity.There was even a man who was drunk and staggered over and said, next week, would you like to come to the "Time Cafe"?The girlfriend dealt with these slightly drunk men almost in the same way, saying, okay, I must go.

On the way back, she smiled and asked her girlfriend, so many men have agreed to come down, I'm afraid you don't have time to attend the appointment.The girlfriend turned to look at her and said with a smile: Do you think they take it seriously?When you are drunk, the words of a man are the most unhearable, because the love that sprouted in an instant is just the foam in the beer, and it will disappear quickly with just a drop of cold water.

She finally understood that what he said that night was because he was drunk.And a woman, if she believes in being drunk, she is probably also drunk.

Who has forgotten the fragrance of love.

This is her first love, with a 20-year-old young boy.

At that time, every time she went to his appointment, she always liked to spend an hour washing her long black hair.She can't afford expensive cosmetics or brand-name shampoo, but she treasures a bottle of toilet water given by a friend.In fact, it is only 5 yuan, but when you take a shower and wash your hair, sprinkle a few drops, and the smell of musk will linger on the hair and skin for a long time.Her happiness, because of this cheap fragrance, is like a small wind in the summer, blowing slowly, and a heart is in it, infinitely quiet and beautiful.

She never told him why there was always a faint floral fragrance on her body.This is the only taste she can give to this love, such a calm and gentle fragrance, which gave her the courage to look up at his love when she was wearing a plain dress.He also loves her. Although he was born in a superior family, he was a spoiled child since he was a child, and he didn't know how to express his love, but when he hugged her, he would bury his face in her soft In his hair, he sniffed vigorously, and then said: It is more fragrant than any flower!Can you tell me what brand of shampoo you use, I'll buy it for you next time.In this sentence, she smiled and said, this is the smell of love, as long as we love each other, it will always float in my hair.

Since then, he really believed that love has a taste.At that time, he was still like a child who couldn't grow up. Although he was one year older than her, he needed her to take care of everything.She took his clothes for washing, and when they were sent back, there must be that familiar floral fragrance wafting from the collar of the clothes.When he goes home by car, she always helps him secure a seat that won't be scorched by the sun.He was tired from playing football, so she squatted down and massaged his tired ankles.Even when the two of them ate together, the thin woman squeezed through the crowd to buy his favorite ribs.What did she like about him?She couldn't tell herself, maybe she was most moved every time he leaned over to sniff her hair.She grew up in a humble place, and there has never been a boy, like him, who is attached to her smell, and sincerely admires: There are no flowers that can surpass your fragrance.

Their love, until the 7th year, his parents finally came out to stop it.He tried to resist, but in the end, because of the strength of his family, he was unable to continue to support him.At that time, she was working in a small company, and her salary was only a thousand yuan. Except for the schooling of her two younger siblings, there was almost nothing left.She still dresses as frugally as she did when she was in college.But even so, the habit kept for him has never been omitted.When she was drying her hair slowly in the sun, she would smile when she lowered her head and smell the fragrance of her hair, thinking, love is really a wonderful thing!
At that time, he was the manager of a branch company under his father. His father's intentional training, coupled with his inherited excellent management skills, made him grow from a simple and carefree boy to a capable and mature man very quickly. .He no longer has time to pay attention to the private affairs of his son and daughter's love, nor will he pay attention to her smell when dating her.Even once, he lightly blamed her and said, why do you never look like those young girls in my company, with bright clothes and strong fragrance?Now that I can earn money, don't give your heart to the family, it's time to learn how to dress up, otherwise, how can I pass the test with my parents?

He didn't know how it hurt her heart.She finally realized that his background, which she valued the least, had become the biggest obstacle in their love.Even if she used the most expensive perfume, she still couldn't cover up her inherent bleakness and humbleness.The boy with a keen sense of smell that she loved deeply has lost the fragrance she gave for love, and he began to forget the taste of love.

He finally failed to persuade his parents to accept this love with disparity in status.After struggling painfully for a while, he finally decided to say goodbye to her.He didn't have the courage to face her, so he just sent a text message, saying, let's stop here.It was a week later that she replied to him, then, come to me and have the last meal of love, okay?
When they were in college, they often went to a small shop to eat Yunnan bridge rice noodles.This kind of rice noodles, because of its origin, is also known as Enaishi.She insisted on a big casserole every time, and the two sat at the simple dining table, head to head, and after eating happily, they wiped the sweat off each other's faces.Such a kind of happiness, after graduation, she still let him review from time to time.She has no money to buy expensive gifts for him, but she has a pair of skillful hands that can turn the rice noodles in her hands into a bowl of authentic loving food.

It was a summer evening, and he was sitting in the small house she rented, slowly eating the rice noodles she had made.The two of them were still head to head, but they both understood that the warmth and attachment of the past had faded away with the little bit of rice noodle eaten.It's already late summer, but the heat still hasn't disappeared, and mosquitos, amidst the rising twilight, are also starting to run rampant.Halfway through eating, he scratched the itch frequently with his hands.When she saw it, she got up, took a vial without a label, and leaned over to smear his red and swollen skin.When it was applied to his hands, he was suddenly hit by a familiar smell.He tried hard to recall, and finally remembered that she had told him this, and he himself was the taste of love that he had been attached to for seven years.

He opened his mouth very hard and said, have you been using this cheap toilet water to add flavor to our love for 7 years?She didn't look up, but her voice was choked with sobs: You finally haven't completely forgotten the fragrance of our love.

He finally understood that it was himself who indifferently lost the unique flavor of love that she had brewed so carefully in the overwhelming fragrance.

The love of flats.

He met her when he was 18.It was a cool summer morning, and he sat bored on a wooden chair on the campus, looking down at the white flowers in full bloom in front of him, and the water-red hibiscus falling down after a storm yesterday.His parents are both professors of this university, so during holidays, he doesn’t need to work for tuition fees. He just strolls around the campus every day, watching those holidays running around the city, his face full of tens of dollars. Tired and dusty poor students passed in front of him.He doesn't like to look at their faces, and often feels sad; he doesn't want to see their feet even more, because the sadness and helplessness on their feet are more clear and clear than their faces.Therefore, he can only be that elegant person and look at the flowers under his feet.

It was at this time that he saw the pair of small and gentle feet in straw sandals. There were anklets made of thin red silk thread on the ankles, matching the grass green shoes, and the lavender Kodan on the nails. , It actually made his lazy heart bloom slowly like that fragrant little flower for a while.Then he raised his head and saw her delicate and pure. Suddenly, in her quiet beauty, he lost the pride and unrulyness of the past, and said with a smile: Hi, hello.

That's how they fell in love.She is a girl from the countryside, but she does not have a sad face and downcast feet because of the hardships of life.She loves beauty and has loved it since she was a child.She has many pairs of summer shoes, all of which are made by herself. The worn out soles are bought with bright or gloomy silk threads. After a trick, a pair of elegant yet flexible and charming shoes stepped on her feet like this.She is the only girl in the class who only wears flat shoes, but he believes that she is the most beautiful woman.She has to run around for her own tuition, but she never forgets to live a fresh and beautiful life, which is precisely the cutest part of a woman.

She always respected his parents, even though they didn't like this poor girl, she didn't know fashion, she didn't know how to plan, she was just an ordinary woman, she wouldn't give their son any help.Moreover, what made them even more unbearable was that she actually went to a shoe counter in a shopping mall to make "foot models" for people in order to earn money.It is a tradition in their family that they are only willing to be looked up to. Like her, she is willing to be looked down upon by others, even if she is only a friend to him, it is not acceptable.

She didn't argue, nor complained to him.She just loved him well, loved him with all her heart, just as he loved her so much.She was willing to spend half of the little money she earned by herself to buy him a pure white shirt.She said, no matter how bleak and wronged life is to you, you must first make yourself clear, so that you can go on bravely with a heart.

At first, he was immersed in the enthusiasm of his first love, thinking that she was good everywhere.But every day I hear my parents scolding him like this, saying how can such a girl who has no self-respect be able to pay?It is contemptuous from the bottom of the feet, and it is even more disdainful from the inside.There was still a slight disturbance in his heart.Finally one day, he domineeringly told her not to be a foot model anymore, otherwise, they had no choice but to break up.She bent down and inserted a shy and blooming little flower on the straw woven shoes, and gently rubbed away the debris between her toes, then said with a faint smile: But feet can be noble, sometimes they are compared to hands, Be proud and respectable.He didn't understand what she meant, but he could understand the content in her eyes. She would not change her preferences for anyone.

And so they parted.It was just a two-year relationship, but it was sad, but it still couldn't pass away from the bottom of his heart.He tried to fall in love with other women, but every time he saw their feet tied up in exquisite but oppressive high-heeled shoes, and heard the hollow sound they knocked on the concrete floor, he suddenly felt oppressed in his heart, and then Can't insist on walking on the road of love.

In this way, until one year, his parents were fired from public office because of a major mistake at work.In order to make a living, he had to work part-time as a salesman of a company besides a light job.Running around every day, a pair of feet, will soon become unbearable.When I took off my shoes at night, I found that they were all blistered.He carefully applied medicine to his feet and massaged them carefully.Then an inexplicable sadness swept over like this.He suddenly remembered what she said, and she said that sometimes feet are more admirable and trustworthy than hands.It turned out that this is really the case.Only those who truly understand love and life will allow their feet to walk freely on the ground and make the strongest and most persistent footsteps.And on those uneven roads, only such feet can walk to the end easily and firmly.

And the love of flat shoes will therefore be the most appropriate and reassuring, noble and dignified.But because of his vanity, he missed this true love that is as simple and flexible as green grass.

(End of this chapter)