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Bitter chrysanthemum and love

She went to graduate school with him that year. Neither came from a wealthy family,

By pomfret wisePublished 3 years ago 3 min read

Lead a more austere life naturally. But he always gives her little surprises, like making her a flower by himself or drawing a beautiful birthday card. He is a careful and considerate kind of man. After falling in love, she felt that this man's emotion is very delicate.

When we go to dinner together, he always likes to order a dish - bitter chrysanthemum.

It is a very cheap dish, as long as three or four dollars, tender green, sprinkled with monosodium glutamate, salt, sesame oil, garlic on the line, bitter chrysanthemum cold.

He said it was the food of his hometown and sometimes went to the mountains to pick some. It's all grown by hand now. Bitter chrysanthemum can lose fire and clear heat. There is so much pressure from school and work. He likes Kouju.

He gave her most of the dishes she liked. Cashew shrimp, every time he orders, because she loves it, although the price is not low.

Two dishes, a cold chrysanthemum, a cashew shrimp. Two bowls of noodles, one with meat and one without; The one with the meat is hers, the one without the meat is his.

He said he didn't like meat.For two years, they have been eating this way, on his birthday or hers.

She had never liked Kouju and had tasted it only once, when the bitter taste was unbearable. She said, "Why do you like to eat this stuff?"

Two years later, they graduated from graduate school. She stayed in a big Taiwan-funded company. He had to volunteer for something.

They had a lot of arguments. She said: "You want to go can, we break up." It was very cruel. She did not know that he was the only graduate student in the small village, the pride of the whole village, his parents dead, he had been brought up on a hundred families. He said he couldn't not go back.

At that time, she met another man. I'm a returnee. Take her to "CLASSIC COFFEE" to eat 50 yuan each ice cream, but also mixed with English and her all kinds of romantic Europe.

Break up, is in a rainy day, they went to the usual restaurant. I ordered the same two dishes.

She even disdained to eat shrimp with cashew nuts, saying, "This kind of high-calorie stuff is junk food, who needs to eat it."

It was the last meal he had with her, and he ate up the bitter herb in front of him. She still asked for a bowl of meat noodles, he asked for a bowl of plain noodles.

Many years later, they were both married. He became the director of education in the small town and often attended national conferences on education. Since he took office, the city's education has undergone earth-shaking changes. He still loved kouju because it was the cheapest in restaurants. And because it really cooled the heat, and he didn't really like Kouju at the time. But later, he really fell in love with Kuju, which is a kind of bitter before fragrant dish, is also his first love dish.

She got divorced. Returnees always have new ideas. Asking for dink, asking for a lover, she couldn't take it. So only one person went on.

She often eats alone. When seeing the menu has bitter chrysanthemum salad, leng for a moment. After all these years, she still remembered his favorite dish. And at that time, he only ate once, he shouted bitter. Now, where is the Kouju man? Does the man who ordered her an expensive plate of cashew shrimp remember her?

She asked for a plate of cold bitter chrysanthemum, eat a bite, of course, or light bitter, aftertaste, that taste unexpectedly has a fragrance, the fragrance between lips and teeth let her suddenly want to cry. Why hadn't she waited for the aroma to reverberate from her lips before she spat it out?

Later, she fell in love with the dish, called "bitter chrysanthemum with cold", and often ordered it when she went to restaurants to eat with friends. The friend said, "This dish is cheap." She thought of him in those days, eat a plate of bitter chrysanthemum, and for her to the dish is bitter chrysanthemum price more than ten times. In that plate of bitter chrysanthemum, it is nothing but love.

Bitter chrysanthemum, bitter chrysanthemum, the bitter behind, is a light fragrance and light sweet ah! After a long journey, the bitter chrysanthemum finally occupied her heart.

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