Every day together is a memorial day
Every day together is a memorial day

Bei Bei has been yelling about losing weight. That day, we climbed to the 21st floor and watched twilight rapidly engulf the city. Of course, I reached over Bei Bei's lower abdomen. Bei Bei said: More meat, to lose weight. What she really means is that she wants to lose the fat in her lower abdomen, not anywhere else. I said: Can you lose any weight you want? What if you lose something you shouldn't? Bei Bei kicked me and said: Roll straight!
I told Bei Bei that the fat on her belly was one of the countless reasons I liked her. Every time she says something about losing weight, I repeat it. Heaven and earth bear witness that I speak the truth. The world is full of diversity, some people hate fat, some people love it.
Bebe is not buying my story. Of course, she didn't put her weight-loss slogan into practice. Eating sweets all the time insincerely and loving pig, beef and mutton as ever. I know. She's actually pretty confident about her body. She's not fat to begin with! I think she'd be better off putting on some weight, or staying the way she is.
That night, we stood on the 21st floor and had a bird 's-eye view of the earth. The lights were on. The night was beautiful. I said: honey, scallion eggs and fried potato shreds delicious? Bei Bei flicked her curls and nodded with mock reserve.
After work that day, I rode to the school gate to pick up Bei Bei. She sat in the back of the car with her arms around my waist, her legs straight down, her skirt flying. The wind was strong and whistled past my ears. Bei Bei said loudly: Today is our love anniversary.
I asked: What day did you start counting?
Bei Bei said: hand in hand that day.
I said, Why not start on the day of the kiss?
Bei Bei said: It's the same day!
So I ordered fried eggs with scallions and fried potato shreds for dinner. I want to order a lamb, Bei Bei said: weight loss, resolutely do not eat meat. After we finished our meal, we came out of the small restaurant and walked along Huaihai Road to our residence. The flow of off-duty people flowed from the cubicles to the corners of the market. Bei Bei said: I don't want to eat lamb because of the money. I said: next year, I have a lot of money, the anniversary to eat two POTS of mutton, make up this time. Bei Bei said yes, yes.
According to Bebe's algorithm, we've been together for exactly three years. Bei Bei is in his second year of graduate school. I just started my career and my salary is very low.
Bei Bei has always wanted to keep goldfish. When we first met, on dates in the park, Bei Bei paid for three or four small red fish that he planned to bring back to his dorm (where he was still living in graduate school) and raise. I said: or put it back in the water, the dormitory can not keep alive. Fish raised in small tanks, without a filtration system, can be tortured to death in a matter of days. If it's a big tank, with a filtration system, it's too big a deal. We are just passers-by in this city. How can we afford such extravagant possessions? Don't you have enough stuff when you move?
Bei Bei in my persuasion, very reluctant to put the fish back into the water. And then she backed out, and she's mad at me for it. Sometimes when she went to the supermarket and passed the small aquarium, she always stopped to look at it for a while. Then he brought up the old story and said, "I shouldn't have put those little fish back in the water. It's all your fault."
Finally one day, my good friend went to the suburbs to play, in a stream to see many fish and shrimp, shuttle in the swaying grass, leisurely and free. I thought Bei Bei would love that. I decided to catch some fish and shrimp and take them home. A friend in a family home to borrow a small gauze net, not for a while, we were fruitful, full of success. Everyone was happy. I put the fish and shrimp in plastic bags and hung them on the handlebars. Everywhere is open yellow rape flowers, we sang a song with joy.
When Bei Bei returned to her apartment, she was overjoyed to find the water tank and the simple world of fish, shrimp and water plants. She gave me a bear hug. After admiring the fish for a while, Bei Bei said, "You said don't raise fish before. Why do you do this now? I realized that I had changed my mind. Maybe, because Bei Bei liked it so much, I didn't think about it that much.
Fish and shrimp did not exist for a long time, they are like being cast a spell like die, Bei Bei both distressed and helpless, she said: really evil. After that, she never mentioned fish again.
Bei Bei's father was in the city on a business trip. Would you like to meet his future father-in-law? Bei Bei said: Forget it. Her father didn't want her to fall in love while she was studying. In fact, her father already knew about my existence. Bei Bei once told me that her father didn't like my hair. I asked Bei Bei: What kind of hairstyle does your father like? Bei Bei said: Maybe a little longer than now. As a result, I stopped emphasizing the short when I cut my hair. Then I grew my hair long again. I wonder how her father felt when he saw me.
Bei Bei comes back in the evening. Her father has left. Bei Bei also packed up the rest of the lamb. She looked a little sad to see her father come and go. I didn't know how to console her, so I changed the subject and asked her: Did your father mention me? Bei Bei says: Yes, he cares about your plans for the future. He talks about it most of the time. I've thought about it, and I don't think there's a satisfactory answer yet. I know I like drawing now, and I'm not good enough at it. I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't love online games, I have good habits, and I'm hopelessly obsessed with Beibei. I want to be with Bebe, and I'm not sure about our future. I'm not sure about a lot of things right now.
In order to be together, we plan to wait until Bei Bei graduates and get married. She is in her second year of graduate school and has one year left to graduate. During the year, I tried to save enough money to buy a small diamond ring. Bei Bei said no. She added: No wedding photos, either. I said, That's exactly what I meant. There's nothing wrong with taking wedding photos, we just don't like them.
In fact, not on anniversaries, we also go to a small restaurant, also eat scallion eggs and fried potato shreds. As long as happy, as long as together, there is no need for any deliberate anniversary. Because together, every day has meaning, just silently walking in the dust and noise mixed with the street, just boil a bowl of rice porridge, just dormant in the room to listen to the wind from the window of the voice, are worth our wholehearted time.


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