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Every second of it, you are willing to trade a year for

There are always a few tears, of which every sob, you are willing to take a hand full of promises to replace

By Lista ReamPublished 3 years ago 9 min read

There are always a few words, each of which you are willing to take all the nights to review.

Darling, if everything could be done over again, I want to be with you, forever.

1. pass by your world

A person's memory is a city, time corrodes all buildings, sanding all the tall buildings and roads. If you do not move forward, you will be buried by the sand. So we tear up and step back, but we can only go forward.

1

In 2004, when I was discouraged and did not want to work, I played cards every day on my computer, and I played for more than ten hours. But my skills are very poor, no rules to speak of, the only advantage is typing fast, so created their tactics, called the crap flow.

As soon as the cards were dealt, I started talking to the players in the chat box: "Angel of the Red Flame, is your mother's uncle well lately?" "Why is the angel red-flame it, will stew cooked, you have to be careful in your life." "Huh, the pale heart, long time no see how you change your name?" "Furry hello, help me can, my knees were swollen and swollen it ......"

The result is that many players can't stand it, snapping out of the cards, cursing an "I'm going to your grandpa" and quitting. This way I won by typing and playing cards, earning a win rate of 75%. Then slowly did not work, I thought of a new trick.

I tell a story in the dialog box.

The system dealt the cards and I typed: "Once upon a time there was a priest, and the most beautiful girl in the village where he lived was called Little Fang. Suddenly Fang got pregnant and refused to say whose child it was. The villagers then beat her violently and wanted to drown her in a pig cage. Fang cried and said that it was the priest's child. The villagers rushed into the church together. The priest did not deny it and let them break his legs. After twenty years, a miracle happened."

Then I started playing cards. The conversation box was in chaos, the other three people were screaming: "I'll kill you, what miracle happened? Fuck you, I'm not playing anymore, can you talk more completely?"

And so, my win rate shot up to 80% again.

The fame of the crap stream was so great that many people came to learn from me. When I saw that my win rate was below 50% and all my titles were still "barefoot", I sneered and refused.

Just when I was proud of it, the Mao 18, who shared a room with me, rose to prominence and became a self-taught master.

This dog thing is too shameless, he invented belongs to the crap stream branch: curse art. For example, for good reason we are playing cards, Mao eighteen to type a line: "Great compassion and universal mercy Guan Shi Yin Bodhisattva, the holy dew shines on the world, bright gaze summoned peace, if you want their parents healthy, please repeat, must do, or go out and get hit by a car."

I go to your third aunt!

At that time forced forwarding was not yet popular, was he so engaged in the entire chess room a handful of chaos, everyone did not care to calculate. A game did not finish, he invited in turn over the old ruler, God, Jehovah, the Virgin Mary, the fortune teller, Tang Ming Huang, Golden Lion King Xie Xun, the daughter of the sea ...... I lost.

Mao eighteen this person's life was quiet and silent, even on the phone are only three words: "Hey. Hmm. Bye." He became a bullshit stream patriarch, making my jaw drop.

2

My friendship with Mao 18 has always been maintained, and in 2009 we even drove together to Inaccessible Aden. At that time he took his girlfriend Lychee and drove to Chonggu Temple, the scenery is like a painting, with layers of color poured out.

I know what Mao 18 intends to do, he was nervous and shaking.

He knelt in front of Lychee and said, "Lychee, will you marry me?"

Just one sentence, the second half of the sentence choked up, and the word "is" almost did not come out, turning a question into a prayer.

Li Zhi said: "How to propose just one sentence, you treasure words like gold."

Mao 18 while sobbing, while saying, "Li Zhi, can you marry me?"

Li Zhi said, "Yes."

Mao XVIII put the ring on Lychee, and his hand shook so much that he could barely put it on. The other two friends and I posed as a thousand horses, hissing and hollering and rolling.

On 2010, Lychee's birthday, Mao 18 gave a gift of a navigator. Everyone was shocked, the gift is too peculiar, does it have any moral?

Mao eighteen shyly said, he drummed for more than a month, and the navigator voice file all changed. I was so excited that I forced Lychee to drive, together with the test of Mao XVIII's research results.

During this attempt, I thoroughly recall the glorious record of Mao XVIII called the crap stream.

In the process of driving around, the navigator nonsense: "finished, there are cameras in front. I can't find the place you want to go. Brother, are you awake, this address is the wrong Boo?"

Everyone was overjoyed. The most awesome is waiting for the red light, the navigator in the Mao 18 said seriously: "handbrake is still pulled well? What if it slips backward? You do not press the horn, press the horn what ah, the front is a live haunted word immediately to fuck you, and you can not do him, honestly waiting for it, oh, you did not press the horn, count I did not speak ......"

Everyone laughed so hard that tears came out. Li Zhi laughed at the flowery branches, and said, "You usually do not say anything, how to record abetted into such?"

Mao eighteen said, "Last time I went to Inaccessible, you are not a too old-fashioned navigator, not human enough, I modified a little, after driving you will not feel bored."

Li Zhi picked up the navigator, a random click, the navigator screamed: "You do not want to turn me off, I did not break the law, you off, you off, turn back I do not do the navigator, replace the diode to do the radio, you bite me ah ......"

Everyone sighs.

3

In 2011, Mao 18 and Li Zhi break up.

Li Zhi sent her all the things Mao eighteen in a box, sent to my bar.

I said, "Mao eighteen has not yet come, on the road, you wait for him?"

Li Zhi shook her head and said, "I'm not waiting, you return it to him for me."

I said, "He has something to say to you."

Lychee said, "It doesn't matter, he's been saying very little."

I said, "Lychee, is that all?"

Lychee walked to the door, didn't turn around, and said, "We don't fit."

I said, "Take care."

Li Zhi said, "Take care."

That day Mao 18 did not show up, and he did not answer my calls. Go to his counter in the electronics city to find, next to the boss told me that he had not come to business for several days.

Finally in a small tavern occasionally met, he drank a lot, red face, and eyes open, and asked me: "Zhang Jiajia, you have been to Sand City?"

I thought for a moment, "Is it Dunhuang?"

He shook his head and said, "No, it's a city with only sand in it."

I said, "You've had too much to drink."

He fell asleep on the table.

4

And so, the paper case of lychees was left in my bar, and Mao 18 never dared to come and get it.

One day the shopkeeper took my car home, and take a navigator out to play, I look familiar, the shopkeeper skimmed and said: "rummage to the."

Once she turned it on, the navigator issued the voice of Mao 18: "I do not have the electricity you still play."

Scared the shopkeeper jumped, said the ghost, holding his head wild number.

I called Mao eighteen: "Things still want?"

Mao eighteen silent for a while said: "Do not want, tomorrow back home to Taizhou."

I said, "Back to do?"

Mao eighteen said, "home in the new city commercial street for me to rent a store, I go back to sell cell phones."

I suddenly feel some sadness in my heart, and no words, just want to hang up the phone, Mao 18 said, "selling cell phones is good, in case you meet a young and beautiful girl, to achieve a marriage, great."

I said, "You go."

Mao eighteen said: "Take care."

I said: "Take care."

5

In August 2012, I was in a very bad mood, driving west, had a big drink in Chengdu, and the next day I had a sudden idea to go to Inaccessible.

Although only one person, along the way, listening to the navigator Mao 18 nonsense, a moment "run so fast to death, fall into the ditch and I can not help you push", a moment "a hundred meters after the left turn, mother forced you to slow down", but not lonely.

I think Mao 18 is a genius, I forgot to plug the power, the red light after the navigator shouted frantically: "I have no power I have no power, you give me some power ah!"

I almost laughed out loud and rushed to plug in the power.

Over the folded mountain, running horse mountain, Haizi mountain, Erlang mountain, want to see the milk sea and the five-color sea, you have to climb up. I felt tired, so I stopped at the Chonggu Temple. With the green grass, blue water, red leaves, and white mountains, I looked at this autumn fairy tale dazed.

The navigator suddenly "beeped".

It was Mao's voice.

"Li Zhi, are you in Taocheng again? This is the location of the Okinawa Temple, where I proposed to you. Arriving at this destination, I will say to you: because it is the bluest sky, so you are an angel. You descend into my world, replacing the seasons with joy and sorrow, smiling is the day and crying is the night."

"I like to be alone until you come into my heart. Then I only want to be with you, I don't like to be alone."

"I want to share all of you, I want to embrace all of you, I want to be with you for the rest of my life, I love you, I can't resist, I just love you."

"Lychee, I was wondering, when you hear this, will it be our first wedding anniversary, or will it be a driving trip with a baby?"

"I stood under the sky on that day, and myself today, together with you to say, Lychee, I love you."

Listening to the voice of Mao 18 in the navigator, tears welled up in my eyes.

That day on the slopes of the shimmering clouds and shadows, the grass was infinitely soft, and Mao XVIII knelt in front of the girl and said, "Li Zhi I love you."

Today on the hillside with shimmering clouds and shadows, the grass is infinitely soft, and the shadow of Mao XVIII kneels in front of the girl's shadow and says: "I love you Lychee."

Here no matter how beautiful, Mao eighteen and Li Zhi, have become a sand cities.

A person's memory is a city, time corrodes all buildings, sanding all the tall buildings and roads. If you do not go forward, you will be buried in the sand.

Sand City is a person's memory.

Occasionally dream back to the sand city, those street lights and footprints are unmistakable, and you can not touch them, once the hands into, the whole city rumbled collapse. Bury your joyful smiles, your blue sea and blue sky, and all the shadows about our relationship.

If you don't move forward, you'll be buried in the sand. So we tear up and step back, but we can only go forward.

Even if going forward is passing you by.

I passed by your world, but you also just passed by each other's world.

Even if lonely and silent, we are still all in the same stream of nonsense, finish everything, and silence to do old friends.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

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