It's like writing in your diary, "I will never forget this day, I will remember them." But looking back, you've already forgotten what happened that day.
How could anyone live in the past?
People always look forward. Having experienced so many new things, Sun Lifang has forgotten the unpleasant things from her childhood.
But Haiyan still remembers.
After putting the things away, he took a plastic bag out of his pocket and handed it to Sun Lifang.
"Granny fruit, you should call it lantern fruit in your city, right?"
Grown in soybean fields, the fruit is sweet and sour when picked.
It was a rare item when I was a child. Haiyan got it from somewhere and handed it to Sun Lifang, saying, "Try it. When your daughter wakes up later, ask her if she knows what this is called."
The lantern fruit is very sweet, with translucent flesh. When I was a child, eating one of these would make me happy for an entire afternoon.
The main reason is that we didn't have land when we were young. "Only with land can we grow soybeans, and only with soybeans can we grow groundcherries next to them."
If you don't own any land, and you try to steal lantern fruits from someone else's field, won't you get caught?
Every family has children. In those days of scarcity, after the soybean harvest, any few stalks left in the field were precious. There weren't enough for our own children, so why would we give them to others?
Sun Lifang's family doesn't own any land. Her parents are both craftspeople who make a living from a factory. It sounds glamorous, but if they want to eat some fruit, they don't have the money to buy it.
How could one not envy Haiyan, who owns land?
Haiyan's father knew how to plant trees, and in the garden behind the house, there were persimmon trees, pomegranate trees, and mulberry trees, which made Sun Lifang's mouth water.
However, the two families didn't get along well when they were young. Tian Daying was very arrogant and thought that her family was on the other side of the factory, while Gao Haiyan's family was on the other side. She would often speak in a sarcastic and unpleasant tone.
Seeing Haiyan being beaten, they claimed to be trying to break up the fight, but actually they were just there to laugh at her.
Repeatedly, the adults had a bad relationship, and the children in the family were afraid to play together.
As the engine started, Haiyan in the back continued reminiscing, her enthusiasm growing as she spoke, and asked Sun Lifang if she remembered the enamel bowl on the roof.
Both houses were single-story buildings, very close to each other. Tian Daying was so fat that she couldn't lift her legs, so apart from children, no adults went up to the roof.
Haiyan would leave treats for Sun Lifang on the rooftop—an apple one day, two handfuls of jujubes the next. Haiyan's father also helped transport fruit for people; if the family was short of anything, they would never be short of fruit.
Knowing that the little girl next door had a sweet tooth, Haiyan would leave some treats on the roof every few days.
Tian Daying is fat and doesn't like to move around, so Sun Lifang does the drying of things on the roof.
Over time, no one bothered to remove the chairs and planks.
The things Haiyan left behind were placed under the board and wouldn't be discovered.
These must have been the most beautiful times for Haiyan, right?
She kept saying that her eyes were filled with endless tenderness and nostalgia as she recalled the past.
It's so gentle and subtle, like seeing that youthful, energetic version of myself, full of boundless aspirations for the future.
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