"On every side of life, there are beautiful scenery."
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Original: The edge of life
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01
highway
Years from now, facing the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia will remember the distant afternoon his father had taken him to see the ice.
This sentence written by Márquez is a classic.
Classics are always cited repeatedly, and as for what the reference to the classic does, what is the meaning, and whether the reference to the classic itself is classic or not, it seems that this is not what the quoter has to consider.
It is the others who have to think about it.
For example, I.
Márquez's passage was quoted by my friend Wang Wei when he severely criticized me.
We were galloping down the highway when the car made a turn, turned around, and turned into a small village.
In the car, in addition to Wang Wei and me, there was a woman.
A strange woman.
02
Wang wei
Like me, Wang Wei is a writer.
The word writer once seemed to represent everything, but now, nothing can be represented.
But this does not affect Wang Wei's boasting of his identity.
Especially in front of women.
Frankly speaking, Wang Wei and I can become friends not only because we are peers, but also for other reasons.
For example, Wang Wei looks at the rhetoric, some are out of tune, some are unreliable, but in fact, they are very kind.
Mentally, it is easy to be moved, and it is also easy to get excited.
Sometimes, even he will glow with childlike innocence and be willing to believe something that is completely unbelievable in reality.
I once seriously thought about Wang Wei's personality.
When I think about it, I can't figure it out—
Whether he had the same characteristics as a writer or whether he himself had these characteristics, he chose to become a writer later.
But who cares.
Wang Wei himself can not care, others, there is no need to that idleness.
All in all, it's enough to know that this person is suitable to be a good friend.
What's more, for people like me who are obsessed with face blindness, Wang Wei just happens to be my strongest supplement.
This guy is not only very sensitive to the other person, but also has the ability to recognize people that he never forgets.
For women, Wang Wei can exert this talent to the extreme——
He often recognized people who had only one side of the relationship more than a decade ago.
Needless to say, most of such people are women.
Wang Wei has a good relationship with Fa Xiao, who went to the sea to do business, and heard that the business is doing well and developed.
In recent years, Wang Wei has not run to the city where Fa Xiao is located.
But I've always been a little skeptical about this.
Following the usual style and routine of this cargo, I seriously doubt that he went there not just to see the small hair.
Don't think about it, there are other reasons.
For example, he found a lover there, or a confidant or something.
03
Woman
Whether Wang Wei went to Fa Xiao there for other women, I am still unable to determine, but there are ready-made examples in front of me.
A ready-made woman.
If she wasn't a woman, if she wasn't a good-looking woman, Wang Wei wouldn't let her get on the bus easily when she beckoned for a ride.
At this moment, Wang Wei was driving while chatting with this woman one by one.
The conversation ranged from where the woman had lived, to her job, to her family.
There is no way, Wang Wei has this ability, so that any woman he wants to talk to is willing to talk to him.
Like, I had a good time talking.
It was this woman who said that she had lived in a place before when she was a child, called Cotton Island.
In locust flower islands, there are hundreds of colors of locust flowers in bloom.
And that's not all, the petals of the locust flowers there are the size of a baby's fists.
Not only that, the locust flowers of locust flower island will laugh and fall in love like humans.
Therefore, walking down the street, you will often hear the female locust trees and male locust trees on both sides greeting each other and whispering warmly.
……
These were all things that the woman said when she was chatting with Wang Wei.
Even a fool can hear it, and the woman's story is obviously exaggerated and imaginative.
Not to mention, Wang Wei and I are both writers, and we are very familiar with this technique.
However, such a remark can make Wang Wei a little into the mood.
Is he really stupid, or is he pretending to be stupid, or is he going to be stupid as long as he's with a woman?
I felt a little silly and couldn't tell the difference.
However, what about him, the two of them are willing to talk, one is willing to accompany me, what is the matter with me?
What really matters to me is that we are lost.
That's right, it was on the highway and we were going round and round, obviously lost.
Even if I am a road fool, I can tell the difference between normal rushing and getting lost.
04
lonely
Hit by mistake, we turned into a village road.
The houses and village roads were dilapidated and looked uninhabited.
What made Wang Wei excited was that he actually found a village stele, and although the handwriting on it was not clear, he could faintly identify a "zhou" character.
"Ha! What a locust flower island! ”
The woman suddenly sobbed in a low voice.
Wang Wei leaned over with concern, and then it was as if he understood everything——
"I know, haven't you been back here in years?" Locust flowers, village roads, houses, all far from what you saw when you were a child... But it doesn't matter, I'm sure what you say in your story is true..."
I looked at Wang Wei coldly, who had pretended to inadvertently put his arm on the woman's shoulder.
It seems that things can end successfully at this point, but in fact, this is not the case.
A few days later, when we went to that city again at the request of Wang Weifa, we found that we could no longer find that "continent".
Everything is a mystery.
I don't believe Wang Wei's speculation -
That woman, from another time system, may even take us back to her past life.
But Wang Wei believed, and therefore looked at me with pity, as if I were a stupid melon who didn't know anything.
In "The Afternoon of Seeing Ice Cubes", Wang Xiumei shows three images: Wang Wei, a woman, and me.
Perhaps, everyone lives in their own time system, and although they rub shoulders in a hurry, they can't really enter the world of another person.
This is not the loneliness of this time system and that time system, but the loneliness of each and every one of us.
Life Jun said
"The difference between people is not whether there is loneliness or not, but the way of loneliness."