Such a big big blue flower
◈ | Xi Murong
Two years old, living in Chongqing, the place has a nice name, called King Kongbo, and the memory begins there. It seems that his head is particularly large, he is always unstable, but he loves to walk, so he always falls, but he is not injured because he is round and rolling. She often rolled down the hillside, and when her family could not find her, they had to go to the nearby grass to look at it, but this kind of fall was almost a mysterious magical experience for the little girl. Sometimes she fell into a forest, maybe not a forest just a bush, but for the little girl it was a forest, sometimes she stumbled and rolled to the edge of the pool, there was no one on the side of the quiet pond, she found a kind of "so big big blue flower", she said to her family, everyone laughed, did not believe, the secret was sealed for more than ten years. Until she went to normal university, once went to Yangming Mountain to sketch, suddenly saw that kind of flower again at the side of the pool, like reuniting with a friend in a previous life, she rushed to ask Professor Lin Yushan, the professor replied that it was "iris flower", but at that moment, an illusion that lasted for more than ten years was suddenly extinguished. That kind of flower comes from the dream to the reality. Since then, it has only been a well-known and well-documented flower, and it is no longer a blue flower that the little girl remembers is so big that it can only be seen at an elevation angle.
How can a child glimpse a flower by the edge of an ordinary pond, and what mysterious summons are there? Thirty-six years later, she still walked with trepidation through the white camellias of this spring, beautiful, and always had a seductive power for her.
If that seductive genetic trait had long been lurking in her mother, it would be true. In 1949, the world was as difficult as the rising tide, she hurriedly avoided, in the possessions she left the important property of the family religion "Shalizi", but brought the newly made large curtain, that curtain according to Xi Murong recalled, very beautiful, when she first arrived in Taiwan, her mother hung it up, the little girl stared at it reluctantly every time she slept, maybe the curtain was more religious and more solemn than the relic, if its rose pattern lace could make a child move for a long time.
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