Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Snow Lantern

This is an old story of a childhood sweetheart. That year, he was seven years old and she was six and a half years old.The place where they met was called the Red Flag Brigade of Hejiagou Sunrise Commune in Wafangdian.She is a local child born and bred, and he is a "little stinky old nine" who was sent down from Dalian with his parents. Through the short fence, he asked her, "What's your name?" "Girl." She replied, apart from this, she didn't know any other titles for herself. "And you?" "Zhang Guoli." He answered loudly, with great vigor.

So she felt that her name was dirty, a little unconvinced, and hastily added: "My father is the village head." She still asked, "What about you?" "My father..." He rolled his eyes.He is only 7 years old, but after a lot of experience and knowledge, he is very good at talking about him, "My father can tell stories." "Can you tell stories?" For those stories, she opened the fence gate and eliminated all barriers and guards. Little Red Riding Hood, Daughter of the Sea, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and the little match girl were all heard at that time.She remembers it well.

She has always loved literature since then, and has a superhuman sensitivity and understanding of fairy tales, which I have to admit is due to his enlightenment.It's just that his memory is often lost, and whenever he can't remember it, he just rambles about it.So many years later, when she finally read those stories, she always felt that the translation was wrong, and what he said was the original version. In addition to stories, he also told her many new things.He has been to many places, and his knowledge is many times wider than hers.He even went to faraway Harbin and saw the ice sculpture lamp that she thought only in fairy tales.

"Ice lamp!" She admired fascinatedly, then raised her head longingly, "Can you do it?" "I can't make ice lanterns, but I can make snow lanterns." Take a ball of snow in your hand, squeeze it firmly, use a knife to gouge out the hollow, round, like a lotus flower, then insert a candle, light it, and it's done. She clapped her hands and jumped up: "Snow lantern, snow lantern!" He smiled and admired his masterpiece, excited by her excitement.Suddenly remembered something, took out the knife again, stroke by stroke, carefully and earnestly, scratched the three characters "Zhang Guoli" on the lamp wall, and told her seriously: "Look, this is me." name. Zhang Guoli!"

Zhang Guoli.That was the first word she knew.can't forget. There was a lot of snow that winter, and they often made snow lanterns to play with, rubbing their hands and stomping their feet. It was cold but very happy.They met and made snow lanterns every year when it snowed. However, before the winter was over, he suddenly said that he was going to move. He said that Dad had "taken off his hat" and they were leaving. She didn't know what "taking off a hat" meant, and only vaguely knew it was a happy event.However, she was not happy at all, her eyes were red from crying and she pulled him and asked, "Will you come back?"

He thought about it seriously, and suddenly asked, "How old are you?" "Seven years old." She replied. "Okay. In another 11 years, when you turn 18, I will come back and marry you." "real?" "Pull the hook!" The two little fingers that were red from the cold hooked together, pulled over, pulled over. At the age of 7, she has not yet opened her heart, but she made a covenant to grow old in this life early.Childish voice, baby voice, but very solemn. "Pull the hook, hang yourself, 100 years, don't take it!" 100 years is a long time. Not regretting it for 100 years, that is for sure.So he let go of his hand with confidence, spit on the ground, and stomped hard twice.

I don't know when the rules were passed down, but children all believe in them and practice them for a long time. Then they separated. She often thought that she would forget him, but every time it snowed, she would carefully make a snow lantern and carefully engrave the words: Zhang Guoli. Zhang Guoli.The first words in her life will never be forgotten for the rest of her life. At that time, she already knew a lot of characters, and she was a well-known talented woman in the town.The retired old village head entrusted her with many connections and sent her to Dalian to study in high school. The villagers said that a female college student was about to be born in the village.

On the first day of school, the teacher read the names one by one according to the roster, and the person who read it had to stand up and answer "here".She was a little nervous, lowered her head, and looked at her fingers over and over again. Suddenly, she heard the teacher say: "Zhang Guoli!" Zhang Guoli!She was startled, and stood up abruptly. Zhang Guoli, a man and a woman, stood up in the class at the same time, and the students roared with laughter.Before she could see the face of "Zhang Guoli", she was so ashamed that she quickly sat down, not daring to raise her head.When the teacher read her name, she just stood up in a panic, and the voice of "yes" was as thin as a mosquito.

Until the end of get out of class, her heart was still beating.But he went straight to her, smiled generously and said, "So, your name isn't 'Girl'." Her heart suddenly settled.It was him, really him.She found him.All of a sudden, she felt that she had actually been missing him all the time. After so many years, she made those snow lanterns to wait for him.She raised her head and said coquettishly, "Of course I'm not just called 'girl'. I also know that Snow White doesn't wear crystal slippers." He laughed: "It's too late, it seems that I have to learn a new story."

All of a sudden, they were back to their childhood, with childhood sweethearts and no plans for a city. She was so happy that she was finally with him again.Every day in class, she couldn't help but lose her mind after listening to it, and subconsciously wrote his name over and over again on the paper, Zhang Guoli Zhang Guoli Zhang Guoli... She secretly looked at him, glanced, and glanced again. He's grown up and already has fluffy fine hair on his chin.Some late-maturing boys are changing their voices at this time, and they can't distinguish between men and women when their voices are too loud, but he is different, his voice is thick and deep, with a moving magnetism.

She was a little unintentional about studying, and intentionally or unintentionally, she always wanted to tease him to recall the past.The snow lanterns of that year, the fairy tales of that year, and most importantly, the covenant of "not to be taken for 100 years". But, she is a girl after all, how can she speak? She couldn't help feeling sad. Suddenly one day, she found that the female classmates in the class were also talking about him, and there was an explosive news that Zhang Guoli didn't look cool, but he was actually very old-fashioned. He was actually engaged and married as soon as he graduated. Her heart flickered, and everything was messed up. After school, she waited for him on the road angrily, but when she saw him, she was only indifferent.As if meeting by chance, as if inadvertently: "I heard that you have engaged, really?" "Really." He looked at her with gentle eyes and affirmative tone. Her heart sank little by little, sinking into the bottomless abyss.On the surface, she just didn't care about it: "I heard that you are going to get married as soon as you graduate?" "How can it be so fast?" He laughed, "I want to go to college, and she must also. It's too early to talk about marriage now, and it will affect my studies. But I plan to propose to her as soon as I graduate from college." She didn't ask again. The tide is gone.She had nothing to ask, nothing to think about, and nothing to wait. He was going to take the university entrance exam, and he said that his fiancée would also take the exam.What about her? She thought ruthlessly: I must also go to college. It doesn't mean that girls in the city are better than those in the country.She decided that his bride must be a townsman. After that, when she was in class, she never allowed herself to be distracted, without squinting, without distractions.She wants to be the first female college student in the village, to show everyone and him.Zhang Guoli!I will definitely do better than you!Better than your city fiancée! With such a bone-piercing determination, it is difficult to succeed.Three years later, she was admitted to Guangzhou University as she wished. It does not snow in Guangzhou, so naturally there will be no snow lanterns.In the winter of that year, she was surprisingly lonely.I can't stop thinking over and over again, how is he doing now?Has his fiancée gone to college? During the winter vacation, because she was going to be a tutor, she wrote a letter to her family in advance, saying that she would not go back until the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month. On the way home, it started snowing again.The road was cut off at the entrance of the town, and there was no traffic, so she had to walk back. The sky darkened unknowingly, and she felt desolate.Tomorrow is the Chinese New Year, and there are already impatient children starting to set off firecrackers. They rang once or twice and then stopped. Listening to them, they feel even more lonely. After turning this intersection, she arrived home. Walking on the snow, she couldn't help but think of the snow lantern and the name engraved on the knife. She never wrote that name again, but it was useless, it had already been engraved on her heart.She didn't know if she could forget it in this life. Suddenly, wait a minute, the front... the front... She stopped, looking at the strange scene in front of her, she couldn't believe it: there were two rows of jumping and flickering snow lanterns stretching from the intersection to her house. Snow lanterns!She rushed over with forgetfulness, and carefully picked up one. On the snow wall, it was clearly engraved, isn't it: Zhang-Guo-Li! Zhang Guoli!he came! 11 years, a full 11 years.He said that he would come back in 11 years, and he did not miss the appointment. All of a sudden, she remembered all the things he said. She was already engaged, and she should not fall in love too early because of her studies. He will be admitted to university, and she will be admitted, and she will get married as soon as she graduates... Get married as soon as you graduate.She suddenly understood who the lucky bride who would walk on the red carpet with him after graduation would be... This story is not old, but almost ten years have passed.Now, the heroes and heroines of the story have already been promoted to be other people's parents. Whenever it snows, they will teach their children to make snow lanterns. On the snow, those lights are lit up, my dear friend, those are not snow lanterns, but pure love!