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Chapter 33 papa's taste

Missing stray dogs 张小娴 490Words 2018-03-18
Everyone has a unique smell, and over time, that smell represents him. F said that his father was a chef of a seafood restaurant.When he was a child, every night when his father came back from get off work, he could smell a strong fishy smell on his body.They lived in a small room, and the fishy smell on Dad made him uncomfortable.The relationship between him and his father was very bad, after he was admitted to university.He immediately moved out to live with friends.The two father and son only meet a few times a year. Later, his father was critically ill and lay in the hospital.When he was dying, he stood next to his father's sickbed. The old man's body was covered with various drips, and with the strong smell of disinfectant in the hospital, he could no longer smell the fishy smell of his father that he used to smell when he was a child—— The fishy smell that was exchanged for feeding the family.He put his father's finger in front of his nose, but the fishy smell in his memory had disappeared forever.At that moment, he realized that the fishy smell he hated so much turned out to be so fragrant.

Dad left, but the fishy smell on his body remained forever in the son's mind, turning into guilt. F said that he could not forgive himself for saying to his classmates when he was a child: "I hate the smell of my father." He remembered that the father of one of his classmates repaired cars, and every time he came to pick up his son from school, he smelled like a garage.Another classmate's father works in a hospital, and he often smells like a hospital. Dad's taste is always inseparable from his tricks for making a living.Dad is old, and that smell will go with the wind.Have we ever respected and cherished his scent?

what does your father smell like
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