Chapter 15 Chapter Fifteen

San Mao wrote the lyrics, Li Taixiang composed the music, and Qi Yu sang the song "Olive Tree".It was popular in Hong Kong and Taiwan for a while, and even the whole Southeast Asia, and it has been enduring for a long time.This song was written by Sanmao when he returned to Taipei.Soon after, she was far away from her hometown again and wandered far away.Qiyu's singing followed Sanmao's footsteps and sang all over the world. People will always encounter many unsatisfactory things during their journey.Sanmao encountered an unsatisfactory thing during this long trip.Due to a careless booking of air tickets from Hong Kong, after she arrived at London Airport, she needed to change planes at another airport before flying to Spain.Sanmao went for a visa to leave the country, but was suspected of being an illegal immigrant by the British Immigration Service, and was later arrested and sent to a detention center.

This is the only time in Sanmao's life that he has entered the detention center.Sanmao, who usually doesn't want to talk too much, released all the grief and indignation suppressed in his heart this time. "Sometimes she rushed into the office of the detention center and clamored for justice, then she asked for a lawyer to sue the Immigration Bureau, and then she grabbed the guard at the gate by the collar and asked others to let her go immediately. The entire detention center was turned upside down." In the end, Sanmao was acquitted, and when the Immigration Bureau drove her to the plane, she seemed to be a different person.She turned into a chaste, generous and self-cultivated lady, and when she turned around, she looked back at them and smiled sweetly.At this time, Sanmao is already a woman who has experienced all kinds of hardships and is used to seeing the world.Years of wandering and experience have enabled her to calmly deal with some unexpected events.

A person can be indomitable only after going through all kinds of tempering.Sanmao walked all the way, was injured all the way, and healed herself all the way. Her endurance and endurance have surpassed her imagination.She didn't know that there was nothing in this world that was more heartbreaking and desperate than saying goodbye.If life is a practice, she is destined to be a loser, and one day, she will also learn to be indifferent and detached. Sanmao, who is nearly 30 years old, came to Madrid, Spain again, which is not what it used to be.The spring and autumn change, the clouds and waters are Xiaoxiang, the years have changed our appearance, and also changed our initial state of mind.Sanmao said: "When I arrived in Madrid on the second day, my mood was completely different from the first time. Not only did I not feel the sadness of leaving my hometown or the sadness of homesickness, but instead I had the joy and bitterness of returning home."

This time, Sanmao also came to heal his wounds, but with a mature mood.She understands that any cocooning is a punishment for herself.The only way to be tolerant to fate is to be merciful to oneself.With Sanmao who has accumulated in her life, she is no longer a prisoner of thoughts, and she wants to let herself enjoy life and live easily. When she first arrived in Spain, the first thing Sanmao had to do was how to stabilize herself temporarily.She found several tutors, taught English, and wrote articles for "Industrial World" magazine in her spare time.Although the salary is not high, it is enough to live alone.

Sanmao shared a spacious and comfortable apartment with three Spanish girls.These three girls are bright and cheerful, and they often take Sanmao together to go to thrift stores, watch movies, sing and drink wine in the student area.Together, they enjoy the beauty of the gift of youth. On a winter night in Madrid, the stars are shining brightly, as clear as water.Sanmao learned how to dress herself up, with shoulder-length black hair, a coat, earrings, and bright eyes.This extraordinarily beautiful and luxurious oriental woman has won the admiration of many people. Madrid is indeed a good place to heal.This free and unrestrained city will never ask about your past, and will not care about your status.It treats everyone with peace and kindness, tolerates your mistakes, and fulfills your dreams.Sanmao is here and has regained her happiness.She lived a relaxed life without worrying about being hurt emotionally or getting lost.

Perhaps it was because she, as a passer-by, did not ask where she came from or when she would return, that she was able to treat each other so calmly.This is not her hometown, there is no one she really needs to care about, and there is no career she loves.This butterfly, healed by the time in Spain, has grown new wings.She lived happily, and those people and things in Taipei seemed to be in her previous life. Just when San Mao was enjoying life to the fullest, the man named Jose was serving his last month of military service in the military camp.Sanmao would think of Hexi only when he sat down alone in the dead of night.She never thought that she would have an emotional connection with this boy who was eight years younger than her.The six-year promise, like the snow on a winter night in Madrid, gradually melts in the warm sun of the morning light.

Because I never felt that he would be waiting all the time, so I never had to wait or look forward to it.Six years have passed, and Jose's love for Sanmao has continued unabated.Perhaps it is really hard for us to imagine that when Sanmao rejected him, Jose could really stay together for six years in silence.For six years, he just loved her stubbornly, without disturbing her life, and he didn't care whether she was married or not.He waited steadfastly, just to fulfill his original promise. One day, Sanmao came to that Chinese friend's house.A beautiful girl in the yard downstairs beckoned to her and called her name.The girl's name is Esther, and she is Jose's younger sister.For a long time, this little Spanish girl understood her brother's thoughts.So when she met Sanmao, she decided to be the matchmaker, hoping that her brother's dream would come true soon.

Esther pestered Sanmao, begging her to write a letter to her brother Jose.Sanmao couldn't refuse too much, and in a hurry, he didn't know what to say in the letter.Later, she simply wrote in English: "Joseph, I'm back. I'm Echo." and left her address. Many years ago, a boy named Jose also had a happy time with her.In San Mao's heart, this is a pure friendship.She had thought thousands of times about what the man she loved would look like.But none of them was Jose, because Sanmao always believed that he couldn't give her the love she wanted. Proud love does not change its decision for anyone.The person you love so much that you linger in your dreams, but always pass by.You think that people who are on different sides of the sky are destined for three lives.If you really love someone, you can only wait silently and bless you.Other than that, maybe there is no other way.

Jose was very pleasantly surprised when he received Sanmao's letter.All these years, the only thing he could do was to get some news about Sanmao from her Chinese friends.Every day, he hopes that he can grow up and be able to give Sanmao a stable home.He never thought that the woman he had loved for six years would actually come to Spain.No matter who she came for, after six long years of waiting, Jose would never let her leave easily. Jose hurriedly wrote back, telling Sanmao his return date.He also asked for Sanmao's phone number from his sister Esther. He dialed the number and heard a long-lost voice.He was so excited that he was almost incoherent. He begged Sanmao, he must, must wait for his return.He was afraid that six years of waiting would be a void.He can afford to lose time, but he can't afford to lose love.

But Sanmao was still so careless.She forgot the day when Jose returned.That day, Sanmao went to the small town in the mountains to play until dark before returning to the apartment.The roommate said that someone called her more than a dozen times.San Mao guessed for a long time, but never thought of He Xi.At this time, another call came, it was a girlfriend from the University of Madrid in the past, asking Sanmao to go to her home immediately. Not allowing Sanmao to ask why, he hung up the phone.When Sanmao hurried over in a taxi, his girlfriend took her into the living room.Afterwards, he asked her to close her eyes mysteriously, but at this moment, Sanmao could never have imagined what kind of surprise would happen next.

"When I closed my eyes, I heard footsteps coming towards me, and then I heard the lady say she was going out, but I kept my eyes closed. Suddenly, a pair of arms behind me hugged me, I shivered, and when I opened my eyes, I saw Hexi standing in front of me. I screamed with excitement. I happened to be wearing a floor-length skirt that day, and he was wearing a maroon pullover. Looking at me in circles, the long skirt flew up, I screamed and beat him non-stop, and couldn’t help holding his face and kissing him. The people standing outside the living room laughed heartily, because everyone You know, although Jose and I are not boyfriend and girlfriend, we have a very good relationship." I thought I didn't care, but I didn't expect to be so happy.After all, Sanmao really couldn't help but be excited when he reunited after a long absence and met his old friend six years later.Jose has grown up, with a beard all over his face, he is no longer the cowardly boy waiting for her downstairs in the dormitory.In six years, Jose was just a process of growing from a boy to a man, but after all, he was also waiting for old age.As for Sanmao, his body was broken to pieces and he became a human again. Sanmao once said goodbye to Hexi, never to see each other in this life, but fate brought him to her side again.She didn't feel lost and found again, but she felt a kind of sour comfort.But she still didn't dare to have any illusions about the man in front of her.Although, from his eyes, he could read firmness and love.Sanmao, who has just recovered from an old injury, dare not easily bet his emotions on someone. She couldn't pretend that the feelings she experienced didn't happen.She can't deliberately forget those people she loved.Sanmao didn't know what kind of plot this reunion would bring to her life. The night sky in Madrid is as clean as it has been washed.In the boundless Milky Way, there are so many twinkling stars, I don't know which one is me and which one is the person she depends on for life and death.