Chapter 38 Chapter Thirty-eight

The lavenders all over the mountains are blooming, and I vaguely remember the scent of flowers that hastily slid between my fingertips and the corners of my skirt. They are in my countless dreams, accompanied by a large piece of seawater soaking my bones, and the memories are turned into fine fragments, like branches and leaves. The sun fell on my pale palms, and I couldn't catch them, for the first time in twenty-five years. At the end of the mountains is the blue coast.When I was young, I used to watch my father’s boat going out to sea, and watched those dark and light sail shadows disappear into the depths of the sea and sky. My father was an old captain, and I always begged him to take me there to see the sails in fairy tales. The prince and the mermaid, but I failed to fulfill my wish once. My father only taught me to concentrate on my studies, get out of Los Angeles, and see the outside world.

My father said that besides the sea, there are many beautiful things in the world. My father said, I was born with beautiful eyes. It would be a pity if I lived in Los Angeles all my life and didn't go out to see the world. My father said, if you don't go out of Los Angeles, you don't know what prosperity is. My father has seen the world, but I have not, and most people in Los Angeles have not. For most people in Los Angeles, the life of working from sunrise to sunset is a life they are willing to accept. Desires, humble and happy, just like here is a city, it is better to say a town - on the map of China, there is not even a small dot in the coastal town.

It's a pity that I didn't study hard at that time, and I felt that the outside world was nothing more than that, just like the newly opened department store in Los Angeles. My father had been thinking about the prosperity all his life, wasn't he talking about a department store? "Lolo, what are you drawing? The exam is due soon!" Ren Jiayue's head leaned over. Seventeen-year-old me, wearing a sailor school uniform, I hurriedly stuffed the half-drawn manuscript paper into the drawer, leaving my large blank physics paper on the table. Sometimes people are not enlightened, there is really no way, I am only obsessed with painting and color, and the subjects of mathematics, physics and chemistry are a holy book for me.

A paper that was full was handed over by Ren Jiayue, "Okay, okay, hurry up and take my paper, and remember to take me with you after school!" "Jiayue, you are the best!" I immediately smiled, and hurriedly copied, and it took a while to realize the meaning of the second part of her sentence: "What after school? Where do you want me to take you?" "Need to say?" "……what?" "Jing's Pharmacy!" "……what?" "You skipped club activities after school recently, didn't you just go to the pharmacy to meet that kid?"

"..." "But that kid is really good-looking, Luo Luo, you really have eyes, hehehe, have you ever done that? Tell my sister quickly..." I beat her up: "Ren Jiayue! I think the name Bapo Ren is more suitable for you!" The bell rang, and I immediately covered the paper, grabbed my schoolbag like a prisoner after serving my sentence, and rushed out the door decisively. Everyone said that I and Ren Jiayue looked exactly like twins, but she never understood me. careful thinking. I went to the pharmacy to get the medicine. My mother suffers from rheumatism, and she suffers from it when the seasons change. Western medicine has not improved for a long time. It was not until the opening of the Jingjia Pharmacy a few years ago. People said that the new Dr. Very good, I often see people for free. With the mentality of giving it a try, I asked the old doctor to prescribe a prescription, a few simple medicines, and it was a miracle. The rheumatic pain that had plagued my mother for many years was relieved a lot.

After that, I became a regular customer of this pharmacy. The head of the family, Dr. Jing, is very old. He usually devotes himself to guarding the pharmacy. He is quite low-key. People call him Doctor Jing, but they only know his surname Jing, but they don’t know his name. The old man tied in a bunch behind his head is mysterious, especially his eyes are shining brightly, as if he can see through anyone's heart - in the era when TVB martial arts movies were popular, legends were born in the market, It is said that Dr. Jing is actually a recluse genius doctor, and the genius doctors in martial arts movies all have good skills, and even know astronomy, geography, past and future. Unfortunately, people have been begging him for many years, and they have never seen him in a dark and windy place. Flying over the eaves and walls at night to practice magical skills, I didn't see him pinching his fingers, making calculations, and saying a word to reveal the secret.

The legends in martial arts movies are fiction after all. After a long time, the rumors in the market have stopped, and the city of Los Angeles has returned to peace. Occasionally, a few sailors who returned from Hong Kong and Taiwan would talk about the bustling world there, without envy in their words. When people mention Dr. Jing again, they will say mysteriously: There is a famous Feng Shui master named Master Changsheng over there. He not only knows astronomy, geography, past and future, but also has good medical skills and kung fu. A row of Japanese devils, just a few years ago, he retired, look, this is a photo of him in the newspapers in his early years, that is a chic as a fairy...

As they said that, they would take out crumpled old newspapers from their arms, and the vertical black and white traditional characters on the paper showed the extraordinary but passed years, just as their callused black fingers tried to caress The folds on the flat paper, those open, sweat stains, water stains, and tea stains, or other unknown liquids—maybe there is something we call tears in them. What they saw and heard about the world on the other side, and the history that we don't know - in their joyful eyes, the onlookers looked at the newspaper and said repeatedly, "Hey, this person read it carefully, and he really has a similarity with Dr. Jing "Resemblance", but resemblance is resemblance. Dr. Jing refused to admit it, and people gradually lost their enthusiasm for seriousness. It is only that more and more people left Los Angeles with those sailing boats and went to On the other side of the sea, never came back.

Ren Jiayue is my best friend. Neither of us thought of leaving Los Angeles. I am loose by nature. I just like to sit by the sea and draw quietly, listening to the sound of seagulls flapping their wings as the tide rises and falls at dawn. To me, it is a sound of nature ten thousand times better than the songs sung on TV. And Ren Jiayue's parents are not in good health, and she is unwilling to leave them alone to go far away. Even though she has an older brother who works as a surgeon in the hospital, she seldom mentions it, saying that her parents favor boys over girls. All the money was spent on cultivating her brother, whom she hated since she was a child. Naturally, I was on her side, despising her "brother" whom I had never met.

"It would be great if a Prince Charming came to chase me, and my parents wouldn't have to praise my brother for being outstanding every day." Ren Jiayue would often be in a daze with a romance novel borrowed from the library during lunch break, and I would comfort her with a smile: " Jiayue, you look so good-looking, don't have too many people chasing you in the future." "Charlotte, aren't you praising yourself in a disguised form!"——At this time, the book in her hand would always hit me on the head. Yes, many people who saw us for the first time did not believe us In fact, there is no blood relationship-although I would rather not have this look, and I would rather share half of her smart head with full marks in the courses.

The peaceful years just flowed slowly in Los Angeles. I thought that my undisciplined life was like this, but this idea was changed last winter. A handsome young man—his name is Jing Shen. After graduating from university, he returned to his hometown of Los Angeles to study medicine with his grandfather. It is said that he will go abroad for further study in two years. I like to call him Ah Shen. Ah Shen always sat behind the mahogany counter, quietly watching every pedestrian on the street.The fragrance of medicine lingers around him, strong, light, bitter, sweet, all the flavors of the world are in his palm, as devout as worshiping a god or Buddha.He sometimes smiles, that smile is gentle and compassionate, like the light and shadow on a towering tree, and when you look up a little, you can't help crying—even if I saw him for the first time that winter, I still couldn't escape. At that time, my brain was not good, only my motor cells were excellent, and I ran all the way, enough to throw Ren Jiayue a few blocks away. When I arrived at the door of Jingjia Drugstore, I found a lot of people standing at the door. Oh, this is an unprecedented thing. When the old doctor's gossip was at its peak, it had never been so lively here. "What happened?" I grabbed a crowd of onlookers and asked him. So this uncle beamed and described to me: "Don't you know? There was a big accident in the department store this afternoon! Robbery, there were five robbers, and those salesgirls at the jewelry counter fainted from fright. One who didn't faint was stabbed three or four times, bleeding all over the ground..." "Huh? No one called the police?"