Chapter 5 Chapter Four "Don't You Like Taipei?", 2005.

Yu Shouheng Kang Zhengxing, who was sitting in the car, called my name, pretending to be loud.This boring game we used to play. I just smiled at him, tapped on the window in response, and gave the money to the gas station attendant. In the car, he tugged at his tie, breathing slowly. I opened the car door, sat in, started the car, and continued from the north of Taiwan to the east. "I want to open a photography studio recently," I said. "what?" I turned down the volume of the stereo, although I really like the song on the radio, Faye Wong's "Passenger", which is very suitable for driving somewhere far away.

But I forgot who first introduced Faye Wong's album to me. "I want to open a photography studio recently," I said. "Photography?" There was a twist on his face that deliberately expressed doubts, which was very funny. "Yes, the one that focuses on characters." "figure?" I looked in the rear mirror. "The feeling of looking at a person from a lens, all his expressions and emotions are magnified, but they are not so real, the kind of unreality that you can't touch with your own hands." "So you're planning to take the Graduate School of Philosophy?" he said.

"What do you mean?" I didn't understand. "No." "Which way did we come from?" I couldn't find the way I came. "It seems that I got off the highway from that road just now." "Which one?" "Or should we go back and ask the boy at the gas station?" "Which one did you just say?" "Not here, there should be an entry." "Or turn left?" I asked. "I don't know, it's okay." "Is it raining?" I asked. "Maybe not." "are not there?" "Do you like rain?"

"But there were no rice fields on our left just now," I said. "It seems." He turned his head to look at the road we passed. "Like what?" "It seems to be there, it seems not to be." pause. "Are you thirsty?" I asked. "Won't." "I have mineral water here." "it is good." "What the hell? It doesn't seem to be this one." The signboard at the fork in front of me said four place names that I had never heard of before, so I quickly turned around. "Or this one?" I asked. "It all looks the same here."

"It's been a long time since I saw so many green plants." "Taipei is really not suitable for people to live in." I answered him. "Don't you like Taipei?" he asked. "why?" "Last year, I planned to plant a few plants on the back balcony. I went to the Neihu Flower Market and picked a pot of aunt taro. It has thick stems and large leaves. I will take care of it regularly in the first few weeks after I buy it. .But half a year later, I realized that there was still that plant in this house, but I hadn’t watered it for a long time. I went to the balcony to have a look, but I didn’t expect that it was still standing. Although a few leaves were withered and yellow, it Still standing there, looking very lonely, I suddenly felt very guilty, thinking that it must be very thirsty, so I took a pot of water and poured it on it desperately, but two days later at night, when I fell asleep, When I heard something, I rushed to the back balcony to have a look. I saw that its stem was broken from the middle, and the outer skin was still connected, but the whole root was broken. Later I felt guilty, the reason for the guilt Yeah, if I hadn't watered it that day, would it have continued to stand there, wouldn't it have died."

"I just said that you plan to take the graduate school of philosophy." "What?" I didn't understand what he meant. "No." There was a long pause. I turn up the sound volume again.