Lotus White: Have you ever eaten it?

Mondo Gastronomy Updated on 2024-01-30

In my life, I often associate people and things with older people and things because of smells, and I think that smells have a certain floating but strong temperament compared to seeing them, and distant people come to my nose. These are the last words written by the author Ning Buyuan in "Lotus White".

What is Lotus White?It turned out to be a local name for Chinese cabbage, and in the poor countryside, I used to eat this vegetable when I was a child. And what is the smell?It is the smell of the kerosene lamp which cooked lotus white. Kerosene is another type of oil, and in gas stations in big cities, or in the exhaust of traffic, gasoline, diesel and kerosene are brothers. Therefore, relying on a smell to evoke the past of childhood is also a very warm way. Everyone should have some unspeakable pain when they were teenagers, even if it seems to be a small thing now, it was a storm at the time. What is unattainable in youth will eventually be trapped in his life. Even if he has grown up and has walked from a small mountain village to a big city, what happened in those years, those people who grew up together still can't let go.

Mi Xiaoyi is such a girl, Xiaowei is too, Da Chun is too, you are too, and so am I. Friendship in middle school is often the beginning of teenagers stepping out of the house and beginning to face strangers independently. So, most of them are pure and affectionate. I still remember the days when I was in middle school and ate steamed buns with my roommates, and there would be a scene where my classmates' family members would bring a dumpling on the show, and everyone could eat a few of them. When it's good, it's really good, without a little cover-up, but when it's bad, it often starts very subtlely. Mi Xiaoyi didn't know that Li Mei liked Da Chun, and she didn't know what happened to Li Mei in her original familyShe is also an unfortunate and good child, she is a rural doll from a poor family, she has never seen the world, and her original family is under the pressure of life, and she has no extra love to care about the psychological growth of a girl. It's already a good fate to be able to support girls to go to school. Walking out of the mountains and breaking free from the shackles of fate is an unattainable dream, some people can have it, but some people will not have it again. Li Mei's life was frozen at that young moment. Perhaps, that was her fate. Li Mei's existence is like a troubled teenager in middle school, who lacks love in his family, so among his senior classmates and in the gangster group in society, he looks for friendship to replace, which is actually a kind of self-abandonment for himself, a kind of rebellion and punishment for his family and God. What child doesn't want to grow up happily and be a good girl bathed in love, but not every girl has such an opportunity. Li Mei was a storm in Mi Xiaoyi's middle school days, although the intersection of the two was only more than a year, but it was enough to affect the life direction of many people later. Although Mi Xiaoyi lives in Shenzhen and has seen the world, her life is not smooth, and she and her husband Xiao Yuan have just divorced, which may be due to the unfinished trauma of childhood. Li Mei left suddenly, Xiaowei was estranged and unclear, and Da Chun's separation was also helpless in mutual misunderstanding, and she was not ready to talk about it now. The relationship between people is really wonderful, and you know things that you can communicate with in a few words, but you don't even have the courage or strength to open your mouth, or you don't think it's necessary. In the process of growing up, who hasn't had a few regretful pasts, and who hasn't been a female classmate with a story?I like Xiaowei's understanding of fertility very much: to give birth to a small child, it is best to be a girl, raise her according to your own ideas, and raise her seriously, which is equivalent to living again.

Everyone grows up with regrets, but God also gives everyone the opportunity to correct, that is, to raise another child. Whether it is the school that is about to be flooded by the hydropower station, or the teacher Chang, who is already the director, is busy in a meeting and does not answer her questions, or Mi Xiaoyi's divorce with her husband because she doesn't want children, in fact, it is all illustrating a problem: don't dwell on the past, look forward. The world is always changing, and everyone is busy with the most important things in their world. Let the past be gone and let the present life continue. Xiaowei finally gave birth to a girl, sublimating the theme of ** "Lotus White".

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