Special: Love Robbery
Gu Changzhao's Canary
Eleven years ago in the winter, he had just returned home from the storm outside.On the way, he picked up the injured bird, a petite canary with some bruises on its soft feathers.
He picked it up and brought it home to take care of it.Every day, he changed the water and fed the canary on time.
Sometimes, Brother Gu would whisper to the birdcage, as if to an old, long-lost lover, "If you could fly out of this iron cage, where would you fly to?"His words were full of contradictions - both the helplessness of hurt and the infinite longing for freedom.And the canary seemed to look up and blink at that moment, as if it knew all his secrets and softness.That kind of tacit understanding made Brother Gu involuntarily put all his melancholy and regrets about the past on this tiny being.
Time passed quietly, and that long ago emotion in Gu's heart gradually became blurred, until one day - the canary suddenly stopped singing.It lay quietly at the bottom of the cage, its feathers losing their luster.Brother Gu picked it up in a panic, his eyes brimming with unbelievable tears, as if he had seen sweet rain after a long drought; but all that followed was endless emptiness and despair.
That night, he hid in his study and sealed all his memories.At that time, he spread out his diary and wrote line after line of verses, each page filled with elegies for the canary's life and accusations against his own once tender feelings.Until finally, he set all the diaries and poems on fire, the flames reflecting the entire old book of poems red and dissipating into a wisp of green smoke in the night sky.
Everyone in the Gu family has their own love affairs, and Gu Changzhao's was the smoothest one in the family.
Gu Sili's first love
The second brother of the Gu family, Gu Sili, is thirty-three years old, with a suave appearance and a pair of peach blossom eyes that look at dogs with deep love.
The Gu family used to say in private that if Gu Sili fell in love seriously one day, he could probably coax the stars down from the sky.
In the spring of that year, the cold hadn't completely faded, but Gu Sili had warmed up first.He saw the girl outside the school wall.She tied a ponytail, wearing a white shirt, a canvas bag, riding a bicycle passed in front of his eyes, footsteps light and fast, looking back with a smile, like the wind blowing down a tree of pear blossoms.
He was just like that fixed in place, looking at her back, suddenly felt the light of the sky is brighter than usual, and even the air is a little sweeter.
Later, he went to great lengths to think of ways to ask his friends to check, turn over clubs, mix into elective courses, just to see her a few more times.He was the second youngest member of the Gu family, raised in the stars, and for the first time, he lowered his voice and chased someone like a dog.
And she didn't take it too seriously.She didn't love his money, she didn't want his family, she just liked the fact that he smiled like a rogue and talked like he was coaxing people.She said, "You're so good at talking, are you also coaxing others?"
He said, "No, I swear you're the first."
She laughed, her eyes curved like the moon.
What he didn't say was that he wanted her to be the last, too.
When they were together, the spring winds were light.Gu Sili loved dogs and took her to see the stray dog he had adopted from his own yard, and solemnly asked, "It's called Ah Huang, would you like to feed it too?We'll raise it together from now on."
She smiled with arched eyebrows, "Sure, then I'll be Huang's mom."
He loved her every expression, every action, even the way she slammed her pen and bit her lip when she was angry, he thought it was cute as hell.She sometimes got tired of writing papers and leaned into his arms to sleep.He gently stroked her hair, lowered his head and kissed the swirls of her hair, and didn't quarrel with her even for a single word.
When the Gu family saw him smiling like a fool all day long, they knew he was sincere.
Gu Evening Autumn asked him, "Are you getting married?I can't believe you didn't tell me."
Gu Shi Li hugged his dog and smiled with eyes curved, "If she's willing to marry, I'll marry now."
Love is not a fairy tale.Reality never bends for them either.