The Joy Luck Club (5)

  Zhuo patted my shoulder and said, "What flower do you like? I'll give it to you."

  "Really?" I turned around, looking at him with shining eyes.

  "Choose, little girl."

  I immediately walked to the container with sunflowers and picked out the largest and most radiant flower.

  "Only one?"

  "Uh-huh." I nodded heavily.

  "How can you like this?"

  "Because sunflowers always face the sun with a smile!" I pointed to my own face, "I'm afraid of getting tanned, so I haven't dared to look at the sun for a long time."

  Actually, I want many flowers, but as a person, one can't be too greedy.

  I'm really sorry, Wei Xingyun. I took the nicely wrapped sunflower and stuck out my tongue at it, thinking to myself that I couldn't resist the temptation anymore, and I didn't know when we could be together, so I had no choice but to let someone else take the opportunity to give me flowers for the first time.

  "I think my wedding must have many, many sunflowers, shining brightly. As I walk through them, each one seems to be smiling at me, as if they are all blessing me. Then, with these blessings from the sun, I will love my future husband forever and ever, until we are both very old."

  In the bright Western restaurant, the air conditioner was turned on very high. I sat face to face with Zhuo'er, each of us holding a large cup of ice cream, and I began to excitedly imagine the future.

  He couldn't help but smile and said, "Little girl, do you have a boyfriend now?"

  "Of course not." I immediately denied. But in the next second, my face couldn't help but turn red.

  This tone doesn't sound like telling the truth, besides, I just received someone else's flowers and am eating someone else's ice cream.

  "Uh... but there is a boy I really like."

  I don't know why, but whenever I'm facing Zhuo Er, I can always speak freely and he listens to me with a serious attitude, making me feel like he's more like my older brother.

  I started picking out Wei Xingyun's strengths and telling them to him: intelligent, hardworking, can play the piano, upright, good character, looks not bad...

  "And does he like you?" Zuo Er asked.

  "This... his biggest flaw is that he doesn't like me." I felt a bit embarrassed.

  "Isn't that very tiring?"

  "It's not tiring," I shook my head, "I think it's quite fun."

  "Is that so..."

  "Zhuoer brother, you guys as males, don't you all like gentle, considerate and need-to-be-protected females?"

  Zhuo'er thought for a moment, inserting the spoon into the ice cream. "Perhaps when we were young, girls like this would have stirred up a strong desire to protect in most boys, but as our age and horizons grew, we may have come to yearn more for those lively and vibrant young women who tend to seem even more real."

  "It's all over, he won't wait until middle age to remember my goodness, right? But by that time, I'll also become a middle-aged woman!" What the middle-aged Xia Mi would look like, I really dare not think about it.

  "There are still some boys in this world who like you, and being silly can also arouse people's desire to protect."

  "Ah! Then I'm not stupid either, it's not hard for people to want to protect me?"

  "Hmm, you're indeed not stupid." Zhuo'er smiled, "Don't think too much, eat."

  I wonder if the reason why Wei Xingyun doesn't like me is that I'm not as gentle, considerate and weak as Li Xue?

  So I want to become more girly? I thought while biting on a spoon.

  No longer reckless and impulsive, speaking in a soft and gentle tone, smiling without showing teeth, understanding others' intentions, never acting impulsively... I suddenly shivered, put down my spoon, "I'm not eating anymore, I've lost my appetite."

  Will the summer be like that, or will it still be Xia Mi? If so, even if Wei Xingyun likes me, he'll only like the mask I'm wearing. I'd rather work harder and let him like the real me.

  Take someone's hand short, eat someone's mouth short. After finishing the ice cream, I asked Zhuoer on my own initiative: "Are we going to deliver flowers now?"

  I'd think that even if he asked me to run errands and deliver flowers, I'd just play along as a flower shop girl.

  Zhuo'er looked at me, "What's wrong, you want to go?"

  "Uh-huh!" I nodded repeatedly, "I haven't met your girlfriend yet."

  "He smiled and pointed at the tall building across from them, 'It's just across the way, you'll be able to see it in a moment.'"

  He made a phone call, and sure enough, before long, a woman in a professional suit came running over from across the way. I immediately exchanged a knowing look with Zhuo Er, winking at him, Ah, a sister-brother romance!

  She was a very good-looking woman, and when she smiled, her two eyes would curve into a crescent shape, very much like the Korean female star that Xia Bing liked. She received roses, exaggeratedly hugged Zhuoer for a moment, and even left a passionate kiss on his cheek.

  I hastily turned my eyes away and pretended I hadn't seen anything.

  She sat down beside Zhuo'er, smiling at me, "You're Zhuo'er's sister, what grade are you in?"

  I nodded honestly and replied: "It's almost high school now."

  "You're a big girl now!" She smiled and pinched my hand, "I just got back from the US and I'm not familiar with anything here. When you have time, let's go shopping together."

  "I happily agreed: 'Okay.'"

  Unfortunately, we didn't even stroll down the street once. Later when I mentioned her to Zhuo'er, he had to think for a moment before remembering who she was, then casually said: "Her? They broke up long ago."

  I was tongue-tied and couldn't believe that there was such a female killer lurking around me.

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