How Far is Forever?

Duration: 1 day. The author visited these places: Chongming, published on June 4, 2003, at 14:57. Ho[...]

Duration: 1 day. The author visited these places: Chongming, published on June 4, 2003, at 14:57.

How far is forever? I do not know. But some memories are forever. I remember when I was eighteen, in the spring when flowers bloom, on this land adorned with green trees, sunlight, grass, and wildflowers, I declared, ‘I have grown up!’. In those green years, this place left the footprints of my growth. This weekend, when I packed up and read it in a different scenery with Ctrip netizens, I found that its beauty has always been an overlooked mystery.

Amanda is our chairperson, a cheerful and warm-hearted woman (I always feel that calling a ‘girl’ is too childish, ‘woman’ is more attractive). When she called me, she strongly urged, ‘Don’t be late.’ But when my friend Rou Rou and I arrived at the meeting place, we found no one there. Looking at the watch, it was still 30 seconds to 9 o’clock!!! No way… I hastily called Amanda, ‘I’m on my way, stuck in traffic, you find a cool place to sit first,’ ‘Traffic jam???’ Perhaps 99% of the people who are late have used this excuse, is Amanda the remaining 1%? Regardless, I believe it, ‘being late’ is not ‘not coming’. Wait… Amanda finally arrived, with driver Adam, looking like a ‘husband and wife singing together’, and the ‘small trumpet’ acquired over a thousand years – Rudy, ‘cute cat’ – LILY, quite lively.

At the dock, the inspection during the SARS period was inevitable, but the method was quite undignified. After being temperature checked, everyone had to have a round big stamp on the back of their left hand – ‘Normal’. Oh my… My first reaction was that I became a lamb to be slaughtered. Alas, the ‘inhumane’ gift of the SARS period! Enough is enough, since we are here, we might as well settle down… During the boat waiting time, I met the virtuous JoJo, the individual Sunny, the beautiful Wing, the tall Emperor, the cool Lu Yang, and Wing’s chubby, mischievous, cute husband! (Hehe, just a one-sided word, I hope JoJo, Sunny, Wing… colleagues forgive me, I just rely on my sixth sense.) Rudy was clamoring to buy watermelon, but who knew the dock was a place where ‘birds do not poop’, where is there a melon? We had to go into a convenience store to buy watermelon seeds to solve the ‘longing’. Just as we were ‘looking at plums to quench thirst’, Amanda began to miss ‘crayfish’. The Emperor is the Emperor, with an air of saving the world, and went to ‘Big Beard Store’ to buy shrimp without hesitation.

The shrimps are bought. Naturally, the river embankment becomes our temporary dining table. Everyone lines up and eats facing the river.