Dating

A few days ago, I stayed up late and suddenly sneezed loudly in the middle of the night. The next morning, I woke up feeling sick, with a sore throat. It has been uncomfortable ever since, and even today, my throat feels extremely dry and painful every morning. I cough up phlegm with traces of blood. Today, we laid my grandmother to rest on the mountain, burying her alongside my grandfather. Huanhuan also came. Thankfully, I had taken Huanhuan to visit my grandmother while she was still alive. Looking back, that was an incredibly wise decision, even though her parents didn’t fully understand it at the time and were somewhat reluctant. We cannot truly know or understand a person through the black coffin. The beauty of life exists only when life is present. ...

I need to record what happened yesterday and today. The night before last, as soon as Xiao Huanhuan got off work, she rushed to the bus stop and took the intercity bus to Shuicheng. After I got off work, I also hurried to the supermarket because Xiao Huanhuan said she wanted to eat stir-fried beef with tea tree mushrooms. I couldn’t find fresh tea tree mushrooms, so I bought dried ones. The beef was almost sold out, so I bought a small piece of tenderloin. ...

On Saturday, Xiao Huanhuan and I took a whole day off. It was a comfortably lazy day. In the evening, we went out for a walk to see if we could buy some silver carp, and also to pick up a plug cord to see if we could get my electric wok working. At the Minghu Market, we bought a cord that looked quite similar for 5 yuan, but it still didn’t work—it wouldn’t plug in, as if there were no standard specifications. ...