"A goldfish in a fish tank cured my broken love" Is this a way to get over a broken love?

1. Wedge

The clock on the wall is ticking, and a golden-orange fish slowly swings its tail and shuttles among the water plants.

"Puff! Puff! Puff!" As it spit out bubbles one after another, there was finally a trace of memory in its blank brain - "Oh, I seem to be a goldfish."

Because the memory of goldfish is so poor, it can no longer remember other things except that it is a goldfish. Outside the transparent fish tank, there seemed to be a group of off-white things that were making a whimpering sound. The goldfish pressed its face against the glass and finally saw clearly that it was a human girl with short hair.

The human girl cried for a while, finally raised her head and walked towards it. The goldfish's gaze fell on the girl's face through the water - her eyes were red and swollen from crying, like an enlarged version of the goldfish. Well, it's quite beautiful.

The girl looked at it and burst into tears.

The goldfish swung around in the water anxiously, "Cry as long as you want, don't drop your tears into the fish tank!"

The human girl seemed to be startled, and her eyes widened. My eyes stared at it, glazed over for three whole minutes. When the snot was almost flowing to her mouth, she finally sniffed, "You...you can actually talk!"

The goldfish was also stunned. Yes, how could it talk?

But it didn’t remember what it was about, so it could only wave its fins and said, “Maybe it’s because I’m smarter.”

The girl didn’t speak again, just Looking at it blankly, the scene was a little awkward for a while. In order to break the embarrassment, the goldfish spit out a bunch of bubbles again, "Um...what's your name?"

The girl twitched her lips, "My name is Xiao Zhou. What about you? Remember your name is What’s your name?”

The goldfish pondered for a while and then said nonsense: “Just call me Xiao Jin!”

The goldfish burst into laughter when he saw the tearful Xiao Zhou. The little pear vortex is actually a little cute.

"Little Jingba, as a fish you actually have a dog name."

The goldfish splashed the water angrily, thinking that you are the only one with a dog name. It was just about to curse back when it heard Xiao Zhou's low voice: "Actually, this is the first day I've been broken up in love."

2. The first day

This It was the first day that Xiao Zhou fell in love.

The floor of the house was covered with tissue balls full of tears, the heavy curtains blocked the light, and the air in the whole room became gray and heavy.

Xiao Zhou’s crying face was reflected on the fish tank. For some reason, the goldfish’s little heart was throbbing. It pressed its fin against the glass as if it could touch her face.

Xiao Zhou sniffed, stood up, and took off his coat from the hanger.

The goldfish puffed out a bunch of bubbles, "Hey, are you going out? Do you want me to accompany you?"

Xiao Zhou twitched the corner of his mouth, "How can you accompany me?" Me? You're just a goldfish."

"I can talk to you." The goldfish floated in the water and looked at her seriously. "Besides, my memory is not very good. Whatever bothers you, you can use me as a tree hole. Anyway, I won’t remember it the next day." Maybe it was its sincerity that touched Xiao Zhou, so she actually found a plastic goldfish box and carried it. He walked out the door with it.

There were only a few pedestrians on the street, and the dry leaves made a crisp rustling sound underfoot. Xiao Zhou carried it all the way across the overpass, through alleys, and turned down narrow paths, and finally stopped in front of a small shop.

The signboard of the small shop bears the mottled marks of the times, and the four words "Wang Ji Wonton" are blurred in the rising white steam.

"Auntie, let's have some chicken soup wontons." Xiao Zhou greeted the boss familiarly and put the goldfish box on the greasy table. The goldfish vomited bubbles silently and silently looked at the jar of Laoganma hot sauce.

The bottom of the white porcelain bowl hit the chopping board with a slight sound. The boss scooped up a ladle of hot soup and washed away the chopped coriander and chopped green onion at the bottom of the bowl. While she was busy, she asked: "Girl, why are you here alone today? Who is your boyfriend?"

The goldfish almost suffocated and wondered if this aunt could speak. Which pot should not be opened?

But Xiao Zhou just curled his lips and said lightly that they broke up.

Chicken soup wontons were served quickly. The small wontons were wrapped in oil and the aroma was overflowing.

When the boss was serving wontons to Xiao Zhou, he caught a glimpse of the goldfish she brought and complimented him: "Hey, your goldfish is quite beautiful."

The goldfish swam triumphantly in the narrow box. After walking around, he saw that Xiao Zhou's eyes were getting redder and redder due to the heat. It began to worry and bumped the box lightly, "What's wrong with you? Did you remember anything sad?"

Xiao Zhou shook his head, his voice choked up, "No, I thought of something happy." "Things."

The goldfish thinks that humans are really strange creatures, how can they have such sad expressions when they think of happy things. Until it heard Xiao Zhou's story, in which there was a boy named Xu Yi——

At the beginning, she came to eat wontons with Xu Yi.

The first time he saw Xu Yi, the boss smiled and praised: "Girl, your boyfriend is quite handsome." Xiao Zhou was staggering with joy at this rustic description, but Xu Yi was He was so ashamed that even the tips of his ears turned red. He awkwardly broke away from her hand and said he would order her favorite wontons in chicken soup.

Xu Yishou stood next to the boss and warned: "Add a spoonful of vinegar and double the coriander to my girlfriend's portion. Oh, by the way, don't add dried shrimps, she doesn't like dried shrimps." Shengteng In the heat, he looked at Xiao Zhou at the table and smiled at her. In that smile with the aroma of food, Xiao Zhou suddenly knew what it felt like to have his heart pounding.

Xiao Zhou ate two large bowls of wontons that day, which left her speechless. Xu Yi calmly took out a tissue and wiped her oily hands, saying that he would work hard to make money so as not to be unable to support her.

After leaving the wonton shop, go straight to the intersection, then turn left for a few hundred meters, and you will see an artificial lake. It is late autumn, and the wind by the lake seems to be more bleak than elsewhere. Xu Yi held her hand and put it in his coat pocket; she held the warm cup of milk tea, and the sweet taste rushed into her heart. The two people walked slowly along the trestle by the lake. Among the hurried pedestrians in the distance around them, it was like a movie shot that had been slowed down.

Autumn leaves swirled down and fell on Xiao Zhou's shoulders. "Little Jingba, you know, he said that every autumn from now on, he will accompany me to eat hot wontons and then go for a walk by the lake."

The bleak lake surface is like a solid mirror, with only There was only one person left, and a little goldfish.

The goldfish was silent for a long time, and finally swung its tail, "But he doesn't mean what he says, right? He's not a good man if he doesn't mean what he says. You're not worth feeling sad for such a scumbag." Goldfish At this moment I feel like an emotional philosopher.

"Let's go, I feel a little cold." The goldfish felt that his tail was a little stiff, "You are so good at eating, you must not be full from the bowl of wontons just now. Let's go and have another bowl. Wontons, then forget about the scumbag, and you won't be so sad." In order to make her happy, the goldfish even spit out a bubble that was bigger than its head, and it didn't burst until it hit the lid of the box.

Xiao Zhou was amused by its funny appearance, but said nothing.

Yes, how can human memory be compared with that of goldfish? If forgetting were so easy, there wouldn't be so many sour pillows and old dreams that you don't want to wake up from.

3. The next day

The hour hand pointed to the 6 position, and the early morning sunlight poured in from the window and melted into the clear water.

"Puff!" The goldfish spit out a bubble, its brain as white as the wall opposite.

"Good morning, little Jingba." A human girl wearing pink pajamas greeted it sleepily.

"Little Jingba? Are you calling me?" The goldfish began to wonder, how could he, as a fish, have a dog name?

"This is how you introduced yourself yesterday." The human girl lay in front of it, gently tapping the thin glass with her slender fingers.

The goldfish tried hard to recall, but the face in front of him was still unfamiliar. "Is that so, we know each other?" It turned around in embarrassment, "Actually, I don't quite remember who you are."

The girl blinked at it, "It doesn't matter, I know. Your memory is not very good. Just call me Xiao Zhou."

When Xiao Zhou gave it fish food, it was the second day after she fell in love. No wonder, she seemed to be in a bad mood, even the corners of her mouth were turned down.

"If you are unhappy, you can talk to me." The goldfish tried to comfort her. I don't know why, but it is particularly fond of this strange human girl.

Xiao Zhou told it that there once was a man named Xu Yi in this room, and it was he who hung the gray-blue curtains over there with his own hands.

After graduation, she and Xu Yi lived together.

Xu Yi's company is developing rapidly, and his work is getting busier and busier, and he even often has to work overtime. When the night gets dark, Xiao Zhou is also used to turning off the lights in the living room first. Xu is also a very careful person. Although he is busy, he never misses Valentine's Day and anniversaries.

On the night of Xiao Zhou's birthday, she received his WeChat message - "Baby, I'm still busy. You go to bed early today, don't wait for me." The clock on the wall showed half past ten , a lively sitcom was playing on the TV in the living room, and the audience's laughter became the background sound of disappointment.

At 11:30, she suddenly received a call from Xu Yi, asking her to come downstairs.

Xiao Zhou ran downstairs with his slippers on and saw Xu Yi holding a cake stupidly, the wind blowing the hair on his forehead into a horn.

"I bought your favorite strawberry cake!"

Xiao Zhou felt that the deer in his heart was about to pop out, but his nose suddenly became sore, "It's so late, Where did you find the strawberry cake?" Xu Yi touched her head and said that he had ordered the cake a long time ago, brought the cake to the office in the afternoon, and has been working overtime until now.

Xu Yi raised his arms while holding the cake, "Hurry up and touch my pocket to see what's inside!" Xiao Zhou flew up to hug him, put his hand into his pocket, and touched it. Something with a metallic feel. He took it out and saw that it was an aqua blue pen. She just casually mentioned that she liked this brand of pens. She turned around and even forgot about the price and style, but he secretly wrote it down.

The street was very quiet, with only the warm yellow light of the street lamps and the occasional stray cat passing by. Xu Yi dragged her into the back seat of the electric car and took her to the beach. Facing the singing waves, Xu Yi shouted word by word: "Zhou——xiao——congee——birth! Day! Hurry! Happy!"

At that time, what she cared about was , is the most precious thing in his heart; protecting her mood is the most important thing for him.

Xiao Zhou took out the aqua blue pen from the drawer and stretched it to the side of the fish tank. The glass reflected the shape of the pen into an arc. The goldfish glanced at it, "Isn't this just an ordinary pen? What's so rare about it?"

Xiao Zhou shook his head, "Look clearly, it has my and his initials on it."< /p>

"I'm sorry, our goldfish have not received nine years of compulsory education." The goldfish confidently spit out a string of bubbles, "Then what happened later, he liked you so much, how could he break up with you?"

"I don't know what happened, he just left." Xiao Zhou lowered his eyes and didn't seem to want to answer the question, "But I still can't forget that he called me to the sea "What's so big about this?"

The goldfish swam closer to her, "What's so big about this?" It tried hard to roll its eyes, but it only turned over on its belly. Seeing Xiao Zhou's depressed look, he wanted to do something.

"Ms. Xiao Zhou, please watch carefully." The goldfish suddenly jumped out of the water and fell into the water with a "plop", making small splashes. Every time it came out of the water, it shouted one word loudly to Xiao Zhou - "Zhou Xiao porridge! Can you be happy?!" When it fell into the water for the last time, the goldfish was so tired that it hid in the water plants and lay on the small rockery to rest.

Xiao Zhou laughed to tears, and his gloomy mood seemed to have really dissipated a little.

The goldfish said weakly: "That boyfriend of yours is worse than a fish."

"Little Jingba," she suddenly said seriously, "the sun will rise tomorrow "Will you still remember what I told you?"

The goldfish waved its fins lazily, "I'm afraid not, my memory is always bad, but... you can still follow me." Tell me your story." It quickly poked its head out from among the water plants, "But one thing I can be sure of is that even if I don't remember you, I will find you kind and cute as soon as I see you. "

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the small pear dimple on the girl's lips. For some reason, it felt that that smile was familiar.

4. The third day

When the goldfish saw the girl, he said "Good morning" by accident.

In fact, it doesn't know her, or even what her name is.

However, this human girl seemed to be very familiar with it, and even called it "Little Jingba" affectionately.

"I know you don't remember me. My name is Xiao Zhou." The girl added today's fish food to it.

"You look a little unhappy." The goldfish swam around a cluster of water plants, chasing the floating fish food, but still keenly captured her emotions.

"You are really considerate." She smiled, "I fell out of love a few days ago...but I'm not so sad now. Let me tell you my story, okay?" She said He suggested proactively.

Xiao Zhou said that there once was a boy named Xu Yi who was very good to her. He took her to eat chicken soup wontons, went for a walk by the lake in autumn, remembered to buy her hot milk tea when she was on her period, and never missed her birthday no matter how busy he was. He remembered every word she said, cared about all her moods, and promised to the sea that he would always love her.

But I don’t know since when, he seems to be no longer the Xu Yi he used to be.

In early spring, Xiao Zhou changed his job. The leader of the new unit is a mean middle-aged man who is always picky about Xiao Zhou's work and suddenly assigns new tasks when he is about to get off work. After getting off work at eight o'clock, Xiao Zhou dragged his tired body home. There was still a bowl that had not been washed last night in the kitchen sink. The oil stains had solidified into a thin layer on the bottom of the bowl.

Xu Yi was scrolling on his phone on the sofa, not knowing what he was looking at. He was so focused that he didn't even notice that she had gone home.

She complained a little aggrievedly: "Why don't you even wash the dishes?" Xu Yi replied without raising his head: "I'm very tired from work, and I don't want to wash it. Go ahead and wash it."

Xiao Zhou washed the dirty dishes while holding her breath, her lower abdomen was still cramping, and she felt her hands and feet were cold. My mother called me a few days ago and said that she had been having a cold war with my father for several days. When her father was found to be cheating on her, he attacked her and broke a vase at home. The crying on the other end of the phone made her thoughts confused and her head hurt. After hanging up the phone, she pulled Xu Yi beside her, but he broke away from her hand.

"It's nothing, we are all adults, your parents will take care of it." He still swiped the phone and said perfunctorily. He never raised his head, nor did he see Xiao Zhou's red eyes.

He began to become indifferent and forgetful. He did not remember that she felt uncomfortable during her period, and he no longer cared about her mood. He even forgot all about their love anniversary.

Xiao Zhou started working very early that day, cooking his favorite dishes and even putting a fresh rose in the vase on the dining table. But until seven o'clock in the evening, Xu Yi still didn't come back. Xiao Zhou sat alone at the dining table and dialed his phone. He didn't remember what day it was at all, he just told her that he was with friends and would go back later.

Xiao Zhou was silent for a long time and said: "Then buy me a cake. I want to eat cake."

The other end said vaguely and perfunctorily: "Okay, okay, If the cake shop is not closed, I will bring it to you."

Xiao Zhou put a table of dishes and went to the small wonton shop alone. The hot wontons were served quickly. Probably because she often came here before, the aunt specially put double the coriander for her.

"My boyfriend is not here today?" the aunt asked with concern.

"Well...he's a little busy." Xiao Zhou looked down at the wontons, and the fog in his eyes began to become heavy.

Perhaps aware of her loss, the aunt comforted her: "My child, if you feel uncomfortable, go for a walk on the beach."

When she came to collect the bowl, the aunt meant He said to her deeply: "You can't lie to the sea."

Xiao Zhou didn't understand what his aunt said, and he didn't really go to the beach.

After eating wontons and returning home, Xu Yi was already sitting on the sofa. Seeing her coming back, he raised his eyes and motioned to the table, "The cake you asked for is bought for you."

Xiao Zhou removed the strap on the cake box, and Xu Yi's complaining voice came to his ears. : "What day is it today? Why don't you finish cooking so many dishes? It's such a waste." Xiao Zhou didn't explain to him. She only saw the cake covered with golden mangoes.

And she is allergic to mangoes and never eats them.

On the second day of the third anniversary of Xiao Zhou and Xu Yi’s love, Xu Yi left the room. That day, my mother called and said that the vase at the entrance of the house was no longer displayed, but had been replaced by a transparent fish tank.

In this empty room, only Xiao Zhou and a golden-orange fish were left.

"You like him so much, why don't you try to save him?" Goldfish pressed against Xiao Zhou's face through the glass.

"I tried." Xiao Zhou said softly, "But no matter how hard I try, he can't remember anything related to me, and he can no longer be the Xu Yi he once was. I have Think clearly, if you don't love me, let him go."

The goldfish didn't understand what she meant, so he could only spit out a bunch of bubbles silently and watch them burst silently. It can no longer remember that on that warm afternoon three years ago, it once said to the girl in front of it: "From the first moment I saw you, I thought you were kind and cute. Be my girlfriend, okay? ?”

5. Ending

When a person no longer loves you, he will become particularly forgetful.

He does not remember what you like to eat, what you are afraid of, and why you are sad; nor does he remember the words you once said or the mood you once had.

He is like a goldfish, the memory of love disappears with the bubbles in the ticking passage of time. (Title of the work: "What Goldfish Remember", author: Ordinary Qichi. From: Read some stories every day and see more exciting content)