Intercourse

    Lili said in fact he had liked me for a long time. But he had never thought of getting a girl friend like me, because he thought he was less qualified. The news of our making friends spread out fast. Discussions in friend's circle were of all kinds. Those boys who had been chasing me started to go against me. My good friend Liu Lei asked me,"How did you get to like Changli? What an ugly face he has! He is not as tall as one point seven meters. Excepting his good voice, he had no good looking anywhere else. Zhang Ping said,"We heard that he is poor. How are you going to live with him? Beside, he already had a girl friend." I said,"He had told me that girl friend had parted with him because her family did not agree to accept their friendship. Or else he could not have made friends with me." Li Fei said,"Ugly looking and poverty are not most important. What the most important is does he really love you? Would he be really kind to you?" I said,"Things could be known after making friends for some time."

    That period was really excellent. We went out together on weekends. He liked boating. So we often went for boating in Zizhu Park with a hurst of purple bamboo or Taoranting Park with the Joyful & Carefree Pavilion. But it is very difficult for a blind couple to go around ans we could hardly find the wharf to   rent a boat for rowing. So we usually walked around the lakeside and asked if we could take a boat wherever we approached a wharf. Those troubles could be avoided if we were healthy people. I had been trained by Grandma to take care of myself from my childhood. So I acquired the quality to refuse surrender to difficulties. I would rather do the walking through mutual helping than  relying on the asistance by healthy people.*** I knew there might be difficulties ahead on our life journey. But I was certain I would be able to face them. We heard the Temple of Heaven is a famous scenery site. So we decided to have a visit there. But I had never been there before. We intended to enter from the west gate but we could not find it. Instead we had to walk over a distance over three bus stops to find a gate which was the north one. It was already very hot. Lili was sweating and got thirsty. He asked for some cold water. That brought me a question where we could find the water faucet. For his kindness I bought two cans of Coca-Cola for him at the cost of four yuan RMB. But he thought it was too luxury. The Cola was drunk and we walked under the shade of trees. I embraced his neck all of a sudden and said,"When I get to earn money later, I will buy more Colas for you. He gave me his first kiss and said,"Mimi, I know you have a kind heart. But I am afraid I'm not equal to match you." I often saw him with the feeling of self-abased and I had always tried to straighten him out. Sometimes I failed in helping him to come round. I had to be patient and hope that time might help. His posture in walking was awful. So I helped to correct him whenever we were walking side by side. Later, time really showed its helping effect. Our affection was more and more profound as time elapsed. My neck ache became much relieved under his regular treatment. He had said he wanted to get my asthma cured. I thought it was too difficult because I have taken many kinds of medicine with less effect. "But would massage be effective?" I asked. "You might get cured if you have confidence in it," he answered. With the growth in our affection, Changli also won more and more accomplishments. He learned a therapy of short sight or myopia for primary and middle school students. With his own innovation added, he demonstrated a curing of a middle school student in a show held in Haidian Suburban Region of Beijing. The eyesight range of that student was upgraded from 0.3 to 1.2. His wonderful accomplishment was noticed there by many people that many students from primary and middle schools approached him on site for treatment. He succeeded in mastering a unique technique of relieving aches in the spine of neck and waist just before his graduation.

    In this way Changli parted with me with my longings in his mind. He really came back after two weeks. The day when he came back was very hot, as I remembered. His clothes were wet with sweat all over. He said it took hm forty minutes to walk from the hospital to the railway station and the sunshine was terribly hot all his way since there were few trees along the roadside. Water could be found by twisting from his vest when he got to the station. I felt hurted to hear of his toilsome journey and asked him,"Where are you going to lodge tonight?" He intended to find a place among former schoolmates. I said, "Come to my home and make acquaintance with my Grandma. He was a little afraid and asked, "What can we do if your family members have objections?" I said,"Never mind. I am going to marry you, as long as I am in love with you." Then I took him to my home. But after he had left our home, Grandma expressed her strong objection. Her reasons included "Changli is not handsome; not tall enough; having rural district registered residence and born in year of sheep." I asked, "What about the year of birth?" Grandma said, "Born in a year of sheep predicted his fate of poverty. But I thought I didn't believe in such superstition. I would not care about what others might say as long as I liked him and that would do. Grandam had taught me to do what I liked. She knew it was not easy for me to listen to others and felt I was still green. She thought my love affair at that time was nonsense and I might change my mind sometime later. So she did not mention that question any more. On an  appointment to meet him at seven a.m. at the west entrance of Qianmen Railway Station, I waited there till eight thirty but still did not see him coming. He did tell me he would take an early train. I seemed to have seen a man in green clothes similar to him. But I thought it was not him. I kept waiting until nine o'clock and struck upon suspecting he might have gone to see me at my home. I hurried back home by subway. My home was at a fifteen-minute walk from the subway station. I arrived home in heavy rainfall. Grandma said he had come indeed but had just left. I became extremely worried and thought it was not easy for him to come and if failed to see me, how disappointed would he be? So I left to find him in a hurry. Grandma called me behind but I did not hear what she said. After returning to the subway station I still could not find him. I thought he must have gone to the bus terminal for Langfang if he failed to find me. So I took the subway again to go to the coach station at Qianmen (or Front City Gate) to Langfang. The coach from Langfang to Qianmen in morning was to arrive at 07:30 and return from Beijing at 12:30 noon. I reached the station at 11:00 and did not see him on the coach. I waited for him  there. He came after another half an hour. I immediately had him embraced and asked him, "Where have you been?" He answered, "I have been waiting for you at the subway station. At eight o'clock I went to your home and Grandma said you had gone out and I went to see you at the station. I thought you might not be coming. So I decided to go back." It suggested me that the person in green I saw might have been Changli. How troublesome could it be with poor eyesight! I have been longing for the short reunion every other week. Changli said, 'Never mind! Two weeks will pass away quickly. I would come to see you." I cried and said,"Could you avoid going so far away?" Lili said with a wry smile, "Without an urban resident certificate, I can not find a job in Beijing." Getting wetted in the rain, I started to have fever in the evening. On the next day he made a phone call to me at my school. When he got to know I was ill at home. He became very worried for me. At that time, we did not have a telephone at home. So he sent me a letter everyday. The words in his letters conveyed all his concerns for me. During that time I suffered serious illness. My asthma caused trouble again. Changli came to see me just after one week and held my hand to say, "Mimi! I caused you to suffer from illness. I will not let you down when situation improves." In addition, he promised to find means for treating asthma and have me cured. He sent me over thirty letters during my illness that I kept for a long time. Unfortunately they were lost when we moved to another house. The cause of the losing was again attributed to my poor sight. Even a less attention would result in loss of something.

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