Wangwang | Sheets, quilts and books
He Chen and Li Zhenhao opened a new space next to the Nature Studio at the foot of the mountain to sell bed sheets, quilts and books. When I first heard this idea, I was stunned. Bed sheets, quilts, and books seem to be unrelated things, but when you think about it, they are related.
In my past memories, most of the reading scenes were indeed on my bed. When I was reading, I always kept adjusting my body posture and was not very restful. I put some biscuits and fried rice around me, and the crumbs fell all over the sheets. After a few hours, my bed looked a little messy.
For many years in the 1990s, my room had only a warm yellow tungsten filament lamp, and at the other end was a "switch" made of nylon rope. I still remember the feeling of pulling it. There was no washing machine at home, or even a decent drainage system. My mother would go to the riverbank to wash clothes and bed sheets. It was very hard, but my clothes and bed sheets always had a faint soapy scent. That scent, along with the worn-out "Italian Literature", remained in that space and memory. In that dim little room in that boring town, I heard about Calvino and Boccaccio, and began to imitate their writing in my composition homework, and proudly thought that the Chinese teacher must not have read their works, and in fact it was true.
In the Sunshine City, I lived by the Lhasa River. On my free days off, I would hang out on the roof to dry my quilts and sheets and read books. I was at an age where I could happily enjoy the highland sunshine for several hours.
My landlord is an aunt from Dalian. She often makes delicious chive dumplings, which are as delicious as the sunshine in Lhasa, and even taste like the same thing.
Maybe you don’t know, but the Lhasa River is beautiful in autumn. You can ride a bicycle over the fallen leaves on the ground, and the wind will blow the pages of books and the sheets above your head. These pictures, which look like the style of millennial TV commercials, did appear in those days of the past.
