Original: Wang Rong Luminous Cup
The fragrance of coffee is accompanied by the fragrance of flowers, flowing through the hall and through the windows, with wisps of fragrance. This is the laid-back flavor of early summer.
In late spring and early summer, the green becomes more and more dignified, and the prosperity is within easy reach. Listening carefully to the cicadas falling, water lilies quietly blooming, my thoughts are blurred shadows deep in my memory.
Of all the four seasons, I love the wind in early summer the most. Gentle cleansing, blowing on the face to warm and make you drunk. The smell of early summer sunshine in Shanghai has permeated the city. In my hometown of Taiyuan, it is still warm and cold at first. After Grain Rain, all the flowers have faded and their fragrance gradually fades away. The thin apricots gradually become fatter and bigger, turning from green to green. The branches and willows hang low in the sun and say, enjoy the sunshine, summer is coming! The old man playing chess under the jujube tree was concentrating. Occasionally, bees and butterflies danced, and a gust of wind swept over the jujube flowers.
In Greek, coffee represents strength and passion, which for me is a spiritual need. In the afternoon of early summer, I left the computer and went to a familiar cafe nearby after finishing my work. It has become an unshakable habit. Alone in a daze, chatting with a few close friends, living in a magical city, the sonorous rhythm brings great pressure, and everyone retreats at this moment. Time stopped and breathing slowed. People who like to talk or have lively discussions can sit outside voluntarily, and the waiter will be there immediately without the need to summon them.
The strip-shaped wooden floor extends to the depths of the steps, with patches of greenery and a few pomegranate flowers that have not yet fully bloomed. wooden chair. wooden table. There is a cat sleeping under a giant white parasol. When someone walks by, it immediately opens its eyes, sits down, stands on its front legs, raises its head and looks left and right, without fear. Someone carefully placed a piece of cake in front of it. The cat lowered his head and just sniffed it, staring at the person as before. Suddenly he turned around and jumped away, like a wisp of smoke, disappearing in the blink of an eye. I was in a daze for a while, and I fell. Like the abandoned man. I remember Natsume Soseki saying that cats are the only animals that can eventually tame humans, and they are born with this privilege.
Facing the street, the road is a stage. The lovers hugged and kissed as if no one was around, holding up their mobile phones to take selfies. The shop windows under the sun are twinkling, the cars are passing by, and the crowds are bustling. These atmospheres form urban elements, which remind me of Wong Kar-wai's "2046". Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung met by chance. They were face to face without saying a word. A voice came from the scent, "I like to sit in cafes and watch people, especially women..." Someone was holding a photography party beside the winding small wooden bridge. Whistling, on the small blackboard at the entrance of the cafe, the slogan changes every day - "In this cup of coffee, I see the sunshine of early summer."
Turning around, there was someone in the corner with Bluetooth plugged into his ear. headset, lowering his head and typing rapidly on his notebook. Don't think that you are an idle person, busy working. Can't help but think of "Van Gogh's Cafe". This cafe opened in a community near my home. It has a size and a unique layout. It has warm fabric sofas, green hanging plants on the windowsill, and geraniums in full bloom. The people and things I saw and heard when I was young seem to have left a deeper impression on me, and the same goes for the vegetation. For example, the geranium in front of me, this kind of common flower, seems to have been seen in pots after pots, standing on other people's windowsills, scattered high and low, from winter to summer, it has been waiting for people to come from winter to summer.
I heard a hawker shouting from a distance, and there was a female voice flowing leisurely on someone's gramophone - "You are the spring breeze/You are the peach petals/But wait for the wind to blow/Your heart will be bright..." Next door Poet, did you pass through here a hundred years ago? There is a piano hanging on the wall opposite the door, with the words "High mountains and flowing water, who is the bosom friend" in small characters in the lower right corner. I found an old illustration on the bookshelf, which turned out to be a hand-written rubbing of "Thunderstorm" from the Shanghai Ancient Books Bookstore.
The aroma of coffee flows through the hall and through the windows, with wisps of rich fragrance. This kind of private cafe never advertises and spreads entirely by word of mouth. As soon as you step in, you will be pleasantly surprised. Pushing open the old-fashioned wooden door is a small courtyard with exquisite flowers and plants. On rainy days, sit by the window and feel as if you can see another world across the river. The old paulownia tree had withered, and the cafe had been open for more than a year. Suddenly, one day, it bloomed...
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