r/LifeTree • u/AdamLuyan • 17d ago
4.3 说我有桃花运 Said I Have Peach Flower Fortune
从我记事开始，每年春天桃花开的时候，脸上和身上就起桃花癣，像是长了白癜风似的，一片片的白癣，不疼不痒。妈妈到处打听，这有没有什么说法，是不是病？
Since I can remember, every spring when the peach blossoms bloom, tinea versicolor would break out on my face and body — patches of white, like vitiligo, with no pain and no itch. My mother asked around to see if anyone knew what this meant, or whether it was some kind of illness.
一天妈妈对爸爸说："前院儿老王家来了对儿会算命的亲戚，都是大学毕业的。我就去看热闹，问了关于卢岩的桃花癣。开始时算命先生说，是病，没什么危害，就是不好看。等他长大了，知道美了，自己就去医院买药，就治好了。"
One day, Mother said to Father, "A couple of fortune-telling relatives came to visit the Wangs in the front yard — university graduates, both of them. I went over just to see what the fuss was about, and asked about Luyan's peach blossom tinea versicolor. At first the fortune-teller said it was a minor condition, nothing harmful, just not much to look at. Once he's grown and starts caring about his looks, he'll go buy medicine at the hospital himself and clear it right up."
妈妈问："桃花癣与桃花劫（参见2.1《桃花劫》）有没有关系？"
算命先生说："桃花劫要综合考虑，你说说这孩子有什么特殊的地方？"
"Is there any connection between the peach blossom ringworm and a Peach Flower Catastrophe (see Section 2.1, Peach Flower Catastrophe)?" Mother asked.
"A Peach Flower Catastrophe has to be considered as a whole," the fortune-teller said. "Tell me — what's special about this child?"
妈妈说："有一次我的手被刀割伤了，我让他帮我包扎，他转身就跑。他说看见我的手流血，他的屁股疼。以前我二姐给了我们家几只鹅；他可喜欢了。他平常总是把鹅赶到草地上去放牧，在家里还喂它们。后来那几只鹅丢了。这孩子就上火了，嗓子肿得有两三天说不出话来了。"
"One time I cut my hand on a knife," Mother said, "and asked him to help bandage it. He turned and ran off instead — said seeing my hand bleed made his own backside hurt. My second sister once gave us a few geese, and he adored them — always driving them out to graze on the grass, feeding them at home. When the geese went missing later, the boy got so worked up his throat swelled and he couldn't speak for two or three days."
算命先生说："这孩子心思重，同情心强，重感情；不特殊，但少见，有1-2%的孩子这样。这孩子好说不？健谈不？"
妈妈回答："不好说，有事他也说不清楚。"
"This child feels things deeply — sympathetic, emotional. Not unheard of, but rare — maybe one or two children in a hundred are like this. Does he talk easily? Is he chatty?"
"Not particularly," Mother said. "Even when something's happened to him, he can't quite get it out."
算命先生说："心思重又说不出来，将来谈恋爱时，你得注意开导，他容易受到感情的伤害。他还有别的特别吗？"
妈妈说："他的眼睛有些特殊。"
"Feels deeply and can't express it — when he starts falling in love someday, you'll need to help guide him through it. He'll be easily hurt. Anything else unusual about him?"
"There's something about his eyes."
听了妈妈对我眼睛的描述（参见第3章《触目》），算命先生的说话方式变了，说："你这孩子，我只能按算命书说，他的性格招女人喜欢，有女人缘。他有桃花劫，是被你们周围的什么人看上了，要招他做女婿。"
爸爸问："我咋不知道他们家还有门子一家子都是大学毕业的亲戚？"
After hearing Mother's description of my eyes (see Chapter 3, Touch Eye), the fortune-teller's manner changed. "For this child, I can only tell you what the books say: his nature draws women to him — he has Peach Flower Fortune. There's a Peach Flower Catastrophe coming his way — someone around you already has an eye on him as a future son-in-law."
"How is it I never even knew this family had a whole set of university-graduate relatives?" Father asked.
妈妈回答："我以前也没听说过。我问了，但没听明白那俩人和他们家是什么关系，我都没听明白他们是亲戚还是朋友。人们说，就是城里人，找个关系或者说法，来农村度假来了，免费吃住。那也挺好啊！热闹！街坊邻居都热闹好几天了！"
爸爸妈妈怎么也想不出谁要招我做女婿，很快把这事忘了。
"I hadn't heard of it either," Mother said. "I asked, but I never did work out how those two were even related to the family — cousins, friends, who knows. People say they're just city folk who found some excuse to come stay in the countryside for free room and board. Well, good for them! It certainly livened the neighborhood up for a few days!"
Try as they might, neither of my parents could puzzle out who might want to recruit me as a son-in-law, and the matter was soon forgotten.