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我写的双语小说《沐于浮华》Bathing In the Limelight初触舌尖，是凉，是涩，而后才缓缓漾开一缕绵长的甜。须得含在腮边，任它慢慢化开，用舌面细细碾过，连呼吸都浸透了梨香与药气。每一块糖上都刻着他的手迹，记着哪年哪月的梨、哪座山头的蜜、哪一锅因火候偏了半分便倒掉重来的执拗。连糖块边缘那些粗糙的毛边里，都藏着老灶膛里柴火噼啪的回响——那是对灶火的执念：火候若偏半分，整锅便作废，从头再来。Cool on the tongue at first, then astringent, and only at last did it unfurl its long, unhurried sweetness—a sweetness to be cradled in the hollow of the cheek, to melt slowly, to be ground by the flat of the tongue, until the breath itself was steeped in pear and the bitter scent of medicine. Every piece bore his hand-carved mark, witness to the year and month of the harvest, the mountain that gave the honey, the batch that would be poured out and begun anew if the fire strayed by half a fraction. Even the rough burrs along the sugar's edge whispered of firewood crackling in the old stove's belly—that stubborn devotion to the hearth, where half a degree off meant the whole cauldron was forfeit and the labor started over.
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