Chapter 32 Childlike

Before Zhao Yuanren was born, his parents asked someone to tell their fortunes, and they figured out that they were going to give birth to a girl.When Zhao Yuanren went down to the ground, he found that it was a boy, so he said, "Oh, Ganqing is still a boy!" So he pierced his ears. Zhao Yuanren slept with his mother when he was a child. One night, little Zhao Yuanren saw his mother fell asleep first, and burst into tears. His mother was woken up by him, and hurriedly asked, "What's the matter? What's the matter?" Zhao replied, "Mom fell asleep first. Hell!" Zhao recalled that he was ridiculous, but at that time he felt that his mother fell asleep first, as if the whole family had left, leaving him alone, and he was very lonely.

When Zhao Yuanren was a child, every Chinese New Year, the Zhao family always decorated with lanterns and festoons. Zhao Yuanren was very happy because there was always something delicious to eat, and he could also play with flowers, kites, and dice, and he didn’t have to go to school.So in Zhao Yuanren's heart, he always felt that Chinese New Year was a big event.So he often looked forward to the new year, and only two or three months after the new year, he asked his mother noisily: "Why can't you be old? Why can't you be old?" His mother was very surprised: "The new year has just passed, why do you want to be old again?" Chinese New Year?" After waiting for a while, he started to make noise again: "I'm not old enough to be old! I'm not old enough to be old!"

Zhao Yuanren liked to play with copper coins when he was a child. Once he put three coins in his mouth, but he swallowed them in his throat. He couldn't spit them out, couldn't swallow them, and couldn't speak.Seeing that his face was flushed and unable to speak, his mother asked him what was wrong, and he pointed to his throat.The mother put her hand into his throat, and he spit out the money when he felt sick. Zhao Yuanren liked to watch the morning glow when he was a child. He often got up before dawn, stood in the yard, stared at it without blinking, watching the sun appear bit by bit, his eyes were dazzled.

Someone gave Zhao Yuanren a three-inch magnifying glass.No one taught him how to use it, so he studied how to play by himself, put the magnifying glass close to his eyes and look at things farther away, and the things turned upside down; he put a newspaper under the magnifying glass, and the inverted shadows of those things appeared In newspapers; he also learned how to make fire with a magnifying glass from Lord Lu, and after he learned it, he burned things everywhere for fun, but luckily he didn't cause any trouble. When Zhao Yuanren was a child, he liked to watch thunderstorms, lightning, and heavy rain.Every time it rains, the yard is a little wet, and he hopes that the water will accumulate quickly, until the yard is full of water and it will be invisible.He likes to sleep under the quilt and listen to the thunder and rain outside. He always feels that the wetter and colder it is outside, the drier and warmer he sleeps under the quilt.

Zhao Yuanren often moved when he was a child, and when the housekeeper tidied up his things, he also tidied up his own little things.Later, I developed the habit of categorizing things.When studying abroad, Zhao Yuanren once wanted to use scientific classification as the topic of his thesis, but his teacher Josiah Royce said that the topic was too boring, so he gave up. Zhao Yuanren said: "When I was five years old, I spoke a non-pure Beijing dialect and an authentic Jiangsu Changshu dialect, but I could only read in the Jiangsu Changzhou dialect when I was studying." When Zhao Yuanren was a child, he read the sentence on the trace red as "The Holy One loves the power of one husband, cherishes the property of ten families, lives in a closed house, and refuses to..." into a sentence pattern like the Three Character Classic: "The Holy One loves the strength of one husband, Pity ten, the property of the family is deeply closed, and I am not willing to live in it,..."

Once, when the chrysanthemums were in full bloom, Zhao Yuanren and his family used chrysanthemums as an inscription to write a poem. He wrote the first sentence at the beginning: "The whole house is full of chrysanthemums." Zhao's eldest sister said: "You have finished your sentence with the first sentence! You have to speak slowly!" So Zhao Yuanren changed it to: "Someone came to see the flowers, and the flowers bloomed bursting with fragrance..." He remembered that there was a line in the poem "The wind moves as soon as it opens", and he thought it should be an adult who changed it for him. Yes, not like sentences he would write.

Zhao Yuanren was eight years old and it was his first time to take a boat from Tianjin to Shanghai. When he was not seasick, he liked to watch the sunrise, the sunset, the thunderstorm, and the lightning. He felt that the sea was better than the ground.Sometimes he stood by the side of the boat and was fascinated by watching it. He didn't care if he was splashed by the waves or soaked in the rain. When Zhao Yuanren was a child, Nonggu, the youngest daughter of his third-bedroom uncle, was his favorite. He said that he almost fell in love with her. When the adults played mahjong, he would squeeze beside her and watch her play.When there was something wrong with his eyes, she always gave Zhao Yuanren the last potion before going to bed.