Chapter 28 hungry time

My parents firmly believe that food supplements are not as good as medicine. I was not allowed to eat all kinds of royal jelly and ginseng soup when I was a child, and only let me eat meat. So when I was young, I didn't know what it was like to be hungry.Occasionally, when I said I was hungry, my dad didn't believe it, and asked me with a smile if I was hungry and my mind was active again.In this way, how do I treat the little match girl who is suffering from hunger and cold? How to eat grass roots, how to dig wild vegetables and millet to make soup when marching and fighting, how Tang Sanzang was so hungry that he asked the Great Sage to drive with Dou Yun to ask for a vegetarian meal, just read all of them without perceptual knowledge.In elementary school, writing essays and describing hunger is a set of tricks: "Hungry gurgles".It's really a dragon slaying skill, I have never experienced it before.

After getting used to being full, I don't have such a flesh-and-blood desire for food.Since people have to look back at Shu, and have satisfied the "full" Long, they think about the "delicious" Shu.If a meal is not delicious, you will feel that eating is cumbersome and boring.Gu Long wrote that Shangguan Jinhong once joked, "I don't eat" and "Eating when I'm not hungry is a waste." When I was young, I thought, maybe it's right to eat when I'm hungry—it's just that when I was young, the three meals were fixed, so I didn't eat them. I can't help but get hungry.

If I really want to get hungry, it's because I left home and went to college. When I was in college, my three meals a day became irregular, and I occasionally missed meals.I didn’t understand the feeling of hunger when it first hit, but after a few times, I suddenly realized: Ah, isn’t this wonderful and strange feeling just hunger?In my sophomore year, I started to make a living by writing, and I started to say "one meal and one vegetable, you should know that it is not easy to get there".It’s very intuitive: writing a short paragraph is a bowl of fried rice, and writing a short story is a week’s diet.At that time, I hadn't learned how to store food like a squirrel, and I was often hungry in winter nights, wishing I could turn into a bear or a snake.

Of course, you can also have fun while suffering. When you are just hungry, your ears are sharp, your senses are very sharp, and you can smell the aroma of food around you.Hemingway said that after he was hungry, looking at Cézanne's paintings was particularly exciting, and I felt the same way—after being hungry, seeing Vermeer's thick coats, Rubens' bright and fat girls, Bruegel's peasant paintings, It's really refreshing and refreshing.At the end of 2004, there was an Impressionist exhibition in the Shanghai Art Museum. I went there three times, and one of them was hungry. I watched Renoir and Caillebotte so intently, and I could see the smell of meat and vegetables.

In Haruki Murakami's "The Bakery Again", there are many metaphors about hunger.He said that the boundless hunger is like the Sinai Peninsula seen from the sky, and it feels like a weight falling into the belly of a whale. In fact, it is a feeling of emptiness and boundlessness.This is what it looks like when you are hungry: your body is empty and thin, light and bright, and you feel that you have a paper body left, and you can see through it when you stand in front of the lamp.After being hungry for a long time, the food may seem a bit disgusting at first glance, but after two bites, it seems that the key has been unlocked, and everything tastes good with a click.

Gu Long said, "Eating when you are not hungry is a waste." Su Shi has a better expression: "Eat when you are hungry, and stop before you are full."But when Confucius ran out of food in Chencai, it was estimated that it was too late to "never tire of eating fine meat and eating fine meat".I reckon that if I give a piece of pancake rolled with scallions to Chen Caishi's wife, the teacher will definitely gobble it up too.After being extremely hungry, steamed fish, boiled chicken, eel noodles, etc. are far less tempting than a large bowl of oily egg fried rice with a pile of braised pork on top.At that time, whoever had time to distinguish the taste, just stuffed it all the way.This is similar to how the prisoner in Lishan, when he saw a girl, didn't have time to tell whether her facial features were beautiful or her figure was slim, and she hurriedly pressed her down.

The most hungry part of me was when Ah Ruo first came to Shanghai, the two of them didn’t know how to manage the business, and spent all their savings during the National Day.The manuscript fee is on the way, so I have to count the money to live.The so-called calculation of money is like this: eat spicy soup, how to mix meat (only one yuan at that time) and vegetarian (five cents at that time) can save money, and you can take a subway the next day (instead of me driving her in a car) ) to see the exhibition.When you sweep a coin or two from the corner while cleaning the house, it's a joy made in heaven, and the money should be used to buy cakes immediately to celebrate.In the end, the situation was exhausted, so I had to buy some rice and vegetables, add some salt, and cook a big pot of porridge. After drinking like this for nearly a week, I didn't know what it meant to have vegetables on my face until I looked in the mirror.Occasionally going out, I can’t help but dress better in winter. Some people who sell second-hand notebooks don’t like it. Looking at our clothes, they think they have spare money, so they come up and ask in a low voice: “Do you want a notebook?” We both smiled bitterly: “We have notebooks, but we don’t Money..." She originally planned to sell her bag online for money, but finally the writing fee stopped.Before she went back to school for the exam, we counted the fare money, and we ended up with some money left over. We each bought a Roujiamo and ate it by the roadside.It was a sunny and warm afternoon in November 2006. Two young people were at a T-junction, panting for breath while eating roujiamo.Finally, after eating, I fished out three yuan from the top pocket of my clothes, and I was overjoyed: "I can buy a bottle of water!"