Chapter 5 Aunt Quotations

My aunt speaks with a clear sense of wit, and I told her it was a bit like Zhou Zuoren and the others.As usual, she said that she didn't understand these things, and she wasn't interested in them—because she didn't like literati, she needed to get rid of them everywhere.But once she said the same thing: "I'm just giving off a dilute air all day long!" One night it was very cold.When she was about to get into the bed in a hurry, she said: "Sleep is like home." Written down, it can become a small poem: "On a winter night, sleep is like home." After washing my hair, my hair was very dirty and black for some reason."It's like the color of your hair has faded," she said.

She once had an old nagging friend whom she no longer sees much of.She said: "Life is too short to spend so much time with someone like this - but with her, it feels like life is too long." At first I took it for her to say: time seemed to pass very slowly because of boredom.It was later discovered that she had another meaning: when a person is old, he can become so confused. After seeing that, one can't help but feel that life is too long.She read the record of the conversation between Su Qing and me, (all books, newspapers and magazines, I have to confine her to read. When she came, she claimed, "I can't read it." My novel, because of relatives, she is very fond of it. Faithfully read through each article, although it is very unpleasant. She absolutely refuses to read the original manuscript, and the proof is okay.) She also has many opinions on working women.She felt that working women were generally separated as a special type, but there was no need to.Success or failure in a career depends entirely on one's attitude, which is no different from that in family life.Ordinary women's occupations are not technical in nature, they are just people in the office.Those who are capable at home, like Wang Xifeng, must be great managers when they come out.In the future, she may write a book about the secrets of women's employment, such as how to "have a punch" at the beginning, and how to "hide the evil and promote the good" for herself... But later she said: "Don't persuade me to write Well, I can’t do it as a literati. I’m in charge of telegraphing in the office, and I’ve developed a style of telegraphing. I’m only saving words, and it’s too bad to pay for the manuscript fee!”

When she found a job, she was very picky, because: "If you are a man who has to support your family, sometimes you have no choice. You have to work hard. It is his responsibility, and there is a name. Like I am so homeless, doing something unsatisfactory, looking sad and disliking the money, and living sadly, but why?" There was a time when she reported news on the radio, read editorials, and worked half an hour a day.She said with emotion: "I speak boring things for half an hour every day, and I can get a salary of tens of thousands. I say interesting things all day long, but I can't get a single salary."

She criticized a cowardly person who ate Ai Ai's speech: "He sleeps with pearls and coughs jade, and he is stuck in his throat with pearls and jade." "Edward VII Road" (Edward Road) I mistakenly took it as "Edward VIII Road", she said: "Edward VIII has not had time to become a road yet." She doesn't have much affection for the members of our Zhang family—it's better for me, but it's also because I automatically cling to her and there's nothing she can do about me.In this way, she often complained: "Living with you makes people very nagging (because they need to mutter) and arrogant (because the other party is too imbecile)." Once she said that my brother stood pitifully. In front of her eyes: "A pair of big eyes, Ba Da Ba Da, is looking at me." The word "Ba Da Ba Da" is really well used, expressing a boy who is innocent, with heavy and wet eyes.

She said of herself: "I am capable of both civil and military skills. The literary can write letters, and the martial arts can hold the soles of shoes." When I was studying in Hong Kong, I really liked receiving her letters. The ladylike blue words were carefully written on the thin pink On copy paper, (it was saved in her office, and the used part was cut off, so the size of the pages varies, and it reads with a crackling sound.) There is a kind of boring taste in the letter, always like spring. Summer sunny day.The tone is very plain, but many exclamation points are used, and almost all of them are used as punctuation. Was there such a trendy article ten years ago?Also, she always writes "really good," "really happy," I argued with her, and she refused to admit that she should use the word "very" here.Later I asked her: "Then, how would my aunt write the word 'ruthless' for 'fierce'?" She also wrote "ruthless".I said, "Then what does the word 'very' do? My aunt can't deny that there is such a word." She thought about it, and it made sense.I said again: "Nowadays no one writes 'ruthless'. As soon as I write it like this, I immediately classify myself into Zhou Shoujuan's generation." She really changed from then on.

After the Chinese New Year this year, her luck has not been very good.The more things went wrong, the more she gained weight. She wrote to a friend and said, "Recently, I have been bored with eating, sleeping, and sleeping for a long time.... I finally decided to make a pair of pants. I cut off a leg the day before yesterday, and cut it again yesterday. I got a seam on one leg this morning, and now I want to get a second seam on. Will these trousers have a day of success?" She was ill last year and did not recover for a long time after the illness.She laughed a little, and said: "It's such a sleepy weather again, and it's so weak, one person is like a poem!"

She had sold a lot of jewels in her hands, but only one piece of pale red pixia was kept until now, because it was not good.It was appraised before the war, and the store offered her ten yuan, but she didn't sell it.Every now and then, she would take it out to have a look, bibi here, bibi there, always wanting to put it to use, but put it away again, a piece of gemstone wrapped in green silk thread, the chilblain is swollen to a certain extent like that Lavender translucent.Just hang it on the lapel as an ornament, it doesn't look good against any background.It would be nice to put it on the same color, but if you can’t see it, it means it’s gone.Put it on the white one, it looks better, but the white one also looks dirty.It would be more suitable to put it on the black satin -- but for the sake of the black dress itself, it would be better if it was left alone.

Unless it is suspended in the air, as a fan pendant or something.However, only one side of it is smooth.The reverse side is not good; the hole on the top is not in the right place, in the middle of the gem. The aunt sighed and said, "Looking at this piece of drape makes people feel that life is meaningless."