Chapter 6 ice cream summer

--------------- ice cream summer --------------- This time it was not a cold winter, but a hot summer that was too hot to walk outside. It's hard to imagine that the summer in New York can be so hot, it's so hot that people are about to deform and melt, so it's even more impossible to eat ice cream in the sun outside. Yes, ice cream is best enjoyed at home on a lazy afternoon.That summer, I stayed at the home of an old lady in New York. The old lady was my mother’s teacher. She had a legendary background and was proficient in many languages. An old role model for young people.In the past when we were young, she often came to visit us on the way back to the Mainland through Hong Kong to visit relatives. Now we often go out, so naturally we also come to New York to visit her.

That afternoon, we went to the gallery together, and when we got home, she asked me, do you want to eat ice cream? Yes, I naturally nodded. This is the first time I have eaten such a delicious strawberry ice cream, but the color is not beautiful at all, and the brand name is difficult to pronounce - Hegen-Dazs. At that time, of course I didn't know that Hegen-Dazs, which had a Danish name, turned out to be the ice cream kingdom founded by Reuben Mattus, a descendant of Polish immigrants, in New York.Strawberry flavor is Mr. Mattus's top natural delicacy made by mixing real fresh strawberry pulp into dairy products after vanilla, chocolate and coffee flavors.

From then on, except in Italy where I indulged in the local soft ice cream Gelato, I only ate Hegen-Dazs in any other place, and because it was expensive, I didn’t eat it casually, so I cherished the best. every bite. As for the serious conversation with the old lady while eating ice cream that day, it was her observation of contemporary Chinese people after living in China and abroad for so many years: she thinks that Chinese people really lack sincerity, curiosity and humor.Now that things have happened, we have to work harder to regain these good qualities of being a human being - this is really "exciting" to drink, (this is why I don't like to use the soft "cream" but love to use powerful "Cream"!) After so many years, I still keep her teachings in my heart to this day.Of course, there is strawberry ice cream in the quiet afternoon.