Chapter 50 a kind word

When I was a child, adults always asked us to say auspicious words, but after half my life, I have to teach my children to say auspicious words one day, and I suddenly realized that there are good words in this world. It is inexhaustible, but it is not What are good things like "promotion", "getting rich" and "gaining a child"?On winter nights, from the fragrance of popping ginkgo, I remembered every single sentence. ⒈ Do you like to eat fatty meat?Or lean meat? The storyteller was a young maid named Ami. I was eight years old that year. She was forgetful and she repeated this story over and over again, which she thought was very nice. It was boring. The story is as follows:

There is a person who owes money to others, and has been owing it all the time, and has not paid it back until the Chinese New Year, because there is no money to pay it back.Later, the creditor was unhappy, and he was not reconciled, so when it was time for the New Year's Eve dinner, he sneaked to the house that owed the money, hid at the door and eavesdropped, wondering if he really had no money or pretended to have no money, and when he heard that the meal was ready , and the one who owed money said: "This year's Chinese New Year, let's have a big meal. Do you children like to eat fatty meat? Or lean meat?"

(By the way, this is an old story, when fat meat and lean meat were delicious.) The creditor stood outside the door, heard it clearly, and was so angry that he thought to himself, you owe me money, which makes it inconvenient for me to celebrate the New Year, and you still have fat and lean meat to eat!In a fit of anger, he rushed into the house and wanted to show him face to face. When he ran to the table to see that there was no meat, there was only a bowl of radish and a bowl of sweet potato. , radishes are considered as fat meat, sweet potatoes are considered as lean meat, children!"

It turned out that their fat meat was white radishes, and their lean meat was red sweet potatoes.They are really poor, the creditors have softened their hearts, and they don't want the money anymore, so they ran home to celebrate the New Year. Many years have passed, and this story will automatically come back to my ears every New Year's Eve dinner. It is obviously an old story that is out of date, but how good the words of the poor father are, difficulties must be overcome, etiquette must be observed, and money But no, but as long as we live together, the vegetable root will also have its own plump and delicious taste!

When the feast of life is extremely cold and frugal, when the pass is extremely narrow and sad, I still have to cheer myself up and say: "Hey, do you like fat meat? Or lean meat?" ⒉ I like to spend the same time as you. He went to Europe for a meeting, then transferred to the United States, and returned home two months later. I went to the airport to pick him up and reminded him: "Turn your watch back, it's time to use Taiwan time." He froze for a moment and said: "My watch is always on Taiwan time! I didn't dial it at all!" "That's so inconvenient!"

"It's nothing, I only know what you and the child are doing in Taiwan, and I can imagine, now you are eating, now you are sleeping, now you are waking up... I like to spend the same time with you." It has been ten years since he said that, but it is like a piece of brocade hanging on the door. The bright color has gone through the years, but it is still recognizable as a strong fire.He and I are just ordinary and ordinary men and women in the mortal world, destined to be people who have no plot to describe, but in the faint words of the first reunion after a long absence, there are also things that have shocked me all my life and are endlessly grateful Kindness.

⒊ Good coffee is always served in a hot mug! When passing through Rome, a new friend insisted on taking us to drink coffee coffee. "It's delicious, it's unforgettable after drinking it for a lifetime!" We followed him along the streets and alleys, and the streets made of stones were beautiful and complicated. After walking for a long time, people would forget the destination and think that they came out to step on the stones. Suddenly, a burst of strong coffee aroma invaded, without the owner's guidance, he naturally knew that the coffee shop had arrived. The coffee is placed in a small white porcelain cup. The white porcelain is very thick, and compared with the thin porcelain that Chinese people love to use, it has a more stable and solid feeling.The people in the store are all focused on tasting coffee, without distractions.

The waiter brought out our cups from a special warmer, and I held them in my hand, and couldn't help but wonder. "Hey, the cup itself is hot!" The waiter turned around, bowed slightly, and said, "Ma'am, good coffee is always served in a hot cup!" His expression was neither excited nor arrogant, nor even exaggerated in the sense of advertising, but just saying a matter of course. Yes, good coffee should always be poured in a hot cup. A cold cup will cool the coffee, and the aroma will be lost if you think about it. In fact, isn’t it the same for good tea and wine?

It turns out that even "things" are so self-respecting. The good bird in Zhuangzi chooses a branch to live in. The sword in Western stories is deep in the stone, waiting for the hero to draw it. Easily scorned himself.The ancient Zen masters used to drink tea and feed porridge to comprehend all living beings. I don’t know what the waiter serving coffee on the street in Rome would tell me. In a white and warm thick porcelain cup, bring a beautiful morning. ⒋ We will grow old together in the future. In fact, the meeting that day was very serious, as if it was about the research and development of the school.

A teacher stood up and said: "We are a new school. The teachers were all equally young when they came in. When we grow old in the future, we will grow old together..." When I heard this, I felt so distressed that I hurriedly turned my head away, so as not to let others see the tears—I never thought that the accidental karma between colleagues could be such a lifetime!Everyone in the college is busy on weekdays, some are analyzing herbs, some are dissecting puppies, some are leading students to perform surgery, and some are burying their heads in classics... The scope of research is so far apart that no one has time to take care of others, but once in a while In the sound of cicadas in the back mountain, in the bursts of school bells, in the fragrant rhythm of lovesickness in Taiwan, we will eventually grow old, and we will give up our youth and grow old together.

⒌ You have grown up and become a man! Teacher Wang’s home was my frequent visit when I was in college. They had no children. I read “Hua Jian Ci” from him there, sang Kunqu opera with his flute, and stayed to eat warm mutton shabu-shabu... After graduating from university, I became a teaching assistant and still go often.Once, because I couldn't afford an expensive book, I went to my teacher to write me a business card, hoping to get a little discount.When the business card was finished, I took a look and couldn't help but exclaimed: "Teacher, you made a mistake. Why did you write 'Ci introduces colleague Zhang Xiaofeng' instead of 'student Zhang Xiaofeng'!" The teacher took the business card, looked at me, and said slowly: "I'm not wrong, you don't understand, that's what I want to write, you used to be my student, and you will be in private, but now we are in the same school, I am a teaching assistant, I am a professor, although the class is different It’s a teacher, what are we not colleagues! You don’t want a child to change his temper. Now that you have grown up, you have to be a man. I write you as a colleague to make a face for you, otherwise you will always be a ‘classmate’, you When will you become an adult? Remember, when you grow up, you will be a human being!" That day, I took the teacher's business card to buy books and got a satisfactory discount. As for how much I saved, I have long forgotten, but what I can't forget is the words behind the business card.It wasn't until that moment that I realized that I had the same honor as the scholars and the same honor as the elders in the love and respect of the teacher. I may not seem to be a colleague of the teacher, but I am indeed a colleague of the teacher. up. There is a sentence that makes me grow up overnight.