Chapter 28 my rocking chair

Perhaps, due to the nature of my work, I sit from morning to night, so I always have some special requirements and particulars about the addition of chairs, because this thing, after all, most often accompanies me and serves me.I remember that just after graduating from university, I borrowed a small room like a carriage in a courtyard in Beijing, but one day when I was shopping, I saw a very stylish leather sofa, and I couldn’t move. Get it.But where do you buy it?Secondly, if we bought this sofa for 1,300 yuan, we would lose everything. 1,300 yuan was quite a lot more than ten years ago.I thought about it left and right, and thought about all kinds of solutions, but they didn't work. I had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​buying a sofa.The strange thing is that after more than ten years, I bought various sofas and chairs for myself, but I still often think of that leather sofa.And this kind of commemoration is really indescribable, and it is like my feelings for my rocking chair.

Is it 1983 or 1984?Participating in the "Youth Literature" pen meeting went to the Paracel Islands, passing through Guangzhou, we went to the overseas Chinese shop to open our eyes.At that time, Guangzhou had just opened up, and many good things in overseas Chinese shops had to be purchased with exchange vouchers.I brought a 30-yuan exchange coupon with me, which is enough to be envied in our team. Some writers from other places have never seen what the exchange coupon looks like.But walking through the dazzling array of shelves, but only 30 yuan in the pocket, such an "eye-opening" is really regrettable.Fortunately, thirty yuan at that time could still buy a decent thing, which was somewhat comforting.The problem is, there are too many things I like, but what are the thirty yuan used for?After browsing such a rich collection of goods, I bought a rattan rocking chair without hesitation with a twenty-five yuan exchange coupon. Come I prepared.I imagined that reading or recuperating in a chair that can rock gently like this would be as comfortable as a baby sleeping in a cradle.I couldn't wait to pay, as if after a while, the price of this rocking chair increased by 30 yuan, and I could only look at it anxiously.Of course, I am also afraid of the objections of all my fellow travelers. Anyway, this chair is not made of cloth or paper. It is made of steel and rattan. It has considerable weight and volume. Even if it is packed in a box, the box has Most of the height of a person is inconvenient to carry.Besides, we still have to go to Hainan Island and the Paracel Islands.But I am not cured, I have made up my mind about what to do, and I will never let go no matter how difficult it is, even though it is just to buy a chair.An editor of "Guangzhou Literature and Art" who accompanied us saw my intentions, and she understood very well. She said that after buying the chairs, she would put them there first. When we returned from Hainan, she would send someone to carry the chairs on the train.I'm embarrassed, but very grateful.In this way, I stubbornly carried this rocking chair back to Beijing from Guangzhou.In fact, there are already two sets of sofas and two swivel chairs at home, and a rocking chair that occupies such a space makes the room even more crowded. Therefore, this rocking chair was put into a box after being fresh for two days, and it was said to wait. In summer, I packed it up and put it on the balcony to sit and enjoy the coolness. However, after summer passed and it was winter again, the rocking chair was silently closed in the box until I left Beijing. I still couldn’t use it, because when I came to Shanghai, I temporarily Borrowing someone else's house, you can't have your own furniture.Fast-forward five years, whenever I imagined my future new home in my heart, I always arranged this rocking chair in my future home, although it was only worth twenty-five yuan.At the end of last year, I officially started to decorate the house. The furniture was newly bought. Looking at these brand new furniture, I still stubbornly wanted to add the rocking chair, and the chair is still in Beijing. I will move another chair from Beijing to Shanghai. First of all, who is willing to move for me?I entrusted several friends, they all laughed at me and asked me whether this chair is gold or silver?A friend simply said, what chair do you want, I will give it to you.I think I want this chair, and I wouldn't care if it was gold or silver.I just can't forget that I bought this chair without thinking and carried it thousands of miles all the way, regardless of the trouble, when I had only 30 yuan by my side.I think that a person is devoted to a thing with affection, just like a person is to a person with affection, her need is only because of affection, and this affection cannot be replaced by any other nobler and more valuable things .

This summer, my son was sick in Beijing and I went to pick him up. When I returned to Shanghai, I bundled up the rocking chair and wanted to bring it back, but I had a lot of luggage and my son had to take care of it. The upper half of the chair.Half and half.There is always half a handful, and my wish seems to have come true a little bit.