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Chapter 88 receive now now

pig and butterfly 冯唐 1526Words 2018-03-18
receive now now Feng Tang When studying biology, the professor said that every existence is a miracle, so we must defend the diversity of species.Reading idle books, philosophers say that the strict definition of happiness is polymorphism, so no matter how good the tofu the girl in the class next door is, I still occasionally think of Chen Mapo’s tofu, so no matter how good the roses in the vase are, I still sometimes think of garlic. orchid. So we expect to change, expect to be different. Take off your glasses, put on sunglasses, the girl in your eyes is more beautiful, and the whole world turns blue.After plugging in the earphones, the sound of bulldozers and road rollers disappeared, and Chen Sheng was howling: "One night in Beijing, I leave a lot of love".Pushing open the door, the snow hasn't stopped, only a trace of Chang'an Street, a little bit of Jingshan, all the "red and green, bullshit racing" led by Modern City, are all suppressed by white.When I woke up, the windows were gloomy, the rain was sparse and the wind was tight, and I remembered many things I didn’t understand when I was young, including how many bags can grow on a face, how far a pair of feet can walk, and how long a girl can think.Also, we change the computer wallpaper and screen saver.We change the icon of the mobile phone and the ringtone of the incoming call.We learn English and join the WTO.We hosted the Olympic Games and repaired the fifth and sixth ring roads.

However, taking a step further from "different" is "too different" and earth-shaking. On the day of 911, at night Beijing time, I was in Shenzhou.Go back to the hotel from the client side, open the beer, turn on the TV, and the World Trade Center in New York is smoking inside.The first reaction was an American blockbuster, a sequel, took a sip of beer, and waited for Schwartz Singer to appear with a pouty tendon.The second reaction is that the cult riots, intercepts the communication satellite, and broadcasts the imaginary end of the world.The third reaction is to call my colleague's mobile phone to see if I am overworked and start to have visual and auditory hallucinations.

In the spring of 2003, there was no sandstorm in Beijing, but SARS came to Beijing. Mountains are not mountains, water is not water, and life changes.For the first time in more than 20 years, I feel that Beijing is a golden knife, and the roads are old and wide. Children can play football on the street and badminton on the sidewalk just like I did when I was a child.For the first time in more than ten years, I revisited Beihai. The cloves are still in bloom, the willows are still green, the "Fangshan" is still state-owned, and it is still known as Empress Dowager Cixi's favorite food, and the braised camel palm still smells like feet.For the first time in several years, I received a call from a girlfriend before marriage, asking if she was okay, asking for the mailing address, saying that she had just bought the last box of N-95 masks in the city, and said that she would send it by express when she put down the phone.For the first time in more than a year, my wife took the initiative to go to the kitchen, mapo tofu, garlic broccoli, I asked her if she would make spicy crab and apple snails.

Mountains are not mountains, water is not water, and work changes.For the first time, I don't need to wear a suit from Monday to Friday.The purpose of the boss is not to relax his subordinates, but to hope that comrades will clean up every day and stay away from SARS.The first time I get home before seven I don't feel guilty.Anyway, the client is already working from home, and the office building next door has also been sealed off. What's the use of me being alone?Going home at seven o'clock, the spring night is long, watching my wife and roses, cracking melon seeds and news broadcasts, and reading "The Birth of Clinical Medicine".For the first time, everyone has become a medical enthusiast, discussing what the coronavirus looks like, why hormones work, and when a vaccine will be available.The first time I thought, why is the economy required to grow every year and every month?Why ask yourself to go up every day of the week?

Mountains are not mountains, water is not water, concepts change.For the first time, everyone understands that it is natural to be in awe and pay attention to personal hygiene. Sneezing in public, spitting everywhere, killing evil and eating evil are heinous crimes.For the first time, everyone knows that in addition to the Dow Jones, Hang Seng Index, and GDP, there is also the SARS index: how many new cases, how many suspected cases, how many deaths, and how many discharges; For a few hours, with very little wages.For the first time, everyone understands that no matter what the common people say or do, they have to be responsible for what they say and do. There are no newspapers and TVs and the Internet, there are short messages without the Internet, and there are people's hearts without short messages.

At the end of May 2003, while sitting in a taxi, traffic jams began on the East Third Ring Road, and the hot pot restaurants on the street were almost full of people again.On the radio in the car, an economist was speaking: "The impact of SARS is short-lived, partial, and reversible." On the mobile phone, the boss left a message: Wear a suit tomorrow, meet customers, and start a new project.I wrote a letter to thank my ex-girlfriend and told her that I did not have SARS, but I was blinded by N-95 and became hypoxic.Asked why she hadn't heard from her for a long time, she replied with a vulgar Taiwanese poem: sometimes you are concerned, you are asking, sometimes you are concerned, you are not asking.This kind of water is not happy, you are good and I am good.Mountains are still mountains, water is still water, and life and work will eventually remain the same.I hope that the change of concept can last longer: respect the nature and compassion, and trust people's hearts.

When I was studying medicine, my teacher said that people are born, old, sick and die, and pathogenic microorganisms exist everywhere.When I went home, I engraved an inscribed seal, intercepting Zhu Dunru's words: No need to care about and arrange, get it now and now.
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