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林清玄

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Chapter 1 golden mouse

on the cloud 林清玄 1741Words 2018-03-18
At the Raohe Street Night Market, I saw a golden mouse with long hair that drags the floor, the back part is golden yellow, and the tail is silvery white.Its long hair, parted in the middle, is not messy and has obviously been carefully combed. The gold and silver golden mouse attracted crowds of people visiting the night market, and most of them commented: "I have never seen such a beautiful mouse! When everyone sees that it can hide food under its cheeks, how can it hide food?" You can wash your face by yourself. When cleaning the long hair, I couldn't help but marvel. According to the peddler who sells golden rats, golden rats are mostly short-haired, native to Europe, and have a docile temperament. The general golden rats are gray or earthy. Pets are now the most fashionable pets in Taipei."

He lightly picked up the gold and silver golden mouse, and said, "This one is even rarer and more expensive. This is a mutant golden mouse that has long hairs. It also has two most precious colors!" Someone asked, "How much does this one cost?" The peddler smiled and said, "One is only 1,800 yuan." "It's too expensive. No mouse is so expensive." The person who asked shook his head and left. "The price is very fair, because it is really rare, very rare!" The vendor said to the onlookers. "Eighteen hundred yuan?" Standing aside, I also thought I had misheard, so I asked again.

"Yes, it's only 1,800 yuan." The peddler said emphatically, "You can buy cheap ones if you want. The ones in this box are 150 yuan each, and the smaller ones in that box are 100 yuan each." I was still surprised. Although the rare golden mouse in front of me is a mutant and has long hair, it is still a mouse. It is unbelievable in my imagination that a mouse can be sold for 1,800 yuan. I walked past the booth of Golden Mouse, and next door was a booth selling mainland ceramics. A porcelain cup fired with rice grains sold for 20 yuan, and a good Yixing pottery pot sold for 500 yuan.Looking at these items from the other side reminds me of the price of a long-haired golden mouse, which is exactly 360 yuan. The salary of many mainlanders working for two months is not as high as the price of a mouse.Thinking of this made me feel a little sad.People living in Taiwan are not enough to play with dogs, birds, and cats. They play with red dragons and salamanders, but now they can buy a mouse for 1,800 yuan.

A few days ago, I read the newspaper and knew that pet shops in Taipei are full of wonders. The price of a crocodile and a chameleon is more than 7,000 yuan. Some people even import frogs as pets. Clown frogs cost 2,500 yuan each, green tree frogs 700 yuan, and the most common red-bellied frogs cost 400 yuan each.I can't understand why anyone would pay expensive money to keep these wild animals as pets for fashion, curiosity, or nothing else? As I was thinking this way, I walked to the end of the night market unknowingly, and saw a pile of garbage, surrounded by two or three dogs, and four or five dogs were looking for food in the garbage.I watched them carefully from the side.Dogs are relatively unconscious, ignorant of my gaze, or lazy to pay attention to it.But the sensitive cats soon noticed, raised their heads and stared at me for a long time vigilantly, and found that I had no intention of chasing them away, so they continued to bury their heads in eating garbage.

One of them, the one with a particularly beautiful appearance, took a look at me, and immediately jumped off the garbage dump a little shyly. Its graceful and agile movements when it jumped down seemed familiar, ah!It was the kind of white long-haired Persian cat I had raised before. I'm not sure that the Persian cat will also wander into the garbage dump to pick up food. I'm not sure that the Persian cat known as the "White Cat Prince" didn't take good care of its owner, so I followed it for a while until the brightly lit Only under the streetlights can I be sure, there is nothing wrong!It's a Persian cat!

Is it because of old age?Or because of illness?Or, is it lost?Or, is the master tired of raising it?This purebred Persian cat with beautiful white hair was abandoned by its owner and became a stray cat on the street.While I was thinking, the white cat trash prince quickly crossed the street and disappeared into the dark alley across the street. It is so difficult to judge right and wrong in the world. The long-haired golden mouse is regarded as a rare pet at a price of 1800 yuan; The situation in my life gave me a profound sense of absurdity. Cats and mice have no fixed value, but are distinguished by people's likes and dislikes. When an elegant Persian cat is looking for food in the garbage, does it have such a sigh in its heart?

Of course, I am not qualified to judge the value of animals, but I know that no matter what animals we face, we must cherish them. I believe that people who cannot cherish cats will never be able to cherish a mouse; I am also sure that they cannot Those who love field frogs and scorpions will never have true love for chameleons or clown frogs. Even if they are not pets, like cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks who provide us with food, they continue to dedicate their lives until they die. Have we ever felt a little love and gratitude in our hearts? When we buy a mouse worth 1,800 yuan, do we really love that mouse, or do we value the price?If the long-haired golden mouse costs 18 yuan, will we still pamper it?When we spend 2,500 yuan to buy a frog, do we value the frog because of the price, or do we really love the frog?If you really love frogs, there are plenty of them in the market, only forty yuan a catty!

In this world, don't we value a person in the same way?What is often valued is the fame, power, and even clothes attached to a person. Only a person who can see through the falsehood on the outside and penetrate into the insight and quality of the person is the real wise man!
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