Chapter 5 Part 1 - 4

I met a girlfriend in Central. She used to have first-class appearance and figure, but now she is sallow and emaciated. "Being made into this by your boyfriend?" I asked. "nonsense".she laughed. "Being made into this by your girlfriend?" I asked again. "What are you talking about?" She laughed harder, still cute. "I've seen a strong woman who made her girlfriend look like you," I said. "I'm not that interested," she said. There is still help, I said: "Let's go to eat together, there is a seafood restaurant nearby, the fish is steamed well." "No, I don't go to the restaurant to eat." She said, "It's all MSG, it's terrible."" I know this family well, so I can tell them not to use MSG."

"But," she said, "I don't even eat fish anymore." "What? Fish is so good, you don't eat it?" She nodded: "Now the whole ocean is polluted, and the turtles in the coral reefs have cigar poison. The fish in the vicinity are all eaten by us Hong Kong people. They have to be imported from Malaysia and the Philippines. They are afraid that they will die when they are transported by air." , with medicine added, how can this kind of seafood be eaten?" "Okay." I said, "we might as well go to the western restaurant to see the steak." He smiled again: "You have mad cow disease, do you still dare to eat it?"

"The family I want to go to is raised with five meters. There is something wrong with eating ordinary cattle. There are cattle bones in the feed. The cattle eat cattle bones. Why don't they get mad cow disease for revenge?" "Where's the pig?" "There's asthma medicine and foot-and-mouth disease." "Where's the sheep?" "smell of mutton." "Even if it's clean, I don't eat red meat, it's too unhealthy." I looked up at the sky: "Then go eat Zhi Deji fried chicken!" "Shan fried food has the most cholesterol," she said.

"Where's the tofu?" I asked, "If you eat steamed tofu, you'll be fine." "You don't know how to eat." She said, "Tofu is the worst, and beans contain the most uric acid." "Scrambled eggs are okay, right?" "All chickens now are raised on farms," ​​she said. "I'll find out." "Ordinary chickens, originally, lay one egg a day. In order to let the chickens lay more eggs in the farm, the factory divides the day into two days and two nights, with six-hour shifts, and tricks the chickens into laying one more egg. The chickens are kept in a dark farm, at the mercy of human beings; now it takes three hours and a day and night, and they are told to give birth to four. The eggshells are getting thinner as they grow, and the thinner they are, the easier it is for bacteria to grow. You go eat eggs, I I don’t want to eat.” She finished in one breath.

I really can't do anything about her.Feeling impulsive, she had to think of something she could eat. "There is a modern restaurant that specializes in Chinese food for ladies. They eat steamed chicken breasts. If you don't eat chicken, you can ask them to make a salad that is completely lettuce. It can't be a problem? I don't I believe you don't even eat lettuce." I also finished in one breath.Although I have no interest in this kind of healthy meal, I am willing to sacrifice for her. She smiled brightly again: "Do you know how many pesticides are on the lettuce?" "Their family uses organic vegetables." I protested.

"Organic and inorganic are what the restaurant says. How do you verify that they use organic vegetables?" she asked. "You are so suspicious, and you hate this and that, so you have agreed, what can you eat?" I said angrily. "Water, drinking mineral water is no problem." She replied. "The news in the newspaper recently said that if you drink too much water, you will collapse and die." I said, "Also, there are minerals in the water, which will become gallstones when they precipitate." "Fruit." She said, "It can also lose weight."

"There are pesticides on the fruit," I said, "Sukarno's wife, Mrs. Dai Wei, also said that the fruit contains sugar, and eating it will make you fat." She was silent. "Follow me to eat a bowl of lard and rice!" I seduced. Thinking of the bowl of hot and fragrant rice when she was a child, she began to be a little tempted. "You don't eat this, you don't eat that, you worry about this, you worry about that, sooner or later you worry about getting sick." I said, "If you are mentally sick, you will be physically sick. I am not telling you to eat pigs every day." It’s okay to eat a bowl of rice in oil, but it’s okay.”

She thought and thought, and finally said: "No, thank you for your kindness, I will go home and eat." "What do you eat when you go back? Is there anything else you can eat?" I asked. "Carrot." She answered correctly. "It's the only thing I think I can eat. It grows underground, it's not polluted, and it's juiced with a grinder. I drink carrot juice, and it's nutritious enough." No wonder she is sallow and thin.Red radishes have pigments, and if you eat too many seeds, they will appear on the skin. This is what the doctor said, and the medical profession has confirmed it. It is not scary to say it.

"Goodbye." She said, turned and walked into the crowd. Looking at her back, I know she will disappear completely one day. Go to the "Tsuruya Hotel" in Lake Akan, Hokkaido. As soon as you walk in the door, you will see a wooden sculpture in front of you. A girl is sitting on a horse with her horse's head facing the sky, and the girl is also looking at the sky. The long hair is blown up. The shape is very beautiful, and it is a work that makes people more and more intoxicated. After asking, I realized that it was carved by a deaf and dumb artist, his name is Takiguchi Masamitsu.This time I went to the newly built annex of "Tsuruya" in Lake Akan. There is an exhibition hall inside, and I saw more masterpieces of Takiguchi, such as wild cranes and owls.

The next day, it happened to be Christmas, and I took time out to run outside. There was a Japanese slave village near the hotel. Masami Takiguchi opened a small shop there, and decided to buy one from him and return to Hong Kong to watch.Mr. Takiguchi was opening the door just now. We met twice, and everyone gestured kindly to say hello. I originally wanted to buy portraits. Mr. Takiguchi has a very outstanding work called "Together White Hair", a man and a woman, two separate, but from the wood grain we can see that it is made of a single piece of wood. In the stairwell, there is an owl. The owl is one of Mr. Takiguchi's favorite themes. He has carved owls of various sizes in different shapes.This one, when I first walked in, saw the head swinging to the left, why is it swinging to the right now? It seems to be carved from two pieces of wood, and the head and body are seamlessly connected.There was a shaft. Mr. Takiguchi twisted his head back and forth, and finally twisted it 180 degrees behind Taka, feeling extremely proud.Seeing him smiling like a child, knowing that he had a strong affection for this work, he changed his mind and bought the owl.

Not a single guest.We talked for a long time with pen and paper. The following is the story of Mr. Takiguchi: When carving a large work, you must grasp the personality of the wood. After the wood is dry, you can decide what to engrave. There are cracks on the surface, so it is not so perfect.Each wood has a different personality, so make friends with them. I was born in Shenyang, China in 1941. My father worked in the railway bureau. My first memory: from the appearance of a huge locomotive. When I was three years old.I had a high fever from pneumonia and lost my hearing.When I was in my mid-twenties, I put on hearing aids for the first time and noticed that crows were incredibly loud. When I was five years old, I returned to Tokyo and started studying in the kindergarten attached to Yueqing: Xiaxue. I studied for 14 years.The school forbids us to use sign language, because we are forced to learn to read other people's lips, but after class, the students still use sign language to talk. I like to learn painting. Later, in vocational training, the teachers taught carpentry, and I learned Various basic skills required for crafting with wood. My father objected to my choosing the path of arts and crafts, and I also worked as a printer.When I was 22 years old, I went to Hokkaido, where I had always wanted to travel. In the tribe on the shore of Lake Akan, I met the Wanu people for the first time. They had deep wrinkles on their faces, which left an impression on me. Nowadays, most of the handicrafts in Hokkaido are produced by machinery, while those in those days were hand-carved.Every store sells things that are carved out completely differently.I walked one by one and found it very interesting.There, I met a 20-year-old Wonu woman who worked as a salesperson in a souvenir shop.She said: welcome.I didn't react at all, and it was only after the two of them made eye contact that I explained that I couldn't hear anything. After leaving Hokkaido, the two began to write letters. She knew that I was interested in woodcuts, and she often packed and sent me the strange-shaped wood found in the village in cardboard boxes. The last letter was signed by Sarorun, which means "crane" in Japanese.I signed my reply with Ichinge, which means "turtle".Later opened a shop in the village, the name of the shop is Ichinge. I decided to live in Hokkaido when I was 24 years old.At first, he made a living by carving wooden bears, and married the Japanese slave woman two years later.Using his wife as a model, NT has many statues of Japanese slave girls, and his own works can be sold, no matter how much money, I feel very happy. The more I carve, the more I know the characteristics of various woods, and I also learned how to arrange the wood grains and eyes to be beautiful.From small works to large ones, the sightseeing season in Hokkaido is only half a year in summer, and winter is used to carve things I like. Every spring, when the snow melts, there will be a sudden gust of warm wind, with a smell of mud in the wind.There are sprouts growing on the ground.The gust of wind blows the girl's hair up, and the expression on her face is joyful, which I captured with wood. One night, while driving, I bumped into an owl. Its tenacious vitality prevented it from dying. I also understood why the Japanese slaves worshiped it as a god.Since then, I also like to carve owls. In autumn, a large amount of wood floats ashore from the lake, and it has not decayed for decades, and some are still buried: Qili, washed out by the water.No matter how heavy it is, I will carry it back and carve it according to its shape.Fishers often burn this kind of wood to keep warm, and I ask them to give it to me when I see interesting shapes, so some of my works are partially burnt. A lot of TV and magazines interview me, calling me a deaf artist.I just want to tell them that even if the works of deaf people are not better than ordinary people, they are not worse than ordinary people.My deafness affects my dumbness, but it's not what I want. Looking at my sculptures, I can't see my deafness. The happiest thing for me now is that there is a studio 30 kilometers away from my shop, and my home is next to it.When the ground is dug, hot springs spew out.Dip at night and look up.The sky is full of stars as if they are about to descend, and the moonlight is so bright that you can see things without an electric light. Go inside after bath, have a drink, go to bed early.I pretended not to hear what my wife said.From the shape of her mouth, I knew she was saying: "I thought it was a piece of wood walking in!" My friend Lao Wu likes to buy pirated CDs the most.What movie do I want to watch, as soon as I call him, the latest and best new movie will be delivered to me, so I don't have to buy it myself. Tonight, a group of movie lunatics had an appointment for dinner, and Lao Wu was the first to announce: "There are several types of pirated discs, and the worst is the front page of VCD." "What is the front page?" Masato Kobayashi, a gentleman, has never seen a pirated version. Lao Wu said: "In the candid filming in the theater, you can see the heads of the audience walking around in front of the camera, which is the front page. In addition to the heads, you can also hear the crying of babies and the coughing of old people. The most unbearable Yes, there are places where the audience laughed when it wasn't funny, and there was no reaction when they should have laughed." "It's just that the picture is clear, and I don't ask for that much. This version will be on the market the fastest, and I only ask for it." Xiao Huang Say. "It's impossible to be clear." Lao Wu said, "The left and right can't be photographed, and the subtitles are only half-captured. Sometimes the person who candidly shoots sits very far in front and shoots from the angle of looking up at the screen." "Fool." Xiao Xia said, "It's fine to buy a DVD." Old Wu corrected: "Not necessarily. Some people have re-done the VCD on the front page and turned it into a DVD. The quality is worse than the original one." "So what's the best bootleg?" Kobayashi asked. "For official DVDs published in the United States, the original version costs three or four hundred Hong Kong dollars a piece. Using this version to flip through, the picture is the clearest and the sound is the best. The four speakers on the left, right, front, back, and front all sound in absolute stereo." Old Wu authoritatively Explanation. "Now that the mainland has joined the WTO, Shenzhen can't buy it anymore?" I asked. "No problem." Lao Wu said, "If you ask someone we know well, someone will take you to a shop that has closed the door. Once you walk in, there are all kinds of goods. The pirates are very honest, and if you have any questions, you can get them." Come change." "I bought a few, but I can't see anything, let alone clear." Xiao Xia complained. "What CD player are you using?" Old Wu asked. "Sony's DVD player!" Xiao Xia said, "more than three thousand yuan." "I used the same one in the past, and I couldn't see it. Later, I changed to a domestic one, which costs 800 yuan. I can see all the fake discs clearly." Old Wu said. "I bought it too." Xiao Huang said, "It says DVD on the machine. When I bought it home, I could only see VCD. Then I took it to the store to complain. The clerk said that the name of the factory is DVD, but no one said it was. A DVD machine." Lao Wu continued to express his opinion: "If you can't buy it in Shenzhen, go to Shanghai and Beijing to buy it. This currency is cheap, everyone reads it, and in literature, it cultivates a very good reading style. The reprinted books of science and technology, It has developed their computer industry, which Hong Kong cannot keep up with. Now life is better, and counterfeit books are also extinct." "So, you agree with piracy?" Xiao Xia asked. "I don't agree with it, nor do I oppose it." I said, "When a country can ban copies, it will naturally ban them. If it can't be banned, it's useless for you and me to object. In the newly opened mainland, only some Hong Kong films can be seen. At that time, the director saw Li Hanxiang's 200m by 200m technique, and he was shocked, and everyone copied it. What does this mean?" "Your topic is too serious, it's boring." Xiao Lin scolded me and asked Lao Wu, "You bought so many pirated CDs, how did you bring them back?" "Of course it's not carrying a plastic bag." Old Wu said, "If there are too many, buy a luggage with a tugboat and pack it. It's only 70 Hong Kong dollars. It's a Prade brand, and of course it's a pirated copy." It costs a lot of money!" Xiaolin said. "At first it was ten yuan for one pirated disc, but later it became ten yuan for four yuan. I went to the countryside recently and saw someone setting up a street stall. I asked him how much it was. He replied six yuan. I said: What? Six yuan then Expensive? He replied, "It's six yuan a catty. Today's pirated editions are already priced at a catty per catty." After Lao Wu finished speaking, he laughed too. "There are thousands of bars in Ginza, which one do you go to?" This Lunar New Year tour group, after dinner on the last night, I watched the group members go back to their rooms to sleep, and I walked alone to "GILBEY A" near the Imperial Hotel. Mainly I want to see the mother of this bar who gave birth to Hideko Arima.Arima Hideko is one hundred years old.Is there such a wooden bar left in Ginza? The unremarkable door is only ten times open, and the inside is still full. It has been more than ten years since the Japanese economic bubble burst, and the small bar in Ginza is lucky to have a few customers. Where did the hot atmosphere come from? I have been to this bar before, and it is impossible for so many customers to remember it. She has opened the bar for fifty years and has witnessed the history of the four eras of Meiji, Taisho, Showa, and Heisei. The dress is still so dignified, a little jewelry, gray hair but neat, Arima Hideko sitting by the counter, saw me, stood up, bowed deeply, and said welcome. A few young bar girls were circling among the guests. "Some of the guests come here because of the reputation, but we can't let them face me, an old woman!" Arima Hideko smiled. It is said that they are a hundred years old, and their appearance is different from that pair of golden mother-in-law and silver mother-in-law. They seem to be seven people at most, and they give people a very friendly feeling when they smile. The middle-aged man sitting next to me asked suddenly: "Aren't you the judge of Iron Man of Cooking?" I nodded and didn't answer. "He's also a film producer," the man said to the young wine girl. "I'm also an actress, surnamed Akutagawa." The woman introduced herself. When she heard that I worked in movies, she became interested and sat down to ask questions. "There are so many guests, she doesn't go to accompany her, and just sits here all the time, okay?" I was a little embarrassed. "The girls in the store can do whatever they like." Arima Hideko replied, "I never order them, I just teach them to be women." "Being a woman?" I asked. "Hmm." Arima Hideko said, "Being a woman requires politeness first, which is the most basic, followed by politeness and gentleness. Many people nowadays don't understand. Like saying thank you, you have to say it from the bottom of your heart. I feel it. I have been here for fifty years, and I say thank you when I send every guest out. If you don’t go to so many bars in Ginza, but choose my one, how can you be worthy of someone if you don’t say thank you! Don’t you think so?” I agree. "I know that I'm not a beauty." She said, "It's all about sincerity to greet guests, and sincerity is an inexhaustible magic weapon." Arima Hideko was born in 19.On May 15th of the second year, it arrived.One hundred years old on May 15th.Many magazines and TV stations competed for interviews, and she became a landmark in Ginza.Hideko Arima, who never buys life insurance, earns enough to eat and wear.The cost of the funeral is worrying, but she has so many guests, so there is no need to worry, right? She still goes to and from get off work in such a healthy way every day.Regarding health, she said: "If you pay too much attention to your health, it is not healthy." The customer who recognized me came to pester me, and Arima Hideko saw it: "Didn't you already pay the bill?" This sentence has unlimited authority, the man immediately apologized and left. "It doesn't matter, we are regular customers. He drank a lot tonight, which is not good for his health. He should be told to go home early." Arima Hideko said. I have a hundred questions to ask her, like what is the most memorable thing she has eaten in her life? What is her romance when she was young? How does she think about death? How does she face loneliness and so on. "What I want to ask, you have probably answered it hundreds of times." I said, "Tonight, if you want to tell me something, I will listen. If you don't want to talk, let's have a drink together." She smiled and looked at the empty chairs where the guests had left: "Okasaku Endo likes that chair the most, and he often competes with Renzaburo Shibata to sit on it. Junnosuke Yoshiyuki was still very young when he came to me, and the one I respect most is Tanizaki Junichiro." Seeing me playing with the matchbox with the name of the store on it, she said: "Gilbey's name comes from the brand of Liquor in the UK. The letter A represents my surname ARIMA, and the name of the store is taken by my husband. He had a cerebral hemorrhage in 1961. passed away." "My mother never thought about getting married again. There is a story." One of the wine girls came from Dalian and told me in Mandarin. Arima Hideko seemed to understand, and said with a smile: "It's not that no one has been courted by anyone. One of the guests is handsome, wealthy and polite. He also asked me why I didn't get married anymore. I told him that I had never met someone before." To a man as worthy of respect as my husband, and it falls apart." It was already closing time, and Arima Hideko sent me out the door, looking up at the sky: "A long time ago, I read a record that the residents of a small island in the South Pacific believed that people would become stars after death. Since then, I love Looking at the stars. When I was looking at the stars, I kept thinking, which one is my husband? Which one will I be after my own death? When people leave everything behind, what are they thinking about so much? Do you think it’s funny? " I am silent. Arima Hideko bowed deeply and said thank you. Next time I go to Tokyo, I hope to see her again.If not, I'll look up to the sky to find it. Assistant Xu Yanhua is the daughter of an old friend Xu Shenghe. I saw a photo of her when she was a baby, with bunches of hair curled up on her forehead. She still remembers it vividly. Unexpectedly, she is about to get married. The man's name is Liang Jinming. He used to be a TVB director, specializing in variety shows. Now he is independent, organizes a production company, and takes on many orders.For example, Sammi Cheng and Aaron Kwok's concerts were all produced by him. When it comes to their marriage, I'm also half a matchmaker.When filming the travel show "Cai Lam Sighing World", many episodes were directed by Liang Jinming. He worked hard and delivered enough goods. I admire this young man very much. Later, when the film was filmed in Japan, Xu Yanhua happened to be studying in Tokyo, so I asked her to come out to do it. Translation, during the filming period, the two of them got together and became a couple. One day, Xu Yanhua said that the other party was coming to "have a big gift". "What?" I've never heard of a big gift.After explaining it, I realized that it is a Cantonese custom, which means Bupin. I made an appointment to receive presents at my wife's home in Kowloon Tong on the same day. I arrived on time at eleven o'clock in the morning and saw Liang Jinming driving a van waiting at the door. "Still going up?" I asked. "A man can't go to a woman's house in person, he has to find a brother to deliver it on his behalf." He said. "That's what Aunt Lian ordered." Getting off the car, Liang Jinming's best friends, Lian Ruixiang, who was searching for information, and Xie Zhichao, the director, both were colleagues in TVB.I saw them carrying things down from the car in large and small bags.I went in first, and there were some presents at home, which were handled by Aunt Lian.The Xu family has four domestic helpers, all of whom are Chinese. Yan Hua was brought up by Aunt Lian. She has a very strong memory. She remembers everything about marriage, Feng Shui and worshiping gods and ancestors clearly, so they all ask her for advice. , What kind of gift the man wants to give this time, I also listen to her. "Aunt Lian, you are amazing." I said. "It's nothing." She said nonchalantly, "I've seen marriages myself. I married my sons and daughters, so I did the same." Curious to see what's there? Obediently, it is divided into men's and women's.The former has a coconut, which represents the beginning of success. There are two pieces of coconut with skin and shell. There are also betel nuts, pomelo leaves, yellow skins, etc., which are a sign of good career for children and grandchildren, as well as cypress, green baskets, etc., for both blessings and wisdom, and food and clothing. For female users, there is Li lotus root, which is actually just ordinary lotus root, but it means getting married, Anzhaiji, and a happy couple, and pomegranate is whichever is better. The strangest thing was a sprig of taro seedlings, which represented the man's genitals. Lian Ruixiang, who gave the gift, said with a smile: "The groom is most nervous about this thing, so he told us not to break it." Number of other gifts It is not clear, there are eight types of sea ignorance, not including hair vegetables: abalone, dried oyster, dried scallops, winter ku, squid, sea cucumber, shark fin, fish maw.Sijinguo: Longan: Qian, dried lychees, dried walnuts, peanuts in shell, commonly known as Sijinguo. There are also tea and sesame seeds.Don't think it's too troublesome. In the old days, it was not only as simple as tea leaves, but also the whole tea tree. Where are the tea trees in today's cities? And tea trees cannot be transplanted, so they are replaced by tea leaves. A woman must keep her word and never regret it.Commonly known as the "gift box", it contains lotus seeds, lilies, red beans, mung beans, red dates, red rope heads, red see, betrothal gold, decorative gold, etc.The man should also prepare a pair of dragon and wind candles and a pair of couplets. Speaking of couplets, luckily I didn't ask me to write them, otherwise I don't know what to write. I have no experience in marrying daughters, so it is troublesome to find a book to copy. At first, I thought that giving a cake as a big gift counted, but it turned out to be the least important part, but the weight is indispensable.There are six types of cakes: skin meringue, walnut cake, chicken cake, red carp, yellow carp, bean paste cake (later found that the preserved meringue is the best).These cakes add up to one hundred catties, with an average of four per catty, a total of four hundred.The four hundred cakes were given away to others, let alone eating them. Lian Ruixiang and Xie Zhichao moved from the downstairs to the second floor. Fortunately, there was an elevator and a small truck, but they were also sweating profusely. The presents were received one by one by Xu Shenghe, his father-in-law. It was also his first time marrying a daughter, so I don't know if all of them were delivered.Although so many things were sent, half of them had to be returned to the man's house, and the two had to move back. In terms of hiring money, if you are lucky, you don't have to return half of it, only the mantissa.Like how many eight thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, but only eight thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, the father-in-law said with a smile: "I have raised a daughter for so many years, and I deserve it." Li Cheng. After that, both men and women will worship the gods and ancestors with cakes. Seeing that the brothers Lian Ruixiang and Xie Zhichao had been busy for a long time, I asked them to sit down and rest, and the father-in-law also presented a pair of red envelopes as a token of gratitude.They both thanked and accepted. "Are you married?" I asked Lian Ruixiang. "Not yet," he replied. "What about you?" I asked Xie Zhichao. "Not yet," he said. "After seeing this situation, do you still dare?" I asked. The two shook their heads dumbfounded. Under the crisis of SARS, assistant Xu Yanhua's May banquet was about to be cancelled. It was really impossible to make this decision by inviting relatives and friends after the disaster. It could have been carried out reluctantly, and people with good relations will come anyway, but it will always cause trouble for others, forget it.Figured it out, it's the same when you treat guests. The registration will not be changed, and "Guo Dali" has already set up a factory, so you can't just eat the gift cake from the man's family for nothing. I asked Aunt Lian, Xu Yanhua's housekeeping assistant, about every bit of "overwhelming gift".Aunt Lian is proficient in the etiquette of marriage and praying to gods and worshiping Buddha, so she is in charge, there is nothing wrong with it. At first I asked Xu Yanhua: "You are a modern person, why do you want to do it?" "There's no reason, people in my father's life should be happier, that's all." She replied. I think it is for this reason that Chinese customs are passed down from generation to generation. The man is also from the new school, and he doesn't understand the old rituals, so he has to ask Aunt Lian for advice. Aunt Lian listed ten gifts, ten gift boxes, ten married women's cakes, ten children and grandchildren barrels, etc. Please read a few issues of "Next Weekly" "Yi Le Ye" column has detailed reports. What was missing was that the man wanted to send four chickens, which were alive.It's been a long time since I touched a live chicken. When I saw it that day, I really wanted to hold it in my arms, but I was worried about chicken plague, so forget it. When I moved into a new house, I also invited Aunt Lian to visit me.She arrived at the vegetable market early in the morning and prepared fruits and candles.Cut the apple in half and put the incense sticks on top.Anyway, if you want to be safe, just do everything. In today's depressing days, it's not enough to rely on one's own capital alone, one should be cunning, and have a few more occupations to make ends meet.Aunt Lian is so knowledgeable, it’s a pity that she only works as a domestic helper. After discussing with her, I decided to open a consulting company based on old customs. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask us, and the fee is cheap.Even the name of the company has been thought up, not "Dabolian", but "Dajinlian". Among those who have participated in our tour group many times, there is a couple who have been married for decades and are still very loving. The husband is eighty years old, with a round and red face.Although his head is bald, he can see the chicness of his youth.The wife is dignified, and she can tell at a glance that she is a lady of excellent family background, but she has no airs at all, and she is always smiling.Only those who are confident are so kind.Not only is he polite to others, but even his own husband is called "Brother Zetang" and "Brother Zetang", unlike young people who say "husband". Surnamed Su.I read the newspaper and saw the news about the kidnapping case being refuted by the police and robbers. The victim, Su Zetang, couldn’t be so coincidental, right? It was confirmed in the photo, so he called to express his condolences. "The process was thrilling, more exciting than making a movie." Mr. Su said, "But I am very calm." I really want to let him personally narrate some inside stories, and write them down as soon as he hears them.Unexpectedly, in the newspaper on the third day, Mr. Su had already told the reporter the whole story, and the content was more detailed.My manuscript is invalid. Later, Mr. Su appeared on TV and was the headline of newspapers for several days. Call him again: "In the business world, you are more popular than Li Ka-shing; in the entertainment industry, you are more famous than Chow Yun-fat." Everyone closed the line with laughter. Mr Sue is eighty years old and still drinks whiskey with dinner every night, Johnny Walker's gold medal.When traveling together, he would secretly fill a glass and ask a colleague to hand it to me. "Why don't you drink the blue card?" I asked. "I'm used to drinking gold medals, so I don't want to change it." He replied. After the meal, Mr. Su’s enthusiasm still persisted, and he asked me to go to a bar in the city to drink again. I refused because I had to rush the draft, but he still went to drink with other colleagues in Duoxinggang. Mrs. Su, who was always smiling, suddenly said to her colleagues, "No!" Mr. Su has achieved a lot in his career as early as the 1960s, and he is indeed outstanding. Seeing that the kidnapper initially asked for 5 million, and he calmly killed him to 200,000, you can see that he is very powerful. He really deserves it. As a businessman, haha. I have a deep relationship with my group members, Mrs. Mak and his wife. They often go to the third floor of Kowloon City Market to have ear meals and meet each other from time to time. Mr. Mai is the one who asked me to guess his occupation and failed to ask me fifty times. It turned out that he made a translation machine that converts Arabic into English, and there are few in the world. Mrs. Mai is funny and cute. They have no children, raise several puppies, run their own factory, and can drop everything to travel at any time, except for worrying about the daily life of their pets. Both of them are very good at drinking. When we went to Hokkaido with us, they were dragged to drink by the foul-mouthed king. Japan has a system of drinking as much as you want, and you can pay 2,000 dou, but there is a condition that you can only stay in the bar for two After hours, you have to pay again.A group of people went to drink and drink, not to save money, it's just for fun, anyway, it's a good way to prove who is the champion. The next day, I saw a group of them, all of them with blue faces. They couldn’t eat any more food. I poured beer for them. As a businessman, he attaches great importance to tails, and the Mais and his wife hold grand banquets every year.I also invited several Arab agents from afar, and I also participated in it. The Arabs I saw were all big fat men, devouring seafood from Hong Kong, and their expressions were very happy.Of course, anyone who has been to Arabia knows that their food is definitely not comparable to Chinese food. Talking with the Mai family, I found that there are many things that I like in common, such as heating. They like to use fire and water stoves as much as I do. I heard that I moved a few back from Tiaoben. It was snowing heavily, and I searched everywhere, but there was no satisfactory one. Today's Japanese fire and water stoves have to be powered by wires, which is inconvenient. Today, I met the Mai family again at the New Year's tea party in Kanazawa, and I promised to go shopping with them this time.In case I can’t find it again, I will give them my own. It is designed as an ancient ship lamp, which is very beautiful. The fire is lit in the glass cover. It is especially elegant when I get up in the middle of the night to appreciate it. Send the same good things, and you are also happy. It has been many years since Mr. He Guanchang left without knowing it. We are a group of old friends who still get together from time to time to talk about Mr. He's life. He is very kind to everyone he has come in contact with and responsive to every request. Everyone calls him "He Daxian". Once a year, Mrs. Ho's birthday, everyone celebrates her. It is held at the Japanese roasted bird restaurant "Nanman Pavilion" in Happy Valley. Jackie Chan will definitely come when he is in Hong Kong. This year he went to Japan for promotion and also called. The concubine Anita Mui is the most active at the party, every time Mrs. Ho's birthday, she will get very drunk.It's easy to tell if Ah Mui is drunk or not. When she starts to speak English, she must be drunk.She ran over to have sex with me, three cups each time, I followed suit and repeated many times.Later, Mrs. He took a bottle of sour plum soup to drink. Ah Mei asked her, and she replied that it was plum wine, so she snatched the bottle and had sex with me. Just do it, drink three cups, and don't change your face.Ah Mei couldn't drink wine by herself, so she praised me in English for being a good drinker. Leslie Cheung also came. He had something to do, so he hugged Mrs. He. Although he sat for a while and then left, he was very caring. Lin Zixiang and Ye Qianwen's gifts were ingenious every time. As soon as they entered the door, one had a big sunflower in their hands, the other a big cauliflower, and then the assistant brought in two birthday peaches made of bread. Zhang Xueyou and his wife sat in the back room and ate roast beef. The waiter brought a plate of chicken skin, and Xueyou wanted to take it. His wife kindly persuaded him to eat less cholesterol.I said that two eggs had more cholesterol than a small bowl of lard, and the chicken skin was fine, so everyone ate it anyway. Mr. Liang, an old colleague of Mr. He, also traveled early. Mrs. Liang came from Canada and smoked when she sat down. She and I are both ethnic minorities who smoke. Forgive me for not mentioning the names of the other friends one by one. There are a total of forty mortals, and the shop is crowded, very lively. The daughter He Jiaer has grown up and is currently working in a bank with great achievements.To see her, to see the continuation of life. Returning to Hong Kong from Beijing, stayed for one night, and flew to Singapore the next day to catch up with my mother's birth.The family has forgotten how old my mother is, and regards it as the 90th birthday.In previous years we were I had dinner at a Cantonese restaurant, but this time I changed it to "Fat Kee Teochew Restaurant" which I think is the best in Singapore.Dr. Wu lives near the restaurant and invited him to have dinner with him.Now he has left the government hospital and started his own business. The clinic is in a white building in the Orchard area. I went to visit him the next day.At first glance, the decoration is very tasteful, everything is mainly white, matching the shape of the building, there are private operating rooms and the latest laser equipment. I met Dr. Wu through my elder sister's introduction. He got to know her to get rid of freckles on her face.Back then, my brother-in-law had a mole, which was itchy and itchy. Dr. Wu cured it and removed the age spots, making him look younger for at least a few years. It turns out that Dr. Wu is a well-known beauty saint in Singapore, known as Beauty Guru. He is the best at cutting double eyelids for minor operations, and cutting jawbones for major operations. Some Korean women thought their cheeks were ugly, so he operated on them and smoothed the protruding bones with an electric file, which is really powerful.Actors and models are all his guests. When my sister was chatting with him, she mentioned that a younger brother was doing a movie. Dr. Wu wanted to see me immediately, because he had a movie he always wanted to make in his mind. He is a standard fan of nostalgic movies. There are countless signed genuine photos, which are now hung on the wall of his clinic.During the last trip to Japan, a couple had a little girl with a scar on her face. They asked me where to go for plastic surgery? Shiren Hospital in Japan is good, but there is always a language barrier, so I went to see Dr. Wu. Woffles T． L． Let's go. I read the newspaper and learned that Mr. Bu Shaofu, the old man, died in his eighties.The first reaction is: "This man did not live in vain." Yes, people in their 80s drink like young men in their twenties, drinking one glass after another, smiling, and the friends next to them say: "If I can drink like him when I'm 60. It's already Satisfied!" 卜少夫先生是位举足轻重的政治评论家和报人，尤其在台湾方面影响力很大，还记得年轻时，读家父订阅的《新闻天地》，薄薄的一本，内容丰富，就是卜少夫先生一手一脚主办的。 来了香港后遇见卜少夫先生，我这个无名小卒他不会认识。介绍之后，老先生把我抱得紧紧："听朋友说，你也爱喝酒?" 后来数次的宴会中，我们都坐在一起，话题不离酒，卜少夫先生逢酒必喝，逢喝必醉，但绝对不麻烦别人，醉后就笑嘻嘻回家。这一点，我向他学习，也能像他那么喝了。 我们欣赏的是辛弃疾的词："昨夜松边醉倒，问松我醉如何?只疑松动要来扶。以手推松曰去!" 卜少大先生还拥有丰子恺先生的一张画，题的正是辛弃疾的这首词。有一回，听人家说卜少夫先生要把他的藏画拿出来卖，但价钱标得相当高。 友人说："我向他说，是你要买的。他一定算便宜。" 如果这种事也做得出，就不配和卜少夫先生交朋友了。我谢绝友人的好意。 卜少夫先生有位弟弟叫卜幼夫，酒量没有哥哥那么好。而卜少夫先生的哥哥，就是鼎鼎大名的无名氏先生，我们年轻时看他的书看得入迷，倪匡兄也很喜欢，听说无名氏来了香港，即刻请他到夜总会去泡舞女。无名氏先生抓着少女的手："这么年轻，就坠人火坑，真可怜。"舞女瞪了无名氏先生一眼，逃之天天。 "你来了?好，好，我派司机来接你。"黄永玉先生的语气是高一些的。 上一次到北京，已是六七年前的事，现在机场是新的，很有气派。街道两旁的大厦和商店林立，比以前多。黄先生住的"万荷堂"离市区要一个小时的车程，车子约好在下午两点，我刚吃过午餐，上车就睡。 一醒来已经到达，简直不肯相信在茫茫的农地上有座那么大的古堡式的建筑，经过的人还以为是什么电视片集搭的外景呢。 车子进入一城门。只听到一阵犬吠，接着就是几条大狗想往我身上扑来，但给黄先生喝了下去。 "地方到底有多大?"是我第一个问题。黃先生笑着："不多，一百亩。" 我想中国画家之中，除了张大千在巴西的田园之外，就是黄永先生拥有最大的一块地了。 "先带你四处走走。"黄先生说。 是一片长方形的池塘，现在晚舂，荷叶枯千种上一万株荷花绝对不是问题，十万也种得下，若在夏天盛开，当然是奇景。 围绕着荷池的是很多间建筑，都是二层楼的客房，里面摆设着黄先生自己设计的家私和他一生在外国收集的艺术品。 "我说过，你要是来住，就给你一间。"他笑着说，"到了荷花开的时候，请歌舞团在台上表演，你可以从阁楼观赏。" 没经验过，只有靠想象，黄先生一定会约好他的老友，一家人住一间，效古人之风雅。 "我最想看你的画室。"我说。 "这边，这边。"黄先生指着，门上的横额写着"老子居"。好一间"我的画室"，其大无比，铁板人墙，让磁石吸着宣纸边缘，画巨大的作品。桌子上的画笔和颜色零乱摆着，要些什么，只有黄先生一个才找得到。"今天早上画了两幅，还没题字。"黄先生说完拿起毛笔。 整张画上一下子题满了跋，题跋是中国画中不可分割的部分，但从来未见过一位画家像黄先生那么爱题跋的，他的跋就像诗人的短章，或是一篇很精简的散文，也是他的语录。时常很有哲学味道，多数诙谐幽默，坦荡胸襟。意味深长的有："世上写历史的永远是两个人秦始皇写一部；孟姜女写一部。"或且轻松地说："郑板桥提倡难得糊涂，其实，真糊涂是天生的，学也学不会。假装的糊涂却是很费神，还不如别法为好。" 犀利的是，跋在画的空白处一下笔挥之，随想随写，不打稿，也不修改，写到最后刚刚好填满，不松懈，也不过密，最重要的是没有破坏整张画的构图，只增加神采，是"心有成竹"这四个字的活生生例子。 惹祸的猫头鹰就不必题跋了。他说过："我一生，从不相信权力，只相信智慧。" 在一九五三年他和齐白石合拍过一张照片，老人身旁那位大眼睛的少年，一看就知道是位聪明绝顶的人物，黄先生是位生存者，在任何逆境之下都能优哉游哉地生存下去，文革难不了他，主人轻描淡写地说："我的八字好。" 何止天生?后来的努力，也可以从他画的白描树藤见到，那种复杂错综的线条一根搭一根，比神经线还要精密，又看不出任何的败笔，要下多少功夫才能完成! 我们在客厅坐下，湘西来的姑娘捧上茶来，我问她："这么大的地方，要用多少人?" "就是我们四五个人。"她回答，"还有十几条狗。有人进来先要过狗这一关，然后一一" 黄先生从门后拿出一根木棒，要我试试它的重量，木棍双头镶着铜，棒心填满铁沙，重得不得了，他示范着："这种棍不是用来打人，是对着人家的心脏捅。" 接着他问："你知道打架的艺术吗?" 什么，打架也有艺术?黄先生接着告诉我一个故事："文革时期周恩来先生带着我们一群艺术工作者到处避难，有一个出卖过我们的坏蛋专门与我作对，我们去到哪里他跟到哪里，用小册子记录行踪，看有什么行差踏错，准备把报告写给江青。四人帮消除后我找上他住的旅馆，见人就打。打架的艺术，是在把自己豁丁出去，不怕被人打，只是打人。" 个子小小的黄先生，打起人来，也够呛的。 其他客人陆续来到，有黄苗子和郁风夫妇，都是老友了，他们大部分时间住澳洲儿子家里，在那边也看《壹周刊》我的鬼故事，说像在床上写得那么轻松，我很想解释是捱夜逐只字写，但也只笑着不开口。 接着来的还有作家李辉先生夫妇，六个人一块吃黄先生烧的湘西菜，喝他设计酒壶的"酒鬼"牌白酒，乐融融。想起了有一回带了苏美璐去黄先生香港的画室，可惜这一回少了她。 "荷花开的时候，你再来。"临走时黄先生叮咛。 我打定主意，不但去北京，还要跟他去他的家乡湘西风凰县走一趟。