Chapter 34 Chapter Thirty-Two

After eating a simple breakfast, Xie Huiren and Sally set out on the road and drove to Shaoguan. Sally insisted on not allowing Xie Huiren to drive, she was afraid that he didn't sleep well last night and his energy and strength were insufficient.Xie Huiren reluctantly agreed, sat in the co-pilot's seat, closed his eyes slightly and rested his mind. For those living alone, a cozy breakfast might seem like a distant prospect.Xie Huiren has long developed the habit of skipping breakfast. This is not because he is used to waking up later, but because many years of hard life have marked his life. In fact, for many years, he had to save breakfast to save money.

Similarly, for Sally, although she has enough financial conditions to have a nutritious and high-quality morning tea in Hong Kong, sitting in the lobby of the hotel, facing the pure sunshine at eight o'clock in the morning and the traffic outside the window alone She doubted the value of the breakfast as she hurried past the angry crowd.More often, she misses when she was a child, in the countryside, facing the sun, smelling the unique morning breath of the countryside, and eating some simple food that is not rich. And this day's breakfast, although it couldn't be simpler, was warm.Warm milk, warm omelette and bread.More importantly, the heart is warm.

Thinking about it, Sally smiled.When she was young, she always wrote the word "nuan" wrongly, and "love" was always written on the right side of the word "day".Until now, when she writes ligatures, she still stubbornly thinks that she writes "love" on the right. "What are you laughing at?" Xie Huiren didn't know when she opened her eyes, and she could see that she was thinking about something. "Hmm." Sally was a little embarrassed, "Well, tell me, is there someone in the Buddha's family who can measure words?"

Xie Huiren was confused, "Word test?" "That's right. Just write a letter by yourself and let the master tell you about fate." Alas, Xie Huiren sighed secretly, "No, no, Buddhism doesn't talk about this, and true Buddhist disciples don't do this. Buddhism doesn't allow disciples to 'show supernatural powers', and besides, everyone's fate has its own destiny. Cause and effect, how can Buddhist disciples artificially change the cause and effect of others, that is not in line with the doctrine." Sally smiled secretly, "I want to test a character, but it's a pity."

"What word?" "Warm." As soon as she finished speaking, Sally laughed happily, and she told Xie Huiren the story of her typo. Xie Huiren said thoughtfully, "Well, 'day' plus 'love' means to love a little every day. This kind of life is indeed warm." "But why not just write it as 'love'? There are always two strokes missing." Xie Huiren's words were also full of warmth. He said slowly, "It's a reminder that love today is not enough. Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, we still have to continue. For many people, love is endless in this life." of."

Sally felt a little fever on her face, her hands trembled, and the car shook a little, but she quickly stabilized her mind and reminded herself that this was a highway. "Then did you ever make a typo?" Sally asked mischievously. "Well, yes." Xie Huiren thought for a while, "I went to an orphan school. At that time, the textbooks were all left over from the previous grade. I don't know how many years they have been used. Many students don't have textbooks, and only a few of them can use one. Ben, the teacher's teaching is not formal..." "Haha." Sally joked, "Is this how to train a university teacher?"

Xie Huiren said seriously, "We study very hard. We know that if we don't study, we will never have a way out." He looked ahead, as if he was recalling his childhood. After a while, he said slowly, "At that time, typos were common. I remember that there were jasmine flowers in the school. When they bloomed, they were very fragrant. Such a small pure white flower has such a fragrance, since then, I have liked jasmine." "and after?" "But I don't know how to write those two characters. I just heard the teacher say the name 'Jasmine', so I wrote it as 'Mo Li', which literally means, never separate."

"Oh." Sally blushed, but she quickly realized that this did not refer to love at all. At Xie Huiren's age at that time, it seemed that he would not talk about love. What he hoped in his heart was that the family would never be separated. .she understands. "Later, I knew that I made a mistake, but I fell in love with the word 'Mo Li'. Never separate." Xie Huiren paused for a long time, and continued, but his face also became a little shy, " I thought, I will give the jasmine to the person I like as a token of love, and we will raise it to bloom together."

Sally didn't say a word for a long time, she just drove the car quietly, trying her best to focus on the road.For a long time, they just heard the sound of the engine and the howling wind.There was silence in the car for a long time.After the excitement in her heart subsided, Sally continued to ask, "Did you send the flowers?" "Not yet." Xie Huiren couldn't help laughing, soon, after finishing this matter, the flowers will bloom. After a while, Xie Huiren suddenly sighed, "Love is like religion." "What?" Sally frowned. If she had any vague dissatisfaction with Xie Huiren, it was that this man always connected things around him with religion and history. Isn't he a bookworm?She curled her lips and said, "What kind of argument is that?"

Xie Huiren repeated, "Love is like religion - there are many people who join in the fun, but only a few people understand." Well, Sally let go of her brows now, this analogy is still the same, although it is still a bit obscure, but anyone can understand it, and there is a little philosophy of life. "Do you understand?" Sally turned her head and looked at Xie Huiren mischievously, but he still sat with a serious face and looked straight ahead, as if he really took this witty metaphor as a philosophical proposition. "I don't understand either." Xie Huiren said leisurely, "We all say that love is responsibility, trust, gratitude, warmth, etc., but it's not."

"What?!" God, how could he say that?Sally was a little surprised, but more angry. "Don't react so strongly." Xie Huiren knew that she had misunderstood, and hurriedly said, "Love includes everything I just said, and even more, but all these cannot be combined into love. They are the characteristics of love, but We can't take characteristics as concepts. Have you ever heard a true story? The philosopher Plato gave the definition of "man" as "an animal with two legs that walks upright without hair". His student Diogenes the next day He brought a plucked rooster, and shouted to the crowd, 'Look, this is the man Plato spoke of'." Sally was amused by Xie Huiren's exaggerated and mischievous tone. She always thought it was a joke, but she didn't expect it to be true. Xie Huiren continued, "This is a typical combination of characteristics to form a concept. In fact, this is wrong. It's like someone saying that gratitude is not love, but love cannot be without gratitude. So, can you say that there is gratitude but no love? Gratitude is a part of love. For many people, gratitude is the prelude to love. At the end of love, it is a lifetime gratitude to the other party. There is no perfect definition of love, we are just used to combining its characteristics into roughly The outline of the , to replace this concept." Sally nodded slightly, and now she understood, she thought he was right. "So, I said that love is like religion. Many people claim to believe in Buddha and God, but how many people are just joining in the fun? Do they really understand Buddha and God? In fact, love and religion are two parts of a person's life. What is needed, they give people comfort, give people dreams, give people hope and courage, but no one seems to really understand where they are, just like we all know that we need oxygen to live, but none of us can tell what we inhale. In the breath, what is oxygen and how much oxygen is there." I don't want to know so clearly, I just need to know that you are my oxygen is enough.Sally said to herself secretly.