The anchor reads the classics and says good night with you. Hello everyone, this is Lightning Night Reading, I am Yang Fei, the anchor of Zou Lu Media. In life, everyone has laughter and tears; In life, everyone has happiness and troubles, which is the true appearance of the human world. Tonight, I will share with you Lin Qingxuan's article "Happiness, in fact, between a porridge and a meal".
When I was a child, I had a particularly wonderful yearning for soda, not because it was good, but because I couldn't drink it. Our family is a large family of dozens of people, and there are as many as 18 children in order, and it seems that there is never enough to eat in my memory, let alone drink soda.
There are three ways to drink soda, one is a festive banquet, one is a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and the other is a temple festival. Even if there is soda, it is always not enough. When it comes time to drink soda, it seems to be a solemn ceremony, 18 cups are lined up on the table, half a cup is poured in order, and almost a sip is gone, and then everyone licks their lips and feels that the taste of soda is really delicious.
Once, when I was walking down the street, I saw a child who had drunk a lot of soda, stood under the eaves and vomited, oh - a long sigh. I stood by and was stunned, dying of envy, and couldn't help but ask myself sadly: When will I be able to drink all-you-can-drink soda? When can I drink soda until I vomit? When I was in elementary school, I hadn't tasted the taste of drinking soda until I vomited, and I thought to myself, I don't know how happy it is to be able to drink soda until I vomit out.
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When I was in the third grade, I had a cousin who was about to get married, and I tossed and turned the night before he got married. I lay in bed and secretly vowed that tomorrow I must drink all the soda, at least until I vomit.
The next day I snooped in front of the courtyard to see if the soda had arrived. By 9 o'clock in the morning, I saw people from the grocery store delivering several large boxes of sodas, stacked in one place. I flew over, picked up two large bottles of black pine soda, and ran to the hut. At that time, the toilets in the countryside were covered dozens of meters away from the house, and there was a large manure pit, which was only cleaned once every few weeks. But that day I had planned to drink soda inside, which was the only secret place in the house.
I locked the door of the hut, opened two bottles of soda, and in a reverent mood, poured the soda into my mouth, and drank one bottle of soda in a moment. Almost without stopping, I poured the second bottle of soda into my mouth.
My stomach was swollen and I sat quietly on the floor of the hut, waiting to vomit. Slowly, my stomach moved, and a breath of energy poured out, oh - the breath of soda came out of my mouth and nose, and my eyes were full of tears, and I let out a long sigh: "There is nothing happier in this world than drinking soda until you vomit!" Then he opened the wooden bolt of the hut like a pilgrim, and when he came out, he found that the sun was so warm and bright, as if it had returned to the world from heaven.
When I drank soda in the thatched house, I forgot the smell of the thatched house, forgot the troubles of the world, and felt that I was the happiest person in the world. To this day, I still remember the sigh of that year, when I repeated, "There is nothing happier in this world than drinking soda until you vomit!" "I had mixed feelings in my heart, and I couldn't help but cry about to fall.
In the years of poverty, people can also feel some profound happiness, such as I often remember adding a bowl of hot rice, pouring a spoonful of lard and a spoonful of soy sauce, sitting in front of the "Toding" (the stone steps of the hall door) and savoring the aroma of lard bibimbap, and every grain of rice is full of the aroma of happiness.
Sometimes this happiness does not come from food, but from the freedom of an afternoon in the countryside.
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Sometimes happiness comes from seeing the planted radish that is left in the radish field bloom into a royal blue flower. Sometimes happiness comes from the fact that the big dog in the family suddenly gives birth to a litter of fluffy puppies of different colors.
Life is not about people's environment, people's status, and the materials that people can enjoy, but how people's hearts correspond to life. Therefore, happiness is not determined by external things, the poor have the happiness of the poor, the rich have their happiness, the noble have their happiness, and the humble have their own happiness. In life, everyone has laughter and tears; In life, everyone has happiness and troubles, which is the true appearance of the human world.
About the Author:
Lin Qingxuan (February 26, 1953 – January 23, 2019) was a contemporary writer and essayist from Taiwan, China.
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Yang Fei, news anchor of Zou Cheng Rong Media Center, host of the column "Zou Cheng News Network"