Chapter 8: A Rare Warmth
I promised, Ye'er had already finished eating and touching up her makeup quickly, and then went out to catch the mahjong field.
After Ye'er left, I drank beer, looked at this sumptuous lunch, ate with relish baby, and finally came back after a long absence. This image reminds me of the poverty and poverty of our young marriage, when I remember that I could buy a watermelon for about a dollar, and a bottle of beer sold for a dollar. The baby is less than one year old, the watermelon has just been off the market, I can only spend one yuan to buy a watermelon home for the baby to eat, one yuan can only buy such a small petal of watermelon, I and Ye'er who are reluctant to eat, I carefully cut the watermelon into very small pieces, so that the baby can hold and eat conveniently, I saw that the baby loves to eat watermelon very much, until the watermelon is white, and even can vaguely see the emerald green of the watermelon skin, at this time, the baby will be reluctant to throw away the watermelon skin at our request.
The weather is getting hotter, and watermelons are starting to be marketed in large quantities, and even then, a watermelon costs about a dollar. I bought a big watermelon and went home, cut the watermelon into petals one by one, and the baby saw the watermelon pick up and gnaw, and the scene of gnawing until the red melon was white can no longer be seen. I saw that the baby threw away a small part of the red sweet part of the melon pulp, and the baby completely ignored the fact that there were many red melon pulps that were not eaten, so he couldn't wait to pick up the other half of the watermelon and gnaw it, and the juice of the red watermelon pulp flowed down the corners of the mouth, dripping wet the front of the baby's clothes。。。。。。
The baby's childish behavior made me and Ye'er laugh, such a young child even knows to cherish the scarce, waste a lot, when the baby sees so many watermelons on the table, so the baby will never gnaw the melon flesh as before before before reluctant to throw away the watermelon skin. Since the baby loves watermelon so much, I have to quit my favorite beer, and since then, I have spent almost one yuan every day to buy a watermelon home. Ye'er saw that I didn't drink beer, so she asked me curiously why I didn't drink beer. I said that a bottle of beer costs a dollar, but I can only drink it alone; A watermelon is also a yuan, but it can make our family of three eat, especially the baby is so fond of eating watermelon, I might as well quit beer, buy a watermelon every day and go home for a family of three to eat, so good!
Now I don't need to live like the stretched days before, I'm very funny, now my mentality is the same as when the baby ate watermelon.
In order to reduce expenses and save some money, Ye Er and I even stipulated that we would not go to the street to buy groceries two days a week, Monday and Thursday. Stew eggs on Mondays, and only cook one soup on Thursdays, such as egg soup with vegetables or tomatoes, anyway, we don't go to the street to buy vegetables on these two days, so that we can at least get forty or fifty yuan out of our mouths a month.
I don't want to eat loofah in this life, when we set up a shelf in the yard and planted several loofahs, summer is coming, green vines, green leaves, yellow flowers, very good-looking, loofahs this plant is also particularly long, always one after another give birth to many long loofahs out, from summer to frost, loofahs will stop growing when they are wilted by frost. In order to save money, we always eat loofah, loofah soup, loofah fried shrimp, loofah scrambled eggs, loofah fried shrimp skin, loofah fried green pepper, loofah fried steamed dumplings。。。。。。 I have eaten enough loofahs that year, and I don't want to eat them in this life.
Money, when there is a real thing, is cut out of the mouth and saved.
Father and mother always said, "No one knows how to eat a thousand mouthfuls, and people are bullied without clothes". Yes, such a simple and profound philosophy of life, a few numbers speak of the hot and cold state of the world and the vicissitudes of life. This seemingly simple proverb has a deep influence on me, no one knows how good you eat at home, but if you don't have a decent piece of clothing on you, you will definitely be looked down upon by others.
This is how people at that time generally saved money from their mouths, and it is generally the same way now, which is the so-called "thrifty". I saw a father in the vegetable market who only bought a small fish and spent five dimes, saying that he was going back to cook fish soup for his children. Another mother insisted that the beef stall sell her a dollar of beef, and the mother said that she and the child's father did not eat beef, only the child liked to eat beef, but even if she bought a penny more beef, the child would not be able to eat it all, so it would be a pity to waste it. But one yuan really can't buy a few small pieces of beef, so the beef vendor just doesn't sell it to her, the mother repeatedly emphasized that her children can only eat so much beef, just like that, the beef vendor really didn't want to continue to entangle with the mother, so he cut a small piece of beef indiscriminately, saying that he didn't weigh it, while saying "a dollar of beef, only a little more, no need to weigh it", while angrily handing it to the mother, the matter was over.
Standing behind this mother and waiting for me, who was also going to buy beef, I didn't look down on it at all, but I deeply understood the mother's good intentions, one yuan of beef is really not enough to stuff my teeth, but the soil is shy and hard, this mother can only be so low or even undignified to beg the stall that sells beef to sell her one yuan of beef, maybe it is just to go home to satisfy the child's cravings, or to let the child increase the intake of high protein as much as possible.
Great mothers, including that father, really make me awe-inspired, not only them, but I myself belong to one of such fathers and mothers!
I hate those very poisonous chicken soup for the soul in ancient and modern China and abroad, and I don't want to know what kind of purpose they have for releasing such chicken soup for the soul, but this very poisonous so-called chicken soup for the soul is always more or less tempting people to make wrong choices and live wrong lives.
In ancient times, there was a very poisonous chicken soup for the soul: "The ugly duckling becomes a white swan", can the ugly duckling become a white swan? The answer is no, the ugly duckling will never become a white swan! The reason why the ugly duckling can finally become a white swan is because the ugly duckling itself is not a duck, and that is because the ugly duckling itself is a white swan!
Your efforts can eventually turn you from an ugly duckling into a duck that is not ugly, and you will counterattack!
Recently, a chicken soup for the soul in China made me feel even more uncomfortable, that is: "When you plan to start saving money to live, you lose the courage and courage to get rich, so you can only continue your poverty in peace"! This sentence, you don't need to carefully scrutinize it at all, you know that this is a more vicious chicken soup for the soul, it is poisoning our children whose consumption concepts are not mature enough!
You can save money without saving, but only if you have money to spend. However, this kind of chicken soup for the soul has made many children who have not been in the world or those immature adults choose to consume in advance, so that those profiteers who are not benevolent to the rich take advantage of the vanity of these people at the bottom of the society and their unique resources, accompanied by overwhelming advertising discourse to let these so-called chicken soup for the soul penetrate into the hearts of these poor people, so that these vulnerable groups are arbitrarily slaughtered by them, so that they go to the abyss step by step. These profiteers and villains always continue to launch a variety of financial consumer products such as so-and-so shells, so-and-so flowers, and so-and-so loans that do not hurt their own interests。。。。。。
The ATM is wrong, and you spit out ten dollars more, and if you take it, you may be sentenced to five years; You are wrong, you have deposited ten more yuan, it is just a mechanical failure, you just wait patiently!
"A diamond ring is eternal"! What a beautiful greeting that makes people think about it! But what can this diamond ring protect you? If it is time to divorce, it is still necessary to divorce; If you should be bankrupt, you will still be bankrupt! It's just a small piece of rare stone, and it's of no use to us ordinary people! It's also worthless for the world's top super-millionaires!
If you don't believe it? Yes, in the vast desert, life is about to disappear, and this priceless diamond ring is not even worth as much as a grain of rice or a drop of water! At that time, whether it is any prince and nobleman in the world, or any rich businessman, your grain of rice and a drop of water is the best medicine to make them lose their dignity!
Or, when you're having a hard time, see how much silver your "one forever" diamond ring can cost?! When you go to buy, you are the most honorable God; But when you are in a hurry to use money, you are a beggar who makes people disdain! Got it? The law of conservation of energy and value, in the beginning, you are the SB who makes others disdain! Got it?
"For the rich is not benevolent", not good! However, I now found out that you can be unkind for being rich, but you must not cheat people for being rich! Is that right?
"The greatest evil in the world is to take advantage of other people's weak psychology and take advantage of it!" This phrase of chicken soup for the soul is what I use the most! But, have you noticed? Our weak and vain psychology is always taken away by others' clever tricks, so that we can't extricate ourselves。。。。。。