Engineering for Life

Volume I

Chapter 34: The Birthday Banquet

Expansion, when an object is heated, the particles in it move faster and thus occupy extra space, a phenomenon known as expansion.

Solids, liquids, and gases all have expansion phenomena, and the expansion rate of liquids is about ten times that of solids, and the expansion rate of gases is about one hundred times that of liquids.

It can also be explained as swelling, which expands outward due to internal pressure and bulges with the effect of abnormal fermentation products.

The above is Baidu Encyclopedia's explanation of expansion, and the corresponding three subjects are solids, liquids, and gases.

As we all know, all the tissues of the human body are composed of water, which is about 60%-85% in terms of specific gravity, the most in the neonatal period, followed by adulthood, and the least in the old age, with a liquid content of less than 60%, so it is very appropriate to use the idiom of running out of oil to describe the dying person.

To sum up, since most of the components of the human body are liquids, people will also expand, there is expansion in the narrow sense, and there is expansion in the broad sense, plus people also survive by breathing air, and the air is gas, so the proportion of people expanding is very amazing.

Anyway, people are not solids, because people move and change, so the expansion rate of people is about 10 times to 1000 times that of solids, which is converted by the expansion rate of solids, liquids, and gases.

Therefore, people will swell, and the proportion of expansion is different, the expansion rate depends on the thickness of its own skin, you look at the balloon, the thicker the skin of the balloon, the bigger it will blow, on the contrary, the thinner the skin, it will not be blown twice and it will burst, and the bones will be blown up with a bang.

And this expansion is a series of reactions caused by external causes and internal factors, so in general, the principle is the same as that of balloon inflation, which is caused by the action of external forces, and where does the external force come from.

Congratulations, you answered correctly, since the balloon is blown by people, so it is also the same for people, and if someone blows it, it is easy to inflate.

Any object, as long as the proportion of gas in its interior gradually increases, it will become light and fluttering, that is to say, it will float, yes, it will float up, you see the balloon, is it very easy to float.

Floating objects are free from gravity, without the constraints of gravity, and they are indeed quite comfortable to be condescending, but there are two obvious drawbacks:

First: because the epidermis becomes thinner and thinner under the action of swelling, it is easy to puncture.

Second: It's easy to find north and south after floating, so let alone things go east and west.

Things are like this, how can people be worthy!

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Since Lin Yun started to come to watch the battle, he has never seen anyone collect money, and he has lost a lot of money.

This time, Lin Yunxue was obedient, neither standing behind the person who lost the money, nor standing opposite the birdman, standing in a farther position on the side, lest someone lose money for a while and blame Lin Yun for his bad position and blocking his wealth.

Once people become paranoid, they are all unreasonable, especially gamblers who have lost red-eyed, it is handy to watch the excitement and eat melon Linyun, anyway, he is used to doing this, but the moldy Lin Yun will not touch it.

Besides, in this position now, Lin Yun is not alone, this fool who lost money wants to rush Lin Yun again, it is deliberately targeted, if such a thing really happens, it will definitely be ruthlessly scolded.

Endure for a while, take a step back and intensify, some people in this world can't get used to it, you let him, he thinks you are afraid of him, not only will he not accept it when he sees it, but he will also climb on your head and.

This Lin Yun is not a good master, the kind of thing that the more he thinks about it, the more angry he becomes, and the more he thinks about it when he takes a step, the more he loses, this thing generally doesn't like to swallow his anger.

In fact, just standing and watching like this, there is unlikely to be any contradiction, after all, everyone is here to celebrate the birthday, and they all have to save some face for the main family, no one is a fool, right?

But Lin Er's brain circuit is different from ordinary people, the position where this thing is standing now, the person sitting in front of him playing cards, is also a friend that Lin Yun has known for many years, as long as this person collects money from someone, this Lin Yun is shouting behind him.

"That's good, it's so good, come on, win more."

Don't name names, don't deliberately target, it's always okay to cheer friends who win money, as for whose money to win, it's a matter of opinion.

The loser was busy giving money, and the winner was busy collecting money, but no one paid attention to this grandson's little trick, and there was no more trouble.

After a while, Lin Yun felt that it was boring again, this person is like this, some people will feel bored if they don't have symptoms, and no one will feel bored if they don't have symptoms.

Most of the sluts in this world are like this, Lin Yun shook his head and left, fiddling with his mobile phone to the side.

When it was almost twelve o'clock, Lin Lao Er didn't know where to get out, it should be that a few people didn't know which room to play mahjong in.

came to Lin Yun, said hello, and said that he would go back in a while and bring his father and mother in the morning.

After speaking, I also went to the table where Lin Yun began to look at the playing cards, it should be almost over, the winners are happy, and the losers are depressed.

The winner had a ruddy complexion and was excited.

The loser had a gloomy face and few words.

Lin Lao Er dispersed after a while, and he should be arranging what route the driver should take when he goes home, so that he can take the piggyback who didn't drive home.

The battle situation is clear at a glance, someone should lose a lot, it seems that the gift money of 10000 is enough to give more than ten or twenty times, whatever, gambling hurts people, even if you don't feel sorry for money, it also affects your mood.

The boss is rich? Having money also hurts, most of the people who play cards feel that they will not lose before they go to the table, but those who play cards will always lose, which is why Lin Yun almost never plays cards.

You don't see what the saying goes: "Losing money starts with winning." "If you don't want to win, no one will lose.

Don't take probability events as your luck, those who lose want to turn over, those who win want to win more, and there will be no real winners in the long run.

There are many entertainment options for family and friends to choose from, and there is no need to choose the way to gamble money, even if you have to bring a dot on the head, three or five dollars is enough.

Those who lost and those who won all left, with different moods.

Lin Yun also found a place to sleep at the fifth brother's house, and took a bath with cold water, the well water in the countryside was cold to death, and it could cost half a person's life in the summer.

Sleep until dawn, the next day Lin Yun did not have much free time, there were too many people coming, the morning was busy arranging for people to stop, and even had to drive to the township road with another playmate to meet people who didn't know the road, these kilometers of small roads twisted and detoured too much, it was not good to make a mistake, it was not good to turn around, and those who were not familiar with the road really did not dare to come up.

Over the years, the countryside has indeed changed a lot, there are those who have been out for decades when they were young and have not returned, and they have long forgotten the way home, and the houses in their hometowns have fallen into disrepair and become broken walls, which is very common.

When something new comes, we embrace it with all our might, while the old slowly turns into dust in the depths of our memory.

It is in our nature to like the new and hate the old, we like new clothes, new shoes, hats and pants, we like new houses, we like new cars, and we even call the bride and groom the newlyweds who get married.

But for your hometown, there is no distinction between the old and the new, whether it is good or not, your hometown is there, and it is your own business whether you want to go back and see.

In fact, it is far from necessary, far from being so anxious, after all, we will go back, until we feel that returning to our hometown and returning to our hometown is no longer all in our lives.

When he left home, he returned to his hometown, and his hometown accent did not change, and his sideburns declined.

When the children don't know each other, they smile and ask where the guests are from.

This is a reincarnation, and it is also the fate of all of us, how many people have left home at a young age, and how many people have become famous?

Most of us have to work hard to get a foothold in a city, and that's the best result, and that's the best we can do.

Not everyone can be in a high position, not everyone can soar, only by being willing to be ordinary, can we witness greatness.

It is difficult to admit that you are mediocre, just as difficult as killing yourself, but only people who admit that they are mediocre can go further, and people who admit that they are mediocre are by no means really mediocre, and people who are willing to be ordinary can truly achieve extraordinary.

It's so simple, but not everyone can see through it, the truth of the truth has always been there, in front of our eyes, but we have never faced it.

After picking up four or five people in a row, plus after being busy, some people wanted to fish, some people wanted to drink tea, and some people wanted to play cards, so running around, Lin Yun and six or seven young men also tossed enough, but fortunately, time passed quickly, and the morning passed quickly.

Lin Lao Er also came with his parents and Lin Yun's daughter, but his own wife and children didn't come for some reason.

At lunchtime, Lin Yun sat at a table with his parents, brothers and daughter, and half of this table went, and the others were also from a family, Lin Yun knew them, distant relatives, but they couldn't call them, Lin Yun's parents must have known each other, and they were chatting happily.

Serving the food and eating, Lin Yun gave himself half a glass of wine, and also gave half a cup to his father and younger brother, not because he had to drink, but for a while, he was sure that the sons of the second master would come to toast next to each other at the birthday banquet, and then the grandchildren would come to toast in turn, this etiquette still has to be there, this is our tradition!

The toast is nothing more than to thank everyone who came from afar, and ask everyone to eat and drink well, only the family with a good reputation can be full of friends when the old man has a big birthday, which is also our tradition, although it is cruel and realistic, but it has been like this for thousands of years.

The degree of your participation in the society and the things of the people around you determines the degree of participation of the society and the people around you in your affairs.

Do your best to participate in the society and the things of the people around you, some things are more important than money, and the emphasis on participation is not an empty word.

Now the living conditions in the countryside are better, so the birthday banquets are relatively rich, three or four cold dishes, seven or eight hot dishes, two or three soups, chicken, duck, goose and fish, beef, sheep and pork, and even soft-shelled turtle and prawns.

Some of the ingredients that we could only see on TV when we were children are now very common on our tables, and of course, if you want to see them on TV when you were a child, you have to make sure that you have a black and white TV set in your home, which was a rarity back then.

Rural people are relatively simple, there will be no extravagance and waste such a thing, the rest of the noon, everyone eats another meal at night, and then pick up the good, each pack home, the rest of the main family is estimated to digest a few days, really can't eat, in order to cheapen the livestock cats and dogs raised at home.

The birthday banquet ended quickly after the birthday star's children and grandchildren toasted, and Lin Yun also enjoyed eating it, dishes like plum cabbage and pork are not only delicious, but the dried plum vegetables in it are also a must for bibimbap.

Eat a banquet, if you pay attention to it, you will suffer, Lin Yun is not a particular person, and he tripped three bowls of rice with dried plum vegetables in a row, this product is a little disgusted that the rice bowl is too small.

After lunch, it is still the time to play cards, change to fishing, most of the elderly get together to reminisce about the years, sigh today's good life, these things, only with your own eyes, hear with your own ears, you can know the impact of the development of this society on their generation.

Lin Lao Er didn't know who he was playing mahjong with, Lin Yun's father took a fishing rod to fish, and his mother and Lin Yun's daughter also followed.

Lin Yun didn't go, Lin Yun mixed in the old people and listened to them think about the old days, the old people had a handful of snot and tears, and when it came to sadness, pain and runny nose were inevitable, Lin Yun liked to listen to these, only by knowing the hard days of the past, could he understand the hard-won good days, listening to the stories told by these people, Lin Yun felt that his hard life was not so bitter.

These people, who have witnessed the great changes in the sea, naturally have a considerable right to speak, from not having enough food and clothing to today's worry-free food and clothing, for them, there is no stronger contrast.

Young people probably don't have such an awareness, blindly pursuing extravagance and excitement, and raising their appetite for desire more and more, until one day they are big enough to devour themselves.

The development of the Internet has created a batch of public knowledge with bad intentions and demands, and the rigid and rigid ideas of imported products have impacted and provoked the fragile nerves of young people.

Half-understood understanding, misreading taken out of context, the embellishment of hearsay, the conjecture behind closed doors, those who have not seen and do not know have become the ultimate yearning of some people, which really does not know whether to describe it as sad or pitiful.

Only a country that I have personally participated in building is the most ideal country, and I identify with it, and it identifies with me.

For these people, a word of advice: "The ethnic group you don't agree with will no longer identify with you one day." ”

The difference in one's own imagination is actually more like self-isolation from the people.

Lin Yun was busy serving tea and pouring water for the elderly, melons, fruits and peanuts, and was very attentive, this respect for the elderly is a tradition of the Chinese people, and it is worth carrying forward.

I can hear that the elderly are homely, intermittently, there is no logic in time, and their thinking is quite jumpy, just like us when we were children, so Lin Yun agrees with the words of old children and old children.

It's just that there are not many people who are willing to treat these old people with the patience of children, filial piety and filial piety, it is really obedience-based, the old people are already dying, the living needs are very low, the obedient children are the greatest filial piety to them, and listening is the greatest kindness to them.

The weather was not too hot in the afternoon, and Lin Yun not only served tea and water to a group of elderly people, but also took care of the people playing cards in two nearby houses.

It's not that this product has a high consciousness, but it's a matter of effort, and it's not how tiring, and it's also a beautiful thing to get everyone's praise, especially when someone praises it, the footsteps of this product have become brisk.

People should have the spirit of service, and there is a direct or indirect mutual service relationship between people in this world.

It's quick to pass the time by bragging about yourself, and it's also fast to listen to other people's bragging.

Countless anecdotes and unheard stories flow intermittently from these elderly populations, listen carefully, and slowly piece them together.

This is a story from life, or real shocking, or tragic and lonely, but most of these old people are not eloquent, and the logic of time is confused, so sometimes you can only know the general story from the unknown after listening to it for a long time.

Someone is calling for dinner, chatting people are cleaning up their tables, chairs and benches, and those playing cards are busy settling accounts, or collecting or paying money.

After a while, people who were not much different from noon gathered at different tables again, not eating actively, thinking problems, three meals a day is probably the most spontaneous and conscious thing in all of our lives.

The people regard food as the sky, and this is indeed true.

There were few people drinking at night, except for the kind of wine putty that was not happy with alcohol, and the kind of wine putty with two broad beans and half a catty of liquor, which really made Lin Yun puzzled, why did these people get themselves drunk.

A day or two can talk about things that life is not going well, but day after day, year after year, it is really a bit unreasonable.

At this moment, Lin Yun sat next to a wine putty, as soon as it was served, he opened the liquor first, took care of himself and got a glass, smelling the wine on this person's body, it was about the appearance that the wine drunk at noon had not dispersed.

You drink your wine, and I eat my food, which is a matter of well water not against river water.

There are about two types of wine putty:

One is to drink when you see wine, and you don't talk much, and you sleep after drinking. The other is that it is not good to drink, and they still look for alcohol to drink everywhere, and after drinking, they still talk arrogantly or nonsense, causing trouble everywhere.

The latter is the most annoying.

Thanks to Lin Yun's good luck, this person ate food while drinking, and occasionally made a sentence or two, but he didn't disturb everyone's interest, and he was a little drunk.

The people who eat are fast, the people who drink are slow, most of the people have finished eating and getting off the table, who is the wine putty will have nothing to hide, you only need to look at the rest of the table or one person, or two people, who are still drinking and eating meat, eight or nine are not far from ten.

Ordinary people drink to talk about the atmosphere and mood, three or five friends, it is rare to get together, there is not much drinking, and this kind of chatting, including Lin Yun himself, also likes to do this.

But any real wine putty, ordinary people will avoid it, no, the people of the main family saw that everyone finished eating, and asked these people who drove the car, who still had a vacant seat in the car, and took two of the wine putty home for a while.

Everyone said that there were no seats, and there was the one who saw the opportunity quickly, and regardless of whether the distance was along the way or not, he took a few and ran away in a car, which is understandable, and everyone would not like the kind of reverse excrement after getting drunk, let alone in their own car.

It's good to say that I found two people who were willing to take the wine putty.

Because Lin Yun and Lin Laoer's parents were talking with the second grandfather and second mother, they left late, but Lin Laoer's wife and children did not come, Lin Lao Er and Lin Yun and his parents and children were just five people, and no one came to ask Lin Lao Er to bring one of the wine putty back.

This led to a small episode in the end, the people here were almost gone, and the two wine putties were also carried away, and Lin Yun's family was just about to go home.

When the boss's cousin called Lin Lao Er, one of the wine putty had just left the road and had not yet reached the city because he had drunk a lot of wine, and several young people in the car were not used to talking nonsense, and the wine putty was driven down by several young people in the car.

A few young people called the boss and asked them to arrange who would take the car behind, and they left.

This is a bit laughable, the wine putty has the wine putty, and the young are not the young.

Lin Lao Er muttered on the phone, and several people began to set off, and they really walked for more than ten minutes, and just walked on the road not far away, they saw a person sitting on the ground on the side of the road with black lights.

Lin Lao Er drove the car close to the park, Lin Yun got out of the car and saw that the acquaintance was the wine putty who was at the table with Lin Yun at night.

Lin Lao Er and Lin Yun got out of the car and told this person to wait here for a while, send the family home first and then come back to pick him up, the man was still drunk, and he was loud and angry, while gesturing his arms indiscriminately.

"Okay, okay, no problem, you go." The indescribable arrogance of dry clouds made Lin Yun and Lin Lao Er a little big.

This place is about ten kilometers away from Lin Yun's parents' house, and if you drive faster without traffic jams, it will only take ten minutes.

Lin Lao Er sent Lin Yun and his parents and daughter home, and it didn't take half an hour to come back.

In about ten minutes, he arrived downstairs with his parents, Lin Yun was about to go back with Lin Lao Er to deal with the wine putty, Lin Lao Er waved his hand and said:

"Forget it, forget it, don't go, I'll send him home directly in a while, but my parents are here."

Lin Yun thought about it, so he didn't insist anymore, and his father and mother also instructed Lin Lao Er to pay attention to safety, so he carried a few longevity bowls and towels upstairs.

Eating the birthday banquet and sending the birthday bowl and towel, it is also the tradition of Sichuan, and there is the name and birthday of the birthday star on the bowl, which means that everyone congratulates the birthday star and adds blessings to the birthday, and the young people are also touched with the blessing of the birthday star.

Lin Yun hugged her sleeping daughter and followed her parents upstairs, and her daughter had a little motion sickness, so she fell asleep as soon as she got in the car, which is also a very good way to avoid motion sickness.

Lin Yun didn't take a bath with cold water last night, and as soon as he got home, he felt really unbearable, went upstairs, and just put his daughter on the sofa to take a bath, and his daughter woke up.

The sleepy-eyed little girl didn't cry, she got up and asked her grandmother, too, children, whoever brings more will naturally stick to whom.

This is the law of giving and reaping, Lin Yun felt a little helpless, it was indeed a little difficult to let this little girl open her eyes and find herself, according to the current pace of work.

"Grandma is in the dining room, my son is good, Dad will turn on the TV for you."

turned on the TV for the little girl, Lin Yun found a set of clothes and went to take a bath, it was only half past eight after washing, the bed in the countryside was a little hard last night, this thing didn't sleep well, and when I took a bath, I decided to go to bed early tonight.

After Lin Yun washed, her parents also bathed the little girl first, and then washed and slept separately.

For his parents' control of time, Lin Yun naturally can't do it, it's too regular, he gets up at six o'clock in the morning and goes to bed at nine o'clock at night, and he can't move, but his daughter follows and develops a very good habit of work and rest.

Lin Yun originally planned to rest early, but as soon as he got into bed and pinched his mobile phone, he threw the decision to go to bed early out of the clouds.

Brushing the news, you can know that there are too many people in this world who have no lower limit of being a person.

What celebrities are cheating, who is taking drugs, a bunch of brutes, they get angry when they look at it, thinking that this group of people eats more and occupies more, and they have a lot of wealth, Lin Yun is even more angry.

MD, out of sight is clean, 2014 is an unusual year, the high-pressure anti-corruption that began in the first half of the year, accompanied by a series of corrupt high-ranking officials have fallen one after another, it really makes everyone very relieved, a burst of applause, but when to take this gang of people who eat people and don't pull human to open the knife, maybe it will be more relieving for the people, yes, especially for people like Lin Yun.

In the minds of people like Lin Yun, there is a big difference between an actor and a performing artist, and I believe that most people can also distinguish it, although their standards are different, they can still be clearly divided overall.

In his thoughts, the phone rang, and when he saw that it was Luo Bing, this kid didn't talk nonsense as soon as he came up, like the style of doing things on weekdays.

"It's too busy on the construction site, and the boss asks you to book a ticket back the day after tomorrow at the latest."

"It's really fake, I took a week off, and the boss knows."

"You don't believe it, you call and ask yourself."

After Luo Bing finished speaking, he hung up the phone, Lin Yun smiled bitterly in his heart, this kid, you bluff your uncle, a fool will call and ask.