Shuxian was born in an ordinary working family in the county town around Y City, in addition to her parents and sister Shuhui, her parents have loved her little daughter even more since she was a child. In the words of adults, the eldest daughter is mature and sensible, and the younger daughter is smart and clever. And the pampered children tend to be more headstrong.

To others, the personalities of the two sisters are like a pair of antonyms. Shuhui is precocious and understands the world at a very young age; Shuxian grew up almost in the swaddling clothes of her parents and sister. Shuhui's grades were mediocre when she was a student, she barely finished college, went to the society to go alone, and finally got a job in a small company after all the hardships; Shuxian's academic performance has always been outstanding, she was admitted to a key normal university, the employment package was distributed, and the college teachers had five insurances and one housing fund. Shuhui has never been single since she went to high school, and she married her fourth boyfriend half a year after graduating from junior college, and her family did not agree, so she had to follow her beloved man to rent a house outside, take simple wedding photos but did not have a wedding. Shuxian never fell in love before graduating from college, she was used to being a good girl, she was married on a blind date, and her parents were very satisfied with her doctor spouse, so they bought a small new house for them, and held a wedding in a beautiful way.

At that time, whenever her parents mentioned Shuxian, they showed a satisfied smile, because she had a stable life, so that the elders could rest assured. In fact, Shuxian herself is also confused by the word stability. Until Shuhui's husband resigned and went to the sea to make a lot of money, they bought a villa and a luxury car, changed a livable house for their parents, and their children went to an aristocratic school, and the working-class Shuxian was suddenly stunned. It's not that she doesn't want her sister to have a good life, it's just that she didn't expect Shuhui, who was so far behind, to take off like a night, which makes people feel out of reach!

Shuxian had to struggle in the firewood, rice, oil and salt, looking at Shuhui's bitter expression, the sense of superiority when she was a child disappeared in an instant. Only then did she realize that life is her own, and it is really useless to cater to others! The "stability" that the elders talk about is nothing more than boiling a frog in warm water. But time flies so fast, life has entered middle age, and it is too late to make a change. In fact, nothing is really late, and Shuxian knows that this is just an excuse for her cowardice.

The naked reality seemed to mock her. In order for her children to go to school, Shuxian sold the small house she had bought from her parents, and took out a loan with her lover to buy a school district house of about 100 square meters. With the only savings left and his year-end bonus, the man bought a scooter worth about 100,000 yuan, on the grounds that almost all the other doctors in their hospital had cars. This husband and wife are both working-class families, and life is suddenly tight. Shuxian, who is a thrifty housekeeper, has to often buy some discounted goods in the supermarket, she feels that she has fallen into an ice hole all of a sudden, and life has forced her to be like a sardine squeezed in a can.

Shuxian often casually ridicules herself as a three-nothing person, no skills, no dreams, and no spare money. Some just have a life at a glance and a meager dead wage. Time brought her endless anxiety, and she even dared not look in the mirror anymore, because she was afraid to see the crow's feet creeping up the corners of her eyes, and a few white hairs that suddenly appeared.

She suddenly felt that men live really chic, and their thirties are the age when a man is in his prime, unlike women, who consume their youth in housework and work. Shuxian's husband is a plastic surgeon, tall, handsome, and suave, very popular in the hospital, and often has little girls who want plastic surgery to ask him for plastic surgery. Shuxian actually knew that her man was a sweet and sweet outside, but she turned a blind eye. She runs this warm home with all her heart, because a man's mind is not forced to get, what are you tossing when you are an old husband and wife? Shuxian is not such a stupid woman. Fortunately, since getting married, men have never returned late, and even if there is entertainment, they will definitely inform in advance.

Daughter Nia is ten years old. It is gratifying that Nia is not only sensible but also has a high emotional intelligence, and has leadership skills at a young age, which is about a natural material. My daughter became the class leader in the first and second grades of primary school, and was later promoted to the brigade committee in the year. Every time I went to pick her up at school, the teacher was full of praise for her daughter's performance at school: uniting her classmates, no shelves, the teacher's right-hand man, and willing to help the weak...... The teacher praised Shuxian every time for being good at educating children, so she would cultivate such an excellent Niya. This made Shuxian both relieved and confused, in fact, she had never been a leader since she was a child, and she didn't know how to cultivate a small leader.

Nia's precociousness makes Shuxian feel very relieved, and the fly in the ointment is that despite her hard work, her academic performance has been hovering in the middle. Shuxian didn't force her to score a lot of points, on the contrary, she often comforted Nia and asked her to do her best, and tried to use her weekends to help her develop hobbies. However, the cost of the tutoring class discouraged Shuxian, because the monthly mortgage and living expenses had overwhelmed Shuxian.

Nia seems to have sensed this, and voluntarily gave up various interest groups on the weekend, saying that she does not like to go to tutorial classes, and prefers to read extracurricular books at home on weekends. Shuxian tentatively asked her daughter, what kind of person do you want to be in the future? Nia smiled and said that she would like to be the one who sat on the side of the road and applauded. Shuxian was puzzled. Nia went on to say that not everyone is going to be number one, she just wants to be herself and bring joy to others. Shuxian was taken aback at first, she didn't expect her daughter's mentality to be so good, she suddenly felt that Nia was becoming more and more like Shuhui when she was a child.

Think about it day and dream night night. Shuxian dreamed of her childhood Shuhui for several days in a row, sometimes going to school hand in hand, sometimes going to the park to play together. Shuxian woke up with tears wet the pillow towel, she vaguely remembered that when she was a child, the two sisters followed the adults to the "Ice and Snow World" to play, the house was full of artificial landscaping ice and snow, Shuxian and Shuhui excited "snowball fight", and had a lot of fun. Shuhui asked Shuxian what her first feeling about snow was, and Shuxian winked and smiled, "Like a flower!" That memory has long been rooted in the depths of Shuxian's memory, and she even feels that she chose a university in the north without hesitation when she grew up, which has a lot to do with it. Because she wanted to see the real snow.

When she first arrived in the north, Shuxian was curious about everything around her. The steamed bun is actually bigger than her face, and the bite is fragrant and strong, and Shuxian is full after only a few bites. She only ate rice once in school for several days, because there were too many other delicious noodles in the cafeteria: dumplings, oily noodles, whistle noodles, and braised noodles, most of which she had never heard of before, but she felt that they were very fragrant. Shuxian likes to eat cold noodles the most, especially the Korean noodle restaurant directly opposite the school, because the cold noodles in that shop are strong, the soup is fresh and sweet, and they are boiled with a variety of Chinese herbs, which has high nutritional value. Eating cold noodles in summer is not only cool, but also has a heat-relieving effect.

The proprietress is a Korean woman with excellent cooking skills and hospitality. She saw that Shuxian often came to eat noodles, and every time she would add more portions to Shuxian's bowl. She told Shuxian that their Korean people eat cold noodles at noon on the fourth day of the first lunar month every year, or on their birthdays, according to folklore, if they eat slender cold noodles on this day, they will live a long life and live a great blessing, so cold noodles are also known as "longevity noodles".

There is also a delicious food near the school called grilled cold noodles, Shuxian always confused grilled cold noodles with cold noodles at first, and later learned that the raw materials of baked cold noodles are different from cold noodles, but the names are relatively similar. Every evening, on the side of the road on both sides of the school gate, there are many uncles and aunts roasting cold noodles around thick scarves, the golden cold noodles are burnt, and from time to time there is a tempting "z-la" sound, coupled with the smoke rising slowly around the iron plate, which makes people particularly appetizing. Shu Xianyou remembers that her favorite street snack in high school was multigrain cakes, and the entrance to college was selling baked cold noodles, and she had her own food memories about every period.

Shuxian felt that she had gained weight in college, she had been thin and thin since she was a child, and it was difficult to grow meat, even when she stayed up late to study in the third year of high school, she ate a special sachet every night to replenish her strength, it was her fattest year, and her weight only soared to 98 pounds. And now she was surprised to find that her weight was already 101 pounds, which was terrible! Probably because they eat pasta almost every day at school, and they sometimes make dumplings in their dormitory. Of course, all this was done secretly in secret from the teachers who inspected the dormitory. Because the school teachers were worried that the students would use high power to cause fires, they often knocked on the door of the dormitory during meal time and raided them, and the guards at the school gate did not let the students bring vegetables back to the dormitory to cook. Those who are caught will be named, and as long as one student in the dormitory is named, everyone else will be disqualified from the scholarship at the same time.

For this regulation, good students are daunted, Shuxian and the head of the dormitory are interested in getting a scholarship, usually work hard to accumulate comprehensive test scores, after all, the amount of the scholarship is not low, if you can get it, you can go outside with your friends to have a little fun. However, the matter of making dumplings in the dormitory was brought up by the head of the dormitory, because she felt that the noodles in the school cafeteria were good, but the dumplings were unpalatable, and the price was not low, and there was no satisfactory dumpling restaurant near the school. And most of the roommates also had this intention in their hearts, so she took the initiative, and there were countless responders in the dormitory, and this agreement was successfully passed.

In order to ensure that they are not caught by the teacher, they are quiet when making dumplings, pretending that there is no one in the dormitory, and when the teacher knocks on the door, they don't open the door and don't make a sound, even if they want to cough, they have to endure it desperately. I have to admit that it is also a very interesting thing to commit crimes against the wind, and the roommates are quite skilled in the speed of dough and rolling skin, as fast as magic. In the dormitory, except for Shuxian, they are all northerners, and they have made dumplings at home since they were children, and everyone is afraid of being discovered by the teacher, so they use the fastest speed. Shuxian was embarrassed to lower the average speed of the dormitory, and consciously took over the "housework" of cooking dumplings and washing dishes.

The most common thing they make is cabbage vermicelli dumplings. The Chinese cabbage in the north is delicious to death, sweet and cheap, Shuxian can't wait to eat cabbage for every meal, and the cabbage and vermicelli are stuffed and wrapped in dumplings with a unique flavor. Song Fan Chengda's poem "Four Seasons Pastoral Miscellaneous" has clouds: "The snow is picked to step on the ground, and the taste is like honey root and fattening." "In ancient times, cabbage had a very elegant name, called "Woad". The ancients made words, on the top of the pine, add a grass prefix, become the meaning of the word, vividly indicating that the cabbage has the character of a pine tree.

There is a big farm near the school, Shuxian loves to eat tomatoes there, as soon as she passes there, she buys a big bag of fruit to eat, and "crackles" out of the juice with her mouth, the sweet and sour sand scoop tomatoes are many times better than those sold in the supermarket. The field on the edge of the farm is a large strawberry field. Every year in early spring and February, the red strawberries in the field are ripe, and Shuxian calls friends to go to the fields together. There are a few marshmallow-like clouds hanging in the light blue sky, and you can't help but want to take them off and hold them in your mouth. A few shades of red in the green bushes, strawberries hide under the leaves, dotted with sun-scented dew, which is mouth-watering. The owner of the strawberry farm is a very generous uncle, he smiled and invited guests from all over the world to eat strawberries, and they didn't have to pay for what they picked and ate in the field, and they sold what they took away. Shuxian and her party all had their stomachs full, and the bags of strawberries they bought back strangled their hands painfully, and when they returned to school, they were distributed to the classmates who didn't go to the strawberry field to play.

For Shuxian, there are too many happy memories in college, and the most memorable thing is watching the snow. I remember the evening of the snowy day at the beginning of the first semester of my freshman year, the world outside the window was like covered with goose feather felt, Shuxian wore a thin camisole and excitedly lay on the bed and hung up the phone with her mother, "The heating here is so comfortable, it is the first time that I feel so hot in winter." The roommates rolled up their pants and ate ice cream while laughing at her with kind eyes. In the words of the head of the house, a native girl of the north, Shuxian "has never seen the world", and she needs to be well cultivated in the north! The clothes were frozen on the balcony, and there were long strings of ice flowers. Shuxian curiously stretched out her tongue to lick it, but she didn't expect her tongue to stick.

On the day she graduated and left school, the road was hot enough to bake cakes, but Shuxian's heart was as cold as freezing. She was silent alone, staggering down the steamer-like street, groggily stopping at a Korean cold noodle restaurant, and silently ordering a bowl of noodles as usual. The proprietress of the shop saw that she didn't look right, so she asked her what was wrong. Shuxian's eyes turned red from crying all of a sudden, which frightened the proprietress and handed her tissues to the side in a panic, comforting her with kind words. When Shuxian thought about it later, her eyes were still moist. Maybe parting is to preserve the good memories of being together. Shuxian and her roommates have made an appointment to meet once every five years, and now she travels across most of China every five years to meet their original agreement.

When she remembered these past events, Shuxian walked alone on the university campus where she taught. An acquaintance student came up to greet her: "Teacher Wu, what have you been busy with lately?" Shuxian thought for a while and replied, "Busy with life." Shuxian found that the older she gets, the more down-to-earth her life becomes.