Chapter 345: Longing for Life

What kind of life is true abundance?

In "Huang Xiaochu's Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter", when Huang Lei was cooking, he suddenly said that he was so homesick, missed his wife, missed his children, and wanted to cook a meal for his friends, because he had not been home for a long time because of the filming of "Huang Xiaochu's Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter".

When Han Yi heard a chubby big-eyed man chattering while cooking, saying that he was homesick, he was really warm.

Han Yi can also cook, and he has always felt that cooking and eating is a particularly good relaxation, so he likes to stay at home and cook food on weekends if he doesn't have a job. When the beans are just cooked, the bean skin is like being washed ashore by the waves, squeezed on the side of the pot, and it is particularly rewarding to seize the time to fish out spoonful by spoonful.

At that time, Keiko and Li Jia both told him that tofu skin was more nutritious, and that liking was more important than nutrition.

When it's hot and cold, people are very homesick, or they want to have a home.

In such a hot weather in July, looking at the white sunlight on the long road downstairs, taking a cup of chilled mung bean soup, and lying on the sofa, you should feel so rich, right?

Han Yi often asks Keiko and Li Jia, have you ever felt that you are so rich?

He believes that this feeling will not appear when Keiko buys a car, a house, and a famous bag, and it is difficult for Li Jia to say, because she has no resistance to the car she likes.

When you spend a lot of money, you are most likely to feel poor, no matter how rich you are.

A friend went to Xinjiang to see the wildflowers, and when he came back, he said that standing in front of the sea of flowers, he felt that life was so rich. That year in the Tianshan Mountains, he rode a horse, walking on the mountain path, the side of the road was cedars, there was a dappled sun shadow in front of him, listening to the sound of the horses' hooves, and he felt so rich at that moment.

The feeling of abundance is a peace of mind. At this moment, I was at ease, and after temporarily giving up the ability to think, I found that I lacked nothing.

"When man thinks, God laughs". After the age of twenty-seven or eighteen, sometimes I feel that life is actually motivated by some sporadic sense of abundance.

Once Han Yi went to Wuhan on a business trip, and after the business was handled, he met with Zhou Pei in a café.

A guest said that he cooked beef soup, the guest is a Muslim, good at making beef, he specially bought meat cut off next to the ribs of the cow, Wuhan people called "Wagou", to cook the soup. Cut the meat into small pieces two hours in advance, soak it in cold water, change the water once every half an hour, and the water that was changed was not wasted, and watered the flowers and vegetables he planted on the balcony.

"What people eat and what flowers eat, they grow well." He said.

The radish soup he cooked, without oil, only put a few peppercorns and a few slices of ginger, but it was time-consuming and troublesome. After the pot is boiled, he will move a chair and take a book, sit next to the pot and read it quietly, and go to beat the foam every ten minutes. The meat is medium-cooked, put the white radish cut into large pieces, and still foam every ten minutes. The soup that was finally cooked did not have the slightest hint of oily smell. In a bowl, add a little chive.

Listening to him talk about this pot of radish soup, I think he is really rich. Willing to spend so much time, guarding a pot of soup, doing my best to remove the oil slick on it, listening to the soup pot singing, basking in the dusk sun, and reading an idle book.

Abundance does not have to be a time of wealth, but it must be a time of leisure. If the mind cannot be calm, no amount of money will create a feeling of abundance.

In the summer, Han Yi will have less time to travel on business, he likes to stay at home and make his own popsicles, and then ask Qiu Lang, Keiko, Li Jia and Nuan Nuan to come to the house to share.

The tool is a fruit digging machine. Watermelon, melon, cantaloupe, dragon fruit, kiwifruit, etc., are dug into small balls, strung together with thin bamboo skewers, packaged separately in a fresh-keeping bag, frozen into ice is a small ball popsicle, pure natural and no additives.

Xinjiang seedless white grapes and seedless red grapes are born with small balls. Wash them directly, skewer them with small bamboo skewers, and freeze them into Mini Xiaoice sticks, which they like to eat the most.

Keiko loves frozen durian the most, Han Yi will dig out the whole durian, add a little whipped cream and stir well, put it in the refrigerator, and after two hours, it will be pure durian ice cream. Even without whipping cream, frozen durian has an ice cream texture.

Durian is amazing, a fruit that divides humans into two teams.

To make frozen durian, the refrigerator is going to suffer a little crime, so it is bullied for not having a nose.

What is abundance? It's a popsicle that you can make yourself in the summer.

The charm of hand-made is bought over time, and the more effort he makes, the more he feels rich when the product comes out. So, abundance is also a kind of creativity.

The biggest difference between humans and animals is that we can get a great sense of accomplishment in our creations. The vast majority of people in the world, even if they work diligently, cannot create a new world, and can only guard their own one-third of an acre. Working in small places, when a piece of red dragon fruit is made into a cat's head popsicle and stuffed into a child who doesn't like to eat fruit, his satisfied expression reminds you that you are a rich person.

Knowing how to create a different sense of freshness in the subtleties of life and delighting oneself is wealth. But too many things have happened in the more than two months since Bai Xue came back, and this feeling of abundance has not appeared for a moment.

How Han Yi wants to be a hedonist in his ordinary life.

He has always liked a poem: If you don't come for the night and a half, knock on the chess pieces and drop the lanterns.

There is a saying that "the most difficult wind and rain come to the old man", and the poet's failure to make the appointment make the poet slightly depressed, but this is immediately washed away by his leisure. Gathering and playing chess is to kill time, there is no utilitarian and purpose, and it is okay to come or not come. So, he began to play chess pieces and play with himself. It seems to be careless, but in fact it is comfortable.

This kind of attitude and way of life with the word "leisure" at the head is really admirable.

In fact, there are many poems about "leisure" in the poems of the Song Dynasty, which show the Song people's delicate experience and excavation of life, the simpler the more beautiful, the lighter and more true. When there is joy and fun in the heart, it will be "painting the screen and showing Wu Shancui", and the heart will be transparent and round, and it will be "hanging a small silver hook on the treasure curtain".

From this point of view, when you knock on the chess pieces, you can knock out a detachment and peace.

If you want to be "idle" in real life, you are mostly busy. Whether it can be turned into clarity or timelessness is only in a thought.

There is also a very favorite plot in "Leisure Notes": "In the summer moon, when the lotus flowers first bloom, they bloom in the evening." Yun pinches a little tea with a small yarn sac, puts the flower heart, takes it out tomorrow morning, and soaks it in the spring water of the cooking sky, and the fragrance is particularly exquisite. ”

Here is the daily life of the author Shen Fu and his wife Yunniang, who put tea leaves in the heart of lotus flowers and cooked them in spring water, although they do not have the elegant and chic of Miaoyu in "Dream of Red Mansions", but they are a small pleasure that can be obtained at hand in life. Ordinary and harmonious, the parents are short, but also beautiful.

Qingshan has a sentence in his new book: If you can get all kinds of fun in all kinds of small things, why travel far. No matter how far you go, you can't get out of each other's days for a long time.

After the summer heat in Chongqing, it was extremely hot, which was a kind of torture for people like Han Yi who liked winter and hated summer.

"Go to the suburbs in the mountains on the weekend, drink some beer, watch the mountains, see the water, and watch the stars." Qiu Lang would say.

Chongqing is a good place with mountains, rivers and forests, just like that, he really took Han Yi and them all the way to the foot of the mountain, and sat on a small bench in the evening and ate barbecue with a small cool breeze, not to mention how comfortable it was. The next day, they entered the mountains early in the morning, and along the way they were covered with mountains and mountains, birds and flowers.

It is in response to the sentence "The mountain weather is good, and the birds are returning". Secluded woods, mountain birds sing deep streams, clear spring stones upstream. People can't help but sigh: if you don't go out for a walk, you really can't experience the fun of nature.

Thanks to the hot weather, they can discover another cool place.

Qiu Lang recalled that in the first year of studying abroad, London was hit by a blizzard, but once, after he came to the library with a bunch of materials, he suddenly received an email from the school in his mailbox, to the effect that the school was closed for a day in the snow today, and a snowman building competition was held temporarily, with a prize of 300 US dollars.

At that moment, he remembered how touching the school's motto was "Study Hard, Play Hard". Almost at the same time, he and the others put down their books and went home, got dressed, and went out to play in the snow. In just a few hours, several engineering students actually restored the castle-like activity center on the lawn, the exquisite and magnificent castle in the snow, shining crystal clear and shining under the warm winter sun, becoming a well-deserved first place. In the afternoon, they competed to take pictures of the snow in the park, and although the weather was cold, they were very excited.

Sometimes, bad weather doesn't always bring bad news, and treating it with a playful heart can often lead to unexpected surprises.

Another time, Li Jia had made an appointment to go to a school for a picnic on the mountain with a few friends in the afternoon. The fresh tablecloth had been laid out and they were about to set up the food and drinks, when it suddenly rained heavily, they hurriedly began to clean up, and the four of them ran into the nearest supermarket building at a speed of 100 meters to avoid the rain.

After about half an hour, the rain stopped. However, the grass is too wet, and it is not realistic to continue to go back for picnics. At this time, a friend proposed: "Seeing that it is getting dark, it has just rained, and the air is moist, maybe there will be fireflies!" ”

As soon as she heard the fireflies, she and the other girl suddenly became happy, completely forgetting the embarrassment just now.

In this way, they agreed to go down the mountain first to get their cameras and equipment, and then go up the mountain together to shoot fireflies. That evening, they saw the brilliant sunset and burning clouds, fireflies that were easy to spot but not easy to catch, they worked in pairs, while using flashlights to attract and take pictures with their cameras, before they knew it, the hours passed, but the more they played, the more they got into the state.

Suddenly, they noticed a vehicle approaching in the distance, flashing red. When they got closer, they saw that it was a school police car, and they patrolled the mountains and found them, so they came up to ask them, and she smiled and showed them the results of the camera, and one of the uncles praised them for their good shots.

It was a picnic that didn't materialize, but it turned into a wonderful firefly dance.

That day, she happened to hear a very nice song, and there was a short poem in the song, and she remembered it after listening to it once:

The front of the court is full of flowers and trees, and the path outside the courtyard is fragrant.

The four often go to each other, and the windows are cut on sunny days.

She told Han Yi about this the next day, and Han Yi's first feeling was that this was a portrayal of his life with his grandparents on Tea Tree Mountain when he was a child.

At that time, they planted two crape myrtle trees in the small yard in front of the gate they fenced, one was her and the other was grandpa. There are more flowers and bones on Grandpa's tree, but Grandma's tree is beautiful······ Thinking about it, Han Yi was suddenly moved.