Chapter 40 of the Year of Tranquility
"If you don't forget, there will be an echo". One thing, if you don't even dare to think about it, the result must be slim. If you think about it day and night, there is a good chance that it will cause ripples of reverberation.
"If you don't forget, there will be an echo" means: as long as the belief is there, there will always be a day when it will be answered. Even if no one understands it now, it will be understood one day.
This sentence comes from Li Shutong. The original words are: the world is an echo valley, if you don't forget, there will be an echo, you shout loudly, the valley thunders, the sound travels thousands of miles, stacked and stacked, wave by wave, the world on the other side has received it. If you don't forget everything, there will be an echo. Because it transmits the voice of your heart, it is endless, and it is imprinted in your heart.
Li Shutong is one of the pioneers of Chinese drama, after he returned from studying in Japan, he served as a teacher and editor, and later became a monk.
Master Hongyi's contribution to Buddhism is mainly reflected in his research and promotion of Vinaya. He has successively cultivated a number of cultural celebrities, such as the famous painter Feng Zikai and the musician Liu Zhiping.
Mr. Zhao Puchu commented on the life of the master as: "Endless treasures for the eyes of the world, a full moon shines in the heart of the sky." ”
He entered Buddhism for further study and was widely accepted. He was a man who had to be serious and thorough in everything he did. As a monk, I also made my own characteristics in terms of Buddhist thought.
A house is not only a shelter for individuals and their families, but also a symbol of success. For many people, it is not easy to build a house or buy a house in their lifetime. Many people will think that the house is a big mountain to climb in the course of life, and when they climb it, they will stretch out their hands and smile. If you can't climb up, you will bow your head and your shoulders and be frustrated.
There are also people who dare not think about it, feeling that their abilities are limited, and they cannot afford to build a house or buy a house in their lifetime. This may stem from an extreme low self-esteem in the heart. Serious inferiority complex is a devastating blow to people, although deep in the heart is unwilling, but in the end by the tide of inferiority complex swept away and powerless to resist. Just like a news item on the Internet, a man was divorced by his wife, and the wife soon got married again. The man was angry and vowed not to go home if he couldn't make any money. But he is already in his forties, and he has no strength, so he has to do odd jobs to earn a living. If more than 20 years have passed, the man has never earned any money and is reluctant to go home, and finally he is poor and sick, unable to tell where he is from and where he lives, and is rescued to go home. Someone commented on the comments below the news: "My wife really has a vision, and she has been working for more than 20 years and is still poor." "How inferior a man's heart should be to create his passive life. It can be seen how important self-confidence is to people. The power of the mind is enormous, otherwise there would be no saying that "man will conquer heaven". Those who are disabled and have achieved brilliant achievements are people with strong self-confidence, believing that "I am born to be useful".
People with low self-esteem are unable to reject others, feel that others are better than themselves, and confident people have their own way. A person with low self-esteem wants everyone to like him, and a confident person only thinks about what he wants to do. People with low self-esteem are afraid of being misunderstood and criticized, and confident people feel that it doesn't matter what others think. People with low self-esteem are not able to make their own decisions, and confident people make their own decisions and take responsibility.
In real life, there are also people who don't want to think about a house, thinking that they just need to have a house to live in, and as for building a house and buying a house, it's not a matter for themselves. Ya felt that her parents-in-law had never considered buying a house, and although their earthen house was outdated, it was also a new house and new furniture when they got married, and the radius was second to none, and the village was almost all earthen tile houses at that time. The earthen tile house can also withstand wind and rain for a hundred years.
The old man's mud house was generally okay, the walls were painted with thick white ash, and the worst one was the one at the end of the west, which had a huge crack in the adobe wall. This room used to be occupied by old grandfathers and grandmothers. Ya remembered that if someone in the village built a new house, the old man would go and watch from afar, and when he came back, he kept shaking his head and muttering: "All the brick houses have been built!" He knows how to drink in a day! "When he married his son, he had a new house and new tiles, which was the envy of people. When his grandson married his daughter-in-law, it was an old house, old tiles and old furniture, and he was ridiculed, but he was already old, and he had more than enough heart but not enough strength.
Ya remembers that when she built a new house, her aunt said, "Your new house is built, so I don't have to worry about the heavy rain collapsing the wall, and I don't have to worry about the old man." "Grandma was gone. I remember that when the juniors cried at the funeral, the old man shouted: "What are you crying about!" That's a good thing! When people are old, they have to leave sooner or later! ”
Ya doesn't remember whether she said it to her aunt or to her husband: "After the house is built, let the old man live in the house next door to us." My mother-in-law was sitting and listening.
Two days later, Ya heard her mother-in-law say to a female relative: "Grandpa Ming'er went to go, and I said that I would set up a mourning hall in this new house, and they (referring to Ya and his wife) would not let me do it." Speaking from the heart, Ya is willing to let her grandparents live in a new house, but she is afraid that her father-in-law and mother-in-law will quarrel and throw things in the new house, especially if she is afraid that her father-in-law will drink too much wine and break the dishes and bowls, and say that he bought it at home.
Ya never understood the psychology of her mother-in-law, she felt that her mother-in-law and her mother were people of two worlds. The mother is hardworking and kind, selfless dedication to her children, relatives and family, and has never complained about whether her children do more or less work. The mother-in-law is not good, she often says with resentment on her face that she does all the work in the family's fields. What Keya saw was that she was mainly doing housework and building a vegetable garden, and when her grandmother was alive, she did it with her, and she didn't do much of the work she really worked on.
Less than a month after Ya came back with her daughter after a full moon, her father-in-law and mother-in-law quarreled with her husband all day long, saying that he always loved to play mahjong, and they did all the work, and they raised his wife and children for him. Ya was very angry when she heard this: her parents-in-law lived in the new house they built and was still so strong, and they couldn't stand it less than a month after she came back with her children. So Ya said that he had separated and separated. When the family separated, it was already the late stage of shiitake mushrooms, and they couldn't sell it for much money. Usually, the money for selling shiitake mushrooms is held by the mother-in-law, and as soon as she has money, she will repay their various loans. As soon as the grain was harvested, it was sold by the parents-in-law until only the rations were left, and the rations were also borrowed when the family was separated. The so-called separation of families is to separate the pots and make their own food. Eating in a pot, the mother-in-law was resentful, thinking that she had cooked for Ya and managed her to eat.
One day, Ya heard her mother-in-law say to a relative who called her grandfather in the bedroom: "Why do you want to split up, it's not that there are two old guys following." Ya felt inexplicable, it was obvious that her parents-in-law disliked her family that only took the children to eat for nothing, how could she and her husband dislike the old grandfather and grandmother?
Ya rarely hears parents say that their children are not good and that they can't do it, but she has heard her mother-in-law say bad things about her and her husband to people more than once. The mother-in-law even incited the grandmother to dislike Ya together. After the family was separated, after dinner, she heard her grandmother say to her mother-in-law in the courtyard: "If you want her to use X, she won't do anything, and she can't even tell the difference between spring and autumn mushrooms." "Usually, the kang shiitake mushrooms are made by my husband, and after the kang is ready, I will sort spring mushrooms and autumn mushrooms. Ya mainly coaxes her daughter to do housework, her daughter loves to cry so much, and Ya is in a hurry to do housework, for fear that her daughter will cry again. She is so envious of her mother-in-law that she has a good mother-in-law, who helps her cook and laundry and coax the children.
Grandma's daily routine was like this: she would get up at dawn to cook on the fire, then feed the pigs, and then carry a basket of clothes to the river to wash, mainly the clothes of her parents-in-law. Ya saw that her parents-in-law's underwear and socks were always in the basket, why were they so calm? I would never let my parents wash the more private things like underwear and socks, let alone let my parents-in-law wash them. Ya has been doing her own laundry since elementary school, and even often washes her parents' clothes.
After the old grandmother washed her clothes and dried them, she went to the vegetable garden to weed. At noon, I picked some vegetables and came back to cook and feed the pigs. In the afternoon, I went to the vegetable garden, and in the evening, I still cooked and fed the pigs.
The old man's younger brother (Ya they call the second master) lives in the earthen house in front, which is said to be more than 200 years old, and the gap in the back wall can reveal light. I think back then, the grandfather's ancestors were all big families, and the large field in front of the door had been the grandfather's ancestors for a long time. The earthen houses of more than 200 years have been eroded by wind and rain, and the walls have peeled off and cracks have appeared.
Ya and her husband only live in half of the earthen house behind her parents-in-law, and that half of the room is just separated by a wall, pressing a door, and there is no sound insulation at all. But the mother-in-law still heard it, although she could not hear what was said, she said dissatisfiedly: "I have been muttering and ...... in the house all day"
But even this half of the earthen house is not easy to live in, once the husband refutes the father-in-law, the father-in-law scolds the husband: "I built this house, I built this furniture, you give me a fuck!" Such hurtful words are often said in front of many relatives, Ya is angry when she hears it, but she is helpless.
Later, when the family was separated (this was the first time that Ya and her husband and her parents-in-law had separated, and there were no daughters at that time. At that time, the factory where my husband worked was no longer good, Yazheng was pregnant, thinking that her mother-in-law's family could make shiitake mushrooms, so she came back. It's just that Ya's health is not good, there was a threatened miscarriage, the child was not saved, and the separation after having a daughter is the second separation), Ya and her husband lived in the earthen house of the second master in front, and there was really no place to live, and the second master was no longer there at that time. The second master's son and daughter-in-law both work in the hospital in the town and live in the hospital's assigned suite, so the earthen house is idle.
The mother-in-law always said that the second master's house was in front, blocking the financial road and luck behind. The son and daughter-in-law of the second master also had no intention of living in the countryside, and the house was so dilapidated, and the two families had a direct blood relationship, so they simply gave it to Ya's husband. The requirement was to hold a funeral hall here when they were old and left, and Ya's father-in-law and mother-in-law readily agreed.
The relationship between the two families is really good, when the husband is young, the grandson of the second grandfather often sleeps with her husband, and the granddaughter often sleeps with her sister-in-law. To this day, the two families often spend time together during the New Year's holidays. The grandchildren of the second grandfather grew up to study outside, and they all fell outside.
In the old society, people mostly lived in adobe houses, that is, houses with mud walls, and the materials inside and outside the walls were made of mud. When he was a child, he saw people making adobe walls. There are two main methods of forming a wall: one is to make a mold made of wood after the wall foot (generally with stone as the wall foot), put it on it, put it into the soil mold, and manually tamp it into a wall in layers and layers. The second is hand-made adobe bricks, (mostly referring to unfired adobe bricks) made of walls.
In terms of thermal insulation and moisturization, adobe houses have a relatively good performance. Clay walls are generally up to 500-600mm thick, with sufficient thermal resistance and good thermal insulation effect.
The adobe house has the advantages of an adobe house, which is warm in winter and cool in summer, but it is not strong enough to withstand the long-term erosion of the storm. Therefore, brick houses eventually replaced earthen tile houses, but in the rainy and humid south, even high-rise buildings were covered with more tiles. In the early years, large red tiles were common, and in recent years, retro green bricks and green tiles have risen again. Rows of tiled green bricks along the street make people suddenly travel back to a long time.
When Yachu got married, someone in the village saw her father-in-law and said, "The daughter-in-law has also married, and this earthen dam house should be built together." ”
The mother-in-law said, "I can't get up, I don't have any money." ”
"If you don't take out your money, will you have to bring it in a coffin? Haha......"
"I have to have money in my hands, and I'm a character." Mother-in-law said.
Relatives and neighbors of the same era as my parents-in-law all built red brick houses one by one, and most of them were buildings. They are suspicious of Ya's parents-in-law who are still looking for someone to borrow money, and they think that Ya's parents-in-law should have saved a lot of money. Ya believes that they have no money, they do so few projects, and her father-in-law has to get drunk and smoke every day, smoke a few packs of cigarettes every day, and he is always gone, and he likes to soak in mahjong parlors on weekdays...... How can you save money in this way? The father-in-law's explanation is that other people's grandfathers and grandmothers live as old as their parents, and if they live one or two decades longer than others, they will use food and money for one or two decades more than others. Ya thinks her father-in-law's explanation is quite strange.
The grandfather left when he was 90 years old, and the grandmother left when she was in her 80s. Their long life span is due to the fact that they live a regular life and have good habits. The old man is not addicted to smoking and drinking, and he has to make a big cup of tea and drink it slowly before going to bed every day, and he is not picky about eating. I also like to play mahjong, exercise my brain, and prevent Alzheimer's disease. The grandmother has to drink one or two white wine every day to invigorate blood and eliminate blood stasis and tendons, and she can't be idle during the day, so she goes to bed early and early at night.
Her parents-in-law always said that the family had no money to build a house, and Ya did not agree with this, believing that her parents-in-law did not have the heart to selflessly dedicate themselves to future generations. The mother-in-law and her husband work in the same field, and her son does more and faster than her.
Growing shiitake mushrooms at home, chopping firewood, powder, sawdust, and strains in the early stage are relatively tiring work, and it is relatively easy to pick shiitake mushrooms when they are ripe. The work in the early stage is mainly done by the husband, after all, he is the main laborer. Picking shiitake mushrooms, cutting shiitake mushroom feet, and kang shiitake mushrooms, my mother-in-law has to do a little more, and at this time she will complain loudly that she did the shiitake mushrooms, and as soon as she complains, her father-in-law also shouts loudly.