Some people say that people are poor and short-minded, and they don't know whether this sentence is true or not. Whether it is because of the lack of money that people do not have great ambitions, or whether people who come from poor backgrounds do not have great ambitions, there are different opinions.

But Yinglong feels that whether there is ambition or not does not lie in the rich and poor, but in the knowledge and wisdom, whether there is backbone or not.

People must not be arrogant, but they must have backbone.

Yinglong's family was not wealthy, and the economic conditions were at a moderate level at that time.

Because their parents raised four children, although Yingnan and Milan both have salaries, because they spend a lot of energy and expenses to raise them, they have not been financially well-off, and their lives can only be so-so.

It wasn't until Yinglong was in high school that the family bought a color TV, and before that there was only a small black-and-white TV, and there was no refrigerator at home until Yinglong graduated from high school.

Because of the hardship of life, Yinglong has developed the habit of thrift and thrift, he does not like to spend money where he does not need it, as for spending a lot of money on entertainers and buying very expensive things, in his opinion, it is not allowed.

He knows the value of money, living in a big family, every child needs to compete for the only little resources, there is no condition that allows him to squander at will, and it is a habit that Yinglong has developed since he was a child to accumulate a small amount of pocket money.

Since he was a child, as long as the family gave him pocket money, Yinglong would hide under the mattress, saving little by little, looking forward to one day buying his favorite small things or comic books.

When he was a child, being able to run to the bookstore with a few yuan of change and pick out a few comic books was Yinglong's favorite thing.

It seems that when he handed the pocket money he was holding in his hand to the clerk, who stamped a blue stamp on the last page of the book, he suddenly felt a sense of ritual in his heart, as if he had fulfilled a long-prayed wish, and felt extremely gratified.

The snacks on the counters of those food stores were full of temptation, but he was unwilling to spend a penny more to buy these delicious snacks to satisfy his appetite.

Although he tried to control his desires at that time, he sometimes couldn't help but pay for a pack of chewing gum or a bag of olives to take a few bites when he wandered in front of the counter of a food store.

In front of the stalls at the school gate that make candy paintings or noodle kneaders, Xiao Yinglong is always full of curiosity and will only pay a few cents to buy a candy painting or noodle man after ten minutes to satisfy his irrepressible joy.

Although Yinglong is now a young man and has accumulated a lot of living expenses from his parents, he considers that he can't rely on his own ability to make money for the time being, and there is no suitable part-time job, so he tries to suppress all consumption desires, and even eats in the canteen according to the usual consumption level.

He just had to eat his stomach, and he didn't have to eat deliciously.

Shiwei's family is not rich, her parents are employees of state-owned enterprises, and her life is quite reluctant.

Because Shiwei is diligent in studying, her family is willing to provide her with the help of finishing college.

She is a native of Wuhan, and she came to study in Bincheng because her mother had lived in Bincheng, and she heard that the climate here is good, and the summer is not as hot as Wuhan, and Bincheng University is also a well-known school in neighboring provinces, so she was admitted to this university.

Here, she is fascinated by the university's cherry blossom garden, which she thinks is one of the biggest highlights of the school. Although the president believes that the library of the university is one of the best cultural facilities among the universities in the province,

But most of the students agree that the cherry blossom garden is the most fascinating landscape in the school.

How much living expenses Shiwei's family gave her every month was never revealed to Yinglong. Yinglong was very curious, but Shiwei just kept silent.

He was worried that Shiwei would not eat well and wanted to invite Shiwei to eat together, but Shiwei insisted on refusing. She told Yinglong: If you eat together like this, it will be embarrassing if your classmates see it.

If the teacher finds out, they will be criticized, and then it will not be good to be together in the future. But what was the deeper reason, she didn't say anything.

Shiwei also talked to Yinglong about her hometown, and said that her mother had lived in Bincheng for a few years, and then went to Wuhan with her grandfather, met her current father, and later had her.

When she was a child, Shiwei's family had a very hard life, but she always satisfied her hobby of reading and encouraged her to help her.

So later she chose her favorite Chinese major, which suited her personality hobbies very well.

Shiwei is interested in sugar painting and dough kneading, which used to be a favorite thing for children in her hometown.

When she was a child, she liked to watch the dough kneading people perform tricks on the streets and alleys, and the characters in "Journey to the West" were in the hands of simplely dressed foreigners, using kneaded colored glutinous rice flour to pinch it three or two times, and they became vivid Sun Monkey, Zhu Bajie and Sha Monk.

This made her stunned, but the young Shiwei was reluctant to spend money to buy a powerful Monkey King.

Until her birthday, her father fulfilled her little wish, and at the stall by the park, the craftsman pinched a Monkey King holding a golden hoop stick on the spot and bought it for Xiao Shiwei.

Xiao Shiwei got the Monkey King face on her birthday and was happy all day.

When she put the noodle man on the head of the bed and liked it for a week, but then I don't know what happened, this noodle man was half eaten by the hateful mouse without everyone knowing, which made Xiao Shiwei sad for several days, and finally reluctantly put the remaining half of the noodle man in a box, and since then she has collected it and never opened it again.

Seeing Xiao Shiwei's sad appearance, her mother asked her father to buy another one for her, but Xiao Shiwei always refused, insisting that she didn't want a second Monkey King, because Sun Wukong only had one, and the most important thing to do was to drive out the rats in the house.

Later, her parents tried a lot of ways to drive away the rats, and although it took a lot of effort, the rats went and came like hateful cockroaches.

Although the number of rats in the house is already small, you can still see their occasional flashing shadows.

From then on, Shiwei understood why she wanted to get rid of "pests". Because as long as there is soil where "pests" breed, there will be "pests", which will bring troubles and sorrows to everyone.

The Monkey King face-to-face man left a deep impression in Shiwei's mind.

After she was in middle school, whenever she saw a noodle kneader's stall on the street, a group of children would gather around, and she would come up with great interest to admire it and reminisce about her childhood wishes.

Sometimes Shiwei will buy a monkey to take home, but after a long time, although there are no hateful mice to bite, it will soon fall a layer of dust, so that the vivid Monkey King will change color, and there is no such vivid appearance as in the past.

She also gradually understood that although some things in her memories are precious and often melancholy, when she re-experiences them many years later, she will inevitably be disappointed, so that she will lose the vivid image and aura in her memory.

Therefore, the people and things preserved in the memory were so reluctant at the time, but when I pursued them more than ten years later, they were no longer the original taste, as if they were covered with a layer of dust, and they no longer seemed glamorous.

It's not that they're no longer what they used to be, it's that time has made them taste like they were no longer the same.

But in people's memory, it is still in its shelf life, although years and even decades have passed.

The ups and downs of life add countless aftertastes to these fragments of memories, so that when people look back to pursue something, it is those unfulfilled wishes and unfulfilled promises left in the memory that make them dissatisfied.

But once you experience it again in life, you will feel that it is nothing more than that, and even think that the original idea is too unrealistic.

Therefore, while Shiwei has good intentions for the future, she also wants to grasp her true self in the present and respect her own wishes and ideas.

She didn't want to suppress her wishes too much and save the memories for the future, waiting for them to be reminiscent of in the future.

For Yinglong, she wants to grasp it well, and she doesn't want to just leave him with memories, just like the noodle Monkey King.

Yinglong is very clear about Shiwei's thoughts but doesn't fully understand, Shiwei won't tell him too clearly, Yinglong can only go through it and explore her true thoughts from Shiwei's words.

But the two of them have the same view of cherishing the present, life is very short, if you always choose to give up and leave your feelings to memories, then you can only find those things that touch your heartstrings in your memory in this life.

Many things in reality are always boring and chaotic, but those touching memories on this gravel beach, as long as you pay close attention to find them and are willing to bend down to pick them up, there is no shortage of things that can be found in these bits and pieces that sparkle with brilliance.

For the understanding of life, Yinglong and Shiwei often talk about some ideas.

They can't say profound opinions, but they know how to cherish them, which is an understanding of life, but it is what they have in common.

They don't need to live in luxury, they just know that they cherish everything down-to-earth, but it is a rational idea.

Not only Shiwei thinks so, but so does Yinglong.

They were glad to have met by chance in this small town and had similar ideas.

When Yinglong asked Shiwei about the past, Shiwei was always reluctant to talk too much, but Yinglong was very curious, so he always wanted to arouse Shiwei's interest and let her say more.

But Shiwei feels that the past is just a memory, and if she talks too much, it is just the past, and it is impossible to go back to the past.

But Yinglong was unwilling, he wanted to know more about Shiwei, but when he saw that Shiwei was reluctant to talk about those things that existed in his memories, he always felt very regretful, and when he saw Shiwei's somewhat reserved expression, he swallowed the topic back.

Shiwei also asked about Yinglong's past, Yinglong is not like Shiwei, he is happy to talk about the past, but when he talks about his childhood, he wants to stop talking, and he doesn't want to talk about things when he was a child, even if he does, he only talks about his things in Bencheng.

After all, the experience before returning to Bincheng was just a past in his heart that he didn't want to unveil the veil, and he would rather bury it in his heart and not be known by others, so that this past was gradually covered with dust.

I don't want to know, Shiwei is very interested in his past, but Yinglong only wants to say those things that he is willing to mention, and like ordinary people, he wants to hide some memories, which makes Shiwei a little puzzled.

There are some things in Yinglong's heart, even a scar, he doesn't want others to uncover them, he would rather be covered with a layer of gauze than show them in front of others, as for Shiwei, he is even more reluctant to say it.