With a yearning and pursuit of a better life, I moved again.
Thinking back to that year, I used to be like a rootless duckweed, many times the woman transferred the chicks to the exhibition, no fixed place, sent people under the fence; thirteen years ago, coinciding with the Olympic Games, in the misty drizzle, I first tasted the feeling of having a home in the county, the mood is indescribable; at the moment, in the busyness of the year of the ox, in the face of spacious and beautiful new houses, I once again felt the happiness and satisfaction of life "going to a higher level".
The writer Sanmao once said: "The beauty of life lies in its inevitable passage, spring flowers, autumn moons, summer days, and winter snow." To tell the truth, I think that I have not been seriously young, I was washed by the tide of the years to the downstream of the river of life, when I pitched the sunrise and sunset again and again, examined the two sideburns of the "white-haired stars" in the mirror, opened the diary with blurred and yellow handwriting, and faced my faltering parents and energetic juniors, I truly realized that the most ruthless thing in the world is the years, and the most mean is time. "What in the world urges people to grow old, half chicken chirping and half horseshoe", for many years, in the busy work and life, there is no time to sit down and carefully taste the beauty of life, in a flash, all become the past!
In fact, life does not treat you and me badly, as long as you run hard, all the beauty may come later, but this does not affect the quality of life, but because of their own efforts and efforts, just increase the thickness of life, let themselves live steadily and at ease, life is not only meticulous, but also dreams and far away...
Although the hustle and bustle of reality often breaks the sleeping dream, after waking up, it is still full of confidence, sometimes before going to bed the day before the first day, thinking about what to do tomorrow, only by constantly "working" can it fill the boring time and space, and can add some seasoning to the tasteless life. Perhaps due to his own personality, after work, he often longs for a quiet and clean residence, a courtyard, and leisure time: smelling books, tasting tea, ancient and modern, raising children and grandchildren, growing vegetables, raising flowers, weeding, and slowly growing old with time during the seasons. To this end, last year, the wife took advantage of a summer vacation, almost ran all over the county, hoping to find a house with a yard, the result is not a dirty surrounding environment, or the house is dilapidated, disappointed, in the "stepping on the iron shoes nowhere to find", the willow is dark, so there is now a new home: down payment, loan, delivery, decoration, ventilation, occupancy. Each one needs time, energy and capital, in the busy rush and "thousands of gold scattered", I finally have the dream and independent study, with the "cold night guests come to tea as wine, bamboo stove soup boiling fire" tea tasting place, but the most satisfying thing for me is the more than 40 square yard in front of the house, which once again awakened my childhood memories and aroused the passion for farm work. "Side by the soft vegetables, with a hoe to sort out the absurd", bought some agricultural tools that have not been used for many years, head poisoned, clean up weeds, turn the soil, fertilize and sow seeds, people are not lazy, plant melons to get melons, plant beans to get beans, drip sweat, sow hope, harvest full of green: sword-like upright green onions, verdant cabbage, fragrant coriander, cute little green vegetables in all seasons... Sprinkling water, weeding, catching insects is a very pleasant thing to sprinkle vegetables every day, and the greens that are full of sweet springs also live up to my expectations, the crystal water droplets above my head, the comfort of the body, all scramble to swim upstream, overnight will look greatly different, each green vegetable is like a turquoise work of art, let people look at it from a distance and can't bear to touch, often attracting the praise of the neighbors in the community!
As the saying goes: "planting vegetables such as embroidery", in fact, planting vegetables is not only a hard work, but also a careful work, technical work, a careless will be "particles without harvest", the beginning of the do not understand the law of planting vegetables, vegetable rotten leaves, rotten roots and other phenomena occur from time to time, so whenever passing by the vegetable market, humbly ask the vegetable farmers for advice, or through the Network learning, in practice slowly find out their habits, planting will be handy. Growing vegetables not only feasted on the food, tasted pollution-free vegetables, but also enriched their brains, constantly learned new knowledge, and found a lot of fun in life, it is really "Wu Di four regular foot vegetables, after a while a life". Now that I think about it, all the fame and fortune are not as pleasant and real as the vegetables in front of me, so fresh and natural, and not as solid and kind as the loess under my feet. I go out, the vegetable garden is the starting point of my happiness, I return, the vegetable garden is the end of my happiness! Going back and forth between happiness and happiness, what do you want?
Therefore, I quietly pressed the leisure button of life, let life cross the various shackles of "long in the cage", enjoy the beauty and freedom of "returning to nature", and live a clean life of "home in the smoke and light, no dust is irrelevant". In a sense, moving is not just a movement of location and a change of environment, but also the awakening and independence of the soul!
Xu Ren was at home on Monday, November 22, 2021