Original: Humorous Stories of Chinese and Foreign Celebrities (8)

Jia Pingwa, a famous modern writer, is the editor-in-chief of Xi'an Meiwen magazine. One day, Jia Pingwo and Mu Tao, deputy editor-in-chief transferred from Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, took a car to a foreign country, and when the car passed through the Qinling Mountains, Mu Tao lamented the height of the Qinling Mountains and humorously said to Jia Pingwo: "You Shaanxi people are really modest, and such a large mountain range is not called a mountain, but it is called a mountain."

Jia Pingwa knew that Mu Tao was making jokes about the Shaanxi people, so he took the opportunity to change and replied with a smile: "Speaking modestly, it is not as good as you Hebei people." Such a large provincial capital is not called a city, what is Shijiazhuang! After saying that, the two people laughed loudly.

Don't look at Jia Pingwa is a big writer, who has published a lot of books and taken a lot of manuscript fees, but people are very picky. Once I had a cold and a high fever of 39 degrees, but I was reluctant to spend money to go to the hospital. Writer and good friend Zhang Min saw him wearing his wife's big flower pants humming straight on the bed, and his wife laughed and scolded him on the side: "You deserve to die."

Zhang Min was anxious, and went to the back of the house to borrow a rack car from the greengrocer to take him to the hospital. Jia Ping was unwilling and said, "You go buy a watermelon for me to hold." At that time, watermelon was cheap, four cents a pound. Zhang Min had no choice but to run to pick up a large watermelon and hold it back. Jia Pingwo slept with the watermelon in his arms until midnight, and the man really had a fever, woke up and cut open the watermelon and ate it, saying: "Spending three cents to cure the disease, and watermelon to eat."

People familiar with Jia Pingwo know that he has a lot of distrust of machines. In the early years, Jia Pingwa fell on his heels on his bicycle. A computer company came to his door and gave him a computer to write. As a result, he could not pass the level of typing: using the pinyin method, he opened his mouth full of Shaanxi dialect; with five strokes, his fingers did not listen to the call; with the writing board, his strokes were not standardized, showing that most of them were typos. As a result, he wrote more than two hundred words on a computer, and finally abandoned the computer and wrote by hand, on the grounds that the computer was not as fast as handwriting.

Compared with the computer, the mobile phone was accepted by Jia Pingwa. However, there are also a lot of jokes. One of his painter friends, Xing Qingren, won the gold medal of the 7th National Art Exhibition for his painting "Memories of Xuan Zhen", and named the studio "Xuan Zhen Garden". Once, Jia Pingwo wanted to talk to this friend, and when he was leaving, he sent a text message to his wife: "I will go to Xuan Zhen Garden to see Qingren." Unexpectedly, after Mrs. Jia received the text message, she called one after another to ask questions, and even finally rushed over to see who Jia Pingwa saw in the "Rose Garden". When she arrived at the "Rose Garden", Mrs. Jia was very surprised, the owner of the "Rose Garden" was "beautiful" than Jia Pingwa, and he was also a short and fat big old man.

Lady Jia was astonished, and Jia Pingwa and Qingren were also puzzled by her behavior. Mrs. Jia blushed and explained for half a day, but the more she talked, the more confused she became, and finally she simply showed them the text message sent by Jia Pingwa. When the two of them looked at it, they were also happy, and the display on the mobile phone screen was: "I went to the rose garden to meet my lover."