In Xi'an in summer, the sun is very poisonous, and the air is full of dry heat, although the treetops are shaking, but the wind carries heat waves.
I'm afraid of heat, so I wake up early every day, exercise in the morning, and buy groceries. Today I took my cart to the morning market, mainly to buy apples, braised beef and half a raw beef tendon.
I have to say that the current merchants are so greedy, in order to sell more money, I hate to count a beef leg as a beef shank, a beef tendon is more than eight pounds, I don't buy too much, the store promised to cut a piece for me.
When I went out at six o'clock, the sun was not hot, I forgot to bring a hat, and after buying apples and beef, I went around the morning market, and the sun hung high in the sky, so I couldn't open my eyes, so I bought a hat on the side of the road and put it on.
When I got home, my husband had already gotten up and watered my flowers and plants, so I made breakfast quickly, first boiled the corn, then boiled two bowls of mash eggs, heated two small flower rolls, and used braised beef, fragrant dried vegetables, cucumbers and dried fruits to put together a plate of side dishes, and then cut a few shredded mustard and mix it with sesame oil.
When you have a full meal and a stomach full of food, your heart is empty, and you sit on the sofa and let your thoughts wander freely and reverie.
My mind involuntarily went back to more than 50 years ago, at that time, there was a big pond not far behind my house, every summer, there would be countless frogs in the pond that were not worth it, the more the sun was shining, the more happy the frogs were, and the heart-rending cry of the trees in my yard, that sound was really intoxicating and annoying.
This childhood memory has been deeply engraved in my heart, and I can't forget it more deeply than the later memories, and it will reappear in my mind when I have the opportunity.
Maybe it's because my life is too smooth, and I have never had any obsession in my heart that I can't let go, and I have lived like this heartless for decades until now.
I always felt that I was very lucky, although I was a firewood girl in the countryside, but at the age when I should have been studying, my parents supported me to study, and I was lucky enough to go to university, and I became a city man who was envied by the villagers at that time to eat commercial grain.
In the 80s, going to college was not like now, it cost a lot of money, and at that time, not only did I not have to pay tuition, but the school also gave me financial aid, otherwise I might not have been able to afford to go to university.
I was assigned to work in the railway, and I worked for more than 30 years, until I retired, and I did not suffer from being laid off and unemployed, and now I can easily live a life of earning money by eating, although my pension is not much, but the days of firewood, rice, oil and salt are enough to spend, and now I face the current life without any burden.
Although the sun is blazing outside the window, I am calm and cool at home, my parents have gone to heaven, no one needs me to worry about it anymore, there is nothing I need to worry about, sitting at the table with a sentence of the headline, if I don't look out the window, I may forget the four seasons.
Therefore, I always feel that I should be grateful for the good policy of reform and opening up of the country, which has allowed me to have a good life today.
Some people say that life is like a dream, but I feel that every year, every day, and every step of my life is so real and down-to-earth.
Thinking wildly, I almost forgot to make lunch, my husband protested, saying that I was going to starve my husband to death, and then I suddenly realized that it was 13 o'clock when I looked at my phone.
I originally wanted to eat rice, and the fish and chicken wings were marinated, but as a result, my husband couldn't wait, so he hurriedly boiled some slurry water, boiled the noodles, and mixed two bowls of slurry water, which was considered to have coaxed his stomach.
At the age of 60, we basically have no requirements for eating, we don't need high-end ingredients, we don't need exquisite plating, we don't need seven plates and eight bowls of sumptuousness, and we don't need a sense of ceremony, as long as it's clean and delicious, and we are satisfied with healthy eating.
My husband and I are both people who have no requirements for life, and it is very easy to satisfy.
So I think the reason why we feel happy is probably because we don't ask for much.