The Northern Stories of Chef Lao Tan

Chapter 517 August Festival

Everyone in this world is an ordinary person. The so-called difference is the difference in the quality of life and environment brought about by the amount of wealth and status.

Saying this is not secular, but a standard for people to judge the quality of life by convention.

Don't envy Lao Zhuang, who is so ecstatic, and don't lament the injustice of fate. As long as people live, they have to work and work hard, because in reality, if you don't feed for nothing, there will be no pie in the sky.

So many people are still doing it even if they are successful. In addition to living well for themselves, they also have to live for many people.

This is not to say how noble it is, but the responsibility of living people.

The time when people can fully feel the responsibility is often gone, and they tell themselves what to do for the responsibility on their shoulders in a kind of self-blame that seems to be regretful.At this time, doing it silently is real, unlike the sudden awakening and whim when you were young.

And that's exactly what happened.

Let's take the most direct example of honoring parents.Our parents raised us up, and it is obligatory and justified to honor them.But what kind of tribute do you take when you are incapable and can’t even support yourself?
In ancient times, there was a practice of cutting meat to serve one's mother. This is a classic and truly a great filial piety, which cannot be discussed.But to be more realistic, if one day you cut yourself to death, wouldn’t it be even more sad that the white-haired person would send the black-haired person away?

To tell the truth, my personal point of view: Human nature is good at the beginning, there are no unfilial children in the world, only incompetent children.When a person is weak and unable to support his family, he also wants to honor his parents, even more than rich people, but often a penny overwhelms a hero, and he can only be sadly filial but unable to do so.

Having said that, people will only let their parents spend their old age peacefully when they have the ability, and the rest are all nonsense, not enough for parents to worry about.

People, don't brag, when you have neither the ability nor the responsibility, you are not as good as a pig or a dog, but you are just like a dog.Only when you realize the responsibility and do it, you can understand it.

Of course, responsible people don't necessarily have to be all-powerful.

A small courtyard is safe in all seasons, and three earthen houses are sheltered from wind and rain.Men farm and women weave work hard, sons are filial and wives are virtuous and dignified.Do not steal or rob the right way in the world, and live happily with the family without worrying about food and clothing.

That's enough!

Seemingly simple, how many people can do it?

It is more of a false name and chasing after gold and silver, always feeling insufficient and always doing it, always doing it but always not enough.

This is Lao Tan's perception after he got sick. He has not yet reached the age of knowing his destiny. These are a summary of his life in his forties.In other words, he has a deeper understanding of the word responsibility than before, and knows how to do it.

On August [-]th, Xiaomei's mother cooked the meal and called Lao Tan and Yaru to eat. Yaru had met Xiaomei's parents the day before and talked with Xiaomei's mother for a long time. For a while, the impression was very good.

Xiaomei's parents were not surprised by Yaru's arrival, and they didn't show what Lao Tan thought—looking at him with different eyes.The old couple is the same as usual, what to do.

This made Lao Tan feel more at ease. At the same time, he felt superfluous for his own worries and misled others.

As soon as Lao Tan and Yaru walked out of the gate, Yingzi's mother came to meet her, and she also asked Lao Tan to eat at home.Lao Tan first introduced Yaru to Yingzi's mother, and then talked about going to Xiaomei's parents' house for dinner.

Yingzi's mother was a little disappointed, and Lao Tan couldn't bear to see it, so he made a compromise suggestion - ask Yingzi's mother to go home and call her husband, and take the delicious food she made to Xiaomei's parents' house, so that the six members of the three families can live together During the festival, it is still lively.

Yingzi's mother thought about it and accepted it. She and Xiaomei's parents walked around frequently and had a good relationship. Xiaomei's father always drank with Yingzi's father.

So this Mid-Autumn Festival was spent at Xiaomei's parents' house.

It was evening after dinner, the sun set down on the western mountain ridge reluctantly, and the sunset glow dyed half of the sky red.

Lao Tan and Yaru walked back side by side.

It's a bit cold in the evening, but it's not yet cold, and there is comfort in the warmth and coolness.The cornfields on both sides of the road are all yellow, and half of the golden corn kernels are exposed on the ears of corn, and the ones that are fruitful have already drooped, and they can be harvested with a light break.
"Xiaomei's father seems stubborn." Yaru said.

"Well, he's a stubborn old man." Old Tan said.

"Xiaomei's mother is good, good old lady."

"Well, you have a good heart, you don't have a bad heart, you always think of others."

"Did you know what Xiaomei's mother said to me when you were drinking?"

"What did you say?"

Yaru smiled, looked Lao Tan up and down first, and then said: "She said that she wanted to call Xiaomei with you at first, and she also called her sister-in-law, which means your second sister-in-law told your mother."

Old Tan said: "There is such a thing, but my mother disagrees, saying that she is inferior and afraid of chaos."

"Then what's the mess? Let's talk about each other."

"You, you don't understand anything." Old Tan touched Yaru's head and said, "Xiaomei's aunt is my uncle's second sister-in-law. In Lunshu Xiaomei calls me uncle and my mother and grandma. If we become married What's wrong? Do I call my second sister-in-law sister-in-law or aunt? Does she call my mother aunt or sister-in-law?

It's alright with my family, our old Tan's family is a big family, and the whole family will be a generation shorter by then, so don't talk about it! "

Yaru laughed and asked, "Do you regret not making it with Xiaomei?"

"Oh, I didn't mention this matter at all, so why regret it? Besides, you are in the countryside, you know, the countryside pays attention to seniority, there is no sister-in-law to marry brothers, it's okay to marry uncles and nephews."

"It seems that feudal thinking has harmed you."

Old Tan said: "No harm. No harm. At that time, Lin Yan and I were already engaged, and we were renting a house in Santaizi. We only wanted to make money and didn't care about anything else. We didn't have those thoughts.

Besides, who is destined to be with who is a family, and you can't force it—"

Yaru wanted to use this topic to say a few more words, but after hearing Lao Tan's words, he stopped talking and stepped forward to take his arm.

Old Tan felt hot in his heart.

A full moon rises quietly, and gradually becomes clear and bright as the sky darkens. The osmanthus tree above has an outline, and the jade rabbit under the tree.

The two entered the small courtyard, but Lao Tan didn't enter the house and sat down at the table in the middle of the courtyard.Yaru went into the room to make a pot of tea and put it down, then went back to the room and came out again, there were moon cakes and fruits on the table.

The moon is high in the sky, and there are clouds beside it.

"It is estimated that there will be rain tomorrow and the day after tomorrow." Old Tan said.

"I can't." Yaru said.

Old Tan pointed to the lumpy cloud next to the moon and said, "Look, it's a lumpy cloud, rising from the back mountain, it proves that there is rain."

"in vain."

"If you don't believe me, just watch. It will definitely rain tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."

Yaru broke off a piece of mooncake and put it in his mouth, and then broke another piece into Lao Tan's mouth, and Lao Tan opened his mouth and bit it.

The moon cakes are filled with five kernels and are very fragrant.

After swallowing the mooncake in her mouth, Yaru asked Old Tan, "Do you know what I'm thinking now?"

Old Tan asked: "What do you want?"

"I'm thinking that everything is fate, as if everything is arranged. You said that if you are not sick, I can't come to see you, and I can't spend August Festival with you like I am now--hehe, I am Thank you for being sick."

After Yaru finished speaking, she looked at Lao Tan emotionally, and a rare charm appeared on her face.

Old Tan smiled, stretched out his hand and hugged her into his arms.

This moment seems to be back to 20 years ago, a pair of infatuated man and woman who are in love are sitting under the moon, cuddling tightly.

(End of this chapter)