The year of life is dangerous, this is true.
On the day of his thirty-sixth birthday, Professor Bai Da learned what it means to be middle-aged. There are old and young, and life is difficult.
Ting Shuang, this fearless brat, went out to eat at home from morning to noon, and never stopped complaining. For a while, "he always pretended to be a professor to scare me", and for a while "he said that if I could not pass the exam in early August. He won't take me out to play in the autumn vacation, and will leave me at home alone."
Bai Changyi has lived for 36 years and received more criticism and education than today.
In the afternoon, Professor Bai Da thought that he would go shopping with his parents and the little boy Ting Shuang, drive a car, and carry a bag, so that it would not cause any disaster. I didn't expect—"Tingting, you and Changyi this year It's the year of your life, so why don't you go to the beach for the autumn vacation, buy a pair of bright red swimming trunks each." Su Ping touched the fabric of the swimming trunks on the male model, and thought it was very good.
"I have swimming trunks." Bai Changyi turned his eyes away.
Ting Shuang was also unwilling to wear red swimming trunks, so she followed suit: "Me too—" "He didn't." Bai Changyi said.
Oh shit.
Ting Shuang was so angry that he didn't want to wear red swimming trunks alone.
He rolled his eyes and said to Su Ping very cleverly, "Auntie... I want to wear couple's swimming trunks with Chang Yi."
Bai Changyi: "..."
Five minutes later, Bai Changyi had a shopping bag in his hand, which contained two tight red swimming trunks of different sizes.
After shopping for an afternoon, Ting Shuang harvested a pair of red swimming trunks and new clothes that can be worn for at least three autumns, while Bai Changyi only harvested a pair of red swimming trunks.
In the evening, Su Ping and Bai Zhongyan were going back to Berlin. Before leaving, Su Ping pulled Ting Shuang to speak alone.
The two of them walked to a sculptural fountain. Not far away, a wandering entertainer was playing guitar and singing a German folk song "The Last Night."
The water gurgled. The strings are plucked lightly. Strong singing.
The lyrics sing: "You are my treasure, you will always be my treasure..."
"Tingting." Su Ping sat on a circle of stone benches beside the fountain. The sun illuminated the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, the new white hair, and the innocence in her eyes.
"Well." Ting Shuang sat beside her.
"In the past two or three years, today is the happiest day for me." Su Ping said with a smile, "Changyi is really lucky to meet you."
"No, no..." Ting Shuang shook her head again and again, feeling that she could not bear such a big compliment, "I am really lucky to meet him... I am speaking the truth, not talking politely. "
"I'm not talking politely." Su Ping glanced at Bai Changyi who was waiting under a tree in the distance, "I know my son's strengths and weaknesses. I've always worried that he has no worries and no life. enthusiasm."
No passion for life
Ting Shuang didn't understand very well: "Auntie, I don't think he has no enthusiasm for life... I think he is very good at life, he can cook all kinds of food, and he learns new dishes almost every week. We sometimes talk to vico When he went for a walk, he would take a drone to take pictures, and the pictures were very beautiful. We also bought seeds together, and planted new red and blueberries in the yard. He grew better than mine…”
Su Ping has been listening to Ting Shuang with a smile, and the more he listens, the more he smiles: "he wasn't like this before. He always takes care of people, that's right, but that's because he asked himself to be a gentleman. If you've seen him before You will know the difference. Changyi he... Too smart, he determined the focus of his life very early, and then did the rest as things like eating and sleeping - not interested, but he must do it well Like today, he would do things like shopping with people before, but he has never been so happy."
Ting Shuang suddenly remembered the feeling of being so empty and tidy that there was almost no trace of life in the house when he first went to Bai Changyi's house.
After they moved in together, the things at home only increased little by little. Ting Shuang sometimes feels that he has made a mess in the house, but when he thinks about it now, it is actually fireworks.
"Tingting, many people think that Changyi has a good life. They envy him, want to be him, or hope that their children will be him." Su Ping's eyes deepened, "The truth is, if you admire him , like him, admire him, then you want him to be successful, but if you love him, then you want him to be happy. I don't know if he has told you some of his thoughts... Probably not, he has already told others The ideal age. He sees university as too romantic and ideal. Maybe in this life, most universities in the world will not become what he wants. Or, I am more pessimistic, the world will not change. He wants to be what he wants. He has achieved a lot at this age, but he seems to have a goal that is too high. I am thinking, if he fails to achieve that goal, will he regret it after many years? Would you be happy?"
"He told me this..." Ting Shuang looked at Bai Changyi in the distance. Bai Changyi took a sip of the cold drink he had left over before. It seemed that it was too sweet, so he frowned and didn't drink any more. " I can understand him. Those who are at the forefront are different, and others will say they are impractical. But... Practical people make up the existing world, and impractical people can create a new world. There is always Then a few people, if they are all understood, it is not the few people who walked in the front."
"He would actually be willing to say this." Su Ping was a little surprised, but after the surprise, he felt that Bai Changyi should talk to Ting Shuang about this.
"It's not what he said on his own initiative... I happened to ask him." Ting Shuang laughed, "I'm quite stupid. If I don't ask, I don't know what he's thinking. If I don't know, I'll keep asking, he's pretty good. … Be patient, and always tell me. I thought about this question for a long time, and I’ll tell you my opinion… Maybe it’s wrong. Just, I don’t think ideals are too ideal or too unrealistic. , too out of line with the trend of history. All those who lead the trend do not conform to the trend, they are the trend itself. Those who are led, wait for the arrival of the trend, and then follow the trend. Aunt... Although he is more than ten years older than me , but sometimes, I think he just lived out his youthful spirit. A lot of people... get old early in the morning."
Su Ping thought for a while and said, "It's not that I don't understand him or respect him, I just don't want him to have a career. A career needs a result, but people only have countless moments. I hope he is happy every minute and every second. ."
"I also want him to be happy every minute and every second." Ting Shuang smiled, a little shy, "I will make him happy every minute and every second."
Under the setting sun, the fountain is flowing, and the wandering artist is still playing and singing his song: "Eternal life, infinite happiness and joy, please have them all, I pray for this thousands of times."
Ting Shuang stood up from the stone bench, turned around and smiled at Su Ping, then ran to Bai Changyi.
"Happy birthday!"