Life is more than just living

Han Yidao has been busy. In addition to accompanying the old man, Chen Xu studied at Wu Sixian's place. On the night of the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Han Yidao said to Chen Xu: "Liu Jingsheng has been contacting me in the past two days and saying that he wants to invite us to his home. I don't have time, so you can go on my behalf!" Chen Xu nodded helplessly.

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the nanny Sister Lu came to work. Early in the morning, Liu Jingsheng came to pick up Chen Xu and visit him at his home.

When entering the room, Liu Jingsheng took out a new pair of women's slippers and handed them to Chen Xu. She put them on and hurried to see the flowers. The flowers on the balcony are blooming more beautifully, and the lilies in the living room are still intact. She looked at this and that, and she liked it very much. Liu Jingsheng stood behind and looked at her with a smile: "You, like a child, come here, eat something, let's watch while we eat." Chen Xu turned around and saw Liu Jingsheng filling the coffee table with all kinds of dried fruits. drinks. Chen Xu was speechless, why were there so many things? Liu Jingsheng explained: "I don't know what you like to eat, so I bought some of various kinds." Chen Xu looked at the red apples on the table, which had a particularly good color, and fell into memories for a moment. Liu Jingsheng saw her staring at the apples, so he took one and handed it to her. She hesitantly brought it to her mouth, and suddenly felt so sick that she retched. Liu Jingsheng saw her tears coming out and was stunned on the spot. Chen Xu wiped his tears and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, I can't eat apples. When I try to eat apples, it will cause a physiological reaction, and that's what happens."

Liu Jingsheng quickly took the apple and said, "Are you allergic to apples?" Chen Xu shook his head, "It's not an allergy. It was caused by something that happened when I was a child. I tried to change it, but it didn't work."

Liu Jingsheng put the apples on the fruit plate and wanted to take them all away, but Chen Xu stopped him, "Leave it alone. If I can't eat it, just look at it!" Liu Jingsheng asked cautiously: "Can you tell me why?"

Chen Xu sat on the sofa, threw off his slippers, curled up his legs, hugged his knees with his arms, looked at the apples on the coffee table and said: "I could eat apples when I was a child. Later, my parents divorced, and my family never bought any more. Apples. One year, my grandma and I were picking up scraps that could be sold in the garbage. A nearby fruit shop threw a box of rotten fruits next to the garbage. My grandma took the box of rotten apples home. In the evening she Just use a spoon to dig out the rotten parts of the apples and eat the unrotten parts. Grandma ate the less rotten ones, and let me eat the worse ones. Those apples had a strange smell of rot. But because they haven’t been for a long time, I couldn't help but ate the fruit, but I vomited soon after eating it. From then on, I felt sick when I smelled rotten apples. A few years later, I went to elementary school. One year on Christmas Eve, my classmates Everyone gave the teacher Ping An fruit, which is a big red apple wrapped in a beautiful gift wrapping paper. Our teacher Lin is a very good person. She put all the Ping An fruit together and asked the whole class to I was very embarrassed at the time because I didn’t have money to buy Ping An fruit for the teacher. But Teacher Lin said that good things should be shared with everyone, because some students from other classes also gave Ping An fruit to Teacher Lin, so there were enough apples. Every day After I took one personally, Teacher Lin gave me an extra one and asked me to eat it with my grandma."

Chen Xu looked at the apples on the table, "The apples that day were as red as this one and bigger than this one. I could smell the faint fragrance even through the wrapping paper. After school, I happily went home with two apples and thought I ate with grandma, but -" Chen Xu couldn't continue. Liu Jingsheng patted her shoulder to comfort her. Chen Xu suddenly smiled with tears in his eyes and said, "I'm sorry, Teacher Lin. When I got home that day, my aunt was there, and she saw I held two packaged apples and said angrily, 'Where do you get the money to follow this trend? A wrapped apple costs three yuan, enough to buy several. How can you be so prodigal? Is it the money you got from stealing your milk?' I quickly said it was given by the teacher. My aunt said that students give it to teachers, but I have never heard of any teacher giving it to students. As soon as my grandma heard what my aunt said, she pressed me and asked me where it came from. Where did I get the money? I kept explaining but no one believed me. Grandma slapped me several times in anger, grabbed the apple and threw it to the ground. The apple finally rolled under the cabinet. A few days later, I secretly took the apple out, but the apple It also smelled like a rotten apple if it was broken. Because it was given to me by Teacher Lin, I couldn’t bear to throw it away so I ate them all. However, I still vomited violently that time and I can no longer eat apples from then on. There are so many apples in this world. There are so many things that I have never eaten, but I just feel that it is a pity that I cannot eat apples, especially the good apples given to me by Teacher Lin. I can’t taste them. That was the first time I hated my grandma. But , Liu Jingsheng, on the night of New Year’s Eve, I suddenly missed my grandma. I haven’t seen her for more than nine years. On the morning of the first day of the new year, I even asked someone to take a video with my grandma on my mobile phone. Am I a very strange person? She She obviously treats me badly, how could I miss her?"

Liu Jingsheng sat next to Chen Xu, gently held her shoulders, and patted her gently with his hand, "Chen Xu, reconcile with the past. You don't have to forgive, but let go of all the bad things!" Chen Xu wiped away his tears, "Thank you, Liu Jingsheng!" Liu Jingsheng let go of his hand, "Good friend, there's no need to say thank you." He picked up the apple on the table again, "This is an apple imported from New Zealand, envy. It has an interesting name when it comes to us. 'Beloved Concubine'. It is said that foreign monks are good at chanting sutras. Do you think foreign 'Beloved Concubine' would like to be pampered?" Chen Xu was amused by him. She took the apple from Liu Jingsheng's hand and looked at it carefully for a while, then took her own At his mouth, Liu Jingsheng held his breath and looked at Chen Xu nervously. Chen Xu looked up and saw Liu Jingsheng's expression, smiled as if to comfort him, and then made great determination and gently took a small bite of the apple. Chen Xu's conditioned nausea, she tried her best to hold back, but tears flowed out involuntarily. When Liu Jingsheng became anxious, he quickly held it with both hands and put it to her mouth. "Don't force it. If it doesn't work for the time being, we will take it slow." He motioned for her to spit it out. Chen Xu chewed it gently with tears in his eyes, then raised his head and swallowed it. The two people seemed to be frozen. Liu Jingsheng maintained the position of catching the vomit for two minutes. Suddenly Liu Jingsheng said excitedly: "Chen Xu, you are awesome!" Chen Xu looked at the bitten apple and cried and laughed. .

Liu Jingsheng carefully made a fruit salad for lunch that day. Every time Chen Xu took a bite of the apple, Liu Jingsheng was excited, as if Chen Xu had done something extraordinary. After dinner, Liu Jingsheng took the initiative to wash the dishes. Although he was a little clumsy, luckily he didn't break the dishes. In the afternoon, Chen Xu sat on the sofa and talked to Liu Jingsheng about various things that were unknown in the past.