love letter to summer

The kitten jumped onto the stool, lay down, and curled up into a round, fleshy ball, next to Ye Ji's leg.

Xia Tang looked at the flowers and plants outside the pavilion, sighed softly, and said, "Do you remember a TV show we watched in high school called "The Poor Man's Battle Series"?"

"The Battle of the Rich and the Poor" is a set of reality show programs. The program team invites a number of people from wealthy families with high education or successful experience to experience the daily life of grassroots people in the program.

In the first year of high school, one day the head teacher played one of the episodes in the class after school, and the students who wanted to watch it kept it for themselves, and those who didn’t want to watch it could leave at any time.Most of the students left after watching it for about ten minutes. Ye Ji remembered that there were about eight students who stayed at the end, including him and Xia Tang. The eight people sat in the classroom silently, watching the film quietly until the end of the film. the last second.

In that episode, the rich man invited was named Chen Yanlin, a typical successful person—graduated from a prestigious university, worked in an investment bank, and earned more than or equal to the annual salary of ordinary citizens in a month.Later, she resigned willfully and went to France to learn cooking, and then graduated from Le Cordon Bleu culinary school in France with No.1 grades.

"Life winner" should refer to this kind of person.

Chen Yanlin has always wanted to promote the concept of "nutrition", hoping that every family can eat nutritious and healthy food.Before the filming of the show, she always believed that nutrition and price are not necessarily proportional. Even if you are poor, as long as you have the heart, you can cook nutritious and balanced meals.

So as soon as she came to the low-income family where she was staying, she went into the kitchen to watch the head of the household cook. You can fry the zucchini before, the taste and texture will be better, and so on.

The hostess embarrassingly complied, while hesitatingly saying it seemed like a waste of gas and that the spinach was too expensive.

How can one think about nutrition when one cannot meet even the basic needs of life?

The daily budget of living expenses is only enough for them to buy the cheapest food, buy a little extra meat, buy some fresh vegetables instead of buying and selling leftovers, or buy a live fish instead of a dead fish, which can make them feel better. They overrun their budget to the point where they can't afford to buy groceries the next day.

After watching it back then, Xia Tang felt as if she had gone mad, thinking about the content of the film every day, and later looking everywhere for books about food shortages and the disparity between rich and poor.

Xia Tang said: "I was shocked by that video. I never thought that in such a highly developed city, there would be people starving all the time. But after reading a lot of materials, I found that this Far from being the most serious problem."

"Did you know?" Xia Tang looked into Ye Ji's eyes and said, "In places like the Loess Plateau, the land is unimaginably barren, and the so-called 'soil' is actually dry yellow sand. The handle can be blown away by the wind."

He shook his hands, as if grabbing a handful of sand: "The land holds water very poorly, and there is very little land that can be cultivated. In some places in Gansu, the only crops that can be cultivated are potatoes and corn. This is not the worst, those people The local drought can sometimes last for five or six years, so even potatoes and corn cannot be grown. At this time, the villagers can only eat corn leaves and corn silk, which are used to feed pigs in other ordinary mountain villages. I I went to a rural area in Gansu the year before last and saw that every child there was so thin that they were almost skinny, and I didn’t dare to use force when I shook their hands, because I always felt that any force would break their hands.”

"That was the first time I realized that my understanding of this society is so superficial. I have always lived in a certain stable and warm circle, thinking that most people's lives are like this, naively thinking that if a person If he is poor, it must be because he does not work hard enough. However, the fact is that one billion people in the world do not have enough to eat, that is to say, one in seven people is hungry, and every five seconds, one child dies from Hunger or related diseases. There are many people in this world who have been trapped in a poor place all their lives. They cannot escape or hide. "

"Looking at them, I feel hopeless."

Xia Tang stopped speaking.

It rained again.

The sweltering air churned like ocean waves.

A wild cat walked into the pavilion through the rain curtain. It was very thin, its wet fur stuck to its body, and its bony bones pierced through the fur like a knife blade, making it look like a shriveled corpse.

It walked towards the food bowl, lowered its head, and looked for food in the bowl.

But the cat food has long since been emptied.

It buried its head in the pot and kept sniffing, sniffing for a long time, but could not find any food. It paused for a while, stuck out its tongue, and began to lick the bottom of the pot slowly, removing the tiny, pitifully small remaining cat food. rolled into the mouth.

Xia Tang stared at it with eyes open. After watching for a while, she suddenly realized that she hurried to get the bag of cat food on the table.He rummaged through the mouth of the bag, trying to find some leftover cat food, but he poured it out too cleanly, and there wasn't much residue left in the bag.

"I'll go buy another pack." Xia Tang stood up.

Ye Ji grabbed his hand, Xia Tang looked back at him and asked strangely: "What's wrong?"

Ye Ji took the plastic bag he had put aside, reached in and looked through it for a while, and took out a bag of cat food.

When he bought cat food, he bought an extra pack and planned to keep it at home as a reserve, so that he would not need to buy it next time he fed the cat.

Ye Ji held the cat food in one hand and looked at Xia Tang.

Xia Tang: "..."

He brought the cat food over, glanced at it, then at Ye Ji, laughed, and said, "I'll go, are you Doraemon? You have everything."

Xia Tang tore open the bag and poured out the cat food. The skinny wild cat came quickly after looking for it, and buried its face in the basin in front of Xia Tang, eating with relish.

Ye Ji looked at it for a while, and remembered the unfinished topic just now, so he asked Xia Tang: "And then?"

"Then..." Xia Tang flicked her fingers to get rid of the powder sticking to her hands, and said slowly, "then there is no more."

"..." Ye Ji reached out to grab the bag in Xia Tang's hand, and said, "Give me back the cat food."

"Hahahaha——" Xia Tang laughed into a ball, twisting her body to avoid Ye Ji, "I'm just kidding, don't be so stingy."

Ye Ji patted Xia Tang on the head, and then let him go, but Xia Tang became interested, and continued to tease him: "You want to take it back so much, do you think it tastes good, and you're hungry too?"

He grabbed a piece of cat food from the bag, held it in front of Ye Ji, and said meanly: "Come on, baby, brother feed you, ah~"

Ye Ji turned his head in disgust, Xia Tang laughed happily, laughed for a while, took the cat food back, put it under his nose and smelled it.

Ye Ji turned to look at him, Xia Tang took a few serious sniffs and said, "It's quite fragrant."

Ye Ji's curiosity was aroused, and he also leaned over to smell it. It smelled like baked biscuits, it was fragrant, and seemed delicious.

"Try it?" Xia Tang looked at him and asked.

Ye Ji's rationality made him reluctant to try it, but his curiosity grew stronger and stronger like a vine, and the branches would still tickle his heart, so he couldn't help but want to try it.

Xia Tang had the same thoughts as him, so the two big men sat in the gazebo in the slanting wind and drizzle, looking at a piece of cat food with deep expressions.

Xia Tang gritted his teeth and said, "I'll try it first. If it's not bad, you should try it too."

Ye Ji nodded.

Xia Tang raised the piece of cat food in his hand to his mouth, with a face full of wind and cold, the expression of a strong man gone forever, he opened his mouth and bit a small piece.

Xia Tang chewed for a while with a serious expression.

Ye Ji looked at him.

The tense atmosphere is like waiting for statistical software to calculate the p-value.

Xia Tang stopped chewing.

"How is it?" Ye Ji asked immediately.

"Hmm..." Xia Tang nodded, moved his mouth at the same time, as if reminiscing, and said, "It's quite delicious." Then he took a piece and handed it to Ye Ji. Ye Ji opened his mouth, and Xia Tang immediately said All the cat food was stuffed in.

Ye Ji chewed for a bit: "..."

Xia Tang looked at him with a smile all over his face.

Ye Ji: "..."

The next moment, the two scrambled to grab the bag on the table and spit all the cat food in their mouths into it.

After vomiting, Xia Tang started to laugh wildly.

this bastard...

Ye Ji grabbed him and rubbed him, Xia Tang hid and laughed, laughing and amused Ye Ji too.