(Lu Weiqing).
One day I was walking by the river in late autumn and came across a brown, round pear. I was pleasantly surprised by this encounter, because this pear is so similar to the flower cover pear that I used to eat in the north of my hometown when I was a child.
The twilight ended early, and the night fell early. After dinner, my mother, dressed in a light blue cardigan, said to me while washing the dishes, "Go warm the pears." ”
Warm pears are to take out the frozen pears that are placed in the small warehouse and let them melt as a snack after our meal.
I ran out, and as I ran, I heard my mother shouting behind me, "Put on your padded jacket." When I get sick later, I have to take injections and medicine. "Every time I wore only a sweater, I ran as fast as my mother told me. Mother's words are like a game to me.
The flower cover pear is much smaller than the white pear, but it is round, hiding in the corner of the small warehouse, one by one freezing hard and firm, and accidentally rolling to the ground. I carefully placed them in a white porcelain basin, stacked them one by one, and poured cold water on them.
Cold water is poured on the frozen pear, and the frozen pear immediately makes a cheerful sound, as if in response to the arrival of water.
It didn't take long for the pears to become one because of the ice, and slowly floated like a row of ice. As they float upwards, they make a sound of generating and shattering, like a polar bear stepping on snow. Pears, the brown and round pears, are buried in the transparent ice one by one, like seeds waiting to sprout, and like some kind of living fossil, which has a poetic sense of ice skin and jade skin.
I once asked my mother why I don't use hot water instead of cold water for warm pearsIf you use cold water, why is it still called a warm pear?
Mother said that in the snow, if someone is frozen, the first thing is not to put him in a warm place, but to rub it with snow and rub it vigorously until the frozen white ** faintly appears bloody, and this person can be considered to be saved. If you put him in a warm place, the temperature outside the body is high, and the cold air will keep going inside, and this person will die. And when the frozen body is rubbed with snow, the cold air will keep going outward, and the body will be warm, so that people can come back to life.
Warm pear, the same is true.
Today, I still remember the sweet taste of the pear after being warmed by ice water, the surface of the pear is gone, and it becomes a soft fruit, and you only need to take a small bite on the warm skin, and the crisp, sweet pear juice will slide into the bottom of your heart. This is the abundant fruit of autumn, this is the resurrection of the spirit of the earth, this is the spirit of warmth.
The word "warm" actually has a cold meaning in it, I think. In this world, dialectical truth can be seen everywhere.
Decades later, I crossed the ocean to a foreign land. When I was once frozen to pain by the worldly life, what warmed me was the flow of cold flowing years. There is no one in this world who has not been hurt, and the shadows are as dark as the sun shinesThe taller the tree grows, the more crooked the roots will be. We live in the world, absorbing, dissolving, happy, and suffering. These are the normal state of life. So, don't be afraid of the cold, and you don't have to be afraid of the shadows. Warmth is around the cold, just as beauty is around the ugly. Through cold, we can move towards warmth, they are interdependent and transform each other, and our lives are like the water of the spring river, cold and warm self-knowing. It's like a pear grows from a bud to fruit, and then turns from a green fruit into a frozen pear stored in winter, and what brings it back to life is clear cold water. And Hang Baiju rolled up and down in the boiling hot water, reproducing the softness and beauty of life in the previous life. Warmth and coldness depend on the creation of the world.