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331752 2006 年 09 月 01 日 16:13 Reading (loading. ..) Comments (0) Category: cynical
a lib friends love the water, often pulling the streets of Harbin, I went house to house looking for Muslims try to eat restaurants. He found one later, on the latitude and longitude on the street, the facade is not, health conditions make people boast about, but actually do very authentic belly burst. Period of time, we often go there some gluttonous.
That one afternoon last fall, the two of us sat on the small pavilion in the Tuibeihuanzhan, not lunch time, the old store, only two of us coming back, the hotel owner also carry a small glass of beer to sit the two of us next to the gossip, this is a very lazy afternoon.
to the second set in our belly, when the water burst, an old beggar comes into the room.
Hotel is located in the downtown area, and often abjection abjection in disguise who to seek help,
buy oil painting, and we all got used to this small restaurant in the small business Tingyou human touch, whenever there is such a thing, more or He must be less to the two, and today is no exception, no other old man spoke, he pulled out a dollar handed over. The elderly do not, do not sound very vague to say no, not money, there are leftovers for one to become.
This makes us very surprised this is a real I could not help but carefully looked old, he had 80 more, physique pretty tough, very very straight back, the most unusual is an old clothes though, but basically clean count, which is absolutely beggars were rarely seen.
say begging to go to a restaurant is to find the right place, can in fact completely not the case. Small restaurants do is repeat business, something the guests leftover drained directly face to face, their house is dim sum staple, is to present package. Small business owners simply do not leftovers to the elderly, it is clear he does not give to the elderly is to present a package so small a thing is not the natural solution to so bad.
our table with a drawer Dumplings, we will be on time to such a, I did not eat one, my buddy is kick the tires, the reason for it is a habit. This restaurant is very a waiter, in your point of finished dishes, she would casually ask:
friends became interested in this old, call attendant proud owner of this drawer small dumplings to the elderly to get past, and let old man sitting next to us on the table to eat. No outsiders, small employers are not stopping the old man sat, and said on the table vinegar, mustard, want to use casually.
old man muttered thanks, the burden from the player pulls an enamel mug you want some water, the mug surprised us, mottled red of the cylinder can also be identified on the line - dedicated the most beautiful people!
my buddy is out and out the door, his grandfather was when 55-year endowed Major General.
see this mug old beggar in the hands of such a wonder we are friends hesitate to ask for the elderly this bowl come from?
old man murmured:
We think that's incredible, a friend said: man, you come to sit, you sit back, we three going on at God. Said the old man No, no.
I got up to help elderly people to our table, so there is this kind of conversation
ambiguous language reading about the elderly up, my friend and I were silent - and a farmer from the countryside, apparently not aware of these have gradually been forgotten in history, this is the heroic history of supporting our military forces Menglianggu, and Zhang Lingfu killed by this force, so that the columns of the First World War fame.
we take their food to the elderly, pouring, to our topic,
see our skeptical look, the old man was anxious to play:
old Huang Huang arms to work out a package in a small cloth bag open very carefully, the two red small plastic skin, a certificate of demobilized soldiers, and the other is the second Invalides certificate. Slowly rolled up the left side of the pants for the elderly, I saw a wooden leg.
friends in the bag and picked up a stack of white paper very carefully open the view, after reading it gave me silent.
It is a village in the letter of introduction, to the effect that holding the letter of recommendation as my disabled soldiers demobilized village, had no children, loss of ability to work, financial difficulties as the village, unable to care, special permission to go out to eat, hope to assist local governments and so on.
dazzling red seal of the village committee. We are all shocked by this fact, the hotel boss stunned, for a long time before he stumbled against the old man said: ....
old man interrupted him not to, he said he could walk he was going, the old man said Northeast OK, when he knew in Dandong, northeastern OK.
I wonder why the old man asked where in the process of begging Why not money? Old man staring at me suddenly said:
that moment, I burst into tears ... ...
(PS: I do not know the story is true, is not living What are the minimum, let alone an ex-Red Army, but it seems that quite a few things, I was very moved, while the present system very unhappy!)