Looking up at a red sun 600 words

Summer vacation is coming. In order to fulfill my promise to my daughter, I decided to take her and her wife out for a walk, choose and go to Hainan to see the sea. So I boarded the flight from Kunming to Sanya.

Typhoon in Sanya

The family arrived in Kunming the night before, ready to wait for the plane the next morning. A very good friend heard that I was going to travel to Hainan, so he called my nephew who was far away in Kunming to pick up my family. He insisted on playing host to show his kindness and had to make an appointment with him.

My friend's nephew, dark and shiny, short and chubby. He deliberately makes himself look like he is living well in Kunming, but at first glance, he looks like a farmer's child. Sure enough, I guess he was born in rural JD.COM. He came out to work hard as a teenager, worked as a porter and did heavy manual work on the construction site, all by his own efforts. In recent years, he has opened a logistics company, two tea shops and found a wife who works in a bank. His life is quite rich and his business is booming. Even his wife is going to quit her job and come out to help him with his business.

His education is not high, and after years of hard work, he has developed a mouth that is quite good at boasting that he loves cows. I think this is also the skill of survival and creation. If you are too reticent and have no initiative, how can you expand your business?

Although he has been in the provincial capital for many years, he has not lost his generous nature, and he has no philistine habits contaminated by urban life. After dinner, he insisted on paying the hotel bill for me until I was angry at refusing his kindness. The next day, I rushed to the hotel early to pick up my family on the plane, watched us enter the security gate, and advised me to call him back and ask him to pick me up. Looking at the way he fought, I replied in my mouth, but I thought that I must not disturb this enthusiastic person when I go back.

Seeing him is like seeing my friend. My friend is my primary school classmate. In fact, we have only studied together for two years. He didn't start studying until he dropped out of school in the second grade of primary school and went home to help his family reduce their burden. Life was hard at that time. My home is close to his. He often passes by my house to herd cattle. In my spare time, I go to the mountains with him to herd cattle. But that time was very happy and unforgettable. Sometimes, life is beautiful, but I feel empty in my heart, like duckweed without roots, drunk and dreaming of death, like a walking corpse, unable to be happy, very tired and painful. It is better to knead a rice ball, wrap some pickles, listen to the ringing of cows and invite partners to find their mothers all over the mountain, lie on the grass, chew a straw in your mouth, look at the white clouds in the blue sky and think about those childish things aimlessly.

Things in the world are so strange. When we are poor, we expect to become rich one day and get rid of this miserable life. But when we become rich, we find that the happiness in those miserable days may be the most real and unforgettable in our lives, but it has left us, so hard to reach and so fascinating.

My friend entered the society very early, picked sand and ash, worked as a plasterer and drove a bumper car, a small agricultural vehicle with a triangular bucket in front, which was very popular in the 1980s. Later, I started my own transportation, started a business, and had a little wealth. Later, I joined a tobacco company and worked in marketing. Career, but also a small achievement.

However, he always regretted that he had not read the book. At the same time, he also achieved the cultural level of being competent for his job by his own efforts, and he has always respected me as a small intellectual who has never failed until he graduated from college. Our relationship has always been very good. I think this should be a great wealth and honor in my life. Friendship has been maintained from primary school to middle age, even to old age, which is rare in this world.

His passion for culture is getting less and less for me, but I am getting more and more tired of reading. I feel more and more that reading more books is not necessarily a good thing. In reality, because his uncles and nephews are not well educated, they can get along by crawling around. However, in addition to studying hard at a cold window, scholars really want to get ahead, but they need more experience. Without the guarantee of the system, they lack understanding, and there are many people who are scholars before the middle school entrance examination. Shameful farming, even rice, oil and salt are a problem, the livelihood is very poor, and it is miserable everywhere. In this case, it is better not to study. I met someone who graduated from a famous university and took the exam for many years. He didn't pass the civil service examination, nor did he pass the qualification examination. He went to work as a security guard and had an argument with his employer. There is nothing to do, so I have to go back to my hometown in the countryside. I am proud of myself. I don't get along well with my neighbors. No one helps me with my farm work, which makes me feel cold. Reading really killed him.

Su Dongpo said: Life begins with literacy. Reading does bring a lot of troubles to people. If reading makes us worry about the world without saying a word, it's not a bad thing. But many times, reading makes us aim too high, but our eyes are too high. We just talk too much. In that case, we might as well not know the language and ink. It means: dead reading, dead reading, dead reading.

It's still a trivial matter that reading destroys yourself. During the Warring States Period, Zhao Kuo was completely annihilated on paper, and 400,000 troops of Zhao were raped and killed, which directly led to the disaster of national extinction. This book is really shocking to read.

Now, I begin to believe that things are clear, everything is learned, and human understanding is an article. I despise: everything is inferior, only reading is high. I also read books occasionally in my spare time, but I just kill time. I went from just writing a book to only doing practical things, which is a kind of wisdom.

For example, these two friends, uncles, are sincere and enthusiastic about people, which is the basis for their achievements in the world, but it is also impossible for books to teach them well.

The morning in spring city is sunny. This makes me feel particularly good, sitting in the cabin, thinking about what Hainan will bring me, flattered.

The plane is about to land in Sanya, and the flight attendant who speaks fluent Mandarin tells the passengers a message: Sanya, there is light rain, please pay attention to dressing and don't catch a cold. Where there is rain, there is rain. Looking at the interaction between sunshine and rain outside the cabin, I thought it wouldn't rain for long.

The guide took us to the hotel. The official trip will start tomorrow, and we can receive the weather forecast. Typhoon Shana landed in Hainan and Sanya was also affected. For safety reasons, tourist attractions are temporarily closed according to government requirements. Whether tomorrow's trip can be carried out as scheduled depends on the situation. Seeing that we were depressed, he said with relief: According to experience, typhoons have little impact. It shouldn't be a problem as usual tomorrow, and it won't rain much. We can go for a walk in Sanya. Anyway, we don't have to worry about the social compensation for the delay caused by the typhoon.

It's not bad to spend a day or two in Sanya. I went sightseeing in the city by taxi. Looking at the bustling market, a big shopping mall came into view, so the driver stopped the car. But when I got off the bus, there was still a distance from the city center, and I was hungry. I'm afraid my wife and children can't bear it. I looked at the roadside, found a restaurant selling seafood, ordered some dishes and began to eat. Seafood is all kinds of clams, snails, marine fish and so on. The cooking method is not special, and there is nothing surprising. You can eat it at home. But seeing her daughter eat so delicious, coupled with the excitement of coming to Hainan for the first time, made her endless joy and happy. The three of them had a pleasant lunch.

After eating, my wife's shopping desire was hooked up by the supermarket next to her. In order to go for a walk, she had to bite the bullet and feel for her wallet in her pocket.

Economic integration and globalization bring a benefit, many goods can be bought in one corner. Looking at the dazzling array of goods in the counter, it is almost the same as the goods in the local specialty store at home, and my wife's desire to shop is greatly reduced, saving me the trouble of paying the bill.

A family of three went out of the supermarket, and it rained harder and the wind was stronger. My wife who wants to go downtown is tired and has the idea of going back to the hotel for lunch break. So she took a taxi back to the hotel.

On the bus, the talkative driver chatted with us. Hearing that we were traveling, he laughed at our luck. We didn't come early or late, but we were caught in a typhoon. It seems that we have to stay for another day or two. I have only heard of and never seen a typhoon, so I asked: When will the typhoon come? Is it horrible? He laughed out loud again, so that I was embarrassed. He said, are you from the inland area? Can't you see it's raining and windy? This is a typhoon. I don't understand. In the video, the typhoon is so destructive that it makes waves, uproots trees and destroys houses. Why didn't I feel it? He said it was a typhoon, with a high level, which is rare once a year. Usually typhoons are like this. It has been raining and windy, and the wind is blowing the trees on the roadside. In a coastal city like Sanya, the billboard business is the best. Every year, many advertisements are blown out, and billboards hurt pedestrians. This is a very serious matter. In the last few days, he saw that we were a little disappointed and comforted us by saying that from this situation, the typhoon did not come very violently, and it was estimated that it would pass in a day or two, which should not affect our trip.

When I arrived at the hotel, I got a call from the travel agency. Due to the typhoon, tomorrow's trip will be cancelled, and when to leave will be notified.

We had to stay quietly in the hotel, but fortunately, on one side of this room, there is an open and complete glass wall, which can have a panoramic view of the street scene under the typhoon. There are almost no pedestrians in the street, cars are running sparsely, and taxis are the most common. The typhoon can't stop them from being busy with their livelihood. The rain has blurred the line of sight, and the sealing of the glass wall is still quite good. Without opening the door to the balcony, you can hardly hear the whistling wind, only the street trees are swaying and twisting to remind you that the wind outside is actually very strong.

The typhoon delayed our trip and our desire to go shopping in the city didn't come true. Hotels are like cages, like birds, which imprison us. Besides sleeping, reading books and reading newspapers, we just look out, complaining about the rainy and windy typhoon and waiting for a sunny day.

But I think it's worth it At least I know about typhoons. Before that, I thought that a typhoon was just blowing the wind, which could blow sand and stones everywhere and turn them upside down. It's just a cold in coastal areas, even if it's serious, it will kill people. After all, it's very common, and people there have long been used to it, so it's not worth making a fuss about.

Human beings are getting stronger and stronger in the struggle against natural disasters, just like without a cold, our immunity to diseases will decline.

It was a blessing to meet a typhoon, which made me learn a lot. Isn't traveling just about broadening your horizons and increasing your knowledge? It's worth it when you encounter a typhoon. If you miss it and have never experienced a typhoon, even if you see the sea, you will have regrets.

Hot spring night bath at Boao Forum on Wanquan River.

The next afternoon, it rained and the wind dropped. Seeing that there is still a period of time, my wife and daughter and I took a taxi to the downtown area. For the convenience of shopping, I bought a guide map of Sanya after getting off the bus. Looking at the city map of Sanya, it is long and narrow, and there is an obvious waterway in the middle to divide it into two parts. Several bridges are connected, and it feels that its layout is somewhat special, but it can't be said. It was not until later that the tour guide told us that Sanya was originally called Sanya, but later it was changed to Sanya because of its ugliness. I don't know if what he said is true.

I wonder how my wife and daughter feel about Sanya. Before that, I have been to Xiamen, a coastal city, and naturally compare Xiamen with Sanya. Compared with Xiamen, Sanya's market is not as prosperous, clean and fresh as Xiamen's, especially the farmers' market and seafood fishing market. But its scenery and human feelings make me feel a kind of intimacy, that tropical scenery, that kind of heat, that kind of man showing off his upper body and wearing slippers, which makes me feel like I have returned to my hometown. I can't help but think of home less than three days after I came out. I think this kind of complex will run through the whole trip. Hainan and my hometown are, after all, the only two tropical rain forest areas in China.

I went back to the hotel by bus, and got off at Sanya Railway Station instead of taking a stop. Sanya Railway Station is newly built, and the buildings are far apart except the roads connected with the urban area. Thinking that one stop was not far away, I took my wife and daughter back. Out of the railway station, Yuan Ye is overgrown with weeds, mostly surrounded by walls, and some places have introduced new soil to be built, which is an area to be developed and built. At this time, the rain has stopped and the wind is fragile. A bleak red sun in the west cast a shadow on my wife and daughter. Looking around, I suddenly lost my feeling, as if it were not in Sanya in the South China Sea, but in the Gobi grassland in the west, and the feeling of high spirits came to me. It suddenly occurred to me how beautiful it is to walk on the endless wasteland with my wife and daughter in the sunset, which is worth remembering all my life. In this life, I can travel around the world with the dream of love and the fantasy of chivalry and tenderness, but I want to firmly grasp the fleeting family warmth around me. After all, it is difficult for anyone to live long. Leave love in your dreams and integrate your feelings into your family so that you won't waste your time.

In the evening, I received a notice from the travel agency that the weather has improved and I will start my trip tomorrow. Hearing this, my daughter jumped and jumped, which greatly infected my husband and wife.

The next morning, a 45-seat bus drove to the front of the hotel to pick us up. I realized that it was such a thing that individual travelers fought together. Travelers from all over the world will sign up, meet at designated places, and then the local travel society will team up to play together. We are led by a handsome young man. Judging from his tone, he is a man who has been out for many years and is going to wash his hands of it. After driving for a long time, the tour guide got down to business. In addition to the fees paid by tourists, according to the Hainan Provincial Tourism Regulations, each person has to pay an additional fee of 1 0,000 yuan. His words immediately caused a lot of discussion among tourists. Although everyone feels that the money is wronged, after all, there is no agreement in the travel contract, but it is futile to watch the negotiation. Now that I'm here, I want to give some money to have a good time. Besides, the rule that this tourist route can't be put on the table is not unheard of, and everyone has to pay for it.

Hainan tourism hackers are notorious for cheating customers. CCTV exposed it two or three years ago, forcing tourists to spend hundreds of dollars to see a "red clay figurine". As a result, they still found a few people to dress up and fool you for a while. After reading this news, I was fully prepared to be hacked, but unexpectedly, I was frightened by this gesture. I feel that the tour guide is like a robber who rushed to the car with a knife and robbed. He still dares to say "Hainan Tourism Regulations"-this is a clear knife in his hand, but he is more civilized and polite than the robber, and he will bow and say "received money" after receiving the money. I won't ruin everyone's mood for something that everyone can accept. Besides, I came all this way just to have fun. Money is a trivial matter, as long as it is not robbed on the spot.

Not long before I wrote this article, something happened in Hainan tourism, which continued to ferment for a long time, causing the Hainan government and the tourism department to apologize and failed to completely calm down. Alas, if you walk for a long time at night, you will encounter ghosts. The old saying is really insightful! I hope not. If you walk at night for a long time, you will often be scared unconscious by ghosts, which will make you numb and even afraid of ghosts. If you meet a ghost, you will be slaughtered several times until you see blood. In that case, Hainan, a scenic spot, will also become a hell on earth.