Chapter 166: 258、

258、「I love you in the late night of spring.....

258 pieces, "I love you in the late night…"

――Liu Guozong Spring Diary Seventy-nine

In the late night of spring, the crescent moon in the sky, resembling an orange segment, is so lovely; no wonder the great poet Quyuan praised the orange. He might have been thirsty while wandering by the river reciting Encountering Sorrow, saw the crescent moon of spring's late night, and from the moon thought of that sour-sweet orange segment.

When the great poet couldn't eat the orange segment, he'd say the orange segment was good and start praising the orange! In the midst of singing praises, perhaps his thirst could be relieved.

Quyuan was a person with a very rich imagination; he understood the principle of quenching thirst by looking at plums better than ordinary people. Just like those celebrity-chasers nowadays, they clearly know that the stars they chase cannot belong to him; that is society's wealth, just like the orange-segment-like crescent moon in the sky; no matter how you call it an orange segment, apple segment, or whatever segment, you won't get to eat it, because that is everyone's beauty. Some people are muddle-headed; they don't do good deeds, yet they insist on chasing in all directions those things they cannot obtain.

In the minds of those celebrity-chasers, they might also imagine the crescent moon in the sky as an orange segment, or some good 'segment,' and also 'orange praise.' No matter how rich your imagination, that crescent moon in the sky cannot actually serve as an orange segment to relieve hunger and thirst. Just like many beautiful wishes, when faced with reality, they turn into bubbles.

After Quyuan finished praising the orange, he then went on a useless 'Encountering Sorrow,' and it wasn't……

But, no matter how you say it, that dream is still good; but, now, money is also very important.

That is to say, while we are having beautiful dreams, we must also think about making money. Otherwise, we couldn't even drink the northwest wind. Because now the wind contains a lot of dust.

I have always admired Xiao D; someone like Xiao who doesn't understand any technology finds it very difficult to find a job.

When he finally found a job that could earn money by selling his labor to make a living, the unreasonable Ah Q insisted that Xiao D was stealing his work. When Ah Q scolded him as a 'beast' and stepped forward to attack him, at that moment Xiao D, with tears in his eyes, endured and begged Ah Q for mercy, saying: 'Ah elder brother, we are both workers, selling our labor. We are brothers in hardship; if there's something to say, let's talk nicely. If we brothers fight, our reputation will be ruined; losing this job doesn't matter, but the police might punish us for disturbing social harmony. At worst, we might even be locked up for a few days.'

Xiao D, despite Ah Q's fierce demeanor, still endured and said: 'Ah brother, I am a good-for-nothing, a caterpillar, you are a great hero, okay?'

I truly admire Xiao D for this spirit of endurance; whenever I recall the words he spoke when being bullied by Ah Q, tears well up in my eyes, because we are both lonely souls under heaven.

Ah Q, I too am a 'caterpillar, ……'

In the late night of spring, with azure clouds overhead, the ground will soon be covered in green leaves; at dawn, the spring wind will dye the mountains and forests verdant. Now I am having a pleasant dream, hard to fall asleep.

At dawn I will become rich, or perhaps something will fall from the sky……

Spring, I love you in the late night……