Lao She and Bing Xin's Family Author: Yi Shu

Lao She is hospitable, which many people have experienced personally. However, hospitality and making friends seem to be different. For Lao She, life without friends is inconceivable. Sometimes, he gives the impression that he is just living for his friends. Hospitality is an external manifestation; Making friends is the exchange of hearts, and he has a beating heart for his friends.

This heart is still a childlike innocence! Lao She is friends with many peers, and also with their children. Although he is many years older than these children, these children and Lao She are good friends. That's worth talking about, isn't it?

The friendship between Lao She and Bing Xin can be traced back to fifty years ago. For the first time, it was Mr. Zheng Zhenduo who took Lao She to see her at Bingxin's home in yenching university. Bing Xin is busy making tea to entertain guests. After a long busy day, I came out of another room with tea and found that the guest had disappeared. I can't help laughing when I look at it carefully. I saw Lao She looking for a teddy bear for her son. My son's bear is said to have slipped under a table or chair to play. My son was so anxious that he asked Lao She for help. Lao She generously agreed, so she found it on the ground. Finally, Lao She grabbed the teddy bear from behind the chair. The son jumped up happily, hugged Lao She's neck and gave him a good kiss. Since then, Lao She has become the most popular guest of Bing Xin's family. During the Anti-Japanese War, Bing Xin lived in the rural area of Chongqing. Lao She often went to her house, with a bag of peanuts or melon seeds in his hand, because several young friends were waiting for him there. Far away, he shouted, "Do you have steamed bread? Do you have any tea? Here comes the guest-!" The children rushed out and surrounded him, jumping, screaming and hugging, and no one could hear what they were saying.

Bing Xin usually disciplines her children very strictly, and gives them peanuts and iron broad beans according to the number of grains. For example, each person is only allowed to eat five at a time. As soon as Lao She arrived, the restriction was released: "Let's not count today, whatever!" The children asked their mother, "How many can we eat?" Bing Xin said, "Two!" Lao She immediately interrupted: "No, I have to say twenty! Two hundred! "

The children didn't regard Lao She as "one of their own" just because they ate three melons and two dates. They think uncle is a person who can treat them equally. He and the children also greet each other, ask about the school and care about their kittens and puppies. So when Lao She arrives, the children will catch him first and pull him to join their "gang". There is nothing to talk about.

Lao She also often writes letters to children and often brings pictures. Lao She's paintings are not good, and they are very similar to those of children. A hand is a straight line with five branches below it. However, this kind of painting is very suitable for children's appetite and is easy to understand at first glance. Lao She's letter is very precious to children, because, perhaps, this is the first time children have received a letter addressed to themselves. They will say, "This is for me! There are pictures on it! Let me show you. If you don't understand, I will tell you! " A letter is enough to arouse children's infinite excitement and pride.

Bing Xin 10-year-old son received an "urgent letter" from Uncle Lao She: "My cigarettes are almost gone, but I have no money. Don't forget to bring two tons of cigarettes when you come here! "

Lao She's jokes made the children very happy. Every time we meet, telling stories and jokes has become an essential lesson for Lao She.

Lao She often signs his books and gives them to young readers. It is not too difficult for children in Gaoxiaohe junior high school to read Lao She's books, because Lao She writes very few words, avoiding the use of coldness and being colloquial. Lao She often takes children's understanding of their own language as the test standard. He believes that whatever can be accepted by illiterate grandmothers and children with little culture will have a wide audience and truly see the author's skill!

On one occasion, Bing Xin's children actually discussed his works with Lao She. The children asked, "Why are all the good people in your book surnamed Li?"

Lao She said sullenly, "I just like Li! If you are all good children in the future, next time, I will write a book, and all the good people in the book are surnamed Wu! " (