My current episodes of life (3)

September 14
Today is our country’s lunar Mid-Autumn Festival. Because of this, all the schools will have a three-day holiday from September 13 to 15 according to the requirements of the country. In the morning, my daughter finished her homework before we went home for the festival. And then at about 10 am, we went to the market to buy two chickens and some fresh peaches, and went home to get together for the family union.

My youngest sister, together with her only son Haoyu, had arrived there before we got home. After a short rest, my wife and I started to help my father to prepare the family dinner. Father was very happy to stew the two chickens in his little simple kitchen. My wife and I prepared other vegitables of dishes. My wife was ready for spring onions, ginger and garlic, and I helped to cut off the celery and garlic. We were all happy with pleasure. In actual fact, life is as simple as that. Cherish all you have to cherish and value all you have to value, and you will find you are very happy and happiness will always be around you.

After that, I went up to the second floor of my younger brother’s building to look at my daughter and her two younger brothers play the computer games. They were all very happy and full of pleasure. All children are always masters of all holidays and festivals.

At about 4 pm, my sister and her husband returned home from the river beach for the family dinner. For life, they carry sand beside the river up to the river banks in the evening, because today is the festival and no other officials inspected the river, they could carry up the sand. And then they sell the sand to others to make money because they are building a two-storey building and are in much need of money. So I know that their life is not very wealthy, but I can easily find that they are living a very happy life, which I think is most important.

We had a very inviting dinner of the family union. Though we did not eat any mooncakes because we were all full, we were feeling very happy when finding everything went very well and everybody was so happy.

A short rest after the dinner, my sister and her husband continued their previous work. My wife and I had a pleasing chat with my parents. The main topic was whether to build a house or not at home. As a matter of fact, I did not agree to build a house at home only because we did not much-need a house when we are so young and my daughter is so young. And my intention is our focus on my daughter’s growth and her studies.

But my wife wanted very much to build a house because my parents told us that it is likely that our villege will be re-planned and re-designed in a not very far future. If it is that, villegers will be given some money to make up for the loss of the houses. And another reasone is that several houses are being built in the villege. All this caused my wife to make up her mind to build a house of our own. And my parents ageed to help us build a house and they all supported my wife’s decision. So our final decision was to build a house of our own.