What is human life really like? I have lived for more than twenty years and still do not understand. Some people say that growth is like a cup of coffee, with sugar and cream added, because coffee is bitter, while sugar and cream are sweet. Stir them together, add some boiling water, and you will have sweetness in the bitterness, bitterness in the sweetness, indescribable bitterness and joy. Yes, this is the taste of growth, but I think the taste of growth is more like a pot of tea. You need to sow the seeds, carry a small kettle to water it every day, sit there and count how many flowers have bloomed and how many more leaves have grown, hoping that it will grow up; it is also a process of making tea. It is not suitable to have too much tea, and it is not suitable to have too little, so you must add one or two halves with a cup of water; it is also a process of tasting tea. The poet Yuan Weizhi of the Tang Dynasty once wrote:
Geranium leaf buds
Mushike loves the monk's family
Carved white jade and woven red yarn
Pan-fried Huangxinba bowl with Jushenghua
The queen of the night invites me to accompany the bright moon in the morning, facing the morning glow
I have washed away all the people of the past and present without getting tired, and I will know how worthy I am of boasting when I am drunk.
——Tea
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.
