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This book is a collection of personal essays, recording the retired life of an ordinary veteran cadre. There are exciting overseas travels, and there are also tireless re-employment part-time jobs. A large number of photos and essays allow readers to understand how to be productive in old age and how to create an indifferent and pleasant life. The author's writing is beautiful, his narration is natural, and he is full of endless love for life.

One afternoon in July 1993, I came out of the cafeteria and walked under a tree with four forks. Hanging on the tree was a sandbag wrapped in a torn sack. From a distance, it looked like a big-headed maggot. I punched hard, which made my hands hurt. At this moment, Li Yonghao came over and called me, asking me and him to go to the train station to pick up someone, Cao Guoqing, the fifth brother of the director Cao Tuzi. I stopped, threw down the hanging sandbags, borrowed two 28-weighted bicycles from others, and rode to the train station like lightning. When the heat was about to dissipate, Cao Guoqing came out of the station, cursing and wondering who had offended him. Later I found out that this is Beijing scolding, a catchphrase of Beijing men. If they don't like anyone, they will scold them. The only words to scold them are: "You just flipped your clothes so stupidly...", Which is quite refreshing and has a high popularity rate. Cao Guoqing has a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, and a Beijing accent with a long and short yah. This word "ya" sounds very fresh to me. We studied it seriously for a few days, but it doesn't have the flavor of his Beijing movie.