At night, there is a windy courtyard.
Xu Hongdou saw Damai and Lin Na preparing for supper, walked over and said, "Damai, Nana, what is your ideal?"
Nana was stunned for a moment and said, "I think it is my ideal to get a peaceful and happy life."
"You're a dream?" Damai blurted out.
"What is the difference between dreams and ideals?"
"The difference here is very big. What you strive for is ideals, and what you have a certain kind of beautiful expectation is dreams. One is to do it, and the other is to do it occasionally or not. There are huge differences here."
"What about your ideal?"
Damai said: "My ideal is to be a person with value in existence."
Nana said: "Then you have realized it. Everyone's existence is valuable."
"This is a natural saying that only those who are confident in you have. For me, I can't do anything except write things, and I don't want to do it either. Nowadays, most of the stories written by hundreds of thousands of online literature writers across the country are like throwing a stone in the ocean, and they can't lift up any waves, and they are even told that they are littered with garbage in online texts. So I often think, I am really talented and valuable if an unpopular author like me, a person who exists like a denominator, is I really talented and really valuable?"
Nana heard Damai be a little negative and said, "Damai, don't think so. Of course you are talented and valuable."
"I said this not to get your comfort and encouragement, but to explain my thinking process."
“So what about the result of thinking?”
"Ah, that's amazing, but there's no result. I'm now suspicious of myself and continue to move forward." Damai said as she looked at Xu Hongdou and asked, "What about you? What about your ideal?"
Seeing Xu Hongdou shook his head and asked, "No, what about your dream?"
"rich?"
"This is the dream of most people. What if you have money?"
"Retirement?" Xu Hongdou also said with some uncertainty.
"What about after retirement? You have to do something."
"Do you have to do something after retirement?"
Damai said in surprise: "Of course, you can't do nothing, right? Let's say that, are your parents retired?"
"My mother is a housewife, and my dad has opened a grain and oil shop before, but later the street where he was doing business was demolished. My sister didn't let him go. Now she is retired."
"What are they doing every day now?"
Xu Hongdou thought for a while and said, "My dad practices Tai Chi every day and practices calligraphy. He decorates a house two years ago and spends two days a week to fish in the reservoir. My mom goes to the vegetable market to buy vegetables in the morning and studies recipes. Or he goes to the countryside with my aunt to grow vegetables. He told me two days ago that he would apply for a garbage sorting publicity officer in the community."
Damai said: "So retirement is not a dream, but a fantasy. Many young people will fantasize about their life after retirement, or do nothing after they have money. This is a pure fantasy. In fact, people cannot be idle at all, and they always have to find something for themselves. When you are hungry, you have to eat, and when you are full, you want to eat well. When your life is rich, you will have spiritual needs. And you hope to get honor, respect, help others in society, and realize your self-worth."
Xu Hongdou said: "You are Maslow's theory of needs, right?"
Nana said: "Then my parents' needs are very clear. My mother hopes to help me take care of my children after retirement. My father hopes to go to senior citizenship college after retirement and improve himself. He comes to help me take care of my children. In short, they all help me take care of my children."
"This is the ideal old age life for many parents, enjoying their grandchildren."
"Then I have to get out of singleness first, but my life now is the life I want. I found it here through the mountains and the sea." Nana said thoughtfully.
"Hongdou, what kind of life do you want?"
Xu Hongdou sighed and said, "I didn't have a life before. I came here just to figure out what the life I want is like."
After the three of them separated, Xu Hongdou sat on the recliner, thinking about what these people said to him, ideals, dreams, so what are his ideals and dreams?
While thinking about it, Zhao Shucheng walked out of the room and saw Xu Hongdou still outside, saying, "Hongdou, don't you go to rest?"
"Zhao Shucheng, what is your ideal?"
"My ideal? That's too many. My ideal was to sleep until I woke up naturally, count the money until my hands cramped, but later I realized that counting money until my hands cramped is not something that ordinary people can do. Even if you are really rich, you can't count money at home with a lot of money. Money is just a number. Later, my ideal was to be happy at work, and later it was realized. Later, I wanted to live the life I wanted, not the life arranged by others, so I came here and live whatever I wanted. As for my dreams, I don't have any dreams now, I only have the simplest idea, that is, go with the flow, count on a day, and be easy."
After Zhao Shucheng finished speaking, he looked at Xu Hongdou and asked, "You are a little strange today. Why did you suddenly remember to ask this? Are you being stimulated by something?"
"No, I just heard that Huang Xinxin and Damai have their own ideals today, and I don't seem to have any ideals."
Zhao Shucheng smiled and said, "How come there is no ideal? It's just that you are blinding your eyes and can't see clearly. You have to figure out what you want, not what others want you to want. You cannot regard other people's ideals as your own ideals, and don't give up your own ideals just because others have the same ideals."
"What do you mean by other people's ideals, my ideals, make it as if you know what my ideals are."
Zhao Shucheng said: "Your ideal of just coming here is to change your life and choose to lie down. Now because of other people, you want to do something and not let yourself become a slut, right?"
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Xu Hongdou glared at Zhao Shucheng and said, "You are the slut."
"I don't think there's anything wrong with being a bastard. Anyway, I have money, so I can keep myself safe and well-behaved. Being a salted fish on my lie flat will not affect others. It's good to just live like this. But I'm not suitable for everyone, and most people still need to do something, which is much better than if I'm just thinking about it."
"Then you keep lying flat, I'll go back first."
Seeing Xu Hongdou back to his room, Zhao Shucheng lay on the recliner for a while, looked at the sky, and then returned to his room.
After Zhao Shucheng and Xu Hongdou went back to rest, the lights began to light up in Damai and Nana's rooms, and then sounds kept coming.
Nana sent a message to Damai, which was a photo. She followed Damai and asked, "What's the matter?"
"I just photographed it, how about it, isn't it?"
"This is just a normal conversation, what's so exciting?"
Nana posted a picture of her disappointment and said, "Why are you so unintentional? When will the two of them not speak? They have to wait until we all go back to the room before they talk alone outside. This is a date."
"No way?"
"Why can't it be? Maybe it won't take long, and we'll be ready to eat wedding candy."
Although Damai didn't believe it very much, he also felt that the scene of the two of them being together was too beautiful, and said, "I suddenly felt like watching idol dramas. It would be even better if I could see them hugging and kissing. As expected, the love of a handsome man is pleasing to the eye, which gave me new inspiration. I won't talk to you anymore. I want to write it down and prepare it to use it in my novel."
“…”
Nana saw that Damai didn't reply to her message, and saw that there was no one outside, so she could only rest reluctantly.
The next day, it was another good weather with clear weather.
Xie Zhiyao came to the yard early. Just when everyone thought he was coming to find Xu Hongdou, she didn't expect Xie Zhiyao to knock on Zhao Shucheng's door directly.
Following Zhao Shucheng and Xie Zhiyao, they didn't know what they said, and the two left in a hurry.
Damai and Lin Na looked at each other and said, "Oh, what's going on? Mr. Xie came to look for Hongdou yesterday, and today I will come to Brother Zhao. Isn't it a duel?"
"Why did it make a duel?"
"Isn't this obvious? Mr. Xie must also like Hongdou. After knowing about Brother Zhao and Hongdou, the two decided to have a fair and just duel so that the winner could be qualified to pursue Hongdou."
"Damai, you should read less romance novels. It is obvious that there is something to come to him, and it has nothing to do with feelings."
Damai heard Lin Na say this, and although she said she believed it, the gossip in her eyes could not be hidden.
After Xu Hongdou woke up from her sleep, she stayed in bed for a while before she got up from the bed with difficulty. After applying simple makeup, she walked out of the room and took a breath of fresh air, looking at Maqiushan meditating below and Damai in the kitchen.
"Good morning, Hongdou!" Maqiushan took the initiative to say hello.
After responding for a while, Xu Hongdou came to the kitchen and asked, "Bai, what should I eat in the morning?"
"Eat noodles! By the way, Brother Zhao was called away by Mr. Xie, so we can only make breakfast by ourselves. Don't you mind?"
"Of course not. It's good to cook ourselves. By the way, why did Mr. Xie asks Zhao Shucheng to leave?"
"We didn't know either, we just knew what the two of them said in the room, and then we hurriedly left."
After Lin Na finished speaking, she looked at Xu Hongdou who was standing there motionless, shook her in front of him, and said, "Hongdou, are you okay?"
Xu Hongdou then came to her senses and said, "Ah, I'm fine, I just haven't woken up a little. Let's have a meal!"
Chapter completed!