Yesterday a one-day tour of Xitang Town was organized in the school. We left from Hangzhou for Xitang at 8:00 a.m. and arrived at the destination at 11 o’clock in the morning. Along with my colleagues, I just scratched the surface of the ancient folk houses in the city and started returning at 2 p.m.　　

We failed enjoying ourselves since it was very cold and had a mixture of rain and snow.　Besides, I got up in a hurry and started off without having breakfast in the morning.　I looked at the landscape with absence of mind among the crowd because of cold air and hunger. The landscape also looked coldly upon us.

Since the moment the start of the tour, there  was a voice in my heart: if Ziqi were with me and could make a tour in the ancient town, even we grow old together there, I would have no regret all my life. But, Ziqi doesn’t have wings and could not fly to me at that time.

I took a fancy to a kind of plum wine hold inbamboo sections during the tour. The bamboo section is small and exquisite, of primitive simplicity. It can be used as a good penholder after wine is drunk up. I wanted to buy wine because of missing Ziqi. When I miss him, I always feel so sad. Ziqi was not in Hangzhou and it’s impossible he  could pay me a visit. So it’s unnecessary to buy the wine.

　I like the folk houses with black tiles and white walls in Xitang. When seeing the obsolete wooden window pillar, I came up with a scene that the young women face the river,make up themselves, which has more temperament and interest than ladies in painting making up. Is there was a bosom friend leaning the window drawing eyebrow for a beautiful woman, it would be an enviable affectionate couple who are not willing to be celestial beings.　　   

 When visiting the god and mammontemple, their staff instructed us to cast lots and worship buddhas. I got a good lot that is I was blessed with a double portion of good fortune.

Then, some monks alike staff explained some prophecies. After finished the explanation, they led us to burn incense. We got a nasty shock when we ere told it a “five blessings have descended upon the house” and costed 290 RMB.　　
　 It was such an embarrassing situation and I carried it off well after a colleuge pulled me away.Maybe it’s a little disrespectful to the Buddha. Is he unhappy like the staff when he knows I don’t have enough money in my porket for burning incense?

The burning incense is also a wet blanket to me to continue touring.

I went to the school to get my bonus this early morning. It’s 400 RMB in a red packet. So I decide to have asimple Spring Festival.

In the morning I went to the market to do Spring Festival shopping. I bought 5 kg rice and 5 kg wheat flour. Though there were few things it would be hard for me to walk home with them. The shopkeeper is smart and he let his son take me and my goods home by a motor tricycle.Healso told me that if I need buy something in future I can call them and they will deliver to my flat.

Sitting in the room and watching the rice and flour I bought, I felt absentminded. In fact, no matter what life style you choose, what we eat is the ordinary food. Eatting ordinary rice on earth, growing ordinary body of human being and fallig in love with ordinary man, however, what are things we can get rid of and what are we need to get rid of?

　It’s wet cold in south of the Yangtze River in the winter. In Hangzhou city, a paradise on earth, a place far away from the hometown, I live a simple life as ordinary people live, concerning the food and hardship of life. But there always are something different and special, which makes me long for future and looks better than people around me. Is there any hardship in the world  for someone unable to suffer, since the love and belief have been growing in his heart for several decades?