Childhood anecdotes-- be polite

Childhood anecdotes are polite

I remember when we were young, our parents often told us that we should know how to behave and be polite, especially when we go to other people's homes and ask you to eat politely. No matter three, seven or twenty-one, sit down and eat. People tell you to eat. At the end of the 1960s, people's standard of living was still low, and it was a very honorable thing to be able to eat at other people's homes. At that time, food was rationed. Children were 8 jin or 12 jin per month, adults were 16 jin, and manual workers were 22 jin or 26 jin. Green vegetables, sweet potatoes and other things were often added to the rice. If someone else ate their rice, the family's food rations were tight this month.

That afternoon, my mother had something to do and told my sister and me that we would be late home. If it was dark, we would go to Aunt Fang's house nearby and wait for it. She told me: be polite when you go to someone else's house. Don't just eat other people's food casually. Mom will pick you up soon, do you understand? We nodded frequently.

At more than five o'clock in the afternoon, my sister and I saw that it was getting dark, so we went to our aunt's house while playing. Aunt Fang saw us busy greeting: sit and rest, ask us what we are doing here, and bring two glasses of water. We don't talk about waiting for mom here, we just say we have nothing to do and come here to play. Aunt Fang teased us for a while and then went to cook. After sitting for a while, we saw that it was completely dark and thought to ourselves: why didn't my mother come, so we got up and wanted to go. Aunt Fang asked us to sit again and wait for our mother to pick it up, otherwise we would not rest assured. So we sat down again. Then Aunt Fang brought the food to the table and dragged us to dinner. At this time, bearing in mind our mother's teachings, we said in unison that we had already had dinner when we came just now. Nonsense, Aunt Fang doesn't believe it. Yes, I have, really. Reading and appreciation of American articles

Although it was boasting, we both performed realistically and looked honest. Children's words are not deceived, Aunt Fang does not look like we are lying, or Aunt Fang's family is also short of food, so we will not pull hard.

In this way, we were hungry and watched helplessly as Aunt Fang and her family picked up their rice bowls after dinner, anxiously waiting for their mother to pick us up. Wait, wait, Mother didn't pick us up until about ten o'clock in the evening, when we were so hungry that we fell asleep on Aunt Fang's bed.

When we got home, we shouted hungry. Mother asked us why we didn't eat at Aunt Fang's house. We said: didn't you say to be polite and not to eat at someone else's house? The mother laughed: how could these two children be so silly? they are really starving.

This time's politeness impressed me too deeply in my memory. In those days when food was tight, it was a luxury to have enough to eat. Unlike now, there is a surplus of food and pay attention to good food. However, it depends on the situation no matter how polite it is, otherwise you will suffer.