Translated…
My next door neighbor, Mrs. Chang followed the temple group all over the places, offered incense to ask for blessings. She’d bought several jars of honey, because she’d given in to fighting the words of the sales’ reps, but, after her daughter-in-law examined the jars closely, she’d found that it wasn’t as pure as they sales reps stated, and that it’d sold, for a very high prices. Mrs. Chang regretted this, that it’d tasted, too sweet to be swallowed down.
This made me recalled something stupid that my husband and I’d done, back when we were too young to know any better.
A quarter of a century ago, we were just newlyweds, very much in love, with everything in the world, going right for us both, everything was good, and so, we’d, gotten………scammed.
We were flirting when we went on our honeymoon to Xitou, until it was time to get off the mountains, were we feeling, a bit tired. And, the con artists had, already made their calculations, and showed up, right on time, a handsome lad drove up next to us, said he could give us a lift down the hill. Thinking back, this was, probably, the OLDEST trick in the books, but, we’d not, noticed it at all.
picture from the papers…
Blame it on how much both my husband and I loved our separate families, hearing, the drivers made the antlers of deer sounded like the magical cure, the driver laughed a dry laugh, and my husband understood him perfectly. After the birth, preparing it for the wife, to get her health back up? My husband gazed at me with passions in his eyes, we too, will have our own kids someday, and, how can he not, help me to recover, after I’d gone through the hardships of, giving birth? Treatment for icy cold hands and feet, the sores from exercise, cures for insomnia, etc., etc., etc., wow, this time, everybody’s ailments had, found a cure, how can we not buy it, using that serving of deer antler, helping everybody in the family away from their health ailments, and, although it’d costed, tens of thousands of dollars, we’re in!
We’d entered, into the thieves’ den now, the two bloodied deer antler lain, on the ground, this, is as, fresh as it gets! You don’t have enough cash? That’s all right, the post office is located across the streets. This was, also, a set up as well then? And so, the newlywed, with all our hopes in a basket, ended our honeymoon, and with our arms wide open, embraced, our futures together.
What happened afterwards? Uh, don’t even bring it up again, you know, the con artists are very skilled, and, there must’ve been, a ton of victims to this scam, as for, what ingredients were, exactly, in those wines with deer antlers? I really, can’t say!
and this, is how the place looked in a photo…
and, now, you can understand why you can get trick, in this sort of an environment now, right???
And so, those deer antlers, soaked in rice wine had, been right there, for over decades, managed, to, soak up everything between the sun and the moon already, and by now, I’m supposing, that it now has, those magical qualities that we were, sold out, back then on. And, that huge basin, is still now, kept, as the way we’d gotten it, and, every now and then, we’d, taken it, to make fun of one another, do you want to try some? It’s guaranteed to be, thick, aromatic, fresh, and original, you will definitely, get smarter, after you’d, taken a sip!
And so, because you were way too much in love, you couldn’t tell, that those people were conning you, and that, is the AWFUL effects of allowing love, to blind your mind, because love CAN cloud those judgments of yours, and, when your judgments were needed, your love will, override them, and making you, SUCKERS, of these sorts of scams…
Life, the Obstacle Course 