Today is sunday, I had a lie-in. I woke up on 7 o’clock while got up on 8 o’clock. I’m so lazy!!! Deng sent a qq measage to me after I slept, I reply to her. I went to dining room to ate baozi after I brushing my tooth and washing my face. My book Machine Learing is on the way. So sad !!! Though my python is not good, but I still want to study Machine Learning. trike load of the recyclable. I decided to make up for it tomorrow. But unluckily, there will be sleet tomorrow according to the weather forecast.
*It’s so hot in the flat that I have to be stripped to the waist. I tend to be dazed and sleepy at such a high temperature. Then I rubbed myself down with a wet towel both for cleaning and cooling.

Today is son’s 23rd birthday. He was born on a chilly snowy day.

今日生辰廿有三，與雪同降天初寒。It might bring comfort to the soul of late
wife that our child has secured a decent job at Jiayuguan.

亡妻幽魂或可慰，吾子供職嘉峪關。

Son has returned to his school after passing three nights at home. Yesterday evening he instructed me how to use the panel computer he gave me. He has been tired of using it. I can watch English plays and read British literary works in the original on it.
A notice about water filling in the heating pipes has been put on at the entrance of the corridor opening into my apartment. It demands each household should leave at least a person at home in case a leakage may happen. Otherwise the heating company wouldn’t be responsible for any damage caused by possible leaking indoors.

Son works far away and can’t come back for mother’s identity
authentication this year. It quite worried her as her birthday approached.

子至千山外，母生一段愁。

Yesterday to our great joy, niece offered
to go to mother giving the service when she knew our difficulty. This has completely relieved our anxiety since.

姪女旣登門，自兹了無憂。

The 73rd anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Don’t mistake Chinese for victors. It was Americans rather than Chinese who defeated Japanese. The Japanese were cowed into total submission by the two atomic bombs of mass destruction dropped in their land. So we should owe the highest gratitude to Americans. The Japanese fear Americans but despise Chinese. It was said the Japanese troops were reluctant to surrender to Chinese because they thought they hadn’t been defeated yet when they still numbered one million. Without Americans’ help, no one knows how long our fighting was to last.

The swarms of mosquitoes were bearing down
menacingly and encircling me in countless tight rings.

蚊軍攻勢一何洶，圍我四萬八千重。They kept buzzing around me up to midnight
in an attempt to suck all my blood and flesh.

欲將血肉吮吸凈，嗡嗡不去至三更。

Maybe this is an attempt to reestablish the matriarchal clan society in the ancient times. It’s the female’s turn to run the world. The women have been suppressed too long. But this can be practiced in a small circle to a certain extent. Obviously this presumption is unconvincing. I think the most reasonable explanation should be as follows. When the onlookers had pity for the two girls’ choice, they just took narrow-minded views. How could they know the motives of the girls? As the old saying goes, how can a sparrow know the will of a swan? The girls were actually
Bodhisattvas, quite different from the common people. They have detached their minds from the forms of people and objects, and don’t cling to the notion of an ego any more. So they have forgotten their own good looks and shape, take the disabled as equals. The two men had been chosen prudently for both of them were optimistic and tried to do their best. Then the two Bodhisattvas decided to deliver them from the sea of bitterness. This is a greater service than chanting the name of Buddha only. They were willing to act as boats carrying the men to the Pure Land. This is an encouragement to the disabled and a lesson to the good-for-nothing young men from the rich families.

On April 5, according to some media report, a
bullying incident took place at a middle school in Luzhai County, Liuzhou Municipality,
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

4月5日，有媒体报道称，广西柳州市鹿寨县一中学发生校园欺凌事件，

It was exposed by a video that a bullied girl
had been slapped in the face for twenty times by her female fellow students in
a toilet.

多名女生在卫生间内欺辱一名女生。

在爆料视频中，被欺负的女孩一共被打约20次耳光。

It’s been raining frequently this summer. The humid
weather has benefited and freshened the vegetables of the garden.今夏雨來頻，園蔬承澤潤。Thanks to the plentiful rainfall, we needn’t
irrigate the garden. We can harvest with little labor.

天助無須漑，安享少苦辛。

Z and Y sisters are herdswomen from Y Township, L County, S City, Tibet Autonomous Region. Since the 1960s, under the influence and direction of their father S, they have held a firm belief that Y is their home, China their country, and herding sheep and cattle their duty while guarding the national border. They have been consistently patrolling along the boundary and defending thousands of square kilometers of the frontier territory of our country for several decades and should attain the stature of praiseworthy patriots of the present era.
From Models of the Times