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本帖最后由 山道崎岖 于 2019-3-15 17:36 编辑
A scale(一杆秤)
作者:Li Zongshan(李宗山) 翻译:Song Deli(宋德利)
On that day they moved into the new home, the gave the useless things to other or just threw them away only except for the old scale that the father hold in hand and insisted on taking it into the new house.
I said:"The scale is not antique. It is worthless and we had better sell it as garbage to the garbage collector. I bargained and he was only willing to pay twenty dollars." The father said:" This scale has been in our house for more than 50 years, how can it be casually sold out.You think it is worth an antique. It is more precious than cultural relic. No matter how much money it is paid, I never sell it out." The father opened the door and got into the car with the scale in his hand.
Along the way, I explained:"I just mean that we don't use this scale every day and moreover there is no enough place to put it in our new house." The father said:" The new house is bigger than the old one. How can it be that there is not enough places to put it in? I say:" Your original bed has four legs and it is empty under the bed, things can be put under the bed. But now it is different. You use a high-quality bed and under it nothing useless can be put." But the father said," No matter it can be or cannot be put down under it, there must be scale where I live." After that we had nothing more to talk about.
After moving into new building and chatting with my father that day, I mentioned the scale again. Father said with a sigh," That's the scale I borrowed from our neighbor Grandpa Liu and I failed to return it to him in time because I was force to go to the farm for a month. When I came back, liu had gone away. He lived by himself. Some people said that he went back to his old hometown and no one had any news from him from then on. I said:" Grandpa Liu will be over 100 years old if he is still alive so you cannot return it to him. In fact, it is better to sell it out when moving into the new home. If you still keep it at hand, it will make you suffer a lot in your mind." Father got his face red, stamping on the floor and said:" This is somebody else's stuff. Even if you cannot return it to its original owner, you can keep it as a reminder. How can it be that you do not allow a scale to be kept at our new home?"
————《当代文学海外版》2018年3月刊
一杆秤(600字)
文/李宗山
那天搬新家,一些没什么用的,该卖的卖,该送人的送人,该扔的扔了,唯独有杆旧秤,父亲却紧攥在手里,非要带到新房子不可。
我说:“这秤又不是古董文物,也值不了几个钱,卖给前面收废品的算了,他还在等着呢。我讨价半天,人家才愿意给二十块钱。”父亲说:“这秤在咱家已经五十多年了,怎么能说卖随便就卖。你觉着它不值钱,可我觉着它比古董还值钱,比文物还珍贵,给多少钱我也不卖。”父亲拉开车门,带着秤上车了。
一路上,我又解释说:“我刚才的意思是,就这么杆秤, 日常也用不上,新房里没地方放。”父亲说:“新房面积比旧房大许多,旧房子能放得下,新房子怎么就放不下了?”我说:“您原来的床是四腿撑着,下面空着,可以把它放到床下;现在可不一样,您睡的是高级床,下面根本放不下这些乱七八糟的东西。”父亲说:“放得下要放,放不下也要放,有我住的地方就有放这杆秤的地方。”我俩再没多说话。
搬进新楼收拾利索后,那天跟父亲闲聊,我又提起那杆秤。父亲叹口气说:“那是我上中学时借邻居刘大爷家的秤,借后没及时还,我就到农场学农去了,一去一个月,回来知道刘大爷搬走了。刘大爷孤单一个人,有人说他回老家了。以后再也没有音信。”我说:“刘爷爷要活着也一百多岁了吧,这秤肯定没法还了;其实,搬家时还真不如把它卖了,留家里反成了您的一块心病。”父亲涨红了脸,跺着脚说:“ 这是人家的东西,还不了留着也算是个念想;你怎么就容不下一杆秤呢!”
(《一杆秤》发《当代文学 海外版》2018年3月刊(总第28期) ,《传奇故事 校园文学》2018年第一期)
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