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Mùa thu. Mùa thu.
Tôi muốn hét lên đồng thời sụt sịt nước mắt nước mũi vì sung sướng như thể đang ở giữa mùa thu. Ở giữa những ngày đầy sương khói.
Đống táo đỏ chín rục trên nóc nhà. Màu của mùa thu ngập mắt. Mùi của mùa thu đầy căng lồng ngực.
Rồi. Cái xứ sở ảo tưởng nào đó sẽ được thay bằng "thung lũng" Sủng Là. Và cây táo nào đó tôi phải è cổ tưởng tượng, sẽ được thay bằng cây táo dại (tôi chả fải tưởng tượng gì chỉ modify chút đỉnh mà thôi).
Khi search chữ táo còi, táo dại, tôi nhớ hai ông bà già này quáaaa điiii. Đọc đi đọc lại nghìn nghìn ti tỉ lần, lần nào cũng vừa đọc vừa cười rúc rích ko gì đỡ được.
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“Good evening, old woman.”
“Good evening, old man.”
“I’ve made the exchange.”
“Ah, well, you understand what you’re about,” said the woman. Then she embraced him, and paid no attention to the strangers, nor did she notice the sack.
“I got a cow in exchange for the horse.”
“Thank Heaven,” said she. “Now we shall have plenty of milk, and butter, and cheese on the table. That was a capital exchange.”
“Yes, but I changed the cow for a sheep.”
“Ah, better still!” cried the wife. “You always think of everything; we have just enough pasture for a sheep. Ewe’s milk and cheese, woollen jackets and stockings! The cow could not give all these, and her hair only falls off. How you think of everything!”
“But I changed away the sheep for a goose.”
“Then we shall have roast goose to eat this year. You dear old man, you are always thinking of something to please me. This is delightful. We can let the goose walk about with a string tied to her leg, so she will be fatter still before we roast her.”
“But I gave away the goose for a fowl.”
“A fowl! Well, that was a good exchange,” replied the woman. “The fowl will lay eggs and hatch them, and we shall have chickens; we shall soon have a poultry-yard. Oh, this is just what I was wishing for.”
“Yes, but I exchanged the fowl for a sack of shrivelled apples.”
“What! I really must give you a kiss for that!” exclaimed the wife. “My dear, good husband, now I’ll tell you something. Do you know, almost as soon as you left me this morning, I began to think of what I could give you nice for supper this evening, and then I thought of fried eggs and bacon, with sweet herbs; I had eggs and bacon, but I wanted the herbs; so I went over to the schoolmaster’s: I knew they had plenty of herbs, but the schoolmistress is very mean, although she can smile so sweetly. I begged her to lend me a handful of herbs. ‘Lend!’ she exclaimed, ‘I have nothing to lend; nothing at all grows in our garden, not even a shrivelled apple; I could not even lend you a shrivelled apple, my dear woman.’ But now I can lend her ten, or a whole sackful, which I’m very glad of; it makes me laugh to think about it;”
and then she gave him a hearty kiss.
[H.C. Andersen - What the old man does is always true]
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