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记 得 那 时

Those Good Old Days

戴 希

Dai Xi

 

辛笛是星河小学三年级的学生。

Flute Xin was a student in Grade Three at the Star and River Primary School.

一天放学,背着书包蹦蹦跳跳地回家,忽然眼睛一亮——他发现了路上躺着的7元钱。

One day when he scampered back home after school with his schoolbag on his back, his eyes suddenly brightened up – he saw seven yuan lying on the road.

“是谁不慎掉下的呢?”辛笛的胸口突突突地跳得厉害。要知道,那可是5分钱就能买到1个鸡蛋的年代!

“Which careless guy?” Flute Xin’s heart was pounding. You should know that back at that time five cents was enough to buy an egg!

他机警地环顾四周,无人,赶紧弯腰去捡。揣进口袋乐陶陶地回到家中,好几次话已溜到嘴边,却被辛笛狠狠地吞回肚里,硬是没让爹妈知道自己捡钱的事儿。

Flute Xin looked around in an alert fashion. Nobody was around. He hurriedly bent to pick it up. After reaching home happily with the money in his pocket, he forced back the words at the tip of his tongue several times and didn’t divulge the secret to his parents.

7元钱可不是小钱呵!晚上,辛笛翻来覆去地睡不着——他太兴奋了。

Seven yuan was no small beer! That night, Flute Xin, being unable to fall asleep, kept tossing and turning – he was in fevered excitement.

“拾金不昧!”“学习雷锋好榜样!”不知怎的,辛笛的脑海中又突然冒出这样的念头,“捡到钱不交是可耻的!至少也说明自己的思想觉悟低呗!所以,明天一上学,就得把钱交给班主任曾老师。”

“Return to the owner what you have picked up!” “Learn from Lei Feng, our role model!” Flute Xin didn’t know why such ideas were popping up in his mind. “It would be a shameful thing not tohand in the money I have picked up on the road! This at least proves that my ideological consciousness is low! Therefore, tomorrow soon after going back to school, I should hand in the money to my homeroom teacher Mr Zeng.”

“可是,7元钱全交吗?”辛笛又的确舍不得。“怎么办呢?”辛笛转眼一想,决定只向曾老师上交3元,余下的4元则自己揣着。“这样,既赚了大头,还可得到老师和学校的表扬,何乐而不为呢?”

“But should I hand in all of the seven yuan?” Flute Xin was really unwilling to do so. “Whatshould I do?” With a roll of his eyes, he decided to hand in only three yuan but pocket the remaining four for himself. “In this way I will not only be keeping the lion’s share of the cake but will also be praised by the teachers and the school authorities. Why ever not?”

于是,第二天一上学,辛笛就悄悄找到班主任曾老师,把在路上捡到的3元钱大大方方地交给他。

Therefore, the next day after going back to school, Flute Xin found his homeroom teacher Mr Zeng quietly and handed in the three yuan to him at ease, saying that he’d picked it up on his way.

果不其然,上课的铃声刚刚响过,曾老师就笑容可掬地迈进教室,竖起大拇指赞不绝口地表扬了他,同学们也向他投来极度赞许的目光。

Sure enough, barely had the bell rung for class, when Mr Zeng strode into the classroom with all smiles and heaped praises on Flute Xin with his thumbs up. His classmates also shot praising glances at him.

不仅如此,课间操时,校长孔孚还当着全校师生的面,浓墨重彩地推介辛笛,号召全校师生向辛笛学习。

Moreover, during the break when physical exercises were conducted, their headmaster Kong Fucommended him fulsomely in front of all the teachers and students and called upon them to learn from him.

学校的宣传栏里也贴出了文章:《学习辛笛,做雷锋式的好学生!》,文章的四周,还贴满了同学们热情洋溢的心得和誓言!

One article under the title of “Learn from Flute Xin and Be a Good Lei-Feng-Style Student!” was also posted in the publicity column of the school and around the article were the students’ ardent spiritual gains and oaths!

如此一渲染,辛笛就忐忑不安了。捏捏自己口袋里私藏的4元钱,他的脸又烫又红。“哪里是雷锋式的好学生?哪里值得全校师生们学习呀!”他感到羞愧。

Now that he was being praised like this, Flute Xin felt uneasy in his heart. Pinching the four yuan that was still in his pocket, he felt his face burn red. “How can I be considered a good Lei-Feng-style student? How can I be a role model for all the teachers and schoolmates to learn from!” He felt ashamed.

可再把4元钱交给曾老师吗?老师、同学还有校长又会怎样看我?——哦,原来辛笛也是自私自利的孩子!

But again ought I to hand in the rest four yuan to Mr Zeng? How would the teachers, students and headmaster look at me? – Oh, Flute Xin is a selfish boy at the same time!

那么,就说自己又捡到了4元钱?——鬼才信呢!就你辛笛能捡钱?同学们都捡不到?思虑再三,辛笛决定,索性不上交那4元钱。

Then tell them that I’ve picked up four yuan again? – Only a ghost would believe that! Fortune has shone upon you, Flute Xin? But never on those other students? After thinking it over, Flute Xin decided that he would not hand in the remaining four yuan.

但接下来辛笛又寝食难安了.自己不配老师、校长和同学们的赞扬事小,更可怕的是,这样私心作崇做坏事,怕要遭报应的!善有善报,恶有恶报。爹妈经常这样念叨呀。

But once more he could neither sleep nor eat well. It mattered not a jot that he didn’t deserve the praise of the teachers, headmaster and schoolmates. The more terrible thing was that he might get his come-uppance for his selfishness! Payback time would come around. Didn’t his father and mother often yammer on like this?

怎么办呢?经过一番苦思冥想,办法终于有了。

What should he do? After racking his brain, Flute Xin finally hit upon a brilliant idea.

第二天,赶在同学们之前,辛笛悄悄把4元钱“掉”在了放学回家的路上。辛笛觉得这一招既无私又高明,不仅4元钱‘交’出去了,还让别的同学捡到钱交给老师后,得到老师和学校的表扬,自己该是做了件”好事”吧!

The next day, he went back home ahead of the other students and secretly “lost” the four yuan on the way. This is a selfless masterstroke, he thought. Not only would the four yuan be “handed in,” but he would also have done another “good deed” since the finder would surely be praised after having handed in the money.

可是一天过去,学校里没有同学得到表扬;两天过去,依然没有;一周过去,也没有……

However, one day passed and no one was singled out for praise. The situation was still like this after two days and remained so after one week …

辛笛开始后悔了,他好几次跑到自己”掉”钱的地方,很仔细地想找回那”丢失”的4元钱,但是没有找到.也许,这钱是被哪个同学捡到后私藏了;又或者,是被一阵风刮走了吧。

Flute Xin started to feel regret. Several times he ran to where he had “lost” the money and wanted to retrieve, but in vain. Maybe someone had put it in his own pocket after picking it up, or maybe it had been blown away by a gust of wind.

想到这里,辛笛狠狠地拍了拍自己的前额:“唉!”

At the thought of this, Flute Xin slapped his forehead hard. “Ah!”

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