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    When her five daughters were young, Helen An always told them that there was strength in unity (团结). To show this, she held up one chopstick, representing one person. Then she easily broke it into two pieces. Next, she tied several chopsticks together, representing a family. She showed the girls it was hard to break the tied chopsticks. This lesson about family unity stayed with the daughters as they grew up.

    Helen An and her family own a large restaurant business in California. However, when Helen and her husband Danny left their home in Vietnam in 1975, they didn't have much money. They moved their family to San Francisco. There they joined Danny's mother, Diana, who owned a small Italian sandwich shop. Soon afterwards, Helen and Diana changed the sandwich shop into a small Vietnamese restaurant. The five daughters helped in the restaurant when they were young. However, Helen did not want her daughters to always work in the family business because she thought it was too hard.

    Eventually the girls all graduated from college and went away to work for themselves, but one by one, the daughters returned to work in the family business. They opened new restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Even though family members sometimes disagreed with each other, they worked together to make the business successful. Daughter Elizabeth explains, “Our mother taught us that to succeed we must have unity, and to have unity we must have peace. Without the strength of the family, there is no business.”

    Their expanding business became a large corporation in 1996, with three generations of Ans working together. Now the Ans' corporation makes more than $ 20 million each year. Although they began with a small restaurant, they had big dreams, and they worked together. Now they are a big success.

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  • ①市的喧嚣被客车甩在身后,返乡的心情急迫里带着轻松。

②甫进村头,天已近晚。秋树婆娑,月影在望。有炊烟,有晚露,伴着月的清辉,在不经意间触发了诗兴:原来诗歌就在这乡村近晚的炊烟里,生活的气息扑面而来,似乎到了浓得化不开的程度。我在村头下车,想体验久违的乡野暮景。一切那么熟悉,却又那么陌生。笔下多次出现的故乡小村依旧,静得像一幅画。四野平旷,蛩声入耳。西天最后一抹晚霞把色彩随意在天幕上挥洒,似是倾尽一日的力量试图留给我渲染极致的印象。浓墨重彩的大写意在乡人匆匆的行色中不讨巧不媚人地铺排着。放羊归来的老汉,披一身晚霞,鞭声吆喝与羊咩犬吠相应和,处处自然,时时有趣。我仿佛天外来客,与这些真正的自然之子格格不入。

③放下行李,在奶奶的捶布石上小憩,凉意袭人,心中却备感温暖,那是对家的渴望,是温馨的怀旧,是历经沧桑又长久疏离的感慨。摸摸平滑的纹路,嗅嗅苍翠的青苔,满怀情意。他们像故交等待着我的到访和归来,不嫌弃我的仆仆风尘,不聒噪我长时间的音讯不通。河边柳是上了年纪的时光记录者,应该存有我曾经水中摸鱼、河岸照影、树顶掏鸟蛋的儿时印记,也不会忘记我清明时给他留的伤痕、春来为他吹奏的柳笛音、夏夜在他怀里听到的乡情野闻。站起身,摸一摸粗糙的树皮,为他的隐忍无语叹服良久。手栽的白杨高耸入云。他的身下有我捉蚂蚱和蟋蟀时跌跤的印痕,也有割草时用镰刀在他身上刻下的符号,那一年高考落榜和父亲怄气时的泪珠似乎也还在。飘舞的叶片似是声声召唤,唤醒我的记忆,带我回味那青涩的过往。奶奶的笑声、妈妈的唤归声在空气里酝酿,跟清风应和。沉浸在玩乐里、投身于游戏中、迷失在熔金落日和迷蒙烟树里的我不舍离去,而她们的呼唤化成了线,我变成了恋家的风筝身不由己地飞回来了。 

④掌灯了,家成了温馨的壳,这壳里,爷爷的旱烟光、爸爸收工归来的疲惫身影、妈妈为爸爸拂尘时的小怒、奶奶灯下纺线时墙上的留影,变成清晰的画,在脑海里映过,在田野的寂寞和夜幕的纯净里放大。我告诉自己,于这一切,这一刻,我不是过客,也不是看客,我是个归人。 

⑤老迈的爸爸早已经铺好了炕,躺上去,阳光的味道似与城市里的截然不同,那里面,有我舍不掉的亲情和化不开的乡情。菜已上桌,酒瓶已开启,茶也正浓,推杯与换盏间放开了束缚良久的心胸。这时候,肝胆相照,心底无私,那是在牢笼般的钢筋水泥和豪奢霓虹下体验不到的,那是放纵了身心投入天地宽阔里的惬意和自适。 

⑥几个月来,渴念在这一刻得以慰藉,但相见也预示着告别。我不知道,一旦离开,谁能为我梳理这“剪不断、理还乱”的愁绪,让我在这宁谧的时空里永安我的魂灵。 (摘自《思维与智慧》,有改动)