那天我非常激动,因为刚刚收到了联邦出版社递送来的邮包,里面是我第一本书的定版函,看来我的书很快就要问世了。我给妻子打了电话,然后开车去她工作的那家月饼店接她一起去共进午餐。这是旧金山唐人街的中式月饼店,到了之后,我找了一个很靠后的隔间坐下,边品茶边等她把下中班前的杂事收拾好。我透过大大的玻璃窗向外望去,一个30岁左右的男人正穿过停车场,他手里拿着一个装月饼的盒子,那是刚从街对面的小市场买来的。这人走进月饼店,直接去柜台要了一大杯茶水,然后走到我斜对面的那张桌子边坐下。 I was very excited that day, because I just received the parcel delivered by the Federal Press, which is the final version of my first book. It seems that my book will soon come out. I called my wife and drove to the mooncake shop where she was working to pick her up for lunch. This is the Chinese moon cake shop in Chinatown, San Francisco. When I arrived, I found a very back room and sat down while waiting for her to clean up the chores before class. I looked out through the big glass windows. A 30-year-old man was passing through the parking lot. He had a mooncake box in his hand, just bought from a small market across the street. The man walked into the moon cake shop, went directly to the counter to get a big cup of tea, then walked down to the table that I diagonally sat down.