[Phoenix PEN] Huiming: A glimpse of Shanghai in autumn

[Phoenix PEN] Huiming: A glimpse of Shanghai in autumn Tucson Huiming Autumn is here, and the pigeons want to fly through the clouds again to find the blue sky. But under the pressure of the haze, we have no choice but...

>Tucang Huiming

Autumn is here, and the pigeons want to go through the clouds again to find the blue sky. But under the pressure of the haze, I had no choice but to lower my wings and behave like a square pigeon.

But Shanghainese, who are always eager to make money, are still like pigeons, spreading and echoing Keqiang’s excitement about the Shanghai Free Trade Zone in the city. The officials on the TV stated the spirit of the big newspaper as always: it has been officially listed and checked in like a cloud; the young white-collar worker who had just learned to pack his bag pushed up his glasses and nodded politely: This is a challenge to Singapore, to regain the world's largest trading port, etc. Foreign-funded and Chinese-funded banks are still pushing and shoving, hesitating whether to enter the warehouse in Waigaoqiao, but scalpers lined up at the registration office to grab the site, showing the same enthusiasm as when they bought subscription certificates. Unexpectedly, the two old ladies relaxing on the subway accidentally blocked their words, and Wu Nong's Shanghainese was loudly preaching along with the carriage: What kind of free trade zone is like a small market, just set up a stall and just buy and sell by yourself. It was as if the secret had been revealed.

Even if 10,000 more high-rise buildings emerge, even if a golden palace falls from the sky, the people of Shanghai will know that it does not belong to them. The most affordable thing is to eat what is in your own belly. You open your five-star Shangri-La Hotel, and I will open a small shop in the Yaoni corner of the alley opposite Nong, selling home-cooked side dishes of salted edamame, dried shredded louver and special braised pork. The grand hotel is no longer glorious, but it does not hinder the prosperous business of the guest house's dining room - it is not a bad idea to put down your posture and put in a bottle of mineral water from Maotai to avoid the limelight of Qishan. The autumn wind blows suddenly, and hairy crabs have become the synonym for all river crabs. Any crab that can be tied up and show its claws is a hairy crab. It can climb from the puddle pond to the hall at once. Even if the restaurant was originally called a snack stall, it will immediately become more popular and popular. Shanghai has also increased its reputation, as if hairy crabs are a famous local product in Shanghai.

The common people are eating much better than before. Although the five-yuan packets make it affordable for working-class people, retired elderly people still spend their happy time floating a few vegetable leaves in soup noodles. Xinya's big bags of soy milk and fried dough sticks couldn't stop the joint attack of McDonald's and Pizza Hut, nor could they withstand the pursuit of Lanzhou ramen, Sichuan hot pot and meat pies and steamed buns. They gradually lost ground among young people and students. However, the low-end food will not destroy the good taste and good mood of overlooking all living beings in the high-rise revolving restaurant. The dramas of singing and dancing life are still performed every day in the cloud theater.

After drinking, no matter whether it is true or false, people are immediately arrogant. Whether it is a gathering of alumni and friends or a family dinner, their tone is like building a high-rise building from the ground up. Or the wave is as high as the sky: shutting down that terminal will only result in a loss of millions. Fortunately, eight out of ten people on the street or in the car were worshiping Jobs, looking at their phones and playing with their fingers, and no one cared about other people's saliva. Even if stock commentators haven't had a drink, they are still so bold that they don't care about being suspected of tricking others, and they still boldly draw pie-like traps for people again and again; from steel to weapons, from online shopping to online selling, everyone has become a businessman on the stage. The whole people are singing that now is an era in finance where money is used to make money, and money is the symbol of success. They are as excited as when the people shook the quotations and got chicken blood. Everyone crosses the river and gets on the shore by touching the stone they think is most reliable, regardless of whether that stone has a history of being discarded. Only the industrialists are shy, submissive and do not dare to speak out loudly, living with their tail between their legs, for fear that one day the tax, health and urban management, and police will come to greet them and drink tea.

Shanghai is already dominated by young people. Before nine o'clock in the morning, the old people and Shanghainese speakers in the subway are almost all aliens. The sixteen subway lines are a lively mixture of Chinese Mandarin, countless dialects, German, English and Malay, carrying countless young talents and grassroots people from wherever they come every day, and take them back to where they are. There are far fewer noisy conversations on the subway than in the past, although making phone calls works much better than in the past. But the insights and fashion shown are still refreshing. A little haze is nothing, it can block ultraviolet rays. Now I know why the Shanghai girl is so white! I didn’t recognize this “haze” when I was studying, but now it’s talked about on the radio every day! There are far more young, middle-aged and middle-aged people giving up their seats to others than in the past, although there are also people who are sitting contentedly on the seats reserved for the elderly and playing with their mobile phones. Fortunately, the vegetable farmers who deliver vegetables to the city have their own carrying poles, and they use them wisely and effectively to resist the shaking of the subway.

Stepping out of any subway entrance, you will immediately be surrounded by the bustling world above. The modern and rigorous thinking of transportation designers benefits and confuses the elderly and rule-abiding people: an old man walking on a sidewalk with a green light is forced to walk hard by a turning electric vehicle; when a bus stops, the lift steps are put down to allow the staggering elderly to board the bus decently, but the impatient young man falls on the connecting platform. There are corresponding buses and motorcycles waiting at dozens or hundreds of subway entrances. As long as you can tell the location and others can understand it, you can reach your destination directly. It's a pity that I often ask for directions in the local dialect of Shanghainese to try to get close to each other. I don't want to be greeted coldly and coldly: "Please speak Mandarin." The old man looked around in shame and didn't know where he was.

Eight out of ten people on the street, in the car, or at the dinner table at home are always looking for jokes and information, for fear that if they miss one, they will forever lose the opportunity to get promoted, get rich, and meet beautiful women. Mobile phones have led to cultural entertainment and simplicity, and also created the ability to reveal secrets in one sentence, which has impressed the world. The reference to "mashing" is still fresh in my memory, and "excessive" has become a new favorite this autumn. Taking the old man's medical bill, although most of the doctors couldn't read his calligraphy, the astronomical bill made the old woman mutter to herself "over-treatment, over-treatment." I don’t want the doctor to make an understatement, but if I don’t overdo it, where will the bonus come from?

It must be said that it is incisive.

Numerous high-rise buildings have been erected in every open space, squeezing the International Hotel, which was the tallest building in Asia, and disappeared. Together with the statement that Shanghai's geology is not suitable for building high-rise buildings, it has been pushed underground, once and for all, solving the worries of generations of man-made houses. However, no one thought it was excessive. The geologists, relying on the leader's blueprint, said that Shanghai's quicksand sedimentation is suitable for high-rise buildings. Outsiders will know the strange taste when drinking Shanghai's drinking water. Water quality scientists did not comment on the water quality in Shanghai as being the worst in the world. They only emphasized that familiar tastes are good. Pigs will not float to death on the Huangpu River in autumn, and the water quality has been significantly improved. No wonder tea becomes more and more expensive as it sells. Only the Dahongpao Tieguanyin can suppress all kinds of evil water monster soups. Cars and masks are increasing in sales in direct proportion to each other. Experts and professors' humanistic ideas occasionally show their light in the economic tide, arguing with eloquence that billowing car exhaust has nothing to do with smog.

In the face of power and wealth, any excess is a positive energy. Only the autumn haze and cold rain are gently sobbing for the excessive development of Shanghai

Sob, nothing can stop the joy and excitement of my hometown Shanghai. Even though "Saturday Date" was completely beaten by "If You Are the One" and disappeared, it did not prevent countless aunts from holding wedding cards for their daughters, braving the sun and rain, and acting out one blind date after another without anyone in sight. Even if you don’t have much money in your pocket, a ten-yuan silk scarf of unknown authenticity is better than singing. "Unforgettable Tonight" is a favorite among officials and the elderly. The favorite song among Shanghainese people is always "Tomorrow Will Be Better". People who drew blueprints and built building blocks on the ground and underground in Shanghai have left one by one, gone north to achieve great success, or are in jail. This does not stop the happy people from holding their hearts in longing - will there be a castle in the air tomorrow?

Shanghai, Shanghai, it seems like I see you every day, but I don’t know your true face. It's like meeting old friends for many years, their voices and temperaments remain the same. When they meet each other suddenly, they are surprised, why do they have so many wrinkles?

Maybe autumn is like this, gain and loss coexist, but spring is different?