Serial article (63) Young Man in the Town - Miss White
In her youth, my mother still lived in the town, and returned to Beijing and the town several times a year; due to the holidays, each time she was in a hurry and failed to feel the town deeply;
When I was young, I felt that the town that gave birth to me and raised me was becoming more and more strange; the change in the environment was only a change in appearance; but the internal changes in the town were surprising and shocking;
The town of childhood is very noisy during the day, the night is very quiet, the family will enjoy the warmth and affection together; but in youth, this situation is reversed, the town during the day is deserted, the original morning lively vegetable market is also very few people, lonely streets, leaving the merchants dozing; but at night, especially late at night, the town is full of noisy sounds; when night falls, the town is full of mahjong sounds, and all kinds of shouts; late at night, When I was a child, there would occasionally be night shift workers on the streets of the town because they were afraid of affecting the rest of the neighborhood, and quietly go home; and now the town streets are more popular than during the day, and the small townspeople who cannot be seen during the day will emerge in the streets, talking loudly about the winning and losing of a certain card, and the big girl, the little daughter-in-law, etc. will be happy because of winning, and regret because of losing;
When I was young, I thought that my income would be higher than theirs, four mahjong down, I lost four or five hundred pieces, I was timid, I was afraid, I did not dare to play; I thought that even if I lost the card, I thought that even if I lost the card, but the town played mahjong, I would also "catch the bird" (Note: the small town dialect, after a game of mahjong, draw a few cards from the back mahjong cards, and then pair, and also increase the amount of money to lose), so far I do not understand how to "catch the bird"; when I was young, I always doubted how much they earned every month? The confidence that the original income is higher than theirs is completely destroyed;
In the youth era, the town is brightly lit at night, on the road, in the alley, several supper shops, supper stalls open all night, even the rice noodle shops that only existed in the morning in childhood are also open at night; each shop stall has people eating and drinking; only later learned that these are developed because of demand, playing cards late at night, winning more will invite card friends to eat supper and drink, winning less will invite bowls of rice noodles; in short, they will spend a part of the money to accelerate the growth of "GDP";
The Spring Festival in the childhood town is a day of family reunion, but the Spring Festival in the town when I was a teenager is a day to gather people to play cards, and the chips are very large, there is no day and night play; many small-town people who return from working in other places can lose all their savings for a year overnight;
When I was a child, the town greeted him with "Hede and (Note: small town dialect, where to go), and came in with a cup of tea"; in his youth, he developed into: "What code will be issued today?" Where to play cards? ”
"Miss Bai" has become a celebrity in the town, "buying the code" has become a fashion for the townspeople, suitable for all ages, the whole people participate; every evening, the small town people will play CCTV's "Teletubbies" on TV, and the mother said: "The plot and numbers that appear in the Teletubbies will be associated with the buying codes";
"Buy code" is a kind of underground "lottery" name, this "lottery" is a kind of gambling behavior, how to come to the town does not know, anyway, the town people are crazy; the mother said: "guess a number, if you guess correctly, there are dozens of times the odds, how much money can be bought, just buy more, lose more"; small town people regardless of whether there is culture or not, will have a high enthusiasm for learning, everyone has a copy of the inferior printing of the "code newspaper" in the interpretation and analysis, chat together in the spare time, are talking about the research results of the "code newspaper" To tell the truth, I can't read the "code newspaper" at all;
"Miss White" is the character on the "code newspaper", every "code newspaper" has "Miss White"; when I was a child, I attached importance to education, paid attention to family style, and my family was respected by the townspeople with college students, in my youth, "Miss White" replaced everything, reading was less important, reading "Miss White" was more important, the idea of getting rich overnight and getting rich without work continued to spread and deepen among the townspeople, and "buying codes and playing cards" became the goal of the townspeople's struggle; in his youth, the town's "family was broken and broken" Events abound;
I love the town of my childhood, I hate the town of youth; the town of childhood can make people positive and passionate; the town of youth makes people decadent, and I hate the town of youth; the town of childhood comes back quickly;
October 7, 2021 in Yangzhuang, Beijing
(Note: The content in this article is a real memory record, the original debut, but there will be a confused memory; all the pictures used in this article are from the Internet, hereby, I would like to express my sincere thanks to the owner of the picture.) If there is infringement, please contact in time)
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