Chapter 16 watch people

The best scenery is watching people on the street.Chewing gum, strolling leisurely from one store door to another, wanting to buy something without seeming to bring much money, or holding a cigarette, standing under the tram stop sign and waiting for a friend, scratching his ears Gills, burning with fire. ———When I meet someone to talk to, I take out the interview. I remember that it is not a good reporter. If I put a pen in my pocket, I am a primary school student. If I put two pens in my pocket, I am a middle school student. If I put more pens, I will no longer be a big intellectual It's a peddler who repairs pens.If you pretend to be an observing posture, not to mention showing your village appearance, many people will stop on the street and look in the same direction as you, and the traffic will be blocked, and the police will come with batons. ——Knowing that poetry is not poetry is not strange (this is written in the book)

, put everything intentionally and unintentionally, you can really look at the beautiful scenery freely for a while. People on the street walked past one after another. When I was young, was this the procession that adults talked about?But whose team is endless, where do they come from and where are they going?Eight times out of ten geographers exclaimed in the newspapers: the river is getting more and more dry.What is a city? A city is a pile of cement, but the flow of people in the cement pile is so turbulent!So you become Confucius once, chanting "The dead are like the husband", consciously stand on the shore, but the momentary brilliance brings a kind of sadness: you don't know any of these many people, and none of them know You, how proud you were, how high your subjective consciousness is, but you are still the same kind, only your parents, your wife and children know you, and there are only a few acquaintances.A filial song is often sung at funerals in the countryside, saying: "What's so good about living in this world, if you say one word, you die, and your relatives and friends don't know it." Now you really feel that you are about to shed tears.

Let's put aside the misery for the time being, after all, you are here to see the scenery of people.The first thing you see is the human face. No two leaves in the world are the same, and human faces are even more so. Some are handsome and some are ugly. There are different kinds of handsome, and different kinds of ugly. ?You look at it, but you don’t know what a person is, and you wonder if what you see is a person?It's like facing a familiar Chinese character, and it doesn't look like that Chinese character after looking at it for a long time.Hook your head down and think about it rationally, how can a person have a thin neck, a round bony head with seven holes on the head, and such long limbs, and the limbs are so long that they are separated at the end. how terrible!I dare not even think about how the constant inhalation and exhalation of human beings hinders eating, talking and working!Yes, there are many wonders in human beings, but they are difficult to detect and neglect as concrete human beings.In ordinary experience, I think that the sound can be heard in the quiet, but it is clearer in the hustle and bustle, not to mention the sound of footsteps, voices and cars on the street (these sounds are often buzzing), you just need to close the Eyes, immediately fell into a strange state, you can hear the sound of neck twisting, hair flowing, clothes rubbing, this sound not only comes from your ears, it seems to be your whole skin.From this, you have all kinds of thoughts, and you look at everyone's various clothes, and you feel that people spend too much energy on clothes. Why don't you naked the most beautiful human body? If the crowd is really naked What kind of order will the body and the street be?It is said that people once had three eyes, and even double breasts were used as eyes. What caused them to degenerate and disappear?When I was young, I had four legs, when I grew up, I had two legs, and when I was old, I had three legs. Human existence just became more and more embarrassing.Who knows that there is a wrinkled belly in the beautiful clothes, chewed food and feces turned into food in the belly, it is civilized if it is not broken, and it is rough if it is worn, children have no scruples, and they can lift their crotch in public on the street Those who are fearless, do you have knowledge if you have fear?There are ten birds in the tree, if one bird is shot down with a gun, will there be nine birds or none left in the tree? This question will always be a question for adults to test children. How will adults give themselves similar questions? What about your own questions?Suddenly, you have a realization that the majestic beauty of the bear's paw is produced by the bear's survival needs, the healthy beauty of the crane's feet is naturally formed by the crane's survival needs, and the alienation of human beings is caused by the civilization created by human beings. People are sick.People are really sick, you listen quietly, almost everyone on the street is coughing constantly.

On the sidewalk, on the other side, people walked with their faces and stomachs facing forward, and on this side, people walked with their buttocks and heads behind.If you come from the front, you can see the beautiful woman with her head raised proudly, and the deep man with her forehead lowered.From the expressions of each person, whether they are serious, smiling, impassive, or silent, you can immediately know whether their occupation is a public security officer or a hotel receptionist.I have seen too many big purchases and individual small bosses in suits and leather shoes with small purses and protruding bellies. I have seen too many wrinkles on the forehead. The office cadres called Xiaoming have seen too many dignified and polite teachers, painters with long hair like lions, and opera artists with short steps and hips. You just have to listen to the jokes they're telling to tell what kind of people they are in society.Chinese jokes always contain sexual elements. Those with low social status and those who do simple labor always develop meanings around the actual operation of sex. Intellectuals are fond of talking about a feeling, but they can’t communicate with each other when they meet. And I have to talk and get close, so I just talk about how XX among the accomplices poured water for the daughter-in-law to wash her feet, boiled chicken soup and bought bras. That is 100% our leader with considerable power.Well, looking at the scenery in the mountains and rivers, some people like ugly rocks, some people like dead trees, but more people are willing to appreciate the grass and flowers. Looking at the scenery of people on the street, of course you are a woman, of course a young and beautiful woman.Those girls walking side by side, talking loudly, laughing, and showing infinite innocence, their steps are jumping like springs, their hair is fluttering like clouds and flames, you are amazed by the breath of youth, but where does the breath express? I can't explain clearly, but I fully understand Jia Baoyu's feeling of "girls are made of clear water".The most enchanting ones are those young women. Some of them are generous and some are shy. Shell gold and silver have precious colors.You are worried about them. Men on the street always look at them. If they look at them, their eyeballs will leave marks on the object they are looking at. Then, their clothes will have layer after layer of eye marks. When they go home at night, they will take off their clothes and shake , There are eyeballs that can step on bubbles all over the floor.The noon sun shines, and their shadows are very long. Men walking or riding bicycles follow them at a distance, always trying to step on their shadows, trying to merge them into one. If the shadows have feelings, the shadows are all the time Not in pain anymore.For the high attention of men, of course you can tell whether they are willing to accept it or hate it.I'm probably 100% happy, even if I say "I hate it" in the face of cruel and greedy eyes, I am very proud of it.From this, it can be imagined that if the law can be determined according to human psychology, then to punish a young woman without using any instruments of torture, as long as all the men in the world ignore her and ignore her, the woman will be finished.As a woman, fully aware of the value of their own beauty, but how to use this value to distinguish their character.A slack-armed woman has the air of a slack-armed woman, and a docile woman has the air of a docile woman. Women who are expensive because of their beauty, and proud of their expensiveness, often appear supercilious, but in fact their hearts are the most active. They just have good eyes. From the corner of the eye, with a glance, you can know the strengths and weaknesses of each man and their attitude towards them.They look down on men who are less courteous the most, but they will mobilize these little courtesies and live in peace. They know better that men who don't show them little courtesy love them deeply. See, they are fighting fire with fire, adding the same indifference to their mystery and charm, or cultivating courage to inspire the timid, to see lava erupt from the crater of silence.Think about it, at that time, will they still have a strong side, whose watery tenderness will eclipse any docile woman.

On the sidewalk on this side of the street, it is impossible to see the faces walking past, but the best way to recognize people is to recognize faces, but faces are not the only ones.On the opera stage, actors often come out with their backs on stage, with their shoulders and arms raised and lowered, and their buttocks twitching and moving. They all have a play, and you can understand what kind of role it is.On the gambling table, just by looking at the hands of the gamblers, one can tell how impatient one gambler is, while the other gambler has already made up his mind.Now, looking at the woman with a bun in front of her, one leg upright, and the other out of the water snake waist, you might as well spread the wings of your imagination: (interestingly, this kind of imagination matches the reality eight times out of ten) ) Does she work in a mall?She was sitting inside the counter, her shoes were always taken off intentionally or unintentionally.

He was singing a song secretly, and the toes of his feet were moving rhythmically at the height of ten toes. Those toenails must have been dyed red.The hairstyle is in such a bun, but the neck is dark and thin. She has applied thick powder on her face but forgot the neck and ear bases. The exquisite small bag is full of money, or a pile of cosmetics, or even something None, just a pack of toilet paper.The eyes of this woman in the front must be looking around, ready to scream loudly at an acquaintance at any time, she will run past every window to see her image in the glass, and her heart will thump when she meets a neat man Twitching, unknowingly trimming her hair with her hands, winking at people in the alley of her house and saying whose daughter-in-law is a coquettish fox, kicking on her high heels when entering the door, leaning on the sofa and yelling that I am exhausted, and starting When did you scold your husband for not cooking well?If you have seen a single person, you might as well look at a group of two or three people. By their movements and manner of speaking, you can tell if this is a couple, whether the couple is a married couple, or a pair of two sets of old furniture. For newcomers, the relationship is close or distant, and the family background is poor or rich.Or they are not husband and wife at all, but comrades, neighbors, or even lovers. Has this lover only had a relationship or has been having an affair for several years?Did you notice?Standing on this side of the sidewalk, it is the best angle to see how men look back at women.Men's nature is always to look good at other women. Even if they have beautiful wives at home, even if they are harmonious and loving with their wives, they don't distinguish between young and old, ugly or beautiful, but when they see a beautiful woman on the street, they will always look at them.Some people who were originally riding slowly, suddenly found that there was a considerable distance in front and behind, or deliberately slowed down to let the woman go forward. At the moment of parallelism, the head twisted.The shocking beauty of this glance, or it will remain in the memory forever, always recalled and always fresh, and cause infinite impulse, or it will be forgotten after an hour or a few minutes, or after watching the back view, the hope value is too high, and the face is very disappointed. To mock myself silently.You will often find those men who keep a distance from beautiful women, with their bodies bowed but their heads raised, this man must be praying: if this woman can enter the alley in front, this woman or this type of woman is Those who are predestined with me will be able to contact them in the future.Therefore, such a man has to hang his head down at an alley, because the woman did not enter the alley he expected, but turned into another alley ahead of time, or got his wish, this is often a man on the street humming a song s reason.If this disposition of a man is regarded as despicable, the world will be full of hooligans, no, they are showing love for beauty.At this time, you feel how good life is and how good men are. If a man is not happy when he sees a beautiful woman, then why does this man still have passion and creativity?Men make the world, women conquer men, that's the way it is.Of course, there are still lewd men on the street, young men who have never received women before, couples whose relationship has broken down, and those who have been separated for a long time. They are simply perverts and hooligans. Squatting at the foot of the wall of the street house, squinting up, watching the breasts swell when the woman walked by, then lowered his head, rubbed his helpless stiff face with his hands, and swallowed loudly.Or one foot is on the iron chain of the railing, and one arm is propped on the knee to support a head, while watching and shaking the iron chain, they lament that there are so many beautiful women, why is their wife so ugly?I can be relieved to think, no matter how good the fish in the river is, if it is not as good as the fish in the bowl, any woman will become ugly when she marries.If you can't get rid of it, just scold: All the good women in the world are made to be possessed by dogs!

You can never get tired of looking at the scenery of people on the street. How do the villagers who are new to the city look around in the middle of the road and don’t know where to go? The police point their fingers and thieves create crowds. What is leisure and what is rush? Blind people Walking, day and night, the drunk man talks, but he is awake alone.You are worried for a moment, what are these people doing on the street, where do they go when it gets dark, how come they didn’t go to the wrong place and returned to their home?If an order is given at this time, and everything stops, what kind of posture and expression will be frozen?If an earthquake occurs suddenly, how will they flee for their lives?Everyone has his father and mother, the flow of people on the street, decades ago, were the parents of these people also flowed, and decades later, are the children of these people flowed again?If it were not like this, people would become ghosts after death, and ghosts would still live in this world, then generations of people would still die, and the living would continue to be born, how crowded the streets would be!What in the world is richer than the streets, and what makes you wonder more than the streets?At the entrance of the subway, at the head of the overpass, people's heads are like blisters coming out of a boiling water pot, rushing up and kicking down, looking straight at the street, all kinds of shoes and feet are rising and falling.With the emergence of people's heads, you are puzzled by the mystery of the other world they come from, and the feet of their shoes rise and fall, and you are terrified of what they will come out of in this world.All living beings, all living beings, how many great men are there among them, scientists, philosophers, artists, writers, which one is and which one will be in the future?You are in awe of everyone, so you naturally think of the teachings of Buddhism, and realize that whether it is a general, a thief, a philosopher, or a prostitute, they are all experiencing life in their own way. You will temporarily eliminate the differences in ranks, the boundaries of ugliness and beauty, and treat everything calmly and peacefully.

Entering such a state, you suddenly laughed: Why am I just watching people here? Aren’t people on the street watching me too?So, when you look at the person who is looking at you, you nod knowingly, or even feel shy, and look up at the sky, and you will realize that there is a God looking at you and me in the sky.God is silent, and looks at the busy people in the world with cold eyes.At this time, your realm is sublimated again, and you are God watching all this in a trance, and you wake up to how boring and meaningful life is, how simple and complicated the world is.In this way, looking at the scenery of people on the street is like reading a book of history or philosophy. From now on, when you look at problems and do things, your mind will not be so narrow-minded, your eyes will not be so short-sighted, and you will not be concerned about petty gains. To intrigue, not to be arrogant and depressed because of a momentary honor or disgrace, since people come to the world like ants, they live and die suddenly, gather and disperse, in just a few decades, they should be free and unrestrained, and they should be free and unrestrained , each fulfilling their own life, this is the whole meaning of existence.

Drafted on May 2, 1992