Chapter 26 Chapter 7 Reinterpreting the Three Chinas

I have a friend who is from my hometown and is in business.The main business is in Beijing, and I have to go to the south once or twice a month. Going again and again, the destination is a big city that I often visit.It takes about 40 minutes to drive from the airport to the city.As soon as he appeared in the airport hall with his bag, he was greeted by a young man and asked if he wanted to take a cheap car.As soon as I heard it, I knew it was a black car driver, so I ignored it. However, the young man was very polite and respectful.He said that he could charge 20 yuan less; he said that there was a special license, so that he could be exempted from paying the highway toll located halfway; he said that he could take a shortcut and ensure that he entered the urban area at least ten minutes earlier.Last but not least, his car is an Audi.

My friend was actually moved by the talk, and followed the young man to take the black car. The black car was indeed an Audi.And, it's black.But that Audi, an old model from the 1980s, was too old inside and out. After the driver of the black car drove away, he said triumphantly, "It's an Audi, right? It's true that I drive a black car, but I'm not lying." My friend asked: "If I had known you were driving such an Audi, I would never have gotten in your car." The young man smiled and said that he had already sat on it, so don't say anything if you regret it.You can save twenty or thirty yuan, and you can enter the city ten minutes earlier.

My friend thought about it, but it was true, so he stopped talking about dissatisfaction. In this matter, at my friend's place, the intention is not to save twenty or thirty yuan.His business is doing well, and he earns a lot of money every year. He doesn't care whether he can save twenty or thirty yuan.Entering the urban area ten minutes earlier is not attractive to him. He just sits in the hotel directly. The ten minutes earlier has no special meaning to him.This friend of mine has two major problems—the first is that he is addicted to smoking, and the second is that he is unbearably lonely.But smoking is not allowed on the plane; sitting next to him is another young lady who doesn't talk to strangers.So when he got off the plane, he immediately wanted to satisfy two urgent and strong demands.One is physical, I need to smoke a cigarette quickly to feel comfortable; the other is psychological, I haven’t taken the initiative to talk to people for more than three hours, and I want to talk to people urgently and strongly.The city is often visited by him.The city has strict regulations on the taxi industry - "do not smoke in the car", "do not talk to the driver".These two lines of text are prominently printed on the promotional card "Regarding Passengers"; the card is pasted in the car with a transparent adhesive strip.Therefore, every time my friend takes a taxi in the city, he feels restrained instead.For passengers like him, those two "warnings" are very inhumane.It was mainly for this reason that my friend got into the young man's black car.

But after all, he is also a person who knows the basics of civility, and tentatively asked: "Can I have a cigarette?" The young man said bluntly: "Yes. That's great! You can smoke as many cigarettes as you want, and you can smoke as much as you want." My friend was happy when he heard it.He took out his cigarette and couldn't wait to puff it up. While the physical requirements were satisfied, the psychological requirements also began to move around the corner, so I chatted up the driver without having anything to say. "It looks like you're under 30, right?"

"Boss, your eyesight is really accurate, I'm 29." "get married?" "They all have children." "Boys and girls?" "Girl." "Girl is good, once you marry abroad in the future, you will be relieved." "Boss, we want to go together." "Is this car yours?" "It's not my own either. It's a second-hand car bought by three buddies." "This car can't be driven for a few years, it should be phased out!" "If you can drive it for a few years, you have to support your family."

"Then why don't you strive to become a formal taxi driver?" "That's too exploitative! After a month of hard work, almost two-thirds of the money went to the taxi company!..." So my friend expressed emotion, condemned the taxi company, and expressed sympathy for the young man who drove a black car. Suddenly he felt something was wrong and asked, "Why haven't you passed the toll booth yet?" After passing the toll booth, there is only half way to the city. The young man said: "Let's go around the toll booth. Didn't I say something earlier, I want to save you ten yuan in road tolls!"

"So shall we go around now?" "Not yet. It'll be around in a while." "But I've been in your car for more than 20 minutes. You promised to enter the city ten minutes earlier." "Don't worry, no problem, no problem." At that time, the car was driving on a road that my friend was completely unfamiliar with, full of potholes and bumps; on both sides of the road, there was no landmark building that he was familiar with.He began to wonder, how could he enter the urban area in ten minutes?I started to regret getting in that black car a little bit.Satisfied for a while, I don't have much to say.

There are more and more cars on the road.After a while, the old Audi was blocked at an intersection. "Look, half an hour has passed now, is this the urban area?" "Of course it's not downtown! How could I expect to be blocked here?" "Then you're driving on this road?" "Didn't I want to save you ten yuan tolls! I have to be honest!" "How dare you talk about honesty! I only care so much about saving ten yuan?" "You don't care that you get in my car? You don't care that you declared it at the beginning!"

"You, you still talk to me like that!" "Then how should I talk to you?" Because of the traffic jam, the mood of the two of them turned sour. You came to talk and I went to talk, and they almost quarreled. The traffic jam was caused by a traffic accident ahead.Their car was blocked for more than half an hour.When I was finally able to drive forward again, my friend was already full of anger.But being angry is useless, and you can only be angry with yourself!The atmosphere in the car, of course, was not as friendly as it was when he smoked his first cigarette. After more than half an hour, the car entered the urban area.It was already dark.

My friend still couldn't see a landmark building, and couldn't help asking angrily, "Are you driving to the hotel where I live?" The driver of the black car asked back, "Then where do you think I'm driving?" He said, "Then why am I not familiar with the two sides of the road?" The driver of the black car said, "Didn't we drive into the urban area by another road?" At that time, it happened to be the time when there was a traffic jam in the city. To put it simply, after another 40 minutes, my friend was still sitting in that black car.The black car got off this closed road and drove onto another closed road.Back and forth endlessly, it seems that I have completely lost my sense of direction.It's not that the young man intentionally went the wrong way, wasting his time and cheating him of money, but that he didn't know what street my friend was going to be in at all.

"You don't fucking know, how dare you trick me into getting into your black car!" "Boss, can you stop scolding people? Didn't you say that you live in that hotel often, and you know the way!" "Of course I'm familiar with it!" "Then how do you say we should go?" "how could I know?" "You just said you were familiar with it!" The two finally quarreled loudly.The young man driving the black car was also so anxious that it was poor, and his face was dripping with sweat.But my friend no longer sympathizes with the other party's difficulties in supporting the family. He only thinks the other party is really hateful and hateful. When the black car drove down the closed road again, and the young man was going to ask the driver of an official taxi parked on the sidewalk for directions, my friend reacted quickly and got out of the car with his bag in a few seconds. Get into an official taxi. An official taxi is an official taxi after all.As soon as my friend told me which hotel to go to, the driver had already driven away and said, "It's not too far, we'll be there in 20 minutes." The young man in the black car followed the taxi in the black car, always running alongside the taxi.As soon as I was walking, I stretched out my arms from the car and asked my friend for the fare. My friend is in a rage, how can I get the taxi to stop and give him money?Not only did they not give it, but they also cursed at each other. The taxi driver said something in local to the young man driving the black car, and the black car stopped following him. The taxi driver asked my friend what was going on again. He told the truth, and finally said confidently: "I don't want to rely on his tens of yuan for the ride, how can I get rid of my anger after giving him?" The taxi driver was silent for a long time, and said a few words in a low voice: "Then your boss should be more careful when he is in this city. As far as I know, those black car drivers are not working alone, and they are also organized. The underworld is about the same. You have to watch out for them to retaliate against you. Besides, he already knows which hotel you are staying in." My friend was greatly disturbed. The hotel was indeed not far from where he changed cars.There was no traffic jam at that time, and it took only 20 minutes to arrive.However, after completing the formalities, he entered the room, took a shower, settled down and thought about it, the young man driving a black car was naturally irritating, but it was clearly not intentional, so why bother to make the other party hate him?Thinking of the gesture the young man made to himself and the words the taxi driver said to him, he became more uneasy and became suspicious. After more than an hour, he went to the front desk to check out.From stepping out of the room, to stepping into the elevator, to leaving the room and stepping out of the hotel, standing on the sidewalk, looking left and right, with an anxious expression, as if one or several enemies will suddenly appear from front to back, left and right, and take their lives as soon as possible thing. Fortunately, I quickly hailed a taxi, so I went to live in another hotel.Because I had booked a room in the previous hotel, the check-out time had passed, so I paid more than 300 yuan a day for nothing.But at that time, he couldn't care about the economic loss anymore, he thought about everything, but the safety of his life was the most important thing. Although I successfully moved into another hotel, my heart was still uneasy all day long, with all the grass and trees in my arms, secretive in and out, and my uneasiness has not diminished.For business matters, as long as you can invite the other party to the hotel to talk, you will not leave the hotel.The fear in my heart is inconvenient to explain to the other party.As a result, the impression he gave the other party was particularly bad that time, making the other party mistakenly think that he was arrogant and showing off, so he didn't treat him very well.These days, there are a lot of business opportunities. They are all people who have seen the world in the business world. Whoever leaves can't do it?Who has to pay special attention to whom? The two sides met several times in the hotel within a few days, and the several deals that were sure to be negotiated before coming here were not implemented in the end.This disappointed him greatly; the other party felt that he was too arrogant and had a bad impression of him, and he was also upset. The day before leaving that city, he asked the other party to send someone to send him to the airport.The business was not negotiated, and the airs became bigger, and the other party was already unhappy; so he misunderstood his request as putting on airs again, and became even more unhappy, so he casually made an excuse and blocked his request. Frightened, he bought the earliest flight for safety reasons, and left the hotel at six o'clock to go to the airport.Fearing that they would run into the black car driver and his accomplices at the airport, they got out of the taxi and almost fled into the airport. It was only after returning to Beijing that my panic-stricken heart calmed down.However, as soon as he planned to go to City A, he would immediately think of the threatening gesture made by the driver of the black car and the advice given to him by the official taxi driver, so he cringed. Unwilling to make the trip.Half a year later, even the business in City A was abandoned. Alas, I have long been used to hearing many people's complaints and personal feelings about the sinisterness of society.But mostly speaking on their own merits.For example, first speak about your lack of talent, and then criticize others for being blind; first speak about your own outstanding ability, and then lament others' jealousy; first speak about your selflessness, and then criticize others for their selfish desires; The villainous activities and hypocrisy of the . . . But few people admit that it is because some of their own problems happen to collide with some of the society's problems, which makes them fall into embarrassment at certain times. What happened to my friend is an example of the latter. And it seems to me that the latter is much more common than the former for people who are not in disadvantaged groups. It is a warning.