Chapter 39 Where is my cousin?

When I was a teenager, I was working in a publishing house. I met an old gentleman who ran a printing factory. The gentleman had a wonderful skill: he could remember the names of everyone he had met.Even for a small worker like me, when he met me once and gave my name, and when he met eight years later, he could call out kindly, "Xiao Zhong!" The old man can remember me, so twenty years have passed , I still try to remember the high name of this wealthy businessman; I also understand that to be a "successful businessman", it is necessary to be able to match every face and every name.

I am destined to fail; because I just don't have this ability, or only half of it: I can remember my appearance, but I can't remember my name. Macau is a small place, and every day I meet familiar people, more and more familiar people, people greet me warmly, I know it is an "acquaintance", but where I met, what is the name, why can't I remember it all?One day, an "acquaintance" came and had a good chat, but he couldn't remember where he met him. Later, he took out two stones, one of which was carved by the old Shanbo, and he recognized the stone after seeing it. , In a certain month of a certain year, I saw it in a restaurant in Hong Kong; then I remembered: "Acquaintance" brought this stone for me to see, and everyone had a meal that night.

It is easy to remember stones, but difficult to remember people, so what is going on? "Stones, you have touched them carefully; people, most of them haven't touched them." Zhu Peng explained.Indeed, anyone who has touched it can remember it; but it is not a solution to touch people when they see them. Do I go to "search" first when the guests come in? Recognize the face, but can’t remember the name, or even the story, there is a great harm: if I catch a thief, remember the appearance, hand it over to the police and send it to the cell; if the thief comes out of prison and visits again, I will also think it is an "acquaintance" , serve tea to guests, send Datianhuang to him for review, he doesn't know the goods, he wants to see the cash, so what should I do?

Ask the anti-theft products company if it is possible to "upgrade" the closed-circuit TV: take pictures of the face of the visitor, and this face can be attached with a commentary, for example: "Da Boyuan, cold-blooded, good-natured, in a certain year and month, once Come to our shop with my cousin.” Three years later, I forgot who Daboyuan was, but he was standing in front of the door, and the “Sounding CCTV” would rebroadcast this story first, so I could let him in, relying on familiarity , asked him: "This time, why didn't you bring your cousin?"