Chapter 3 "Eat White Rice"

brigade falcon To change the so-called "white face" in Shanghai into Mandarin, it has to be "playing". It is strange that you can make a living by wandering.However, when asking a man in Shanghai, or asking a woman about her husband's occupation, sometimes a very straightforward answer will be answered: "He is a white man." I didn't find it strange to hear it, just like hearing "teaching" and "work".If it was "no occupation", he would feel a little worried. "Eating white rice" is such an aboveboard occupation in Shanghai.

What we read in the Shanghai newspapers is almost always the merits of these characters; without them, the local news would never be lively.But although there are many achievements, they can only be summed up in three stages, just because they may not all be used for one thing, so it seems to be all kinds of things. The first paragraph is deceiving.If you see greedy people, you will use temptation, if you see lonely and angry people, you will pretend to be sympathetic, if you see unlucky people, you will pretend to be generous, but when you see generous people, you will pretend to be miserable, and the result is to sweep away your opponents.

The second paragraph is coercion.If the deception is ineffective, or if someone sees it through, they will turn their faces and turn it into a threat, or say that the person is rude, or make a false accusation, or rely on the person to owe money, or do not say why, and this is also called "Speaking of reason", the result still swept away the opponent's stuff. The third paragraph is to slip away.If you succeed by using one of the above paragraphs or using two paragraphs together, you will disappear in a flash, never to be found again.If he failed, he also disappeared without a trace.If things get a little bigger, they will leave the port and reappear after avoiding the limelight.

There is such a profession, plain and simple, but it is not surprising. "Bai Xiang" can eat, and those who work will naturally go hungry, which is obvious, but people don't think it surprising. But the friend who "eats white rice" has his own respect, because he also told people straightforwardly, "Eat white rice!" June twenty-sixth. [1] This article was originally published in "Shen Shen Free Talk" on June 29, 1933.