Chapter 78 Views from the second floor and basement

Views from the second floor and basement Feng Tang A person, carrying a suitcase and a laptop computer, arrived in Hong Kong for the first time, well organized, with a bed to sleep in and a cup to drink water from.Hong Kong has the best food in the world, and stomach safety is not a problem. When you go out, look to the left, there are four tea restaurants, and to the right, there are four tea restaurants.However, home is where the heart is, and it is best to have a girl.If there is no girl, it is best to have a few friends. If there are no friends, at least a few Internet cafes where you can contact revolutionary comrades, and at least a few bookstores where you can buy a few books to pass the sudden extra time, right?

Hong Kong is densely populated. When you fart on Queen’s Road in Central, dozens of people will smell it, seven or eight people will hear it, and one or two people will wonder if someone pushed their waist. No one will look back at you. "The prosperity of the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit", everyone is busy.When I was doing consulting before, I took two analysts to Hong Kong to do projects.One of the young men from Heilongjiang, with a smiling face like a baked steamed bun from Fengze Garden, is pure and simple.It was his first time in Hong Kong. When he walked out of his office in the Yangtze River Center, he saw tall buildings and Mercedes-Benz cars. He counted 18 cars in half a minute.He said two sentences to me. The first sentence was: "Let's eat something good tonight, fish and shrimp." The second sentence was: "Hong Kong is a mountain."

Because it is a mountain, if you want to build a building, in addition to digging a mountain, you can only fill in the sea.The land is not easy to come by, so the buildings built have two characteristics, one is thin and tall, like middle fingers erected inexplicably.The second is expensive. After the financial turmoil, the real estate market has shrunk, and the current real estate prices are still five times higher than those in Beijing and Shanghai.Chatting with small businessmen who rent houses, the most common words I hear are: Han, they all work for the landlord.What the landlord often says: I am miserable, and I am still in negative equity.Therefore, the prosperous shop on the first floor is full of profiteering businesses such as selling women's face oil and European leather skirts.The bookstore is either on the second floor or in the basement.

In the bookstore on the second floor, Hong Yeh Bookstore in Hong Kong Island is known as the "big brother".According to the map, after exiting the Causeway Bay subway exit, turn right at Starbucks in Times Square.There is an entrance on the first floor, palm width, a fat man of two hundred catties, carrying a bag, wants to twist himself in.On both sides of the stairs are posters, most of which are current bestsellers, such as Zhang Yihe's, as well as recent art exhibitions and small theater previews.Fast-forwarding to the second floor is "Ming Pao"'s Sunday reading special. The most recent issue is an interview between Zhang Hanzhi and Hong Huang. Hong Huang's big grinning face surprised me. The people involved in "Zaozhang" are awesome.

The shop on the second floor is not big, about one-fifth of the area of ​​Beijing Sanlian Bookstore, and it is low, with the load-bearing beam touching my forehead.There is only one guy, who looks after the store and registers the cashier.He was a fat man in his thirties, sitting on the counter, like a half-split gourd, with the flat side facing the wall and the drum side facing people.He was wearing a chicken shit yellow Giordano short jacket, his eyes were dull, and his nose hair was slightly long.It was a Saturday afternoon, and there were less than ten people in the store. There were too many people to see, but little to buy, and it was depressed.The books are scattered randomly, and there is no category description on the bookshelf.Half of the books are mainland editions, except that the bibliography is older, less, the taste of the selection is poor, and the price is 30% to 100% more expensive, which is no different from the ones sold in Shenzhen Bookstore. Basically, what is popular in the mainland is popular in Hong Kong.However, when I met Yu Qiuyu, I didn’t see any beautiful writers. I thought, some of them are banned in China. If the compatriots in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan don’t try their best to help, where did the beautiful writers’ liquid and Goubuli steamed stuffed buns come from? ?The other half is the Taiwan version of the book, which is 50% more expensive than Taipei. In addition to the fictional political analysis, it is the plastic flowers, paper flowers and silk flowers of Dong Qiao and Yu Guangzhong. Li Ao.The only Hong Kong version of the book that supports the appearance is the Yishu series. There are three bookshelves. I really have to admire those writers whose writing habits are more regular than menstruation and persistent. They are indeed prolific.In Hongye Bookstore, the only thing that embodies the character of "Big Brother" is the four tables and a dozen chairs at the end of the store, where people who visit the bookstore can rest for free, and no one forces you to buy drinks.

It was the first time I came to the most famous bookstore in Hong Kong, and I didn't want to buy a book, so I was depressed. The representative of the underground bookstore is also in Times Square.On the basement floor where Lancarver sells facial oils, there is a large bookstore called "PAGE ONE". On the pillar on the right hand side of the store entrance is the Chinese translation of official script: "Yeyitang".The store is quite big, 90% of which are foreign language books, maybe the paper and ink used are different. Once you enter, it seems to be a miniature version of "Barnes & Noble". It is still strong, and there is still a market in the spiritual field.The most prominent ones are picture albums and foreign magazines, which are subdivided into ten categories.Most of the albums are architecture, design and fashion. I originally wanted to find research on ancient Chinese jade written by Jessica Rawson and other fetishists, but failed.Forget about magazines, you can basically find everything you are looking for online.After looking around, the only thing I want to buy is a practical book in English called "How to Marry Yourself After the Age of 35—Based on What I Learned and Practiced at Harvard Business School", which is going to give me a sense of career and ovulation Same as exuberant shaved head sister.However, in consideration of good deeds, kindness and fear of being whipped, he was finally thrown beside the cashier.

In desperation, I walked west along Queen's Road to the old district of Sheung Wan, and finally bought two small books from the Sanlian library at a discount bookstore called "Xinhui": Yu Dafu's "A Man on the Way" , Zhang Zhongxing's "Insane Dreams of Beijing", small thirty-two, with a plain face and beautiful appearance.There is also "Introduction to "Ancient Jade Picture Research" edited by Taiwanese Deng Shuping, a photocopy of the original book, and the introductory reading is accompanied by offset color pictures.When paying, the clerk was reading "Kiss Me, Please Turn Off the Light" written by Meng Ni. She kept her eyes on the book while collecting the money.

I sneaked a look at her and thought, I must turn off the lights.