Chapter 54 place of vitality

place of vitality Date: 2005-7-7 17:47:35 Author: Lin Qingxuan Editor: Click: 1616【Print】【Close】 A friend from the south came to Taipei for the summer vacation, and I took him to see two very vibrant places in Taipei. Let's go to Shilin Night Market first. Shilin's night market is very lively, like a pot of boiling hot soup. The only way to describe it is "strong strong rolling" in Taiwanese. Over the past twenty years, I have been to Shilin Night Market countless times, but I can never figure out how big it is. I just feel that its scope is constantly expanding, and there are always new vendors coming to the night market.The only thing that remains the same is that as long as you go to Shilin Night Market, you can see many people who are working hard in life. The vendors in the night market are working hard for their lives no matter whether it is winter or summer.

I saw three women selling fried squids, all wearing Adidas running shoes on their feet. They sold countless fried squids in a day. A pot of tens of bowls of squids was always sold out in the blink of an eye. I saw a couple selling fruit juice. They took care of seven juice machines. They were making papaya milk with their left hand and watermelon juice with their right hand. No matter how many customers came, they were always accurate, fast and efficient. I saw a teppanyaki seller with a towel wrapped around his neck, and the sweat was still flowing from the towel to his chest. It was too hot. Every time he made a round of teppanyaki, he ran to the faucet and drenched himself in cold water. , to dissipate the heat.

My friend asked me: "I heard that all the vendors in Shilin Night Market wear Rolex gold watches. They drive Mercedes cars to sell snacks. Since they are so rich, why do they need to come out to set up stalls?" It’s a good thing to come down and enjoy it. But it’s even more remarkable if you have money and can’t enjoy it and still work hard.” Probably the surging vitality in Shilin Night Market can indeed bring inspiration to people!In such a hot summer day, with the temperature above 35 degrees, many people still leave the air-conditioned room to visit the night market. Then, I took my friend to the street stalls on Zhongxiao East Road.I don’t know when it started, the sidewalks on both sides of Zhongxiao East Road, after the department stores closed, formed a market, from Yanji Street to Fuxing South Road, all of which were stalls on the ground.

These vendors have several characteristics. One is the cloth towels for placing things, which are only about the size of two tabletops, very simple and light.Everything placed on the cloth towel is neat and tidy, which is completely different from the traditional piled up appearance.One is that the people who set up street stalls are very young and handsome, the boys are handsome, the girls are beautiful, and they are more conspicuous than the people shopping.I told my friends that some of these young people are students, and some are office workers who work during the day and come out to earn extra money at night, so the group of street vendors is very different from the traditional street vendors who come out to make a living.

"When I used to feel depressed in life, I would go to the night market or Zhongxiao East Road by myself, and I would see those street vendors working hard regardless of whether I was in a good mood or not. ."I say.My friend looked at the vendors under the eaves and expressed the same feeling. There is actually no secret to Taiwan's economic development, because there are many people full of vitality living in it. Returning home from Zhongxiao East Road at night, I thought of a few young and strong youths who kidnapped and blackmailed an old farmer who had gotten rich to death not long ago.Their reason for committing the crime is: "After being released from prison, they took risks because society could not accept them and could not make money." The society's unacceptability is just an excuse. Our society never asks the vendors in the night market: "Do you have any money?" No criminal record?" Our society never rejects or underestimates those who work hard for a living.

I heard that the stalls in the Shilin Night Market have a relatively good business and can make a net profit of 500,000 to 600,000 yuan a month (a friend who set up a stall in the night market told me). "A skillful grass, a little dew", "Being a cow, don't be surprised and have no plow to drag".