Chapter 21 outsider

2000/04/14 Sanlian Life Weekly Author: Tian Qi I travel back and forth between Beijing and Jiujiang. I can't speak Beijing dialect in Beijing, but I can't speak Jiujiang dialect in Jiujiang. They all say that I am a foreigner.The advantage for me is: Regarding other places, naturally my statement is more authoritative. Miss Hurley in Truman Capote's novel "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (also translated as "Miss Hurley on a Travel") is in the same situation as me. Even in her own home, she also prepares her travel bag, to move at any time.You know: talking about a place I know about another, I'm reminded of some good things.Do you also like this kind of life?

"Give me a home and let me miss it far away." This is Hou Dejian's romantic expression. Let me tell you how I became a foreigner.I live in Dingfuzhuang in the eastern suburbs of Beijing. It takes more than two hours to take a bus from there to Fangzhuang where I work (it takes more than 4 hours to get to and from get off work every day! I told people in Jiujiang. In Jiujiang, I Even if you walk to Shangmin Road, it only takes ten minutes).In Dingfuzhuang, an old lady from the neighborhood committee downstairs where I lived set up a grocery stall, and I bought the necessary noodles, cigarettes, and toilet paper from her.The old lady cares about my details and asks questions.I said to this Beijinger: "Jiujiang is three thousand miles away. You probably haven't been there!" Come around the corner.

In addition to Beijing and Jiujiang, I have made more friends in other places.In our society full of human touch, everyone is immature about separation and reunion. After a long time of numbness, after a meal of wine together, they will sigh and sigh, and sometimes even burst into tears.But there is one thing, no matter if I stay in Jiujiang or Beijing for a long time, someone asks: Why don't you leave?when are you leaving? ? How can I keep walking up and down?Because you like the new and dislike the old, and like the thrill of sending it with your friends?This is also a reason.But if you expect to get rid of all the boredom just by walking, it will definitely not work.Whether it is the white clouds under the plane, the mountains and rivers on the distant ground, or the similar stations and fields outside the train, they all become a landscape and a prop over time.I mean: Who are you related to?You run back and forth, it is also a landscape.

People in other places are a joke!When a foreigner comes to China to travel with big bags and small bags on his back, when he sees an old house, he thinks it is made of Qin bricks and Han tiles. I want to see how high his nose is.When people from Jiujiang came to Beijing, they felt that the roads in all directions were a bit majestic and silly.When Beijingers go to the south of the Yangtze River, they are very tenderly melted by the water, complaining about the rainy gloom.If you want to be detached, you have to be sophisticated and get used to it.