Chapter 75 Hong Kong has a "moon" face?

If I am objective, if I am brave enough, there is a kind of appellation, Hong Kong people have to mention the appellation of mainlanders ten years ago. Ten years ago, "A Can" and "Cousin Uncle" were frequently used by Hong Kong people to call mainlanders. In a Hong Kong movie in the 1990s, "A Can" was a person I had never seen before. The "Mainland boy", who is worldly, silly, good at eating, and often makes a fool of himself, Hong Kong people look at mainlanders in such a way that they look down on and contemptuously; "Remember", thinking of Li Tiemei's "My family has countless uncles", the irony and even ridicule here are even more meaningful——

In 1993, when I went to South Korea for an interview and returned to Beijing, I passed through Hong Kong for the first time. At that time, Hong Kong was also an out-and-out "foreign country" in my eyes, and I really wanted to stop and open my eyes and buy something.In the end, I got my wish, but at the same time, I was greatly stimulated.Because that time, I, a poor reporter, actually walked into a gold store, and the clerk who greeted the customers mistook me for a Japanese or a Taiwanese, rushed to me, first pulled me to the counter, and let me slip away Sitting down in Xiaoyuan’s seat, it was hot, so I was brought a cup of “Wanglaoji” herbal tea for me to “drink slowly”—oh my god, I was so touched at the time, I vowed to write an article when I returned to Beijing, seriously I praised Hong Kong's customer first, thinking that I had really become a "God" in Hong Kong.But the clerk of the small shop insisted that I was Japanese, I was not happy, I said I am not, "I'am Chinese", immediately, the clerk's face changed, turned his head, walked to the side, again Also ignore me.I yelled "Ai, Ai" several times, wanting to ask how much a ring I was looking at cost, but he pretended not to hear. But everyone just pretended to be stupid, as if none of them understood what I was saying in English.

After this "encounter" more than ten years ago, I was amazed for a long time how the shop assistants in Hong Kong changed their faces so quickly when they saw the poor.With a swipe, the poor were stripped naked in front of the rich, leaving no room for anyone to get through any cracks.However, ten years later, I went to Hong Kong again and stayed here as a CCTV reporter. I received a Hong Kong resident ID card and learned a few words of Cantonese. Sometimes, especially when I strolled on the street, I felt like a Hong Kong resident.But I can't forget this incident. I want to take my credit card several times and go to that gold store again, and I must buy back the ring I was fancying back then!But for more than ten years, I have no way of finding where the small gold shop in the past is now. At the same time, there is always a blocker around me who will stand up and stop me in due course, laughing at me, saying that the shop assistants in Hong Kong have already changed their attitude towards mainlanders. Different from the past, many "A Can" and "cousin" in the mainland now, if they come to Hong Kong again, not only will the clerks in large and small shops no longer discriminate against them, on the contrary, many people will still have the same expression on their faces as if they were treating their parents. the hospitality.

After the New Year in 2006, I used to go to a small grocery store in Happy Valley to buy chrysanthemums and make Puer tea.I have visited that small shop more than once, and I have bought chrysanthemums for ten yuan a pack several times.But that day, the price of chrysanthemums in the small shop suddenly increased for some reason. Ten yuan a pack became thirteen?What's going on here?As a "high-end residential area" in Hong Kong, Happy Valley is more expensive than other places. I would rather spend a few dollars each time instead of traveling long distances because of the time cost.So I asked the boss: "First of all, aren't your chrysanthemums a pack of 10 cents?" The boss's face was friendly and friendly to me, but now he was a little more helpless: "It can't be helped, these chrysanthemums are shipped from your mainland. Come on, now that the mainland is developed and the RMB keeps appreciating, if I don’t increase the price, I’m losing money!”

When I went to Hong Kong in 2004, I remember that the exchange rate between RMB and Hong Kong dollar was still 1.06:1 at that time. On January 11, 2007, it reached 1:1 (according to the middle price of the international market).A pack of chrysanthemums worth ten yuan has increased by three yuan in less than two years.On the way home that day, I ran out of coins in my pocket, but something inexplicably popped up in my heart. What is this thing?Happy, why happy?The owner of the small shop definitely didn't understand, and I didn't think too deeply about it myself, but when people are in good spirits on happy occasions, a little song comes out of my throat, humming very seriously.Suddenly I stopped myself and asked myself, what?What was I singing just now? "Look, look, the face of the moon, the face of the moon is changing secretly", my God, why did this song come out of my mouth, who is reminding me of what?

On January 9, 2006, the National Bureau of Statistics of China issued an announcement on the revision results of China's GDP historical data, recalculated according to the revised GDP data: from 1979 to 2004, the average annual growth rate of China's GDP for 25 consecutive years was 9.6% .In order to cooperate with the release of this news, CCTV's "China Weekly" column specially invited me to interview a world-class consulting organization for them in Hong Kong, Ms. Liang Hong, the chief economist of Goldman Sachs in China, and Ms. Liang agreed to accept my interview. During the interview, everyone sat down and had a conversation first. As soon as she came up, she asked me: "I don't know if you still remember? In 1957, there was a famous slogan put forward by China called 'Super Britain to catch up with the United States'?" I said, "Yes, how? Can forget"?Many people born in that era, such as a classmate who is one year older than me, some are named "Chaoying"!She said yes, it is "Super British".Now, in 2005, China's economic strength has surpassed that of the United Kingdom, and it has already taken the seat of the "fourth largest economy" in the world. In another five years, China's economy may surpass that of Japan, which currently ranks in the world second……

The mainland of the motherland has become a big tree in the north of Hong Kong. Let Hong Kong rely on it and let them fully enjoy the shade in the future. Ha, what a comfort and pride is this? On the way back from buying chrysanthemums at the small grocery store in Happy Valley that day, I sang along the way. In fact, what I thought was more about the good news about "chaoying" told me by economic forecasters. The next step is to "catch up with the United States". table (2041 at the latest).After spending an extra three yuan, I was as happy as I had picked up a big bargain. As soon as I got home, I made "chrysanthemum tea" and drank it alone, laughed, and thought:

In 1993, when I left Hong Kong, I was going back to Beijing to write a small manuscript. Now, it’s time to write—— But what to write? In fact, business people, "no profit can't get up early", or even "seeing people order dishes", in the final analysis, is not a unique problem of Hong Kong businessmen. How can businessmen in the world get rid of this "stingy ghost" mind?But do businesses also have a "people-seeing" vision when looking at people?Genuine goods at a fair price, no deceit at all, this of course contains the traditional Chinese virtues, but the knowledge of "seeing people" also has wisdom, foresight and rationality.Suppose a customer walks into a gold store today and he cannot afford a diamond ring, but what about tomorrow?How much of a variable is tomorrow?Unable to think of "tomorrow", of course the little clerk has a reason to turn around and never talk to the poor customer again; but thinking of "tomorrow", the situation may change: not only will the little clerk not turn around again, but his face will continue to change. Keep smiling, because tomorrow, "poor customers" may still suffer from poverty; but maybe they have already developed - when they enter the gold shop, they will ask for a "diamond ring" by name, and it is still the biggest in terms of size. Can I say it better in advance...