26 December 1991.

In Hong Kong, the winter morning is a bit chilly.

Several climbers, carrying satchels, were ready to climb to the top of Taiping Peak early in the morning to watch the sunrise, and for them, this day was the beginning of chasing hopes and dreams.

On the Hong Kong Bridge, some runners are running the bridge in the morning light. For them, the day was ordinary, and they were just trying to do a warm-up exercise before work.

Last night, the rescued sleepers were also awakened by the cold of the morning, and they tried to curl up, arrange the newspaper covering their bodies, and cover themselves, trying to forget about hunger and cold. For them, the day is nothing more than a repeated, meaningless day, and only falling asleep is a real haven.

A yellow bumblebee school bus is parked on the side of the road, and mothers are holding their little ones by the hand and escorting them to school. For these mothers, it's just a boring Friday, sending the kids to school, coming home to do chores, and if you want to talk about change, it's just a little closer to the weekend.

......

In the morning, the wet market in Yuen Long, New Territories, Hong Kong is bustling with activity.

Selling fish is a well-known "coolie strong" in this area.

According to people, this guy has never enjoyed happiness in his life, he was abandoned by his father when he was a child, and it was his mother who brought him up. At the age of seven or eight, he began to pick up leftovers in the vegetable market and cook vegetables and leaves to eat. When I was older, I went to school and was bullied, so I went to the vegetable market to watch people kill and sell fish. After watching it for a long time, the boss asked him to help take care of the stall, but he went to the bird house to play mahjong.

From the age of 14 to 24, he worked for the fish stall owner for ten years, and the more he worked, the more he worked, but his salary did not increase much.

Later, when the seller Yuqiang asked the boss to negotiate a salary increase, he found that the boss ran away, because he owed money to others when he played mahjong, and the debt collector came up and scared him away. The boss was the only one left in the family, the little girl was eighteen or nineteen years old, and she had a bit of a problem with her intelligence, and she cried when she was scared by the debt collection. Selling fish couldn't stand it, so he used his ten years of savings to take off the debt.

Later, Yuqiang took over the fish stall, changed from a wage earner to a boss, married the silly girl, and gave birth to twin sons. Selling fish is very content, he doesn't smoke or drink, and basically has no bad habits, but not long ago, he was deceived by a friend to do futures investment.

He doesn't understand futures and stocks, although many people like to talk about these in the entire vegetable market, but selling Yuqiang never thinks that stocks are fun, not his hard-earned money, and he always feels unreliable.

However, that friend was very good at fooling his mouth, so he secretly bought some stocks, which were said to be short some futures in the Soviet Union--- but soon, his stocks were trapped. When the friend saw this, he disappeared. The fish seller was reluctant to let his blood and sweat go away, so he kept replenishing his positions and tossing constantly, trying to escape from the stock market.

But the stock market is a huge crocodile pool, and if you fall into it, you don't want to run out without being eaten to the bones.

Last night, he was very drunk, looking at his sleeping wife and two lovely twin sons, at that moment he even had the urge to die as a family.

No one knew that in order to replenish his position, he borrowed money from the most vicious and vicious loan sharks in Tsim Sha Tsui. If you don't pay back the money after three days, the other party will splash paint and burn the house...... People who were forced to die by loan sharks were written in Hong Kong newspapers every day, and they were all miserable.

So, the seller sealed the room, and while his wife and son were asleep, he prepared to commit suicide by burning charcoal.

As soon as he lit the charcoal stove, the youngest son woke up, with his eyes open, his bare buttocks, his little belly, and one hand grabbed the little finch below and said to him, "Abba, I want to pee." ”

At that moment, the fish seller relented.

He wept, and wept.

I feel useless.

I didn't expect that I despised people like my father-in-law the most, but in the end I became that kind of person.

He felt that his family was going to be ruined.

Time is running out, just these few days.

This morning, Yuqiang, who didn't die overnight last night, began to come out of the stall again. He fished out the dead fish that had died of lack of oxygen and floated in the fish basin with his hands, and he felt that these dead fish were very much like himself. In the past, in order to save money, he would leave these dead fish for the family to eat, but now, he did not hesitate to throw the dead fish out and throw them into the garbage heap.

"What's the matter, it's strong to sell fish, and today is so generous, you don't even want dead fish?" The pork guy who sold vegetables next to him laughed at him.

The fish seller didn't answer, but just took the steel brush, and brushed the fresh fish that the customer wanted to buy, and the scales and armor flew.

The pork guy felt bored, so he shut up, sat down in front of the stall, and thought that the stock he had recently bought was estimated to rise sharply, so he proudly crossed Erlang's legs, did not take off the greasy apron, and picked up the newspaper he ordered and read it.

"Wow, something is wrong!" the pork guy jumped up as if he had been pricked with a needle in his buttocks, and then his eyes were staring straight at the newspaper, and his hands were shaking. After a while, I saw him start foaming at the mouth, and said, "This is not true!" and then snorted, and fainted directly to the ground.

The pork guy scared the people around him a lot, and everyone didn't know what was going on.

"Pinch the middle! Pinch the middle of the man!" someone ran over and picked up the pork guy and shouted.

Selling Yuqiang also ran over to help, but he was more curious about how the pork guy could faint when he read the newspaper, so Selling Yuqiang picked up the newspaper curiously.

It's okay not to look at it, he looked at it like this, and immediately ---

"Ah, how is that possible? I'm developed! I'm developed!" Selling Yuqiang suddenly seemed to go crazy, crying and shouting, waving newspapers, and jumping and jumping like waving some flag.

Looking at the suddenly crazy Yuqiang, everyone was stunned, you look at me, I look at you, I don't understand what happened.

......

Like a virus---

People like Yuqiang, who sold fish in the vegetable market, suddenly went crazy, and it spread to the whole of Hong Kong at once.

Street --- in Mong Kok, Hong Kong

A white-collar worker who was about to clock in at work was originally sad and haggard, but after reading the newspaper, he suddenly yelled excitedly, threw away the briefcase he was carrying, and shouted: "Fuck the worker, Lao Tzu is going to be a rich man too!"

Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, inside an underground casino---

A troubled boy with a cigarette in his mouth and a flowing look, looked at the newspaper in his hand, and suddenly picked up the boss next to him, and turned around twice on the spot.

The boss was dumbfounded, and a few younger brothers went up and beat up the old boy, "Let go! Quickly let go of the sister-in-law! Grass, you want to hook up with the sister-in-law!"

As if he didn't feel any pain, he kissed his sister-in-law twice on the face, and then shouted, "I'm developed!

The virus is still spreading, especially the news in the newspaper, which has made countless people who wanted to commit suicide before start to go crazy.

It also made countless crazy people who were excited before start to want to commit suicide.

The stock market --- one thought of heaven, one step of hell!