"The people who are besieged in the city want to escape, and the people outside the city want to rush in, whether it is marriage, career, or life. These words are the preface written by Mr. Yang Jiang for Mr. Qian Zhongshu's "The Siege of the City". Although it is only a few words, it has summed up the helplessness of life.

If a person stays in one circle for a long time, he will unconsciously get bored, and he will feel that other circles are not bad, so he will unrealistically want to escape from the existing circle and blindly jump into another strange circle, but after not staying in that strange circle for long, he will miss the previous circle again. In this way, people jump around blindly, like a clown, and waste their good years, and in the end they achieve nothing.

And those who can keep their hearts, can restrain the instinct of animals to like the new and hate the old, and use the detached mentality of "what comes is safe", do things in a circle in a down-to-earth manner, enjoy pain and joy, and finally inadvertently, they have achieved fruitful results and become a person with a capital letter.

Li Shaohui, who returned to his hometown, a small city with unknown lines, ushered in infinite confusion after the short joy of getting together with his relatives just after returning home.

At this time, he was lying alone on the balcony of the Taishi chair, looking at the ceiling boredly, and suddenly missed the life of working in Shanghai before. remembers that on the night Shi Lei left, Liu's head described the sea drift like this:

"Brother Hui, do you know what it's like to drift at the bottom?"

"You know, I'm floating too, aren't I?"

"No, no, you won't understand, you're not the lowest drifter, only I understand the feeling of the lowest drift. When he said this, Liu's head had already drunk most of the bottle of liquor, and his consciousness began to blur.

Li Shaohui scolded with a smile: "What are you talking about? Lao Tzu came to Shanghai more than a year earlier than you, but I don't understand, you understand?"

"You really don't understand, you really don't understand. Liu's head stubbornly emphasized.

"Okay, you know, you know, then tell me what it's like to drift at the bottom?"

So Liu's head began to babble: "Brother Hui, let me tell you, only I understand this feeling, just say me, I get a salary of thousands of yuan every month, but I live in a metropolis with a housing price of tens of thousands of yuan per square meter. ”

"Don't you have a girlfriend too? Li Shaohui glanced at Liu's head sympathetically.

"Yes, I have, I have a girlfriend, but what I have is a joke, why do you talk about her again, don't interrupt me. Liu took another sip of wine, and said back to the truth: "What I hear every day is who is married again, who is promoted again, and even the smell is the aroma of money, I treat people sincerely but often suffer from the difficulties of customers, and finally get off work and can relax, but what about that? When I returned to the share house, pushing the door in was the smell of the toilet that had been blocked for more than ten days, or it was the squeaky ** sound next door, and the people who stirred up were really upset.

Later, after a long time, I got used to it, and it was not bad to regard loneliness as a kind of enjoyment, but sometimes when I was injured, the long-pent-up loneliness would gush out, do you know what it feels like?"

Li Shaohui didn't answer, he kept quietly listening to Liu's head complaining there, yes, in a metropolis like the magic capital, everyone is a clockwork machine, busy with work, tight time, high pressure, and weak human touch, colleagues will not huddle together for warmth, only intrigue with each other, so everyone's hearts have not been truly enjoyed and happy, and they can't find a sense of belonging, although everyone has worked hard here for many years, they feel that they are still a complete stranger in Shanghai.

Li Shaohui thought that this situation would be completely said goodbye with his departure, but he didn't expect to fall into the tiger's den just after coming out of the wolf's den.

In this unknown small city, Li Shaohui already felt another layer of pain. The environment here is dirty and messy, and there is a negative and decadent atmosphere in the whole city.

Many young people who don't want to go out to work hard have nothing to do all day long, either lying at home and holding their corpses, or spending all their time in places like Internet cafes and dance halls. These short-sighted gnawing old people don't think that they can be like this when they are young, and after their parents are gone, who will get used to them?

And small places pay more attention to human feelings, and if you want to find a better job, it does not rely on talent and ability, but on relationships, and relationships are king. Those who find a job are complacent, empty-eyed, thinking that they will have no worries for the rest of their lives, while those who can't find a job are depressed all day long, complaining about the sky and others, but not willing to work hard.

And the wind of comparison here is particularly serious, marrying a wife is hundreds of thousands of sky-high prices just for the bride price, it is said that this phenomenon was exposed by CCTV in a certain year, but this not only did not suppress the wind of comparison here, but it was like doing some publicity, so that the price of the bride price here is like bamboo after the rain, rising steadily, and people's wallets are flat.

So now that the neighbors have met, they have nothing but to talk about money and show off, and those who have daughters to marry are like they have treasures, and they seem to be able to make a windfall at any time, so they even walk with great spirit.

Not afraid of poverty but afraid of inequality, everyone in the countryside used to be all poor, so when everyone is together, they can chat and play in a friendly and sincere manner.

Now the world has changed, some have been flying chickens and dogs, and some are still rolling in the quagmire, so everyone's psychology has begun to be unbalanced, the rich and powerful want to show off in front of the poor, and the powerless have to despise these rich people who are rich and unkind, so now everyone is either comparing or sarcastic, and nothing else.

Li Shaohui retracted the distracting thoughts in his mind, and sighed in his heart, the countryside has changed, no longer the appearance of childhood, where the pastoral style is not there, and the kind and simple folk customs are no longer there, so people like his own generation have really encountered the embarrassment of "the city that can't be integrated, the countryside that can't go back", just like what was said on the Internet, "The city routine is deep, I want to go back to the countryside, the rural road is more slippery, and people's hearts are really complicated." This is probably the reason why many young people who fled from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou stayed at home for a period of time and couldn't wait to escape back to Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.

Li Shaohui couldn't help but think of the "Lhasa fever" and "Lijiang fever" introduced to him by Xia Xue, it seems that not only vulgar people can't escape from this besieged city, but even those artists who claim to be literary and artistic are struggling in the besieged city.

Lijiang, Lhasa, such a beautiful and amorous place, naturally there will be many people yearning, especially the kind of imaginative literary and artistic young people and artists, who even sold their houses, quit their jobs, did not listen to the advice of their parents and relatives, and insisted on leaving their hometowns, just to come here to realize their dreams, but these are really what they want? Have they seriously considered it?

It is estimated that no, most of them are blindly drawing freshness or in order to avoid the pressure of survival, and come here to be decadent and famous, and not to seek glory and wealth. After a long time, these places have been commercialized, and they are not satisfied with the original beauty, and these people are tired of seeing the scenery, and they can't stand this boring and empty life, and they can't stand the loneliness and loneliness of this besieged city, so they can only return to the real city in disgrace.

By analogy, Li Shaohui thought of the girls who traveled on the Sichuan-Tibet line, and they also fantasized in their hearts at the beginning that they could see the scenery when they traveled, understand the local customs and people, increase their experience and knowledge, exercise their endurance, and let go of their mood and improve their taste.

But when they set off in a chic manner with a few hundred dollars, they will find that the idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel, and you still want to have a chic trip with a few hundred dollars?

As a result, the chic poor tour has become a dirty begging, and the smart women can only do whatever it takes to survive, including begging with their bodies, so the Sichuan-Tibet line has also become a broad road full of artillery fire.

However, it is said that the current Kham men have also become smarter, they feel that such a deal is not cost-effective, and it is too naïve to be insatiable and take care of them in the trip just by sacrificing a body, so the current driver sees these poor wandering girls and no longer ignores them, and directly drives over.

And now, Li Shaohui heard from his friends that this kind of dirty and upside-down behavior still exists, and there are many poor travel girls in this vicious circle, and they will not only not be ashamed, but also show off, after they come back, they will upload beautiful pictures of the Sichuan-Tibet line on various websites and accompany it with chicken soup to show off their chic poor travel of hundreds of dollars, but they will never say what price they have paid for this, and what unsightly deeds they have done.

Just like today's dates, it has become a fashion, but Li Shaohui doesn't understand that you can play, why do you have to bring the label of literature and art?

After those strange men and women met, they first had a lot of nonsense, criticizing money as the source of evil, and after rich people were either profiteers or bullies, and then brainlessly touted that people should squander when they were young, and should follow their hearts, and they would say that sex is natural, primitive, and should not be controlled.

Then the two like-minded people have almost communicated, and they will be in a dilapidated little hotel, in the squeaky and whining of the old bed, in their literary words, there will be another sublimation of love and desire, after doing it, the two turn their heads and forget, no more intersection, except for the short-term pleasure, the two strangers do not know where to sublimate, and what sublimation?

"The people who are besieged in the city want to escape, and the people outside the city want to rush in, whether it is marriage, career, or life. These words are the preface written by Mr. Yang Jiang for Mr. Qian Zhongshu's "The Siege of the City". Although it is only a few words, it has summed up the helplessness of life.

If a person stays in one circle for a long time, he will unconsciously get bored, and he will feel that other circles are not bad, so he will unrealistically want to escape from the existing circle and blindly jump into another strange circle, but after not staying in that strange circle for long, he will miss the previous circle again. In this way, people jump around blindly, like a clown, and waste their good years, and in the end they achieve nothing.

And those who can keep their hearts, can restrain the instinct of animals to like the new and hate the old, and use the detached mentality of "what comes is safe", do things in a circle in a down-to-earth manner, enjoy pain and joy, and finally inadvertently, they have achieved fruitful results and become a person with a capital letter.

Li Shaohui, who returned to his hometown, a small city with unknown lines, ushered in infinite confusion after the short joy of getting together with his relatives just after returning home.

At this time, he was lying alone on the balcony of the Taishi chair, looking at the ceiling boredly, and suddenly missed the life of working in Shanghai before. remembers that on the night Shi Lei left, Liu's head described the sea drift like this:

"Brother Hui, do you know what it's like to drift at the bottom?"

"You know, I'm floating too, aren't I?"

"No, no, you won't understand, you're not the lowest drifter, only I understand the feeling of the lowest drift. When he said this, Liu's head had already drunk most of the bottle of liquor, and his consciousness began to blur.

Li Shaohui scolded with a smile: "What are you talking about? Lao Tzu came to Shanghai more than a year earlier than you, but I don't understand, you understand?"

"You really don't understand, you really don't understand. Liu's head stubbornly emphasized.

"Okay, you know, you know, then tell me what it's like to drift at the bottom?"

So Liu's head began to babble: "Brother Hui, let me tell you, only I understand this feeling, just say me, I get a salary of thousands of yuan every month, but I live in a metropolis with a housing price of tens of thousands of yuan per square meter. ”

"Don't you have a girlfriend too? Li Shaohui glanced at Liu's head sympathetically.

"Yes, I have, I have a girlfriend, but what I have is a joke, why do you talk about her again, don't interrupt me. Liu took another sip of wine, and said back to the truth: "What I hear every day is who is married again, who is promoted again, and even the smell is the aroma of money, I treat people sincerely but often suffer from the difficulties of customers, and finally get off work and can relax, but what about that? When I returned to the share house, pushing the door in was the smell of the toilet that had been blocked for more than ten days, or it was the squeaky ** sound next door, and the people who stirred up were really upset.

Later, after a long time, I got used to it, and it was not bad to regard loneliness as a kind of enjoyment, but sometimes when I was injured, the long-pent-up loneliness would gush out, do you know what it feels like?"

Li Shaohui didn't answer, he kept quietly listening to Liu's head complaining there, yes, in a metropolis like the magic capital, everyone is a clockwork machine, busy with work, tight time, high pressure, and weak human touch, colleagues will not huddle together for warmth, only intrigue with each other, so everyone's hearts have not been truly enjoyed and happy, and they can't find a sense of belonging, although everyone has worked hard here for many years, they feel that they are still a complete stranger in Shanghai.

Li Shaohui thought that this situation would be completely said goodbye with his departure, but he didn't expect to fall into the tiger's den just after coming out of the wolf's den.

In this unknown small city, Li Shaohui already felt another layer of pain. The environment here is dirty and messy, and there is a negative and decadent atmosphere in the whole city.

Many young people who don't want to go out to work hard have nothing to do all day long, either lying at home and holding their corpses, or spending all their time in places like Internet cafes and dance halls. These short-sighted gnawing old people don't think that they can be like this when they are young, and after their parents are gone, who will get used to them?

And small places pay more attention to human feelings, and if you want to find a better job, it does not rely on talent and ability, but on relationships, and relationships are king. Those who find a job are complacent, empty-eyed, thinking that they will have no worries for the rest of their lives, while those who can't find a job are depressed all day long, complaining about the sky and others, but not willing to work hard.

And the wind of comparison here is particularly serious, marrying a wife is hundreds of thousands of sky-high prices just for the bride price, it is said that this phenomenon was exposed by CCTV in a certain year, but this not only did not suppress the wind of comparison here, but it was like doing some publicity, so that the price of the bride price here is like bamboo after the rain, rising steadily, and people's wallets are flat.

So now that the neighbors have met, they have nothing but to talk about money and show off, and those who have daughters to marry are like they have treasures, and they seem to be able to make a windfall at any time, so they even walk with great spirit.

Not afraid of poverty but afraid of inequality, everyone in the countryside used to be all poor, so when everyone is together, they can chat and play in a friendly and sincere manner.

Now the world has changed, some have been flying chickens and dogs, and some are still rolling in the quagmire, so everyone's psychology has begun to be unbalanced, the rich and powerful want to show off in front of the poor, and the powerless have to despise these rich people who are rich and unkind, so now everyone is either comparing or sarcastic, and nothing else.

Li Shaohui retracted the distracting thoughts in his mind, and sighed in his heart, the countryside has changed, no longer the appearance of childhood, where the pastoral style is not there, and the kind and simple folk customs are no longer there, so people like his own generation have really encountered the embarrassment of "the city that can't be integrated, the countryside that can't go back", just like what was said on the Internet, "The city routine is deep, I want to go back to the countryside, the rural road is more slippery, and people's hearts are really complicated." This is probably the reason why many young people who fled from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou stayed at home for a period of time and couldn't wait to escape back to Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.

Li Shaohui couldn't help but think of the "Lhasa fever" and "Lijiang fever" introduced to him by Xia Xue, it seems that not only vulgar people can't escape from this besieged city, but even those artists who claim to be literary and artistic are struggling in the besieged city.

Lijiang, Lhasa, such a beautiful and amorous place, naturally there will be many people yearning, especially the kind of imaginative literary and artistic young people and artists, who even sold their houses, quit their jobs, did not listen to the advice of their parents and relatives, and insisted on leaving their hometowns, just to come here to realize their dreams, but these are really what they want? Have they seriously considered it?

It is estimated that no, most of them are blindly drawing freshness or in order to avoid the pressure of survival, and come here to be decadent and famous, and not to seek glory and wealth. After a long time, these places have been commercialized, and they are not satisfied with the original beauty, and these people are tired of seeing the scenery, and they can't stand this boring and empty life, and they can't stand the loneliness and loneliness of this besieged city, so they can only return to the real city in disgrace.

By analogy, Li Shaohui thought of the girls who traveled on the Sichuan-Tibet line, and they also fantasized in their hearts at the beginning that they could see the scenery when they traveled, understand the local customs and people, increase their experience and knowledge, exercise their endurance, and let go of their mood and improve their taste.

But when they set off in a chic manner with a few hundred dollars, they will find that the idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel, and you still want to have a chic trip with a few hundred dollars?

As a result, the chic poor tour has become a dirty begging, and the smart women can only do whatever it takes to survive, including begging with their bodies, so the Sichuan-Tibet line has also become a broad road full of artillery fire.

However, it is said that the current Kham men have also become smarter, they feel that such a deal is not cost-effective, and it is too naïve to be insatiable and take care of them in the trip just by sacrificing a body, so the current driver sees these poor wandering girls and no longer ignores them, and directly drives over.

And now, Li Shaohui heard from his friends that this kind of dirty and upside-down behavior still exists, and there are many poor travel girls in this vicious circle, and they will not only not be ashamed, but also show off, after they come back, they will upload beautiful pictures of the Sichuan-Tibet line on various websites and accompany it with chicken soup to show off their chic poor travel of hundreds of dollars, but they will never say what price they have paid for this, and what unsightly deeds they have done.

Just like today's dates, it has become a fashion, but Li Shaohui doesn't understand that you can play, why do you have to bring the label of literature and art?

After those strange men and women met, they first had a lot of nonsense, criticizing money as the source of evil, and after rich people were either profiteers or bullies, and then brainlessly touted that people should squander when they were young, and should follow their hearts, and they would say that sex is natural, primitive, and should not be controlled.

Then the two like-minded people have almost communicated, and they will be in a dilapidated little hotel, in the squeaky and whining of the old bed, in their literary words, there will be another sublimation of love and desire, after doing it, the two turn their heads and forget, no more intersection, except for the short-term pleasure, the two strangers do not know where to sublimate, and what sublimation?