Speaking of Chinese people's good face, pomp is a deep bone marrow tradition, face and pomp for Chinese people, not only a sense of self-esteem, it also contains social reputation, social status, for Chinese people, this reflects the value of personality, the loss of face first inspires a strong sense of shame, without pomp and circumstance seems to have no authority and lost value.

As Wu Fei said in his book "Floating Life and Righteousness", "it can be said that as long as people are in the process of interacting with others, there is a problem of face and pomp, and face and pomp are only meaningful when they are in the relationship with others", shame, "no face" and "no pomp" are in the final analysis reactions to the behavior of others.

Of course, the culture of shame is not unique to East Asia, as the Greek expert E.R. Dodds has already argued in his 1949 book "Greeks and Irrationality" that the Greek society of Homer's time belonged to the culture of shame, not to mention the entire Middle East and Near East. But there's no denying that it's particularly ingrained in Chinese culture.

As a typical second-generation rich Chinese Zheng Yunhai is also a person who loves face and talks about pomp, after all, the "Y" with the spirit of aristocracy is only a few, but in fact, "Y" also talks about pomp and face, but they talk about low-key, so low-key that they disdain you to find out.

Cheng Xiaoyu is different from the rich second generation like Zheng Yunhai, in essence, he is a "Y", even if he once lived in poverty, he is still because he has a mother from a "Y" background.

Take Cheng Xiaoyu's mother Cheng Qiuci as an example, she belongs to the real "aristocracy", and her life before the age of 25 can be called rich and luxurious. Chen Qiuci's home is "all Fuzhou mahogany, polished brightly, silver and crystal instruments are a large cabinet, the sofa is big and soft, sitting in it seems to have fallen into the clouds." The Christmas tree is high to the ceiling, and the chef makes the best Fuzhou dishes, and she makes ice cream with walnut crumbs. ”

And the delicacy of these silverware and crystals is not enough to represent a person's "nobility".

The "aristocracy" of Cheng Qiuci is a delicacy that cannot be broken in any difficult circumstances.

When she was 26 years old, her father was classified as a ****** and died in prison, and the ashes of her parents and brother were all destroyed, and the whole family fell into the abyss. (For the sake of harmony, the background will not be explained in detail)

When she came abroad alone, she didn't know English at first, so she had to go to a Chinese restaurant to peel Chinese cabbage, brush the toilet, and wash dishes until her fingers were deformed.

She was herded from her big mansion in China to live in a tube building of several tens of square meters in the United States, but she still steamed St. Petersburg-style cakes in the dark and narrow corridors with briquette stoves and aluminum lunch boxes, drank afternoon tea in enamel jars, and beggars would not hesitate to put in some change.

Kang Tongwei, a friend from college, told her: "If you don't have an oven one day, you will bake the same crispy toast with wire." If one day you don't have a beautiful dress, you can make your own. ”

She spared no effort in Cheng Xiaoyu's education, even if it was difficult, she had to teach Xiaoyu to play the piano since she was a child, not to mention, her clothes, pants and shoes must be neat and decent, most of the clothes were made of Cheng Qiu's porcelain, and the fabrics were all carefully selected velveteen cotton fabrics. Walking and sitting Cheng Qiuci also has requirements for him, and there must be no grain left when eating, and how much to eat, this is the minimum table manners. Bathing Cheng Xiaoyu every day, even if the water bill in the United States is not cheap at all, it is difficult to say that Cheng Xiaoyu's slight cleanliness is not affected by his mother, all in all, his mother's influence on Cheng Xiaoyu is deep in the bone marrow.

Cheng Qiuci was also proud, when Su Changhe wrote to her to send her money, she replied, "Thank you for your concern, labor is conducive to me to maintain my body shape and not gain weight sharply." ”

When she committed suicide, she wore light makeup, wore a blue-purple brocade cheongsam brought from Huaxia, the house was spotlessly clean, the piano was covered with her own silk cloth embroidered with peonies, some books were neatly placed on the shelves, everything was placed in different categories, and even the food in the refrigerator was written and pasted on the refrigerator according to the expiration date.

The last words left behind were to donate the body to the Red Cross and leave no ashes.

Although Cheng Xiaoyu didn't do this, he touched his mother's cold hand and stood silently for a while, not knowing who he could share such a desperate thing with, anyway, the sadness was no longer felt, he was like a silent rest, all the feelings that could be perceived had exceeded the range of the piano, and the range from the second group of large characters to the fifth group of small characters fell into a dark and silent world.

But Cheng Qiuci is still respectable, at least no matter how bleak the world is, she can still maintain her noble character in the predicament, and finally under the torture of depression, this woman has completed her exquisite life.

Of course, this time is not the time to be sad and sad and reminisce about the past, but I remember that even if our classmate Cheng Xiaoyu went to a garbage public school in the United States since he was a child, in fact, the education he received came from Cheng Qiuci, and what Cheng Qiuci taught him at most was the honor and responsibility of being a boy. He was also taught to be gentle and low-key, to treat everyone with kindness, and not to rely on a derogatory behavior to gain a sense of superiority. Gentle and elegant, only portray the finishing touch when needed, and don't rely on praise from the outside world to get a sense of existence.

These are all subtle influences, but for a long time, Cheng Xiaoyu felt that he was just a cold object, not a person, until the car accident happened, he began to become a person again.

Of course, Zheng Yunhai is obviously not a low-key person like Cheng Xiaoyu, he called two friends, one drove a Mercedes-Benz SLK350, and the other drove an M3 like him. Especially in this way, girls with a little vanity seem to have a rich second generation in a circle, which is naturally more deterrent and tempting than a person who is a rich second generation, because most Chinese people actually have the impulse to worship authority in their hearts.

After Zheng Yunhai called two friends over, the whole group was balanced, a car with a girl, towards Shaoxing Road, their purpose was "acafé", the location was chosen by Song Yanan, Cheng Xiaoyu naturally didn't know that "acafé" was the third café in the Shanghai French Concession, and it was a petty bourgeois gathering place.

Cheng Xiaoyu is not familiar with the road conditions, and the three people in front of him are all sports cars, so naturally you have the hobby of chasing me to pull the engine and blow up the street, Cheng Xiaoyu has been driving very cautiously since the car accident and the crash in Beijing, and it is not that the performance of PER is very poor, in fact, as a genuine small steel cannon, if you race in the city, it will not be too far worse than M3 and SLK350, but Cheng Xiaoyu will not go racing on the road like a child. Of course, they may have been racing too much, but Zheng Yunhai and his two friends were still relatively restrained.

Cheng Xiaoyu didn't catch up at a red light at a turn, lost the shadow of three cars, and could only turn to Yongjia Road indiscriminately, parked at the door of a restaurant called "Kangaroo Bar", and waited for Xia Shamo to call to ask for directions, then went straight and turned right onto the one-way road of South Shaanxi Road, and in front of them was their destination Shaoxing Road.

Shanghai's third-ranked "acafe" is on this Shaoxing road. The short Shaoxing Road, for Shanghai, may be a cultural street in the earliest sense, there are old cultural institutions, I have not walked Shaoxing Road, I have always heard of Shanghai People's Publishing House, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, or Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House, right?

If not, then you have heard of the famous Chinese publication "Story Meeting"! They are all gathered on the short 450-meter Shaoxing Road.

Shaoxing Road is also a one-way line, the French plane tree that covers the sun, if it is a summer night, the night is sparse, but at the moment it is a cold winter, the scenery is very sluggish, and there are few pedestrians on the road.

Cheng Xiaoyu drove slowly along the road, if he didn't follow the road signs, he probably wouldn't have paid attention to the "acafe" hidden on the side of the road.

(The first update, I saw everyone's monthly passes!, will work hard to update) (to be continued.) )