Chapter 1 Inner and Outer Volumes

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I drank a few more drinks last night, and seeing that it was past noon, Zhao Nan got up from the bed with a yawn.

After a simple wash, Zhao Nan picked up his backpack and went out, called a Didi Express, and went straight to the new city along Guangming Avenue.

I remember that more than ten years ago, it was still a large cornfield, but now it is full of high-rise buildings, full of expensive commercial houses of tens of thousands of square meters.

As a perennial traveler abroad and a transnational marriage anchor, Zhao Nan can't help but feel that his hometown has changed greatly, and the villagers seem to have really become rich.

Take marriage as an example, compatriots have turned such a simple matter as marrying a daughter-in-law into a large-scale venture investment, and they can easily take over millions of houses, cars and bride prices.

In order to reproduce, some boys do not hesitate to empty all their family savings, even if they are in debt.

However, the world is diverse, and there are always exceptions.

In addition to the vast number of pick-up heroes, there are also a small number of outliers, who are unwilling to bear huge mortgages and bride prices, play the role of the provider in marriage and the tool in the family, and live a miserable life.

So, they either choose to be single, not to fall in love, not to get married, and not to have children.

Or turn your gaze to other countries outside of China, hoping to find a simple love and happiness.

Going abroad to have a girlfriend, or even marrying a wife and having children, and settling down a business, this was still unacceptable and deviant to the vast majority of people a few years ago.

But this world is so magical, in just a few years, those painful experiences have made many people wake up, understand many teachers and parents have never taught them, understand the fact that they are actually cows and horses.

Thinking about it this way, the great future may not be so important, forget about those tempting pies, and find a quiet corner of the earth, free and uneventful, it seems to be a good choice.

And these people who are tired of high bride prices, tired of their girlfriends being vexatious, and tired of living without hope day after day, they are Zhao Nan's audience.

It took about 40 minutes to get from the old town to the new town, and the taxi stopped in front of a cafΓ© that looked like a South Asian atmosphere.

Zhao Nan found a waiter, specially asked for a private room that would not disturb others, ordered American coffee and croissants, and set up the live broadcast equipment with his hands and feet.

3,2,1…

At the end of the countdown, the live broadcast room was successfully opened, and the audience who had been waiting for a long time poured in.

"It's coming, it's coming!"

"First! I'm number one! ”

"What is our slogan?"

"Refuse to roll in! Crazy rollover! ”

"I'm looking forward to it, Brother Nan is finally going to go on the expedition again!"

"I don't know where Brother Nan will go this time? I heard that the island country of Sri Lanka is quite good. ”

The audience spoke out one after another, don't look at Zhao Nan is not a well-known anchor, but his popularity in the live broadcast room is not weak at all, and hundreds of viewers have gathered in just ten minutes.

Facing the camera, Zhao Nan looked at the barrage, and said with a smile while thinking: "I seem to be happy to have such a high popularity just after the broadcast, but if you think about it carefully, it's not a good thing, it shows that there are really too many people in the world who have the same disease." ”

"When I was young, my mother always taught me that as long as I study hard, I will naturally have a good life and a beautiful and gentle girlfriend, but when I really grew up, I found out that this was actually a scam."

"Brother Gold Chain, the boss and chief with fat brains, the liar who runs the train without learning and without learning, they don't need to work hard, but there is never a shortage of girlfriends around them."

"The pure and beautiful goddess in your mind is likely to play poker all night with a spiritual guy whose pockets are cleaner than his face because she ate a spicy meal together."

"It seems that in the real world, the bad guys are doing well, but you are honest, you who have been studying hard to build the motherland, are often disliked, don't understand humor, have no mood, and can't afford the mansion and famous car they want."

"They say that straight men are a disease that can be cured, but I feel that the real disease may not be us, but this society."

Zhao Nan said slowly while thinking about it, as if he was not hosting the live broadcast, but discussing the philosophy of life with a group of friends.

"! This anchor is poisonous, and as soon as he opens his mouth, he will break my defense. ”

"Don't say anything, it's all tears."

"I am obedient to my ex-girlfriend, and I can't hold it in the palm of my hand, but what is the result? The better I treated her, the more she felt that I wasn't like a man. ”

"Sympathy, so do I."

"I'm tired, I don't want to work hard, kneel and beg Brother Nan to lead the way!"

Zhao Nan's words made the audience sigh for a while, and they felt as if they had been lightly poked at the already soft heart, which was sour and a little painful.

Withdrawing his emotions from his thoughts, Zhao Nan faced the camera again and said: "Do human beings really have to fall in love, get married and have children?" ”

"Is reproduction really the fate of young people at the moment, who have to complete it at all costs, and will never be able to break free?"

"I don't have the right answers to these questions, I just advise everyone with my observation and understanding of the world, life is already so difficult, even if you can't find a cooperative emotional partner, don't find an ancestral companion creature around."

"Times have changed, don't fall in love, don't get married, don't have children, it's never the worst choice, if you feel that life is short, you shouldn't endure loneliness, or you still want to have someone to watch the sunrise and sunset with you, and live a short life peacefully."

"Then I strongly recommend that you immediately give up the involution and actively roll out."

"What is involution?"

"According to the latest statistics, the number of male men of marriageable age in China is 33.28 million more than that of female students, that is to say, there are at least more than 30 million male compatriots, who are destined to die alone."

"You can refuse to pay a high bride price, but some people are willing to smash pots and sell iron for breeding, you can be neither humble nor arrogant, but for the sake of breeding, there are still a lot of people who are willing to kneel down."

"There are two choices in front of us now, first, accept the reality, whether it is a licking dog or a walking wallet, as long as you can do your best to meet all the requirements of girls and roll other male compatriots to death, even if it is successful, this is involution."

"Of course, it's okay to choose involution, but the problem is that our parents raised us and educated us in the hope that we would have dignity and independent personality, not to make us grovel and look at others."

"If you don't want to roll in, then there is only the second option left, active outroll."

"What do you mean by an outer roll?"

"It's simple."

"You go to Yueguo, rely on the smart and hardworking talent of Chinese boys, roll the Yue men who like to drink and beat their wives to death, marry the most beautiful Yue girls and go home, and let the Yue men beat the singles one by one, this is called the outer roll."

Zhao Nan had no shame in saying his deviant theories.

He advises young people not to fall in love, not to get married, and not to have children.

If you feel lonely, you still want to have a companion, so turn your eyes to the wider world.

After many years of traveling abroad, he found that whether it is Asia, America or Europe, girls are actually easy to get along, and the most difficult to chase and serve in the world is actually his own compatriots.

"The anchor is awesome!"

"Lao Tzu doesn't want to roll in anymore, Lao Tzu wants to roll out!"

"Even though it's nice to live alone, I still want to have a companion."

"Don't say anything, I'm checking the ticket on Ctrip..."

"Let's go! Let's go to the country of Vietnam! ”

"Although the anchor is very good, can someone who is not familiar with life do it?"

"Afraid of what? It didn't come out of the atmosphere. ”

"That's it, the inner volume has been carried over, will you be afraid of the outer volume?"

In the final analysis, what most boys need is not a fairy who has fallen into the mortal world, nor does it need to be vigorous and romantic to death.

Most boys prefer a plain and real life, curled up in their arms when it's cold, drinking a bowl of hot porridge together, holding your hand when they're sick, shushing the cold and asking for warmth, that's all.

But unfortunately, the times have irreversibly changed, and even such a simple request has gradually become a luxury.

"I said anchor, let's do this, will it be considered a group of stinky dicks daydreaming?"

"I'm afraid that relatives and friends will think that we are forced to leave the country because no one wants us in reality."

Seeing that the atmosphere has become very warm, the boys are looking forward to something simple and wonderful happening in a foreign country, and there are suddenly many hesitant voices in the live broadcast room.

After years of repeated brainwashing, many boys have long been accustomed to social Darwinism, feeling that human beings can only compete with each other, and do not understand that lying flat and liberalism are actually human nature.

In this regard, Zhao Nan just shrugged his shoulders and said in a relaxed tone: "Who cares." ”

"If relatives and friends think like this, let them think about it."

"At the end of the day, we're not here because we failed, it's because we chose a different way of life."

"Three years on the left, three years on the left, three years over and over again, no hope, no end in sight, is this the life we want?"

"Assuming that after so much experience, they still haven't thought about how all this happened, then I can only say that they are fundamentally different from us, and if they ask you in the future, you'd better follow them, don't refute them, smile and tell them that what you said is right."

Hahahaha~

The live broadcast room suddenly burst into laughter.

Zhao Nan's tricks for everyone are a little damaged, and they are also smarter, just as it has never been the fault of the cow to talk about the qin, but the stupidity of the person who talks about the qin.

"What is the essence of life? What is the essence of marriage? ”

After a pause, Zhao Nan started the storytelling mode he was good at again, and said slowly: "Many years ago, when I was living in Sacheng in the Western Regions, I met a classmate named Zheng Xudong, who came from the capital, was in his early thirties, and rode a cool Honda CB500F motorcycle. ”

"I asked him for a cigarette and said his motorcycle was great."

Lao Zheng shook his head with a wry smile and said that he has been working in the capital since graduating from college, although it seems that the income is not bad, but except for rent and consumption, he can't save any money at all, let alone buy a house there and settle down.

"Now that he has resigned, he looks around and finds that the little savings he has worked hard to save are not enough to buy a toilet in the capital, except for this motorcycle, there is nothing left, just like when he first came to the capital more than ten years ago, he kept a rustic inch of hair, except for a 28-inch suitcase, there is nothing."

"Maybe it's really a desire to get rid of loneliness, and in the following days, Lao Zheng went crazy and dated the girls in the inn, invited them to expensive nightclubs to drink, and invited them to eat hot pot Japanese food."

"But these girls go every time they drink and eat, but they refuse to give anything related to their feelings, as if they are willing to go out with Lao Zheng, which has already given him a lot of face."

"More than a month passed in this way, and once I was drinking with Lao Zheng, looking at his depressed appearance, I couldn't help but tell him an extremely important, but always neglected life experience."

"In this world, choice is always more important than effort."

"If you choose the right direction, you don't have to work hard at all to get what you want."

"And if you choose the wrong direction, the more you try, the more you get wrong."

"Don't pester with them anymore, they are not your future, buy a plane ticket and go to Kalimantan, Indonesia, where there is a city called Yamaguchiyo."

Zhao Nan spoke slowly in front of the camera, and the audience listened quietly, and many questions gradually rose in their hearts.

"Why Indonesia?"

"Geography is not good, where is Kalimantan?"

"What kind of city is Yamaguchiyo? Why did the anchor let Lao Zheng go there? ”

"It feels so mysterious, what's on the island?"

In the interval between Zhao Nan's drinking water, the audience posted barrages one after another, asking questions in their hearts.

To them, Kalimantan Island is as far away as a fantasy, and they can't understand why Zhao Nan would let Lao Zheng go to that kind of place where birds don't.

"What's there?"

Zhao Nan seemed to fall into memory, and said in a nostalgic tone: "Kalimantan Island has the poorest Chinese group in the world, living in a narrow and dilapidated neighborhood, with a meager salary, and living a very difficult life. ”

"They speak Hakka, and Lao Zheng's family is in Meizhou, and they can also speak Hakka, so I asked him to go because there are simple and kind people there, simple and innocent girls, and the life that Lao Zheng wants."

"Don't hide it from you, an honest computer coder like Lao Zheng, although he is not welcomed in China, the girls think he is not handsome, his mouth is not sweet enough, and he has no mood."

"But once he arrived in Kalimantan, he immediately became the target of countless local girls, from teenagers to decades old."

"It's not a question of whether they choose Lao Zheng, it's a question of whether Lao Zheng chooses them, it's not a question of Lao Zheng chasing them, it's a question of how Lao Zheng faces countless temptations and how to resist."

"What does it mean that choice is more important than effort?"

"That's it."

Zhao Nan's words caused an uproar in the live broadcast room.

"The poorest Chinese in the world? Speaking Hakka? ”

"Lao Zheng, a yard farmer who is not welcomed in China, will immediately become very popular once he lands in Kalimantan?"

"Why do you feel so envious?"

"May I ask the anchor, is it too late to learn Hakka now?"

"Is this true?"

"Of course it's true." Zhao Nan smiled and said: "I have already sent a message to Lao Zheng, and I will video connect with him when I have time for a while, speaking of which, I haven't seen him for a while, and I miss him very much." ”

"Continuing from the previous topic, as we all know, there are a large number of overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, such as Saigon and Hue in Vietnam, Bangkok and Chiang Rai in Thailand, Manila and Cebu in the Philippines, Surabaya and Semarang in Indonesia, Penang and Perak in Malaysia, and so on."

"Because of their hard-working and ethnic flair for business, the majority of overseas Chinese generally live in a privileged and wealthy state, and even becoming heads of state is nothing new."

"However, Kalimantan Island is an exception, the average monthly income of Chinese in Yamaguchiyang, Pontianak, Sanfa and other areas is generally less than 1,000 yuan, and the largest industry in Yamaguchiyang is the manufacture of pottery, when I went for the first time, the daily salary of Chinese potters is equivalent to 13 yuan."

"Now that many years have passed, although wages have risen to forty or fifty yuan a day, they still can't keep up with the soaring prices."

"Like their ancestors, Yamaguchi still maintains a series of traditions from the Spring Festival to the Mid-Autumn Festival, with lion dances at the doors of shops and worship at the Temple of Literature before students take exams."

"As for the local young girls, most of them have a hard time finding jobs, and even if they do, they are only low-paying jobs such as restaurant waiters, hotel front desks, and clothing store shopping guides."

"They can't afford cosmetics and beautiful clothes, go to the movies with friends, eat a burger with fries, and calculate carefully so that they don't spend more than their wallets can afford."

"I once asked them, if there was a Chinese boy who wanted to make friends with them, would they be willing?"

"Of course, the answer is yes, and you can clearly feel that when they answer this question, their eyes are shining and their expressions are full of anticipation."

"After all, although China is far away, it is the hometown of their ancestors, the Great Wall, the Yangtze River, the Yellow Mountain, and the Yellow River, which are passed down by word of mouth from their parents."

"In addition, it is now the Internet era, the high-rise buildings in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, the busy and smooth high-speed railways, highways and ports, and the magnificent scenery of snow-capped mountains, grasslands and rivers have all entered their sight through short video software, which makes them yearn for it."

"That's why I emphasize that choice is always more important than hard work, although I recommend Lao Zheng to Kalimantan for part of the economic reasons, any boy who is in the middle income of the country, once there, properly belongs to the wealthy class, and the advantage is obvious."

"But the economy is by no means the only reason why I set this course for Lao Zheng."

"There are some people in the world, they are sensitive to social fear, they are not naturally suitable for the life of competition and involution, they don't like to talk about it in crowded places, they can't stand the intrigue between colleagues in the office, and when they accompany the leader or elders to participate in the drinking party, the more people there are, the more lost they are in their hearts."

"Lao Zheng is such an introverted and sensitive person, who has been working hard for several years, which has caused him to have depression tendencies, for example, when he stands on a high place, he always fantasizes about jumping down, and he will wake up unconsciously in the early hours of the morning."

"From a psychological point of view, these are typical precursors of depression, and if you have similar situations, you need to be more careful in the future."

"Especially those who have experienced being locked up at home for a long time, not being able to get freedom, and not being able to guarantee their lives, those who have experienced this must know that human psychology is actually much more fragile than imagined, and the slogan of the predecessors who would rather die than free is not because they are hypocritical, but a difficult and struggling life, which will really make life worse than death."

"In short, for Lao Zheng, in addition to needing a girlfriend who loves him and can accompany him, he also needs to escape from the oppressive life with no end in sight, go to a place with beautiful mountains and rivers, and live some simple and relaxed days, otherwise if it takes a long time, he may really be depressed."

"Here I must point out that depression is not a psychological defect, but a naΓ―ve and kind person, but unfortunately living in a despicable world full of deception, he can't see the suffering of the world, his heart is extremely struggling, and finally he slowly becomes depressed, wants to find a strong and warm shell, and then hides."

"To some extent, all people with depression are innocent children at heart, and they need to be protected, otherwise they will inevitably lose themselves in the struggle and fall into a situation from which they will never recover."

"That's why I asked Lao Zheng to go to Kalimantan, and that's why I opened this live broadcast room."

"If I have any expectations for you, then I undoubtedly hope that everyone can protect themselves, live, live bravely, live for themselves, and not be crushed by the cruel reality."

"I know that many viewers must be saying in their hearts at this moment that people can't live just for themselves."

"That's right, we have received this kind of education since we were children, and the teacher said that we are the masters of the world, and when we grow up in the future, we will take on the responsibility of building a better new world, and we will make our nation prosperous and prosperous, etc."

"But have you ever wondered if there is a possibility that we are not masters, but servants, cattle and horses who are responsible for selling coolies?"

"The master's hard work is to build his own territory, as a cow and horse, is it really necessary to work hard?"

"I know that many people don't want to listen to this kind of thing, because many people like to build their happiness on other people, no matter how much they suffer, as long as their wives can carry expensive bags and show off to their colleagues, they feel that all their suffering and hard work are worth it."

"Suppose you don't want to sing the praises of suffering, tell him that he actually lived a very difficult and sloppy life, and that he has lived all his life for other people, and has never lived for himself."

"At this time, they are often very angry, and tell you with righteous indignation, as a man, you have the responsibility to make the life of the people around you happier, generation after generation, everyone has come over like this, why should you be an exception?"

Speaking of this, Zhao Nan couldn't help but shrug his shoulders with a wry smile and said: "Whenever the conversation goes to this extent, I will shut up with interest and praise them for being right, when the three views are different, there is really no need to argue." ”

"But history has repeatedly told us that the more people choose, the more wrong it is, and the person who can really stand out from the crowd must make a different choice."

"Today, I am here to advise everyone not to fall in love, not to get married, not to have children, if you still want to find a girlfriend and live a plain but real life, it is best to go to other places outside the mainland."

"Such a suggestion seems absurd and deviant."

"But is it possible that this deviant proposal is a solution to this absurd age?"

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