2020 is destined to be a tumultuous year.

An epidemic has taken a toll on the country's economy and on everyone's lives. However, the country completely controlled the spread of the epidemic with a vigorous approach and became the only major country in the world to emerge from the recession. By the fourth quarter of 2020, the country's economic growth rate had returned to a year's ago.

Although Ankang did not feel the strength of the strong economic recovery from its own industry and company, it felt it from the 4S stores that sell cars.

Whether it is a traditional fuel vehicle or a Tesla electric car that has just been made in China, sales have changed the decline of previous years and achieved substantial growth.

"I don't know how to drive an electric car." Ankang's father was about to get out of the Tesla Model 3, but was stopped by Ankang, who was sitting in the passenger seat.

Ankang said: "Dad, you are an old driver, and you can even drive a car with a manual transmission." This electric car is fully automatic, how could you not drive it? ”

"This car doesn't even have buttons, it's just a big screen. And this screen looks more complicated than a phone. I can't even find where the control car is functional. ”

Ankang said: "Ouch, this is the minimalist design that is popular now. You don't say it's like a phone, you just use it as a phone. It would be nice to be familiar with it. I really can't do it, or buy the two old ones we just saw. ModelX or ModelS. They don't have large screens. ”

"Those two cars are hundreds of thousands of dollars, why do you spend that money? Why don't you go to the 4S store just now and buy that BMW? ”

"If you buy a BMW, you still have to buy an electric one. Otherwise, you won't be able to enter the city if you buy it. ”

"How?"

Ankang explained: "Shanghai has just issued new traffic restrictions. By next year, except for Shanghai license plates and new energy license plates, cars with other license plates will not be allowed to enter the city. It's not easy to buy a license plate in Shanghai, and you may not be able to get it if you have money. ”

"That's right."

"Of course. Didn't you tell me the other day that you wanted to keep up with the times? Regardless of age, the mind must keep up with this era in order to survive. This kind of new energy vehicle is the era of the future. ”

Ankang's father laughed: "Hahaha. That's just as well. Or buy this electric car, and change the car with you if it doesn't go well in the future. ”

"Okay, okay. Drive whichever car you like? ”

My father said no, but his body was honest.

When Ankang asked the staff in the store how to buy a car and how to install a charging pile, his father did not sit on the sofa and drink coffee leisurely, but got into the Model 3 display car and clicked around on the big screen.

Seeing his father's serious appearance, Ankang couldn't help but smile.

This kind of seriousness of my father is very familiar to Ankang. Just as he did 30 years ago when he was measuring his clients in a ready-to-wear store, just as he was planning a marketing plan in the general manager's office of a garment factory 20 years ago.

It's just that although he is still as serious and stubborn as he was back then, his father is much older than he was back then.

Ankang is very glad that his father returned from Russia at the end of last year. After all, it is far safer to quickly return to normal life at home than abroad. Perhaps it was the arrangement of fate that allowed this biological father and son to reunite again in this special year.

Maybe it's to offset the discomfort caused by the two months of confinement, or maybe it's to cherish the good life of the moment, Ankang takes his father, wife and children out every weekend. Or go on an outing, or go shopping, or visit museums, or just sit by the river on the Bund, Lujiazui, and Expo Qiantan and watch the river scenery for an afternoon.

When he was young, Ankang thought that a happy life must be wonderful.

After being young, Ankang felt the true meaning from his ordinary life.

Life is like a drink. Even if it is a cup of weak tea or water, as long as you taste it carefully, you can taste the extraordinary taste.

"This will be another Lujiazui in Shanghai." Ankang drove his father around the foreshore aimlessly.

"This is a Lujiazui without high-rise buildings."

"No tall buildings?" Ankang didn't expect that his father was not concerned about the various heights of Qiantan, but the height of the buildings.

"yes. Lujiazui needs to use high-rise buildings to show the external image of a country and a city, but this Qiantan does not need to decorate the façade with iconic high-rise buildings. This is actually a kind of self-confidence. ”

An Kang nodded, agreeing with this.

Shanghai has changed.

Not only the factories and buildings that line the line of the Huangpu River that are slightly more magnificent than the small county town have become today's high-rise buildings, but also extraordinary changes have taken place from the bones. This change is like the shikumen in Tianzifang, like the old factory building of M50 in Moganshan, like the unknown restaurants and bars on Huaihai Road, just like many Shanghainese and new Shanghainese who are engaged in different jobs. They don't look like Shanghai anymore, but they have a deep Shanghai imprint.

Is the current Shanghai more like the Shanghai of the past, or more like the Shanghai of the future? No one can tell.

After a day of shopping in the city, although I sat in the car all the way, Ankang's father was old after all, and he was quite tired.

As soon as he got home, Ankang's father sat on the sofa and watched TV.

"It's been thirty years in a blink of an eye." Ankang's father pointed to the TV and said.

An Kang, who was opening the wine bottle, turned around and glanced at it. What was broadcast on TV was the news content of the "30th Anniversary Celebration of Pudong's Development and Opening Up".

Thirty years. Ankang couldn't help but feel moved, these 30 years are not only the 30 years of Pudong's development and opening up, but also the 30 years of his life after he came to Shanghai as a teenager.

At that time, he was an ignorant teenager. Now, don't confuse middle age.

In the past 30 years since graduating from university, Ankang has witnessed the great development of Shanghai and Pudong. Today's Ankang is not only a famous angel investor in Lujiazui, but also an ordinary Pudong citizen. Ankang, like everyone living in Pudong, lives a happy little life in this big era.

The weather is getting cooler.

Although the climate in Shanghai is much warmer than in Moscow, Ankang's father can't help but sit outdoors for long periods of time. He picked up the red wine glass and touched Ankang, drank it all in one gulp, and went back to his room to rest, leaving Ankang alone in the gazebo in the garden.

Ankang looked up at the full moon in the sky, and seemed to feel that this round of the full moon was rounder, larger, and brighter than in previous years.

How long has it been since you had a smog day? Ankang suddenly realized that the air this year seemed to be much better than usual.

2020 is destined to be a turbulent year. However, the year is almost over.

No matter how many waves we have experienced in the past, life will get better and better from now on.

Ankang put down his wine glass, stood up and stretched.

The pavilion is a gazebo, the moon is a new moon, and a man is not confused.

Is this life really not confused? No one knows.