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出租车司机的生存智慧

Updated: 5:15 p.m. Sun January 19, 2025

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傍晚从外地出差返沪,虹桥高铁站打车回家。

司机是个四十多岁黝黑邋遢的中年男人,车门打开,一股浓烈的烟味扑鼻而来,看来是个老烟枪。车子开出地库,一股寒风钻入,请他把车窗玻璃关上。他说我车子烟味大,关窗你不介意吧。我说我更愿意暖和点,说罢戴上耳机听音乐。

行程过半,见他跟我挥手示意,我摘了耳机。他说咱们聊会天吧,开了一天车了,有点累,有点无聊。我说当然可以。

他问我是干啥的?我说在设计院工作。他问哪里的设计院啊,我说在浦东。他说浦东哪里。我说世博园。他说知道的,是不是以前在浦东南路搬到现在这个地方的?我说你可以啊,这你都知道。他说我们开出租的,过程中会积累经验,什么时间段,哪里有可能拉到活。所以知道你们设计院经常加班到晚上十点多钟,不少人会打车回家。你们这个职业也累啊,也是经常加班。我说在上海,要想生存,哪个行业不累,不都靠加班多挣点辛苦钱嘛!他说是啊,不过最近你们加班打车的人不多了,看来也是受市场环境不景气的影响吧。客人是我们的衣食父母,整个社会经济是一个大系统,一荣俱用,一损俱损。我说你这思想境界可以啊。

我问他开白班还是晚班,他说是一个人开白、晚班,每天开到凌晨两点左右,坚持不住了的话,找个偏僻路边睡上四五个小时。最近连着好几天都只跑了四百多元左右的毛收入,每天还要交三百元的“份子钱”,这个日子确实不好过。但是不好过也得过,为了家庭,为了生存,只能自己多辛苦点,坚持下去,希望有好起来的那一天……

我挺佩服他的坚忍,有时候普罗大众的生存智慧,也具有质朴的积极意义。有这样一句古语:百样生意百样难,只有讨食过清闲。这世上的人,大都过着“为五斗米折腰”的日子。为生存,为发展,为家庭,为公司……,梦想还在,动力就在。

I returned to Shanghai for a business trip and took a taxi home from Hongqiao Railway Station in the evening.

The taxi driver was a swarthy and scruffy middle-aged man in his forties. It seemed that he was an old smoker, because when I opened the car door and a strong smell of smoke hit me. As the taxi drove out of the basement, a cold wind came in, so I let him to close the window. He asked me if I cared about the smoke smell. I said I’d rather be warm, then put on headphones to listen to music.

Halfway through the trip, I saw him wave to me, so I took off my headphones. He said let’s talk for a while, I’ve been driving for a day, and felt a little tired and bored. Certainly, I said.

He asked me what job I do. I said I work in a design institute. He asked where the institute was, and I told him it was in Pudong New district. He asked where exactly. In Expo Park, I told him. Then he said he knew, the institute was moved from Pudong South Road to the place? I was surprised. I said you’re impressive, you know all this. He said that when we drive a taxi, we’ll accumulate experience in the process, what time period, and where it is possible to pick up. Therefore, I know that your design institute often works overtime until after 10 o’clock in the evening, and many people will take a taxi home. Your profession is also tiring, and you often work overtime. I said that in Shanghai, to survive, which industry is not tired, don’t rely on overtime to earn more hard money! He said yes, but not many of you have been taking cabs overtime lately, so it seems to have been affected by the sluggish market conditions. Guests are our food and clothing parents, the whole social economy is a big system, a glory, a loss. I said that’s a high enough state of mind for you!

I asked him whether he runs the day shift or the night shift, and he said that he runs the day and night shifts alone, he drives until about 2:00 a.m. every day, and that if he can’t hold out any longer, he’ll find a remote roadside to sleep for four or five hours. Recently, for several days in a row have only earn about 400 yuan of gross income, and still have to pay 300 yuan of “share money” every day, this day is really not easy. But not good have to live, for the sake of the family, in order to survive, can only own more hard work, hang on, hope there is a good day ……

I admired his stoicism, and sometimes the survival wisdom of the general public has a pristine positivity to it. There is such a proverb: A hundred kinds of business are difficult, only begging for food and leisure. Most of the people in this world live a life of "bending their waists for five buckets of rice". For survival, for development, for family, for the company ……, the dream is there, the power is there.

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中秋敬月

Tue, September 17, 2024

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狂风暴雨的昨天已成过往,中秋佳节还你一轮金色圆月。

在我的故乡,有“中秋不敬月,出门遭雨雪“的说法。这一天的傍晚,家家户户会在院子里支上一张条桌,摆上各式贡品,点上一炉香,遥敬明月。敬月的贡品五花八门,但月饼和莲藕必不可少,还有红菱、芋头、花生、苹果、桔子、红枣、石榴、藕夹……也许摆放的品种越多,越能体现一个家庭的富足,也更能代表敬月亮的诚意吧。中秋月圆日,阖家团圆时。中秋节的中午,一家人围坐在一起吃团圆饭。一桌好菜,有鱼有肉 ,另外还有一样菜必不可少——老鸭汤。中秋节还有一个特别重要的主角,那就是有一块特大号的月饼,称作“团圆饼”,敬完月亮后,全家人必须共同分享。

如今很多人为了生计,远赴他乡打拼。每逢佳节倍思亲,中秋的一轮明月像一个媒介,互相传递我们对远在他乡的亲朋好友们的思念与祝福。即便上海买不到连枝的莲藕,我也尽可能准备一些贡品,敬拜圆月,这个仪式感得有。我托明月遥寄深情厚意,祝我认识的人和认识我的人,阖家团圆,健康平安,中秋快乐!

The storm yesterday has become the past, the Mid-Autumn Festival will give you a round of golden full moon.

In my hometown, there is a saying that "Mid-Autumn festival does not worship the moon, go out by the rain and snow". On the evening of this day, every family will put a table in the courtyard, put all kinds of tributes, light a furnace of incense, distant worship the moon. There are various, but moon cakes and lotus root are essential, as well as red water, taro, peanuts, apples, oranges, red dates, pomegranate, lotus root cake, etc. Perhaps the more varieties placed, the more can reflect the wealth of a family, but also can represent the sincerity of the moon. Mid-Autumn moon full day, family reunion. At the noon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the family sits together to have a family reunion dinner. A table of good dishes, fish and meat, and there is a dish indispensable —— old duck soup. Another particularly important protagonist, that is, a very large mooncake, called "reunion cake", after the moon, the whole family must share it together.

Nowadays, many people go to another place to make a living. Every festival times, the bright moon like a medium, conveying to each other. Even if I can’t buy lotus roots in Shanghai, I try to prepare some tributes to worship the golden full moon, which is a ritual. I hold the bright moon to send deep feeling, and wish the people I know and those who know me, family reunion, health and safety, and a happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

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台风过后,一片狼籍

Mon, September 16, 2024

台风“贝碧嘉”上午7:30登陆上海浦东临港新城,近中心最大风力14级。据报道这是1949年以来,正面登陆上海市的最强台风。台风给上海带来一场狂风暴雨和极强的破坏性,各方面遭受损失不小,估计随后的新闻会有详细报道。

下午三点多钟,台风过去,风停雨住,我出门去了解小区范围内受损情况。底层商铺的门口植物陈设全部被吹倒砸烂,路边有几棵树被连根拔起或者吹断了,道路上很多的残枝败叶。有两辆车被坠落的断枝砸到,看起来已经开出去维修了,车位空了出来。垃圾房的顶棚被掀掉,路灯控制箱被吹倒。邻居们在微信群里抱怨,因为外墙门窗渗漏,家里水漫金山。

我的车旁边有一根被风吹断的大枯枝,不知道有没有砸到它,看起来还好。副驾驶侧外玻璃与B柱的缝隙里有片树叶,估计是风把玻璃吹变形了的时候卡进去的。楼顶露台栽种的各式花花草草,花盆几乎尽数被吹落摔坏。楼上邻居开公司的,说他们厂子4000多平米的厂房屋顶被风掀掉了,损失不小。

在大自然的威力面前,人类渺小到微不足道。说“人定胜天”的人,要不只是给自己个心理安慰,要不就是痴人说梦。

Typhoon Bebinca landed in Lingang New City in Pudong, Shanghai at 7:30 a.m., with the maximum wind of 14 force near the center. It was reported to be the strongest typhoon to make landfall in Shanghai since 1949.

At 3:00 p.m., the typhoon passed, the wind and rain stopped. I went out to check on the damage within the community. The plants at the entrance of the shops on the ground floor were all blown down and smashed, and a few trees on the side of the road were uprooted or blown off, there were many stumps and leaves everywhere. Two cars were hit by falling broken branches that appeared to have been driven out for repair, and the parking space was empty. The roof of the garbage room was torn off, and the street lamp control box was blown down. Neighbors complained in the WeChat group that because of the leakage of doors and windows on the external wall, the water flooded their home.

There was a big windblown branch next to my car, I don’t know if it hit it. It looks ok. There is a leaf in the gap between the outer glass and the B-pillar on the co-pilot side, it’s estimated that the wind is stuck when the glass is deformed. All kinds of flowers and plants planted on the roof of the terrace, the flowerpots are almost blown down and broken. Upstairs neighbor said that more than 4000 square meters of his factory’s roof were lifted by the wind, the loss is not small.

In the face of the power of nature, human beings are small to insignificant. People who say "man can conquer nature", or not just to give themselves a psychological comfort, or is a crazy dream.

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自己动手,全屋Wi-Fi

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家里网络不畅,客厅里的无线路由,经由餐厅的易展无线中继,到书房里的信号还是不好。客厅里的NAS跟卧室里的有线网络还不是一个域,使用起来速度与效率受到影响。看看如今全屋网络覆盖比较普及,作为理工男,周末时间自己动手,我也试着搞一套吧。

看网上介绍说AP面板可以直接跟光猫的网线连接,狗东买了几个TP-Link的AP面板,利用周末安装部署。原来的有线网络面板拆掉,改成水晶头连接AP面板。接上了一看,压根没用,AP面板上的灯不亮。网线接上电脑,可以ping光猫的IP地址,说明水晶头制作没问题。分析一下,AP面板要起到无线路由作用,那得有电源啊。查询了一下,得利用前端路由器的POE通过网线供电,所以还得配上AC才行,光猫没有这个POE功能。赶紧下单,好在狗东快递速度真不错,上午下单,傍晚收到了。AC拆盒装入弱电箱,接上电源,插上网线,AP面板亮灯,搞定。连上电脑web设定好局域网与无线Wi-Fi,顺利上网,速度杠杠的,之前的痛点问题顺利解决。唯一遗憾的是原来的华为无线路由,接上AC路由器的话,不能在同一个网段。看网上说可以设定无线路由为桥接,但是没找到这个选项,看来只能让它退役了。

网络上的信息,有参考价值,但也不能全信,毕竟每个产品都不尽相同。还是要自己动手,试了才知道。看着最终的劳动成果,虽腰酸背痛,也颇有成就感,理工男爱折腾,也还是能做点技术活的。另外有一点感受就是,工欲善其事,必先利其器。顺手的,好用的工具太重要了。水晶头、网线、破线剪、网线钳、网络测试仪、螺丝刀,美工刀、尖嘴钳都有了,干起活来很利索。但是唯独缺了个多功能寻线仪,弱电箱里那么多网线,要找它们是那个房间哪个位置的,可麻烦了,只能用排除法一个一个去试,浪费时间精力。

闲暇时间,动动手,动动脑,改善生活环境与质量,不亦乐乎!

随笔 | 来跳舞吧

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昨天电视上播放了段综艺节目,几个外国友人节目中在忘情舞蹈,激情四射,好像也有点带动了我的热情,跟着他们的舞蹈,我的心情也好了起来。

我不是一个会跳舞的人,在我看来,对于咱们普通人而言,舞蹈就是一种利用肢体语言,用来展示表达我们心情的工具,或者说方式而已。这就如同遇到烦心事,抑或心情不好时,对朋友家人尽情倾诉;就如同为着某件事情,跟谁谁大吵大闹,只不过那是利用语言这个工具罢了。我想,就连巫婆与神汉的跳大神也算得是一种宗教与祭祀舞蹈,所以,你跳得好与不好,谁在意呢,反正也没谁奢望你是舞蹈家,对吧?

我不会跳舞,倒也不是那种粗手笨脚,或者肢体动作不协调的人,关键问题就是放不开。我们家孩子倒是不像我,初中毕业时,有了时间,还特意去参加了个现代舞培训班,也胆敢参加结业展示表演。

记得我娘年轻时就是个会跳舞的人,她老人家如今已年近古稀之年,前两年在小区草坪上,还能连续翻几个侧空翻的筋斗,震惊了小区里面的人,纷纷竖起了大拇指,让我着实赞叹。而今,她热衷于我不太感冒的广场舞去了。好吧,只要她老人家高兴,身体健康,爱怎么跳舞都可以。

我上大学的时候,正是流行跳交谊舞的年代,学校、班级各种活动,老师同学们总是要跳上几段。你不会跳个三步四步,都不好意思说自己在受高等教育呢。我们宿舍一哥们痴迷上了,去了书店买了好些教材回来,照本宣科,学得不亦乐乎,搞得宿舍一到晚上总是“蹦嚓嚓”。

近几年工作原因,经常出差,几乎全国各处都跑过,朋友或者合作单位,有朋自远方来,热情的招待总是少不了。酒过三巡,菜过五味,往往就伴着热烈动感的节奏与音乐,跳起舞来。尤其是到了少数民族地区,聚会时美酒佳肴伴着舞蹈,那是再普通不过了。

我觉得,越是少数民族的人,越是能歌善舞,他(她)们没有任何拘束,也不受任何约束,刚喝了一点酒,就能舞动起来,热情洋溢地抒发着自己的快乐心情。女士们舞姿婀娜轻盈,长袖善舞,明眸善睐;先生们则是闪转腾挪,健步如飞,充满阳刚活力。反之,像咱们汉族人,特别是稍微受了一点教育的人,感觉特别放不开,上不了台面。我是好几次遇到这样的场合,被人硬拉着上场,邀请我们一起快乐舞蹈,我总是哈哈哈地傻笑一番,摆摆手,决绝地退回坐席,搞得自己和主人都尴尬不已。

前几年做一个新疆特色风情街项目,去跟政府部门交流方案,领导们对我们的方案中,维族餐饮宴会厅没按照大巴扎模式设计提出了意见。那时候我们对什么是“大巴扎”没什么概念,回去查了资料才算是有所了解。维族人民在朋友聚会或者喜事办宴席的时候,必须要一起载歌载舞的。这种餐饮宴会场所一般2层,中间有个大的中庭,如果是一层,那么多半是将中庭设成下沉广场类型,餐桌、半开敞的包房围绕着中庭或广场布置,边吃饭喝酒,边欣赏歌舞表演,喝到兴致处,也都一并加入到歌舞大狂欢去了,他们都觉得这才是欢乐尽兴。

吃个饭,喝个小酒,不就是图个乐呵嘛!何必拘束放不开呢?嗯,这么想来,我觉得,下次再有这种场合,我是不是也会豁出去,只管加入快乐的舞蹈场景去了。那么,你呢?

随笔 | 又到品蟹季

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俗话说“秋风响,蟹脚痒”,品蟹的季节到了。

今晚,蒸了几只网购的阳澄湖大闸蟹,尽管分辨不出真假,一家人还是吃的津津有味。说到吃蟹,上海人最认可的,当属昆山阳澄湖的大闸蟹,“金毛金爪白肚皮”,肉质鲜美,营养丰富。其实啊,淀山湖、太湖、高邮湖、洪泽湖等地区产的螃蟹,味道也不错,只要不是盐碱地湖里产出的就好,关键是要买新鲜的。

螃蟹,上海人称作大闸蟹,崇明人称作老毛蟹,学名叫中华绒螯蟹。螃蟹一般是论对卖,叫“对公对母”。有人喜欢公蟹,个头大,膏肥肉多,特别是两只大螯里的肉,更是鲜美紧致。喜欢母蟹的,因为它的蟹黄多。同一级别的公蟹总是比母蟹大个一两左右。小的二两以下的也可单独卖,喜欢腌制蟹黄膏的,可以买二两以下的母蟹,蟹黄也算不少。卖蟹的一般以公蟹论等级,四两一只的算中等,半斤一只则可以算上品了。另外看蟹膏还有红膏与黄膏一说,红膏要比黄膏更加鲜美。

同样的重量等级,阳澄湖蟹的价格却高出一筹,所以有追逐利益者,从其它湖里收来螃蟹,放在阳澄湖的网箱中养上个把月,好好洗个澡,让螃蟹“吐故纳新,入乡随俗”,据说这么一来,味道也能比较接近正宗货。

吃螃蟹一般用蒸笼蒸煮熟了吃,冷水下锅,水开了后再蒸个十分钟左右。吃螃蟹还分“文吃”与“武吃”,文吃就是借助于吃蟹的工具,武吃就是徒手外加铁嘴钢牙。蟹壳较硬,有些部位还有凸起的硬刺,武吃确实有点费劲。去市场买新鲜螃蟹的时候,一定要请店家用细绳帮捆好了,不给它自由。一方面不让其折腾,爬上爬下,消耗体力,也就消耗斤两,这样放在冰箱的冷藏柜里,放个四五天一般没问题。另一方面,捆着的螃蟹蒸煮过程中,不至于因蟹脚折断缺失,导致蟹黄蟹膏泄露。吃螃蟹时可以蘸上调制的姜醋,但我不蘸调料,喜欢品尝原汁原味。吃螃蟹时还要喝点白酒,因为蟹属凉性,多吃伤胃。死蟹不能吃,蟹的蛋白质会被细菌快速分解为有毒的组胺。蟹的腮心胃肠这四个部位,也不能吃,食用时,需要细心地把这些个部位剔除。

有趣的是,以前总开玩笑把小龙虾叫作“螃蟹助理”,其实现在就小龙虾的受欢迎程度和价格而言,已经不逊于螃蟹,几乎平起平坐了。

论起蟹来,于我而言,其实并不陌生。我的故乡三面环湖,河道纵横,名副其实的鱼米之乡,水产品种类琳琅满目,应有尽有。小的时候,在老家,每逢上游泄洪,内河与泄洪水道相连的地方,为防洪水倒灌,都设置河闸。闸塘里,每逢夜晚,就会有螃蟹顺着闸门往上爬,螃蟹有夜晚趋光的特性,所以人们就打着手电筒,守株待兔,一夜下来,就能轻轻松松逮着好些生猛的大蟹。那时候,螃蟹真的不算什么值钱玩意儿。印象中,我以为这就是螃蟹又称“大闸蟹”的由来。后来查了下资料,又有说法是“以簖捕蟹”的方法而得名。捕蟹季节,捕蟹者在湖中或港湾间,以“蟹簖”(以竹子或芦苇编成的拦阻式捕蟹工具)筑起一道道小闸。螃蟹翻过小闸,就掉进了捕蟹的袋子里,又言其个头大,故称“大闸蟹”。

每到仲秋时节,螃蟹成熟上市,原产地的人们,会邀请外地客人来品蟹,这可是件讲究的事情。在以前,吃螃蟹属于较高档次的消费了,因而烟、茶、酒、菜档次也不能低了,以显示出对客人的敬重。螃蟹肯定是最后一道菜,因为蟹味鲜美,吃完了再吃别的菜,便会索然无味。席间,一般会给每位客人分发一公一母两只蟹,若客人只吃一只,那就留一只母蟹吧。吃蟹时,让客人慢慢品尝,这时候就尽量不要敬酒了,满手丰腴的膏脂,再去端起酒杯,是很煞风景的事。若是此时谁的手机响了,那更是尴尬得很。品完蟹,先用牙膏洗手,清水冲净,再用茶叶水洗手,然后用干净毛巾擦干双手,以去除蟹腥味。最后再端起泡好的清茶漱口,这样才算很优雅的品蟹方式。

如今我生活在上海,说到上海人的吃蟹方式,有些被全国人民取笑的细节。那是说以前的上海爷叔,去到店里吃蟹,配上专用的八件套工具,有钳子、小锤、剪刀,镊子等等,不慌不忙,老有腔调地将一只蟹的每一寸肉、黄、膏,极其细致地吃得干干净净,完了还要将剩下的蟹壳蟹腿煮上一锅鲜汤,再配上二两老酒,带着一身蟹味,心满意足地离去。街上遇到熟人,老远便招呼。哟,今朝吃蟹啦?老有面子的事情。
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记得有一次,我们单位招待客人,在一家酒店,厨师也算是有点创新,将新蒸熟的螃蟹上盖剥开清理干净,作为容器,用蟹黄加上豆腐、新鲜肉丁、佐料一起,放锅里蒸熟,端上来后,吃起来味道其实真的很好。但是我们领导不高兴了,背后跟酒店老板发飙:“什么意思啊,我们吃不起整只螃蟹啊,搞得这么小家子气?”搞得老板连打招呼带说抱歉。

以前有个老同事,老家无锡人,是个掌握项目审批权的科长,喜欢喝酒。那时候没有八项规定精神,他总能找机会让建设单位请客,有时还特会打趣敲竹杠。用他那无锡口音的普通话说道:“咦!上次我跟主任来的时候,还有旁(螃)的菜,别(鳖)的汤嘛,今天……?”要不就说:“嗯,上次那顿饭招待得挺好,还有螃蟹呢……”然后主人就知趣地投其所好了。

螃蟹,从六七十年代的寻常物,到八九十年代的高档消费,再到如今飞入寻常百姓家的餐桌上。吃螃蟹这件事,也能从一个侧面反映出人民的生活水平和消费观念的变化。那么,咱们不说吃蟹,改叫品蟹吧,慢慢地优雅地品味,品味鲜美,品味生活,品味岁月,品味人生……

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