It is 2:45 am, has slept, woke up, how can no longer go to sleep, so got up and wanted to take advantage of thinking is also clear, not vague memories of a time when a record - Shanghai trip.
I am a November 3 4:15 pm the aircraft had not come to a half-hour error machine, until the time of the Pudong International Airport is already late. May be a more eastern longitude in Shanghai reasons, dark very early, but the Pudong airport, the lights startled people, very good, more or less the feeling of some of Vancouver. And pick up along with Dr. Chen, who sat the airport 5 line, the scenery along the way so I quickly immersed Among them, enjoy being bathed in a modern city.
Nanquan Road to Dr Chan's home, settling down to Qiuyang a phone, it so happens, he is also in Pudong, after I discovered that: he Yaohan opened a small shop, do business in Nepal imports of silver, doing quite well. Sometimes also greatly admire his chic, Shanghai Jiaotong University students who graduated from the computer, almost eight years, AT & T engineer's experience, and then throw home care industry, in Zhouzhuang opened one of the shops selling knives to make it good later, they come to Shanghai. I always feel that, for him, Shanghai is a very important place, where he can find a sense of what kind of feeling is difficult to say clearly, but after that day, I feel that this is what I the feeling of Shanghai, a breeding ground for up and let their feelings, or say "and the appetite for it."
That night, three of us in the ex-next to a small restaurant to eat a light meal in Ningxia, but also drank a lot of wine, is a "Double pot," tipsy first arrived in Shanghai, accompanied by shock and vertigo, soon fast asleep.
The next morning, walk 20 minutes to the medical training center. Once a colony where, no matter what kind of transformation after her bone marrow still have a colony of the total mark. Medical Training Center is a foreign fund and the Shanghai Municipal Government jointly organized by the hospital, the American design, Japanese decoration, therefore, first time I saw it will think that this is an "imported" hospital. Two years ago, the building, and now is still very good, not the least bit of feeling behind the building surrounded by green spaces, the internal clear lines make you temporarily forget the body in China.
Training courses arranged the same day is not very tense, 17:00 back to Nanquan apartment. Dr Chan told me that there is a girl coming to is that I recognize, and her people are very nice. I have known without hesitation the moment, it must be Xia Hong, a Shanghai girl.
Xia Hong looks pretty good, tall, but not significant, it will not swagger. I met the road blocks in the Nansen, courtesy of the handshake so I told her were really much more favorable impression, they said: If you shake hands found each other's hand is warm, then to you that he is friendly. Xia Hong hands are warm.
With three to go, the election of the Lujiazui has a southern-style restaurant, called "salty to enjoy Restaurant"; Chinese intellectuals do not people do not know "salty to enjoy." Although the business of growing in salty to enjoy good, but the name always decline, down and play with the ups and downs with Yiji about this, too, ancestors planted the tree, posterity will enjoy the cool bar. Huaiyang Department of dishes unfamiliar to me, taste is very good, but remember only the name of "ringing small fish", which is to go to the small yellow croaker with barbed Yuba wrap, and then deep-fried too crisp, like a sound bite up bell. Can not fail to mention is salty to enjoy the rice wine, I heard that was twelve years of aging, Huadiao Wang. I have no mood for rice wine, until a month ago, a professor of Chinese laborers, and with the drink in his induction, the feel a delicious rice wine and mellow. Salty to enjoy the wine far better than large-scale industrial production out of bottled wine, taste of alcohol, after taste not be extinguished, tepid later, in the enjoyment of taste has been blended with the sense of smell in the enjoyment, people naturally feel the Jiangnan culture has a long history.
Chinese intellectuals have his evil - depression, always like "Daiyuzanghua" feeling, in the delight in the experience with a touch of sadness, it seems that this is refined. This is what I like "salty to enjoy" the root. Nevertheless, modern treason, let us experience the ancient culture of China five thousand years after the return to modern life: JAZZ BAR. I like JAZZ, I could even listen to JAZZ morning exercise, why, I do not know. An hour out of Shanghai's night a bit cold, but the three individuals and high spirits, so he got into a called BAT's BAR. May be due to Monday's sake, not many people. We are the mood-filled, two o'clock he come tomorrow, but also to fight for a living.
The third day on duty, Dr Chan, Xia Hong night to go inside to practice piano, I am the only one person. Training is also an early day had ended, so thought of Nanjing Road, I heard that it is the outsiders who frequented the place, agreeable to me. Metro out, did not go far, I did not know where in the Nanjing Road, I found a "flavor concept of knowledge." Taste concept is not do not know, not because of how she's good, but because she gives me a sub-memories. More than 10 years ago, I was in Beijing to study, ordinary poor scholar, heard that there is a Huokou called "flavor concept known" place, her buns are very tasty, but expensive, a pound of 20 to 20 yuan of money, it is necessary know, I was a month's living expenses, but 90 yuan. So Sunday morning, and his girlfriend to go with; Menlian know the concept of taste is too small, in the Xinjiekou hotel next to a small door, the door is also a bronze, when many people, behind a very long time team, get pound, but also costs quite some trouble to find a seat stood waiting in the surrounding crowd, the two of us hurriedly finished, and only know that taste good. The day the sky is the color of lead, and we both are not feeling very well. A few years later, think of it, did not realize: We have the feeling that time is already at the edge of breaking up. Nanjing roadside flavor concept is very lonely to know, I called a cage dumplings, a bowl of wonton, a beer. Old people have to go around the noise annoyance has not reproduce, taste, of course, can not see.
Nanjing Road people coming and going, a bit like Beijing's Wangfujing. Neon lights flashing, bright, good prospered. I am not the first time come to Nanjing Road, it is still there in the end did not know how long, in the end, what attractions has happened to Lu tourist tram, the tram rattled, I like the tone. Casually looked for a place to sit, is limited, the opposite sit down a little girl, there will be no 2-year-old, a typical southern girl, not beautiful, but very delicate and pretty. I think she is from Shanghai, Nanjing Road, then asked her if she has any good spots, her Mandarin well, sound is very light, with his right, with a relaxation and leisure, I asked her who have to sit Shanghai Sightseeing Car do? She shyly smiled and said, she wanted to see a friend, and Nanjing Road can be a long or a short time, just sit on sightseeing cars. Ah, yes! Thus, in her soft-spoken, I know you can go to People's Square, Century Park, Hengshan Road, Lujiazui green ... ... after the day, recalls that when she said, attractions, Xia Hong said with a smile: how are some small children love places to go? Ha ha ha ... ...
Once again came to the Bund, it seems, and three years ago, not much change in the number of high-rise buildings in Pudong, spirits actions, decided to ferry Pudong. Ferry ticket is only fifty cents, I was a little surprised, fifty cents of the ticket has been met with very little in exchange for a chip, I got on the boat. Shine light on both sides, revealing a modern colonial taste, I like the taste. Shanghai people are not ashamed to appear with the "colonial" to describe the Bund, especially in the economic globalization today, you can enjoy in words to express the thoughts.
Where? I do not know where they come from suggests, I always meditation of "salt is the" this term. At eight o'clock the salty enjoy flow of people has slowly receded, sitting alone window, concentration, Lujiazui lights, a pound of rice wine, a slightly tipsy, down-hearted. Pour drink from the mind alone, there is a feeling of not perfect, but after all it is perfect, so "not perfect in the perfect" a few days turned out to be the topic of jokes. In fact, the perfect imperfect in a very high level already is a perfect, completely perfect exists only in dreams.
The fourth day of training, I actually saw the perfect, whether it is morning or afternoon surgery lectures, all people can not agree with. Access to knowledge, to meet a very comfortable feeling, a bit like a cold drink when thirsty, clear water. Evening, Xia Hong asked me and Dr Chan. Probably in the Maoming Road bar, in short, Jiangsu, Zhejiang exchange. A door, I realized the mistake, I actually did not take the camera! Found a seat, I also found a balance: to remember the good things do not need the camera, just heart. A clear record of only dilute the good feeling would be only a hazy memory of the distillation. Food, first-class; the environment, first-class, do not blame the peaceful Shanghai has nurtured so many of the petty bourgeoisie. Jiangsu and Zhejiang sink conditions were You Dianjiu Shanghai nightclub taste, we sat on the second floor beside the railings, looked down on the first floor of the bustling, noisy, peaceful close eye to make less. America! Drunk people drunk.
Ruijin Guest House after the garden a good environment. Some slightly chilly days, the three of us sat in one, from different places, bathing the night in Shanghai Petty Bourgeoisie.
Author: apieceofleaf
