Chapter 450: Auspicious Snow Heralds a Good Harvest
Wrapped in a newly bought down jacket, Zhou Yu walked on the path in the campus of Ruxu No. 2 Middle School, worrying whether it would snow while thinking about the classes that would be held later. Unexpectedly, just as he walked downstairs to the administrative building, small snowflakes began to float in the gloomy sky.
"hiss......"
A snowflake hit Zhou Yu's face and immediately melted into water, making Zhou Yu feel a burst of coolness and the first snow of this winter.
"The first snow of 2002...2014 came earlier than usual~"
Humming a song he had played ten years ago, Zhou Yu stood in the corridor, looking at the snow falling heavier and heavier. He listened for a while to the screams of joy coming from the teaching building not far away. Then he patted the non-existent snowflakes on his shoulders calmly and walked into the office.
The air conditioner in the office is basically on from morning to night in this season, so as soon as Zhou Yu entered the office, he felt as if he had returned to spring, and he immediately wanted to take off his down jacket.
"Teacher Zhou, you're here so soon? Why don't you stay at home and rest for a while?"
As soon as he entered the office, a sharp-eyed teacher greeted Zhou Yu, and Zhou Yu happily walked towards his desk and replied to the other party, "I have classes in the afternoon, and I can't rest at home, so I came here early."
"Haha, are you planning to finish your classes quickly in the afternoon and then go out to celebrate Christmas Eve with Teacher Qiao?" Thinking of today, the teacher found a topic to continue chatting with Zhou Yu.
Nowadays, Western festivals are still quite popular due to the hype of capitalists. Seeing people's increasingly abundant income and savings, these people's entrepreneurs have set their sights on the little money in people's pockets and started racking their brains for how to empty people's wallets.
Seeing this, many businesses also joined in the fun. On this day, each event was more lively than the last. After feeling the festive atmosphere, many young people excitedly rushed to the forefront of the ocean current.
As a result, a very strange phenomenon emerged, that is, some "festivals" defined by capital are more lively and more popular than traditional festivals.
Not to mention the distant past, Women's Day inexplicably became Goddess Day in the future because of the hype created by these capitals. There are also the so-called Double Eleven Singles' Day, 520 and the like, which are all masterpieces of unscrupulous capital.
The same goes for Christmas Eve. Zhou Yu thought about the popular practice in recent years of giving apples, which symbolize peace, on Christmas Eve. Thinking about these inexplicable marketing hype, Zhou Yu wanted to laugh.
What is the peace apple?
According to capital, when people abroad celebrate Christmas, they will give each other peace apples on Christmas Eve. Because the "ping" in "apple" and the "ping" in "peace" are homophones, giving apples on Christmas Eve means giving the other person "peace", which represents the meaning of giving them blessings.
As soon as this concept was spread, capital and businesses that smelled the scent immediately began to market and hype it up. The ignorant Chinese people thought that these so-called Christmas Eves were real, and they were willing to pay for them, either to join in the fun or to really pray for peace.
So after that, on Christmas Eve every year, apples that usually cost three or four yuan per pound could be simply packaged in a box and sold for more than ten or twenty yuan each.
Later, when the popularity of apples gradually declined, these merchants, no longer satisfied with that, picked up the Delicious Apple (originally from California, America) and hyped up the concept, claiming that the Delicious Apple from its place of origin in America can better represent the meaning of "peace".
It better represents the meaning of peace, and it also has another subtext, which is that the merchant is telling you that you have to pay extra.
However, everyone has long been accustomed to the media filling their heads with a bunch of content that will be considered garbage in the future but now seems to be the "truth", such as you have to spend money on goddesses on Goddess Day and men have to stand behind dogs.
Since I have told you this and brainwashed you, then you should just do as I say and take the money out of your pocket and spend it. Is that not too much?
Not too much, not at all.
Everyone is happy to follow the wishes of merchants and investors and spend money lavishly on shopping festivals such as "Double 11", "Double 12", "618", etc., making the investors happy and excited about their means.
However, when these people are happily consuming according to the wishes of capitalists, have they ever considered one thing: that is, what you see is actually what capitalists want you to see?
Capitalists will tell you that as a man, you have to spend money on women; capitalists will also tell you that on Christmas Eve, you should pay several times more than usual to buy an unknown peace apple to give to everyone; capitalists will also tell you that you should enjoy the present, and if you don’t have enough money, you can try to consume ahead of time.
In short, capitalists have only one idea, which is to tell you that you have to consume and you have to spend money.
In order to take your money out of your pocket, capital can do anything without any bottom line, including but not limited to brainwashing, marketing, monopoly, loyalty, public relations and other means.
Zhou Yu once saw a joke in which a lady posted a message on WeChat Moments. Zhou Yu no longer remembers the specific content, but it was roughly like this:
According to a global survey, 99% of women around the world hope to receive cosmetics, jewelry or cash on May 20, rather than useless things such as dolls, chocolates and roses.
On May 20th, foreign men will buy expensive and exquisite gifts for their female companions and have a romantic candlelight dinner together.
Chinese men will use cheap gifts to please their wives, and their wives not only cannot enjoy a romantic candlelight dinner at night, but they also have to cook, work and do laundry!
And just below this post on WeChat Moments, someone retorted that foreigners only spend 520.
The lady immediately retorted, "How do you know? Have you been abroad or heard foreigners say this? This is what the research report says, not something I made up."
The person who refuted her killed the game with just one reply.
'Because 520 is pronounced the same as "I love you", and foreigners don't speak Chinese, idiot!'
The joke is really funny.
Zhou Yu didn't know whether this joke was true or false. When he saw it, he just laughed happily and simply thought it was funny.
But now when Zhou Yu thought about the content of this passage again, he just felt purely disgusted.
Zhou Yu didn't have any problem with some women who held the same views as that lady. He just felt the "malice" coming from the capital, and this capital felt disgusting.
Just like what the joke said, many people have not thought about it in detail: "The reason why foreigners don't celebrate 520 is because the homonym of 520 is "I love you", and foreigners don't speak Chinese."
Many people have not studied the fact that foreigners do not send peace apples on Christmas Eve because the "ping" in "apple" sounds the same as the "ping" in "peace", so apples symbolize "peace". Foreigners do not speak Chinese, so they have no idea about this.
People are just brainwashed by advertisements in various media and various soft articles and promotions, and naively believe that something, a thing or a concept should be as described and shown in the media.
Just like what a certain reader wrote in an article in a youth digest back then, America could cut off the power supply to the entire country for the safety of a sparrow. When you first see this article, your first reaction will not be to believe it, but to feel that it is a bit outrageous.
Losing countless money just to save a little life, is America a beacon of humanity? It's funny.
After reading one or two articles, people may just laugh and think it is just a joke.
But as the overwhelming media tells you that what is said in the article is true, that America is like this, that it is a paradise on earth for mankind and a country of freedom, you who thought it was all a joke made up by some people for fun begin to have some doubts.
One day, two days, three days...As time went on, more and more articles, media and public intellectuals came out to tell you that it was all true, and slowly, most people began to believe it without a doubt.
The essence of capital is the same as that of a certain reader's Youth Digest.
Zhou Yu, who saw through all this, naturally did not want to pay for the extra value given to the products by capital. He was not interested in these things, so he did not want to brave the cold and snow on this day to contribute to the turnover of capitals and merchants.
With this much time, Zhou Yu felt that he would rather stay at home eating snacks and playing games than go out in the cold weather to celebrate the so-called Christmas Eve or Christmas.
On this day, the so-called peace apples that cost twenty or thirty yuan are just small change. A casual meal out will cost several hundred yuan. Going to the movies with your partner, two movie tickets costing more than one hundred yuan, makes people who only earn about four thousand yuan a month say that they can't afford it.
So when faced with the other teacher's questions, Zhou Yu just laughed it off and said that it depended on Qiao Meng's opinion. If Qiao Meng wanted to go out, he would accompany her. If Qiao Meng was too lazy to go out, he would stay at home with Qiao Meng.
In the end, it all depends on Qiao Meng's opinion.
However, based on Zhou Yu's understanding of Qiao Meng, Qiao Meng was probably indifferent to all this.
Thinking of Qiao Meng's character, Zhou Yu couldn't help but feel warmed.
With a wife like this, what more could a husband ask for?
Of course, it would be even better if Qiao Meng didn't force him to eat the food she cooked, Zhou Yu thought.
"Haha, Teacher Zhou, you can't do this! Even though you are engaged, you are still boyfriend and girlfriend, right? As a man, Teacher Zhou, you have to take the initiative!"
Well, another person who has been brainwashed by consumerism.
Zhou Yu was too lazy to talk nonsense, so he just laughed it off and brushed the other party off.
Zhou Yu felt a little stuffy in the office. After taking off his clothes, he still felt a little stuffy, so while chatting with the other party, he casually opened the window beside him a little to breathe in. When he felt the slight coolness coming in from outside the window, Zhou Yu shivered all over and couldn't help but sigh comfortably.
"Mr. Zhou, you are young, you are healthy. But we are not like that. We are very weak and can't stand the slightest bit of cold. We even feel the air conditioner is not hot enough now!"
Seeing this, the other party smiled and joked, then looked out the window in Zhou Yu's direction. When he saw the snowflakes outside the sky had become as big as goose feathers, he couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise.
"Oh my god, when did the snow start falling? It's snowing so heavily!!"
This shout attracted the attention of several other teachers present. Everyone in the office except Zhou Yu stood up and walked out of the office.
Open the office door.
“It’s snowing so nicely!”
A teacher looked at the university outside and couldn't help but sigh, "Auspicious snow indicates a good harvest. Next year may be another good season with good weather and good harvests. At least the farmers will have a much better life without any natural disasters."
In recent years, the news has been full of reports of floods that occur once every fifty years or once every hundred years, and everyone has become somewhat numb to it.
Perhaps people in other places don't feel anything, but Ruxu County happens to be on the bank of the Yangtze River. If there is any movement in the Yangtze River, Ruxu County will be in unrest from top to bottom. So every summer flood season, Ruxu County always arranges a large number of manpower to the riverside for flood prevention, so that if there is any water situation, it can be dealt with in the first time.
However, the water situation in recent years has been much worse than in previous years, which has made the people of Ruxu County very worried.
So when seeing such a heavy snow today, the teacher subconsciously wanted to use this heavy snow to bring a good omen to himself and Ruxu.
Hearing this teacher's words, several other teachers nodded and said, "Of course, this snow looks pleasing to the eyes. It will definitely bring good weather and good harvests next year!"
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"Fuck, it's snowing! So we can have a snowball fight later?!"
The teachers felt that the heavy snow indicated good weather and good harvests in the coming year, and they hoped for a good omen from it, but the students had much simpler ideas.
In the students' view, heavy snow means they can play in the snow.
No matter whether they are the freshmen or the seniors, they are all very happy about the heavy snow, as if the snow was a blessing from heaven, which relaxed the tension that had been tense because of their intensive studies.
Senior 3 (27) Class.
Xu Li and his friends stood in the corridor, looking at the heavy snow falling from the sky, and sighed, "Wow, such heavy snow! I have never seen such heavy snow in Jiahe!"
"That shouldn't be the case. Jiahe is right next to our Anhui Province. How bad can it be from snowing?" Ji Nianping replied casually.
"real!"
Seeing Ji Nianping didn't believe him, Xu Li immediately became anxious, "Why would I lie to you? I've never seen such heavy snow!"
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