After I bought the ferry ticket, I got on the ferry with my children. The sailing bell rang, and the iron door of the barge at the pier was pushed open by the boatman. Passengers did not rush to grab seats like taking a bus, and no one panicked.
I boarded the ferry leisurely and looked for a seat. It would take a few minutes before the ferry arrived. The passengers were not in a hurry. Most of them turned their heads to the shore and looked at the city quietly.
The upper and lower floors of the ferry are passenger cabins. Although they have been newly painted and installed with new plastic seats, the long wooden benches from back then have long since disappeared, but the signs of time are vaguely revealed in the areas where the paint has peeled off.
It had just rained, and the river had risen a bit. The ferry swayed slightly rhythmically with the river. The sense of stability on land was replaced by the rhythm of the river. The ups and downs were slow, which also made people relax from the always hurried pace of the city.
.Because of this shaking, the city seen from the river also becomes vivid.
The motor roared, and the ferry slowly drew an arc and sailed out of the port.
The fog was hazy, the river breeze was blowing gently, and the main city was far away behind. The ferry crossed the roaring river and sailed to the dock on the other side.
Several teenage children were chattering excitedly at the bow of the boat. They are middle school students. They usually hear their parents talk about the ferry they used to take, but they have never been on it. Today, they made a special appointment to experience it together. There are also a few students who look like
He was looking for the angle and kept clicking the shutter.
My children were also very excited and kept pointing in a certain direction of the distant city and asking me where that place was.
After we disembarked, we followed the stone stairs into the old city on the other side. It has not been renovated yet, probably because the cost of demolition is too high. The old street in front of us is nearly a kilometer long. Compared with the hustle and bustle outside, the old street is
It is very quiet, with small streets and alleys crisscrossing each other, and antique houses closely connected. The mottled walls, dilapidated carvings, broken eaves... seem to tell every visitor the vicissitudes of life it has experienced.
This place used to be a place where merchants gathered. It was crowded and very prosperous. I remember coming here when I was a student. At that time, this place was still very prosperous.
But this place is different now. It seems a little deserted. The streets and the buildings next to it are very dilapidated. It can be seen that the people living here belong to those who have difficulty in life. Nowadays, the prosperity of business has kept many people away.
I came here because chasing wealth has become the biggest dream of people in this era. But I believe that this place will definitely change before long. I believe in the commercial value of this place, and I believe that the leaders above will not allow it.
A land of poverty exists next to the city.
If I were asked to design the renovation of this place, I would definitely leave the most important part of it, because such a place carries the history of the city. I have never thought that urban renovation is just about building high-rise buildings.
We believe that the most important thing in urban construction is to preserve its history. This is the soul of a city.
In this oldest part of the city, I feel a sense of intimacy returning to the past. Every step I take contains my memories of the past.
Maybe it's because I'm really old. In a place like this, I feel that every place is full of my own memories of the past. This kind of deep warmth can only be felt in my heart.
However, my son was not happy. His little hand was always in my hand. I held him and walked slowly forward. My thoughts returned to the past and my memories of the past. However,
While I was wandering in this beautiful atmosphere of memories, I suddenly heard my child say to me dissatisfied: "Dad, this place is not fun at all. Let's go back, I'm going to eat KFC."
Only then did I realize that I had made another mistake: children do not need to remember. Such a place is meaningless to children, because children have no past worth remembering.
I woke up immediately, looked at the time, and then picked up the child and said, "Come on, let's go back and eat KFC."
The child suddenly became happy.
Walking back along the way we came, I saw a lot of small restaurants on the roadside. I remember eating here when I was in college. There were only five or six of us. We ordered a few stir-fry dishes and
Beer and a meal only cost a few dozen yuan, but that delicious feeling is hard to feel now.
It was impossible for me to eat here today, although I wanted to. I had to fulfill my commitment to my child, so I took my child down the road we came here and went to the pier.
I bought a ticket and joined the crowd crossing the river. Nowadays, most of the people crossing the river come here because they need to cross the river. There are very few students and reminiscers. Therefore, the people on the ferry are very
Shen Jing. They regard crossing the river as a normal thing and a necessity in life.
When people regard such things as part of life, there will no longer be romance and passion. Ordinary life will be given something different only in the eyes of dreamers.
The ferry quickly crossed the river, and the child was held in my arms. During this process, I no longer had any romantic thoughts. All I could see were those numb, weather-beaten faces.
I reviewed myself somewhat: I shouldn't have brought my children to such a place today.
After getting off the ferry, I slowly walked up with my child. It was difficult for the child to walk, but he was very persistent and did not ask me to hold him. I kept encouraging him and praising him, "Son, you are so awesome.
Runs faster than dad."
There is a kind of confidence in the child's nature, so with my encouragement, he ran up quickly without asking me to hug him or even hold his hand. I looked behind the child.
She looked at him and clapped her hands to encourage him. The child ran ahead more cheerfully.
Suddenly, the child running in front of me stumbled, and his body suddenly fell on the stone stairs. Suddenly, the child let out a loud cry.
I was shocked, and hurriedly ran to the child and picked him up. I looked at the child's hands. There was a lot of mud on them, but there were no signs of injury. I immediately lifted up the child's trousers, and I found his right hand.
The knee was bruised, the skin was injured, and it was bleeding.
I said to the child: "It's okay, children often do this. My father often fell down when he was a child, and the child needs to do this often to grow up. Son, you are a boy, why do you cry over such a trivial thing?"
The child cried and said to me: "But my feet hurt so much."
I said to the child gently: "It will definitely hurt. But you are a boy and you shouldn't cry over such things."
The child stopped crying, "Dad, I won't cry now."
I stroked the child's head and said, "This is daddy's good son."
Although I told the child this, I did not let him continue walking on his own. I carried him to the car, and then drove to a nearby hospital.
The child's injury is not a big problem, just wrap it with gauze after disinfection. The child is very strong, and he didn't cry at all when the doctor used alcohol to disinfect him. I know that alcohol can irritate the wound.
Even adults can't stand it.
In fact, of course my heart hurts, but I know that this must be the case in front of my children.
After coming out of the hospital, I drove my child to the KFC closest to my home. When I got there, I asked my child to order what he liked to eat. The child was not very demanding, so he ordered a chicken wing and a bowl of chicken wings.
Potato chips and a Coke. I ordered the same thing.
The child was very happy to eat it. Maybe in his eyes, this thing is the most delicious thing in the world.
But I do think that such food is still edible, but I know that things like this are definitely junk food. Needless to say, the raw materials are this kind of fried food, which is definitely carcinogenic.
Main ingredients. Of course, this is just an occasional meal. I won’t let my children eat such things often.
Among the top ten junk foods in the world announced by the World Health Organization, fried foods from Western fast food such as McDonald's and KFC rank first among the top ten junk foods. In addition, there are soda and cola foods and frozen dessert foods.
Barbeque foods, etc., are among the top ten junk foods. Due to the serious nutritional imbalance of fast food, the international nutrition community calls "foreign fast food" "Junk Food", which means "junk food"!
Compounds found in high levels in McDonald's and KFC fast food have been shown to cause cancer.
Hamburgers, french fries, fried chicken, pizza, etc. in Western fast food have high fat content, which will not only increase weight, but also cause permanent damage to the developing brains of teenagers. Children often consume cola, soda, candy, potato
Foods such as bars, potato chips, and hamburgers can easily cause nutrient deficiencies and prevent you from growing taller.
In 2002, the World Health Organization announced that it was targeting the brown crispy skin on fried French fries, crispbreads, roast pork and fruit desserts, as well as a large amount of fried fast food in various brands of "foreign fast food".
Tests conducted showed that some C poison levels exceeded the standard by 400 times.
According to statistics, about 37% of children in the United States have excessive body fat content, and about two out of every three adults are overweight or obese. American health experts also point to "foreign fast food" as the culprit.
The number of chubby children in Beijing has increased from 3% in 1990 to nearly 14%. It is a well-known fact that eating foreign fast food is an important factor causing the increase in chubby children.
When people on the other side of the ocean began to reject junk food, we were still enjoying it for its deliciousness. The harmful effects on the body were not important. As Lu Xun said: "All stupid and weak citizens, no matter how healthy and strong they are, are
They can only serve as meaningless publicity materials and spectators, and there is no need to consider them as unfortunate even if they die from illness." The Chinese people's mentality of admiring foreign things is the real root cause of junk food.
For young people, they are now playing the main role in the consumption of foreign fast food. The reasons why these people like foreign fast food are much more complicated. The most important thing is not necessarily how authentic the taste of foreign fast food is, nor is it low in price. I am afraid
It has something to do with the vanity of many young people. In the eyes of China's "foreign fast food people", being able to sit and dine in McDonald's, KFC and other famous American fast food restaurants makes them feel that their taste is much higher. In other words
When they enjoy Western fast food, what they taste is not whether McDonald's is delicious or not, but to get some kind of self-indulgence. In fact, ordinary young people also understand that these Western fast food are nothing more than food stalls in the United States, and they are nothing like us.
There is no difference between street stalls and restaurants. However, the servile consciousness derived from blind worship of foreigners and foreigners has unknowingly affected their consumption habits. Therefore, if you want to rely on limited policies to curb foreign fast food, the prospects are unlikely to be optimistic.
I know all this, but I can't deny my children's yearning for this kind of food. Maybe many parents are like me. For the sake of our children's requirements, we always give in to reason.
The child ate with gusto, but I stuffed the food into my stomach in a few seconds, and then slowly waited for the child to finish. I found that most of the people eating here were children and teenagers, and the business of this place was very hot.
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After finishing the meal, I took my child and left the place. The child said to me without saying anything, "Dad, when will you bring me here next time?"
I shook my head and said, "The food here is not good. If you eat too much, you will get sick. You should eat here less in the future."
The child immediately became dissatisfied, "Grandma is better than you. She often buys chicken wings for me to eat here."
I was shocked and said, "No, I won't allow your grandma to buy you such things again from now on."
The child was very angry, "I like to eat, what should I do?"
I tried to convince him, "It's not good to eat too much here. You have to listen to dad."
The child stopped talking, but his unhappy look was completely revealed on his face. I was thinking to myself, I really need to tell my mother about this matter, as the old man was too content with the child.
After returning home, the mother noticed something was wrong with the child at first glance, because the child's body was covered with mud. Soon, the mother discovered the injury on the child's leg, and she began to blame me.
I smiled and said, "It's okay. This is how children should grow up. Wasn't it like this when I was a kid?"
My mother glared at me and said, "It's you! It's really hard for you to take your child out to play once, but in the end, he got hurt."
At this time, fortunately, my phone rang, which put my mother's nagging to an end for the time being.
The call was from Liu Baobao, "Mayor Feng, are you free tonight?" (To be continued)