Moms drink Luckin and play mahjong
Written by IT Times reporter Jia Tianrong
Edited by Hao Junhui and Sun Yan
Hometown: Liyang City, Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province
Hometown impression: Liyang, my hometown, is located at the junction of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces in the southwest of the Yangtze River Delta. The soil here is rich in selenium, and the mountains and rivers are beautiful. The National Ecological Civilization Construction Demonstration City, the most beautiful leisure and vacation tourism city in China, and the hometown of longevity in the world are her business cards.
My town is located in the south of Liyang City, with a thousand years of ancient precipitation, childhood impressions, she seems to have always been quiet and simple, livable and pleasant, and textbooks in the "land is flat, the house is like that, there are good fields, beautiful ponds and mulberry bamboo" is no different, over the years has been consistent.
But in the years since I left my hometown, every time I come back, I can see new buildings rising from familiar land, cinemas, cafes, new hotels, ......Everyone's way of life is also quietly changing.
When I returned to my hometown during the Spring Festival, my grandmother got a new mobile phone. When I got home, the first thing I said was to ask me to give her **WeChat, Toutiao and Douyin, and then adjust the weather forecast, WeChat step count and collection code to the most conspicuous position. "If you have to change my phone, I'm in trouble! She was holding her phone and studying new features, muttering whether to complain or show off.
When I opened the app store, it suddenly occurred to me that the app that I often received messages from my grandmother recently was no longer WeChat, but more of the opera clips she shared with me in Douyin and the ...... of "Ten Sentences You Must Understand If You Want to Soar in the Year of the Dragon".Thinking of this, the "operation" of adding friends with my grandmother can't help but slow down a little.
During the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, my grandmother, who had been busy in the kitchen stove for most of her life, told me that she no longer cooks every day, and that the town has opened a "small canteen" for the elderly over 70 years old and the disabled, with a lunch of 3 6 yuan, 5 6 dishes, and a rich choice of meat and vegetarian combinations. At noon, she often went to the small canteen with her grandfather to eat.
The first scene that really made me feel a little "out of the way" was when I walked into the house, I saw my mother wearing a "provincial uniform" cotton coat and playing mahjong with the neighbor, holding a cup of "Luckin" to study the pai road.
The new tea drinks that have swept the city have opened to this town with a population of less than 60,000, and Luckin does not seem to be unaccustomed here, even for the residents of the town, 9 yuan 9 is also a cost-effective choice.
On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, I ordered a cup of Luckin Coffee, and when I went to the store to pick up the food, I found that I had to wait for half an hour, during which there was an endless stream of customers. In contrast, more than 10 kilometers away in the county seat, Bawang Chaji, which has to wait 2 hours for a cup of takeaway in Shanghai, has opened at least 4 stores here, and it only takes 20 minutes from placing an order to being delivered to your hand.
During the Spring Festival, I talked with my friends about going to play, and I received a few Little Red Book links from surfers, and the first choice was "Go to Nanshan Zhuhai to check in the coffee shop".
Nanshan Bamboo Sea? Checking in to a coffee shop? "I am familiar with both words, the former is one of the most well-known natural attractions in my hometown, and the latter is an urban fashion that has been popular for several years of working in Shanghai, but the sudden combination of the two makes me a little confused.
In my stereotype, Nanshan Bamboo Sea is known for its beautiful bamboo forest and natural scenery, hidden by a mountain spring, more than ten kilometers away from the town, and because of this, the B&Bs and hot springs around the scenic spot have been very popular in recent years. However, the connection between the café and it is really hard to imagine.
Clicking on the links of Xiaohongshu, I realized that the café has now become a popular check-in point, and there are as many as six or seven cafes around the scenic spot on public reviews.
With a half-curious and half-verified mentality, I drove to one of the cafes with my friends, which was indeed unexpected, the interior was bright and tidy, with a lawn canopy outside the door, a gurgling stream in front of me, and green hills in the distance.
Just this afternoon, there happened to be a few local classmates in the circle of friends, who posted a coffee with their families, and it seems that going to the mountain to check in to the café has become a new fashion choice for everyone to experience rural aesthetics during the Spring Festival.
Typesetting Ji Jiaying.
* IT Times Little Red Book.
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