Terror broadcast

On January 23, 1923, American Osborne and Chinese Zeng Jun founded the China Radio Company, broadcasting radio programs in Shanghai for the first time through their self-built radio station, and selling radios at the same time.

There are more than 500 radios in the city to receive the radio program. This is the earliest radio in Shanghai and the first in the country. Later, with the continuous establishment of radio stations, radios gradually emerged in the Shanghai area. They were all imported products, with the United States producing the most. One of the types was mineral radios, and the other was tube radios. Most citizens liked to use mineral radios.

Before the popularity of television, radio was undoubtedly the most important entertainment tool for mankind. Nowadays, most people born in the 1980s in China have the memory of listening to the radio as a child. However, with the development of the times, first the popularity of television, and then Due to the promotion of computers and the Internet, the status of radio has naturally deteriorated, and has even reached an extremely embarrassing point.

For example, there is a tacit understanding in the news industry that if a reporter from the TV station does not come to a press conference, then wait until the reporter comes and sets up the camera before starting. If a reporter from the newspaper industry does not come, Come, then wait another hour. If it doesn't come, let's start. And if the reporter from the radio news program doesn't come, what, who do you mean doesn't come?

Nowadays, radio, that is, radio programs, can be roughly divided into two main groups of people in China, one is students and the other is drivers;

In the early years, there were actually migrant workers who were considered the third category, but now most construction site workers’ dormitories are equipped with routers covering WIFI. Naturally, migrant workers holding smartphones no longer need They rely on radio programs to kill boring time, and for students and drivers, radio just fits the characteristics of their work and life. Therefore, many radio programs now basically insert real-time traffic information in local cities. They themselves also know that now What kind of people are most likely to listen to your own programs?

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"Okay, listeners, today, our "Golden Melody Years" program ends here. Welcome everyone to listen to our program tonight. Tomorrow, we will be on FM 92.9 Nantong Music and Traffic Radio. See you there."

The operator across the glass cut into the advertisement and made an "OK" gesture to the female announcer inside. The female announcer smiled knowingly, took off her headset, and then gently pinched her My wrists are indeed sore from sitting for so long.

Nowadays, the job of being a radio host has gradually transformed from the iron rice bowl and glamorous appearance that everyone envied more than ten or twenty years ago into a kind of persistence, just like the people in the past knitted straw sandals for wearing at home and taking out. Selling it is now treated as a kind of art, and radio hosts have gradually begun to change in this direction.

Nowadays, if you look up the resumes of famous hosts on many TV stations, you will find that they were actually engaged in broadcasting and radio hosting. When the size of this big ship began to gradually decrease, many people had to choose to change jobs and re-plan their careers. The route of life.

"Sister Liu, late night snack."

As soon as the female host came out of the studio, the man who had just gestured to her immediately brought out a piece of wontons. It was obvious that she had ordered takeout at the right time. The wontons were still hot and had not expanded.

"I mean, Chen De, you can't be so partial. Where's mine?" The female assistant on the side yelled with some dissatisfaction, "You are treating us differently, which is not conducive to our united work." The female assistant said with a joking expression He stared at the young man named Chen De, not very angry.

After all, although the female anchor surnamed Liu is over 30 years old, she takes good care of herself. Her skin is smoother and more lovable than a twenty-year-old girl, and her cold temperament is also fascinating. It's amazing, even the female assistant herself admitted that even though she was a woman, she couldn't help but have some associations with Sister Liu, and even once doubted her true orientation.

As for a young man like Chen De, he naturally couldn't control himself when faced with such a beautiful woman. Less than a month after being assigned here, he started to be courteous non-stop. They were both women, and the female assistant found that she was actually jealous. If you don’t get up, maybe it’s because you are too good.

"Come on, Xiaofang, I'll give it to you."

Sister Liu handed the wontons in her hand to the female assistant Xiaofang.

Xiaofang said a little embarrassedly, "How can this happen? This is Chen De's wish. I almost cut the wrong order just now because I was trying to squeeze in the time to order the takeout advertisement."

"You can eat it. I like to eat Chao Shou, but I don't really like wontons." Sister Liu placed the wontons on Xiaofang's table, and then took off her coat from the hanger on one side.

Nantong is a coastal city, and even though it's already summer, it's still quite cool at night when I go home after the late-night program.

"Copycat? Then I'll order copycat next time." Chen De didn't mind that the wontons he bought were cheaper than Xiaofang. He actually knew that it was impossible for him and Sister Liu to be together. On the one hand, it was Sister Liu's usual cold temperament. It was difficult for him to have that kind of voyeurism. Moreover, Sister Liu was not the kind of empty and lonely woman. Even if she wanted to be a young lady and get close to others, she still wasn't interested at all.

But men are so mean sometimes. Even though they know that there is no possibility of any development or possibility between the two of them, they still can't help but be nice to her.

Sister Liu is not young. Although she is well-maintained, it is impossible to guess her exact age, but she can still feel that she is about the age of a mother. Sister Liu can naturally understand Chen De's thoughts about her. It is the wisdom of a woman to be able to rise and let go, and to have a good sense of proportion. To be precise, it is the wisdom needed to be a beautiful and charming woman.

When we walked out of the gate of the radio station, the weather was a bit unfavorable and it began to rain slightly, which made the night even more cool.

There are two barbecue stalls not far away from the entrance. They have no storefronts and are considered mobile stalls. In fact, doing this kind of business can make a lot of money. Everything sold at the barbecue stalls can be wholesaled, and the wholesale price is not expensive. The utensils are all one-time purchases that will be used for a long time, and the cost has already been recovered, plus no store fees are required;

And if you go out to set up a stall at night, as long as you know the rules and consciously clean up the area when closing the stall, there will rarely be trouble from the urban management and the like, but people will be more tired. Of course, living in this world is itself a kind of thing. It's quite tiring.

Sister Liu carried her bag and walked to a stall. The stall was run by a couple, with a brother-in-law as a helper. The business was tepid, with only half of the people seated, but the night was still going on, so it was pretty good. .

"Just like the third child." Sister Liu said to the landlady with a smile.

"Yes, you can sit down." The landlady first took the initiative to take a rag and wiped the table next to her that had already been wiped before asking Sister Liu to sit here. This was probably because Sister Liu was a regular customer and the landlady knew She is from a radio station, so she is extra polite. Of course, the most important thing is that the proprietress and her husband are both from Sichuan, just like Sister Liu.

Once people leave their hometown, they feel the warmth of dialect.

After Sister Liu sat down, the wife of the boss cooked the brains for Sister Liu herself. Originally, the boss’s barbecue stall did not sell brains, but because Sister Liu liked to eat them, the wife of the boss prepared some every day. I am a friend who lives far away from home, and when I meet a fellow countryman who has a good taste, I always feel particularly cordial.

Not many people in Nantong like to eat brains, or in other words, not many people in the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang like this kind of food. In addition, there are also very few people who like to eat duck intestines and goose intestines, but these are indeed It is a favorite delicacy of Sichuanese people. Sichuan people naturally have their own methods to remove the fishy smell of these foods and make them delicious.

Some of the people at the next table who were having barbecue together couldn't help but glance at Sister Liu. They probably felt that the probability of meeting such a beautiful woman at the barbecue stall in the middle of the night was indeed too low. They commented on Sister Liu’s appearance in dialect, and some of them were indeed a bit unpleasant to listen to. But they felt that they were speaking in Nanhua dialect. They thought that Sister Liu, who had just communicated with the boss’s wife in Trump, could not understand them. Since they did not understand the language, they naturally did not understand. There will be no embarrassment, and Nantong dialect is indeed the most difficult to understand in the national dialect system.

Sister Liu understood, but she didn't pay attention. She didn't even move her eyebrows even when the young men across from her used her body to make dirty jokes.

Since you live in this world, while you enjoy the beautiful aspects of this world, you also need to get used to the dirty and disgusting things in this world.

Fortunately, Naohua, Chaoshou, and a bowl of maocai have been served. With food, I can temporarily distract myself.

The landlady served a bowl of rice to Sister Liu and then went to do her own business.

Sister Liu ate quietly alone. This was perhaps her most relaxing moment of the day.

The landlady is also a sentimental person. If she is not busy at night, she always likes to sit next to Sister Liu and set up a dragon gate formation with her. The most talked about is her pair of children. The couple goes out to work to make money, and the two children stay behind. Kawauchi was in middle school, so naturally he was very worried.

Most people in the world have the impression that Sichuan girls are hot, but in fact, Sichuan girls are the most family-oriented and have a strong sense of responsibility and dedication to the family. This can be seen most clearly in the boss lady.

The boss lady also asked Sister Liu if she had children of her own, because she was not sure that many urban white-collar workers like Sister Liu didn't want children even at their age.

For modern urbanites, carrying on the family line and inheriting the incense is no longer a mission but a constraint.

Sister Liu once answered. She seemed to have pondered for a while, and then she replied: "Yes."

It is really strange to have to answer with a question about whether you have children, but the boss lady automatically thought that Sister Liu might have been divorced before and the children were with her husband.

The noodles are very refreshing, the soup is also very delicious, the brains are tender and smooth, and the braised vegetables are also very tasty. This authentic Sichuan-style late-night snack is actually a small dish specially prepared by the proprietress for Sister Liu.

Just like when Chinese people open restaurants in the United States, the Chinese food in the restaurant will have very strange tastes in order to deliberately cater to American tastes. Although the proprietress and his wife are authentic Sichuanese, the barbecue and late-night snacks they usually sell cannot be considered authentic Sichuan. It tastes bad, because most locals are not used to it, even if the sign on the front of the food truck’s grill is “Old Chengdu Barbecue”.

Especially the plate of spicy millet and the plate of kimchi placed in front of Sister Liu. Locals would not ask the boss for these when having late-night snacks, but these are must-have items in restaurants in Sichuan.

Before she finished eating, Sister Liu's cell phone rang. There was no memo number but it was not unfamiliar, because Sister Liu's cell phone was not used very often. She rarely played with it, and there was no one in her address book. The name is very inconsistent with the current mobile phone usage habits, but it does not hinder Sister Liu's life.

Sister Liu answered the phone, and a man's voice came from the phone:

"After get off work, I'll drive over to pick you up."

Sister Liu responded and then hung up the phone. A man drove out late at night to pick up a woman who had finished the evening shift. According to normal logic, the relationship between the two should be very close, but judging from the tone of the man's words and Sister Liu's Judging from the response, it seems that the relationship between the two is very cold.

When Sister Liu felt that she had eaten well, a very ordinary Volkswagen drove over and parked on the side of the road. There was a man wearing black short-sleeves sitting in the car. The man was holding a mobile phone and there was a mobile phone fixed in front of him. Mobile phone, this is the common accessory of Didi masters nowadays.

Although in recent years, because Didi defeated other competitors and became a dominant player, the initial benefits have been almost reduced, these driver masters have no other options.

"The conscience of a capitalist..."

Sister Liu heard this sentence said by the middle-aged man in the car more than once.

Sister Liu paid the bill and got in the car, but she did not sit in the passenger seat, but in the back. Obviously, this is an attitude and a kind of distance. If it is an ordinary man who comes out to pick up someone in the middle of the night, If this woman still refuses to sit in the passenger seat and deliberately alienates herself, she will probably lose interest in it within a few days. In this impetuous age, who is more sincere than who?

But this man made it a habit to pick her up.

In other words, coming to pick her up every day has become a part of his life.

"Capital is good before monopoly. After monopoly, it becomes exploiter." The man closed the Didi app on his mobile phone. Apparently, he was off work after picking up the woman tonight.

Sister Liu ignored the man. Although the man spoke less and less, Sister Liu was no longer interested in talking to him.

On the back of the front seat of the car, there is a word and a painting taped to each other. They are all new, because Sister Liu knows that this man writes a word and draws a painting every day, and then sticks them on the car in front. Take your seat.

When driving during the day, if there is a passenger who appreciates it, you can chat more with him. If he doesn’t appreciate it, there is no need to talk.

Sister Liu remembered that in her impression, this man talked a lot, but he spoke very little when writing and drawing. He seemed to be immersed in his own world. At the beginning, this man also proudly boasted to her that he relied on his hands. Painting has captured the hearts of many literary and artistic women.

But now, it seems that is all gone.

He is also older, although it cannot be seen from his appearance.

But life lasts only a hundred years. The ancients said that at thirty and forty, one does not have doubts at fifty and one knows destiny. Everyone knows destiny at this age. Ordinary people can become much more free and easy at this age. What’s more, this man’s experience is much better than that of ordinary people. It can be much richer.

The man started the car. Nantong was a city with few traffic jams, so it was naturally more comfortable to drive in the nighttime traffic conditions.

Sister Liu leaned gently against the car door and glanced at the not-so-glorious neon lights outside. This was a quiet city, which was why she chose to settle down in this city.

Because this city is close to Shanghai, although it is not appropriate to call it a satellite city of Shanghai in terms of size, after all, because it is adjacent to Shanghai and only separated by the Sutong Bridge, it seems to be attracted by the prosperous Shanghai. It has absorbed the hustle and bustle of the city that should belong to it. In comparison, although Chengdu is an inland city, the level of crowding and hustle and bustle is much more serious than Nantong on the eastern coast.

The car entered the main road and then got on the Jianghai Avenue elevated road. The man driving the car played a song called "Sisara". It is the theme song of a Japanese TV series called "Midnight Diner". The tune is very peaceful and suitable for evening Listen in silence. This TV series from Japan was also copied in China a while ago, but the exaggeration and frivolity ran through it, completely losing the flavor of the original Japanese TV series.

Sister Liu let out a sigh, as if her and his youth and impulse had passed away. When you lose something, you will miss it more and more. When you are tired of playing with something, Only then will he regret his previous lack of restraint.

Unfortunately, many times in life, there is no turning back.

After a long time, the car got off Jianghai Avenue and turned into the service road.

Sister Liu does not live in the urban area of ​​Nantong, but in the suburban Xingren Town. The two of them bought a house in a community called Renhe Homes in the town. The reason for settling there is not because the housing prices in the urban area are too high. Expensive, but because the two of them seem to prefer to drive out to relax for a while at this time in the evening. If they live in the city and simply go out for a drive just to relax, they will lose the sense of joy on the way home from get off work. This kind of atmosphere and very ridiculous reason were accepted by both of them at the same time.

“Fortunately we didn’t buy this community in the first place.”

When passing by a residential complex, the man pointed.

This is a very ordinary community, but it looks like it was just built in the past few years, and it doesn't seem to be very popular.

"A group of Shanghainese people came here specially to buy a house, and then they didn't live in it. Instead, they put an urn as a mourning hall." The man shook his head and said, "In this building, the living people may not even live in the dead." Too many, alas.”

What Sister Liu cares about is not that there are more houses in the building that serve as mourning halls than living people. What she cares about is that this man actually pays special attention to this matter and tells it to her like an anecdote.

The man didn't seem to care about Sister Liu's opinion. He just continued talking to himself, because after the two returned home, they basically stopped communicating and went back to their respective rooms.

"The price of cemeteries over there has also been skyrocketed. A better cemetery costs hundreds of thousands. It's better to buy a house in the suburbs of a nearby city and use it as a mourning hall. In the past, you could often see small houses used as tombs in the countryside. Yes, it’s become more atmospheric now, and people’s houses are used as tombs.”

Sister Liu closed her eyes slightly. Unfortunately, she couldn't rest for long because the car soon turned into the community where she lived and the man stopped the car.

Sister Liu also got out of the car, and then the man locked the car.

The two stopped talking and went upstairs in silence. The man opened the door. Sister Liu entered her room, and the man entered his own room.

Living under the same roof, they seem to belong to two worlds, but in fact, they are really the same kind of people.

After taking a shower in the bathroom in the room, Sister Liu did not dry her hair. Instead, she let her wet hair stick to her shoulders and slowly sat down on the edge of the bed.

The furnishings in the room are very simple, there is no TV or dressing table, and there is not even a router at home.

Ordinary entertainment projects have long lost their appeal to them, but what can really attract them may be the essence of life.

Because this can make them feel,

He is still alive.

Lonely?

Not lonely, nor lonely.

In terms of life and society, they are two very insignificant people, and in terms of their life path, they are also two very insignificant people, because it seems that only the two of them are still moving forward on this road.

A long time ago, they had companions,

But some people give up, some people leave, and leaving probably means that even if they look back, they still can't see the familiar figures. Maybe, at the beginning, they can still feel a little lonely, but slowly, when When they were the only two people around, they silently accepted this reality.

Maybe, at this time, there are many people who have joined or are preparing to join this path, but they have gone too far, many people are looking at them, many pairs of eyes are staring at them,

Because they have gone far, the people behind expect to see an answer from them.

But actually, there is no answer.

Because this way, there is no choice.

There was a radio on Sister Liu's bedside table. She looked at the time and saw that it was almost one o'clock. Sister Liu turned on the radio.

"Welcome to the "Midnight Horror Story Show". I am the host Sun Ran, and the story I bring to you today is called..."

After listening to this paragraph, Sister Liu pressed the radio to stop playing.

seem,

this long night,

This boring life,

This unchanging life,

I can only rely on the opening paragraph of this midnight ghost story program to make my soul instinctively flutter a little.