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Chapter 333 Life Needs a Sense of Ritual
The next day.

The two set off at three in the morning and walked towards Tiananmen Square. As a Chinese, Ye Kai felt that he didn't need to visit other scenic spots in Yanjing, but it was absolutely necessary to participate in the raising of the national flag.

This is not for moral kidnapping at all.

It’s just that Ye Kai feels that in this age of materialism, it’s not a good thing for Chinese people not to have a belief. There is actually a big difference in inner temperament between living for money and living for belief.

And in China, what is the most accurate and effective belief?

It is not belief in Buddhism or God, but patriotism.

In other words, what you love is the blood that has been circulating in your body for 5000 years, descendants of Yan and Huang, descendants of dragons... This is a kind of pride.

In fact, every Chinese has more or less such beliefs. For example, many people sometimes think about: "How can I contribute to the motherland?"

Or: "How can I contribute to the motherland?"

This kind of similar thinking can actually be called... the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

At this stage, countless Chinese people are actually working hard for this goal. Even the brainless trolls on the Internet actually have such thoughts.

It's just that they don't have a better way to do it.

Of course, if they can produce accurate and effective results, they will not be keyboard warriors.

Having said so much, what does it have to do with the two getting up at three o'clock in the morning and going to Tiananmen to watch the national flag being raised?

Of course there is.

The people who come here to watch the flag raising are not only some tourists, but also most of the local true patriots, the kind of people who have watched the flag raising every day for several years without interruption.

Because with these guys, plus raising the flag itself is a serious form of order.

These things give flag-raising a modern expression, that is, a sense of ceremony.

If loving the motherland is regarded as a belief, coming here to watch the flag raising is actually an alternative pilgrimage, a way to strengthen one's faith.

As soon as I got out of the taxi, an aunt walked up to me.

Four or fifty years old, with curly hair, wearing a dark red thin sweater jacket, dressed like a neighborhood aunt or an elderly female teacher... that kind of look that makes people feel very serious even if there is a smiling service.

"A ticket is ten yuan per person," she said.

She was holding a medal and a small red flag in her hand, and Ye Kai wanted to hand it over before she could answer. Ye Kai frowned and felt that this matter was not simple.

I haven't heard that there is an entrance fee to watch the flag raising here.

And this aunt's expression...

Micro-expression expert Ye Kai felt that you must be lying to me, so he took Saoirsa's hand and ignored her and walked inside. Saoirsa looked blank, wondering if this was fare evasion?
The square was indeed open, and Ye Kai walked all the way to the security gate of the square without seeing any place to collect tickets.

Ye Kai was troubled by a problem yesterday when he checked the strategy, and that was the problem of security check and queuing.

After all, he suffered a loss in Buckingham Palace once, and Ye Kai might not have been able to visit Buckingham Palace without the help of others.

But there are no tickets for watching the flag raising, and there are many people, so how can we find a good place?

After reading a lot of guides, I didn’t understand this at all. Maybe it’s the reason why the travel writers don’t think it’s important.

After coming to Tiananmen Square, Ye Kai realized that this point is really not very important.

The security check is right at the entrance to the square. There are not too many people in the queue now. There are only 30 to [-] people in the front line. The two walked into the square after a few minutes of queuing.

There are three places to watch the flag-raising ceremony, two of which are on the east and west sides of the Tiananmen Gate Tower, that is, behind the gates next to the two Chinese watches on both sides of the Jinshui Bridge, and the other is on the south side of Tiananmen Square, at the position of the Heroes Monument.

Ye Kai searched last night, the national flag was hoisted at [-]:[-], and it is not yet [-] o'clock. There are not many people in the square, standing sparsely, and some people are sitting directly on the ground.

One-tenth of them dragged their suitcases. They may have been waiting here since last night, or the hotel was far away, so they took their luggage with them when they went out.

These are some people who have just arrived in Yanjing, or are about to leave Yanjing today.

Ye Kai randomly found a place to stand, looked at others, and finally sat down like them. The elder brother sitting next to Ye Kai was over 30 years old, dressed in white collar, shirt and trousers, and a suit by him. Take it off and hold it in your hand.

He doesn't have much hair volume, but he doesn't seem to care too much, and his whole person is a bit sluggish.

Seeing Ye Kai sitting here holding Saoirse, he looked at it for a long time, and said to Ye Kai: "Brother, you can, but you actually found a foreign girl as your girlfriend, are you married?"

"Not married." Ye Kai replied.

The bald white-collar old man shook his head slightly, sighed with emotion, and said lightly: "It's fine if you're not married, it's fine if you're not married. It seems that you are here to visit Yanjing? Where did you come from?"

Saoirse leaned against Ye Kai, and said in a hurry: "Rongcheng, Rongcheng!"

"Rongcheng can do it. It has great development potential. The new first-tier cities are no worse than Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou..." At this point, he took a cigarette from his pocket, and when he took half of it, he saw the surrounding environment and put it back quietly.

"What is the house price in Rongcheng now?"

"I don't know too well, about [-] in Wuhou District, it should be..."

Ye Kai doesn't know much about housing prices in Rongcheng, and he hasn't paid attention to these before. What he wants most is to buy a house in Tiancheng after earning money.

Of course, I don't pay attention to it now, anyway, as long as it is not a villa, then Ye Kai still has the money to buy a few houses.

The bald white-collar worker didn't quite know where Wuhou District was, so he endured the craving for cigarettes and asked, "Which ring is Wuhou District in?"

"The location of the first and second ring roads."

Ye Kai lives in the first ring road, next to Wuhou Temple, not far from the red archway.

"One ring is only [-], alas..." The already decadent face of the bald white-collar worker became even more decadent, he sighed continuously, and finally said, "Sure enough, leaving Yanjing is the right choice, little brother, do you know the price of Yanjing's house price? ?"

It's not time to raise the flag, so it's okay to sit, so I chatted with this old man. Seeing his expression of bitterness and hatred, he is also a man with a story.

"I have been working as a programmer in Fengtai for ten years. For ten years, I can't afford the down payment. I can set up any house, starting at [-]." He crossed his index fingers together and kept bumping, Take a deep breath to reinforce your tone.

Ye Kai finally understands why he is in this state. Anyone who has worked for one-tenth or one-fifth of his life and finds that the road ahead has no light will become decadent.

The white-collar worker looked at Ye Kai enviously, then at Saoirse, and sighed.

"Hey... Now my parents are pressing me hard. After thinking about it, I should give up my dream of drifting north and go back to my hometown to have a baby and get married. The capital is really not something that can be enjoyed by just a few people."

Programmers who have worked in the capital for ten years should be able to live well when they return to second- and third-tier cities.

For a while, Ye Kai didn't know whether to comfort or congratulate.

Looking at the old man's appearance, he was obviously very unwilling, but Ye Kai personally felt that this was a good thing.The standard of living will not drop much, and the pace of life has slowed down, and perhaps I can still feel the long-lost...freedom.

(End of this chapter)