Umbrella and Thursday Night Market

2018/3/14

Watching people flying at Huzi Mountain in Puli, chatting with the flight crew and the instructor. A woman with a Hong Kong accent said that the average person can learn something in about a week of class, and it takes her several times longer to learn.

Watching her prepare the umbrella to communicate with the airflow measuring equipment, she started to open the umbrella, take the time to wind the rope, and everything was stable. Only because of the previous conversation did I know that this kind of learning is not easy, and many people and things in front of us are not so Of course it is, it is a process of many, many lives being experienced, and it is like the birth of a chrysalis. It may be more difficult to struggle and die in the chrysalis, and I am happy for her to fly out again.

Playing with an umbrella is basically catching the airflow, and after you catch it, you need to find a way to flow in the airflow. The airflow and the wind are invisible, and it may only be felt under the umbrella of the flying umbrella, which is tied to thousands of thin ropes.

The instructor said that in the era when they were playing, there was no equipment that pilots carry today that can use sound to indicate the detected airflow. I think they must have really worked hard. After playing for 30 years, mastering airflow flying is almost instinctive. something.

Puli Thursday Night Market

That day was Thursday, and the hostess said that there is the largest night market in Puli. It is indeed very local, there are at least three sizzling steaks that became popular in the 1990s, that is, ramen or other ingredients have been popular in Taipei for a long time, and this night market is still preserved.

Two of them also provided free all-you-can-eat lettuce salad with many small boxes from Lock & Co. The sizzling steak in that era was black pepper mushroom sauce, and there were not too many eggs and sizzling noodles, so one of them had three kinds of noodles. Choices: hand-made pasta, oil pasta, and pasta. The one that doesn't provide these is a steak and soup pot. Well, in short, it is a night market that is very particular about steak.

Then I was fortunate enough to participate in the era that I didn’t follow when I was a child. There were two bidders with different temperaments. The bidder was all kinds of big and small prizes in the whole scene. The person who gets a lot of numbers first, shoots darts to call the numbers to give away the prize.

The first host will let interested people take the numbers, and the results of the bid opening. Sure enough, someone passing by will win the lottery. After the proof meeting, they will choose the prizes with market prices or attractive prizes, and let everyone take the numbers again. One number sheet is ten Yuan, depending on how many cards you want to take, I think everyone is at least 200 yuan, and some have leftovers after the round is issued. The host asked the big players if they wanted to collect all the remaining cards, which is the so-called package card. It is conceivable that at this time, it is the money that is required for the package in front of you, and whether the value of the prize in your mind is worth it.

After this round, when choosing the prizes, the host didn't waste everyone's time and money by saying, "If you want this car, it's 800 yuan." I feel that he is smart and understands the people present. But it looks like this is a day in his career, and every time there is a night market, he performs like this when he goes to work.

"Come on, sister, hurry up." So his foreign female assistant kept going to get new numbers, handing out number sheets round by round, marking one mark at a time to draw the lottery. It ended up falling to the ground soon after.

Because of the continuous observation on the spot, I will know that he did not cheat. Someone won the lottery in every round, and the value of each prize is not too different for me. The one who gave it away was the same as the one who asked others to buy more numbers. Maybe when he stocked up. , the cost is not much difference.

The other competition was two young people. The scene was not that big. The host was very handsome, but he always had to swear to many people who were much older than him at the scene: the gold and silver jewelry he prepared were real, He said that he could take it to the Yinlou outside for inspection immediately. Nantou's brand name was not cheating.

It's just that there are too many details about the multiple benefits of taking his number. Of course, in the process of recruiting people to join, he must constantly clear up everyone's doubts, and make clear the people's inner calculations with him, whether it's worth it or not. After coming out, I couldn't keep up at all in the end. I can only say that his brains are very fast. I'm not sure if the people on the sidelines are also very shrewd. Follow him to talk about the chance of winning the big prize in the calculation.

If you win the lottery but don't want those prizes, you can exchange for points. After accumulating the points, you can see what you can exchange for. There are not many things, but they all look good, that is, they are durable, not to mention gold and silver jewelry. The young host is a professional. Maybe he grew up with the former host of the bidding bureau. Intuitively, the only thing he can't compete with the Taipei people is that he speaks a sentence or two of Taiwanese from time to time. Otherwise, his eloquence and intonation With clarity and ability to master the scene, he can do almost anything, and the People's Representative is not as good as him.

I walked around for a few rounds and didn't want to go back to the B&B, so I decided to play a game of hoops where my instinct was to lose money. That's right, it was the biggest scene I've ever seen. The whole arrangement was like a stadium auditorium. The spacing is very large, and the circles feel very good bamboo hand-woven, because it is impossible to throw them accurately, so I decided to keep throwing the circles up and let it fall on its own. If it falls on the prize, "It should be It is to be favored, there is always something in this kind of life that will be mine, right!?" The idea is also like in the movie "Emily's Rabbit", if you hit it, it's the best, if you don't hit it, then From then on, hold on to the unfortunate belief that you will never get any benefit in your life and continue to live.

The first time I bought a small tube of hand-woven bamboo circles for fifty yuan, I used up before I mastered how to force the toss. The second time, the bucket of 100 yuan was obviously more than twice that of 50 yuan. This time, it was even more satisfying, but it was not resentment. Every time I threw it, I shouted in my chest with my last breath: "Life!!!"

Sure enough, I haven't used a third of the second tube full of bamboo circles. I've lost my strength. I already feel that I've been given enough opportunities to try. I'm very willing. The inspiration of this story may also be applied. When resentment is to throw out the mission forcefully, there will be feedback when the energy is exhausted.

After resting for a while, I continued to throw the handmade bamboo ring upwards. At that time, quite a few hit the target when it fell, which proves that there is a better chance of hitting something if you don't aim.

In the end, it ended at 250 yuan. The first two times I won a bottle of sparkling juice. I'm not sure what SpongeBob SquarePants are. The key ring machine comes with two game console batteries. It is different from the prize itself. It's an earth-shattering thing. The prizes go back to the people around you who are not in the set.

The last 100 yuan was spent on the little toy mini car in front of and in front of me. I didn't have to throw it up. I should have put it in the past. There is no difference in littering money, and there is absolutely no chance of being caught. The moment I was in the set, I didn't know what was going on, but I really didn't have any one I wanted in the set. The circle fell on something unknown in the row of the mini car. The boss sat next to him and asked. Could he let me change to a mini car, he said yes.

This saved me. I didn't have to end that night with the belief that I was a bad ghost. After all, life is still possible. It is the kind of hope that is worth believing that your beliefs are wrong when you are about to despair.

In this night market, there are also several pachinkos whose backs have been removed. The marbles are running at the front desk, but when you stand on the side and the back, you will see electronic boards and slots for storing and sending iron beads.

Conclusion: Generally speaking, it is a small-scale version of the heyday of the night market in the last century. It is good for local people to go nostalgic or foreigners to visit.

Postscript for the day: At that time, because of embarrassment, I picked up the camera and took pictures without seeing anything. Today, when I wanted to introduce what’s in the night market in Matt City, I didn’t have enough pictures. I’m really sorry! Finally, let everyone look seductive: