One day after fifty years
Chinese New Year has long been a worldwide holiday
because because the Chinese engineer who introduced the kosher protein pancake had never eaten a real bun himself, but only made the bun-flavored vitamin protein pancake according to his imagination.
Chinese New Year has long been a worldwide holiday. In 2072, the Chinese-American president declared an official holiday for the Chinese Spring Festival. Because fireworks are still banned, Chinese Americans burn paper buns for their Chinese ancestors during the Chinese New Year holiday.
I crawled slowly on the road. Got hit in the ass twice by hail during that time. My half-dead cell phone hissed and recommended good Chinese armor to me.
Young faces were no longer visible on the road. Because the young people are all in the north, and those who are not in the north have all moved to the people. The new westerners who trick people to go abroad keep spreading rumors that there are many, many buns in foreign countries. This is of course a lie because foreigners don't eat buns.
There is a special lane for the elderly on the road. The old people crawl slowly on the special lane when they go out. Because they do not have someone to help them when they fall, so they simply stick to the ground and crawl. Like me.
Both sides of the street are full of walls full of LCD screens, the screen jumped after 50, 60, and 70 fresh meat, broadcasting the news of so-and-so and so-and-so breaking up, so-and-so with so-and-so cheating. Entertainment news is the most constant and stable presence in China in the past two hundred years. From the Republic of China until today. The stage is the same, things are the same, just keep changing people and changing faces.
I then remembered the stars of our era. Apart from the living dead like me, who have half a foot in the coffin, very few people still remember them.
Zhao Liying finally stopped choking with Yang Mi's fans. Because no one remembers her anymore.
Hu Ge finally stopped caring about the scars on his face. Because he is already full of wrinkles and white hair.
Han Han is 93 years old. He can no longer drive a race car. Although he went out without having to crawl all over the ground like me. He stubbornly lies in his cold car and lets people push him around.
Han Han's maternal great-granddaughter is dating Sassy Boy. The company's main goal is to provide a solution to the problem. But no one will listen to him.
Nowadays, celebrities rarely need cosmetic surgery. Poor people only have plastic surgery, rich people are directly whole genes, so rich people's children are very high IQ and face value. The average age of the boys is only four years old, but they are proficient in ten languages, ten musical instruments, ten kinds of science and technology, vampire-like appearance, and British-style looks, making them an overnight success in China. This group has a very cool name, called the Slutty Boys. The Sassy Boys have sparked a nationwide war of words: should they be gay or not?
The Sassy Boys were recently featured on a Taiwanese variety show, Kang Kang Lai. The host of Kang Kang Lai Cai Kang Kang is a clone of Cai Kang Yong. But this variety show is boycotted by the mainland because the National People's Congress has not yet passed legislation on the full opening of human cloning. The red tenth generation and the official ninth generation are in tit for tat on the issue of cloning and the whole base. The red tenth generation, which supports cloning and the whole base, believes that since it is a fait accompli, legislation should be enacted to legalize it; the official ninth generation, which is against cloning and the whole base, believes that cloning and the whole base will make the class rigid and turn into 1984 or the beautiful new world.
I climbed two blocks. A public service announcement appeared on the ground screen in front of me: "To be old but not dead is to be a thief." Next to it was an ad for euthanasia, "Painless Sleep." The government passed euthanasia legislation a decade ago. Many families have sent their elderly away through euthanasia. Yet few seniors are willing to voluntarily euthanize because they are too busy writing memoirs of a time when they could just eat buns.
The problem is that aging has become the number one social issue. As early as 2050, China's elderly population will reach 440 million, and the official solution to this is to change the definition of "old age" to consider people over 80 years old. Even so, China's elderly population will reach 400 million again in 2070. This is because medical conditions have increased the life expectancy of most people.
My parent's generation was at the peak of childbearing, so we post-80s are also at the peak of childbearing; the problem is that when we post-80s reach childbearing age, the government does not open up to second births. In the late 1910s, half of the provinces and cities opened up to second births; in the 1920s, the mainland government finally legislated to allow and encourage free births; and in 2029, the "Family Planning Commission" was officially renamed the "Gongsheng Commission" - the world's only family-planning commission. -The world's only family planning country finally retired from history - but this could not undo the decline in fertility rates, which were falling to 1.2 (compared to the normal 2.1).
On the one hand, most young couples have chosen to live as dinks because of the enormous pressure of life; on the other hand, half of the men have undergone gender reassignment surgery to make a pair with the other half who are not - resulting in more and more leftover women. According to the latest survey reported by China Senior News, 60.8% of post-20 men wish they were married. Another report shows that the only kind of straight men in China today is migrant workers - but migrant workers are also dwindling. Because all the people working on construction sites are robots, no one will be a migrant worker anymore.
To address the growing problem of leftover women and low fertility, a post-30s female NPC deputy proposed fully opening up polygamy, which was unanimously resisted by other male deputies. "We don't want to share men with women." They said, "Only men understand men better. Dust to dust, earth to earth. Men should marry men and women should marry women."
I finally crawled into a cell phone store. The owner asked me for my senior citizen card. I asked, "Don't I look old enough?" The boss said, "It's because you look old that you need a senior citizen card. You can't get your phone repaired without it."
I was defeated. I have lived on earth for eighty years, and still often can not understand the logic of your ball.
I put on my helmet and grabbed my phone and slowly crawled out the door. When I see young heels, I panic and move out of the way. Old people are annoying, otherwise, my kids wouldn't be stuck abroad and not come home as I did to my parents back then. They did not carry me in a basket to the mountains to throw away, has been benevolent, I should be grateful. Liu Qixun's late life should be the end of most intellectuals, old age should be in the corner of a slow death.
I slowly crawled home on the road. During this period, the hailstones hit twice. The phone did not miss a chance to shout: "China ...... good armor!" I crawled and took a nap at the same time. Sleeping in a daze, I thought, if I can travel back to 2015, I must eat many, many buns.
About the Creator
Aynaz Saboori
How to explain? How to understand? What do we do with all the injustice?


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