02/05/26 - Remember the key, no matter which scenario it is, you should pay for dinner before you head back up again.
A blogger writes, “Shandong people are crazy.” And screenshots a question which reads:
“During a business dinner, your boss suddenly tells you, “There’s two bottles of Moutain in my car. Bring it in for me.” You go look in the car and there’s nothing there. What do you do as a high EQ person?”
As well as a couple of comments from Shandong which all say, “If you don’t know, then it’s because your boss has something private he wants to talk about that you can’t be around for. Just wait outside the building. If he doesn’t call you in ten minutes, then you just need to stay out of the way for now. If he does call you and ask about the liquor, then you have to go buy four bottles of Moutai and a carton of Zhonghua cigarettes. Put two bottles in your boss’s car and bring two bottles and the cigarettes into the dinner room and say, “I see everyone’s running low on cigarettes so I went and got more. That’s what took so long.” Easy trick. Remember the key, no matter which scenario it is, you should pay for dinner before you head back up again. I wish everyone a great future.”
“Buy four bottles of liquor or more, bring two bottles up, leave at least two bottles in your boss’s car, then buy two cartons of cigarettes and distribute it to everyone. The most, most, most important thing is that you must pay before you head up! You must pay!”
“1. Get out (most likely it’s just because it’s inconvenient for you to be around). 2. Pay for dinner down stairs (you gotta know what’s up). 3. Park the car somewhere that’s the most convenient and fastest to get to the door. 4. Buy two bottles of Moutai just in case (your boss might have high EQ but you have to take preventative measures in case your boss’s guests have low EQ and suddenly ask, “Hey, what happened to the liquor?” You gotta give your boss a reasonable explanation and not put pressure on him to find a topic). 5. Bring an extra carton of cigarettes (as an excuse for why it took you so long to get the liquor. Everyone knows what’s up anyways, but you can add in a line, “I brought in some new cigarettes since I saw everyone was running low,” and this will bring the dinner to a new level). Remember, if you deal with situations well, then your boss has more face. The more face your boss has, the brighter your future will be.”
Comments say, “If I have money to buy Moutai, why would I be working?”
“Just put your boss’s car on a secondhand website and sell it, then bring in a whole cart of Moutai and let people have their fill. If the boss asks, “I didn’t have that much liquor in my car,” you respond, “What car?””
“How much money do these people make? What’s their job even?”
“Girl I’m sponsoring needs 20K for dental work.
I’ve been busy with a lot of my own stuff lately so I only got around to talking about this now.
It started when Tian Liang’s daughter’s weak chin went viral. A couple of days ago, a northern girl that I’ve been sponsoring said that she just realised she has a weak chin and buck teeth too. All her teeth on the bottom row are squished together. I look at her photos and it is pretty obvious, and I know looks really matter to girls, so I told her to get it checked out. She said that her student health insurance doesn’t cover orthodontic work, and even the cheapest steel orthodontics require check ups every month and would cost over 20K. If she wants imported braces, it would be over 40K. I thought it was way too expensive. Does the 20K treatment plan still work? I’m just afraid I’d spend my money to have not a lot of improvement. I asked her whether she could wait until she was working and pay her own money to fix her teeth, and she said that it’s harder to fix the older she gets. I’m honestly really frustrated because I have a lot of my own stuff going on too.
And then I realised that she’d had me blocked on her friend’s circle. At first, I thought it was just young people being cool, and it was only after other people reminded me that I realised she might be hiding things from me, or maybe putting on a persona just for me. She’s not being very honest!
And I just felt kinda crushed and lied down on the sofa for a long time. My husband didn’t care about money, but when he saw how much it was affecting my emotions, he made me block her.
Now I don’t have to torture myself anymore. I couldn’t decide by myself at all.”
Comments say, “20K is enough for a poor student to eat for a whole year. Spend your money on people who deserve it. A lot of people can’t afford to check out their teeth at all.”
“You sponsored her 20K and she didn’t even act moved at all.”
“You actually gave her the money??”
“The story that author Ye Qingcheng wrote, about how she couldn’t open a bottle of water on a plane and gave it to the guy next to her and said, “thanks”, and the guy just looked at her all confused. She wrote this whole entire essay about how this guy had no societal experience, no ability to read people, etc, etc.
I just imagined the scene in my head and it felt super weird. I’m a very warm-hearted person who’s always up for helping people out with small tasks. But if you pass a bottle of water to me and say thanks, I also wouldn’t realise what it was you wanted. And think about it, how arrogant do you have to be, how seriously do you have to take yourself, that you can assume that if you hand a bottle of water to a stranger, they have to open it for you? Like, nobody has anything better to do than to react to your every need?
If you’re on some huge hundred-acre manor surrounded by 20 butlers, then you can hand a bottle of water to them, and they’re stupid for not opening it for you. But when everyone is in economy class, why would they be thinking about, “Wow, if this noble lady needs any help, I gotta be ready to react right away!”?
And even so, there are people simping for her, saying that Ms. Ye is teaching young people. Nothing wrong with learning to read people. Man, what did young people ever do to you?”
Comments say, “I saw in the comment section that this is the infamous author who wrote the story where a father got stabbed in the heart on a ship and stayed alive for three days until he handed his daughter off to his wife before he finally died. I don’t know if that’s true or not though.”
“She’s always been condescending to women all day every day, and now she finally condescended to young men.”
“Ten out of ten people would help you with something as small as opening a bottle of water, so long as you tell them that’s what you want!”
#Little Luoxi’s parents have sued the hospital. “That’s not necessary is it? The doctor in question already got his license revoked. We all grow from the same roots, why rush to cook each other?”
[Little Luoxi was a 5-month-old girl who was diagnosed with a birth defect in her heart who died in surgery to fix it, whose parents later confirmed via autopsy that the defect was minor enough that other experts they showed her heart ultrasounds to said that surgery was unnecessary to begin with, and the primary cause of death was that a separator had been accidentally left in her heart.]
Comments say, “What did I just read.”
“Who grew from the same roots as him.”
“Are you not afraid of being struck by lightning, trying to get clout this way?”
“I hope the same thing happens to you.”
“Any historical figure that you like, you have to under his rule for a year. Which historical figure would you choose to like?”
Comments say, “Zhuge Liang’s Middle Han and Yue Fei’s Ezhou are both not bad. I’m willing to go.”
“What about right now?”
“I can’t go anywhere. I’ve got haemorrhoids so I have to wipe my butt with wet wipes.”
#Cancelling the Gaokao is just a matter of time. “Whoever said this has been lording it above people for so long that they’ve forgotten about the realities of life.
It’s true that we’ve had a low birth rate in the last few years, but China still has an enormous population.
As less and less kids enter school, I’m happy to see the Zhongkao being cancelled and high school becoming a part of mandatory education. After all, it’s too soon for a child to enter society as soon as they graduate from middle school.
But it’s not appropriate at all to cancel the Gaokao.
A couple of years ago, my husband said that his company has a half-automated washing machine that sells really well and has a very high market share. I snorted at the time and said that everyone uses fully automatic washing machines now. Who would buy a half-automated one?
He said something that really opened my eyes. He said that “ending poverty” is something that only exists in the statistics. Plenty of people in China are still struggling on the poverty line.
If you cancel the Gaokao and turn it into a bunch of human-led assessments or recommendations, forget geniuses from poor families, even kids from normal families will never be able to succeed again.
Just look at a simple example.
English has went from a main subject in schools to a side subject, but it’s still taught from first grade. A lot of people question, there’s no point in learning it anyways, so why not just cancel English outright?
Sure, most of us might never leave China all our lives. English might look useless. But if you cancel English, then it’s going to become something that separates the classes, and kids from normal families will never have a chance to learn again.
This is why I think that with our current educational resources, we cannot cancel the Gaokao. This is the last line of defence for a fair society. All normal kids has one chance in their life to engage in fair competition. This is their only chance.
Through all of history, all around the world, nothing good has ever come from social immobility.”
Comments say, “They can cancel the Zhongkao though.”
“A lot of experts have been removed from the people for too long that they’ve become high and mighty too.”
“And the Zhongkao is super hard. Let’s go for at least 12 years of mandatory education before we even talk about this.”