World Micro-fiction Classics: Asia Volume

Author: Wu Yan Compiler/Nationality:
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Publishing Date: 2004-03-01
Features: "How pretty the clothes are!" "What would you like to order?" "What would you like to have?" "How about some gin?" "That's a good idea to have some gin." Beauties never get drunk no matter how much they drink. Young and proud, they are as cold as ice. People talk about them and rush into the bar to flirt with Miss Peko and ask her for drinks. "Among the customers, who do you like the most?" "Which one do you like?" "Do you like me?" "I like you." "Want to go to the movies together?" "That's a great idea to go to the movies together." "When?" When they can't answer the questions, the beauty gives a signal, and the owner quickly comes over to stop them, saying, "Customers, please don't tease her too much." The owner was right, and the customers smiled and stopped talking. The owner often crouched down, took out a plastic tube from the beauty's feet, let the alcohol out, and then sold it to the customers. Of course, the customers didn't notice this. They only felt that the beauty was young and reserved, not coquettish, and never lost her composure no matter how much she drank, which made her more and more popular, and more and more people came to chat with her. Among the customers, a young man fell in love with Miss Peko. Although he pursued her tirelessly, he gained nothing, but his longing for her grew day by day. Because he spent too much time in the bar, he fell into debt and couldn't afford to pay it back, so he turned to his family's money. As a result, his father caught him and scolded him severely: "You're not allowed to go there anymore! Pay it back with this money. Remember, this is the last time!" That young man, when paying his bill at the bar, believed everything was over that night. To remember their parting, he bought a lot of drinks and asked Miss Peko to drink with him. He said sadly, "I can't come here anymore." "I can't come anymore." "Are you sad?" "I'm very sad." "Actually, it's not that bad, right?" "Actually, it's not that bad, is it?" "It's rare to see someone as heartless as you." "Is it rare to see someone as heartless as me?" "I'll kill you!" "You'll kill me." The young man took a packet of poison from his pocket, poured it into a glass, and handed it to Miss Peko. "Drink it?" "Drink it." Watching Miss Peko drink the wine in front of him, he said, "If you want to die, then die." Then he turned to the owner and said, only to hear a voice behind him say, "If you want to die, then die." After paying, he quickly slipped out of the bar. It was already late at night. After the young man left, the owner said to the remaining customers, "Tonight, I'll treat you all. Have a good time drinking." The so-called treating them was because it was late, and no other customers would come, so the alcohol released from the plastic tube couldn't be sold anymore. "Hurrah!" "Great! Great!" The customers and waiters raised their glasses cheerfully. The owner, feeling pleased, also took a sip of wine behind the counter. That night, the bar was brightly lit all night. The radio kept playing songs. Although no customers came out, the bar was silent. At midnight, after the radio said "Good night," it stopped playing. Miss Peko muttered, "Good night," and then posed with a proud expression, waiting for someone to flirt with her.
【Japan】Hoshin Shinichi
Advertising in the Promotion Era
Translated by Zhao Ping and Xing Wei
In the morning, Mr. N left home for work. He lived on the 35th floor of an apartment and had to take the elevator down. When the elevator arrived at the 30th floor, a child entered. Since they knew each other, Mr. N greeted the child, saying, "Hey, are you going to school?" "Yes, I'm going to school." Mr. N patted the child's head and said, "You're such a good kid. Study hard." Unexpectedly, the child suddenly started singing. He sang, "Please eat Raffa, please eat Raffa." Raffa was the name of a food company, and the song the child was singing was the company's advertising jingle. After finishing the song, he realized what he had done and couldn't help but smile at Mr. N. When the elevator arrived at the 15th floor, another woman entered. As soon as the elevator started moving down, she said, "Bealin's candy tastes delicious." After saying that, she seemed to realize what she had said and quickly greeted Mr. N, "The weather is nice today." When the elevator arrived at the ground floor, everyone said goodbye and left.
Science has advanced. No matter what, as long as you think of science, nothing is impossible. With the development of psychology and brain physiology, a new technology has been developed to use certain training or drugs to manipulate people's conditioned reflexes for advertising. A conditioned reflex is like this: for example, ringing a bell to call a dog for food. As soon as the dog hears the bell, it immediately realizes that it's time to be fed and starts to salivate immediately. That's what a conditioned reflex is. Now, it has been applied to humans in a fixed form. That is, as soon as Mr. N patted the child's head in the elevator, he immediately started singing the food advertising jingle; as soon as the middle-aged woman got into the elevator and started descending, she immediately said, "Bealin's candy tastes delicious," and so on. The reason they did this was that they received a certain amount of advertising fees from the company every month. Almost everyone has rented out one or more of their reflex nerves to companies, becoming a medium for advertising their products. The potential for conditioned reflexes that people possess is limitless, and the companies' ability to skillfully utilize these potentials is also limitless.
Mr. N got on the commuter subway. It was rush hour, and the train was extremely crowded. A young girl spoke in a coquettish voice, saying to herself, "Florena cosmetics are both noble and excellent."