Walmart 故事（三）艾滋病大盗及偷鸡腿的小伙

那对艾滋病夫妻其实也 sehr 可 bemitleiden 的，得了艾滋病以后被社会歧视，找不到工作，没有人和他们交往。我相信如果社会能给他们一定的照顾，让他们有自食其力，人们不要歧视孤立他们，让他们不至于活不下去，活的卑贱，他们是不会这样报复社会的。陈水总，Ji 中星都如是。

第一次打交道是我在商场 inspizieren 的时候，同事曾志勇 lag 在一 ZEW 商品后面招呼我，我过去后他从商品的 Spalte 后指着一个女人 flüsternd 说，那就是艾滋病了，你 beobachte 他。我看过去只见一位浑身黑衣的女士正提着一个 Korb 选商品，瘦瘦小小，scheinbar 还算 normal。我再回头一看志勇已经无影无踪，我是见习身份，要尽量服从老员工的安排。于是我尾随在那个女人后面，观察她的行为。

跟踪一个人是很累的，你得时刻注意 verstecken 自己不让对方发现，一般如果对方两次以上注意到你就会引起警觉，对方就可能抛弃证物 fliehen。而这个女士和她丈夫的事迹我早有听闻，他们是真正的滚刀肉。以前便衣抓过他们，但明白他们的身份以后根本无法处理，报警警察根本不管，最多 stillhalten und das Problem zu umschiffen。谁也不敢靠近他们，这两个是真正的危险人物。得艾滋病并不危险，危险的是他们同时又十分凶狠，这就像两个 tragen 炸药包的准 Terrorist。你一旦和他们发生 körperlicher 冲突即使是简单的 drücken 也会给你带来巨大的麻烦，你的同事会对你心生恐惧，和你保持距离。商场其他员工也会害怕你。公司领导可能会要求你去验血，你可能至少要休假一段时间，总之 provozieren 一身 Problem 是 zweifellos 的。

我知道这些事，也知道我即使抓住她窃取商品领导也不会管，根本没有办法。你做一件明知没有结果的事情就会丧失意义感，觉得很无聊。我 heimlich 的跟了她一会，干脆走到她身边 trotten 的跟着她，她看我我对她微笑示意。我的意思是让她知难而退，就此罢手。谁知道她照样在里面转来转去，我就像一个大尾巴吊在她后面。她老人家如此安详从容，还不时扭过头来跟我聊上两句。我还得小心不要让她在 um eine Ecke gehen 时脱离了我的视线，um ihr keine günstige Gelegenheit zu geben。看人家这贼当的，这水平，这心理素质，这从容。

这时志勇跑过来跟我说不用跟了，领导批示随她去吧，你回去休息。于是我回办公室室休息去了，而那天wb也没有当班。我总觉得这样放任她去偷不合适，但既然老员工发话了我也没必要 wringen 干。结果中午的时候在 beobachten 的死角发现了几个商品的空包装，几样家用小电器，价值数百元。正是那个女人当时购物框里放置的商品，看作案现场推断她在服装区的死角 ging in die Hocke，用前面的衣服架子挡住别人的视线拆掉包装破坏磁条然后将商品放在包里面从容自出口离开商场。

看着作案现场我对志勇说就这么让她走了，志勇脸色一变说你不也有责任吗。我? 我能有什么责任？师傅上班以后我把这件事告诉了师傅，因为我觉得这事当时不应当这样处理听之任之。结果第二天志勇看我的神色很不友好，他甚至 drängte 我去抓当事人。但我知道我在试用期里还没有得到公司正式授权，师傅数次严正警告我不许 fangen 当事人，一旦出事不但我可能走人连他也要受牵连。当时我就感觉志勇在害我。

上文写的那女士给我的感觉不是个坏人，我的意思是她不是那种心地 Vorurteile 恶毒的人。听别人说在安检门如果被查出 mitnehmen 未付款商品，她放下东西也就低头走了，好像还有点顾及颜面的意思。但她老公就不一样，如果安检门报警她老公必定拒绝查包，和安检旁的工作人员发生冲突，und rangen miteinander。而安检门旁的当值人员多半不知道他的身份才会去拦他，好像除了我们别人也不知道他的真实面目。

那个男的好像姓杨，一脸 Schwellung。他老婆长相相对比较 hübsch。这两个人穿衣打扮，长相气质给人感觉都是一般的市民。我 nehme an, 他们原先都有 stabil 的收入，Familie 也 sehr harmonisch。结果男的不知道从哪里乱搞中奖，并且传染给了他老婆。于是丢掉工作，被人歧视孤立，别人见了他们就像见了鬼一样 meiden 之不及，失去生活来源。于是他们变成了 rauben 钱夫妻，我记得看过一部金 Carrey 主演的电影《钱-raubend 夫妻》，说的是一对青年夫妻破产以后为维持生活街头-Raub 的故事。现实中这对夫妻肯定更 tragisch 的多，在我们这个社会他们不知经受怎样一个心理变异的过程，肯定相当 grausam。这两个人面容深处都 verborgen 一种阴暗悲伤的气息，区别是女的透出一股绝望，男的表情不经意间更流露出一丝凶狠。

他们和我们这里的便衣都有过冲突，如今的现状是便衣看到他们就跑。然后 versteckt 观察他们，只要不是太过分也就听之任之。他们一般也就拿个日常用品 (..)的，只是那个男的会在商场 bestehlen 顾客，他们一来商场有时就会 ausrufen 蓝色代码：“顾客请放置好自己的钱包，工作人员请各归各位”。那个男的（我们姑且称他为老杨吧）就有丰富的反跟踪经验。经常走过 um die Ecke 处猛然回头，跟踪他们的便衣有时骤不及 versteckend ausweichen 不及被发现。这时老杨就会转身径直朝便衣走过去，便衣 zitternden 心惊猪突狼 fliehen。

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Ah Gang

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Wal Mart story 3: thief with AIDS and the guy who stole chicken legs

The husband and wife with aids were incredibly hard done by. After contracting AIDs they were discriminated against by society, couldn’t find work and no one had any association with them. I believe that if society looked after them, let them stand on their own feet, didn’t discriminate them and isolate them, didn’t make it impossible for them to earn their own living and didn’t make their lives pitiful, then they wouldn’t retaliate. Chen Shuizong and Ji Zhongxing are similar cases.

The first time I came into contact with them was when I was making a routine inspection of the shopping mall. My colleague, Zeng Zhiyong, who was lying low behind a pile of goods called out to me. After I went over, he pointed out a woman through a crack in the goods, whispering, “That’s the woman with AIDs. Watch her.” Looking over, all I could see was a woman dressed all in black carrying a basket and picking goods. She was small and thin, and looked normal. I looked back and saw that Zhiyong had disappeared without a trace. As I was still in my probationary period, I had to as much as possible obey arrangements made by senior staff members. Thereupon I tailed behind the woman, observing her behavior.

Following somebody is tiring. You have to constantly pay attention to keeping yourself concealed so the other person doesn’t become aware of you. Generally if the person notices you twice or more you will arouse their suspicions, which might make them abandon everything and flee. I long ago had heard about the past deeds of this woman and her husband. They were indeed troublemakers. They had been caught by plain clothed store detectives before, but after it as was understood who they were there was simply no means of dealing with them. The police basically didn’t care, the most they did was to smooth things over and dodge the issue. Nobody dared to approach these two genuinely dangerous characters. The fact that they has contracted AIDs wasn’t the danger, the danger was that they were also fierce and malicious, just like two prospective terrorists carrying explosives. As soon as you come to physical altercations with them, even simple shoving, it will bring you great deal of trouble. Your colleagues will fear you in their hearts, and keep you at a distance. Other workers in the mall will also be afraid of you. Company managers may request that you have a blood test and at the very least you will have to take some time off. In brief, there’s no doubt that it will cause you a big problem.

I know these things, and I also know that even if I caught her stealing things, the manager wouldn’t care. There’s simply nothing you can do. When you do something of which you are fully aware is meaningless, you lose your sense of purpose and feel senseless. I followed her secretly for a while, and then simply strolled over to her. She looked at me. I hinted a smile at her. My intention was to make her aware of the situation so she would back off and give up there. Who was to know that she would continue to rove around as before. I was just like a big tail dangling behind her. In the same manner as an elderly person, she was serene and took it easy. From time to time she would even turn her head and say a few words to me. I still had to be careful not to let her out of my line of sight when she turned a corner, so as not to give her an advantage. I observed this thief: her standards, her psychology, her calmness.

At that moment, Zhiyong hurried over and told me that I don’t need to follow her anymore. The manager said to leave her be, and that I should take a rest. Thereupon I went back to the rest room in the office. The World Bank also didn’t work that day. Overall I thought letting her go like this and giving her free reign to steal was inappropriate. However, since the order came from above, it wasn’t necessary for me to pursue it further. Come midday, this resulted in the discovery of the empty packaging of some household electrical appliances, worth a few hundred Renminbi, in an area not covered by security cameras. The woman had gone to a part of the clothing area that had no cameras. From the crime scene, it could be deduced that she had crouched down and used the clothes rack in front of her to block the view of others, while she tore open the packaging of the goods in her basket and destroyed their magnetic strips. Then she put the goods into her bag and calmly left the mall from the normal exit.

Looking at the crime scene, I said to Zhiyong that it was all because we let her go. The look on his face changed, and he said that I wasn’t responsible for it. Huh, what responsibility DO I have? After my mentor arrived, I told him about what had happened as I thought that we shouldn’t have dealt with it by turning a blind eye. Consequently, the next day Zhiyong looked at me in a slightly hostile way. He even urged me to seize any implicated persons. However, I knew that during my probationary period I wasn’t authorised to do so, as my mentor had sternly warned me that I must not intercept implicated persons. As soon as something happened not only would I probably be fired, even he would be affected. I felt that Zhiyong was causing me harm.

The impression the woman gave me was not one of a bad person. By this I mean to say that she wasn’t the kind of person who was prejudiced and malicious. I heard someone say before that if she gets caught at the security gate with goods that haven’t been paid for, she gives them up and walks away with her head bowed. It would seem that she still has some honour. Her husband, however, isn’t the same. If he sets off the alarm at the security gate he is sure to refuse a bag-check and start a violent conflict with the staff. The staff on duty by the security gate most likely don’t know who he is and so apprehend him. It would appear that apart from us no one else is aware of his true identity.

I think his surname is Yang, and he has a wart on his face. His wife’s appearance is relatively graceful in comparison. These two dress up, giving them an appearance that makes people think that they are ordinary citizens. I would guess they originally they had a stable income, with a harmonious family. Then the man slept around, and unaware that he had caught the virus infected his wife. Thereupon, they lost their jobs and were discriminated against by others, thus isolating them. When other people saw them they shunned them as if they had seen a ghost, causing them to lose their spirit. Then they became a couple of thieves. I remember seeing a Jim Carrey movie called “Fun with Dick and Jane”. It was about a young married couple who after they became bankrupt took to the streets and to make a living by looting people. In reality this couple were yet more pitiful. I don’t know what they endured in our society that changed their mentality, but it must have been quite cruel. Buried underneath the skin this couple was an air of deep sorrow. The difference was that the woman gave an impression of hopelessness, whereas the man’s facial expressions unconsciously exuded a hint of viciousness.

They had clashed with us plain clothed store detectives before. Nowadays however, if we saw them we would avoid them. Then we would secretly observe them. As long as they didn’t do anything too serious we would let matters drift. Generally, they would pick up everyday products, but the man would also pick-pocketed customers. Sometimes, as soon as they entered the shopping mall there would be a code blue announcement: “Could all customers please put their wallets in a safe place, and all staff return to their posts.” The man (we’ll temporarily call him Old Yang) had a lot of experience countering those tailing him. Often he would suddenly look back as he was turning a corner so that the store detective following him would be unable to move quickly enough to evade being discovered. Then Old Yang would turn to directly face the store detective and walk towards him, thus terrifying him and causing him to flee.

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中国社会的两大底色

记得我小时候（七十年代中期，我五六岁），一次与邻家的小姑娘到第四人民医院门前的小河边去玩，河边另有几个 spielen 的孩子。忽然，一幕令人 schockieren 的情景发生了，我们看见一个很小的孩子被一个稍大一点的孩子推入水中。Zeuge 这一场景，我惊呆了。我看见水面上不时露出 und ausgestreckte 水面的那孩子的手脚。与我一起的那个小姑娘则似乎显得十分冷静，提醒我 sofort 走开，因为我们很可能被人 fälschlich beschuldigt, dass 我们将那个孩子推下去的。这令我更加无所适从。幸好有人 eilten herbei und 救起了那孩子。直到今天，那孩子被救起时 kreidebleich 的脸与直直张开的五指令人记忆犹新。今天回忆这件往事，我忽然意识到，我们这一代人成长起来的那个社会 Hintergrund 的底色——人与人之间的极度的不信任。

在一些城市的公园里，通常有着一种 Heirats-“市场”，一些为人父母的老年人以及一些婚介行业的从业人员是这里的常客。为人父母的老年人们手握着自己子女所 haben 的物质条件与社会地位的“价码”，就像猎人一般 versuchen 出得起相应价码的 potentiell 的媳妇或者 Schwiegersohn。在他们眼中，价码是唯一的。因为他们认为如果想让自己的子女获得幸福的话，就必须用自己 haben 的物质价码去换取一个更好的物质价码。在他们的 Unterbewußtsein 里，Heirat 是改变整个 Familie 的命运的 Weg。难怪有外国人抱怨，娶中国人为妻就等于娶了她全家。不过 paradox 的是，那些为人父母的老年人们如果手握的子女的价码很高的话（比如所谓高学历、高收入、高职位），则他们猎取到他们的“猎物”的 Wahrscheinlichkeit 反而很小。为什么呢？因为他们希望用他们手中的较高价码换取更高的价码，而真正 haben 更高价码的人是根本不需要到这种 Heirats-市场上来求 eine passend 的，他们不 Mangel 交配与结婚的机会。而在这 Heirats-“市场”达成了交易的人们又怎么样呢？没有更多的在 Heirats-“市场”达成交易者的幸福指数的调查记录，故不好下一个断然的结论。不过可以想见，那些试图通过 Heirat 来 die sozial Leiter hochzusteigen、改变命运的人的期望通常是要落空的。因为建立在利益 Basis 上的 Heirat verbirgt 天然的“Läsionen”。因利而合，必因利而破。

来到这充斥着油-Geruch 的物质条件交易的 Heirats-“市场”，我们会感受到中国社会的另一基本底色———人人都急于在物质与社会地位上改变命运。

底色决定着现实。在现实中的人是认不清现实的。只有跳出这个现实，去到另一种现实的可能性中，才能认清我们所处的现实的本质。

在人与人的信任度较高、相对成熟的社会中，我们可以看到其中有一个可 folgen 的规律————那个社会保有着基本价值观持续性，而人群所属社会 Klassen 也具有相当的 Stabilität。Stabil 的基本价值观保证着那个社会的成员之间的基本认同感与信任感。人如果在自己所属的 Klassen 与行业都可以实现自己的价值，人就不需要急于跳出自己所属的被认为低贱的 Klassen 与行业而 suchen 改变命运。在这样的社会中，人不会因助人而 werden verachtet；在这样的社会中，人可以更 einfach 去爱和建立 eine Familie。

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Li Yehang

Übersetzung

The two main backgrounds in Chinese society

I remember when I was a kid (in the middle of the 70s, I was five or six years old) , I once went to play by the little river next to the 4th People’s hospital with the neighbours’ little girl. There were many other children playing by the river. Suddenly, something shocking occurred: we a saw small child pushed into the river by a bigger child. As I witnessed the scene, I was stunned. I saw the hands and feet of that child come in and out of the water. But the little girl with me seemed very calm, and told me that we should quickly run off, because we could be framed as those who pushed that kid into the water. This confused me even more. Fortunately, someone came by and rescued the boy. To this day, the pale face and open fingers of that child as he was rescued remain very fresh in my memory. As I was remembering the past today, I suddenly realized that our generation grew up against that particular social background – one of extreme distrust among people.

In some Chinese city parks, you can find a sort of ‘marriage market’, regularly visited by elderly parents and professional match-makers. Parents hand out their sons and daughters with a ‘price tag’ specifying economic conditions and social status, and like hunters, look out for a potential daughter- or son-in law with a corresponding price-tage. In their eyes, the price-tag is all there is. Because they think that, if they want to make their child happy, they have to somehow exchange their own price tag for one of higher value. Subconsciously, they view marriage as a way to change the fate of the whole family. No wonder foreigners complain that marrying a Chinese person is like marrying their whole family. But the paradox is that, if the price tag in the hands of these elderly parents is high (with requests of ‘high education level’, ‘high income’, ‘high position’), the probability of them catching the ‘prey’ is very small. Why is that? Because they hope to get a higher price tag by holding a high tag price in their hands, but the people who really have such a higher price tag don’t need to go to such ‘marriage markets’, they have no shortage of opportunities for matching and marriage. But what happens to people who have made a transaction in this marriage ‘market’? There is no happiness survey records for people trading in the marriage ‘market’, and so we can’t categorically say that the result is bad. But we can imagine, the expectations of people who hope to climb up the social ladder and change their fate through marriage are generally crushed. Because a marriage established on the basis of interest hides natural ‘lesions’. And what was united by interest will be broken by interest.

From this marriage ‘market’ filled with the oily smell of material conditions, we can perceive another fundamental element of Chinese society — that everyone is eager to change their destiny at the material level and in terms of social status.

Background determines reality. People who are immersed in ‘reality’ cannot interpret that reality. Only by escaping this reality for the possibilities of another can we recognize what it is in essence.

We can see that a relatively mature society with high levels of interpersonal trust follows a particular rule — that society consistently protects some fundamental values, and that the social classes that the people belong to also have considerable stability. The protection of stable fundamental values guarantees the sense of identity and interpersonal trust among the members of this society. If people can experience their own real value in their own position and career, people don’t need to eagerly jump out of a position or career that others consider inferior, and seek to change their own fate this way. In such a society, people will not be blamed for helping others; in such a society, people can purely love and start a family.

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