Sometimes, people are under the same roof, but they are breathing different air.
Recently, the circulation report of two people infected with the new crown virus in Beijing has made many people feel a lot of emotions.
One was an ordinary porter who worked 30 places in eighteen days from January 1 to January 18, without a single day's rest, and often working late at night in the early hours of the morning.
The time is not fixed, the location is not fixed, and it is a late night night shift for several consecutive days, to put it bluntly, that is, where there is money to earn, it will go anywhere.
Often from 0 o'clock to after 9 o'clock in the morning, the next day like an invincible King Kong, life and death fatigue.
And in these 18 days, his only dining record is to go to the food city, it is estimated that he also wants to "treat" himself and eat a yellow stewed chicken rice or something.
It is estimated that usually buy some bun porridge on the street and deal with it.
I don't know where I got the virus, so I was taken away and quarantined...
On the other side of the eaves, the trajectory of a confirmed person is very enviable:
A 26-year-old young man, who should have been a hard working age, but has already lived a life of retirement in advance.
Buy jewelry, get hairdressing, ski ski, watch talk shows...
Someone combined the reports of these two people to make a table:
In contrast, it is really a day and a place.
One shines brightly in the daytime, and the other snows heavily in the night.
Same Beijing, different destiny.
The gap between people is afraid of being pulled out and looked at carefully.
After the release of the beijing porter's circulation, China News Weekly published an in-depth interview, in which the story of the porter was even more uncomfortable.
The porter was born in 1978 and is 44 years old.
He was originally working as a crew member on a fishing boat in Weihai, Shandong Province, but in 2020, his eldest son went missing, and because his son had worked as a cook in Beijing, he came to Beijing to look for it.
Before coming, in order to find his son, he had already traveled to Shandong, Henan, Hebei, Tianjin and other places.
Whenever I went to a place, I looked for my son while doing odd jobs to make ends meet.
In his hometown, his father was paralyzed in bed, and his mother's arm was broken. The wife has a meager income, and the younger son is still in junior high school.
He had to raise six people on his own, and in Beijing he usually had jobs carrying sandbags, cement or moving construction waste to a garbage dump.
Moving a bag of cement or sand is 1 dollar. Add a dollar for every floor you go up.
Departs every morning until dawn.
To save money, he lives in a room of about 10 square meters in the suburban countryside, renting 700 yuan a month.
Sleep in the morning during the day, sleep for four or five hours, and then go out at noon to find work.
Breakfast, buns and a bowl of porridge, lunch under the home to hang noodles.
Why fight so hard?
Because the whole family is a labor force, his parents have heart disease, high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, and their parents are not low-income households.
The medical expenses, and the children's tuition fees, add up to more than 10,000 a month.
In an interview, he talked about the details of his son's disappearance:
"On August 12, 2020, he said that he had a stomach upset and was going to go home to find his mother, the director of the food factory sent him to the bus station, and then he was lost, and suddenly disappeared, and he didn't get into the car... I called the police at the local police station, wanting them to locate my son's mobile phone, adjust the monitoring to find someone, they said that this is an adult, do not give the location of the mobile phone, two or three days later, my son's mobile phone will be out of power and shut down; as for the monitoring, they said that they only manage the car, regardless of people, do not give the adjustment. It took three months for the case to be filed. ”
"Later, I went to the Weihai Municipal Public Security Bureau, and the Weihai Municipal Public Security Bureau pushed the case back to the Rongcheng Municipal Public Security Bureau. I went to the Shandong Provincial Public Security Department and then to Beijing. I think that in the days when my son was lost, if I had been located, I would have found it. There is no hope now. At that time, my wife cried at the door of the police station for two days, and they ignored it, and the director was still very difficult to hear. ”
In order to find children, he went to tianjin, Anyang, Hengshui, Tai'an, Weihai, Jinan, Rushan and other more than ten cities.
Usually, I sleep next to the ATM machine in the bank, work locally, feel that I can't find it, and go to other cities.
Once, in order to close the case, the police station found a dead body for him to claim, saying that it was his son.
But when he went there, he found that it wasn't...
And sympathy for journalists.
He is so dignified:
"I don't feel sorry for myself either. I just work hard, I don't steal or rob, rely on my own strength, rely on my own hands, earn some money, earn money to find children. It's for life, for taking care of this home. ”
"I worked hard to get my kids back. I worked harder, even if I put my life in it, I still had to get the child back. ”
What more can I say?
I would like to say that this is a truly awe-inspiring person, a truly dignified person.
I think of individual celebrities, who take sky-high salaries, but do dirty things like stealing chickens and dogs, evading taxes and evading taxes, and sneaking fans.
I thought of a few rich people, dressed like dogs, behind the payment of migrant workers' wages, owed a large amount of debt to the bank.
I thought of individual anchors with goods, "old artists", in front of the camera or scratch their heads, or rely on the old to sell the old, or sensationalize, just to cheat tips.
And his credo is only: work well, do not steal, do not rob, rely on their own strength, rely on their own hands...
Urban life is often dramatic.
Some people pick up leftovers in the bustling Wangfujing, some people work like slaves, but at the same time, some people drive famous cars and live in mansions, and eating a meal can cost tens of thousands.
Two classes pass by in the city.
They may have all bought food in KFC, just one living in the city and the other at the end.
Anyone who has experienced the night shift knows that the next day's face is dead gray, and the look is also wooden.
This is not only a physical overdraft, but also a mental consumption, an overdraft of good health and food.
However, this porter is infinitely overdrawing himself for the sake of his children and for the sake of his family.
Try your best to survive.
And most of the people we meet in our lives are also doing their best to live a very ordinary life, struggling on the subsistence line.
If life is a game of cards, some people start with a hand of king fried, and some people are all bad cards.
But no matter what, Wu Xiangjun always believes that hard work will be rewarded.
I hope that this porter can find his child as soon as possible, and everyone can help transfer the child's photos.
I also hope that through this stream, we can see the real China, and don't think that the beauty in the short video is everyday.
The wind is blowing, and we all have to live hard!