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Master Dou, a poor farmer born in the beautiful coastal city of Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, has deeply felt the ups and downs of life since he was a child. As the eldest son in the family, he had to shoulder the responsibility of the family at a young age.
There are also three young children waiting to be fed at home, as well as parents who are elderly and suffering from a variety of geriatric diseases, and the burden of the whole family's life falls on the shoulders of Master Dou alone.
Due to his poor family, Master Dou was unable to receive a good education and was forced to leave school during his childhood. As a teenager, he was playful and indulgent, but he failed to deeply understand the importance of knowledge.
However, when he really entered adulthood and began to run around for a living, he deeply realized how much the lack of knowledge had bothered him.
Despite the hardships of life, Master Dou has never lost his vision for the future. He gritted his teeth and persevered, looking around for opportunities to earn living expenses, but was repeatedly frustrated and in trouble.
Faced with the failure of job search again and again, Master Dou's heart was full of helplessness, but he still moved forward resolutely.
One day, Master Dou unexpectedly met a fellow villager, and with the recommendation of this fellow villager, he was finally able to set foot on a construction site. Although he was only a manual laborer, he could at least barely support his family.
Since then, the construction site has become the home of Master Dou's survival.
On the construction site, Master Dou had to engage in heavy manual labor such as tying steel bars, mixing cement, and carrying bricks every day. The working environment is extremely difficult, but he has never complained about it, but has always maintained an optimistic attitude towards life.
Despite his meager income, he always kept his money home and sent home most of his salary, leaving only a few hundred yuan to support his basic living needs.
In order to save money, Master Dou often lives in a makeshift shack built on the construction site. Whenever night fell, the dim street lamps reflected his weathered figure, he would always sit there alone, gazing at the sky with deep eyes, letting the quiet night slowly soak his tired body and mind.
In this small and humble residence, Master Dou savored the loneliness and hardships of life, but he never gave up the pursuit of hopes and dreams.
Who could have predicted that such an ordinary and low-key manual laborer on a construction site would quickly set off a storm in the online world because of a shocking and outrageous video of "smashing a crispy hard hat"?
This shocking change began in the hot summer of 2019, when Master Dou had been sweating on the construction site for many years. In addition to his busy work, he will use his free time to share some bits and pieces of daily life, as well as his deep insights and experiences of life on his short video account.
However, most of the time, these videos don't get much attention.
However, fate is always full of drama. At some inadvertent moment, Master Dou captured a jaw-dropping scene and recorded it and uploaded it to the Internet.
In that video, he clutched the red hard hat worn by the leader with his left hand, and the kind used by ordinary workers with his right hand, and then, he struck hard without hesitation, and the worker's fragile hard hat shattered instantly, while the leader hat was unscathed.
This stark and stark contrast immediately caused an uproar online, with netizens expressing outrage at the use of low-quality hard hats on the construction site, while also expressing deep sympathy for the dangerous situation faced by frontline workers such as Master Dou.
Soon after, the incident sparked a heated discussion on the Internet.
In fact, Master Dou's original intention in shooting this video is so simple and pure. During his working life, he had suffered serious injuries due to the poor quality of the hard hats he was wearing.
On that occasion, he was hit in the head by a wooden stick that had fallen from a height, and if it weren't for the helmet's barely resisting it, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
After this unforgettable lesson, Master Dou began to deeply realize that the personal safety of workers has existed for a long time. He hopes that in this way, the relevant departments can pay close attention to it, and then improve the safety and protection of front-line workers.
As a simple farmer, Master Dou has an innocent and righteous heart, naively believing that just posting such a video can touch people's hearts.
However, Master Dou never dreamed that this seemingly insignificant decision would completely change the trajectory of his life. As the popularity of the video continued to soar, he successively released a number of videos about potential safety hazards on the construction site, which successfully attracted widespread attention from the whole society.
Major media have carried out in-depth reports on this matter, and the competent government departments have also launched a comprehensive rectification of the problem of production safety.
In an instant, Master Dou was like a dazzling star in the night sky, rising rapidly in the surging whirlpool of public opinion, and becoming the focus of people's attention! In the midst of a knowledge system that is not constructed by formal education, enjoying the tranquility and comfort brought by the closed world, this migrant worker seemed a little at a loss and even a little fluttering in the face of sudden attention.
He never imagined that one of his small decisions could cause such a huge wave.
However, the unwavering sense of justice in Master Dou's heart has never wavered. It is precisely because of his kind and simple qualities that he dares to stand up and speak out for the migrant workers who are also at the bottom of society.
Although the current situation makes him feel confused, Master Dou still has hope, hoping to use this storm of public opinion to win the rights and interests that the majority of migrant workers deserve.
However, when public opinion began to tilt in the direction that was unfavorable to Master Dou, his heart was full of anxiety and uneasiness. In an effort to quell the turmoil, he resolutely released a major video in which he expressed his determination to "start over" and said that he was doing so to "avoid hatred and reprisals."
Inexplicably, the very next day, the video suddenly and mysteriously disappeared.
So, what kind of contradictions and entanglements have led to such a drastic reversal? After in-depth thinking, we may be able to interpret it from the perspective of the interests of construction site developers. Once the influence of Master Dou's video is further expanded, it will inevitably cause more people to question the safety of the construction site, and the developer may face huge business losses and a credibility crisis.
Therefore, it is very likely that they will use threats or monetary inducements to force Master Dou to delete the critical videos himself. In addition, in fact, the construction site is really reluctant to provide too many helmet samples for Master Dou's video experiment.
After all, for them, although the cost of a hard hat is not expensive, it is enough to make these workers from the poor class suspicious. Therefore, in order to ensure the authenticity of the experimental content, Master Dou could only buy a large number of hard hats out of his own pocket for filming.
These seemingly insignificant expenses are enough to discourage the poor migrant worker class.
On the other hand, behind the release of that touching video, Master Dou does hide a little bit of personal selfishness. As a low-key, ordinary manual worker, he naturally wants to win the public's attention with this hot event, even if it is only for a short period of Internet traffic.
However, he is by no means malicious hype, and Master Dou's heart still maintains that simplicity and kindness.
However, instead of going his way, events sped away in a worse direction. Not only did the construction site decisively dismiss Master Dou from his position, but even those fellow villagers and friends who had recommended him to work also drew a line with him.
Faced with the dilemma of unemployment, Master Dou's life fell into crisis again.
Just when the turmoil of this matter had not completely dissipated, Master Dou's life suffered another heavy blow. Having lost his job, he is homeless, and his family is becoming increasingly short of food, leaving his three children and elderly parents in poverty once again.
Even more unfortunate, Master Dou actually suffered from a serious illness and had a high fever for many days.
Physically and mentally exhausted, Master Dou fell into deep confusion and pain. As a person who once bravely stood up to speak up for his fellow travelers, now he has to bear such a heavy price.
The guilt, remorse, and helplessness in his heart came like a tidal wave, almost crushing him completely.
After returning to his hometown, Master Dou was always anxious, for fear that his true identity would be revealed, and then incur unwarranted reproach and revenge. In just a few months, he has gone from a righteous person who has received widespread attention from society to a marginal figure who no one cares about.
Despite such a difficult living environment, Master Dou never gave up the belief in rising again. In order to break free from the weight of life, he resolutely packed his bags and decided to embark on a journey to find a new job again.
After a few days of traveling, I finally found a familiar job on a new construction site - moving cement.
Master Dou, who has returned to the construction site, is no longer as calm and joyful as in the past. His face exuded an unwavering willpower, as if he was silently recounting the tormented years of the past.
Looking away, I saw him working the construction site alone, sweat beads like rain, however, the smile that was once as bright as the sun was no longer able to find its trace, and disappeared on the face that had gone through vicissitudes.