65438+10.3, Ge made a video with his family at the subway entrance.
Beijing News-Peeling onions, Ge Zhengyuan is called "Lao Ge" on the construction site in Shanghai, and almost no one knows his full name.
Lao Ge is no different from other migrant workers. He is wearing a pair of black rubber shoes and is covered with dust. The dark blue tooling is covered with white lime ideas. The only bright color is the yellow helmet on his head.
He is from Henan and came to Shanghai last year 10.
Some time ago, Lao Ge, who had been tired for a day, went to the subway station as usual to "rub" free WiFi to make video calls to his family. He was caught by a video shooter, took a video and uploaded it to the Internet.
Ge's "Surfing the Internet" video soon reached 7.78 million hits. Netizens said that they were distressed to see this scene. "My eyes are red."
On the construction site where Ge is located, there are more than one migrant worker who will go to the subway station to "surf the Internet" like him. They "surf the Internet" because they don't want to spend too much money on traffic, and they "miss home and want to talk to their families".
You can surf the Internet aboveboard.
On October 3rd, 65438/kloc-0, it was raining in Shanghai, and the temperature was only 0. The people on the road shrank with cold, and their hats and scarves were all wrapped, only showing a pair of eyes.
As usual, Ge got off work at five o'clock, braved the rain, rode 70 yuan's second-hand bicycle and rode seven kilometers back to the living shed. For dinner, I ordered a green vegetable, a tofu, a white rice, and it was six dollars and fifty cents.
After riding for seven kilometers, Ge Zhengyuan is soaking his hands in hot water.
The night is long and there is no recreation on the construction site. Ge's greatest pleasure is chatting with his family. Last year, he bought a smart phone, learned to surf the Internet from his son and daughter, and launched a monthly subscription package in 28 yuan, which allows him to have 50 minutes of domestic call time and 100M traffic every month. If this traffic is used for video calls, it will all be used up in less than an hour.
On the construction site, migrant workers can earn 200-300 yuan a day, which is "all hard-earned money" and they are reluctant to eat meat. No one wants to spend money to buy traffic, and workers are always annoyed. "This smartphone eats traffic, and I exceeded 15 yuan last month."
Later, some workers learned to lick WiFi, and Lao Ge also learned to install software on mobile phones to crack WiFi passwords. After work, he wandered around the surrounding community with his mobile phone. When he meets a person with a strong WiFi signal, he will lick the Internet and home videos for a while.
Every night at seven or eight o'clock, it is the video time of Lao Ge and his family. At first, his wife Su Xiuna received a video of her husband Ge Zhengyuan, and she was shocked. The phone was dark, and her husband's face could only see an outline under the street lamp. "He can see me, I can't see him, thinking about his appearance. Chat. "
65438+ 10 9, Ge and Xu Haiting "smashed the net" downstairs in the community.
After a while, Lao Ge found that there was free WiFi in the subway. He is so happy that he can surf the internet aboveboard. There are charging plugs and lights in the subway station, and it's not cold outside.
65438+1At 6 o'clock in the evening on October 3, Ge went back to the dormitory to wash his hot face as usual, and had no time to change clothes, so he went out to the nearby subway Changqing Road Station. He carried a charger with him, and when there was no electricity, he squatted down to video with his family.
It was the rush hour, and every minute or two, a group of office workers came out of the gate. Most of them are wearing thick down jackets and coats, and they look in a hurry. Few people noticed a migrant worker squatting in the corner, and no one wondered what he was doing here.
At eight o'clock in the evening, a video shooter passed by and felt that something was touched in his heart. He photographed this scene-the wind poured in from the underground, and a middle-aged man curled up at the subway exit. His blue tooling was covered with lime and cement, especially at the cuffs and knees, mottled like an oil painting. He squatted by the charging plug, holding his mobile phone in his hands, talking and laughing at the screen. At the other end of the screen is his wife in Henan.
Steel is the skeleton and concrete is the flesh and blood.
After the video of Lao Ge's "surfing the Internet" became popular, his phone often rang, and the workers laughed "You became an online celebrity".
Before coming to Shanghai, Ge was not called "Lao Ge", but called "Ge Laoye" in his hometown of Zhoukou, Henan.
He has studied carpentry, bricklayer and painter, and anyone who builds a house is willing to help him. His fellow villagers commented on him, "people are honest, few words, and willing to suffer."
This is a family-oriented father. He has a son and a daughter. He didn't want to leave home when the children were young. He stayed at home, doing odd jobs and growing watermelons. What he is best at is growing black watermelon, which is crisp and sweet. When the child grew up, the son went to Hainan to learn to build a stage, and the daughter went to the health school. In 20 13, 38-year-old Ge and his fellow villagers became migrant workers, working as painters all over the country, responsible for painting various paints on the walls.
Ge Jacky is painting the wall.
In recent years, Ge has been to Changsha, Zhengzhou, Yiwu and Shanghai.
If you ask him what's the difference between these cities, it will take him a long time to answer, "It's better in the north, it's not so cold, it's always raining in the south, and I can't feel my hands and feet in winter."
This city is very beautiful. "There are more shopping malls in Shanghai than watermelons in my field." The place where Lao Ge stays the most is the construction site-steel bars are the skeleton, concrete is the flesh and blood, excavators roar back and forth, scaffolding is piled up endlessly, dust is rolled into the collar and lungs, and mud is everywhere when it rains. The only bright and eye-catching signs are the red slogans hanging on the wall: "Safety comes from vigilance, accidents come from carelessness" and "Safety for 10,000 days"
There are thousands of migrant workers here. They get up at five o'clock every day, ride seven kilometers to the construction site, work for ten hours, eat a few mouthfuls at noon and continue to work in the afternoon. Their wages are not low. Nobody wants to waste a penny, such as carpenter 280 yuan, bricklayer 260 yuan and painter 250 yuan.
Ge Jian's residential building structure has been built, the cement is rough, the doors and windows have not been installed, and a north wind passes through the hall, making people tremble with cold. The workers put a two-liter kettle full of hot water on the ground. "There is more hot water, but it cools slowly."
The workers don't even know the name of the community they are building.
All they know is that this is Pudong New Area in Shanghai, and the express delivery here is marked with black bold marker, "Hudong, construction site". There is a canteen on the construction site for lunch. Vegetables are three yuan each and meat is five to eight yuan each. It's very cold to eat in the open-air shed before dinner.
The workmates are having dinner. On the left of the picture is an immigrant couple.
Not surprisingly, two years later, this "construction site" in Ge's eyes will be called the "Arc de Triomphe by the River", which is the future Lujiazui Linjiang Mansion, with an average price of 6.5438+0.6 million yuan per square meter and a private club of 6,000 square meters in the community. This place is only two kilometers away from Lujiazui, the national financial center, and less than three kilometers away from the Oriental Pearl TV Tower. Standing on the floor where Ge is under construction, looking up, the waves of Huangpu River are rolling and running under your feet.
Xu Haiting, a migrant worker, heard about the house price here and silently calculated an account. "We have built more than 20 million houses. I don't eat or drink. It will take seven lifetimes to afford it. "
He once built a house next to Guang Zhouta's waist, and he didn't know the name of the community. He only heard from the contractor that the house price there is more expensive, and a set costs more than 50 million. He asked the reporter directly in wait for a while: "What kind of people can afford to live in such a house?"
Ge Zhengyuan has been in Shanghai for almost three months and has only been to the Oriental Pearl once. After work, the spire staring at the Oriental Pearl has been riding towards it, getting closer and closer. He found that "the Oriental Pearl will turn on the light at night and change color". Of course, he didn't go into the TV tower. "Don't waste that money." .
He also thought about going to the Expo Park near the construction site. "I heard it was fun. If you play for one day, you will lose one day's salary. Don't go. "
The most touching thing is the recognition from the city people.
Compared with the housing price in Shanghai, Ge is more concerned about the price of vegetables in the canteen.
He doesn't drink or smoke, and his main expense is eating. The canteen on the construction site is "expensive". Five yuan for a chicken leg and two yuan for three steamed buns. He prefers to go to the roadside food stalls to buy rice. 10 yuan, two meat dishes, four steamed stuffed buns and a little vegetarian food.
Ge Zhengyuan has an account in his heart. In his hometown in Henan, the income from growing watermelons and doing odd jobs does not exceed 30 thousand a year. Going out to work as a construction worker in the city, planning to go home during the Spring Festival and so on. I work more than 300 days a year, earning about 70,000-80,000 yuan a year in 250 yuan.
At the end of each month, the foreman will pay 1000 yuan as the living expenses for the next month, and the rest of the salary needs to be settled in one lump sum before going home for the New Year at the end of the year. In the past five years, Ge can take home 40,000-50,000 yuan every year. He used the money to build a new house. Having been in Shanghai for more than two months, Ge has lived a life of two points and one line in the construction site and board house of this super metropolis.
Every night, he and his colleagues ride bicycles on the roads in Pudong New Area for half an hour. During this journey, they will pass the entrance of Shanghai World Expo Park and some five-star hotels. When waiting for the red light, they will look at the cars running on the road. There are many good cars. "I went home one day and counted thirteen BMWs on the road."
Ge Zhengyuan rode a second-hand bicycle back to the board house.
It's winter now, and the words "frost yellow warning, drive carefully" are printed on the electronic screen on the road. Ge Zhengyuan doesn't care about this. He just wants to ride his bike quickly and eat hot meals early.
The board house where workers live is made of simple iron, and there are 12 bunks in a room less than 20 square meters. There are nine people living in Ge's dormitory. Everyone doesn't have much stuff. Each person has a plastic paint bucket with a cover, filled with hot water, quilts issued by the construction site, two sets of work clothes and one set of his own clothes, which are "to be worn at home during the New Year".
There is a couple in the dormitory, both migrant workers. Ge doesn't know their names, only that they are from Jiangsu. They draw curtains in the corner of the dormitory and sleep on the bed board. "Women like to watch TV series on their mobile phones, and men drink a glass of old village head every night (unit price of a bottle of liquor 16.5 yuan)".
Board houses are like a small village, and almost everything that migrant workers need in their lives can be solved near the board houses.
Before I moved in, there were all kinds of small advertisements on the walls of the dormitory. "The doctor came to see the house" and "Spring Festival travel rush Peak Jinbei Car Home" are the two most frequently appeared.
After five o'clock every day, the workers come back one after another. A stall was set up at the gate of the board house compound. The stall owner was angry and sold some daily necessities and snacks. "Insoles are five yuan and three pairs" and "Factory sells three-meter extended data cable 10 yuan". The most popular snack here is "peanuts, melon seeds and salted peas", which is cheap and kills time.
There is an "outdoor barber shop" in front of the board house. A Shanghai aunt, with a miner's lamp on her head and an electric razor in her hand, sat on the bench when the guests came, put on a haircut and began to work. Five dollars a person, she only cut a flat head and an inch of hair. When the north wind roared, her hair was automatically blown to the ground by the wind, saving the brush.
The outdoor "barber shop" in front of the board house.
After dinner in the evening, everyone will soak their feet in hot water, while listening to some new things from their roommates. "Do you know that people in Hubei say that rubbing is numb?" Others are happy to keep talking and share today's experience. "Children" is the proudest talk of this group of people. Ge's best friend, Lao Cui, whose son has been admitted to China Renmin University as a graduate student, is known to everyone on the construction site. People who live in board houses are not ashamed to call themselves "migrant workers". Migrant workers work hard. "As long as they can catch their breath, they still go to work and go to work with a smile." There is a 64-year-old migrant worker who is covered with plaster and still works every day.
But migrant workers are also glorious. "Although I am a migrant worker, I am very happy that China has developed a new weapon." .
What moved them most was the city people's recognition of their labor. Once, an old gentleman from Shanghai met Xu Haiting at the subway station and nodded to him and said, "There are so many tall buildings in Shanghai, you have worked hard." He can't forget that sentence, "It really feels comfortable after listening to it."
Dearest one
Ge Zhengyuan's search for WiFi at the subway entrance touched many people. Many netizens commented that "it hurts" and "life is not easy".
Some people don't quite understand why they should care about the mobile phone traffic of tens of dollars.
Ge Zhengyuan's family has a heavy burden. His wife had an operation and suffered a waist injury, so she couldn't do heavy work. His daughter is studying in a health school. One year's tuition and living expenses are about 30 thousand. His son has left the society and can stand on his own feet, but Ge Zhengyuan still wants to earn more money. "When the children get married and repair the house, we will spend money to see a doctor when we are old, so don't bother the children."
His frugality reminds many people of his father-
"My father is like this. I could have been less tired, but I still didn't want to rest for my children. I love him and thank him for everything he gave me today. "
"My father, too, is not willing to buy delicious food when he is hungry. Food and clothing are the worst, and the money he saved is used to support his family. "
On the construction site where Ge is located, most of the workers are men over 40 years old, that is, the father of the child, and some of them have even become grandfathers.
Statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics 20 16 also show that there are 76.66 million migrant workers across provinces in China, most of whom are young and middle-aged, with an average age of 39. One trend is that the average age of migrant workers is still increasing.
A sad fact is that Ge's wife Su Xiuna, in her hometown in Henan, is also a neighbor's WiFi video with him.
She used a red rice phone three years ago, and the screen was broken. During the day, she was busy picking peppers and doing farm work. After dinner, she waited for her husband to send her a video.
In the days when Ge was on the news, the network signals of Henan Blizzard and Su Xiuna were intermittent. As soon as she turned on her mobile phone, she only heard people say, "Your man is on the news." She was frightened and thought that something had happened to her husband. She quickly called to ask, and Ge Zhengyuan explained over and over again, "I'm fine, don't worry."
Later, the Ge family saw the video of Ge Su surfing the Internet at the subway entrance. Su Xiuna cried for two days, and her husband squatted on the ground. She was very upset. The son and daughter also saw the video and called their father to go home. "If you don't let it dry, the phone won't hang."
Ge Zhengyuan calls his wife in the canteen.
Su Xiuna said that every year during the Chinese New Year, her husband always dresses up and goes home. When watching the video, he smiled and said that everything was fine. He always told her, "Wear thick clothes, you can't go to work, you should spend the money you should spend, and don't feel bad about those two money."
They almost never quarrel, and if there is endless talk, a video is an hour.
Ge Jia has a WeChat group called "Dearest Person". Every day, when connected to WiFi, Ge will receive dozens of WeChat messages-his son sets up a stage in Hainan, and he will take a small video of the scene every day to let him listen to songs and see the freshness; My wife and daughter have more free time during the day, and WeChat chats one after another. Sometimes, he can't wait to finish listening, so he can video call them directly.
"Homesickness" is the last word to be mentioned on the construction site.
Ge Zhengyuan wants to go home every day. "I want to talk to her every day, eat her cooking, steamed buns and steamed buns, and love to eat her baked eggplant. Slice eggplant, coat with flour, fry in oil pan, and stew with pepper and star anise. It tastes great. "
His good friend Lao Cui, whose son is a graduate student in the journalism department of Renmin University of China, watches the news silently on his mobile phone every day. "I want to go home and chat with him and watch more news on the same topic."
Xu Haiting already has a granddaughter. I saw a little girl of three or four years old in the subway station, and I couldn't open my eyes. The first thing to pick up WiFi is to video with my granddaughter and keep teasing the children. "Call grandpa, call grandpa."
If the construction period is tight this year, these workers will not be able to leave for home until the 29th of the twelfth lunar month. Ge Zhengyuan has made a plan-pay a salary, buy a better mobile phone for his wife, wear new shoes bought by his daughter, and have a good year.
This is not easy for everyone.