Last night, when I was brushing WeChat to "search" the hot information in my circle of friends, a tweet "I bought a house in Hangzhou for the tenth year of writing" launched by WeChat official account jumped into my eyes.
Once again, the author is Wu Xiaoshi, and the article also comes from her own literary dream home-a WeChat official account platform named "Wu Xiaoshi".
"Wu Xiaoshi" The name is strange and familiar. Unfamiliar, I haven't paid attention to her dynamics in WeChat circle of friends for a long time; I am familiar with it. I have read her humorous stories many times on the Internet recently.
I quickly looked back at the WeChat circle of friends and searched her name. Fortunately, Wu Xiaoshi is still "loyal" among my friends. Take a closer look. God, Wu Xiaoshi even published a best-selling book "You are My Amusement Park Package" at the beginning of last year, which once ranked first in Dangdang Qingrui's new book list. Looking back slowly, I recall that Xiaoshi was a naive little girl when she was my friend, as if she were a freshman in Hunan University. Others spend their family's money on college, but she doesn't have to spend her parents' money on writing.
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Wu Xiaoshi, born in 1990, was originally named Yuan Lan, a quiet and well-behaved girl from Jiujiang, Jiangxi. In high school, she published many articles in Expo for Middle School Students, Germination, Inside and Outside the Classroom, and Chinese Newspaper. Her words are concise and clear, hitting the reader's heart directly.
Now lives in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
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Wu Xiaoshi once wrote in the article "Ten Thousand Possibilities of Ordinary People's Life": I live in a well-behaved family, my mother is a doctor and my father is an official cadre. My parents didn't give me any inspiration in reading or any training in writing. The only thing that moved me was that they never cared about reading extracurricular books when I was a child and buying them for me. I am a savage growth type, and they also respect my choice and will not participate too much. I've been messing around alone.
Since childhood, my classroom composition has always been a high score, but it is the kind of "neat handwriting, rich examples, corresponding from beginning to end" that every student with good grades can achieve. If I can go back to my childhood, I will guide myself as a child and write some articles that are really childlike. Children should not be required to write any fixed composition at the best age they can imagine. The extracurricular reading that has the greatest influence on me in my impression.
Why is it called this pen name? She said this: "Witch" is quaint, "Poetry" is delicate and gentle, and I hope my style and personality can take these two points into account.
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She is not a strange girl, but she is very talented, perhaps because of her hard feelings. Every story she writes comes from people and life around her. True but not impetuous, humorous but elegant, often cause a * * * sound, resulting in a "butterfly effect", which makes people want to see it. For example, she wrote in the article "In the tenth year of writing, I bought a house in Hangzhou with the payment":
On the afternoon of June 24th, 20 18, I finally became a man with a house, a man with a house of 120 square meters in Hangzhou. This day, I feel cool.
The idea of buying a house has a long history. I lived in four rental houses before and after, and experienced the despair of moving from the seventh floor without elevator to another seventh floor without elevator. When I met a landlord who thought I was not at home, I opened the door directly with the key to show the new tenant the house. I have also experienced the helplessness of sleeping on the living room floor on a hot summer night when the old air conditioner in the bedroom of the rental house is broken.
At that time, I always comforted myself, "I won't always live in a rental house." I'm just being fostered by the future house and experiencing the life in the rental house. When I have enough experience, my house will take me home. "
But comfort is comfort. Hangzhou, land is precious. I am a small town girl with an ordinary family. It is so easy to own my own house.
Four years in college is my richest period. At that time, 800 yuan could live in the dormitory for one year, and eating in the canteen was only a few dollars. I didn't consider the house at all, and I was not interested in bags and cosmetics. I just want to play around after I save enough money.
I have been steadily contributing to magazines since high school. When I was in college, I earned thousands of dollars a month. I can pass 10 thousand when I am very diligent. At that time, I felt extremely rich and walked with the wind.
The gap began in the year of graduation. After graduation, I came to Hangzhou with the "huge savings" I had saved for four years in college. I like this city, I want to live here, and I think my future is bright.
It was not until my friends of the same age bought a house in Hangzhou that I was shocked. Buying a house right after graduation? "I feel that buying a house is something that middle-aged people do. I am still a girl!
The shock followed, and several peers bought houses one after another. These newly graduated post-90s, or even post-90s, have far-sighted parents. Houses in Hangzhou are rising day by day. Buy early and earn early, and help children pay down payment, or even full payment. They can live and invest. Bailey is harmless.
My parents don't have the foresight, and even if they do, they don't have the financial resources. I don't blame my parents, but I really envy others. I have a house in a big city as soon as I graduate, which means they can struggle for five or even ten years less.
And the "huge sum" that I was proud of when I stayed up late writing in college for four years was only a few square meters in front of the housing price in Hangzhou. I thought everything would be fine as long as I worked hard, but at that moment, I felt that my efforts were just a drop in the ocean in front of the house.
After I calmed down, I started a new round of self-consolation. "After all, people with houses are a minority. Don't feel gloomy because of the light of a few people. "
Until one time, I was lazy and found a door-to-door cleaning on the Internet. My aunt chatted with me while cleaning, and I realized that they were all from Jiangxi. I asked my aunt, did you buy a ticket to go home for the New Year? She said: "I have settled in Hangzhou and will not go back to my hometown for the New Year."
Later, I gradually discovered that the masseur of the blind massage shop has a room in Hangzhou, the owner of the breakfast shop at the door has a room in Hangzhou, and the younger online car driver has several suites in Hangzhou ... My simple feeling is that all people in Hangzhou, old and young, proud and ordinary, have houses except me.
Because there is no house in Hangzhou, I often feel that the beauty praised by this city does not belong to me. The fountain on the West Lake dances for others, and the lights on Nanshan Road have nothing to do with me.
Every time I meet a new friend in a foreign country, everyone always asks, "Where are you from?" I always feel embarrassed when I answer this question. "I live in Hangzhou now and my hometown is in Jiangxi."
Yes, because I don't have a home in Hangzhou, even after living in Hangzhou for more than two years, I still have no confidence to say "I'm from Hangzhou" even if I have a Hangzhou hukou.
I have saved money for a long time in Hangzhou, and I am not confident, timid and occasionally lose money.
I write everything these days, magazines, award-winning essays, books, short plays, official accounts of WeChat, commercial drafts of major brands ... I write what I like under my own name and what I don't like under an alias.
I went to Australia for a few months to work and vacation, signed up for all official activities that can travel for free, never bought a big-name bag, and my computer used for more than five years often breaks down and will be used all the time.
Every time I receive the payment, I will transfer the money in the payment card to various wealth management products. Adhering to the principle of not putting all the eggs in one basket, I'm not sure how many eggs there are in all my baskets.
It occurred to me that day that I always thought my deposit was six figures, but I was shocked to find that it was seven figures. I, a cheapskate whose clothes add up to only a few hundred dollars from head to toe, buy only low-cost airlines by plane and have a seven-figure deposit, which is simply Eugenie Grandet.
After making sure that I had saved enough money for the down payment, I came back from Australia and began to look at the house. After the G-20 Summit and the upcoming Asian Games, the real estate market in Hangzhou is as hot as a volcano.
Not to mention ordinary people who buy a house with a loan, even local tyrants who buy a house in full can't buy a new house with cash. All new properties must be shaken, and basically tens of thousands of people shake two or three hundred sets, and the probability of winning is comparable.
I have shaken all six properties into my present house. I am lucky in front of those who have shaken more than a dozen plates, but the lottery of these six properties almost killed me.
Yaohao is a long war. Many buildings have to queue up at designated banks to freeze funds, and then queue up at the sales office to submit materials. Some hot spots will stipulate a branch of a bank, so thousands of Hangzhou people crowded into a bank to do business. You have to get up early and queue up at the bank gate with a small bench and parasol.
Once the queue was Guangfa Bank, and the team had already circled outside. Because the queue time was too long, at lunchtime, the bank staff began to distribute lunch to the customers in line-each with a bottle of water and a steamed stuffed bun. It feels like the victims are receiving relief food, and they feel very painful. The erhu is about to ring.
Of course, what's even more terrible is that the queue for so long can only give others the denominator again and again when you finally shake the number.
When the results of the sixth lottery were announced, I was in the northwest and I was used to not being able to shake myself. I gave no hope at all. Suddenly found himself at the top of the list, with a straight face leng for a long time.
It feels like an ordinary high-cold junior who has been chasing boys for many years suddenly turns around and says "I like you", and you will feel very unreal.
Change your ticket immediately, go back to Hangzhou the day before choosing a room, and do your homework for choosing a room overnight. After waking up, go to the sales department and wait for the phone to choose a room.
I'm afraid there will be some other expenses on the spot, and I don't have enough funds. I even refunded the balance of WeChat and the 200 yuan deposit for my bicycle, and the whole person felt evacuated.
When I signed the house purchase contract, my hands began to shake. I can't shake my hands when I sign thousands of books a day, but I can't stop shaking after signing a few pages.
Looking back on the hard work of staying up late to write articles over the years and the fatigue of queuing to buy lottery tickets in recent months is like a war that I don't want to remember. The moment I signed the purchase contract, I also signed a truce with unpleasant memories.
From this moment on, I am a person with a family in Hangzhou. I don't need to look at the face of the landlord, and I don't need to migrate every year. I can nail the wall and hang grandma's embroidered pictures. I can take my family to live in Hangzhou, without going to a hotel or hitting the floor. ...
From this moment on, I became a person who had to struggle from scratch. I have no savings and I owe the bank a mortgage for 30 years. I had to start climbing again from the foot of the mountain.
To tell you the truth, I'm a little tired.
But think about it, my parents are proud of me, and my sister is waiting for me to be an example. I think this mountain can be climbed for decades.
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It can be seen that a girl's mentality of striving for her dreams and striving for self-improvement may be the life Wu Xiaoshi wants because of writing. Her dream has come true and she will be more energetic on the way to writing.
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In the internet age, everyone can write; Everyone can change their life and destiny through writing. If you want to live the life you want, if you like writing, I believe that as long as you persist, one day you will realize your dream like Wu Xiaoshi. I also hope that there will be more excellent poems and a new book as soon as possible, which will once again add a warm surprise to your youth!