the author of the Qilu Evening News, Zhao Wei Li Shuai, the
[face= script _GB2312] to take pictures, the grinder Lao Wang wiped and wiped the front of the car. (Photo by Zhao Wei) [/face]
winter is another year's slack season.
many rural grinders have already set foot on the way to the city, hard to stand in the chill wind, and spend the cold winter in the corner of the city. At one point 22 p.m. in Ji'nan, Shandong, Shandong, in the air, in the air, the atmosphere of the air, the reporter in Ji'nan two latitude five a district to see the local accent, Wang Zhenyong, in order to make a living, he wore a grinder line in the streets of Ji'nan, doing a small business of 5 yuan per stroke, a hard way to shout.
sharpening knife for 23 years, Ji'nan is as familiar as home town
Along the two road, Wang Zhenyong pushed the bicycle carrying the tool tool, and shouted at the edge of the weft five, and he went straight into the neighborhood of the Xiang Xiang lane, the wind, and he pulled the open coat.
"it looks like rain, and it hasn't opened this afternoon." Lao Wang is a little anxious. A bright black stool, a few grindstone and small iron hammer, an old face basin, a broken bicycle, these simple tools, the old king walks the streets and streets indispensable "dinner family".
Wang Zhenyong is from a village in Huaibei, Anhui. Many people in the village have sharpened their skills. "At that time, I learned skills from the master in the village, and came out to earn some money, or else the rural people could do anything." Wang Zhenyong said that he usually came out when he was not busy at home. In late October every year, he took a five or six hour train to Ji'nan with a simple baggage and tool tool, and Wang Zhenyong had a year out of the year. He has been grinding in Ji'nan for 23 years, almost running all over the streets and lanes of Ji'nan, going south to the south of the Second Ring Road, going west to a section of the store, and changing a piece of grindstone for one or two months, and not knowing how many pieces have been changed, said Wang, who has been grinding in Ji'nan for 23 years. "I am familiar with Ji'nan as well as my hometown," he said. "There are some places where some old Jinan people may not know, but I can tell."
once, Wang Zhenyong and a countryman sharpened over the Bayi flyover. It happened that a citizen's child was missing. "He said we were human traffickers. They turned the kids off and beat us." The old king sighed. Sometimes he had a drunken drink and took them crazy. Fortunately, every time there were some people who had a lot of ambition to help, they were able to leave.
Lao Wang said that one must persist in supporting a family and suffering. The elder son spent a lot of money on his marriage, and his two son went to college for ten thousand or twenty thousand a year. Speaking of his family, Wang Zhenyong has a red eye, and he has a 10 year old daughter, suffering from cerebral palsy, eating and drinking lazara nothing to understand, watching a few hospitals, all said do not hold too much hope. In order to save money, Wang Zhenyong eats cheap noodles, oil sticks, steamed buns, and can't afford to rent a house every day. In order to find a demolition old house, Wang Zhenyong makes do with the bridge in the summer. A person who stays outside for half a year is too dirty to wash clothes and his sleeves have been blackened by oil. "This dress has been worn for more than 20 days." Lao Wang embarrassed to lift his sleeve and looked at it. "Save money, just wear it."
business is cold. In order to earn a living, he still sticks to
with the improvement of living standards, Wang Zhenyong obviously felt that the number of sharpening people was less and less. "Now, with the use of iron knives, the knife has been destroyed and thrown away. Wang Zhenyong said that the price of the shark knife has risen to 5 yuan, but it can be worn seven or eight times a day. Now, Lao Wang also helps people wash, repair oil and gas machines and gas cooker, "these add up, can make more than 1000 dollars a month, but as long as people need a knife, I will keep doing it."
in order to do more work, Wang Zhenyong hung up a billboard in front of his bicycle and got his telephone number. The reporter said he took a picture. Wang Zhenyong hurriedly took out his gloves and wiped and rubbed the brand. "Don't take me. It's too dirty." When the weather was bad, there were not many people who came out to sharpen the knife. When reporters left, it began to rain in the sky. "Rain, hurry back." After listening to the reporter's words, Wang Zhenyong smiled and said, "when you shout and walk, you may even have to sharpen your knife."