Re: 6 elderly people hold a group of 15 square meters, living age plus 400 years old
he said he was not used to life in Beijing, "it's too cold." Enter the district to lose the password, downstairs and lose the password, he always can not remember those figures, often in the wind for a half hour.
"Beijing is too expensive! A pound of cucumber is about 20 yuan, and a pound of string beans is 12 yuan! " Kong old man reached for his price and shook his head. "I don't want to burden my son." Some people quietly said that Kong old man and his daughter-in-law couldn't get along.
compared to his son's mansion, he seems to be more accustomed to the shabby shop here. He has no access and no restrictions. He wants to play wherever he wants.
only the rest of the tenants had families on Wednesday. He was taciturn. He didn't talk about anything but smiled. He works like a slow motion video, and he can go out with his face, at least half an hour and an hour to wash his feet. It takes two hours to wash clothes like a pilgrimage. When he met his sister-in-law who swept the public toilets, Wang Gan de knew the reason why his ex-wife got rid of him.
LUO Bang Bang is himself to throw away the "marriage". He used to be very angry in the village and built brick house at the age of more than 40. A middleman came to him with a Hubei woman. He wanted to marry a woman, only to give 4000 yuan "introduction fee". The rod waved them away. Later, the woman married to the neighboring village, gave birth to two babies and ran away.
recall the marriage that had been so close at hand. "If we were willing to give up the money, even if people had run away, at least we could leave a doll."
Liao Shen head does not regret playing a bachelor. When he was 19 years old, his mother made him marry a hunchbacked woman. He was so stubborn that he refused to live. In a heated quarrel, he went crazy and was sent to the Geleshan psychiatric hospital for 3 years. He was ill, and after he was discharged, he never returned home.
he wanders all over the country, trains in summer, trains in winter, and no tickets for crew members. When he first went to Beijing, he was taken as a beggar and worked for 3 months. Second when he went back to Beijing, he studied well, spent a few yuan on his hair, borrowed the uniform of railway workers, and mixed himself with the crowd.
so far he is still wearing a uniform that is incompatible with his identity, sent by a mailman.
not everyone is as free and easy as Liao Shentou. In this crowded dormitory, most of the old men still yearn for "love" - "to find a person to be in the same mind, to speak, and to take care of each other." But this yearning has to succumb to market principles - radish and radish, cabbage and cabbage.
the blind have brought back two "girlfriends". An old woman is blind, eating and washing all depends on him. The blind man thinks and thinks, "I don't want to return the pack." The other body was healthy, and he was handed over the bank card in two days. Two people were sent away only for half a month.
Qin Er has disappeared from the dormitory for some time. He was introduced to an old lady picking up wastage. Two people rented the house together. After the woman found out that he had nothing, the people and the bedding disappeared. Qin Er called, and the other side said lightly, "I don't know you."
he went back to Wang Gande's dorm with his quilt back. Every night, he waited for the fog in the TV set. The program tells the fictional love story in Chongqing dialect. Whenever the end of the long advertisement is over, the program will start shouting, "the beginning has begun!"
over the past few years, few people have mentioned their wives.
everyone knows that at their age and condition, like the increasingly wilting leaves on vegetable stalls, "even if they are not sent, no one will want them." The screen and the real story are two different things.
Qin Er is regarded as the "intellectual" in the dormitory. He read for two years, knew some words, and had his own old glasses. When he is free, he will spend a dollar to buy a thin Chinese Zodiac book and sit close to it on the stool.
he predicted that he would win a fortune. "No good thing, bad things must be very good." He squinted with a squinting smile. Those who predict he may be "bitten by a dog" and "hit by a car" will read word by word.
in order to fight the risk of life, Liao Shentou holds the simplest principle: no money. "Do not know whether to die today or to die tomorrow, to save so much money, and to die is not yet returned to the public."
when he was young, when he was in the bar, he lived a happy life, worked in the morning and went to the cinema in the afternoon. Today, he runs away with his candy stick every day, but he finds himself far from the worst. "When the city management is not easy, their faces change faster than ours."
other old people are the same. They can manage to eat well and live. When you can't get the waste, someone is hanging around the waist to see people playing cards. Back to the dormitory, some people like to watch mediation programs on family chores. Some people like to see the "mountain city Bang Bang army" and feel that they are acting like themselves. Tired of watching TV, someone used the songs and saucers to pick up the prairie songs, and gently sang "spring is coming" and "go home".
few people discuss the final destination. Everyone knows that with a thin annual decline, they have only two choices: either go to a lower industry, or quit the competitive market, say goodbye to a city that has lived for decades, and go back to a long deserted field. When
department store closed down, Liao Shentou's colleague "pole stick" chose the latter. This man, like a lean man with dried fish, solemnly declared to everyone when he picked up the bedding: "Lao Tzu will never come back again!"
when the old men in the dormitory talk about him, the tone is full of jealousy, "he lives happily." As we all know, pole sticks are different from them. He has houses in his hometown, family and children.
Liao didn't have such a hometown. He undertook the bedding of pole sticks, laid his own bedclothes, and stacked all his clothes on the head of the bed. His sugar gourd straw sticks quietly in the corner of the living room by the door. Tomorrow it will be filled with ice sugar, chocolate and strawberry - flavored hawthorn, and he hopes the days will be sweeter.
China Youth Daily, China Youth Online reporter Guo Luyao Wen and photo source: China Youth Daily (04 2018, 04 12 Edition)