It is said that working in Shenzhen is like a flower in Shenzhen, and I want to take it home with me...
As a senior migrant worker in Shenzhen, Ye Mo doesn't agree with this statement.
In fact, it’s not just Shenzhen. No matter where you work, it’s not easy to save money. Especially for young people...
Young people must have a few friends, and they must go out and get together several times a month.
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Ye Mo was born in a rural family.
I started living in Shenzhen after graduating from college. I worked as a clerical worker with a salary of 3,000 to 4,000 yuan. That was many years ago...
The salary was really too low. Then I saw the factory recruitment information, which said the salary was between 5,000 and 10,000, so I went in and gave it a try.
Now, Ye Mo is doing furniture installation. He helps people move furniture and install furniture. When business is good, he can get more than 10,000 yuan a month. When business is at its worst, there is a guarantee of 6,000 yuan.
Ye Mo has worked in many jobs, and the salary in his current job is quite high.
Shenzhen is a first-tier city full of miracles. As long as you are willing to endure hardships in many jobs, such as delivering food, there are people who can earn a monthly salary of over 10,000 yuan. But there are only a handful of guys who can do this.
Ye Mo settled the bill with the owner above. After taking the elevator down, he saw a co-worker waiting outside and handed him a bottle of iced Coke: "It's been so hot these days, Mr. Banban."
Ye Mo took the Coke, opened it, took a big sip, and looked at the time: "I'm back. I clocked in to get off work."
The main part of the six-seater sofa cannot be disassembled and needs to be lifted up by stairs.
Ye Mo and the two of them have been working on this set of sofas since noon.
Get in the van, return to the mall, check in, and get off work.
Ye Mo lives in a suburban studio apartment, which is not too far from his workplace. It only takes about ten minutes by bicycle.
I got off work early today, the weather was hot, and there were no people on the road. A large truck carrying coal was running very fast. When passing the crossroad... a middle-aged woman riding a battery car rushed out with a more wild attitude, and was almost killed
The coal truck hit.
The coal truck was also startled and stepped on the brakes. A piece of coal larger than a basketball fell from the truck.
The middle-aged woman cursed and left.
The coal truck did not stop and disappeared at the end of the road.
Ye Mo saw the coal on the road, rode over and picked it up.
This piece of coal is very big and black. There are few people and few cars on this section of the road, and the cars are all running very fast... If a driver with bad eyesight crashes directly into it, it is easy to cause an accident.
Ye Mo put the coal on the pedal of the battery car, turned left after passing the crossroad, and entered the countryside.
This section of road has newly built residential properties on one side and rural fields on the other side...
Looking at the buildings in the village, Ye Mo was envious. The houses here should be demolished in a few years, and then there will be multi-millionaires and billionaires one after another.
The demolition here will definitely make you rich overnight.
In the past, Ye Mo often fantasized about what he would do after becoming rich overnight...
After so many years, Ye Mo has seen the reality clearly.
If you want to get rich suddenly, for those who have no ability or background, you have to rely on fate.
In Shenzhen, the Internet says that the average salary has reached 15,000 yuan. But in fact, the median income in Shenzhen seems to be only more than 5,000 yuan. In other words, half of the people have a monthly salary of less than 5,000 yuan.
But the median housing price in Shenzhen has reached 50,000.
Houses in Shenzhen are not meant for wage earners.
Working in Shenzhen is a flower of Shenzhen that I want to take home. For those who have just come to Shenzhen, many of the working people find it difficult not only to save money, but also to maintain a living.
The same goes for Ye Mo, who just came to Shenzhen and couldn't save money.
How much you earn, how much you spend.
It was only in the past few years that Ye Mo was able to save some money.
In the second year after he started working, his mother got a tumor. His father called and asked Ye Mo how much savings he had. How could Ye Mo have any savings at that time...
Fortunately, my mother's tumor was benign and the surgery cost only more than 10,000 yuan.
At that time, Ye Mo was still talking about his girlfriend. When Ye Mo returned to his hometown, his girlfriend immediately broke up with him.
Ye Mo's family has an orchard. They are not particularly wealthy, but they are not particularly poor either. They can be considered a middle-income family.
However, with Ye Mo and a younger sister at home, they couldn't save much money. That's when Ye Mo started saving.
It is not easy to save money in Shenzhen.
Taking accommodation as an example, Ye Mo currently lives in the suburbs of the city. The monthly rent for a single room with the simplest decoration is 700 yuan. Add in the water, electricity, and Internet fees... and the price is over a thousand yuan, about 1,100 yuan.
Ye Mo's job does not include meals. He has to eat out for lunch, which costs at least 20 yuan.
Eat it by yourself at home in the morning...
In the evening, I would cook and eat by myself after get off work. If I had to work overtime, I would have to eat outside.
Sometimes colleagues invite guests to dinner, and then they have to return the invitation.
Monthly expenses such as food, rent, and occasionally buying cheap clothes are about 3,000 yuan.
This kind of life is neither good nor particularly bad. I can save some money every month.
After living in Shenzhen for several years, Ye Mo also thought about returning to his hometown in the county.
My hometown is in Huacheng, where housing prices are not high and consumption is not high... but the jobs I can find are also not high-salary.
Ye Mo was thinking wildly, he was approaching the community, he stopped the car, picked up the coal on the pedal and walked to the roadside, threw it into the grass on the roadside, and was about to leave...but he saw a green light on the cracked coal.
"Huh?" Ye Mo walked over quickly.
The coal cracked, and the green light disappeared. There was a raised green, glass-like bead inside the coal...
Ye Mo pulled out the beads embedded in the coal.
The surface of the bead was smooth, smooth, and light blue, like the blue sky, pure... like glass. The moment his hand touched the bead, Ye Mo felt his head shake, and deep in his mind, something seemed to be hit.
Ye Mo subconsciously wanted to throw away the bead, but the bead stuck to his hand and could not be thrown away. In just a second or two, the bead emitted green light again, and shot towards the center of Ye Mo's eyebrows. Ye Mo stretched out his hand.
I tried to block it, but failed to block it. It went directly into the center of my eyebrows and disappeared.
"Grass~!"
Ye Mo felt his mind shake again, the world was spinning, and then he fell into darkness.
When he woke up, Ye Mo found himself lying in the yard of a hut.
The hut is not big, with two rooms and a kitchen.
Including the yard, the entire area is estimated to be only a hundred square meters.
Ye Mo patted his head and stood up.
"Where is this, why am I here..." Ye Mo's head seemed to be filled with a ball of boiling paste, and he was unconscious. Even the things he saw had heavy ghosting.
After a few seconds, Ye Mo felt better.
Take a look at this place...
"Is there anyone there?" Ye Mo shouted.
The hut looks very new.
The yard has a bluestone floor and is covered with moss.
Outside the starting point, in the northwest corner of the yard, there is a well.
Next to the well stands a stone tablet with three characters engraved on it: Lingquan Well.
There is a line of small words below the three big characters: With the power of the world, gather souls in the spring.
"This font..." Ye Mo patted his head hard.
Fonts similar to small seal script and oracle bone inscriptions. Ye Mo was sure that he did not know this type of writing before, but now he saw the writing on the stone tablet...
This feeling is very strange, as if there are some forgotten memories that have come to life due to a sudden touch.
Ye Mo's mind was still dizzy: "Is there anyone there?" He called out again, but received no response, so he walked to the Lingquan Well and squatted down.
The well water is clear and transparent.
Moss also grew beside the well, thick moss.
The water in this well is about two meters deep, and you can see the bottom. The water in the well is only about ten centimeters from the edge of the well...
Ye Mo reached out to hold some water and patted his face.
Stimulated by the cold well water, Ye Mo sobered up a lot.