Shenzhen City is more than a thousand miles away from Tianguang City.
In an old residential building.
Zhao Ji lives in a room of less than 40 square meters in this residential building with his wife.
He is from Yushan Village. In the early years, because he could not make money in the village, he followed his wife to work, while the children stayed in the village.
At that time, they heard that the wages in Shenzhen City were very high and that it would be the economic center of the country in the future, so the couple came here to work.
In the first few years, I did have a good income through hard work.
But after several years of work, the construction area in Shenzhen City is getting better and better, and the prices are getting higher and higher, but for the workers at the bottom, the wages have not increased much.
Zhao Ji now works at a construction site, and his salary is 180 yuan a day, which is 5,400 yuan a month. His wife cooks at the construction site, and the salary is not high, only 2,000 yuan.
The two people's combined income is more than 7,000, which seems to be a very high salary. It is several times higher than the per capita annual income in Yushan Village.
But they can't save money. Firstly, prices in Shenzhen are too high. A bowl of ordinary noodles costs 30 yuan. Secondly, the rent is also high. Their room of only 40 square meters costs more than 3,000 yuan.
In addition to the two people eating and drinking, they still need 2,000 per month, so 5,000 is removed, leaving more than 2,000, and 1,500 is sent back to my hometown, which saves a few hundred yuan every month.
As a result, after a few years, I didn't have much savings, because individuals will always get sick. Every year, there are major and minor illnesses, and the elderly and children in the family sometimes have to go to the hospital. After a few years, the two of them have no basis at all.
Zhao Ji didn't know when this day would end. He thought of his daughter in his hometown, whom he couldn't see a few times throughout the year, and he felt worried.
At this time, his cell phone suddenly rang.
Zhao Ji picked it up and took a look. There was someone on WeChat who asked him to add him as a friend. He opened his phone and added the person. Before he could send a message, a video chat invitation came from the other side.
"Who?"
Zhao Ji was confused for a while, then clicked Accept, and then a little girl appeared on the phone screen.
"Well……"
Zhao Ji was a little confused at first. Whose daughter was this? She looked so cute. Then when he realized it, he almost wanted to slap himself. Isn't this his daughter Duoduo?
"dad!"
The little girl seemed very happy to see Zhao Ji, and her childish voice came from the mobile phone.
Zhao Ji felt guilty because he couldn't see his daughter even once in a year and almost didn't recognize him. However, her daughter recognized him immediately, which made him want to cry.
On the screen, Duoduo blinked: "Dad, why didn't you say anything?"
Zhao Ji came back to his senses and said hurriedly: "I didn't hear you just now, Duoduo, why did you remember to video chat with me?"
He was still a little confused as to whose cell phone Duoduo was using to chat with him. After thinking about it, the new female branch secretary from Yushan Village had chatted with him on WeChat. He realized that Duoduo must be chatting with that female branch secretary.
Borrowed a mobile phone.
Duoduo seemed very happy to see Zhao Ji and chatted for a long time.
Ten minutes later.
Zhao Ji didn't want Duoduo to make the female branch secretary angry if the conversation continued, so he reminded him: "Duoduo, where is your grandfather?"
Duoduo blinked, then put down the phone, and came back after a while. Duoduo and Zhao Tian's faces appeared in the video.
Zhao Ji was speechless for a while and said: "Dad, why don't you take good care of Duoduo."
Zhao Tian was very excited to see his son. When he heard this, he was speechless and said: "What's wrong with me? Oh, you mean the mobile phone? I forgot. Duoduo, give me the mobile phone and I can chat with your father, okay?"
Duoduo obediently gave her cell phone to her grandfather.
Zhao Ji said: "No, dad, I mean Duoduo borrowed that Xu Zhishu's mobile phone, right? After video chatting with me for so long, Xu Zhishu will probably be angry, and there is no wireless network in the village, so much is wasted
Traffic, wait until you give Xu Zhishu 50 yuan, don’t make people angry."
Zhao Tian understood and said with a smile on his face: "You don't have to worry about this. Secretary Xu is doing well."
Zhao Ji said anxiously: "Hurry up and return your phone to me. I will bring one back to you during the Chinese New Year."
Zhao Tian shook his head: "Son, this phone belongs to me, there is no need to return it."
Zhao Ji thought he heard wrongly: "Dad, what did you say?"
"This mobile phone belongs to me, there is no need to return it! The village committee brought a truckload of mobile phones over yesterday and gave them to us as welfare!"
Zhao Ji's eyes widened and he said in disbelief: "Real or false?"
Zhao Tian was dissatisfied and said: "There are fake ones everywhere. Every household has one. And I heard people in Lijia Village say, what is this brand called Guojiji? I can't remember it. Anyway, it costs a few thousand."
Zhao Ji took a breath: "Fruit machine?"
Zhao Tian nodded: "Yes, that's the fruit machine, the latest model!"
Zhao Ji still didn't believe it: "Dad, is this true? Is our village committee so rich?"
Zhao Tian said impatiently: "It's true what I told you. Now the village committee is very rich and you won't listen to me when I ask you to come back to work. Otherwise, you can get an extra mobile phone this time. Forget it. I won't tell you."
, I’ll hang up first. Goodbye!”
Goodbye?
Zhao Ji secretly thought about what the last sentence meant, and then realized, his own father actually spoke English. When did he become so foreign?
But this matter was not important now. He hurriedly called the villagers who came out to work together.
"Xiao Yuan, have you heard about what's going on in the village?"
"Oh, someone in your family got that phone too!"
"Really a fruit machine?"
After several phone calls, Zhao Ji felt a little dazed and sat there blankly.
When his wife came back, she saw Zhao Ji dazed there with a heavy look on his face. She thought something big had happened and said in a panic: "Husband, what happened? Did something happen to someone at home?"
Zhao Ji shook his head.
His wife was surprised: "So you are sick?"
Zhao Ji still shook his head.
His wife's face darkened: "Did you go gambling?"
Zhao Ji still shook his head.
His wife said angrily: "What's wrong with you?"
Zhao Ji said seriously: "Honey, I'm wondering if we should go back to the village."
He told his wife what happened.
"My parents have told me this before," Zhao Ji's wife said, "I heard that among the villagers, some make less than 3,000 yuan a month, and some make more than 5,000 yuan. Some time ago,
When the hawthorn harvest is good, there are tens of thousands of them. I didn’t believe it at first, is this true?”
Zhao Ji shook his head: "I don't know, how about we go back and take a look?"
"It's okay to go back and take a look." Zhao Ji's wife thought for a while, "I'll go back and take a look first. Anyway, I don't have more jobs than I do, and it's a lot less than me. And it's faster to come back and look for them again."
Zhao Ji thought so, and then agreed with his wife.
On the same night, there were many villagers from Yushan Village who came out to work who had the same plan as him.