At the turn of the year, returning to their hometown has become the wish of all migrant workers, and the epidemic in Beijing is also touching the hearts of the public.
On January 19, the 269th press conference on the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in Beijing was held. At the press conference, a new case of asymptomatic infection was reported in Chaoyang District, and the person's activity route was announced.
However, it is this flow that has brought countless people to tears.
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Yue Mou, who is in his 40s from Weihai, Shandong Province, came to Beijing in the spring of 2021 to do odd jobs, compared to ordinary North Drifters, he is not just for making money, he also has another purpose: to find a son.
Yue Yuetong, Yue's son, born in 2001, was lost on August 12, 2020 in the waiting hall of Dongshan Bus Station in Dongshan Town, Rongcheng City, Shandong Province. In the following two years or so, Yue Mou went to many places to find a son, but the sea of people was vast, which was tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.
Uncertain work, wandering north drifter
The WeChat group of the recruitment platform gathers low-cost labor recruitment information, such as carrying sandbags, carrying cement, and moving garbage. Yue Mou relies on these odd jobs for a living, sleeping four or five hours a day, most of them working from midnight to early morning, and can earn two or three hundred yuan at a time. There are no specific working hours, there is no stable place of work, the only fixed place of residence is a small room of ten square meters in Shigezhuang, with a monthly rent of 700 yuan.
He said: "Don't leak rain, just sleep."
In fact, before, the official also announced the circulation information of positive infected people in Beijing Haidian, and there are many high-end places in and out, and the exquisite life is enviable. The first-tier big cities in the north, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen are the most prosperous metropolises with the atmosphere of the times, but the more such a city, the greater the contrast between people's living pictures, people's origins and educational backgrounds are different, not all of them have bright living conditions, some people are to live a life, and some people have become a struggle for survival.
Broken life, struggling pillars
This is Yue Mou's third time in 2021 to come to Beijing to work, and when he can go to sea during the fishing season, he will return to Weihai as a crew member.
After coming to Beijing for the second time, his mother broke his arm, and his father was paralyzed, and the old couple could not take care of themselves, nor were they low-income households, and it usually cost a lot of money to take medicine. His wife is at home to take care of her young son in elementary school, help people dry kelp to make money, and his income is meager, he is the only pillar of the family.
When he was detected to be abnormal in nucleic acid, he was sitting on a train from Beijing to Weihai to prepare for departure, and if it were not for the epidemic, he could have embarked on the road back to his hometown to reunite with his relatives and spend the Spring Festival.
Until he was isolated in the CDC, he still remembered that the 414-yuan ticket had not been refunded. The staff at the sickness center wanted to give him money, but he refused.
He said: "I don't feel pity for myself, I just work hard, I don't steal or rob, I rely on my own strength, I rely on my own hands, I earn money, I earn money to find children." It's for life, for the care of this home."
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The road to find a son, a persistent father
"I worked hard to get the kids back. I work harder, even if I put my life in it, I have to get the child back."
According to Yue, on August 12, 2020, the eldest son went missing in the waiting hall of Dongshan Bus Station in Dongshan Town, Rongcheng City, and there was no more news.
He chose to call the police, but tried to locate his son's mobile phone but was refused. The case was not filed until three months after his son disappeared.
In order to find his son, he traveled to more than ten cities. With no home to live in, he slept next to a bank ATM. Without money, he worked locally to earn money and then moved to other cities.
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The bottom of the North Drifter, the father looking for a son, the middle-aged man who carries the burden of the family, too many labels focus on Yue Mou. And he is just a microcosm of the ordinary public, through his experience, we see the pain of the ordinary public, should we reflect more?
The glamorous city is built by every laborer, but not everyone has the resources to speak out, how can we help the working people at the bottom, so that they receive more attention, from the corners of society to the public eye.
Let them live more securely and dignifiedly, not just survive.
Don't stand on a high ground and look down on suffering, they are the original appearance of life, but they did not happen to ourselves, we did not become the person with the trauma.