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Electrician "Sherlock Holmes", 10 million onlookers

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Electrician "Sherlock Holmes", 10 million onlookers

2019 is an important year in life for the little electrician Wang Jianxing, a year like a suddenly uplifted mountain, splitting his life in half.

Before that, he was an outcast of the rules. The hometown from which he set out ridiculed him, "Even in the village, it is the poorest families,...... Said I was going to fight a bachelor for the rest of my life. "The city where he lives doesn't treat him well. There had been times when he felt the most naked, potentially unfazed existential fear. Everywhere, he is close to transparent.

But after 2019, everything slowly changed, and he became a "celebrity" with 10 million subscribers on the web. Among them, Douyin alone has 7.69 million fans, with a total of 61.047 million likes.

Electrician "Sherlock Holmes", 10 million onlookers

Wang Jianxing's Douyin account homepage is even more popular than many entertainment stars

10 million people, the number of permanent residents of a megacity. All kinds of people needed him, and he became a "good guy on the street" and made "headlines". The four-year-old also became a fan of him, coming to his door to share his favorite candy.

But in fact, nothing has changed. Is there a third option in the life choices that seem to be all about retreating or attacking in an all-out way? As a person who has no way out and wants to live in this world seriously, Wang Jianxing has spent several decades of his life answering this question.

Create a whirlpool

Electricity is surging around us all the time. In the scorching summer, Guangzhou's urban power grid has to transmit hundreds of millions of kilowatt hours of electricity in one day, and the whole process seems to be non-existent, because there is no touch, no sound, no taste, like water vapor, which is the invisible background of life.

As long as it doesn't go wrong, few people pay attention, but in Qingdao's Chengyang District, there are exceptions. As an ordinary front-line electrician, Wang Jianxing will post his daily maintenance on the Internet, and from the end of 2019 to this year, he has accumulated more than 10 million subscribers on the whole network.

Everyone is extremely fascinated, a video posted on Douyin has reached more than 10 million views, with 1.44 million likes, 250,000 favorites, and more than 20,000 comments, which even exceeds some entertainment stars. "At 2 a.m., more than 2,000 people joined me to watch him fix the electricity. One fan observed. There are also girls who left messages in the comment area, saying that they were a liberal arts student who couldn't even understand the zero fire line from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. "I can't understand it at all, and I can't get out at all. This is a common sentiment expressed by everyone in the comment section.

Electrician "Sherlock Holmes", 10 million onlookers

Wang Jianxing who shot the video / Source: Sun Chuan photo

The content of electricity does not conform to people's imagination of "popular", hardware, extremely niche, and knowledge barriers. But these did not become an obstacle, regardless of the profession or irrelevance, on which platform, what age and gender, in which country to live, what level of education, all kinds of people are "obsessed" to watch the maintenance routine of an electrician.

In this branch, ordinary electricians can have 100,000 fans is already well-known, Wang Jianxing has done it 100 times, almost a miracle, and the maintenance process that should have been boring has been turned into a whirlpool that can attract everyone's attention. At the beginning, he didn't think that the situation would develop to the extent it is today, "I made the first maintenance video, the second maintenance video, and until now, I can't stop, they are all waiting to watch." He said.

If you look closely, you will find that some fans put his videos in their favorites called "movies", and there was also an online writer who wrote a novel with a realistic story that Wang Jianxing encountered during maintenance. In the nearly 800 videos in which he works diligently like farming, the most intuitive feeling is, "Is this okay?" His maintenance cases are full of absurdity, all kinds of "strange" things happen here, and real life is far richer than movies.

The water in the sink can be charged while flowing, a wall that you pass by can be quietly heated, and families have been "volunteering" for years to supply electricity to the street lights downstairs and the air conditioners of their neighbors. Where might the ants in the city hide? Once Wang Jianxing came to inspect and accidentally removed an outlet, the black-pressed ant colony hid behind and "flourished" to survive while being electrified.

There are always fresh problems, and the reasons for these problems are often beyond imagination.

Electrician "Sherlock Holmes", 10 million onlookers

One of the maintenance videos on Wang Jianxing's Douyin account / Source: Douyin @ Chengyang Electrical Circuit

After a rain, the puppy walked across the road and suddenly fell, because the road was electrified, and took a step to change the voltage, the puppy could not wear shoes, the meat pad was grounded, and he was killed in a place of high voltage. A family seems to have been selected by "Lei Gong", and the steel structure of the whole house is electrified, because the fixed steel bars on the way from the transformer to the home of the street cable are flat rather than round, and the wire skin is cut under the wind and sun, resulting in a short circuit. Even, you can "peep" from his maintenance video, there is a renovation worker who used a little more force when he made an eye, and he accidentally hit a few millimeters crooked, and he pierced the wire skin.

As an uninterrupted, silent substance, electricity records life like a stealth camera that never exceeds its storage capacity. Although he always calls himself a "soil electrician", the electricity that Wang Jianxing deals with is itself an unusual perspective, and his videos have unwittingly become the language in which ordinary people and electricity are connected. In the process, people see some stories that are not even eyewitnesses, and discover the darker side of life, which is like "detective".

Some people saw his video for the first time in the homework assigned by the physics teacher, some people wanted to learn his case when they joined the electrician, some people searched for his updates in the popular website during their daily pastime, and some people would pay attention to such a person in the headlines of social and livelihood news...... In the past 4 years, more and more people have followed Wang Jianxing's lens to "judge" the endless accidents in the trivial matter of electricity, looking for the "culprit" hidden in the depths.

"Electrician Sherlock Holmes", this is also the name he is called the most by everyone outside of his Douyin ID "Chengyang Electrical Circuit".

Electrician "Sherlock Holmes", 10 million onlookers

Wang Jianxing at work/Source: Photo by Sun Chuan

"All the way to the power plant"

In March, I met Wang Jianxing himself in Qingdao and tried to understand why he became the phenomenal "Electrician Sherlock Holmes" among so many electricians in the country.

He's very introverted, and we sit at a table where we talk and he keeps his head down almost the whole time, and there's a tin box on the table, and he likes to stare at the cuboid-like candy candy in it. By the time I finished the interview and was about to get up, I found that he had arranged them neatly like electronic components.

He seems to have a world of his own, with his own rules in it.

For example, he insisted on wearing the same gray electrician uniform all year round for many years, whether he went to work or not. For example, he also has some habits of his own. In the video, he often said a sentence, "the pointer swings to the head", which means that there is a leakage, and every video says that it is said many times in a video. Because no matter the size of the fault, he insisted on a complete test of the circuit, and verified it again after the repair. A programmer fan commented that "Chengyang" is more rigorous in finding faults than they are in finding bugs.

Among his rules, the most important and the most different from others is that if he encounters any fault, he must wait to be "sentenced to death", and he must solve it thoroughly, unless it cannot be solved. (Now he can't solve it himself, and he will put it on the Internet, pulling the electrician masters across the country to solve it together.) )

Electrician "Sherlock Holmes", 10 million onlookers

Just like Wang Jianxing's Douyin account shows, he must solve the problem thoroughly when he encounters a problem/Source: Photo by Sun Chuan

A few days ago, he went to the factory to repair an equipment failure, and found out that a more fundamental problem may appear in the workshop, and the factory made it clear that it was almost okay, and there was no need to repair it, so he begged others to let him repair it, and called the director of the factory every day. "Until now, that glitch has come and gone. "When he mentioned it to me, he was still very concerned about it. It seems that it has always been like this, when he didn't become "Sherlock Holmes the Electrician", he once followed a problem for 10 days, and wanted to fix it without asking for money, but in the end he couldn't fix it.

Such a character is integrated into his maintenance videos, which has a peculiar storytelling and has created many classic cases.

In October last year, Wang Jianxing received an order from a water heater maintenance master, and the other party had a customer's water heater that tripped as soon as it was connected to the power, and he went to overhaul it several times but did not solve it. The head of the household said that people "always feel numb" in the house, and they felt scared, so they pulled the main gate of the house in order to cut off the electricity.

This fault waited for Wang Jianxing. He carried the toolbox to the door, first confirmed the problem, sent the electricity, took out the electric pen, and measured the shell of the kitchen kettle, with a voltage of more than 200 volts (the normal situation should be zero, and the human safety voltage is 36 volts). "This one is a bit ruthless. He said.

Then I tested the protagonist water heater this time, and found no problem, when Wang Jianxing plugged in the water heater, sure enough, the circuit was powered off by itself, and the safety protection was activated. The metal foot of the water heater plug has traces of being burned black, and the plug of the water heater is connected to the gas pipe, which is very dangerous.

In order not to miss the slightest fault, he first ruled out the possibility that it was a problem with the socket of the water heater. Then open the distribution box with the main circuit switch in different rooms, and test the zero, ground, and live wires in groups. Ground wire, as a group of wires connecting the circuit and the earth, it is the safety guarantee for releasing the electrical induction current or leakage current to the earth, and it should be zero under normal circumstances. However, Wang Jianxing found that the ground wire of this family was very abnormal, and when he disconnected the circuit of the kitchen, it had a voltage of more than 30 volts, and when he connected the circuit of the kitchen, it brought more, more than 200 volts, which was almost a "house of electric shock" with leakage.

Electrician "Sherlock Holmes", 10 million onlookers

One of the classic cases on Wang Jianxing's Douyin account / Source: Douyin @ Chengyang Electric Circuit

A voltage of more than 30 volts may be the induction electricity of the home appliances, and it is not a big problem. But what happened to the kitchen?

"Is it because you didn't unplug all the appliances?" he guessed. Wang Jianxing began to pull plugs everywhere at home, but even the chargers that were plugged into the wall and were not used were unplugged, and the result was still the same. As a last resort, he removed the floor wire in the kitchen again, "There is still a plug." When the plug-finding operation reached the third round, Wang Jianxing began to walk outside the house - an unusual house type, the owner seems to have renovated the entrance into a small computer room, with sockets on the wall, connected to the electricity in the kitchen, the computer is not connected, and only an empty plug is plugged in on it. It shouldn't have been caused by it, but Wang Jianxing also pulled out the empty strip.

At this time, the exponential of the ground wire is zeroed, which means that an empty strip is leaking, which is very weird. Wang Jianxing pulled the row of plugs along the line and took a look, there was a black ball on it, it was something that should not appear in the jack, a platinum necklace that had been burned off. There is a child in the family, probably when he was playing, he wrapped the necklace in it, which caused a short circuit in the kitchen circuit, causing a serious electricity leak and drying the surface of the kettle to more than 200 volts.

The normal situation is over here, and the problem of "numbness" has found the root, but Wang Jianxing feels that it can't be done. Unplug the empty plug row, do not plug in the water heater, the surface of the kettle still has more than 30 volts of induction electricity, plug in the water heater, and everything returns to normal. This means that the main ground wire of the house may be so poorly grounded that the induced electricity cannot enter the ground through the ground wire, and after plugging in the water heater, the grounded gas pipe is forced to play this role, which is still dangerous.

When he went to the electric control room to try to find the ground, something even more dramatic happened, not only his own customers in this building, but many of the grounds were pinched off, and all the families that were pinched off the grounds may be relying on gas pipes to act as grounds. Not every household has a naughty child who causes a short circuit in the circuit, so everything looks normal and no one finds it dangerous.

At the beginning, the water heater that was considered faulty was the hero of the ground wire, and it was it that activated the safety protection of the circuit, so the excessive current caused by the short circuit of the necklace could be cut off, avoiding the electric shock of the customer's family. That naughty kid, he caused the short circuit, but without him, the whole building would unknowingly be discharged by the gas pipe, until the leak and the electric spark meet, causing a fire or explosion, which sends chills down the spine. In the process, the innocent water heater repairer also received a complaint from the head of the household.

This time, the classic "Solve the Case" became a hit on various platforms on the day it was released, with nearly one million likes on Douyin. Also because the safety hazard is too serious, it attracted the attention of the relevant departments, and they soon began to investigate, so that this "solving the case" really became the beginning of a case (cutting the ground wire without permission is an illegal act).

Electrician "Sherlock Holmes", 10 million onlookers

Every repair by Wang Jianxing is like a case solved/Source: Photo by Sun Chuan

For Wang Jianxing, it is very ordinary and the norm. Every time he goes to work, he doesn't know what he will face, and he is sometimes confused, but his character of loving "getting to the bottom of things" can always give him a complex cross-section of life. So you can see him on a hot day, along a few kilometers of dirt roads, looking for a broken skin in an underground cable. He can go from a line, a lamp, a piece of equipment to a neighbor's house, to a factory a few kilometers away, to a transformer, and even to a power plant. And the power plant is the end point that he can be responsible for as an ordinary electrician.

In the early years, the level of electricians in Qingdao was still uneven, and he had been doing it for many years. "Sometimes I feel that if I encounter a problem and I don't solve it fundamentally, there may be safety risks...... Someone else goes to fix it, it's almost like that, maybe it happens again after leaving, I want the customer to see that this is the problem, or I can't sleep. "[Probably because] of timidity," he said. ”

In his world, he regards electricity as a matter of life.

The fate of "incurable diseases".

If you happen to be an electrical hobby and have watched the repair process of other electricians, you will find that Wang Jianxing's video is the most interesting. Although the information of every person and every moment is recorded evenly, only here in Wang Jianxing, the "incurable diseases" appear as if they were made an appointment.

He is always faced with the strangest and most complex kinds of problems on a daily basis. Even if it is a simple problem for others, he will not change a wire because the line is burned, and if the empty opening is broken, he will change it to an empty one, he will find the root cause. It's a bit of luck for a content creator, but it's not just the material, it's his real life.

Before becoming "Sherlock Holmes the Electrician", Wang Jianxing's life was not easy, and his life was more difficult than that of many ordinary electricians.

As long as you understand a little, you will find that there are many unwritten unspoken rules in the electrical industry. Some fault problems are very small, such as accidentally leaking a little to the heating ring when adding water to the kettle, resulting in empty tripping, the electrician only needs to come to the door to ask what he has just done, turn off the kettle, close the electric switch to solve the problem. However, the fee is too low, and some electricians will take advantage of the customer's lack of information about electricity, saying that the empty opening is broken, and they want to change it, and they can earn a lot more at a time. There are many ways to take advantage of this information gap, such as not repairing the fault at one time, so that there is a second and third way to come to the door to make money.

Although these are also the last resort ways for everyone to survive, Wang Jianxing is not willing to do this at all, so he can only earn one order of money. In 2015, he officially came out of the factory to work alone, and almost no one approached him at first. In the early years, the first money he earned from private work was to repair a cracked toilet seat, glued it, 20 yuan, and he still remembers it now.

Electrician "Sherlock Holmes", 10 million onlookers

Wang Jianxing/Source: Photo by Sun Chuan

Under normal circumstances, the price of such a door-to-door maintenance will definitely not be so low, on the one hand, because he just came out and did not know the market, and on the other hand, he also has his own insistence on charging and pricing. "Some faults are too easy, for us, some people charge 1,000 to 2,000 yuan, do I think it's worth the money? "He sets the price according to that standard. But the absurd thing is that once he asked for 50 yuan to repair the electricity, and the other party saw that his price was too low and felt that his level was not good, so he sent him away. As soon as he walked out, Wang Jianxing received news that his colleague sent him a job, and the price was called to several hundred, the same place.

These lists are not given to him for nothing, the lists introduced by others have to be commissioned, but he is too "axial" to do things, and the low asking price leads to a low rate of return, and he is not as good as the other party giving the list to others to do 30% of the money. "So I used to feel uncomfortable doing a job, for example, someone gave me a job, 'Master Wang, come to the door for 100', okay, I went and gave him a commission of 30. He was very unhappy, and he said, 'Big brother, if you do a little trick in this job, you can earn three or five hundred.' 'It's unpleasant. ”

Slowly, few people were willing to give him ordinary orders, and the orders he could still receive gradually became incurable diseases that had been called a few and failed to be fixed by more than a dozen electricians. Others can change hands, they can give up, because they have a more "convenient" survival strategy, and the right compromise makes people fit in. But for Wang Jianxing, he has no other way, and if he can't solve it, he has to solve it.

There was no way back for him. Before becoming self-employed, he used to have an enviable job in a large factory, responsible for maintaining the circuits in the workshop, with a monthly salary of between 3,000 yuan and 5,000 yuan, as well as standard five insurances and one housing fund, and labor insurance. How hot is that job? An electrician, a 30-in-4 elimination rate. From 2003 when he started working as an electrician, he had been drifting between construction sites and factories for a long time before he got the job, and he longed for a respite. "At that time I felt like I wanted to climb up like a straw, I wanted to climb up with muddy feet, I wanted to climb up. ”

But it was a lifeline that crushed him. When I was working on a construction site and learning electricity at the same time, everything was temporary. During those years, he could be said to belong to the city, and it could be said that he was mobile in the city. But once he belonged to a certain place, he had to integrate into it, and Wang Jianxing felt a pain that he didn't want to go back to experience.

Electrician "Sherlock Holmes", 10 million onlookers

Some maintenance tools in Wang Jianxing/Source: Photo by Sun Chuan

In the city, there are too many rules that he can't understand when he comes out of the countryside of Heze. He doesn't drink or smoke, he doesn't like the leader, he does the most things, and he works the most overtime, but his salary is lower than that of people who often drink with the leader and don't work much. Once someone told him, "They are bullying you", Wang Jianxing thought about it carefully, and indeed every weekend when he needs to rest, some colleagues will always think of him "intimately" and let him make more money.

Coming out of a family where he had to find someone to borrow for a tuition fee of 5 yuan, he needed that job more than anyone else, but the more he cherished it, the more deformed he became. He also tried to learn, to learn the rules that he had seen in the city, to blend in, to be the first to go to work, and when he arrived, to fill the master's water cup and kettle, and to make all the tea. But this was not safe enough, there were gangs in the factory at that time, and if he did not do a good job, he might be fired. can't make a little mistake, but there are many things that should be done well, and in those days, he was trembling and walking on thin ice.

Sometimes the rules of this world are like this, the more weak you are, the easier it is to become a consumable. Such a person has an aura as invisible and diffusing as electricity, which everyone can feel. "I feel like I'm a coward, I can't be strong, I don't have any support to make me strong...... Although I am very weak on the outside, I am actually like the kind of person who does not give in on the inside, and I hate myself all day long and scold myself. He said.

Now that he had made up his mind to come out, it was impossible for him to go back. He hardened his head and became the terminal of Qingdao's incurable diseases about electricity. And these incurable diseases have also become a steady stream of new materials and a somewhat heavy gift that fate has given him today, the "electrician Sherlock Holmes".

Electrician "Sherlock Holmes", 10 million onlookers

Wang Jianxing's Douyin account won the "Commemoration of the Achievement of Five Million Fans"/Source: Photo by Sun Chuan

In his video, there is a case of two rows of hundreds of blue and white street lights winding towards the distant mountain on a remote highway with no cars and pedestrians. Wang Jianxing used the instrument to check the problem, and felt that there was a short circuit in the two rows of street lamp lines, but he didn't know where it was.

He just took apart the wiring cavity of each street lamp close to the ground, and pulled out the wires inside one by one to check. I don't know how long it took for the road surface in his lens to go from being level with the horizon to being a little above the horizon and being able to see the mountains in the distance. He sat down tired and could see his brown insulated shoes. Finally, from the corner, he found the broken skin of a few millimeters of fire wire on the line of several hundred meters.

Survival, everything is for survival

"I never thought it would be so difficult to be an electrician. A fan who has watched "Sherlock Holmes the Electrician" for three years told me that his favorite is the video of Wang Jianxing repairing street lights. Not only will the results of "detective" be interesting, but every difficult "detective" process in Wang Jianxing can make everyone who has no way out and wants to live seriously in this world get more or less empathy in it.

"I'm scared of being eliminated. "For two days in a row, Wang Jianxing mentioned this to me. It was mentioned together, "Don't worship me, I'm just an earth electrician, there's nothing to worship." How can it not be regarded as a success? Become a phenomenal head content creator, but Wang Jianxing's story has never had anything to do with "beauty". He even said with a smile at the end: "In the past few decades, (looking back) there is nothing inspirational, just a person, racking his brains to survive." ”

He has always been in a tug-of-war with life. As the eldest son of the family, Wang Jianxing was born in a rural family in Heze, so poor that they are famous in their village. Under such circumstances, he did not dare to tell his father when he was admitted to the secondary school, he said, his parents would go door-to-door to knock on the doors of the villagers to borrow tuition. The family gave him 5 yuan for living expenses for a month of studying, and he sent 3 yuan back.

I thought that after reading the book, I would be able to make it easier. But in fact, the job introduced by the school is to send the refrigerator shell to a small factory outside every day to assemble, and after the assembly is completed, put some strips on the refrigerator cover, and then pull it back, doing such manual work without any technical content. "If you have a job, you can do it, 400 yuan a month, and then the factory closes down. ”

During that time, he heard that he could make money painting oil paintings abroad, so he went to study oil painting for three months as an "engineering student" studying mechanical and electrical engineering. In the evening, when he didn't know where to go to sleep and was about to live on the street, an old man saw him on a bicycle and asked him, "Do you want to be a waiter?"

Later, he went to the instant noodle factory to do packing work, working the night shift every day, doing 12 hours, and the next day he slept and continued the cycle. Wang Jianxing's health has not been very good, and he is completely unable to survive for a long time by relying on this kind of work with high physical requirements. In 2003, he decided to study electricity. "We were as tired as dogs and they (electricians) were there to talk to us easily. ”

Electrician "Sherlock Holmes", 10 million onlookers

Wang Jianxing and Xiao Tiefan meet/Source: Douyin @Chengyang Electrical Circuit

There are no conditions, create them yourself. He worked the night shift at night to support himself, and the rest of the time he went to the second-hand market to buy books, bought them cheaply, and wrote down the titles of books when they were expensive, and saved them to read them together in the book city. In the second year, he got an electrician certificate by self-study, and he didn't get the rest of his salary for almost a month, and he didn't care about labor insurance, so he went directly to the construction site as an apprentice to learn electricity.

At the construction site, he really got rid of books, learned about air opening, learned about electric switches, learned wiring and threading, and even learned to burn electric welding, repair water pipes, and learn everything that he thinks is useful. By changing jobs, he solved the contradiction that he had to eat and study at the same time, and he went to any factory where he wanted to learn, and then changed places when he learned almost.

After staying up like this for many years, I went to the big factory that he considered a "life-saving straw". At this point, he found that it was not enough to survive in the city with dignity and just "endure hardship".

One day he happened to hear that someone else could earn money by taking private work outside, so he immediately started to act, he worked in the unit from 7 o'clock in the evening to 7 o'clock in the morning, and during the day he went to post small advertisements, hoping that someone would find him to start work. One day I received a phone call, the other party said that there was work, but after going over and found out that it was the security guard of the property, he was asked to tear off the notes he had pasted one by one. Offline can't work, he began to post on various online forums and websites again, and he couldn't afford to promote, so he kept posting, "As long as I search for Chengyang electrician in Baidu, my information can dominate the screen." It was the stupidest way to do it, but for him at the time, it was the only way.

Later, when a list really came to him, he broke himself apart, half of it was used to support himself, and half to overcome survival. "I worked outside before the night shift, and then I went out after the night shift, working all day during the day, and then going back to work at night, 24 hours a day. I was so tired that something happened, and I sat down, and my body slowly collapsed. "The double pressure, both mentally and physically, almost brought him down. One day when he was at work, he received a call from a private worker, and slowly, he felt that it was time to quit.

After resigning, the list is too small, and he seems to have returned to the situation of "living on the streets" at the beginning, but this time he is married and has children, and no one can save him except himself. In 2015, in order to survive, he welded a small car by himself and used it to sell squid. "I told myself, just like a hen lays eggs a day, my goal is 200 yuan a day, so that my daughter-in-law will be happy when she sees an income every day. ”

Electrician "Sherlock Holmes", 10 million onlookers

Some tools in Wang Jianxing's store/Source: Photo by Sun Chuan

In the most difficult year of 2015, he shared a few interesting photos on his circle of friends, he put a potato in a plastic bowl with a little water, put it on the table by the window, it can sprout on its own, and the branches and leaves that grow follow the direction of the sun and climb up the windowsill. The caption he gave to the image was, "The Life Force of Potatoes."

And he himself, as if he had the vitality of a "potato", spent 11 months selling squid while begging others to give him work, and slowly stabilized to the extent that he could survive by repairing the "incurable diseases" introduced by everyone. happened to encounter the epidemic at the end of 2019, he saw that everyone around him was playing Douyin, and he also downloaded one, and his daughter-in-law made a bet with him to see if he could do it, and he began to become today's "Electrician Sherlock Holmes".

"In that kind of setback, you either fell down or you survived, but luckily I got through. He said.

We seem to be more accustomed to the stories of bright victors, in which the protagonist always seems to know what he wants, and the process is always perfect and decent, as if only then is it better to be out on the surface. But in fact, Wang Jianxing's experience has nothing to do with the above, he is just doing one thing, that is, to live. Survival itself has a quiet power, people do not have to overcome anything to be considered victorious, sometimes do their best to live seriously, even if they are tired, as long as they are not defeated, it is possible to "accidentally" walk out of a new path.

No one promised him that he would one day become an "electrician Sherlock Holmes" by "getting to the bottom of things" and "sticking to his principles", but he did so and came to this point. Just like when he first released the video, he would not have thought that his maintenance video could really help a young man in difficulty in a distant place, and the young man learned a case and got the money to repair the circuit. Or, let some distant stranger, seeing a similar case, know that the lights in the house come on at night because of a faulty circuit and nothing else, and thus get rid of the fear.

Electrician "Sherlock Holmes", 10 million onlookers

Wang Jianxing at work/Source: Photo by Sun Chuan

I followed him to the site for a work, and it was a fan who asked him to repair it, and at the scene, someone recognized him and asked him, "Do you remember me?" Wang Jianxing thought for a while, it was a person he met at a factory he repaired a few years ago, but the same factory at that time changed the site.

That day, when he was repairing, there was a group of people in the factory carrying a new piece of equipment into the factory, and one of the workers in the group of workers transporting the equipment came over to take a picture with him between work. He was very introverted, and after determining the fault, he quietly hid in the car and sat for a while.

Some of his persistence, after a long decade, began to show signs of echoing. Everyone mentions Chengyang Electrician, and they will come back to him if they have a list. And he finally gradually became seen and respected, and did something that he thought was not bad, and the cowardice he felt before had a cornerstone recognized by everyone as "Sherlock Holmes the Electrician", and began to have practical support.

"I'm just feeling like I'm slowly warming up, like a cold hand is slowly getting warmer. Now he still has a sense of crisis to survive and is still adjusting to his new identity, but what is certain is that he has come out of the winter.

This article was first published in issue 8 of Nanfeng Window Magazine

Author | Lin Yan

Figure | Sun Chuan

Edit | Zhao Jiajia

New Media Editor | Wu Qing

Typography | Fifi

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