Food delivery riders connect thousands of households, and they are also participants and transmitters of a better life in the city. After a year of struggle, the end of the year is approaching, how will they spend this New Year? Today, I went to Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, and approached the family of the "takeaway baby" Li Fei'er. Recently, the family has saved enough money for renovation and is about to usher in a new home before the Spring Festival.
Hummingbird crowdsourcing is coming to a new order: the shared assignment list is coming, from Jingdong convenience store to Hanting Hotel Changzhou Zhongtian Stadium store 509 of 5$6 takeaway order ......As night fell, Li Fei'er's father, Li Yuanyuan, received the last takeaway order of the year.
In previous years, Li Yuanyuan usually stuck to his post and worked until the thirtieth of the Chinese New Year's Eve, but this year, he plans to give himself a holiday a few days earlier, because the upcoming year is a little special for him.
Now it's been renovated to **? "This cabinet in our master bedroom will be ready in no time......After the food delivery, Li Yuanyuan couldn't wait to pick up his mobile phone and dialed his wife to see the latest progress of the decoration.
In 2016, Li Yuanyuan came to Changzhou, Jiangsu Province from his hometown in Anhui Province to work as a delivery driver, and it has been seven or eight years now. It was also in the process of delivering food that he met his wife, who used to work in a restaurant, and the two started from scratch.
Li Yuanyuan said: "We rented a house and lived there for four and a half years, and the rent was 300 yuan a month, ** square meters. Eating, drinking, sleeping, going to the toilet, and cooking are all inside, and when you enter the door, you will be bed. ”
At that time, life constraints did not stop there. In 2019, her daughter Li Feier had a serious illness shortly after she was born, which made the small family embarrassed for a while. In order to pay off the loan as soon as possible, the husband and wife took the baby on the way to work. And Li Yuanyuan's ** delivery with a 6-month-old child was intercepted on the Internet, and for a while, everyone knew this "takeaway baby".
In the face of doubts on the Internet, Li Yuanyuan insisted on taking the baby by himself, not wanting his daughter to return to her hometown to become a left-behind child, and more and more people reached out to them. Two years ago, they finally built a small family with their hands.
When the child is going to school, he thinks about taking out a loan for a small house, about sixty square meters, and the house is older than me, forty or fifty years old. After buying the house, it was relatively poor, and we didn't move all the furniture inside, just simply cleaned it and lived in it. Li Yuanyuan told reporters.
This year, Li Yuanyuan's family is located in Punan New Village, where the old community is renovated, Li Yuanyuan said that his old house suddenly seemed a little out of place, just in the past two years and saved some money, simply redecorate: "Sometimes at night I wait for the children to go to bed, and my wife look at this, look at that, gesture with both hands, take a ruler to measure what furniture to put on." It is to have a vision for the future, for the house, for what the new home will look like. We are all looking forward to it, this is the first house that belongs to our little two, and it is also a house that belongs to our family of three. ”
Walking into Li Yuanyuan's new home, there are three bedrooms, one living room, one kitchen and one bathroom, although the area is not large, the room type is very practical. The couple and Xiaofeier brought some small items such as lucky characters, wedding cards, and Chinese knots that they had bought, and were ready to "dress up" the new house.
Xiao Fei'er, who is 6 years old this year, is also about to have her own "princess room": "There is a bed here, a dresser here in the middle, bookcases on both sides, and the walls here are ...... princess-like ."”
The family's yearning for a better life has echoed in the struggle. This year, they also plan to bring Fei'er's grandparents from their hometown in Guizhou to start a fire in their new home and have a reunion together. Like Philip Li's family, thanks to the rapid development of the digital economy, more and more courier brothers, online car-hailing drivers, etc., have "run" a happy life through struggle.
Reporter's note: During the interview for several hours, the Fei'er family never stopped laughing. For strangers who work in the city, being able to have a house that is completely their own, no matter how big or small, can be regarded as having a home and a sense of belonging. "Mom and Dad will always be by my side", this is the simplest happiness that 6-year-old Li Feier can think of, and it is also the happiness that thousands of ordinary families look forward to.
Around us, there are still many migrant workers like Li Yuanyuan who are working silently, and they use optimism and perseverance to piece together their own future little by little. To borrow a sentence from the "takeaway poet" Wang Jibing, "Who said that spreading wings is to fly high, and flying low is also flying", paying tribute to this group of brave urban strugglers.
Jiangsu News Broadcasting Li Qiuyu Editor Gao Ruoting).