When collecting rent, the landlord only accepts cash and does not accept WeChat and transfer. Pay the rent, go to the blackboard in the corridor and erase your room number. What a cautious guy. Whenever the rent goes up, he says, "I'm chatting with some friends, and when it goes up, it goes up by two or three hundred." "They want to kill people!" As he spoke, he wrote down the rent to be increased.
After living here for more than two years, the landlord and his wife lived a simple life with high rent. The corridor is cleaned once a month. From the first time I came to Shenzhen to now, it is a kind of luck.
There are many convenience stores in the villages of the city. There will always be one or two convenience stores under every few rental houses for the convenience of nearby tenants. The most important thing is to buy some cold drinks and daily necessities, and help collect express delivery when people are away.
The convenience store downstairs, originally run by a couple, is neatly furnished and cleans the shelves every time it is purchased. The man wears sven glasses, from Sichuan. He seldom goes home during holidays. He said: "The round-trip fare is expensive and the time is long." When I moved here, their children were still holding them. The man is very thin, and the woman is estimated to have gained a few laps, which probably conforms to the basic law of physical changes of men and women after giving birth to children.
After about a year, the store was transferred and it is said that it has returned to its hometown. The couple is also a young couple, with their bodies turned upside down. Men are fat and women are thin. I don't think I've ever had a child of my own. Young couples can operate freely and immerse themselves in their mobile phones. The game is very enjoyable.
Often, one person sits on the counter and plays mobile phone, while the other person sits outside and plays games. There are two rocking carts outside the store, attracting families with children to take the bus. On the other side of the store door, there are often a row of young people who come out of nowhere, drinking drinks, playing with mobile phones, or sitting idly watching passers-by.
Sometimes, I will set up a table, take a few bottles of cold beer from the store, buy some barbecue snacks and sit there for an occasional drink. I don't know what to talk about. It seems that they are all idle people who don't need to go to work.
Although it is a village in the city, there are cars parked downstairs, all of which are middle and low grade, and the license plates come from all over the country. Come back late, the car not only can't get in, but also can't find a parking space. If you stop by force, you will get a ticket for illegal parking the next day.
Sometimes, I even suspect that someone posted it casually. In the messy village in the city, the electric car suddenly jumped out of the alley, but no one cared. A shop next to the garage has the hottest business.
In addition to convenience stores, there are various restaurants, small supermarkets, barbershops, second-hand furniture and second-hand electrical appliances stores, which may be the longest one here. Every day, people come to see some second-hand household appliances, cookers, refrigerators and so on. It is also possible that they will come to Shenzhen to open a restaurant or do some small business.
The second-hand market is a violent industry here. When you move or leave Shenzhen, you can sell all your property for a few dollars and put it in a second-hand shop. It can be sold to the next person for several hundred dollars. Who said that? Eating more people than rent.
There are also some furniture stores, both old and new. When they first came to Shenzhen, they couldn't afford a new one, so they simply bought some old furniture. With tables and beds, they finally feel at home, especially after graduation, the young couple who came here said, "The house is rented and life is their own." That's how a group of people cheated on each other.
The working days here are busy, mainly in the morning and evening. Nobody lives in a rental house in broad daylight. They all work in various positions in Nanshan and Futian, and their children attend classes in nearby primary and secondary schools.
It was only seven or eight o'clock, and drivers, cyclists and pedestrians blocked the originally spacious road in an instant. Slowly, some people prick the needle when they see it, or make a hullabaloo about. If they can't stand it, they call names.
After more than ten minutes, the crowd drifted away, and the originally congested road began to clean up again. Every weekend, the radio in the nearby middle school doesn't work, and the office workers who have been busy for a week can finally sleep quietly.
Go downstairs for a while, visit the vegetable market or small supermarket, and the speakers are screaming loudly. The special dishes placed outside are all picked by early risers, leaving some crooked melons and cracked dates, which few people care about. Small shops separated downstairs are full of restaurants, small supermarkets and barber shops. ...
After a few days, the business can't go on, there will be the next person, and the store will be transformed into a new store. But before long, it is estimated that the door is empty, difficult to maintain, or transferred, and small supermarkets begin to vomit blood and have a big sale, which feels like a routine.
When summer comes, fruit shops are the most attractive places. It's a beautifully dressed office girl. After work, she always goes to the fruit stand. She can't leave anything behind in makeup, health care and quality life. She can't call it a day until she leads a life. Big watermelons, cut one by one, cut into pieces and put them in boxes after selection. This sales method is very popular.
When you come back from work, take a takeaway, buy a watermelon, carry it back to the rental house, turn on the fan, turn on the computer and watch it while eating. Perhaps this is the true portrayal of most people.
The night in the village in the city is not quiet, the lights are lit up bit by bit, there are always people who leave early and return late, and there are always shops downstairs that collect secondhand goods at night. The shop downstairs doesn't close in the early morning, so people who come back from work can buy a snack to fill their stomachs.
Opposite the rental house, there is an abandoned rooftop. A few pieces of iron sheets set up a shed. Discarded iron sheets and things are lying in a mess. Some people put some potted plants on the rooftop and stood shivering with several tubes of weeds that came out of nowhere.
In broad daylight, looking into the distance, a shirtless man and a woman had an argument, and the voice went away with the stairs. There is also a touch of green swaying in the wind.
Although it seems abrupt in a mess, there is a sense of ruin.
This ruin belongs to the long-term accumulation of villages in the city. Otherwise, how could so many villages in the city begin to rebuild? Fortunately, it hasn't affected here yet. Last year, the pedestrian street was rearranged, with blue bricks and green tiles, antique, and the reflection of the night under the street lamp, in the dirty river, is a bit like an old street.
Demolition and construction are still patched up on the original basis, and people living in urban villages have changed one crop after another.
When we first moved in, the family lived here for six years, and bought a car and a house in Shenzhen for six years. It was amazing. The landlord is envious, others never shake the license plate, so he shakes it.
This is mostly fate, and people who come here are not blocking fate.
In summer in Shenzhen, there are many typhoons, which are often accompanied by storms, typhoon days or hot summer days. Villages in the city are prone to power failure, too much air conditioning and unstable voltage. If you are not careful, the whole building will be black. There must be something wrong. Power failure, people began to go out in the dark, the narrow pipe effect in the corridor, the summer of power failure, strong wind, and some coolness.
In a thunderstorm, thunder and lightning, I don't know a corner downstairs, there was a sad meow, and the sound was sad, mixed with raindrops hitting the window, not far away, and I slept until midnight. If I'm alone, it might be a little seepage.
But I'm getting used to it In the village of this big city, who is not a lonely cat who is afraid of injury?
One of us shuttles through the day and the other shuttles through the night!