Original title: Livelihoods of smog and small food vendors and food delivery staff: live well, masks become luxury goods

The livelihoods of the smog traders and food eateries: live well and masks become luxury goods

01-05 08:25

On January 4th, the second working day after New Year's Day, Jinan was as heavily polluted as ever. With an air pollution index of more than 400, many people chose not to go out. However, in such weather, some people had to work hard for their livelihoods. Many of them had to rely on necessary anti-fog and masks for various reasons. "Luxury".

Don't earn a penny a day

Can't sit at home

At noon on the 4th, Yan Guirong, who set up a booth in the Shimu Park Community in Jinan, wore a mask and looked at people who come and go. When she came to the business, she skillfully cooked the meat and placed it in advance. It became. Compared with masks worn by many people, Yan Guirong wears ordinary non-woven masks, which have almost no effect of filtering PM2.5. "Wearing clean and sanitary, at least not directly touch the air." Yan Guirong said.

At the stalls for meat clips, Yan Guirong and her husband Gao Yulu have been working for more than 20 years. Everyone praises her family for their delicious meatloaf, but even so, sales on the 4th day are much worse than usual. According to Yan Guirong's statistics, in the event of hazy days, business is poor, and in the most serious times, it can sell dozens less than the good days, and earn less than one hundred yuan each day.

In order to maintain his livelihood, in the early morning of 5 o'clock in the winter, the outside is still dark, Yan Guirong and her husband will go out and push the simple tricycle to set up stalls. She said that the haze in the morning was more severe and the visibility on the road was even lower. They were only able to walk on the road by pushing the tricycle.

“In the morning I looked at it. When a car passes by, it turns on the lights. According to past observations, there are dusty things in the light and shadow.” Yan Guirong is already 57 years old. She is particularly sensitive in such weather, and she is blind. Uncomfortable, despite this, anti-haze masks worth tens of dollars, she could not bear to buy.

In heavily polluted weather, many people gave up, but Yan Guirong said that they had never had such an idea. 365 days a year. In addition to the days of the Chinese New Year, other times, whether it is rain or rain, they must allot timely.

“I can't afford to take a penny every day and I can’t sit at home,” said Yan Guirong. Even though she spent 20 years in Jinan, she still hopes to return to her hometown in Henan in the future. “Henan is also foggy, However, our hometown is in the countryside, and the old house is a wheat field with greenery.” Yan Guirong comforts herself. Such days are very close. When the son gets married and married, she and her husband also consider taking a break.

The parents knew that he did this

Will be very distressed

Take 40 orders a day.

This is the limit of Wang Yilin, who is very hungry. This means that he will continue to travel up to 40 different places in a straight line within 3 km in a day.

"At the peak, the platform will send orders directly to you, do not want to do it." Since the implementation of the new system of commissioning last year, Wang Yilin felt more intense work. In the days following the New Year, the repeated attacks on the city continued and Wang Yilin could not stop.

“It was also the money that was sent on the sunny days. For those two days, this kind of weather was definitely not willing to go out to deliver meals. And we don’t have any masks. It’s definitely not good for the body,” Wang Yilin said. But complaining about complaining, as soon as there is a list, Wang Yilin still set off, and the hazy days people are not willing to go out, which means that the delivery staff will be more busy.

The 24-year-old Yantai young man was a student of Shandong Electric Power College before he took delivery. After graduation, he had the opportunity to enter the State Grid Xinjiang Branch. But he refused this seemingly good job because he was far from home. Wang Yilin, who wanted to find a job in his hometown, eventually started to serve as a food delivery worker in Jinan. "After all, he earned much more."

According to him, in the lunch peak between 11:30 and 13:00, the basic leisure time is not enough. "There are too many people ordering meals this time." But at other times, the food delivery staff like Wang Yilin, sitting in an empty dining room, sat in the seats of the station, dressed in clothes and slept.

The hazy days were busy, but Wang Yilin attached great importance to the delivery of food with soup. The thing that the delivery person was most reluctant to send was food with soup. In their circle, there was a saying: “I haven't sent a bowl of noodle soup 3 kilometers away. Don’t say you have taken a delivery person.”

Wang Yilin sent noodle soup but it was a cold noodle. At that time, he just walked to RT Run under the calendar and the car was dead. Looking at the Keyuan Road and Qianfoshan Hospital a kilometer away from the map, he was anxious to cry. The sweat quickly wetted his clothes, but Wang Yilin could not attend to these things. He pushed the car southward, and he always thought that the cold noodles should not be blind. Forty minutes later, the meal was delivered. When the soup was not spilled, Wang Yilin wiped the sweat on her head and knocked on the customer's door. Fortunately, the customer did not blame him and gave him praise. He was touched by his heart.

Efforts to send orders to make money, Wang Yilin said that the money can bring him a better life, he is very satisfied. "But I will not speak to my parents about my career," Wang Yilin said. If his parents knew that he would do this, he would feel bad.

(Qilu Evening News, Qilu Xiaodian Reporter Wang Qian Zhu Wenlong)