Shoeshine Workers Approaching The Cold Wind

In front of the shopping malls, supermarkets and stations in the city, there are such a group of people who rise early in the cold wind and come back late, carrying a plastic chair, a small stool, a shoe box, and supporting the poor family with their hands.

After the "warm winter campaign" began, readers called the newspaper to pay attention to these shoeshine workers on the edge of the city, hoping that all sectors of the society could help them.

In recent days, reporters approached some shoeshine workers.

It is understood that more than 50 shoeshine workers in the urban area of Taizhou are mostly from rural areas such as Hubei, Sichuan and Hunan, with the youngest teenager and the oldest more than 40 years old.

You can earn twenty yuan a day.

At the gate of the Red Sorghum Food City, a woman with a red hat is cleaning her shoes, wiping, polishing and waxing.

The action is slow.

The shoeshine worker is 25 years old, who is named Li and Hubei. She has been in Taizhou for two years.

She told reporters that the family was poor and could only work with her husband to support their families.

Shoeshine does not require diploma, and technology is easy to master.

For shoeshine workers, they are most afraid of rain and ill, because that means no money to earn.

In the reporter's investigation, many shoeshine workers said that they could only earn twenty yuan a day if they were caught in the rain. They could only earn ten yuan and eight yuan if they had bad luck.

Xiao Li said that after paying the rent and sending some money to the family, the rest of the money could only be spent.

"The favorite" is the green vegetables

At the door of the times shopping mall, reporters met Xiao Shen, a shoeshine worker.

"If the weather is good, get up early in the morning and have breakfast, so you have to work."

Xiao Shen rubbed the rag in his hand and said, "when people go home for dinner, we will have to wait for business. Lunch and dinner can only be done."

"At noon, at night, cook congee in the evening.

Now prices are high, and I rarely eat fish and meat, that is to say, buying vegetables everyday costs a few bucks.

Xiao Shen said recently, most of them bought green vegetables, and vegetables were cheap.

Xiao Shen chatted with reporters and stared at the shop. He saw someone coming out and immediately called out.

"Boss, shine your shoes. Wipe your shoes."

She was eager to attract customers and gazed at each other with expectant eyes.

The customer sat down, "a", and a dollar coin was thrown into the money pot of Xiao Shen.

The hands are covered with chilblain.

In the evening, in front of the one hundred door of Taizhou, Yang Lan, a shoeshine worker nearly 40 years old, sits alone on the roadside and looks at the passers-by.

Yang Lan is from Hubei and has been working in Taizhou with her husband for five or six years.

She had a son who went to school in her hometown, but she and her husband hadn't been home for the Spring Festival for two years.

The reporter saw that Yang Lan wore a pair of half finger gloves, but the styles were different.

She said two gloves were picked up on the roadside.

It was cloudy, and in the cold wind, Yang Lan kept breathing warm hands.

Winter began. Her hands were covered with chilblain, and fingers were still splitting.

She only wore a thin cotton padded jacket and a sweater with a neckline changing.