The 7 million flying takeaway, constantly quenching in this world

"People who are in a hurry"

Author: Wang Jibing (53 years old, takeaway)

Get out of the air from the air

Knock out of the knife from the wind

Explore the fire from the bone

Kiss water from the fire

There are no four seasons in the hurry

Only one stop and next stop

The world is a place name

Wangzhuang Village is also

I can meet every day

One by one, one by one

Strike the earth with your feet

Extinction in this world.

Yang Liping, a senior journalist,

Since the beginning of 2020, in -depth takeaway stations,

Investigating more than 100 takeaways across the country,

The interview record exceeds one million words,

It is also written as a non -fiction "Chinese Takeaway".

China now has 7 million takeaways,

Two years of tracking follow -up,

Yang Liping saw their different choices of life.

Little couple from poverty,

Relying on takeaway and running out of the two houses in the city;

Rigid and patient female takeof

In order to save medical expenses and money for children,

The number of running orders exceeds more than 200 brothers in the site;

Middle -aged men who love to write poetry, send out takeaway accumulation of creative materials,

The outputs in his pen are poetic and romantic:

"A takeaway brother walks through the rain,

The sky blue takeaway dress is like a small clear sky. "

One contacted Yang Liping,

The following is her telling.

Self -report: Yang Liping

Edit: Lu Yuhan

Responsible editor: Ni Chujiao

The topic of this selection is the fifth day of the third day of the New Year in 2020 and the fifth day of Wuhan's "Fengcheng". At that time, Guangzhou was a city with a serious epidemic. Our field of vision was empty. Looking down at the streets, people were sealed at home. What they could see was the takeaway wearing blue and yellow workers.

So I started to pay attention to this group. I did not complete my manuscripts until February 2022. I interviewed more than 100 takeaways in Zhejiang, Guangdong, Beijing, Hubei, Jiangxi and other places.

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Takeaway in the intersection of red lights: Velvet

Zhao Bin is 32 years old, from Nanyang, Henan

His dream is to be a photographer, so he deliberately chose to be a takeoff near Hubei Academy of Fine Arts. While delivering meals, he went to college to listen to lessons, and made money. He went to buy expensive photography equipment.

Liu Haiyan is about 40 years old, from Heilongjiang

On the day of "520", she gave a day of roses, but she was not jealous of people who received roses at all. She prefers her husband's gift -a new electric car with large seats.

Chu Xuebao is 32 years old, from Mengcheng, Anhui

He always remembered the line of a movie: "Poor is your fault." When he was a child, he had no schoolbags. He was a woven bag with rice. He waited until the second day of dropping out of school and did not expect a schoolbag. Therefore, he was so fighting, fighting for the seventy -eighty orders a day, he couldn't even eat the rice, and he could only drink water.

Li Wei 41 years old, from Shanghai

He is an indigenous master in Shanghai. He graduated from East China Normal University. He had previously took six years in a public institution and later chose to leave. I started sending takeaway with the idea of ​​being a management post. It became a "star rider" in two and a half months. I became the captain for four months. I became a webmaster in the second year. Now I am a Shanghai city manager.

Aaron is 33 years old, from Nanchang, Jiangxi

When I was a kid, I had a fever, burned my brain, and was judged to be a first -level intellectual disability. At the age of 30, I had the first job in my life: delivery. Someone heard his story and donated money to him. He refused: "If you want you (money), what else do you want to do."

Less than 31 years old, from Hengshui, Hebei

He said that after two months of takeaway, I made up for 31 years of "sorry". Once the guest address was written wrong, he reminded him carefully, the other party said, "Do you want to ask me for money." Since then, he has been healed by himself on the road dumplings for a long time.

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The roadside takeaway, is contacting guests to photography: velvet

Hu Chao is 30 years old, from Guangshan, Henan

People in Henan like to hold a group. Hu Chaochao is a takeaway alone. Finally, everyone in the village brought them over and let them come to make money quickly. They are either relatives or they are small and live together. When sending takeaway, you can help each other, and you can cook, chat, and play cards when you are fine.

Anonymous from Hangzhou

He is a second -generation dismantling. Because he wants a real job, he is a takeaway. As soon as the rainstorm is in severe weather, other takeaways do not want to go out, he will come out to run the bill. But when the platform has subsidies and everyone wants to run more, he will let others run.

Wang Jiansheng

41 years old, from Da County, Sichuan

His left legs were shrinking. After coming out of his hometown, he wandered for more than ten years. He had been a beggar, picked up garbage, and finally became a takeaway in Hangzhou.

In his eyes, merchants and customers are willing to give meals to themselves, representing trust in themselves. When it was cold, he would take off his jacket in the jacket and wrap the lunch box, fearing that it would be cold. He said, I want to be worthy of this trust.

Zou Xiaorong 47 years old, from Chongqing

Her son was suffering from uremia. She ran for 5 years, riding 130,000 kilometers, and finally made 300,000, which changed her son's kidney.

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Flying takeaway everywhere can be seen on the road

Zhao Yingying is 22 years old, from Zhoukou, Henan

Her sister suffered from leukemia. She gave up her postgraduate entrance examination and was a takeaway earning medical expenses for her sister. She told her sister's novel "The Last Leaf" to her sister, and encouraged her to cheer up.

Wang Tao is 34 years old, from Huanggang, Hubei

A family of four lived in a house with a monthly rent of 500 yuan and reported to the child an English training class of 4,300 yuan. Huang Yuanyi is 35 years old, from the Enshi family in Hubei

Money can't be made, but the family must be together. His wife and daughter stayed in their hometown. When his wife gave birth to a child, he returned to his hometown for three months to serve the confinement. In 2021, when his wife and children insisted on coming to Hangzhou, Huang Yuanyi would get off work early and go home to accompany them.

Li Gangyong is 42 years old, from Zhaotong, Yunnan

Single dad, an accident, was twisted into the machine with his right hand. In order to support her daughter, I became a rider in 2018, and I had to bring my daughter when sending takeaway.

The three brothers of the Song family are from Laoshan, Anhui

The three brothers lived with a 2100 yuan dormitory and put the key in the door gap. Whoever went home. Their ultimate dream is to open a restaurant.

Native

In the past, I had the same ideas as many people. I thought that takeaway was a simple mechanical work. The threshold was relatively low, just a means of survival.

But it is not that simple at all. For them, this job actually pinnate a lot of things in it.

I was also born in a journalist. It is not an exaggeration to say that this is the most difficult interview in my career.

Because the takeaway industry is not the same as something else, his income is running out in a single single. So in their eyes, I was sometimes annoying and entangled them endlessly.

I will also consider this. The peaks of their running orders are usually from 10:45 in the morning to 13:45 noon, from 5:00 to 7:30 in the evening. I will avoid this time period. I would rather run two more trips, and don't let them be too hard. If the interview is long, I will pay some of them "misunderstandings".

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Sending flowers is a relatively easy photography in the takeaway business: velvet faint

Sometimes I stay on the street, or squat in the big business district, and chat with the takeaway waiting for the order. Or take a takeaway on a rainy day, wait for the takeaway to get it, and wait for the elevator to talk to him just a few words to show the takeaway.

Some people think what you do is meaningful and willing to help you. The takeaway said that he was dealing with someone every day, but no one really knew them. They handed me the meal and said, "I wish you a happy meal," the other party took it, and the door closed "bang". Some said, "You hang at the door, don't call my phone", no one can see it.

At this time, someone suddenly appeared, and was willing to listen to them and understand their hearts. In fact, they also had this need.

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Li Gangyong, Yang Liping's interview object.

He is a single father, and he will bring his daughter with a takeaway

Every time I interviewed an takeaway, I wanted to read a little bit, and I knew their unknown side.

Sometimes I rent an electric vehicle, starting from 7 am to 10 pm, tracking them to pick up meals. As long as he can contact his family, relatives and friends, and colleagues, I will spare no effort to interview. Even if you just listen to them on the phone one or two words, feel the tone and tone.

If you are lucky enough to get the trust of the takeaway, they will open the house to you. Because they are not living well, no one in the family takes care of them. Many people have a strong self -esteem. They are unwilling to show this side.

Song Beijing invited me to home. The three of their brothers were delivered in Hangzhou, and they lived in a room in the rental house. They hid the keys in the window seam, who returned who came back. It is not from the gate of the unit building, but from the door of the balcony.

The rental house has not been seen in a few rooms. Their room is the largest, with a monthly rent of 2,100 yuan.

There are men's taste in the room, which is particularly chaotic. The ground is messy on the ground with takeaway boxes, rice cookers, beer boxes. The bedside table is full of insulation cups, shaver, and hanging noodles. It is a miscellaneous object, and there is no place to sit in.

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Song Yuanxing and Song Yuanjie brothers who are cooking

When I was interviewed, the boss Song Yuanxing and the second child Song Yuanjie returned. They started cooking when they entered the door. Two people were washing vegetables and cutting vegetables, and they cooperated very well.

The brothers are particularly interesting. They are almost the same, both wearing short -sleeved T -shirts, one on the back read, "Do you know the online merchant bank? Many hungry shops open a new store." The other is "sleepy sleepiness." Is it? Are you hungry and some coffee afternoon tea. "

Like these, I am very proud of myself during the writing process, all from close observations. If they don't trust you, you can't see the scene of this life.

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Takeaway little buddies who are being taught by the team captain: Velvet

Takeaway can also be promoted, but most people actually have no idea of ​​promotion, and they care about how much money they make.

The diligent takeaway may have more than 10,000 a month, or even 20,000.

For example, I interviewed "Lao Cao". He was a special star in the office building during the day and was hungry at night. At least 15,000 every month, he had bought two sets of houses. many.

Many of my interviews are selected in Starbucks. Some takeaways see small tickets handed over by the waiter and say it is so expensive. But Lao Cao was different. He took the initiative to choose Starbucks, and he got the order or something.

I especially like what he said to me: "Someone asked me, don't you feel shameful if you send takeaway? I said what happened to me, I didn’t steal people, grabbing people, and pitting. I rely on my own myself What are the shame of making money? Why are there a shame? I send takeaway now, not to say anything else, I have two houses under my buttocks. "All the texts in this paragraph are sorted out and recording. There is no modification of a word. Satisfaction and proud, every time I repeat him with others, I feel particularly angry.

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The takeaway Song Beijing, with the necessities of delivery of takeaway:

Mask, sunglasses, mobile phones, charging treasures, golden throat throat treasures

But this does not mean that they have no other dreams and hobbies. For example, there are some horizontal drifts in Hengdian. They are usually group performances and takeaway part -time. There are also talk show actors part -time delivery of takeaway, and the experience of sending takeaways is compiled into paragraphs.

"Takeaway Poet" Wang Jibing is a very typical one. He opened a grocery store, next door is a takeaway site. One day he passed the fun and said how to do this thing, and he helped him register one. After registering, he accidentally came up with one order. Others told him that if he didn't run, he had to be fined, and then he ran away.

At first he didn't treat this as a matter of business, just to feel that he was a bit boring to keep the grocery store all day. He was happy to come out and had money.

At the same time, Wang Jibing was a very obsessed person. He had written novels and wrote poetry, but did not publish it. In the process of running takeaway, he is equivalent to more life experience. No one picks up those remote, horn places, and he goes to run. He thinks this is a rare experience that helps himself to write poetry.

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A takeaway brother is negotiating photography with the traffic police: velvet

One day suddenly raining rain, he happened to be in his hand, and he went to the bridge to avoid the rain. When he saw a hungry brother ride on the rain, he wrote a poem:

Wang Jibing, "Raiders"

A takeaway brother

Pass in rainwater

The sky blue takeaway dress is like a small piece of clear sky

A small piece of clear sky walks in the rain

Like a lens, he is constantly moving with mosaic

And rain is futile

The wet the blue workmanship

The brighter the sky

The clear sky is posted on his ribs

It's like sticking to the ups and downs of the earth

Raid

A takeaway brother and I ride side by side with me

Let me feel that the raincoat is superfluous

Shooting raincoats constantly

Like anyone constantly calling the door.

After Wang Jibing did takeaway, his poems began to publish. Now he is 53 years old, and he is still taking takeaway. He insists on doing it for 12 hours a day.

He has a word that moves me very much. He said that as an ordinary person, it is difficult for you to enter other people's families, but it is not the same as taking takeaway. All will become the material of creation.

In the entire takeaway group, only about 10%of the female outsiders, I have special attention to them.

There are special circumstances in many families who come out to be a takeaway. For example, two mothers in Tianjin and Shandong, their children have malignant tumors, choosing takeaway for their children.

There are also for children to read. I interviewed a female takeaway. My husband had a car accident. It turned out to be a flower shop. The business was downturn. The son's entrance examination reported an error and volunteer. After entering the noble school, the tuition fees per semester cost tens of thousands of yuan. In order to study for children, she changed to takeaway.

Some people are flexible for delivery. In order to facilitate the children who attended the primary school, they resigned and used the child to take a takeaway.

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During the Shanghai sealing period, a female takeaway in the delivery

Photography: Xu Xiang

I was very impressed by a takeaway in Shenzhen. She used to raise pigs before. Later, she encountered swine fever. The pigs died and owed hundreds of thousands of foreign debts. In order to pay back, she went to Shenzhen with her husband to make money.

When I interviewed her, she happened to meet a little girl who came to her. Liangju is a yoga coach in Sichuan. After the epidemic, there are fewer people who practice yoga. She just saw Liu Haiyan's video number and wanted to follow her to takeaway.

Liu Haiyan's site of two or three hundred takeaways, plus only 5 women. The site does not have a girl's dormitory, and women's outsiders can only rent a house by themselves. They also took care of each other. Liangju was lost in the village in the city. He called Liu Haiyan for help. Liu Haiyan rushed over to pick her up and took her back to her home for dinner at night.

If there are several doors in large communities, she will use the rest time to run all the inside, and then make a community map and send it in the group group for everyone to use.

You will find that these women's takeaways are often tougher and more hard -working than men. Liu Haiyan's performance is the top ten at the entire site. I interviewed two or three female takeofs, and their husbands were also taking takeaways, and they couldn't run them.

They rarely complain that they are grateful to the work of takeaway, because this job really resolves their dilemma and changes their living situation.

Among the takeaway brothers I interviewed, unless they were married before taking takeaway. If you want to find a girlfriend when you take a takeaway, it is not easy.

Although they have a lot of income, they fight for physical strength and earn hard money, which is a high -risk industry. I have heard a saying: "Two kinds of people cannot marry, one is the mud tilemith, and the other is the courier (takeaway) brother."

After the epidemic, 20%of the service industry flowed to the takeaway industry for takeaway. There are also some college graduates who have not found a job for the time being, and they will also enter the takeaway industry. Therefore, we will see that the takeaway is getting younger and the education has gradually increased. The overall proportion of college students is close to 20 %. During the interview with me in takeaway, he said that he felt that the takeaway was significantly more. When the meal was meals, the mall was waiting for meals. There are fewer orders on everyone's head, and the commission is also decreasing.

A box of beer was carried to eight or nine floors. It was originally subsidized and now gone. The distribution range has expanded from 3.5 kilometers to 4.5 kilometers. Li Gangyong's monthly income dropped from 56,000 yuan to more than 4,000 yuan, and there may be fewer next.

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A takeaway interviewed by Yang Liping, Zhang Nanjie, graduated from the hotel management major

Photography: Li Yanzheng

At the same time, the overall quality of the takeaway is getting higher and higher. From generation to generation, I have personal experience. The post -90s and post -00s, their education level and personal qualities exceed our generation.

What they usually care about is whether the guests respect him.

There was a survey before, and only 27%of the takeaway felt that they had been respected. A little brother said, "Sending takeaway makes me more and more inferior."

The threshold for takeaway entry is not high, but not everyone can earn more than 10,000. I have contacted a lot of "single king", and their IQ or EQ is very high. At the same time, these people are very kind, such as Huang Yuanyi, who will fight in seconds in seconds, but if someone asks him, he will be patiently stopped and gives pointers clearly, and then goes forward.

We often see news reports saying that children fell from high altitude, and the takeaway reached out to catch him; someone fell into the water, and the takeaway jumped into the river to rescue him; the gas tank was exploding, and the takeaway rushed up ... It is not surprising that these happened to them.

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Takeaway brothers resting on the roadside: Velvet

Even when the country is in crisis, they are a group of people with responsibilities. I learned that a number. During the epidemic, the travel of a takeaway can allow 25 families to go out of the house without risk.

At the beginning of the Wuhan epidemic, when Zhao Bin saw the empty city, his tears would flow down. Another takeaway, Wang Tao, he was originally the head of a construction team, because the accident lost his net worth and could only come to take out. He was miserable, but he still had a very strong sense of responsibility. He ran more than 800 orders in the days of Wuhan's "sealed city".

Regardless of whether the city does not accept them, they have deep feelings and sense of responsibility for their cities.

So the more I interview them in this group, the more respect to them. No matter how difficult the situation is, they can be said to be standing. I also hope that more people will understand them, respect them more respect, and less unnecessary bad reviews.

Title Photographer: Li Yanzheng

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