Workers: If there are similarities, please lament rather than rejoice.

When I finished reading "Walking by Waterway", I decided that I must buy this book-The Working Man.

< Working Man > records a circle that I never tried to understand. A person's life experience or knowledge of people and things is really limited. Many writers write about this or that life, so that we can experience the cool thin and warmth of human nature in books. However, most authors can only observe the ups and downs of various industries for a short time. Only those who stand on their own positions can take their own experiences without the perspective of God. Therefore, we need writers from various industries like Liqing Lin to truly record the culture and life of different industries.

I often meet workers in my life, but they are still a vague group to me. The workers I see are either busy with high-intensity manual work on scaffolding, or wearing gray-gray-blue tooling in the subway, sometimes carrying a big bag or a bucket of tools. The three of them are companions, which are particularly conspicuous in the crowd, but they are most easily overlooked by everyone.

I never thought about it, nor did I have the ability to deeply contact or care about the circle culture and life experience of this group. I don't have their language system, I don't have all-inclusive affinity, and I don't know how to communicate with these people who have completely different experiences. But this is the charm of the book. It can give you such an opportunity to break through your own limitations and get to know the people around you who you can see but don't often come into contact with, to help you see the life you have never experienced, so that you can look at the world more openly.

This is the case with The Workman, written by Liqing Lin, a supervisor who has worked on the construction site for ten years. The person who works is the one who meets the bricklayer and porter in his work. These people are the people who are ignored by the mainstream media, but they are companions and friends with stories around him.

We are always surrounded by the general concepts of "middle class", "petty bourgeoisie", "rich second generation" and "poor people", and the eyes of the crowd and the media mostly follow the capital flow. Few people go to explain their life circle that looks less "shiny" because of these workers who "lost their voice" because of lack of cultural education. So when they learned that Liqing Lin was writing a book about them, a master would come to him specially and say, "Come and ask me, and I will tell you everything.". Yes, that's because they are flesh and blood, piled up with love and responsibility, but no one cares about life. Because of this, books like The Workman and people like Liqing Lin are more and more valuable.

("by water", meaning intravenous drug injection)

Author? |? Liqing Lin

source? | The Working Man

Aqin takes drugs.

in other words, he can only take drugs.

Aqin is an ironworker. His whole family used to be ironworkers who hired small iron houses, and people commonly called them "iron buildings".

However, since Aqin's father, their signboard has turned white, and they can't actually do ironwork any more. Since the mainland's steel was sold back to Taiwan at low prices, Taiwan Province's iron factories have been dying. There is also a scale, looking for designers and architects to grab food downstream, and new houses or decorations in the urban area are all taken away by this form. A small iron factory like Aqin's can only repair the old roof.

the chin brothers are ok. When my father was still there, the result of sending them to vocational training was that they were qualified as welders. Although they could not receive the case, they were at least professional masters.

According to the traditional custom in Taiwan Province, one of the brothers will stay at home in case their parents are left unattended. Brother Aqi stayed in Changhua, while Aqin went to Yunlin's large industrial zone and several contractors' temporary factories to weld iron pipes and white iron pipes.

welders have professional life limitations. The first is the aging of the eyes. Workers engaged in electric welding must wear colored lenses within a few years. Then there is night blindness. Just a few days in business, you can feel that there seems to be sand between your eyes and eyelids; After a few years, the eyes will feel as uncomfortable as stones. Recurrent ophthalmia also makes welders have to choose between work and rest. But if you don't do it, you won't have money. That's what Ah Qi did. He had to retire after he was completely blind.

followed by rotten lungs. The job of electric welding is to burn the metal with high temperature. The waste gas from metal melting will make the lungs fibrosis, and the welders will be out of breath in cold weather, even if they bring bronchodilators, they may not be able to hold on. It is often heard that outdoor welders are dizzy and faint, which is the reason. These toxic gases have caused lung injury and even nerve damage to workers, and because the welder's working space often has to squat down and climb up, keep the same posture to achieve the integrity of the solder joint position, and the non-circulation of blood also makes these diseases more serious. Welders' faces and hands are often severely peeled off, like snakes crawling over them, because of high temperature burning. ?

Their old father left in a hurry. After he fell, he died in the hospital a week later, saying that he was poisoned by blood and his heart and lungs were completely destroyed. At that time, Yeke membrane (artificial lung) intubation was not popular in Taiwan Province.

Aqin started to use amphetamines after he entered this factory. Tobacco, alcohol and betel nut are not allowed in this factory, and alcohol test is required before entering the site, but drug abuse is difficult to test.

after he took a breath, he worked with the help of God. The biggest effect of drugs is to make people forget the acid, numbness, itching and sultry heat, so he can bear the protective gear that fully meets the security inspection, and he has no pain, heat resistance and weight tolerance, and his eyes are not painful. He never feels dizzy after standing up for a long time.

The sequela of drug abuse is that you can only concentrate on one thing, which is in line with the nature of Aqin's work. His weld bead is beautiful and thin, stacked like a fish scale. Compared with other masters' mud residue in detail, each of his welding spots is clean and beautiful, and the indoor argon welding is a lavender arc. These finished products are photographed in the factory and printed out as the acceptance standard. Everyone in the factory said that he was a first-class excellent master, with a lot of welds, sure movements and almost no need to get up and take a rest.

But it also made other teachers jealous. Few other workers who do welding in the factory can have the same skills as Aqin, and because he is unsociable, people say behind his back that he has made everyone have a hard time. Then he began to say that he was taking drugs, but it brought protection-the engineers in the factory thought these were pure slander. After all, Aqin's work was much better than others. Those highly educated engineers always say, "You suck, too!"

This factory needs to make a list of pipes every year, and the control of personnel and machinery is extremely strict. Because Achinka killed the welder's job, all the welders who entered the site had to go through various tests before entering the site. Now these qualifications are much more difficult than when Aqin took the exam. For some unimportant parts, the factory even introduced foreign workers to help with welding. Aqin is very kind to these foreign workers who are not fluent in languages. In his mind, with such technology, he is not afraid of being bullied, and the factory is willing to send a foreign worker by his side.

He is also a master who combines a few people's certificates and works on the spot. Some foreign contractors with mechanical failure or equipment damage can only look for him. Finding someone new is undoubtedly a big trouble for these engineers, and it needs to be audited. Aqin's welding machines, generators, argon welding machines and gas cylinders are certified every year and used as labor inspection standards in the factory. Even in the sweeping area, he has a separate cubicle and charging socket. In this way, it is convenient for people in the factory to find him, and he is happy not to take the equipment.

he takes the invoice of his hometown factory with him, and the maintenance and installation in the factory can be invoiced at any time. In addition, his daily salary is 4,, working overtime at night is doubled, and he earns about 1, yuan a month, which is enough to pay for his medicine of 12, yuan a month, plus once a week. Taking advantage of Sunday's rest, when driving a pickup truck back to his hometown in Changhua, he didn't know what to do when facing his brother and sister-in-law, and he could only give more money in exchange for peace at home.

My brother, Aqi, used to live a decent life in his hometown in Changhua. After all, the reputation accumulated by two generations made him earn 4, to 5, yuan a month repairing roofs and signboards, although he didn't go to work every day.

But Ah Qi's family is getting restless. If he accepts the case, the whole job of taking care of his old mother will fall on his wife; But if you don't take the case, there is no income at all. Chin knew that her sister-in-law was tired. Both children are studying in universities in other places. My mother-in-law has had a stroke for three years, but the old man's health is getting worse and worse, which makes her sister-in-law lose patience with her husband gradually. Every time, Aqin can only go home to see his mother and give money. After a while, he always forces his eldest sister-in-law to accept it. Then he goes back to the factory to continue his work and buys Ann when he is very tired. ?

My mother left in the fourth year after her stroke. Unexpectedly, after the funeral, my brother and sister-in-law blamed each other for the old man's dying scabies, and all the vicious words came out, and finally they fought each other and got divorced. Sister-in-law was so angry that she went north to find her daughter and sent back the divorce papers. The couple are deadlocked, and no one will let anyone.

A month later, during the typhoon season, when A Qi was hired to weld the roof board on the tin house next to the temple, he suddenly collapsed without any sound. After being rushed to the hospital, it was confirmed to be a stroke-the lower body, right hand and eyes were all useless. By the time Aqin got back, my sister-in-law had already returned home to take care of Ah Qi with her children. Aqin still had to put money in, but the eldest sister-in-law was polite to him at this time. ?

the whole family knows that it can't be better.

At this time, all the pains in Ah Qi's body broke out, except one eye which was useful in the daytime. He thought about suicide, tried to hold his breath with a pillow to see if he could die like this, but every time he couldn't help screaming and slapping his wife around him. Both feet were ruined, and the welder squatted for a long time, which made Ah Qi unable to control his lower body any more. Every time his wife changed diapers for him, he began to talk and spoil himself, and he didn't want his children to see himself. Only under the pain, people's dignity is repeatedly knocked down, even if they swallow painkillers every day, they still suffer. He scolded his wife for trifles, woke up in the night when he dreamed of the scabies, but he was even more painful because he saw his wife's helpless eyes. He gradually lost weight and his hands and feet became thinner and thinner.

During the Spring Festival, Aqin went home, thinking that he should wrap a big bag for his brother and sister-in-law, and ask his nephew and niece about tuition, miscellaneous expenses and living expenses, and whether he could help him.

The two brothers finally had a chance to talk in private, with no one else. My brother took advantage of this time, holding Aqin's hand with his only left hand, and slowly squeezed out a request ... His left eye was still in tears.

Chin was scared and never came back for two months.

When he came back, he talked to his brother for a longer time.

My brother's son is ready to leave the army, his daughter will graduate in a few days, and his wife has taken care of his mother for four years. He should not drag his family down any longer. He said that while his labor insurance is still there and his life insurance is still paid, solve it quickly.

As they talked, the two brothers could only cry.

Chin said to his brother, "Please wait for me."

Every other week, my sister-in-law will go north for two days to attend her daughter's graduation ceremony, and Aqin will come back to take care of her brother. He took his brother to the palace temple and drove him to see the places where the two brothers had been before.

The next morning, he took out the pair of needles and two injection bottles. This total cost * * * eighty thousand.

My brother thanked him with a smile, but he cried at his brother with grief and indignation.

4, yuan went into my brother's body. The two brothers were holding hands. Ah Qi kept blessing his younger brother, and the two brothers sobbed. Then, Ah Qi's voice trailed off.

There was a smile on his face, and there was no response.

Ah Qi didn't go to the hospital, which was agreed by the two brothers. The people in the temple directly went to the funeral home. When the wife and daughter came home, the neighbors said that Ah Qi was blessed and died at home. I think he stayed until his daughter graduated, leaving without attachments, and his serene face was like a living fairy.

But Aqin broke his promise. He didn't accept his share of the inheritance as promised to his brother. He let his sister-in-law rent all the houses, and he also paid for his brother's funeral.

Aqin returned to the factory and went on working. Only during the Chinese New Year will he go back and give red envelopes to his nephews and nieces, and he will also visit his parents and brother.

He left a needle for himself in his ancestral grave.

The Workman is an irreplaceable work, and the title page of the book says, "If there are similarities, please lament instead of rejoice". Liqing Lin said, the meaning of this sentence is, even if you see the truth from these stories, even if you know the hardships of people who work, don't be happy. Because, "this is not worth being happy, and I don't feel happy."