Sanhe "Goddess" Sister Hong: Wandering is the greatest rebellion she can do

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Illustrator: Mi Guo

"Sister Hong is definitely a god who has violated the rules of heaven and came to the human world to understand life. ."

"Great gods, you really can't do it*"

"The living Bodhisattva who saves mortals in the flesh often helps the great gods and sends 10 red envelopes to the great gods. You must know that in the past She charges 15 yuan a time!”

“They were all scrapped by you guys”

——Netizen comments

Shenzhen Sanhe, an ordinary talent The intermediary market has quietly grown into a topic on the Internet. Playing for three days a day, this is Sanhe under the sun. A senior programmer said with emotion in the group of Sanhe masters: "Sanhe is a utopia for every middle and lower class."

In Sanhe's black Internet cafe, "dog gambling" [1] They stayed up all night gambling, and after losing everything, they went to the Hisense Hotel [2] to blow water. Invariably, they lamented that they had lost again. Of course, the topic couldn't be separated from repairing the car [3]. Gambling and repairing cars, these are not visible to the public.

The more taboo it is, the more ready it is to do something. In all the topics of car repair, Sister Hong is indispensable. Sister Hong is like a legend. Some people claim to have repaired her, and some brag about treating her to dinner. Meeting her by chance will become a topic of conversation.

Like Dashui [4], Sister Hong is also synonymous with cheapness, tightly tied to Sanhe’s carefree happiness. She is a sex worker. People say she is cheap and dirty; others say she is chivalrous and the goddess of Sanhe.

With hell on one end and heaven on the other, Sister Hong was split into two people. From these few words, we can only see her real life and her life outside of being a sex worker.

We were lucky enough to have an appointment with Sister Hong for a casual dinner. Over the course of a meal, the stories she had accumulated over forty years were mixed with emotions that were dizzying.

Walking in the Jianghu

Sister Hong came and appeared in a way that I did not expect: young and capable, wearing a white embroidered jacket and black trousers, with a pair of green " Jade" earrings. She began to speak in a very small voice, shrewd, a little shy, and occasionally showed a bit of girlishness.

People rushing to get married in front of the Hisense Hotel, photographed by Jianjiao Tribe, processed using Versa

I tried to complete Sister Hong’s chronicle through interviews, but it quickly failed. She talks endlessly, but she never follows the time narrative of her life. In most cases, her narration follows her emotions and feelings.

I soon discovered that the beginning of Sister Hong’s story was the same as that of countless young girls who believe in romance: they desire a certain kind of wealthy life, and then are deceived by love, but they continue to live through fire and water.

"After the divorce, I traveled all over the country..." She started the conversation with this sentence. The opportunity for traveling all over the world was that she was cheated by two men one after another while in love.

Not long after she came to Shenzhen, she met the first boyfriend in the story. He told her that there was a good way to make a fortune doing business in Anhui, and she followed him without hesitation. Later, like countless stories about the broken dreams of low-level people in China in the early 2000s, Sister Hong fell into a pyramid scheme. They were imprisoned in a house by the MLM organization, brainwashed, and forced to either pay money or develop offline.

"Yes, I finally came out!" Sister Hong responded to our exclamation with ease, "You don't know how legendary my escape was."

One night, Sister Hong Try to check the lock on the door while testing whether the doorman is asleep. "If he wakes up, say I'm going to buy something."

She succeeded. They ran ten miles through the paddy fields in the dark, not daring to take the main road or call the police because their captors had brainwashed them. "I was young and stupid at that time. They told me: 'All China is our brothers, sisters and spies, and you will never escape in your life.' I really believed it." Sister Hong recalled her with a self-deprecating smile. way of escape.

The water in the rice fields covered her calves. Finally, when she was sure no one was chasing her, she ran to the police station. "I asked the police to buy me a return ticket. I returned to Shenzhen..."

The first half of the second romantic love story is a rare and short-lived peak in Sister Hong's life. time. While working as a foreman at a construction site in her hometown, she met another boyfriend, a man from Yan'an, and saved a lot of money. "At that time, I learned a lot and was able to arrange the workers' work." Sister Hong's tone revealed her satisfaction after becoming a small leader.

"We talked about getting married. His younger siblings called me sister-in-law on the phone. Then one night, when I woke up, this man took away all our money and disappeared..."

Stills from "The Sons of Rivers and Lakes"

Just like the heroine in Jia Zhangke's film "The Sons of Rivers and Lakes", Sister Hong embarks on a hopeless journey to find her husband. She didn't tell us how long this experience lasted or how many places she traveled. Finally, she really found Yan'an and was shocked by the scene before her.

"The mule cart carried me to the top of the mountain. I really didn't expect that there were people living at the top of the mountain. Our hometown all lived at the foot of the mountain.

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"Then I saw their old parents, who had nothing..."

"I later learned that he went to Yunnan and married a woman. "

Sister Hong finally gave up the relationship and her hard-earned money. "It's really hard to tell clearly. If a couple, or a boyfriend and girlfriend, one takes away the other's money..." She This explains the reason for not continuing to pursue the case. But I guess that the environment in the other party's hometown and the heavy burden also scared away all her anger and unwillingness. From then on, she returned to Shenzhen. Entering relationships easily.

Factory Struggle

I am curious about what motivates people in Sanhe to stay away from home and face the cruel life. Sister Hong’s answer to me is: Life in my hometown is even crueler.

“Shenzhen is much better than at home, and women’s basic rights are at least guaranteed. There is really no guarantee in my hometown. If you are divorced and your household registration is still there, the village will not pay you any dividends, saying that you are not from here if you are divorced. "Sister Hong began to complain about the troubles in her hometown.

"In Shenzhen, you can eat no matter what. Just like a little boy in Sanhe said, in his hometown, he might not be able to eat meat for a long time. But I come here and cook casually and eat meat every day. ”

Sister Hong started her narration about Shenzhen factories and lower-level workers. However, soon, the rhetoric describing beautiful Shenzhen collapsed and shattered in the cruel factory stories. Paradoxically, along with What breaks apart is the rise of Sister Hong's life: the underworld and factories of Sanwa inspire her abilities and intelligence, albeit in a weird, deformed way

Sanwa Manpower Group, Shot by Jianjiao Tribe, processed using Versa

“I have pioneered two things at Sanhe, and I feel most proud of them. "Sister Hong's eyes began to sparkle. She raised her head, looked directly at me for the first time, and her voice became louder.

She was one of the first people in Sanhe to open a "black" agency. Before that, it was absolutely impossible for Sister Hong, who was thirty-five years old and came to Sanhe from Jiangxi, to make a living in a factory in Shenzhen without the introduction of fellow villagers and a young body. Gang, Henan Gang, Hunan Gang...

"I suddenly felt that I could get an agency on the same day. "Sister Hong said to her part-time job boss, I have as many people as I need. Then she cooperated with a man, applied for a fake agency business license, and recruited the first batch of part-time workers in Sanhe's history.

“We almost didn’t get the money. "After the day's work, Sister Hong once again fell into the crisis of being cheated by a man. "The man who worked with me told us that the boss did not pay him his salary. "Fortunately, Sister Hong was not fooled this time. She was alert and chased him out. "We pushed him to the ground and asked him what was going on. Unexpectedly, the bags of money just scattered out. "Sister Hong laughed and described this movie-like scene to us.

Since then, private daily employment agencies have developed in Sanhe. "Black agencies are really important, otherwise, Many people cannot stay in Sanhe. "

Another thing that became a topic for Sister Hong to talk about was her experience of lockouts and strikes in factories.

"I also worked at Foxconn. Foxconn is actually a good factory. I said on the Internet at that time that the factory was a good factory and the boss was a good boss, but the people underneath were too bad. " She said she couldn't imagine why the supervisor could say the most vulgar words to insult the workers.

In Sister Hong's eyes, the vicious foreman on the assembly line and Terry Gou are completely different things. One is vulgar, painful, and annoying. Intolerable, the other is distant, reasonable and desirable. The difference is just like her own experience and her imagined good life.

She tells us about her experience as a Taiwanese woman. The story of the quarrel between the boss's subordinates and the supervisor. The supervisor wanted to find her fault and let someone else he knew take her place. In Sister Hong's eyes, most of the confused and innocent bosses didn't know this. There is no need to be blamed.

People blowing water in front of the Hisense Hotel at night, photographed by the Jianjiao Tribe, processed using Versa

“I started working with the supervisor, and I didn’t care about life or death at that time. , I am no longer afraid of those thugs. What am I afraid of? I said if you want to pick on me, I will turn off the switch and stop the entire factory from operating. The supervisor was so angry that he was shaking and there was nothing he could do to me. "There was a hint of pride on Sister Hong's face.

She really did it. Then, the shutdown strike became a routine means of workers' resistance.

" Later, we often started to quit, and then a group of people were pulled into the house and asked who took the lead. At that time, the foreman hired thugs. He pulled the weakest one and asked him if he did it. The weak man did not dare to refute, so the foreman slapped him twice. "

"I am still very proud of my ability to pull the switch. "

"If I had to choose again, I would never work in a factory. It's too hard and I can't make any money. "Sister Hong finally summarized her factory experience.

We don't need to talk about the subsequent stories of her "career" career and the channels of Hong's livelihood that often appear in other reports.

Stories from Hometown

"I'm leaving. It's a coincidence that you guys are here today. It may also be the last time we meet." Sister Hong repeatedly emphasized that she was leaving The fact seemed to highlight the significance of our meeting this afternoon, and seemed to dispel our and even all reports’ speculations about her life.

But when asked if she would leave completely, she gave a completely contradictory answer: "Shenzhen will definitely come." Shenzhen is not good. , but the backwater town in my hometown has no room for a divorced woman.

Cautiously, I brought the topic to life in her hometown: her only marriage, her children, and her original family.

"My previous imagination of the future was to follow an old man and take care of his grandchildren." However, the end of her first marriage completely cut off such life expectations.

"My marriage to my only husband, who is much older than me, started so..." Sister Hong was unclear, but I could guess her evaluation of the marriage she entered into when she was still a girl. Maybe it's absurd.

"When I was eighteen or nineteen, one day I had a stomachache and was squatting on the side of the road. My husband passed by and said, 'Come to my house with me and take a rest.' This rest lasted seven years, and I also slept. After seven years of marriage, she got drunk and gave birth to a child.”

The married life described by Sister Hong consisted of only eating and sleeping. Such a boring life was broken by her husband's cheating and the subsequent vicious domestic violence.

One day, the husband brought another woman to the house and forced her to divorce. She originally wanted to be a "cold wife" who could swallow her anger and raise her children silently. But her husband kicked her into the field and trampled her...she had to sign. Her ex-husband later took her six-year-old son away without her knowledge.

For a long time, people on the street in my hometown would see a woman wearing pajamas looking for her son with a loose look. Sister Hong said: "My relatives all thought I was insane." But the search was fruitless.

People gambling in Internet cafes late at night, photographed by Jianjiao Tribe, processed using Versa

When my son grew up, he also came to Shenzhen. When he didn’t spend much time with Sister Hong, he spent most of the time He stared at the computer screen to play games, and regarded his mother's helpless dissuasion and concern for his body as the most vicious curse. This made Sister Hong angry and helpless.

Sister Hong said that her son worked for Foxconn for a period of time as a post-sales service provider and then returned home because he was bored. "What I regret most is that I didn't bring my son out, but that's it." Sister Hong said calmly, "He has a weak relationship with me."

This educated youth/small town worker who went to the countryside The daughter of a class, she has a father who is also dissatisfied with reality, but fell down due to being too "romantic". In the early 2000s, he was involved in a scam related to the "unfreezing of national assets." "My mother will never forgive him. He can't come back (home) either. "Sister Hong said.

She is the only daughter of this failed working-class family. There are three brothers in the family. In her description, they are all middle-class people who look good but are boring and mediocre. "I never follow Contact them. If they knew I was like this, they would be furious. "As two tragic romantic dreamers, Sister Hong and her father were eventually expelled from the family structure.

"I gained freedom, what I have pursued most in my life. If there is any hindrance, I won’t want it. As for my brother and the others, they are like scalpers all their lives. What’s the point? "Sister Hong made such a philosophical sigh.

Endless wandering

"I'm leaving. "Sister Hong emphasized her schedule again. "I have no goals and no plans for the future. I just want to go from place to place, take some photos and post them online to see the world. Just like Sanmao..."

"I have been in love all my life. I don't have love, I just like the body I like, which is smaller than mine, so I can't make do with it..."

"I don't need funds to travel, because now I completely know how to survive in a strange place. Come down..."

This is a series of "freedom" declarations by Sister Hong.

I don't know if she really wants to leave Sanhe and explore the world again; or this Romantic wandering only exists in her fantasy, just like I don't know whether all the stories this afternoon are true or false, but the boundaries between truth and falsehood, illusion and reality are indifferent.

Sister Hong and others in Sanhe live a depraved life in the usual sense. This "derailed" lifestyle may be described as a desperate rebellion against vulgar social values, miserable and tragic. It is heroic and poetic; it may also be seen as the only way to survive in a cruel world to inspire our emotions of change and reflection, but it doesn't matter to Sister Hong.

Because, no matter what. All the explanations seem weak and redundant in the face of the "rolling world of mortals"

Notes:

[1] Car repair: sex trade.

[2] There is a saying: "Gamblers may go ashore, but dog bettors will never go ashore." Because gamblers have restraint, but dog bettors have no restraint, and dog bettors gamble until they lose everything. With nothing to borrow, I had no choice but to run away in the end.

[3] In the Hisense Human Resources Market, because there are many great minds sleeping in front of Hisense Building, the great minds affectionately call it "Hisense Hotel".

[4] Dashui: Bottled drinking water designated by Sanhe God, famous for its low price and large quantity.