A family of three squeezed into a home where the toilet is exposed] Why Chinese farmers have to buy a car even at a low salary-fleeing a home full of "wholesomeness"

Room with exposed toilet

I thought to myself: Is this the bathroom, the living room or the bedroom somewhere else? But there is a table with a large LCD screen on the right of the toilet, and a wooden bed on the left.

"This place is so small that it scares you? There is only one room. The budget of 500 yuan (NT$2,200) has no other choice, https://www.shineful.com.tw/ma42.htm,because the rent in Shanghai is very expensive, and my hometown is much more spacious. Up."

Although Xiao Zhou said embarrassedly, the size of the room was about five pings. Because there were three people living in this room, a couple and a three-year-old child, it was a little bit crowded, but Ruoguang, in terms of size, the room was a lot smaller than this one. But for the first time I saw this type of toilet directly installed in the room. Although Xiao Zhou hung a plastic sheet from the ceiling to cover it when going to the toilet, he knew that even the wind from the window cracks could blow the plastic sheet. That was just a matter of peace of mind. This reminds me of the solitary house that Japanese death row prisoners live in prisons that I have read in the newspapers. advertising

The landlord of Xiao Zhou's family is a Shanghai farmer who works on this land. He builds a house for rent on his own land. All tenants are migrant workers.

What kind of consideration did the landlord not cover the toilet wall?

Built in the second half of the 19th century to the middle of the twentieth century, Shanghai was the old collective housing in the concession period. In recent years, although the number has decreased a lot due to the change of the capital, the number of these old traditional housing In China, buildings without toilets are not uncommon. And it's not the kind of apartment that has no toilet in the room but has a shared toilet, as was common in early Japan. Instead, there is no toilet in the building without a sewer or septic tank, usually in the room. In the corners, the "potty" commonly known as "toilet" is used to solve physiological needs.

A house like the one where Xiao Zhou lived was built only in the past ten years, so it shouldn’t be difficult to enclose an independent toilet space with plywood. The reason for not doing this is that besides the possibility of having a different concept of the toilet, as a person who has seen too many Shanghainese on the streets, on the Internet, and in magazines, who despise people of local origin as "rural migrant workers", I can't help but feel that I have heard the landlord's voice: "Thank God if I can help you install the toilet." This is the reality of Shanghai farmers discriminating against local farmers. I said that I heard the landlord’s voice and it was not made out of vain, because the landlord’s own residence not only has a complete independent toilet, but also recently installed a toilet seat from Japan’s "Boombuy". Seventeen years ago, I lived in an old apartment that was said to be "you can experience the life of early Shanghainese." I gritted my teeth and endured a life without a toilet. I used the potty for half a year. I suffered from this experience. I am deeply aware of how inconvenient life is without a toilet. But even so, I still think that instead of installing a naked toilet for us, it is better to use a potty in a room without a toilet to solve our physical needs and to maintain mental stability.

A car that doesn't match the home

Speaking of Xiao Zhou having to live in a house with an exposed toilet, I always thought it was because the husband and wife worked together in the logistics warehouse. The total family income was only 8,000 yuan (NT$35,200). For a three-person family, it is unlikely to live a life without a meal, but they consider that this is by no means a sufficient income. In Shanghai, it is equivalent to the salary of a white-collar worker graduated from a university. (Like Xiao Zhou said) Calculating "We only go to junior high school, so we want our children to go to college", and save the money as a child's education fund.

So in January 2016, less than a year after I visited Xiao Zhou's house for the first time, when I heard Changshun say that "Xiao Zhou bought a car", I was more surprised than when I saw his house. They all live at homes with exposed toilets. Where can they buy a car with their spare money?