Dialogue: The most difficult time is passing

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Text | "Well -off" · China Well -off reporter Su Feng

I am grateful to the time of London drifting. It opened a door to me so that I could walk into a world I didn't know so much.

Photo/Wang Ye

No matter what others say, the writer Wang Ying is very satisfied with his current life. In the epidemic, what is difficult to have Wang Yan? What is the situation of the frontline workers in the UK? With the problem, the reporter of "Well -off" magazine and China Well -off.

"Well -off" · China Well -off: Are you currently a "poor"? Is this identity a self -identity or a helplessness?

Wang Yan: When I first arrived in the United Kingdom, I had to make a living by fighting a lot of small workers because I encountered some economic difficulties. As a columnist, many types of work have never been in contact with the monk, so I have gained first -hand experience about the underlying life. Although my manuscript fee is much lower than my peers or writers (after all, Britain's salary and consumption level are different), I dare not say that I am a poor, because my origin is not poor.

Nevertheless, I am grateful for this period of time in London. It opened a door to me so that I could walk into a world I didn't know so much.

I used to buy a new bag or something occasionally in the past. Now I basically do n’t buy any new clothes. All home products in my family are in a charity store, flea or second -hand market. When my husband married me, I did not give my parents a gift. I did not have a wedding in the UK. In the eyes of my mother and some relatives, I might be the one who did not marry well in our family. I am still very satisfied with the current life. I used to spend six years to learn about planting vegetables (my vegetable land only needs 21 pounds a year). It took five years to write "British Watch". Time to explore British history and society. My husband has always been in demand and never give up (my husband works in the most complete library in literary books in the British academic circles). I think this life is worth it.

The barrenness of the spirit is much more difficult for a writer than the barren material.

"Well -off" · China Well -off: In the article "British Society in the epidemic", you wrote "the worst people to control the worst times"; we must do it between "new crown death" and "poverty death" Out of choice. Previously, what was the most difficult (material or spiritual) period of personal experience during the epidemic process?

Wang Yan: My husband and I were okay. When I was in the UK, my husband worked at home with a full -time work, so his salary was not deducted. He also received some heating electricity bills because he went to work at home, which was about 1,000 pounds. And I have always been a "sitting" home, so the epidemic does not have much impact on my work. Many of our friends are very miserable. The work has been temporarily stopped. We can only get 80%of the salary, and it takes nearly a year as soon as possible. It's not difficult to imagine.

As for the mental dilemma, it is mainly from the outside world. It has been there. You see, even a society that looks so glorious on the surface, like the 18th century landscape painting, there are 15%-20%of the poor. And these people are suffering from unemployment. In the past 40 years, a large number of work has been transferred to the third world country with an artificial low. Even existing work is constantly being automated, and the epidemic will only make the work less and less.

Fortunately, the most difficult period seemed to be in the past. The highest risk group, especially the elderly over 80, also finished the fourth vaccine.

"Well -off" · China Well -off: "The epidemic has cut a world that was originally clearly cut. Some people lived a life at home, meet online, walk from dogs offline, and take the daily essential vitamin D D. . Another part of the person was entrusted by a slightly strange word. "Can you talk about the situation of the frontline workers in the UK?

Wang Yan: The epidemic is like a long -lasting lightning, illuminating the potholes caused by various adverse systems.

The situation of the frontline workers in the UK is not good. They do the hardest and most tired job, but they have a low salary. The salary of the courier is only 10.15 pounds for an hour, and the cheapest two bedrooms in the UK are at least 150,000 pounds. I think people should be aware of the importance of frontline workers. With one or two bankers, we will not feel any changes; but if no one comes to collect garbage for more than three weeks, we will live in a world of garbage into a mountain world. inside. Why can the cleaners' wages only 9.80 pounds/h?

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This article was published in "Well -off" in early August 2022

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