I have a neighbor, a middle-aged man, who has never worked since he was young, but lives a good life. At first I wondered why he was skulking around on the street day after day, and from time to time I would see him playing mahjong on the street, didn't he have to go to work to earn money to support his family?
Later, after observing and understanding, he really didn't need to earn money to support his family. He has a family of four, an elderly mother, a wife and a daughter in elementary school. There is real estate, which was earned by his parents when they were young, so there is no loan for the house they live in. The point is that his family has a downtown store, and the annual rent in the previous years was about 120,000 yuan, when the average person working at that time had a monthly salary of less than 1,000 yuan.
The most enviable thing for us is that his wife opened a small restaurant, the market is rented, but also do not have to use their own home market, mainly to sell some snacks, Chinese food and so on, usually only operating breakfast and lunch, the afternoon will not be open for business. In general, he did not go to the store, the store closed at noon, his wife also went to play mahjong with him. In addition to paying rent and utilities, the restaurant's operating income can also have savings, and the family's life is also a living.
This is the most laid-back man I've ever seen, slipping on his slippers in the summer and playing mahjong with others in a corner of the street. Maybe they don't have anything to pursue, but others are really the winners of life, someone for him to carry the weight forward, he can lie flat.
If there is no one to open up for us, we can only carry our own weight forward.
Street playing cards, generally are retired old man, have a pension, do not have to go to work, seldom see young people have to play cards in the street. There are also a bunch of old men in the park, old ladies and so on. Young people like to play mahjong at home, huh.
Through my careful observation, always pay attention, I found that most of the street playing cards are retired old man. Retired old man needless to say, people have retirement pay, some people's retirement pay is very high, I have such a person around me, retirement pay of about 8000 yuan, and people's old partner also has a retirement pay, so the two people add up to more than 10,000 yuan of income per month, playing a little mahjong does not have anything to do with the life of a small impact. Therefore, their days are cozy and comfortable. Naturally, they are able to support their families, and some retired elderly people also support the lives of their sons and grandchildren who have a large family. Some people are not what your eyes see. There is also a small group of people who just gather around and watch. They usually do not easily participate in the activities, just stand on the side to see, these people usually do not have a pension, they only play a small mahjong, is the kind of a few cents, to get over it. These people generally rely on their children to support, usually children to give some pocket money, they can not afford to use to play mahjong. The old man, playing mahjong is also a recreational activity, can develop intelligence, exercise thinking ability.
Basically are some retired people, chatting people, these people are carefree leisure happy, get together to play cards is also a way of communication. Playing on the street is also a beautiful scenery. They play cards belong to entertainment, not gambling, individual play is also leisure with a little bonus is not much. It does not affect the normal life of the family.
The cat has a cat road, the rat has a rat road, each with their own way of living, do not look at people sitting in the street every day, but life is never worse than every day busy at work, the Eight Immortals, each with their own magical powers, there are a lot of big head wear a lot of hats, can not be compared to, can not be the same, live their own on the line.
I have noticed such a group, there are some people who rely on backpacking goods to others to do hard labor to earn money, but they do not have things to do, a lot of them are three to five groups on the ground, betting on some small amount of money, three or two in the place to play cards, in our side of the street will often see such a situation, but if someone needs to call them when they go to the right away. Someone else to do something. Of course there are a lot of people playing cards, those are the elderly a little bit more, retired people a little bit more, they have retirement pay, of course, will not worry about their own no food, think about how no food how there is money to gamble, how there is time to gamble.