In Beijing it’s 10 degrees below zero right now. Here in Xi’an it hovers around the zero mark. That’s pretty cold, which makes your heart go out to all the poor people here, living in crappy houses.
Our earlier apartment was crap. Way up in a highrise, without isolation and with no central heating. We were cold there even in the summer.
In our apartment basement live people. They’re migrant workers, mostly, but there’s also an elderly couple that lives there permanently and takes care of the place. The guy wears an old army coat and walks with a limp, so I’m guessing he’s ex-army.
They have to live in that hole all the time. Every time I come there to pick up my scooter, the woman is lying on their bed in the office, watching TV. What kind of life is that? Don’t they have children to take care of them?
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