Qian Hao (left) and Qian Kun are a father-son rider pair. (Screenshot from “A Day in the Life of a Chinese” video)
The greatest expectation of fathers for their next generation is often “the son inheriting the father’s business”, but in the jungle of riders it is the exception. The story of a father and son rider was recently told in a special 2021 Spring Festival project by Tencent News’ “A Day in the Life of a Chinese”. 50-year-old Qian Hao, who has been drifting north for nearly 20 years, did a lot of manual work and finally became a seasoned rider, hoping to cultivate his son to get a decent job in an office building. However, his son Qian Kun eventually became a peer with him.
In 2002, because of business failure, 32-year-old Qian Hao took his wife and son to Beijing and started a long drifting life. At first, Qian Hao worked odd jobs at construction sites and once had his own engineering team.
In June 2016, the 46-year-old Qian Hao fell from a high place on the construction site and injured his spine. He became a “flash delivery” rider at the end of 2017.
Over the years, Qian Hao has suffered a lot, but one of the reasons why he doesn’t want to leave Beijing is that he hopes his son’s “starting line” is higher, so that he can get ahead in the future and not follow his old path. However, as a child of migrant workers, Qian Kun was unable to take the college entrance examination in Beijing. Later, although Qian Kun enrolled in the adult college entrance examination and received a bachelor’s degree in adult Education, but this diploma in Beijing’s job market, completely uncompetitive, “last year, a rare company interviewed me, a look at my identity card of Hubei origin, there is no further.
After working in a spicy pot store and a milk tea store, Qian Kun decided to become a take-away rider with his father in 2020.
When he first joined the industry, Qian Kun was often criticized by his father for being unsuitable as a rider, being “too stable and not adaptable”; Qian Hao knew how to study maps and optimize routes, always arriving in the shortest Time, but was reluctant to pass these skills on to his son, as he still found it difficult to accept his son taking his own old path. I used to think, “I wish our Qiankun worked inside,” “At least there is air conditioning inside.
Qian Kun understands how strict his father is with him, and also understands his father’s dilemma in middle age. Qian Kun hopes that his Parents can go back to their hometown to retire without worry, as for himself, “do a few years of rider, after paying off the mortgage and then find another way out”. And after that? “I’ll be where my parents are,” Qian Kun said. Qian Kun said.
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