The wind of the wax moon cut off all the dead leaves on the treetops like a knife, leaving only a few bare branches to shake and shiver in the cold.

On a secluded corner is a men's shoe-shine stand, right next to the back entrance of the department store. If you can set up a stall in the most prosperous place in the city, the booth fee will naturally rise. When a man gives half of his monthly income to the property collector, he always curses them in his heart for only recognizing money and not people!

He took out the shriveled cigarette case from his pocket, lit the only remaining cigarette, and the man inhaled silently. Suddenly, the rows of brightly colored flags in front of him began to flutter, and before he could react, the howling wind waved past his ears. He quickly lowered the brim of his hat and wrapped the cotton coat around his chest, but the fingertip-sized wisp of wind still took the opportunity to penetrate his neckline, and his body couldn't help but shiver, and his teeth began to rattle.

The weather was extremely cold, and there were few people going out, so he couldn't help but worry. If you don't earn anything, you might as well go home and stay, but the cold at home can't be avoided. A rented house for 200 yuan, dark and cramped, with a single bed, and a rice cooker. Now he has fewer things, not as many things as the original family, furniture and household appliances, but when he divorced, he let his wife fight, he had no choice, and even the two children were willing to follow his wife, he could only watch.

It is good for the two children to follow their wives, and the wife's family is all urban hukou, so it is also good to find a good future for the children in the future. City hukou? Yes, the city hukou is enviable, in order to get the city hukou, he forcibly cut off all the relationships between himself and his little daughter-in-law who has not passed the door. No matter how delicate she is, no matter how virtuous she is, no matter how capable she is, she is also a person with "shortcomings", and the shortcomings are that she does not have a city hukou. Later, I heard that my daughter-in-law had a miscarriage for him, ruined her reputation, and never married to a good family again, and suffered a lot of sins. In the end, she couldn't give birth when someone gave birth to a baby, and she died with a big belly after two days.

When he returned to the countryside for the New Year, the man learned the bad news from his father. He only had a few faint words: she is a woman who will not be reincarnated, and she must be reincarnated in the city in the next life. There are many people in the city, and if a woman in the city catches up with a difficult birth, the doctor will cut open the stomach and take out the baby......

"Are you still human? You're a beast! ”

In a fit of rage, my father overturned a table of food and drink, and he stubbornly returned to the city. When he saw his father again, it was already two years later, at the funeral of the old man.

The man married a girl from the city as his daughter-in-law, she had an urban hukou, and she also turned the man's rural hukou into an urban hukou. Her vulgarity, selfishness and willfulness are also "defective" in the hearts of men, but everything is not important compared with the urban hukou. Therefore, every day in front of his daughter-in-law's family, he is completely willing.

In 1996, when he was laid off from the factory and re-employed, he handed his ID card to the recruiter, but the other party did not look at it, and the employer was even willing to hire a few young people with rural hukou to do the work.

Could it be that the world has changed, and the urban hukou is no longer expensive? That certainly won't be! How can it be so easy to settle down in the city, and the difficulties are still fresh in his memory. Half a year later, the daughter-in-law resolutely filed for divorce, what if he didn't agree? At this moment, a trace of confusion passed through his heart, maybe the reason for the divorce was just the retribution he suffered for abandoning his fiancée back then? But the only consolation now is that he is still from the city, and his household registration is still in the city.

Thinking of this, the man suddenly felt a warm heart, and he neatly flicked off the ashes of his cigarette and put the cigarette butt that was about to burn out in his mouth. He looked through the glass door into the building, and the security guard's big bell-like eyes were staring at him like a thief. When he first said that he worked in a department store, his friends immediately cast envious glances, but when they learned that he was just shining shoes at the back door of the building, the twinkle in their eyes immediately dimmed. As for the security guard, he was even more unkind, the man wanted to go in to avoid the cold, and the security guard stopped him at the door, saying that he was sloppy and had a messy image. Even when he was in a hurry, the security guards pointed him to a public toilet a kilometer away. Not to mention throwing a cigarette butt and spitting, and if the property cleaner finds out, they will immediately hand him a fine ticket. It was only at this moment that he felt that the urban hukou was not perfect, and if it was in the countryside, these miscellaneous things would not matter.

"What's the price of a shoeshine shoe?" A high-pitched inquiry pulled the man's wandering thoughts back to reality, he looked up, quickly straightened his waist, and instinctively replied: "Two pieces, only two pieces!" ”

"Old friends also want money? We grew up together. The grinning middle-aged man deliberately teased.

"Just kidding, I'm kidding." The man caught a glimpse of the cleaning aunt wearing a red armband pacing not far away, he was a little cramped and uneasy, he first touched the cold cigarette butt on his mouth, and then took it off, suddenly felt that there was nowhere to put it, so he simply continued to hold the cigarette butt in his mouth.

"I'm kidding, too, I don't need you to shine your shoes. I'm still in a hurry to buy fur! My friend pointed to the brightly lit inside of the building.

"Uh-huh......" the man cleared his throat and swallowed all the phlegm hanging in his throat back into his stomach, "Well, fur is not cheap!" ”

"Today is different from the past, now our rural people are no worse than urban people, and our family background is very thick! If I marry my daughter-in-law, I will invite you to drink the wedding wine! ”

"Marry a daughter-in-law?" The man stood up and quietly slipped the cigarette butt into his pocket. "If you marry a daughter-in-law, you must marry a city hukou!"

"What kind of account is not registered, the most important thing is to have money these days!"

"Rich? It also depends on the nature of the hukou, and the urban hukou is always better than the rural hukou......"

"Don't talk to you, I'm in?"

"Welcome!" The young shopping guide opened the glass door and bowed, and diligently stretched out his right hand to make a "please" gesture. The neighbor walked briskly, and a warm air current hit the shivering man.

The man snorted and was indignant: "Phew, you look like a rural person, and you don't look like a city person when you wear fur!" ”