"I Deliver Express in Beijing" Author: Hu Anyan Publisher: Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House

In the ten years since he entered the society to work, Hu Anyan has traveled far and wide, to Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Shanghai, Beijing and other places. He has worked as a courier, a night shift picker, a convenience store clerk, a security guard, a bicycle shop salesman, a clothing store shopping guide, a gas station gas station worker... He turned the daily details and the joys and sorrows of his work into a sincere self-narration, recording the hard work, selfishness, warmth and righteousness of an ordinary person in life.

A year of picking up goods at night in a logistics company left a deep physiological mark on him: "This job can also make people's temper worse, because long-term staying up late and overwork will significantly reduce people's emotional control... I already feel that my brain is not working well, mainly because my reactions have become slow and my memory has begun to decline." In the two years of delivering express in Beijing, he "regarded himself as a delivery machine with an hourly wage of 30 yuan. Once the rated output value is not achieved, he will be angry and frustrated"...

But he eventually realized that a life filled with resentment was not worth living. These work experiences, written in retrospect, are permeated with his attitude and reflection on life and the world, and are intended to express an individual's direct confrontation and affirmation of the meaning of life in the face of limited choices and cramped reality: many ordinary and meaningful moments in life are more decisive for life than all aspects of reality.

Hu Anyan, a worker and writer. In the past ten years, he has traveled all over the country, moving to Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Shanghai, Beijing and other places, and now lives in Chengdu. In his early years, he worked as a security guard, bakery apprentice, convenience store clerk, bicycle store sales, online store staff, etc. In recent years, he worked as a night shift picker in a logistics company in Guangdong, and then worked as a courier in Beijing for two years. Since 2020, he has been unemployed at home.