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2009年03月30日 @ 22:30:15 9 条评论 »她不过才30岁,就过早地进入了生活的死胡同。一无所长,居无定处,无亲无故地呆在北京。
张红艳又在找房子和工作。现在,她住在三义庙附近的老式建筑物当中。那些房子是典型的苏式风格,经历了风风雨雨,破旧不堪。小区里不缺绿化,到处杂草丛生,乱蓬蓬得彰显生机。在昏暗无光的走道中,莫名其妙地堆砌着破烂箱子和锈迹斑斑的自行车,还有一两株杂草顽强地生长在墙缝中。墙壁上密密麻麻地交织了各类电缆,布满了蜘蛛网和灰尘。
夏日午后,空荡的走道中虚无的是人影。张红艳坐在架子床接着房屋中介打来的电话,哪里又有便宜房子了,那里的租金又是多少了。她要和对方商量能否便宜一点,再便宜一点。在她目前租赁的不到10平米的房屋中,除了一张吱呀响的硬板架子床和一张结结实实的黄色桌子外,一无所有。她很少开空调,怕浪费电。屋子里也没有桶装水,更不用说家具了。
她和一个学生租的一室一厅,她每个月承担900元房租。由于靠近三环,房屋里并不安静。窗外就是熙熙攘攘,阳光刺眼的街道。
张红艳的生活从怀孕开始了她所谓的噩梦。一年中见不了丈夫几次,她狠心抛下女儿去深圳、上海、天津等地方寻找丈夫。每每在见一面甚至连人都见不到的情况下,丈夫又消失了几个月。张红艳需要爱来支持生活。可是,她丈夫连电话都不接听。她一次又一次地陷入了绝望当中。
她只好一个人悲伤地生活在北京。
时 间:2007年08年18日
地 点:三义庙
摄 影:阿三
文 字: 阿三
She’s just thirty years old, too young to get to the dead-end of life. Now not with a skill or a settled place, she’s in Beijing, all alone.
Again Zhang Hongyan is seeking an apartment and a job. She lives in an old building near San Yi Temple.The buildings got an unique Russian style and have weathered a lot through decades. Green is everywhere in the community, showing its vitality despite of the mass.In the gloomy corridor, the broken boxes and the rusty bicycles are strangely piled, while one or two weeds live tenaciously in the crack of the wall. The walls,netted with the spider web and dust, are thickly studded with all kinds of the electric cables.
In the summer’s afternoon, there are few people in the empty corridor. Zhang,sitting in her shelf bed, answering the call from the property intermediary. She was asking about the location and the rent, trying to get a good bargain. She has nothing but a creaky hard-shelf bed and a solid yellow table in the ten-square-meter she rents. She rarely uses the air-conditioner to save. No packed water,let alone the furniture.
She shares an apartment with 900 yuan per month. It’s quite noisy as located near the Third Link. Right outside the window is the crowded street bathed in sunlight.
Her nightmare began when she became pragnant. Not seeing her husband for many times in a year, she hardened her heart against her daughter to look for her husband in Shenzhen,Shanghai,Tianjin,and other regions. However, she only saw her love for a short time or even no time before her husband disappeared again. Love is needed for her survival, nevertheless, her husband wouldn’t even answer the phone.She sinks into despair over and over again.
Yet she had to stay in Beijing, broken-hearted and all alone.
Aug 18th, 2007
At San Yi Temple
Photo by A-san
Written by A-san
Tranlated by Annie Zhao


