That Mobile Phone

He picked up scraps, carried cement, and broke his ankle in exchange for only 200 yuan in severance pay. He huddled under a bridge with a high fever and was turned away from the hospital because of his status as a "dishonest person." He sent IOUs, family photos, and his mother's hot sauce jars to his hometown, and finally sat down by the Funan River, watching the city dawn, but his own world never lit up again.