"If my wife knew that I am sleeping here, her heart would be broken," he said.
He even got angry when a photographer tried to take his photo.
"If this place was exposed by the media, the government officials might come and force us to leave," he said.
Both Zhu and Shao refused to go to the local rescue station to seek help, since the station only provides sleeping places for 10 days, and after that they have to be sent back to their hometowns.
"We are coming to the city to seek jobs, and we don't want to go home before Spring Festival," Shao said.