Chapter 402: I Can't Do It

In the city of Jinmen, which became famous because of the Son of Heaven's crossing of Tianjin, it was a prosperous metropolis from the Ming Dynasty until modern times, and Jinmen has become a big study after several first-tier cities, this city not only has clear historical traces, but also has a deeper humanistic culture. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In this city, there is a tricycle driver every day, among whom there is an old man who is almost old, stepping on the sunset every day, dragging heavy footsteps and laboriously stepping on the tricycle, shuttling through the streets and alleys of Jinmen.

This step is a lifetime, half a century.

The old man's name was Bai Fangli.

Born in 1913, his ancestral home is Hebei, his family is poor, he has worked for people since he was a child, and later fled to Jinmen during the war, relying on a tricycle to make a living.

Relying on getting up early and pedaling a tricycle in the dark to make ends meet, he is often beaten and scolded, bullied, and harshly paid miscellaneous taxes, and he can't eat all day long. After the liberation, Bai Fangli became a model worker serving the people with his two legs, and also relied on his two legs to pull up his four children, three of whom went to university.

At the same time, he also supported his sister, who was widowed at the age of 20, and supported his nephew to go to college. An illiterate old man is extremely pleased that he can use a tricycle to make a sweaty road and train his children to become college students.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he worked in a transportation factory, and after retiring, he picked up his old business again and pedaled a tricycle.

And the reason why he pedaled the tricycle was not to make money, the old man after retirement has a laid-off salary of several hundred yuan a month, which can make the old man's old age very comfortable.

The reason for the old man, who was already in his sixties at the time, to pedal the tricycle was that he was once home to visit relatives, and saw a thirteen or fourteen-year-old child weeding in the field.

The child told him that his parents were not letting him go to school.

The child's answer surprised the old man Bai Fangli and found the child's parents.

The parents' answer was, "There is no need for the children of farming families to go to school, it is a waste of money." ”

This incident had a great impact on the old man, who went back tossing and turning and couldn't sleep, and his hometown was so poor because the croppers had no knowledge. But now that children still can't go to school, do they still want to make their hometown poor for generations?

You can't do anything else, but you can't do it if your child doesn't go to school.

Before dawn the next day, the old man Bai Fangli went to the village chief to inquire about the local education situation, and the village chief's answer was even more surprising.

Because there is no school in this village at all, because there are no children in the village to go to school, there is no tuition, and there are no teachers.

After realizing how difficult the conditions for going to school were in such a village, Bai Fangli gathered all his children after returning to Jinmen and announced that he would donate all his savings over the years to his hometown for education, 5,000 yuan.

The old man's decision made his children anxious, because they knew that the 5,000 yuan was the old man's pension money, but the old man had already made up his mind, and even did not hesitate to draw a clear line with his children, and did not need his children to support themselves.

The children can't screw the old man, so they can only agree.

Subsequently, the old man donated 5,000 yuan to his hometown Baijia Village in two installments to establish an education award foundation.

As a token of gratitude, the villagers sent him a large plaque with the words "Respect for Virtue."

After doing this, the old man did not feel the slightest relief, but became more and more heavy, thinking that there may be more such school-going children in the country, unable to go to school, there is no way to change their fate, and they will continue to endure hardship.

No matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education.

So the old man, who was nearly seventy years old, decided to continue pedaling a tricycle to make money.

The old man's decision once again aroused the opposition of his children, and an old man who should have been supporting his old age and enjoying his old age went out to work, and the face of his children was gloomy, as if his children did not look up.

However, the persistence of the old man Bai Fangli once again made the children succumb.

Boarding the tricycle again, the old man Bai Fangli felt that there was something more in his heart than before, called faith.

In order to allow more poor children to be able to study, change the belief of destiny.

This belief allowed the old man to drag his 70s and walk like a fly through the familiar and unfamiliar streets and alleys of Jinmen.

In 1994, the eighty-one-year-old man finally felt powerless, his body was aging and weak day by day, he was anxious, he was not afraid of death, but he wanted to live for a while longer, he lived one more day, he could earn one more day, and he could give those poor students a penny more.

Realizing this, the old man made a decision again, he knew that his strength was limited after all, and the old man, who had been paid for his labor all his life, decided to sell his house and start a company, hoping to make more money by commercial means.

This proposal made Bai Fangli's children unanimously agree, the old man has done in the wind and rain over the years, and they have also been greatly changed, and the old man can rest and rest when he opens a company, after all, as a child, who wants to watch his old father still suffer on the street at the age of eighty?

As a result, a small company called 'Bai Fangli Volunteer Teaching Company' appeared in an eight-square-meter tin kiosk at the entrance of the Jinmen Railway Station, and the mayor of Jinmen gave support and publicity.

So this small company began to make profits slowly, developing like a snowball, and slowly expanding to more than a dozen, with a net profit of nearly 10,000 yuan per month.

People who don't know think that the old man Bai Fangli has become the chairman, and now he can sit back and enjoy Qingfu. However, not only did he pedal the tricycle as usual, but he also increased the burden of working for the company.

In the more than 20 years of doing public welfare, the old man has never bought a single piece of clothing, he wears tattered clothes from head to toe, like a beggar, and the clothes bought by his children are only occasionally worn, and the old man has reduced his living expenses to a minimum, and there are almost no additional expenses except for survival.

His diet is extremely simple, often two cold steamed buns and a bottle of cold water, and sometimes a little pickle.

He can also be seen picking up steamed buns, bread or half-eaten sausages that others have thrown away...... The family couldn't see it anymore, so they all came to persuade him, but the old man held up the discarded buns that were now everywhere and said to his children:

"What's so bitter about this? This bun was bought by the peasant brothers with a drop of sweat, and they threw it away, so I picked it up and ate it, isn't it a waste less?"

He lived himself as a beggar, but he was nobler than all others.

In order to earn a little more money, the old man has not lived at home for many years, especially after the death of his wife, he has made the kiosk next to the station his home, and the so-called bed is nothing more than a wooden board and an old coat resting on two stacks of bricks.

In winter, when the wind is cold, Bai Fangli's old man's bed is a set of thin bedding, and in summer, the sun is like fire, and the sun is like fire, and the sun is like a thin iron kiosk...... It was in this environment that the old man spent a scorching summer and harsh winter.

Later, the Jinmen government called for the improvement of the station and street environment, and the small shops and kiosks had to be demolished. The old man took the lead in responding to the government's call to demolish his small kiosks.

There was no 'home', so in order to still be able to work for 20 hours, he used a piece of spread plastic woven bag cloth and four small wooden poles to prop up a weak and windless shed that was only half a person high.

After a rainstorm, it is common to see elderly people drying their rain-soaked bedding in the sun.

Many people who are familiar with the old man do not understand why the old man is so 'cruel' to himself, they understand the old man's heart to do charity and education, but they can't understand that he is so 'cruel' to himself.

"I don't want to spend money! It's not easy to earn one or twenty yuan by pedaling a car, the children are waiting for my money to study, and I think about the hundreds of students I sponsor every day. I can't spend money, I can only earn it. It's not easy for children to be admitted to college, but they can't afford to be admitted to college, what do you say?

That year, I heard that there were many students in several universities in Tianjin who were admitted but had no money to buy books and no money to eat, and I thought that the parents of the children could not earn money for them, but I could still earn some money by pedaling the tricycle, so I went back to my old business, and I pedaled until now, and I couldn't get off the car when I pedaled.

I'm a model worker, uneducated, and old, so I can't do anything, but I can pedal a tricycle. There are always dozens of dollars a day, and the children can go to class with peace of mind when they have money, so when I think about this, the more energetic I become. ”

So said the old man.

With a somewhat playful Tsumen's voice, the words spoken are impossible not to be in awe.

For the sake of education, for the sake of children, the old man gave everything he had.

If you charge 5 dimes for every 1 kilometer of three rounds, the old man's dedication is equivalent to 18 weeks around the earth's equator.

This is to feed those future Motherland flowers with blood and sweat.

Just this year in 2001, at the age of 89, the old man finally couldn't pedal the tricycle anymore, and could no longer run his volunteer teaching company, so he showed people the car at the station, and put a dime and two dimes of change in a lunch box, saved enough 500 yuan and then donated it.

After donating the money, the old man stood in front of the donation desk and was silent for a long time, and the staff who had long been familiar with the uncle thought that something was wrong with the old man, and stepped forward to ask.

"I can't do it anymore, and I may not be able to donate anymore in the future. The old man wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with the back of his hand, like a child who had done something wrong.

What is he reviewing?

Who is the one who should be reviewed?

Wang Yao heard the deeds of the old man, the old man had been hospitalized, Wang Yao took the old man from Jinmen for treatment, and when Wang Yao went to visit, the old man knew that Wang Yao was also a charity.

Inserting an oxygen tube and holding Wang Yao's hand, his breathy voice carried a moving yearning, "Child, when I get better, let's go to the capital together to do business and education." ”

The old man is already a little confused, but he still thinks about education.

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