According to Wang Fagen and Zhang Meng's understanding later, Zou Xueyong is really not simple. His hometown is in Fengcheng, which is close to the capital of Jiangxi Province, and his family has been poor since he was a child, his mother died when he was 8 years old, and his father died when he was 10 years old.

After the death of his parents, because his father was a three-generation single lineage, there were no close elders in the clan to take care of the brothers, and his 8-year-old brother was taken over by a cousin aunt in southern Gannan to raise him, leaving only 10-year-old him to barely make a living by herding cattle and pigs for the landlord's family.

Once during a small talk, Wang Fagen and Zhang Meng heard Zou Xueyong describe such a story.

It was when Zou Xueyong was still helping the landlord's family herd cattle, and there was a spring and summer turn of one year, which was the time when the rural rice planting farmers were busy. At that time, the long-term workers of the landlord's family went to the field early in the morning to plant seedlings, and Zou Xueyong was young, so he followed the women who helped the cook to cook in the landlord's house.

When the meal was ready, Zou Xueyong carried a load of rice, vegetables, and water to the long-term workers who were planting rice in the field. At that time, the rice field where the long-term workers were located was far away from the landlord's house, and they had to climb over a low mountain beam to reach it. When the farm is busy, it is a rare time to eat a few full meals, Zou Xueyong walked on the mountain road with a heavy list, secretly pinched out a rice ball from the rice he was picking, and ate it fragrantly. Suddenly, in the distance, he found a large yellow and black tiger lying in the middle of the mountain path in the distance, lazily basking in the sun.

This scene almost scared Zou Xueyong's soul out. He trembled and retreated, wanting to go back to the landlord's house, but when he thought of the ordinary landlord scolding him, he was even more afraid, if he did not give the food to the long-term workers in the fields on time, the landlord would definitely kill himself.

Zou Xueyong, who was only 11 or 2 years old, slowly retreated to the foot of the mountain, until he could no longer see the tiger lying on the small mountain road, and he dared to cry in a low voice. At this time, an old man passing by saw it and asked, "Little short-lived ghost, why are you crying?"

Zou Xueyong cried and said: "Grandpa, there is a tiger sitting in the middle of the road in front, I work in the landlord's house for a long time, the adults are working in the fields, I am going to deliver food from this road now, if I send it over now, I am afraid of being bitten to death by the tiger; if I can't send it, I am afraid of killing the landlord!"

"Are you going to XX?"

The old man saw that the young and ragged Zou Xueyong was crying pitifully, so he asked a place name in the vernacular of the city, that place was really the col where Zou Xueyong was going, and Zou Xueyong nodded hurriedly.

"Little short-lived ghost, don't cry, I know there is another path, come, I'll take you there!" the old man said, and took the young Zou Xueyong to another path, and delivered the food to the field on time.

In this way, Zou Xueyong, who had no father and no mother, worked in the landlord's house for several years, and grew up to 15 or 6 years old after starvation. Several distant clan elders from the same township who worked in Hek County saw that he was really pitiful, so they asked him if he would like to follow them to Hek County, hundreds of miles away, to become a plasterer.

Zou Xueyong, who was tired of herding cattle and raising pigs in the landlord's house to barely make a living, and was bullied by the landlords and long-term workers from time to time, plucked up his courage and followed the kind-hearted clan elders to leave his hometown and come to Hek County.

In Hek County, he recognized the elders who brought him to Hekang as a master and became an apprentice plasterer. Before the liberation, the apprentices had a hard life, not only had to learn various plastering skills from the master, but also picked sand, green bricks, cement, lime, and mixed mud, and all kinds of work had to be done with the master. When I came back from the construction site, I had to help the master's family cook, help the master's wife clean up, and take care of the children. In addition to being able to learn crafts and live a mixed life, he doesn't even have a penny of salary.

But even so, Zou Xueyong, who has suffered desolation and humiliation since childhood, is still very grateful to his master, although it is hard to follow the master of the same country, but he finally sees hope, according to the old rules of the old society, he has followed the master to learn art for three years, and after he leaves the school, he will be able to get the salary of a big worker, and then he will be able to support his family. It is not necessary to help the landlord's family herd cattle and pigs in the past, and the days are bleak.

And even more fortunate after the liberation of the county set up a construction company, just after the liberation of the county was in ruins, at that time there was a shortage of manpower for various technical jobs such as mud, steel, carpentry, etc. So fortunately, he followed his master into the county construction company and became a glorious national worker who ate imperial grain.

Later, the master's family also matched him and introduced a poor girl who was also from Fengcheng City to work in Hek County. The two of them met two or three times, and they were relatively satisfied with each other, so they simply opened a table of wine, and started a family in the staff dormitory of the county construction company.

But fate still did not let go of this man who suffered many disasters. At the end of the 50s, he had already settled in a construction company, and he was sent to the Xialong Brigade under Huanggang Village, Changgang Township, more than ten miles away from the county seat, which is now not far from the Wangkelai branch of the cement factory.

When he was first transferred to the Xialong Brigade, his eldest son was only 2 years old. My wife has no job, and she works alone with her children in the Xialong Brigade to farm, and earns work with the villagers. As for him, at that time, the national highway had not yet been repaired, and he had to drive more than ten miles of roads every morning, and walk for more than an hour to rush to work at the construction company. Every day after work, I walked for more than an hour to go home.

After Xiaokouzi was transferred to the Xialong Brigade, six more children were born one after another, plus the eldest son who was born at the earliest, a total of three sons and four daughters. The life of the family is very difficult, and the family can't even afford the cheapest clock.

Countless times Zou Xueyong woke up and saw a snowy light on the ground outside, he thought it was dawn, got up and opened the door to see, only to find that it was the moon. But he didn't dare to sleep anymore, worried that he would be late for work, so he often walked the path for more than an hour to the county seat in the moonlight. The door of the unit was not opened, so he sat on the ground at the gate and dozed off, often sitting for most of the day before dawn.

After suffering all his life, he finally waited for a good news last year, and the unit agreed that the old workers would retire early and be replaced by their children. So for the sake of his eldest son, he retired early, and he was reluctant to rest when he was idle, not only helping his wife farm at home, but also occasionally going out to do odd jobs.

Zou Xueyong's life is a very prominent inspirational story, his parents died early, and he was illiterate. Following his master's apprenticeship, he began to use every opportunity to read and write at the age of 15 or 6. After entering the county construction company after liberation, he took advantage of the literacy training courses organized by the unit and mastered many common words. In the 30 years of the county construction company, he has gradually grown from an apprentice plasterer to a senior technical engineer who penetrates multiple types of work such as plastering, rebar, and carpentry, and has become the squad leader of the rebar class.

This time, Zou Guangguang introduced Zou Xueyong to work in the newly established Jian'an Company, and Zou Xueyong was very grateful. He brought several large bags of taro cakes, pumpkin sauce and other things made by his wife at home, and gave them to Zou Guangguang, Wang Fagen, Zhang Meng, Monkey and others, and also sent two bags to Song Liangren and Li Liang, who did not work in the company.