Pan Shiyun, 17, is a native of Meizhu Village, Chongtou Town, Yunhe County, Yanghai City.

In the autumn of 2009, his mother Shen Mingxiu and father Pan Mingsong died of illness within 49 days, leaving him 11-year-old and his 81-year-old grandfather to rely on each other.

His mother had been ill for many years before her death, and her father owed a total of 30,000 yuan in debts — which did not have an IOU, but 11-year-old Pan Shiyun decided to pay them off for his father.

Picking up waste and doing odd jobs, Pan Shiyun has earned a total of 22,800 yuan in the past 6 years. Coupled with the money that the two saved from the subsistence allowance and subsidies, this year, he finally paid off the debt owed by his father.

Although the well-meaning creditors advised him again and again: "You are still young, there is no need to rush to repay this money." "Some people even say that there is no basis for the law to repay the father's debts to the son, and you have not inherited any inheritance, so you don't have to pay it back. But he said that the creditors were all good people who had reached out to their parents in the first place, so how could they let others suffer.

On September 9, 2009, Pan Shiyun's mother died of lupus erythematosus. After his mother was buried, his father went to work in the county seat after cutting the rice.

On October 27, 2009, 49 days after Pan Shiyun's mother died, his father also died of liver cancer.

Only 11-year-old Pan Shiyun and his 81-year-old grandfather are left in the family.

The morning after my father's burial, someone came to the house. The man walked up to Pan Shiyun's grandfather and said, "Your son is dead, he owes me 100 yuan, you have to pay it back to me!" The grandfather didn't hear clearly, Pan Shiyun and his aunt were shocked, and immediately stepped forward to take this person away.

Outside the house, 11-year-old Pan Shiyun tearfully said to the creditor: "Don't worry, I will definitely pay back the money my father owes!"

Pan Shiyun took a notebook to write down this account, and this book will become his special ledger in the future.

After sending away the creditor who came to the door, Pan Shiyun thought that his father owed more than one debt, and he was ready to continue to have people come to collect debts.

To his surprise, no creditors came to his door. He took advantage of weekends and winter holidays to find his father's debts one by one:

owed Lin Qiyuan 840 yuan for the freight of transporting hollow bricks and cement when repairing the collapsed house in 2009;

owed Dong Xianlin 1,000 yuan, his mother was hospitalized in 2008, and when she was discharged from the hospital, she had no money to settle the bill and borrow it......

Some of these debts were told by my father to my aunt, some were told to my aunt by insiders, and some were asked by Pan Shiyun and my aunt together.

Grandpa also recalled several debts: "I owe you 200 yuan to Uncle Lian, and Uncle Liu 100 yuan ......"

After a period of inquiry, Pan Shiyun wrote down more than 20 debts owed by his father, totaling 30,000 yuan.

30,000 yuan, for Pan Shiyun and his grandfather, who have no place to live, is almost an astronomical amount.

In rural areas, there is a saying that "debts do not last for years". If it can't be returned for a while, the ceremony must also come. Since then, every year after the New Year, Pan Shiyun has to go to the door with his grandfather to apologize: "The money owed to you cannot be repaid for the time being, but please rest assured, we will remember the account and will definitely pay it back to you!"

One is an old man, the other is a primary school student, and the creditors sighed when they saw their grandparents say this. In fact, most people don't want the couple to pay back the money at all.

In the summer of 2010, Pan Shiyun came to his aunt's house in the county seat. There are many toy factories in Yunhe County, and Pan Shiyun wants to find a factory to work in.

But when the factory owners saw that he was only 1.4 meters at the time, they were afraid of being suspected of employing child labor, so they refused one after another.

Pan Shiyun thought of picking up scrap and selling it for money. He ran back to his aunt's house and found a woven bag......

It had been days since my aunt found out about his scrap picking. When she entered the utility room, she saw a mountain of waste paper and plastic bottles, so she asked her uncle to help transport them to the scrap yard to sell. The 15 yuan sold was the first money Pan Shiyun earned.

After that, Pan Shiyun went out early and returned late, shuttling through the streets and alleys to pick up scrap and sell.

Later, he found another job - to go to the toy factory to get some wooden toy parts, and make some manual money at home.

That summer, he earned more than 1,000 yuan.

Every summer after that, he did some odd jobs for toy processing, and the money he earned increased year by year: 2,300 yuan in 2011, 3,000 yuan in 2012, and 4,000 yuan in 2013......

Every winter vacation and weekend, he goes to pick up waste.

Last summer, 16-year-old Pan Shiyun went to work in a toy factory. The toy factory works 8 hours during the day and 3 and a half hours at night. Pan Shiyun brought rice and dried vegetables to the factory in the morning, steamed them at noon and in the evening, and went home late every night.

He said that he only spends half an hour eating at noon every day, and can work for an extra hour.

Some of the money to repay the debt comes from odd jobs and scrap picking, and some of it is saved from subsistence allowances and various subsidies.

Over the years, Pan Shiyun and his grandfather have been saving one coin at a time. In addition to the school uniform, he was wearing old clothes given by others.

After graduating from junior high school last year, Pan Shiyun entered Yunhe County Secondary Vocational and Technical School. In order to save money on vegetables, he only buys two vegetarian dishes per meal. Later, he thought of a more cost-effective way: find a classmate who is also poor to share the vegetables. The two put the money on the same card and bought three dishes at one meal to eat together.

The original average weekly vegetable cost of 50 yuan has been reduced to about 75 yuan for two weeks.

Save while earning, and save some money to pay off your debts. Since 2011, he has classified debts: "More than 500 yuan in two installments, more than 1,000 yuan in more than three installments." ”

What touched him was that every time he sent money to the creditor's house, people refused to ask for it: "You are still young, this money is not in a hurry, and it will never matter in the future." "Some people even say that there is no legal basis for the father's debt to the son, and you don't have to pay the father's debt for the father if you haven't inherited the father's estate.

But he said that it is natural for the father to repay the debts of the father and the son, not to mention, those are "good people who help parents when they are in the most difficult times".

For each debt, he had to give it at least twice, or even more than three times, before the other party reluctantly accepted it.

In this way, 6 years since his father's death, Pan Shiyun has paid off the 30,000 yuan debt borrowed from his father.

In September this year, Pan Shiyun was elected as the president of the student union of Yunhe County Secondary Vocational and Technical School. He ranked second in his class in both culture and professional combined.

The teachers all hope that he will continue to study after graduation, but he wants to graduate as soon as possible, step into the society as soon as possible to work and earn money, and take good care of his 87-year-old grandfather.

Now there are still people with such precious qualities in this society, Li Zhuo also admires them from the bottom of his heart, isn't such a person exactly what he needs.

Li Zhuo decided to give this child named Pan Shiyun a different and wonderful life.