Chapter 74 73. Lin Xiuzhen - Voluntary Poverty Alleviation and Sticking to the Rural Areas

Lin Xiuzhen, female, born in 1946, is a farmer in Nanchenzan Village, Wangchang Township, Zaoqiang County, Hengshui City, Hebei Province. She joined the Communist Party of China in 1971.Comrade Lin Xiuzhen has successively won the National Excellent Communist Party Member, the National "March 8th" Red Banner Bearer, the National "Five Good Families", the Outstanding Communist Party Member of Hebei Province, the "Top Ten People Moving Hebei" in 2005, the Outstanding Communist Party Member of Hengshui City, and the "Double Ten" of Hengshui City Excellent civilized citizen model, Hengshui ten-star civilized family "model household" and other honorary titles.For 30 years, she has voluntarily supported 6 orphans and widows. She also placed 20 migrant workers in the company she founded, 8 of whom helped them solve various life difficulties, and donated more than 40,000 yuan to help rural primary and secondary schools. Improve educational conditions, subsidize 14 children from poor families to enter colleges and universities, and donate 22,000 yuan to public welfare undertakings such as drilling wells, which are highly praised by the masses.She has been awarded honorary titles such as Outstanding Communist Party Member of Hebei Province, National March 8th Red Banner Bearer, and National Excellent Communist Party Member.

One noon in the winter of 1976, 30-year-old Lin Xiuzhen brought two bowls of steaming dumplings to Zhu Shugui and Liu Xiuhuan.After entering the door, she was stunned. The two old people were drinking the leftover porridge from the morning, and there were still fine pieces of ice in the pot.Her tears welled up all at once: "Why don't you eat it when it's not hot?" In fact, the old man didn't need to answer, she also knew that in those years, the farmers on the plain were not only short of food, but also short of firewood. Back home against the cold wind, Lin Xiuzhen's heart was heavy.The old man Zhu Shugui joined the party during the Anti-Japanese War. He risked his life knocking on doors to report the enemy's situation and organizing mass transfers.Now that he is old, he is a five-guarantee household in the village, but how can he do without anyone around to take care of him?Lin Xiuzhen is determined to take care of the elderly like a daughter.

For her ideas, her parents supported her, the production team supported her, and her husband Zhu Jinying supported her even more. A promise of gold.Lin Xiuzhen knew how long the road ahead would be, but she did not regret it.She lent money to the old man to buy 300 kilograms of coal, a coal stove, and an aluminum pot.She can no longer let the old man eat cold rice and sleep in a cold room. That winter was the warmest day in the lives of the two old people. Because they often eat cold meals, the two old people suffer from stomach cold and often suffer from stomach pains. Lin Xiuzhen tried to buy brown sugar for the old people and let them drink brown sugar water; in winter and spring, she went to the market to buy mutton supplements for the old people. body.Her family made delicious food, so she called the old man home to eat together; during the Chinese New Year, she and her husband took pork and flour to the old man's house to make dumplings...

Under Lin Xiuzhen's meticulous care, the old man's spirit recovered, his complexion became rosy, and his body became strong. One day four years later, the old man Liu Xiuhuan took Lin Xiuzhen's hand affectionately, took out two medicine bottles from under the bricks on the window sill, and said to her, "Girl, I will leave this to you. With you, I will give it to you again." I don't need it anymore." Lin Xiuzhen took the bottle and was startled, it turned out to be two bottles of sleeping pills!The old man told her that they once had a secret agreement that if two people could not take care of themselves, each of them would take a bottle of sleeping pills...

After hearing the old man's words, Lin Xiuzhen hugged the old man Liu Xiuhuan sadly and cried bitterly. For 4 years, she worked from morning to night, worrying about herself, and finally let the old man see the hope of life.What the old man gave her was two bottles of medicine, it was clearly two trusting hearts!Thanks to her initiative to support the elderly, otherwise, she would definitely regret it for the rest of her life. Lin Xiuzhen began to support Zhu Jinlin and Zhu Shuchang after the implementation of the "big contract" in the village in 1981.That afternoon, when the villagers returned home with the animals and farm tools they had allotted, Zhu Shuchang, a five-guarantee household and a crazy old man, squatted on the ground crying, while Zhu Jinlin squatted beside him smoking a cigarette.Seeing them like this made Lin Xiuzhen feel sad. She said to her husband, "There are difficulties in the village now, and our party members have to shoulder these responsibilities."

Zhu Jinlin was sent to the Hengshui District Hospital 35 kilometers away because of a leg injury, and was accompanied by Lin Xiuzhen's husband Zhu Jinying throughout the process.Three months of hospitalization in a large hospital is simply "burning" money for poor peasant families.Zhu Jinying had to go home every 5 days to get the money.This made Lin Xiuzhen very anxious. The family's money had already been used up, so where would she go to raise money?For the sake of money, Lin Xiuzhen really had a hard time, but no matter what she said, she couldn't make her husband go back to the hospital empty-handed.At that time, the 3 acres of cotton planted by her family were spun. Lin Xiuzhen went to pick cotton every day, and sold it for dozens of dollars a day, and collected a hundred or ten dollars each time for her husband to take it away.

In this way, relying on 3 acres of cotton, Zhu Jinlin's leg injury was cured.Until Zhu Jinlin died of sudden myocardial infarction in 1994, this mentally handicapped old man had lived in Lin Xiuzhen's home for 14 years.