Chapter 67 benevolent

When Ma Yinchu was a child, he loved deep-fried dough sticks from his hometown in Shengxian County. It is made with only a little flour, and the inner core is deep-fried. Each section is like a bubble, and it tastes particularly crispy.Later, he returned to China to become a professor. When he returned to his hometown, he found that Master Zhu, who fried dough sticks when he was a child, was still operating. Because of limited funds, he could only pay 3 catties of vegetable oil and 10 catties of flour at a time. He was very sympathetic; money and flour money.He told Master Zhu that no money will be charged when he buys them; but he can only take 3 catties of vegetable oil and 10 catties of flour each time, and they are not allowed to exchange them for cash.He knew that Zhu liked to drink, and he was afraid that he would trade it for wine.

In August 1955, a student died in an accident at Peking University.Huang Baisong, a student from Shanghai who was sleeping on the upper bunk, fell off the upper bunk in the middle of the night and was sent to the hospital to be rescued and died.Two days later, Huang Bosong's parents came from Shanghai, and Ma Yinchu personally received them and comforted them.At the same time, the school immediately distributed ropes to each bunk bed, saying that it received an urgent notice from the Ministry of Higher Education that protective equipment must be installed on all bunk beds without protective devices. Now use ropes for temporary protection.Song Yunjiao said that it took only a day or two from a student's accident, to the principal's concern, to the emergency report from the Ministry of Higher Education.Back then, there were no mobile phones or the Internet, the speed of communication and the care for people were admirable.This shows Ma Yinchu's concern for students.

Song Yunjiao recalled that when Ma Yinchu first arrived at Peking University, "one or two afternoons later, Mr. Ma came to the small dining room where we lived to check our beds one by one. This was the first time we saw the principal. He opened the bedding along the aisle to look carefully , and asked us if it was cold at night. I was seventeen years old at that time, and my blood was young, so I quickly said whether it was not cold or cold. Coming from the south, it feels a little cold. He is a student in Beijing, and he is young, so he doesn’t know what cold is. At this time, Mr. Ma said that many students are recruited every year, and there are not enough dormitories. In a few days, the new dormitory building will be completed, and everyone can enter the building. After finishing speaking, Mr. Ma turned sideways and said to the accompanying people: Please comrades from the General Affairs Office go to the city to rent some quilts for everyone. They must not be frozen. A large number of quilts were shipped in the evening and distributed by the bed, one for each bed. There seemed to be no troubles such as signing and registration. When returning the quilts before entering the building, they just left them on the empty beds , and there are no entanglements such as counting the number and tracing responsibilities. Mr. Ma will do what he says, and the principal will follow the functional departments. Although there are a large number of quilts, everyone handles it fairly and there is no corruption. This is what I have seen The efficiency of Peking University under Ma Lao’s rule.”

Ma Yinchu is very concerned about the work of the student canteen.One time, Song Yunjiao was eating with his head down. He was eating sliced ​​meat and cabbage. Suddenly someone reached out to take his chopsticks. He looked up and saw that it was Ma Yinchu. He immediately handed the chopsticks to him, but he still wondered why he wanted my chopsticks.Ma Yinchu took the chopsticks and picked up the meat slices in his bowl. After picking all the meat slices aside, he probably knew the number of meat slices, and then asked me: What kind of dish is this and how much is it?Song told him that it was fried cabbage with sliced ​​meat, and it cost 20 cents. After hearing this, he nodded slightly and said, "It's okay."Another time, Song Yunjiao ate pheasant in the cafeteria, 15 cents a share, and there were a lot of chicken pieces. After entering the door, Ma Yinchu walked past the table where Song Yunjiao and the others were sitting. Seeing him eating chicken, he quickly asked me, what are you eating?Song replied that it was a pheasant.Ma Yinchu was puzzled, and asked what is a "pheasant"?Song Yunjiao explained that the pheasant is what the southerners call the pheasant.He asked again, why not call it a pheasant but a pheasant?Song Yunjiao felt a kind of childlike innocence, and quickly said that northerners are not happy to say pheasant, because that is another name for prostitute.He oh-oh twice, and then the table discussion ended. After asking the price, he asked how the taste was. Song Yunjiao said it was okay.His final question was: Where did so many pheasants come from?Song Yunjiao told him that it might have been brought by the Great Northern Wilderness, and I heard that whole trucks were brought into Beijing.He nodded and said: This is very good, very good, not expensive or expensive.Slowly left the cafeteria.Song Yunjiao not only saw the care of the principal, but also saw the childlike innocence of an old man who seeks knowledge.

Once, Song Yunjiao was eating at the south end of the small dining hall. Ma Yinchu came in and asked the students what they ate, was it delicious, and whether it was nutritious enough.The exam is coming soon, can you cope with the exam by eating such a meal?Soon, the school uniformly distributed a large red paper meal roll to each student, divided into 30 small boxes, and each box cost 1 dime, which was a meal subsidy during the exam. In 1956, Peking University students proposed that Xu Guangping, Lu Xun's wife, give a speech at Peking University because of the 20th anniversary of Lu Xun's death.Ma Yinchu agreed.However, on the day of the speech, Ma Yinchu did not attend the meeting.Afterwards, the students wondered why Ma Yinchu missed the appointment.Someone asked Gao Wangzhi, the director of the principal's office, but unexpectedly he got a slap in the face: You are still a liberal arts student at Peking University!It was only later that the students realized that Ma Yinchu did not attend the meeting because Mr. Ma and Mr. Lu Xun had differences in ideas in the 1930s and had a pen-and-ink lawsuit.But in order to meet the requirements of the students, Ma Yinchu still agreed to let Xu Guangping come to Peking University to give a speech.