Chapter 11 10 Moisturizing things silently——Wang Zhi, the second national moral model

In March, I went to Jing County in southern Anhui for an interview. It is the rainy season in early spring, and the south of the Yangtze River is drizzled. The mountains are bathed in the rain, and they look more verdant and beautiful. There are gentle white clouds floating in the valleys, rising upwards.In the paddy field, there is clear and bright rain, and some weeds have sprouted, covered with a layer of light green, which makes the thin water surface more alive.The rapeseed in the field stretches its green leaves in the rain, absorbing the moisture of the spring rain. It can be imagined that in the near future, they will bloom beautifully with golden flowers.The village by the roadside, with its white walls, red doors, and uneven walls of horse heads, is full of poetry in the haze of rain.

All this in front of me can't help but remind people of Du Fu's poem: "Good rain knows the season, when spring happens. Sneak into the night with the wind, moisten things silently." This time, I am going to interview old man Wang Zhi. Wang Zhi is from Gufeng Town, Jing County. Because of his concern for left-behind children and the establishment of a teaching assistant center for left-behind children, he was named the second "National Moral Model". The car was running on the asphalt road, and a layer of mist was splashed under the wheels. After leaving Jing County, walking not far north, I saw a green sign on the side of the road that said "Wang Zhi Teaching Assistant Center".Following the direction indicated by the arrow, the car turned off the asphalt road and walked onto a winding country side road.It didn't take long to arrive at the market town of Gufeng. On both sides of the road were high and low houses, including newly built two-story buildings and old tile-roofed houses. Every house seemed to be a shop.There are huge colorful advertisements on some walls, which can feel a strong commercial atmosphere.The car turned into an alley in the town, and the road became even narrower.The rows of houses on the front are not on the street and lack of repairs, making them look even more old and low.In this inconspicuous place, I suddenly saw a tall white horse-headed wall with a few large characters "Wang Zhi Teaching Assistant Center" written on it. The car stopped in the yard of the teaching assistant center. Due to the construction in the yard, There are sundries everywhere, which makes it a bit crowded.

In the conference room on the second floor, we met Wang Zhi.Wang Zhi is 77 years old this year. He has short white hair, is tall and thin, speaks loudly, and his face is covered with deep wrinkles carved by the years. When he smiles, every wrinkle All flowing with joy and kindness.You can feel the hale and heartiness of this old man. Wang Zhi pointed to the construction site outside and told us that the "Civilized Building" and "Grateful Building" of the Teaching Assistant Center were under construction there. The teaching building, these two buildings were built under the care of the provincial party committee.After the completion of these two buildings and the addition of the existing building, the teaching assistant center will have a new look and a higher level.

Then, Wang Zhi led us to visit the teaching assistant center he founded. The newly-built Wangzhi Teaching Assistant Center building was invested by the Jing County Government. It covers an area of ​​1,100 square meters and is divided into three floors. The window is bright and clean, the desks are full of students’ books and homework, and there is a blackboard on the wall with chalk writing written by the teacher.Next to the classroom, there is a clean and tidy toilet. The third floor is the dormitories for the students. In each room, there are five single beds, two upper and lower bunks, and a row of cabinets. The children's toiletries are neatly placed, just like the dormitories on the university campus.I saw a photo album on a bed, and when I opened it casually, it was a child's family photos, which contained photos of her in various periods, including her mother and father's wedding photos, a large book.Now, her parents are working away from home. It is conceivable that when this child misses her parents, she looks through their photos in this way, looking for memories of the past.Watching all this, the breath of life of the left-behind children came over us.

In the corner of the house, I also saw whole boxes of apples and boxes of milk.Wang Zhi said that these were given out when they came to condolences to the children, and they were distributed to each child for free.I feel that these peasant children are so happy. After a while, the children came back from school. The children laughed and ran upstairs like swallows. Some put down their schoolbags and ran to the classroom to play games, and some returned to the dormitory to rest. They saw Wang Zhi enthusiastically. Shouted: "Hello, Grandpa Wang." Wang Zhi also beamed with joy, and replied: "Hello, classmates." At this time, I saw that Wang Zhi was happy.

After visiting the teaching building, Wang Zhi took us to visit the bathroom. The bathroom is uniformly pasted with white tiles. There is a shower, a large pool, and a cabinet for changing clothes. The conditions are the same as bathrooms in the city. When it was time to eat, the children came to the restaurant on the first floor and lined up in a long line to cook in an orderly manner, and then brought them to the table and sat down to eat.The table is a round table, which was originally designed as a rectangle, but Wang Zhi was unwilling, saying that the round table is a patent for adults to eat?Children can't sit at the round table to eat.Later, the square table was changed into the current round table.There are seat cards on each table, so that the children will be seated according to their numbers, so that there will be no confusion, and they will receive a civilized education earlier.

Unexpectedly, in this remote countryside, these left-behind children enjoy such a good living condition, which is comparable to that of the children in the city. This place embodies so much painstaking efforts of old man Wang Zhi, and is filled with so much of old man Wang Zhi. love. Wang Zhi was born in a peasant family in Gufeng, and his ancestors made a living by farming.When Wang Zhi was young, his parents sent him to a private school to study.After finishing his private school, he was about to go to a new school. Because his family was too poor to afford it, Wang Zhi had no choice but to go home and farm.But Wang Zhi practiced good handwriting in his private school. The founding of New China is full of waste and needs talents. In 1951, a cadre from the Education Bureau of Jing County came to Gufeng to inspect the work. He accidentally discovered Wang Zhi's handwriting and recommended him to work in the civil law department of the county government.At the end of the same year, the People's Court of Jingxian County was established, and Wang Zhi became the first batch of judges in Jingxian County.

Judge Wang Zhi is different from others. He is young, serious and pragmatic. He personally visits farmers’ homes for major and minor matters. It became his rigorous work style and cultivated his relationship with farmers. In 1958, Wang Zhi was accidentally labeled as a "rightist", and he wore this label for 20 years. In the past 20 years, Wang Zhi has endured criticism, dug out manure, and slept in a cowshed.Wang Zhi fell from a government official to the bottom of the society. He couldn't accept it. On the edge of his life, he was distressed and wandered again and again. Fortunately, the masses knew that he was innocent, so they didn't treat him as a bad person and took care of him all the time. he.

One New Year's Eve, Wang Zhi's family had no rice for the pot. An old party member from a neighboring village carried 20 catties of rice, crossed the river overnight, and delivered it to Wang Zhi's house, put it down and left.At that time, the commune did not allow consignment stores to sell things to Wang Zhi, so they opened a back window to sell him some daily necessities in the middle of the night.Wang Zhi is not very strong, and when picking soil, the farmer only adds half of the basket to him.Under the protection of the villagers, Wang Zhi passed through the darkest years of his life, which left a deep imprint on his life. He loves the land and the people in his hometown even more. He said, in my heart, the heart of a farmer It was posted with me recently, and then every time I do something, I always put whether it is good for the farmers first, and I will never finish this kindness in my life.

In 1979, Wang Zhi was rehabilitated. The organization first arranged for him to work in the county’s “New Fourth Army Historical Materials Collection Group”. Wang Zhi, who had found the stage of life again, showed great enthusiasm. He wrote poems and expressed his feelings in his spare time. Poetry published in provincial and municipal publications.He also wrote news releases about new people and new things happening among the masses and published them.In the local area, he became a well-known native writer, and as the only representative of the county, he participated in the creative conference of young writers in the whole province.

The leaders took a fancy to Wang Zhi's literary and artistic talents, and transferred him to Gufeng Township in 1983 as the head of the cultural station. Back then, Gufeng Township was remote and backward, and the cultural station only had two borrowed old houses and some simple utensils.However, the house was leaking due to continuous rain, and a mountain torrent broke out in summer, and two old houses of the cultural station were washed down by the flood. Faced with the cultural station that had been looted by the flood, Wang Zhi was at a loss. He thought that the cultural station would carry out mass cultural activities. But the little money allocated by the above alone is not enough to pay the phone bill for a year, what should I do?Wang Zhi used his brains to find a way, and successively set up a guest house and a canning factory from scratch. After a few years, the cultural station not only has a net income of more than 10,000 yuan per year, but also has fixed assets of more than 50,000 yuan. With the money, Wang Zhi started to work hard. In 8 years, he carried out mass cultural activities in full swing, and was called "a new flower of cultural work in mountainous areas".Such as Ten Thousand People Martial Arts Performance Competition, National Newspaper Exhibition, National Peasant Singer Competition, Experience Exchange Meeting of 100 National Cultural Station Masters, etc. In 1990, during the "Experience Exchange Conference of 100 National Cultural Station Masters", Gao Zhanxiang, the Minister of Culture at that time, sent a congratulatory letter, and the Director of the Provincial Department of Culture attended in person.In the same year, Gufeng Cultural Station won the title of "National Advanced Cultural Station".A township cultural station, but Wang Zhi made a national cultural event, creating a precedent for a small station in Anhui to hold a competition. In 1994, Wang Zhi retired from the Gufeng Cultural Station.At this time, he is full of children and grandchildren, and in the eyes of the villagers, he should be a happy age.But not long after, Wang Zhi began to "torment".He advocated that the masses raise funds to build roads and care about the "five guarantees" for the elderly.Because, in his heart, he always has a deep and deep relationship with the peasants, and he always wants to use his meager strength to improve the backward living environment of the peasants. Jingxian County has beautiful mountains and clear waters, which attracts some cultural people to come here every year. In the spring of 1998, Wang Zhi accompanied several friends from the cultural circles in Shanghai to collect scenery on Gufeng. They walked to a place called Pankeng, and the attentive guests heard the sound of children reading aloud.Under such a beautiful natural scenery, the sound of children reading aroused the good feelings of the artists. They wanted to take a few photos of children reading in the mountains, but they couldn't see the classrooms, and they felt very strange.Later, these children were found in a private house. It turned out that the primary school building had collapsed for 6 years, and no one took care of it.Wang Zhi sighed for a long time, no matter how poor you are, you can't have poor children. After so many years of slogans, why didn't you do anything and let the children still suffer.Along the way, the figures of these children kept lingering in his mind, and the upright Wang Zhi decided to ask this tricky question. After returning from Pankeng, he wrote a letter of donation to repair the rural school, and sent more than 300 letters to friends all over the country.After the letter was sent, it didn't take long to get a response.He used the money from the donations to build 4 brand new school buildings for Pankeng Primary School. Because when Wang Zhi was working at the cultural station, he vigorously carried out legal popularization education among the masses, and he was also awarded the title of "Advanced Worker of Legal Popularization in Anhui Province". In 1998, the head of the Gufeng Police Station visited Wang Zhi at his home and invited him to continue caring about the legal education of young people.Wang Zhi readily accepted. Once, a child who stole was caught in the police station.This child is only 12 years old. He was arrested by the masses because he often steals chickens from the village and sells them cheaply.The police station asked Wang Zhi to do the child's work. Wang Zhi felt uncomfortable when he saw the boy sitting on the bench with innocent and frightened eyes. He was still a child and should be sitting in school. Arrested by the police station?Through understanding, Wang Zhi learned that the child’s parents had been working outside the home for many years, and the child lived with his grandparents. Because the grandma was good at playing mahjong, he was slack in managing the child, so he often learned to steal chickens and use cheap The money from the sale is used to buy food.Wang Zhiyu did ideological work for the child earnestly, and the child burst into tears, expressing his repentance.The police station notified the child's parents to take him back. His grandpa came tremblingly with a cane. Wang Zhi handed the child into his hands, and gave him instructions and instructions. Another time, the police station received a report from students in Jingshan Village. The students in the village were fighting on the road. One of the students brought a knife from home and might hurt someone. The students were very panicked. After receiving the report, the police station took it very seriously and asked Wang Zhi to find out about the situation. Wang Zhi found the student. It turned out that his parents had been working outside the home for a long time and lived with his grandparents at home. Because they had no common language, the child developed a withdrawn and stubborn personality. Even my grandparents can't manage my own personality, and my academic performance has plummeted.When the child saw that someone from the police station was looking for him, he felt that the matter had become serious, and he felt very resistant, so he was determined not to hand over the knife.Wang Zhi called him to his side, sat down, understood the law and moved him with emotion.Early the next morning, the child took the initiative to send the knife to the police station, resolving a conflict. In the police station, he came into contact with many problems of teenagers. Wang Zhi, who likes to think, found that these children all have a common background, that is, their parents have been working in other places for many years, and they are separated from the children.These children have no one to take care of them in life, no one to supervise their behavior, and no one to guide them in their studies.Children are in the growth period, and if this period of time is delayed, their whole life will be delayed.They are the descendants of farmers and will be the main force in the construction of new countryside in the future. Children and society cannot afford to delay. For this reason, old man Wang Zhi became anxious. One morning in September 1998, a parent of a student in Longqiao Village, Ben Township found Wang Zhi and said that his daughter Li Tingting was studying in Gufeng Middle School. , he and his wife were both working outside, and he was worried about letting a girl run around by herself, so he wanted Wang Zhi to take care of her for her. This was the first time someone asked him to take care of the child, and he agreed without hesitation.Because he just had a dream not long ago, dreaming that under the sun, children carrying schoolbags lined up in a neat line, and he held a small red flag in his hand to direct the front, so that the car should not touch the children.Now, that dream is really about to come true.Wang Zhi asked him what conditions he needed.Li Tingting's father said that as long as he can provide the child with a lamp and a bed, it will be fine.Wang Zhi readily agreed, because although he has retired, the rooms where the Wenhua Station used to run the guest house have been vacant, and the keys are still in his pocket, so why not use these rooms to serve the children!Li Tingting's father was very happy after hearing this, and then asked how much it would cost.Wang Zhi did some calculations in his mind. Except for the children's use of boiling water and electricity, there was basically no consumption, and he said that paying a few dollars for water and electricity would be enough.Wang Zhi didn't open his mouth like a lion. Li Tingting's father said thank you repeatedly and went back. Wang Zhi cleaned the inside and outside of the hostel house, replaced the broken light bulbs with new ones, shook the wooden bed firmly with his hands, opened the windows to let in the air, and moved a desk in front of the window.When everything was ready, he left with satisfaction. The next day, Li Tingting's father brought Li Tingting with daily necessities.When Li Tingting saw that the conditions here were quite good, she stayed happily. Wang Zhi can provide accommodation for the students here, and the news quickly spread among the villagers. Within a week, more than 30 children were sent here.The parents of these children have been working away from home for many years, the children are young, and their homes are far away from the school. Now, with Wangzhi as a place, the parents of the children can feel at ease working outside. Wang Zhi took in so many children at once. He was full of joy and felt a heavy responsibility. For the safety of the children, he moved his bed to the guest house to live with the children.Boil the water early every day. At night, lock the iron door with a lock. If you are worried at night, you have to get up to check that the child has slept well.Wang Zhi's routine of life was suddenly disrupted, and he started a new way of life. Knowing that he took these children, the family members said that he was meddling, worrying about nothing, and had different opinions, and advised him to stop early.Wang Zhi has been doing some things outside these years, and he is used to hearing these anti-dialogues, so he doesn't take it to heart and continues to do his own business. The children have a secure life here in Wang Zhi. They can eat hot meals for three meals a day, and they no longer have to eat instant noodles. It also saves the hard work of running around. The spirit of learning doubles. At the end of the year, many parents of children who worked outside the home came back, and they were very happy to see that their children had grown stronger and their academic performance had improved. As the impact of Wang Zhi's admission of students became greater and greater, the number of students also increased rapidly, and several guest houses could no longer accommodate them. In the spring of 2000, Wang Zhi decided to move the students from the admissions office to the workshop of the cannery.This canning factory was also set up under the hands of Wang Zhi. It flourished for a while at that time, but was eliminated due to backward production technology, and these houses have been vacant all the time.Wang Zhi invited craftsmen to paint the old walls of the house white, divided the big house into rooms, repaired the tables, chairs and benches, and then called in the master who used to burn the boiler, overhauled the boiler, ignited it, and the boiler can still burn .After some renovations, a few days later, several rows of brand new dormitories appeared.Then, Wang Zhi hired several enthusiastic people to be his assistants. The students moved into a new dormitory, and their lives have undergone brand-new changes. Jingle bell... At 6 o'clock in the morning, a bell will ring on time, cutting through the quiet sky, and the students' daily life begins. Afterwards, a song familiar to the children was played on the radio: "Caring, caring, which child doesn't want a mother, caring, caring, which parents don't love their children..." This song was specially composed by Wang Jinyuan of Nantong Cultural Center for children It has won the National Gold Medal. The singing woke up the children from their sweet dreams. The children got up one after another, put on uniform green and white clothes, and then took the washbasin to the bathroom to wash up, and then went to the boiler room to fill up the boiling water.Back in the dormitory, I stacked the quilts neatly as quickly as possible, packed my schoolbags, cleaned the dormitory, and went to the dining room to have breakfast. The restaurant is spacious and bright, the interior is warm and pleasant, and the tableware is clean and simple.The breakfast has a complete variety and variety. In the past, there was only porridge, but now there are soy milk and milk. These are gifts from caring people in the society.In addition to drinking, there are also Jiangnan-style breakfasts such as tea eggs, pot stickers dumplings, steamed buns, steamed buns, glutinous rice cakes, and spring rolls. These are foods that children will never tire of eating. After breakfast, the children walked into the classroom, picked up their schoolbags, and gathered in the square.At this time, Wang Zhi would come to them on time, ask about the situation, and give some advice.Then he set off with the children. Wang Zhi walked in front of the children, and the children followed. An old man with white hair led a group of young children. They walked happily on the field and became a landscape in the countryside. After school, the children lined up on the playground, and Wang Zhi came to the school again to pick up the children. After returning, the steaming meals are ready, and the children still line up to enter the restaurant.The lunch dishes include potatoes, chicken wings, duck legs, fried tofu with cabbage, fried shredded pork, etc. The nutritional combination is very reasonable, and the dishes are often changed. In summer, in order to keep the students refreshed during class in the afternoon, Wang Zhi stipulated that the children must take a nap. He often moved a chair and sat at the door of the dormitory to take care of it himself. In order not to close the lives of the children, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday after school, the children can go to the street together to buy some daily necessities.For the safety of the children, Wang Zhi specially prepared a going out registration book. When each child went out and when he returned, he recorded in detail, without missing a single one.If they don't want to go to the street, the children can go to the library to read, there are thousands of books in the library, and there are computers, and the children can read books and find learning materials online.Considering that boys are active, Wang Zhi bought basketballs, table tennis, volleyballs, badmintons, etc. to let them exercise moderately. In the evening, the teacher Wang Zhi contacted came to tutor the children, and the children sat in the classroom and listened carefully.At 9 o'clock in the evening, Wang Zhi arranged for the student on duty to deliver a glass of milk to supplement nutrition for the children.At 10:40 in the evening, the last get out of class is over, the children go back to the dormitory to rest, and the students on duty start cleaning. Wang Zhi's hard work has been rewarded generously by the children. The academic performance of the children living in Wang Zhi's school has been greatly improved. The children who used to have bad habits at home have also become fond of learning. After working as a teaching assistant for many years, Wang Zhi found that among the children in the countryside, some of them are from poor families and are on the poverty line, and they may drop out of school if they relax a bit. I went to work abroad.In order to help these children, Wang Zhi began to use his old relationship to go to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to collect donations, allowing entrepreneurs to form "one-to-one" loving support with children in need. Over the past 12 years, many sponsored children have changed from "ugly ducklings to white swans". Please listen to the speech of college student Shen Shanshan at the Thanksgiving meeting: "My name is Shen Shanshan. I graduated from university this year and found a job in Hefei. I'm going to start work soon. I want to share this good news with Grandpa Wang. "Recalling the past, going to university was once an unattainable dream for me. My middle school life was maintained by my grandparents picking up junk. As my tuition fees became more and more expensive, the life at home was also difficult to maintain. Going on, when I had nowhere to go and faced dropping out of school, I was fortunate enough to meet Grandpa Wang in the third year of high school. After he understood my situation, he actively helped me contact the sponsor, solved my worries, and made me feel at ease Study, successfully admitted to the university. "Grandpa Wang's loving support has gone through 12 years. Grandpa Wang has traveled hard and not easy. In fact, Grandpa Wang could have enjoyed the happiness of his family, but he gave up this comfortable life in his later years. How noble it is to run around for us and do his best to help all the students in need. "Love needs to be passed on and continued. I hope that in the future, within the scope of my ability, I will do my best to help those in need and become a useful person to society." Shen Shanshan's speech represents the aspirations of a large number of children, and it is also a high evaluation of Wang Zhi's work by a growing left-behind child. Founded "Wang Zhi Teaching Assistant Center" In 2005, Wang Zhi officially named his school "Wang Zhi Teaching Assistant Center". Wang Zhi started a new exploration. He thought that the teaching assistant center should not only solve the children's food and housing problems, but also serve as a home for young people and play a role in quality education in the growth of children. During the Spring Festival of this year, he drew up a pair of couplets for the Teaching Assistant Center: "Be a man first, be a good man, and learn to be a man upright; then you will become a talent, become a talent, and become a talent by studying hard." The long couplets made of paper are pasted on both sides of the gate of the teaching assistant center. Looking at the bright red couplets, his heart is full of excitement. This Spring Festival, in the warm atmosphere of his family, he calmly thinks about the future of the teaching assistant center. The purpose Wang Zhi set for the teaching assistant center is: to care about left-behind children, support poor students, solve problems for the people, and share the worries of the government.Do not aim at profit, insist on social benefits first.People-oriented, quality first.Pay attention to the cultivation of talents, strive to meet the wishes of knowledge seekers and parents, coordinate the way to enter higher education, and strive to make the center a "warm home for left-behind children" and "a protective umbrella for poor students". With a clear direction, Wang Zhi's motivation doubled, and he was like an old tree blooming new flowers. The teaching assistant center insists on humanized management and family-like care for children.Every child's birthday is registered, and on that day, the teaching assistant center will send a big cake to the birthday students and organize group congratulations with friends.The Teaching Assistant Center has also installed four family telephones, which are on 24 hours a day for communication between children and their parents, and to shorten the distance between children and their relatives. The teaching assistant center also takes in some young students. Because they are young, they need to be taken care of in life. The teaching assistant center arranges staff to help girls comb their hair, braid their hair, wash and bathe, etc.Some children are sick, and the teaching assistant center arranges special care for them. Wang Zhi believes that the temperament of children likes to be lively and live in groups, while left-behind children live far away from relatives or relatives, and cannot get emotional harmony with the entrusted person. Therefore, it is easy to form problem children and be regarded as waste Lost. In Gufeng Village, there are two notoriously "bad" children. There is a child named Zhang Qiang. Zhang Qiang lives in his aunt's house. Long-term separation from his family makes him withdrawn and stubborn. He often goes to Internet cafes in the town to surf the Internet, and his academic performance plummets. Once, my aunt saw him sleeping on the bed, and called him up to have breakfast in the morning, but there was no movement after several calls. She went to the bed and saw a pair of shoes in front of the bed, and the quilt was propped up by clothes, which looked like A person is sleeping, and it turns out that everything is false.The aunt was so angry that she finally found Zhang Qiang who hadn't returned all night in the Internet cafe. When my aunt saw this naughty child, she was helpless, so she decided to send him to Wang Zhi's teaching assistant center.Wang Zhi had heard about the child's situation a long time ago, but he still accepted it without hesitation.After Wang Zhi accepted the child, he went out and ran into fellow villagers, who asked him, "Do you dare to have that child?"The implication is that this is a problem child, if not done well, a mouse dropping will ruin the whole pot of porridge.Wang Zhi said, why dare not accept it!Wang Zhi believes that there are no bad children, only bad education methods. The other child is Pang Qing, the "King of Fighting". Partners who are not pleasing to the eye will beat people for no reason.The noise made the surroundings restless, and the adults couldn't do anything about him.Every time there was a fight, grandparents could only curse him vigorously in the rural dialect, and they would not use other education methods. Pang Qing's grandfather heard that Zhang Qiang was sent to the teaching assistant center, and he also wanted to send this useless child, a dead horse as a living horse doctor.Pang Qing's name, Wang Zhi, had already been heard of, and he readily agreed. Under the leadership of his grandfather, Pang Qing reluctantly came to the teaching assistant center. Before leaving, Pang Qing's grandfather explained left and right, for fear that he would cause trouble again.Wang Zhi pulled Pang Qing to his side and passionately stroked his hair, and he flicked his head, looking awkward.Wang Zhi was not angry, but sat with him, first of all, gave him a heartfelt talk, and then showed him the hardworking, healthy and happy life of the children in the teaching assistant center.Here, Pang Qing was not discriminated against, and was respected for the first time, and the ice in his heart gradually melted. Wang Zhi’s teaching assistant center took in these two “famous” children. Once, the village chief met Wang Zhi, took him by the hand and said, “Old Wang, if you want to educate these two useless children in our village well, then you must It's a great achievement. After two years in the teaching assistant center, the two useless children have taken on a new look. Not only have their academic performance improved, their bad habits have disappeared, and they have become more polite.Zhang Qiang was rated as "Excellent Left-behind Children in Anhui Province" by the Anhui Provincial Youth League Committee, and Pang Qing was trained as a student cadre in the teaching assistant center, and he was enthusiastic and responsible in his work. During the summer vacation, there are many rivers in the south of the Yangtze River, and children like to swim in the river. Wang Zhi felt very sad when he saw some children drowned to death from the news.The sense of responsibility made him decide to hold a summer camp, and manage the children together to prevent tragedies from happening. When the news spread that the Teaching Assistant Center was going to hold a summer camp, more than one hundred children signed up for it. Summer camp is the monopoly of urban children, and this is the first time for Wang Zhi.Without experience, he went to the city to ask others for advice. According to the characteristics of rural students and the experience of summer camps for urban students, Wang Zhi developed his own characteristics. Jing County has beautiful mountains and rivers, with typical Jiangnan scenery, and Jing County is also the place where the "Southern Anhui Incident" of the New Fourth Army took place. Wang Zhi took the children from the summer camp to various places to experience, learn to appreciate nature and love nature, and told them about the history of the New Fourth Army. The stories make the children listen with gusto and love their hometown even more. He took the children to the supermarket and asked the children to buy things by themselves. Then, he brought the things the children bought together, analyzed the characteristics of each product, and whether it was suitable for their own use. Common sense, know what off-season vegetables are. In order to shorten the distance with the children and cultivate the relationship with the children, Wang Zhi played games with the children in the summer camp regardless of his age.The children are very happy, the age gap between them has disappeared, and the children love to tell him what is in their hearts. There were too many children in the teaching assistant center, and over time, some small conflicts sometimes occurred. When this happened, Wang Zhi did not punish or teach arbitrarily, but reasoned persuasively and persuasively until the children's knots were resolved. Once, two boys quarreled in the dormitory.The reason was that when a boy was washing his feet, he threw the foot-washing cloth on the bed and accidentally threw it on another classmate.After Wang Zhi heard the report, he rushed over quickly. After understanding the situation, he told them the principles of unity and politeness, and the quality of tolerance and friendship, which made both of them bow their heads.The boy who threw the foot cloth said sorry, and the child who was thrown said it was okay, just be careful next time.Then, the two hands were tightly clasped together.After the conflict was resolved, Wang Zhi left with peace of mind. Wang Zhi's enthusiasm for the left-behind children has caused great repercussions in the society, and various media have come to interview and report.Many parents from other places sent their children here after seeing the deeds of Wang Zhi Teaching Assistant Center. In Shihezi City, Xinjiang, there is a primary school student named Yao Zhen. Because he is too naughty and does not want to make progress, and he often fights at school, his studies have plummeted. Parents and teachers can't control him at all, and even have no hope for him. Once, Yao Zhen's mother saw on TV the deeds of the Wang Zhi Teaching Assistant Center.With a move in my heart, I decided to send Yao Zhen here, hoping to cure his stubbornness. Soon, Yao Zhen's mother got his transfer certificate and took him on a long journey. On the train, little Yao Zhen wondered if he would have to work in the teaching assistant center, and if he was disobedient, would he be punished physically? Wait, as the train went farther and farther, Xiao Yaozhen's heart was also up and down. After several days and nights of running around, Yao Zhen and his mother got off the train in Nanjing, then transferred to a car and came to Jing County.There are more and more mountains outside the car window. The mountains are undulating and the river is flowing. Yao Zhen looks at the scenery of the foreign land and feels happy for a while.When I got out of the car, I saw a white-haired old man on the side of the road holding up a sign saying "Welcome to Yao Zhen, a classmate from Xinjiang". He was introduced that this old man was Grandpa Wang Zhi.Wang Zhi went forward and held Yao Zhen's hand tightly. When he came to the school, Grandpa Wang also held a grand welcome party for Yao Zhen.At the meeting, everyone introduced each other, sang, and seeing the friends so happy, Yao Zhen's doubts disappeared. The next day, Yao Zhen's mother was about to go back. When they broke up, Yao Zhen was a little bit reluctant and very sad.Suddenly, there was a burst of singing in the yard. It turned out that the students were lining up to go to school with their schoolbags on their backs.When he knew that these were left-behind children, Yao Zhen cheered up. He thought that although my parents were not around, I should study hard like them. In the teaching assistant center, Yao Zhen's academic performance has been improving all the way, and many problems in the past have disappeared. My mother was very happy when she heard it on the phone.People often ask him if he wants a home, Yao Zhen said: "No, this is my home, a happy home." At present, there are more than 100 students from Xinjiang, Beijing, Guizhou and other places in Wang Zhi Teaching Assistant Center.They are all living happily here and studying hard. Lu Qingling, a ninth-grade student, wrote in his diary: In the big family of Wangzhi Teaching Assistant Center, there is such a cute little brother, his name is Xue Gang, he is 11 years old, and he is in the third grade of elementary school. His home is more than 90 miles away from here.His parents worked outside the home all the year round, and later he heard that Wang Zhi Teaching Assistant Center was good, so his father came to check it out, and it really lived up to its reputation.When his father came back, he sent him here. Xue Gang is lively and cheerful, he can play ball and chess, and soon we blended in together, and we all call him little brother.The little brother is very happy.Whenever the library is open, he will sit in it and read.By reading "One Hundred Thousand Whys", my little brother has gained a lot of knowledge, and often uses the acquired knowledge to discuss issues with me, sometimes asking my senior sister who is also speechless. My younger brother said that he feels like family here. Grandpa Wang cares about me very much, just like my own grandpa. There are many people around me who love me and make me feel warm.It makes me feel that even if my parents are not around, I am a happy child. An eighth-grade girl from the Hani nationality in Yunnan, Xiao Aobu, wrote in her diary: 我是一个来自云南哈尼族的女孩子，三年前，我从那个遥远的地方来到了王直助教中心，中心虽然不大，但却布置得幽雅、干净、清新，让人看了舒服，从此，我就爱上了这里。 转眼几年过去了，我在这里受益匪浅，不但学到了很多知识，而且让我懂得了做人。过去，我总误认为世上好人不多，现在我才明白这世界是多么美好，一些好心人无时无刻不在关心着我们，党和政府的春风滋润着我们，让我们茁壮成长。 我有时想，在中国的其他地方，有没有像王爷爷这样的人呢？ 未来还很长，人生还很长，有一天，我也会离开这个给我温暖、给我快乐的地方，但我将永远记住这里——我永远快乐的家！ 王直老人的事迹受到社会的高度重视，各级政府和有关部门都亲自到助教中心，对留守儿童的现象进行调研，对王直老人的奉献给予肯定和帮助。 全国妇联发布的《全国农村留守儿童状况研究报告》中指出：“目前全国农村留守儿童（10～17岁）约有5800万人，如何对这些孩子进行教育管理成了一个摆在国人面前的重要课题。 “这些留守儿童很难得到父母贴身的爱和关怀，也得不到父母的言传身教，得不到父母在思想认识及价值观上的帮助。在他们的意识里，父母是一个长期飘忽着的身影。是可望不可即的希望，他们幼小的心灵是孤独的，他们的成长是寂寞的，他们的价值观是模糊的，他们长期处于物质匮乏与精神困惑状态，可是他们是无辜的，他们不应该成为时代进步的牺牲品，他们与中国的发展息息相关，他们的生存发展关乎整个农村教育和社会进步。鲁迅曾发出'救救孩子'的呼声，现在是该'救救'留守儿童的时候了。” 2006年2月底，中央电视台制作“春天的约会——关注留守孩子”的一档节目，曾三次来电邀请王直去做嘉宾。2007年3月，《人民日报》、新华社、《光明日报》、《经济日报》、中央电台、中央电视台等十余家新闻媒体对此都作了典型报道。 2007年4月，电影《春风化雨》，由中国电影集团公司，中共宣城市委宣传部、泾县县委宣传部联合摄制完成。故事的原型就是王直老人，许多小演员就是助教中心的孩子，他们演得真实、生动，这标志着留守儿童的典型事迹，正式通过电影这一艺术形式展现在观众面前。 2009年9月20日，王直助教中心里的儿童们早早地围坐在电视机旁，他们打开中央电视台，一刻也不愿离开，终于，“第二届全国道德模范颁奖典礼”开始了，孩子们看到王直爷爷出现了，看到中央领导亲切地握着王爷爷的手时，孩子们激动地欢呼起来，掌声一遍遍地响起。 面对如此崇高的荣誉，王直心里十分激动，他在座谈会上发言说：“9月12日晚是我这一辈子最幸福、最自豪、最辉煌、最难忘的时刻，是党和人民给了我最崇高的奖赏——全国道德模范，当我含着热泪，捧着这沉甸甸的奖章时，我思绪万千。退休以后，我虽然为百姓做了一点力所能及的小事，党和政府却给了我这么高的荣誉，中央领导同志的亲切接见，会前会后省市领导的热情关怀，在京期间省文明办同志亲情的照顾，似一股热情暖流并激励着我在今后的日子继续努力工作，再创辉煌。 安徽是一个劳务输出大省，留守儿童问题一直牵挂着各级领导的心，也得到了各级领导的关心和重视。据我所知，省委王金山书记、王三运省长等省级领导十分重视这项工作，并多次作出重要指示，省领导的爱心关注已传遍千家万户。早在今年春节前，王金山书记亲自向助教中心全体儿童寄贺年片，祝贺春节，孩子们收到后欢呼雀跃，孩子家长们得知后感动得热泪盈眶。 我创办王直助教中心已走过十一个年头，一千多名留守儿童在这里生活，已有近三百人圆了大学梦。近千名特困儿童通过我们的努力获得社会慈善人士和爱心企业家'一对一'的无偿资助达320多万元。 一个人的事业追求和爱心奉献没有止境，更无顶峰，生命不息，奋斗不止，做一个好人，当一名合格的共产党员，始终坚持对党和政府负责，对社会负责，对需要帮助的孩子负责，对求助的家长负责，这就是我一生追求的社会责任感。 " 王直身在北京，但他心里还在挂念着助教中心里的孩子，开完会，他就马不停蹄地赶回来了，他又回到孩子们的中间。 这次获得“全国道德模范”国家奖励他个人15万元，王直把奖金全部捐了出来，用于留守儿童危旧房的改造。 77岁的王直老人，将全部心血倾注在皖南山区留守儿童和贫困学子身上，十六年里，1000多名留守儿童在这里感受到家的温暖，400余名贫困学子在王直老人的捐助下圆梦大学。十六年来，王直老人以自己的默默奉献和绵绵情怀，为众多外出务工父母解除了后顾之忧，为全国5800多万留守儿童的管理教育，探索出了一条可供借鉴和推广的崭新路径。