Chapter 13 Chapter 12 The Care of Flowing Gold

I can't remember which day it was on TV, but two scenes are forever seared into my memory: In one scene, a female teacher suffering from cancer is a few hours before she is about to die. In an extremely weak voice, she intermittently exhorts her family: "You...you must, continue to send, and send Guangtao on time. Money, let him finish college at Tsinghua University. Also, I’m dead... Don’t, don’t tell him, it will affect his studies..." When the female teacher in the camera said these words , burst into tears.It can be seen how much she missed this beautiful world, and what she couldn't let go of seemed to be the person named "Guang Tao" who was still calling for her at the last moment of her life.

The second scene is: in the student dormitory of Tsinghua University, student Zhao Guangtao squatted down and pulled out a wooden box from under the bed with great difficulty. He took out a stack of letters from this only "possession", and then said to the reporter with tears: "... These are all letters written by my mother. In the past few years, she has not only given me great financial support, sending money every month, but also the love of a loving mother. But she has left me now. And go... I, I haven't seen her until now, and I haven't had time to call her 'Mom' in person, she..."

I shed a lot of tears when watching this scene, so I was also determined to find the home of this female teacher and this classmate Zhao Guangtao who was studying in Tsinghua University.Later, I got my wish, and when I heard the protagonist under the screen tell the extraordinary truth in the world, it was even more difficult to restrain my feelings... Zhao Guangtao, who is currently studying in the Jingyi Department of Tsinghua University, is from Zhongli Village, Longcheng Town, Yancheng County, Henan Province. The female teacher who left him was Ms. Li Saiming from Liangang Children's School in Loudi, Hunan Province. The two later identified as "mother-child relationship" "The people are strangers, and they have never met once in their life, but because of a TV program, they have performed a bond between mother and child that is as deep as the ocean.

I went to Tsinghua University to meet Zhao Guangtao that day, and we hardly talked at first. Although objectively there were several other impoverished students present, I could see that Zhao Guangtao seemed to no longer want to talk about his relationship with Teacher Li Saiming. .After interviewing other students, I asked him to have a chat alone on a piece of green space in Tsinghua University.It was already the time when the sunset was falling, and when it was just the two of us, I asked him why he was reluctant to mention the matter of Li Saiming’s mother. He said that the tragic death of Li’s mother made him very, very sad. After the broadcast, journalists approached him every now and then to talk about this matter, and there were a lot of letters from various places.Zhao Guangtao said that it was precisely because of the special "mother-child" relationship between him and Li Saiming's mother that after Li's death, he buried the great grief deeply in his heart, and tried his best to fill the gap in his heart with full study every day. It was a heavy blow. On the other hand, he was determined to study hard for an early graduation. After graduating, he took time to kowtow in front of Li’s mother’s grave in Hunan... "It’s not possible now, the more I don’t want to mention things, the older people will come and ask , I really can't bear it, every time I mention Li's mother, I can't relax for several days. You writers and reporters know how to find material, but do you know that you are digging me again and again Heart?" Zhao Guangtao stared at me with slightly angry eyes.

"I'm really sorry, Guangtao." He made me feel guilty.After a while, I put my hands on his drooping shoulders and said, "Okay, let's not talk about that today..." "No no." Zhao Guangtao suddenly raised his head again, and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I didn't confront you just now. You were arranged by the teacher of the school's academic and engineering department. Of course I have to talk to you, but I I want to tell people in the press and society through you—in fact, they are all good people. They reported on me, and many people sent me money. But what I hope is that I can rest assured and study hard. Use excellent grades to repay Mama Li, and at the same time repay all those who care about me. I just don’t want others to bother me anymore, and by the way, I want to use your pen to tell everyone who cares about me one thing: I accepted Mama Li The financial support from my family was because it was too difficult for me at that time. Now it has been a few years and I can support myself, so I don’t want to accept financial support from others, and I have already done it. But a reporter wrote in a recent article It said that I was still receiving financial support from Mama Li’s family. I felt very uncomfortable. Things are no longer like that. Can you promise to do this for me?"

I nodded very solemnly. "Okay, then I'll tell you from the beginning..." Zhao Guangtao's face was tilted to the side, just in time for a ray of golden sunset to hit his eyes, so he narrowed his eyes slightly, and his expression suddenly fell into boundless longing ... On September 1, 1994, Zhao Guangtao has never forgotten this day, because on this day he set foot on the road to Beijing with the high hopes of tens of thousands of fathers and villagers in his hometown Longcheng Town.From the day he received the admission letter from Tsinghua University, Zhao Guangtao became a local "celebrity", because before him, there was no real college student in the town, especially a famous college student.Although Yancheng is a poor place, the folks whose ancestors have depended on the sky for generations know that there is a Tsinghua University in China.In the minds of the local people, those who can enter Tsinghua University are serious "champions".At that time, the cadres and the people in the village felt honored. If they went out to other villages, everyone would mention the phrase "a child in my village was admitted to Tsinghua University".But what the township cadres never expected was that Zhao Guangtao's family was full of worries because their son was admitted to such a university. When they asked, they said it was because of the tuition and miscellaneous fees of several thousand yuan a year.Can't you eat the country after you go to university?The folks are still old-fashioned. They don't know that the university will implement a dual-track system from this year. All students who go to school have to pay tuition and miscellaneous fees. In addition, individuals have to bear living expenses. "Come on! Even if each of us donates 10 cents, we want our 'champion scholar' to go to Tsinghua University!" The head of the township pushed up his sleeves and called on the people of the township through the radio.On the day when Zhao Guangtao was on the road, the township head, on behalf of the tens of thousands of villagers in the township, handed over a sum of money to the "No. 1 scholar" they were proud of.As for Zhao Guangtao, he used this money to enter Tsinghua University in Beijing, the capital.

However, it is unbelievable for Zhao Guangtao, a country boy, that in order to enter the current university, in addition to paying high tuition and miscellaneous fees, he also needs to pay at least 200 yuan a month for living expenses.Where does so much money come from?He is very clear about what his home is like, let alone 200 yuan a month, it is difficult to see 200 yuan in cash all year round!An old grandmother, a father who has been dying of a long illness, and a younger brother who is going to school... Zhao Guangtao knows that if he wants to extract more than 200 yuan in cash every month from such a family, it is equivalent to stealing the skin of the family.The "No. 1 scholar" in Tsinghua University is in a dilemma.At this time, a reporter recorded the situation of Zhao Guangtao, who was almost out of school, into CCTV's "Focus Interview".

"We have to help this promising poor child!" During the short time when the program was broadcast on CCTV, a middle-aged female teacher in Loudi City, Hunan Province was caught in the heart for an instant. .That night, this kind and sympathetic female teacher tossed and turned, and the shadow of a helpless student in the highest institution of the great motherland kept shaking in front of her eyes... No, I have to help this child , It is not easy to be admitted to Tsinghua University, and he cannot be allowed to affect his studies because of his family's difficulties! The next day, the female teacher quietly came to the post office and remitted 100 yuan to Zhao Guangtao, a classmate who was far away in Beijing, expressing a sincere wish in an attached letter: "You should treat yourself as my A child!"

The post office staff clearly saw three beautiful and fluent characters written on the remitter column: Li Saiming. A few days later, Li Saiming went home for lunch one day and saw a letter from himself.She picked it up and took a look, then excitedly said to her wife Ouyou: "Look, Beijing has written me back!" "Beijing? When did you have relatives and friends in Beijing?" Seeing his wife's suspicious expression, Teacher Li Saiming happily revealed a "secret" in his heart.As soon as his wife, Ou You, heard this, he called his children together, and said solemnly: "Your mother has done a good deed, and it is also a good deed. We all support her actions and regard classmate Zhao Guangtao as one of your brothers and sisters. "

"Hey, there is a Tsinghua University student in our family this time!" The children also chatted happily. From then on, the first thing Li Saiming did after receiving his salary every month was to go to the post office to remit money, and he never delayed and never stopped, even during the winter and summer holidays, he still sent the remittance slips to Tsinghua Park one by one... When Zhao Guangtao, a student at Tsinghua Campus, began to receive remittance slips one after another, he always felt an inexplicable sense of guilt in his heart.Being strong, he finally couldn't help writing to this "Mother Li", and euphemistically expressed his feelings of embarrassment to accept funding.He didn't expect that this letter not only did not "cool down" the other party, but instead received a more affectionate letter from "Mother Li"-Zhao Guangtao admitted that he had called "Mother Li" before that purely out of politeness, but It is by no means the same as what he later called "Mother Li".

"Mother Li" said to him in the letter: Guangtao, my good son, you make my mother feel bad when you think about it like this.I can't watch you always frowning like that in college because of the money for a meal and to buy a notebook.If that's the case, I will be extremely uncomfortable living in a home with refrigerators, color TVs, audio and air conditioners every day.Well, you know, if a mother can't do something for her children, she will feel guilty, let alone enjoy a happy and prosperous life by herself.Understand?As long as the son suffers outside, even if the mother has gold and silver mountains, she will not have the slightest happiness to speak of. Zhao Guangtao cried. From the letter of "Mother Li", whom he had never met in his life, he saw the most primitive and noble love and care of his biological mother, which came from the most primitive and noble motherhood. "Mother Li, after reading your letter, I have a thousand words to say to you, but I don't know where to start. The only thing I can say is one sentence: Let me call you like my own mother." Mom——" After this, Zhao Guangtao had a special sense of belonging in his heart. He said that from then on, calling him "Mother Li" was exactly like calling his own mother, and what he was facing was a real relative. In a sense, it surpasses his biological mother, because this mother Li sometimes writes a letter to him almost every week. It has become a kind of family affection, a kind of eternal family affection that cannot disappear.Zhao Guangtao didn’t know from the reporter who came to Beijing from Changsha to interview him until after Li’s mother passed away that Li’s family was not as rich as she described to him in the letter. At that time, Teacher Li Saiming wanted to dispel Zhao Guangtao’s guilt about accepting funding. And intentionally said so.Li's mother, who is a teacher, of course understands this, so she did a perfect job in front of Zhao Guangtao.In fact, Li Saiming's family is an ordinary family, and it can also be said that it is a family with a low standard of living.She and her husband each receive a monthly salary of four to five hundred yuan. Among the three children, the eldest is unmarried and the youngest is developing. The eldest son in the middle is the same age as Zhao Guangtao.Li Saiming himself is a weak and sick person. A family of five squeezed into a house of about 30 square meters. The only two most modern household items were a 14-inch black and white TV set and a single-tub washing machine.Two low-income parents have to take care of three older children who are studying and growing up. One can imagine the hardships of life. However, Li Saiming not only never revealed the slightest to Zhao Guangtao, on the contrary, he always sent money to Beijing every time. Deliberately show the kind of open-mindedness and generosity of a rich mother to a troubled son.Such a long "beautiful lie" brought the "family" from the south to the north into a fairy tale world of incomparable happiness. Family affection not only comes from blood, it also belongs to those who care for each other.Over time, Li Saiming, who already has three children, always misses Zhao Guangtao in Beijing.Once, Li Saiming's youngest son said half-jokingly to his mother: "Mom, we feel that Brother Guangtao is closer than us in your heart..." The mother laughed and said: "Silly boy, you are by my side every day , do I still need to be so concerned? Guangtao is different, he is alone outside, so naturally he should think more about him." As for Zhao Guangtao, who is studying in Tsinghua Garden, he also gradually has a feeling of being far away. The concern of Li's mother and her family in Hunan.Sometimes, if he received the letter a day or two late, he couldn't sit still, and he hurriedly sent a letter to ask why, whether "mother" was not in good health again, in short, it was the kind of longing that could not be let go.Usually, Zhao Guangtao also wrote letters to Li Saiming about the school and what happened in his study and life from time to time.As for Li Saiming, she cared for her "son" in the distance with her mother's unique subtleties.As long as she sensed from Zhao Guangtao's letter that he needed something, she would try her best to do it.When winter came, she was busy sending cotton coats to Beijing; when summer came, she mailed the shirts and sweaters she had bought for her son to Tsinghua University, and at the same time sent a special "go home fee". "It's been almost a year since you came out. It's time to go back and see your parents. If you don't plan to go home, then this money will be considered as the capital of your part-time job in Beijing..." Li Saiming always reminded him over and over again in his letters. Four days before the Spring Festival in 1995, Zhao Guangtao's grandma passed away suddenly. In order to attend the funeral, Zhao Guangtao's family, who were already poor, seemed to have a lot of new debts.After Li Saiming learned about it, he wrote to Zhao Guangtao to comfort him and was busy raising money at the same time.In addition to sending 100 yuan to Zhao Guangtao every month, she also donated to several orphans and a group of homeless beggars again and again.It would be extremely embarrassing for a family with a very low income to have so many things all day long.But when Li Saiming knew that Zhao Guangtao's family had an accident, he did not hesitate to remit the family's remaining 200 yuan for food expenses... "Mom, we have been eating sweet potatoes and eggplants for more than a month. Nausea, why can't you change your taste?" Faced with the complaints of his children, Li Saiming had no choice but to smile wryly and make a wish to them that would never come true. Another summer vacation came, and Li Saiming remitted the "going home fee" that should be remitted, and also sent the clothes that should be prepared, but he didn't receive a reply from Zhao Guangtao for nearly two months.Is he not coming home?But the people at the school said that he did not stay in Beijing to work.Did he forget my "mother" when he returned to his relatives?Unlike, Guang Tao is not that kind of person.So what happened to him?Li Saiming was very anxious and worried. She guessed that something must have happened to Guangtao's family.No, I have to find Guangtao and listen to him talk about what's going on. It's a huge difficulty, and I, my mother, will bear it for you!Without doing anything, Li Saiming sent three letters and an urgent telegram in a row, urging Guangtao to reply. As expected, Zhao Guangtao's family had not had time to deal with the debts after the death of his grandmother. In May, his sick father passed away again at the age of 49.While Zhao Guangtao was immersed in great grief, he didn't want to let Li's mother and his family bear the misfortune of him and his family.From every package made of old cloth and clothes that are not new or old, Zhao Guangtao more or less vaguely felt that the life of Li's mother's family was not as rich as described in her letter.It is precisely because of this that he doesn't want to drag Mama Li's family down because of his family's misfortune, and he doesn't want the kind-hearted Mama Li to be sad for his father's death, so he hasn't replied.Now seeing Mrs. Li's letters and telegrams one after another, Zhao Guangtao had no choice but to confide the words filled with tears to Mrs. Li who was far away... Zhao Guangtao said that he wrote this letter very long, very sad and sad .A few days after the letter was sent out, he received a letter from Mama Li. Mama Li's letter was longer than he had written. It consisted of more than a dozen pages, and every page was engraved with the great love of a loving mother.She told Guangtao that from now on, his monthly living expenses would be increased from 100 yuan a month to 300 yuan. "Well, you don't have to think about our family. My mother's family has lived a life of getting whatever they want to eat and wear all year round. But for you, the situation is quite different. You want to study, you There are frequent accidents at home. As a mother, what I am worried about is that your studies will be affected by the heavy difficulties. You must stand up to it. You can rest assured that with my mother as the backing, even if there are great difficulties, I will definitely be able to overcome..." In the letter, Li Saiming continued to weave beautiful lies while encouraging Zhao Guangtao to turn grief into strength and work hard to complete his studies with the struggle stories of Chinese and foreign celebrities. Zhao Guangtao stood up again under the encouragement of Li Saiming, and his academic performance jumped from the middle level of the whole class at the beginning of enrollment to the top five or six.His class teacher said: "It is the special spiritual power of sincerity in the world given by Teacher Li Saiming, which reshaped a classmate Zhao Guangtao for Tsinghua University." It has been a while since the new school year after the Spring Festival in 1997, but Zhao Guangtao strangely has not received any letter from Li's mother. Although the money was received on time, the payment was not in Li's mother's handwriting.Zhao Guangtao became anxious: Could it be that Li's mother is ill, and the illness is not serious?The fact was just as he guessed, Li Saiming had been sick all the time, but since March of this year, she couldn't bear it any longer. When she went to the hospital for an investigation, it turned out that she had advanced lung cancer complicated by cirrhosis of the liver.The torment of the serious illness made Li Saiming even lose the strength to write letters. She had to lie on the bed and ask her wife to write for her. She also ordered that the letter must be written by someone else because she was too busy with work. "Guangtao is careful and sensitive, otherwise he will notice something." Li Saiming explained to his wife.In fact, from this subtle change, Zhao Guangtao still felt that something had happened to Li's mother.He wrote back that he would go to Hunan to see his "mother" as soon as the summer vacation came.However, Zhao Guangtao did not wait for this day. On May 3, 1997, teacher Li Saiming passed away.The two generations who have surpassed the mother-child relationship in the general sense have lost the chance to meet forever because of this... Meanwhile, a reporter from a local TV station learned about Li Saiming and Zhao Guangtao, and recorded the image of this great mother at the last moment of Li Saiming's life. That was the scene that later appeared in CCTV's "focus interview".There is a conversation between the reporter and Li Saiming in the camera: Reporter: "Do you want to meet Zhao Guangtao now?" Li Saiming turned his head to one side, weeping.After a while, she resolutely said: "I don't want to! Let him finish his five-year studies!" Reporter: "But your illness... don't you want to see him first?" Li Saiming turned her head to the side again, her face was full of tears. "I don't believe what the doctor said I only have three months. I am confident that I will see him when he graduates... But I don't want to bother him now, it's not easy for him, he didn't come home when his father died... " After a long time, the reporter asked again: "You care about Zhao Guangtao so much, do you want to repay you when he has a future?" Li Saiming shook his head affirmatively: "I don't want him to repay, as long as he can be independent and protect himself. My biggest wish is that he can successfully finish five years of college, and then go to work to do something outstanding for the country." because he is a Tsinghua University student..." A few days after this passage was finished, Li Saiming left the world forever with her infinite thoughts for Zhao Guangtao.During the funeral, someone proposed to send a telegram to the "son" of Tsinghua University, but was stopped by Li Saiming's wife. He said: "At the last moment of her life, she repeatedly told me not to disturb me no matter what happened to me." And disturb Guangtao, let him study in peace of mind. The only thing she asked me to do was to continue to send money to Guangtao and write letters in her name..." Later, if Zhao Guangtao hadn't insisted on going to Hunan to see Li's mother during the summer vacation, Li Saiming's family will never tell him the sad news that a mother who looks like Mount Tai in his mind has entered the kingdom of heaven. "In any case, I never thought that such a good person as Mama Li would pass away suddenly. God is so unfair!" When Zhao Guangtao told me the story between him and "Mama Li", the Tsinghua Garden was already full of lights . "Mr. He, now you probably know why I don't want people to keep mentioning about Mama Li in front of me?" Zhao Guangtao said suddenly. I nodded: "You still have a desire in your heart that others don't understand, which is to disturb Li's mother under Jiuquan as little as possible, so that she will stop worrying about you, a Tsinghua student..." Zhao Guangtao suddenly held my hand tightly: "Thank you. Thank you for your understanding!" When we broke up, Zhao Guangtao told me a wish: "I will be graduating soon. The first thing after graduation is to go to Hunan with my Tsinghua University diploma, and go to Li's mother's grave and shout: 'Mom, your I see you coming after my son finishes his studies!'” Under the night, I clearly saw the twinkling tears in the pupils of this Tsinghua student. Like Zhao Guangtao, Yang Hong's several years of college studies can be said to be bathed in special love and warmth from beginning to end, and when people understand the whole process of this matter, who can say that human nature is not kind? Yang Hong has now left school and is working in a passenger transport group company of a transportation bureau in Shenyang City. He settled in this northern city as a specially approved object.In fact, if it weren't for the long-standing relationship with this city, Yang Hong might not be able to become a citizen of Shenyang in this life, and it might not be possible to have a relationship with the university at all. Yang Hong's hometown is in a remote mountain village in Bazhong County, Sichuan Province.The people here are influenced by tradition and objective conditions. Generally, young people start farming after finishing junior high school, and those who can go to a county town dozens of miles away to study high school will not be able to get out of school for a few years. In their eyes, those who want to go to college are dreaming.Instead of dreaming, it is better to pick up the bullwhip dung bucket earlier and set up a family business.So when Yang Hong took out the admission notice for high school that year, his father was displeased: "The family struggles to even spend a penny. Do you still go to high school?" "I want to go to school, and I will go to college in the future!" Yang Hong talked back to his father and started to go his own way. He borrowed 150 yuan for travel expenses from his classmates, bought a platform ticket and got on the train bound for Harbin.As a result, Yang Hong, who had been traveling by car for several days and nights to find a job in Harbin, failed, so he went to Shenyang again.This time he was unlucky, and was kicked out of the car when he was found without a ticket halfway.Later, he walked all the way, and when he arrived in Shenyang, he only had 5 yuan in his pocket.Desperate, he suddenly remembered that his uncle was working at the Shenyang Dongling battlefield, so he took a car and rushed there.At this time, it rained suddenly, and Yang Hong, who was hungry and tired, could no longer hold on. Under a tree sheltering from the rain, he passed out as soon as he landed... When he woke up the next day, Yang Hong Hong felt as if he was about to leave this world.He exerted all his strength and waved his arms to show the attention of passing pedestrians and vehicles.In the end, a master driving a small truck pulled him into the car and sent him to the Tanglin battlefield.When Yang Hong asked, it was said that his uncle was no longer working here.When Yang Hong heard this, she fainted again.The well-meaning people on the battlefield saw the child as pitiful, so they left him behind.Yang Hong later said that he was like a beggar at that time, and he ate two bowls of noodle soup left by others, but he ate them as comfortably as delicacies from mountains and seas. This is how the working days started.What Yang Hong and the others do is to help others demolish old houses, but this is a labor-intensive job.Yang Hong was small and had no one to help him, so he was arranged to cook at the construction site.Maybe it was a coincidence, maybe God opened his eyes. It was at this time that Yang Hong met the family of Shenyang citizen Xiang Shixin who later changed his life.Xiang Shixin's home was near Yang Hong's construction site at that time. His son Xiang Xin was a few years younger than Yang Hong. He liked to go to the construction site to play for a while after returning home at noon every day after eating.Over time, Xiang Xin became acquainted with Yang Hong.Yang Hong saw that Xiang Xin often had a hard time carrying water home from the construction site, so she helped Xiao Xiang Xin carry water, so Yang Hong also got to know Xiang Xin's mother, Guo Shujie.The members of Xiang's family are honest, dutiful and kind. Seeing that Yang Hong is smart and enthusiastic, they often invite him to the house for a light meal or something.One day, Xiao Xiangxin's mother, Guo Shujie, was busy at home, and saw Yang Hong sitting on the threshold of her house with a sad face, and asked, it turned out that there was no work on the construction site where Yang Hong worked, and they dumped him and moved to another place. In this place, Yang Hong suddenly became a lonely wanderer again. "Auntie, I want to borrow some rice from you..." Yang Hong finally spoke. He said that he is now living with a fellow villager in a small dilapidated house on the construction site, earning a living by picking up bricks and selling them.Because the old bricks were not easy to sell, he and his fellow villagers had nothing to eat for two days. Without further ado, Guo Shujie found a small bag and filled Yang Hong with about ten catties of rice. "If you have any difficulties, just say so. As long as the auntie's family can do it, they will help you." Guo Shujie said casually, but Yang Hong firmly branded it in his heart. Xiang Xin's home needs to be relocated, and Yang Hong is the first to help.On the way to deliver the goods, Yang Hong saw that Xiang Xin's father was a good man, so she half-truthfully said, "Uncle Xiang, if I recognize you as my father, can you help me study?" Xiang Xin's father, Xiang Shixin, smiled honestly and said, "How much does it cost you to go to school?" "Fifty yuan a month is enough." Xiang Shixin thought for a while and said, "Reading is a good thing. I will definitely help you." At that time, Yang Hong didn't take these words to heart, and said that she was just trying to have fun!But although Yang Hong is in a foreign country, she has been thinking about the time when high school is about to start.Thinking about the situation in front of him, Yang Hong felt that he had no hope of re-entering the classroom. For this reason, he wrote to his classmates in his hometown, expressing the idea of ​​desperate.Coincidentally, when Guo Shujie was washing Yang Hong's clothes, he accidentally saw the reply letter from that classmate to Yang Hong.Guo Shujie was terrified and told her husband Xiang Shixin about it.Both husband and wife are kind-hearted and honest people. Once they discussed it, they would help the child no matter what.But where is the money at home?Among the three members of the Xiang family, Xiang Shixin was the only one who earned money. Guo Shujie was the first batch of laid-off people in Shenyang, and their son was also in school. The three of them lived a tight life. "Yang Hong is too pitiful, let me think of a way." Xiang Shixin said and went out.He went to a friend's house to borrow money. "How about it, did you borrow it?" In the middle of the night, my wife asked Xiang Shixin the first sentence after opening the door. "It's done." Xiang Shixin said. The next day, the Xiang family couple came to Yang Hong and handed him 1,000 yuan in person: "This money is for you to go to school. Hurry up and pack your luggage before school starts..." Yang Hong was stunned for a long time before she recovered, tears streaming down her face uncontrollably.He knelt down in front of the Xiang family couple with a "plop", weeping uncontrollably: "I... I will never forget you in this life!" Besides, when Yang Hong went home and told his father what happened after he ran away from home, the old father was very surprised and said to his son: "The Xiang family is really good people in the world. Hong'er, you can go to school again. Your mother and I can’t help you in this matter as parents. The Xiang family’s righteous deeds are reborn parents to you. In the future, you have to change your mouth and call them parents.” As for Yang Hong, this time he thought about it with his father. Together, in fact, he had long wanted this in his heart, but it was even more urgent when his father mentioned it.That night, with tears in her eyes, Yang Hong wrote a letter to her new home in Shenyang, thousands of miles away, with her long-held wish and the good news of going to school... In the following three years, people in the village said that Yang Hong had good luck because he had a "good father and good mother" in Shenyang who sent money every month to support him in high school, and the amount of money sent from the initial 50 yuan to Increase to 80 yuan, 100 yuan, and 200 yuan... When the new school year starts, it even rises to more than five or six hundred yuan.Yang Hong's family and the Murakami people really thought they had met a rich and kind-hearted family.It is true to say that it is kind, but it is too outrageous to say that Xiang Shixin is a rich family.At that time, Xiang Shixin was working alone and earning a salary of 500 yuan. In order to ensure that Yang Hong in Sichuan sent money every month, his wife Guo Shujie waited for her husband to bring his salary back home. I paid half of the money and put it in the drawer, and sent it away in a hurry the next day.Guo Shujie said that she was afraid that if the money was kept at home for one more day, it might be used up by other urgent matters. "In the five or six years since I met Yang Hong, I have always been worried, for fear that one day something big will happen to my family and the money given to Yang Hong will be used for other purposes..." Guo Shujie often talked about this matter, There is always a sense of weight in my heart that ordinary people can't imagine.The only source of income for the whole family is the husband's salary of 500 yuan, but they have to set aside half of it for others to study, and only use the remaining little money to maintain the life of a family of three. How did this day survive? I am afraid that no one can answer except Guo Shujie and her husband Xiang Shixin. In the summer of 1993, the Xiang family received another letter from Sichuan. When they opened it, they found it was written by Yang Hong, and inside it was an admission letter from Shenyang Industrial College. "My son's father, Yang Hong is promising this time and has been admitted to our university in Shenyang. Take a look!" Husband Xiang Shixin just stepped into the house after get off work, and his wife told him the good news excitedly. "Okay, this kid finally lived up to our hard work!" Xiang Shixin was actually happier than his wife, because he once told Yang Hong half-truthfully, "One day you will really pass the exam. University, I will officially recognize you as my son." Seeing that her husband was happy from the bottom of his heart, his wife, Guo Shujie, slowly frowned: "Yang Hong's college expenses will be even higher. You see, you have to pay 1,700 yuan when you just go to school and register." Woolen cloth!" "Can we still get together?" "What are you going to get? Xin'er's tuition fee has to be borrowed this time..." The wife let out an "ah" and couldn't help the tears from her eyes. "Yang Hong has already reached this level, we have to help him get into college even if we sell everything." Under the dark night, the husband hugged his thin wife, and said with some sobs, "It's just going to hurt you again..." After dawn, Xiang Shixin asked his wife to send a telegram to Yang Hong asking him to come to Shenyang first, and then went to his friend to beg for a loan.This time he thought of all the people he should have thought of, but he still only borrowed 600 yuan... The day of school registration has come. Guo Shujie specially changed Yang Hong into a new set of clothes that day, but her husband Xiang Shi On the day of the letter, his face looked very heavy. "Teacher, our Yang Hong's home is in Shenyang, not far from the school. Can we let him go to school so that we don't have to travel for his accommodation expenses?" When he came to the school, Xiang Shixin settled Yang Hong aside, I begged and asked a staff member of the student office who was registering. "How can I do that? There are regulations when going to university, and you must live on campus." "You have raised your hand to accommodate..." "No way, no way, don't waste your time, okay? Come on, let's go, let's go next!" The extremely busy staff had no time to say anything to Xiang Shixin. The first time it failed, Xiang Shixin had to take Yang Hong home.The next day, he didn't let Yang Hong go, so he went to the staff member of the student office who was in charge of the registration. When the person saw that Xiang Shixin came to mention this "irrelevant" matter again, he simply replied: "If If you can't pay the money, don't go!" Xiang Shixin was so angry that he turned around and walked back.Qi returns to Qi, do other schools have regulations?The wife persuaded me well: I will find the school leaders tomorrow, clarify the matter, and see if they can take care of me. There is no other way, it can only be like this.There is only the last day left for registration, and Xiang Shixin came to the school again.This time he went directly to director Yang of the student office. "Okay, I just have some free time, so why don't you tell me what happened to your son?" The honest Xiang Shixin smiled wryly, and had no choice but to tell Director Yang the whole matter about his family and Yang Hong. "Is there such a thing?" Director Yang stood up excitedly after listening to Xiang Shixin's narration, and immediately said, "If the situation is true, I will definitely get the leader to approve your special request!" On this occasion, The fact that the Xiang family worked hard for seven years to help a poor student go to school was known to others.As a matter of course, Yang Hong was allowed to study as a day student by the school as an exception and exempted from all tuition and miscellaneous fees. 有人说杨虹太幸运了，幸运遇到了像项士信这样天底下最好的人家。这话其实一点不过分，先不说过去的几年里项士信一家为了帮助杨虹这个对前途、对人生失去信心的苦孩子怎么重新树立信心、上完高中的那片苦心，单单在杨虹上大学的三年时间里，项家就曾几度倾家荡产、高筑债台。有一次杨虹入学后需要办个30元的图书阅览证，当时“妈妈”郭淑杰手里别说30元，就是3毛钱都拿不出。可孩子在大学里有个阅览证是必需的，郭淑杰想来想去也没招，最后她想到了自己有件没穿过的新呢子上衣，于是毫不犹豫地拿到自由市场上廉价出手卖了50元钱。当她看到自己还没有穿过一回的新衣服被人无情地拿走时，竟坐在马路边上哭了起来。项士信自打添了个“大学生儿子”后就更不用说了，因屡屡借钱他把朋友都给得罪了，“老实、仗义”的名声也变成了“可怜、可气”的骂名。至于在邻居的眼里，他项氏一家是抠门抠到了自个儿的皮肉。这话咋讲？人家说你没有注意他项士信的脚上那袜子？what?是从垃圾箱里捡的！还有你没看他媳妇，倒也天天上菜市场，也筐里常满满的往回提，可那都是别人扔下的烂菜根烂菜叶哩！ 我们再来听听项士信一家是怎么说的。问男主人，可他不愿提这些事，大老爷们儿的说不出口呀！女主人并不在乎人家怎么瞧不起她所做的事，她说得也平淡：“家家都有难念的经，我们本来就鑫儿他爸一个人挣工资，后来虹儿进了我们家，四张嘴吃一个人挣的钱，自然只能过苦日子。可咱心里亮堂、踏实，因为看到虹儿能有出息，能上完大学，现在又能找到一份能发挥他才能的工作，我们全家一点儿不感觉冤。虽然为了他我们背了一身债，但现在两个孩子都大了，他爸也还能干，我也可以腾出空了，准备办个托儿所，再苦干两三年，欠的债就差不多可以还尽了……” 听，本是滚烫、激昂的豪言壮语，却在这样一个普通的人嘴里说得那么平平淡淡。这才是我们中国百姓的真实情怀！