No matter how shocking the "things" are, I don't feel anything when I am in it, doing it day after day. But after many years, if the world comes to see it, it will be moved beyond words, and the eyes will instantly moisten, and a sense of admiration will swell up in the bottom of my heart.
Throughout the ages, the highly praised celebrities and gentlemen seem to have walked into reality from books, selfless dedication, bright as sparks, and lit the lamp in everyone's hearts.
Zhu Mincai and Sun Lina are such great characters, who do not seek fame or profit.
They only want to burn the last flame to bring hope to the children to study, to help them stand on their shoulders, to look at the stars and the sea, to open the thick curtain in front of them with knowledge, and to run from the barren earth to the colorful future with thousands of possibilities.
Zhu Mincai was originally a diplomat, served as a commercial counselor in Nepal, and his wife Sun Lina was also one of the first English teachers since the founding of the People's Republic of China, but when he was about to retire at the age of 72, that is, in 2005, the two discussed a decision to leave, and this "disappearance" is ten years.
Such a lack of news made colleagues and friends quite puzzling, they thought that maybe Zhu Mincai had been a diplomat for many years and ran all over the world, and his body should not be too tough, so he might find a pleasant place to recuperate.
After all, his wife has been standing on the three-foot podium all her life, inhaling a large amount of chalk ash, and writing tens of millions of words on the board, which should have left an occupational disease, so she joined hands to retreat and become a pair of fairy couples.
Unexpectedly, Zhu Mincai and his wife have the heart of an old man and a thousand miles of ambition, and they are far more ideal and ambitious than when they were young and strong.
When the two were watching TV at home one day, the children on the public service announcement directly made Zhu Mincai feel distressed and speechless, and in the dead of night, he also tossed and turned.
His mind was full of gray faces, but he had such bright eyes, longing to go to school, dreaming of books with no broken pages and pencils bigger than his own small hands.
This is the age of the children you always see in the yard, they always carry new school bags, on the way to school and interest classes, really bright as the morning sun, will greet themselves in a fluent foreign language.
But fate ruthlessly threw them in a different direction, most of the children in these mountains will continue the life of their parents, and when they grow up, they will either take over the cultivation of a few thin fields in front of their homes, or they will go out to work, get married early and have children, and they don't know that the world is actually as colorful as a kaleidoscope.
When I fell into contemplation, the childhood memories that had long been stranded in the depths of my memory came to my heart, which was as beautiful as a landscape painting in Huangping County, Guizhou, with friendly neighbors and simple enough to never forget the road and never close the door at night.
Zhu Mincai can't forget how he listened to foreign languages on the county's radio, memorized the pronunciation and words word by word, and was admitted to the foreign language department of Guizhou University by relying on stubborn efforts.
In the process of reminiscing about the past, a thought became clearer and clearer in my mind.
The next day, after the couple finished breakfast, Zhu Mincai solemnly and hesitantly asked his wife if she was willing to teach together.
Sun Lina is very happy, she is a senior teacher with more than 40 years of teaching experience, although she has a lot of pension after retirement, and lives a very decent life, but she always feels uncomfortable, thinking that she can still teach, and she really can't give up the days with her students.
Whenever she watches a class of students move from immaturity to the next university in her life, Sun Lina will have thousands of pride gushing out of her heart, with blessings and expectations, hoping that everyone can spread their wings and soar and their wishes will be fulfilled.
During the New Year's holidays, students from previous years would come back to see her, and listen to the children's chatter about their experiences and thoughts, and they felt that this life was not in vain.
Therefore, when Sun Lina heard her husband's suggestion, she immediately applauded and began to discuss the specific destination, planning to go to the poorest primary school in the country to teach, and the first to be decided was the second primary school in Wangmo County, Qianxinan Prefecture.
When packing their luggage, the two of them folded the formal clothes and dresses they had worn for most of their lives and placed them in the depths of the wardrobe, like a farewell to the flowery life in the past.
On the way, both of them were giving each other vaccinations, and the living conditions of the paving teaching must be very simple, but Zhu Mincai and Sun Lina were not afraid, and with full enthusiasm, they arrived at their hearts.
After coming to the school, I found that there were less than 200 children in all grades, but there was only one volunteer teacher, and everyone loved these two old people who looked very kind and smiling, especially listening to their lectures, like a new world opening up in front of them.
Although the foreign language accent like the radio and the knowledge reserve quoted by the side of the expedition make everyone feel that these two old men must be good.
I would never have imagined that it would be a diplomat who has worked for more than 40 years, from Sun Lina's introduction of herself as an old teacher, it is estimated that Zhu Mincai is also engaged in the teaching profession.
Zhu Mincai and Sun Lina lived here, and they had been particular about food and clothing for half their lives, but they didn't expect to adapt very quickly.
The daily meal for the two of them is the same as that of the other teacher, following the dishes in the cafeteria, and if it is better, there is white rice and scrambled eggs. When there was a shortage of ingredients, I used tofu to eat, ate it with relish, and hurried to prepare for the next day's teaching.
But mentally I feel that there is no problem, but the body that has been matched with meat and vegetables for many years can't accept it, due to the lack of vegetable intake, Sun Lina began to have symptoms of excessive heavy metals, and Zhu Mincai is not only often dizzy, but also often has apnea syndrome.
The two of them don't take it seriously, but when they go out to the mountains to buy textbooks and stationery for the children, they will prescribe some medicine to take with them.
The parents of the children admired these two gray-haired teachers who worked hard for their students, and no matter who had fresh vegetables, they would let their children send some over.
Zhu Mincai and Sun Lina couldn't stop this care after many refusals, for fear that they wouldn't accept it, so they would once put it at the door and turn around and run, leaving only the child's crisp laughter.
The accommodation environment is also very different from the past, a wall is more shared with the toilet, Sun Lina is a shallow sleep, and her lungs are not very good, and she was coughing all night because of this overwhelming smell, until she came up with a good idea, and she could sleep a whole night with a three-layer mask.
can think about it and know that people of this age, their mouth and nose are tightly blocked, and the quality of sleep is bound to be poor, Zhu Mincai often feels guilty, but Sun Lina thinks: Thanks to this proposal, the life that I thought was boring and boring in my later years has become profound and meaningful.
In this way, Zhu Mincai and Sun Lina worked together to teach in the mountainous areas, from the No. 2 Primary School in Wangmo County to the Jianshan Miaozhai Primary School in Maling Town, Xingyi City, and then to the Central Village Primary School and Yumin Primary School in Zunyi County, with a slow but firm pace, with the children to open the door of knowledge that can change their fate.
Everywhere I went, while attending classes, I would give extracurricular reading materials and all kinds of stationery to the children in the form of rewards, and the atmosphere of learning Xi was mobilized very quickly, so Zhu Min would teach everyone the foreign language thinking summarized by diplomats, and also designed a set of Jianshan stick method, with physical education classes to strengthen the body.
——After several years, Zhu Mincai's and his wife's health is not as good as before, Sun Lina's right eye has been completely blind, and her left eye is only 003, almost only a spot can be seen, and Zhu Mincai's blood pressure and blood sugar are not normal.
But the two of them still staggered out of the mountains, going back and forth for dozens of miles over the mountains and mountains, and went to the county seat to buy tutoring books and daily necessities for their children.
In 2014, the couple also donated 100,000 yuan to the primary school they taught as start-up funds, which were used to buy computers and build canteens for their children.
In 2015, the two were named the top ten people who moved China, when CCTV reported the great deeds of Zhu Mincai and Sun Lina, colleagues and old friends suddenly realized that they did not spend their old age comfortably, but did such a moving event like a burning candle.
Zhu Mincai and his wife were quite calm about the admiration and praise that came from the sea, and they still taught in school.
However, because Zhu Mincai had been in poor health for several years, on the night of October 25, 2015, he suddenly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, but fortunately he was sent to the hospital in time with the help of villagers. Although it was not life-threatening for the time being, the sequelae prevented him from returning to the podium he had been thinking about.
During the period of recuperation, I always regretted that I did not teach the children for a few more years, but the ten-year teaching career of Zhu Mincai and Sun Lina brought hope to thousands of children, pointed out the way forward, and turned the wheel of fate in a wonderful direction.