He said that his only wish was to be able to stand on the three-foot podium at the last moment of his life and exhale his last breath, and when the old man said this, the reporter's eyes were already glistening with tears.
This old man is Ye Lianping, a 95-year-old people's teacher, who can still stand on the podium and shine. He once spent more than 300,000 yuan to take care of left-behind children.
This old man is called "Old Two Hundred and Five" by his fellow villagers, what is going on?So how is Mr. Ye Lianping's life now?
This man is stupid.
In 1991, at the age of 63, Ye Lianping had reached retirement age, but he was reluctant to leave his podium, let alone his students.
When he was called to the teaching office and learned that he was retiring, he even lay on the table and cried, and his emotions could not be calmed down for a long time.
However, even after retiring, he still struggled to find opportunities to stand on the podium. Whenever other teachers took leave or fell ill due to illness, Ye Lianping would take the initiative to take a substitute class.
He never complained about the length of substitute teaching, and whenever he was needed, he would go there without hesitation.
There are more and more left-behind children in the village, because their parents go out to work, and the grandparents at home are illiterate, their homework has not been tutored, and their grades are very unsatisfactory, which has attracted Ye Lianping's attention.
So, Ye Lianping cleaned up a room in his house and placed a few tables and a few small benches in it, so that the left-behind children could study here, and it was also convenient for Ye Lianping to tutor them.
What Ye Lianping didn't expect was that this small house could not accommodate so many children, so he asked the village for help and got a spare warehouse.
Ye Lianping also hung a plaque at the door of the warehouse, which read "Left-behind Children's Home".
Since Ye Lianping opened the "Left-behind Children's Home" in 2000, he has often taken the children out to play and buy food, clothes and toys for them. So far, he has spent nearly 300,000 yuan on these.
However, his clothes have been worn until they are white and covered with patches, and he is even reluctant to change one;And the furniture at home is still stuck in the sixties and seventies of the last century.
In the classroom, there is a photocopier worth thousands of dollars. Ye Lianping also emphasized that clothes are only used to cover the body, and money should be spent on the blade. When he looked at the copier, his eyes were filled with pride.
He once sent his students to college on a county bus, but when he returned to the village, he found that there were no tickets. Although he didn't want to waste money on accommodation, he chose to spend the night in the bridge cave and return to the village the next day.
He taught the children for free and never charged anything to their families. Some people in the village found it incomprehensible, because three generations of their family were Ye Lianping's students, and even if they wanted to give Ye Lianping some eggs, he resolutely refused to accept them.
Many people in the village jokingly called him "Old Two Hundred and Five", but he couldn't help but shed tears when he laughed and laughed.
Choose to become a teacher.
In 1928, Ye Lianping was born in Qingdao, Shandong, and his family situation was somewhat special, because his father was divorced, he had two half-sisters and two sisters. As the only son in the family, he was pampered from an early age.
His father was a chef in a foreign restaurant and had a good income, so the family lived a very wealthy life.
Until Ye Lianping was eight years old, due to the impact of the war, his father moved to Tianjin with the whole family, and Ye Lianping was also sent to a private school and began to learn knowledge with his husband.
When Ye Lianping grew up, his family income could no longer meet his needs. In order to improve his life, his father decided to go to Shanghai for development, and this time he did not plan to bring his family with him. However, despite this, Ye Lianping insisted on following his father.
His father had no choice but to take him to Shanghai. After arriving, his father sent him to Guangxia Middle School in Shanghai, and then went looking for work.
Over time, my father changed several jobs. When Ye Lianping was 18 years old, he also followed his father to Nanjing.
At the U.S. Embassy in Nanjing, father and son do chores together. It was here that Ye Lianping got acquainted with many historical celebrities, and even shook hands with Song Meiling, and at the same time honed his English skills during this time.
Ye Lianping came up with the idea of founding a school after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, because many Chinese people were illiterate at that time, and they could not even read a few words, and could not even write their own names.
Together with several local residents, Ye Lianping opened an evening school for those who had no time to study during the day.
During the day, he went to Nanjing to teach at Langya Road Primary School until 1965, when Ye Lianping left Nanjing and moved to Hexian County in Anhui Province for various reasons.
The small county town is very poor, and there is an extreme shortage of teachers, and the school has no teachers for a whole month. Ye Lianping was ordered to take on the responsibility of a teacher bravely.
Ye Lianping, who was in his 50s, was unable to organize evening self-study in his junior high school at the time. Therefore, he divided the students in his class into 5 groups, and every Monday to Friday night, he would carry kerosene lamps to the children's homes.
Ye Lianping has been deeply rooted in his position as a teacher, and he has long had a soft spot for these lovely children, and it is difficult to give up.
He pins everything on his children.
Ye Lianping treats his students like his own children, and there are so many cases that he can't list them all.
Ye Lianping once taught a student named Cheng Qiuyu, whose father died when she was very young, and the family's income could only be maintained by her mother's hard work.
Ye Lianping understands that Cheng Qiuyu's family is not easy, so he often invites her to his home for lunch, and occasionally tutors her in English.
Once, Ye Lianping was hit by an electric car on the road, but he did not feel unwell and immediately got up from the ground and returned to the classroom to continue teaching the children.
Soon after, Ye Lianping often fell while walking, and he also felt dizzy. Ye Lianping's wife began to worry about his health and urged him to go to the hospital to check whether there was a problem with his body.
Ye Lianping insisted on refusing to go, claiming that he had classes to attend, but in the end he couldn't resist his wife's persuasion, and the two went to the hospital. The final examination results showed that Ye Lianping had a cerebral hemorrhage accompanied by meningitis.
Although Ye Lianping had to undergo surgery, he urgently asked to be discharged from the hospital only four days after the operation, although his head still had obvious post-operative bruises. Doctors persuaded him to stay a few more days.
Despite this, Ye Lianping still insisted on returning to school. He is also concerned about the high cost of hospitalization and hopes to save some money for his students. Eventually, after haggling with the doctor, he decided to leave the hospital the next day.
As soon as the next day arrived, Ye Lianping couldn't wait to leave the hospital and stood on the podium on time again. When the children saw Ye Lianping's face after the operation, they couldn't help crying.
The students see him as their grandfather, not just their teacher.
Still shining with a blazing light.
Ye Lianping is now 95 years old, but he still stands on the podium. Although he now had to rely on crutches to walk, and despite the painful bending of his back, he never gave up.
He set up a Li Lianping Scholarship Association and put all his life savings into it. He hopes that the funds will help students whose families are in difficulty to tide over the difficulties.
He even has plans to arrange his own funeral, and said that he will wait until he is 100 years old to donate his body to continue to contribute to the medical field.
In a nutshell. The breeze blows through the sleeves, a chalk in the hand, and the four seasons work on the three-foot podium.
Mr. Ye Lianping has accumulated countless honors, and as a people's teacher, he truly practiced the belief of "everything for children, everything for children".
He was once evaluated by Guangming ** as "Ye Lianping, a light shining like a firefly, illuminating the small village on the bank of the Wujiang River, allowing us to see the power of education and the hope of the countryside." ”
He dedicated almost his life to the lecture hall and is the greatest man in our hearts. - is the greatest man in our hearts, who devotes almost all of his time and energy to the lecture hall.