**Produced by Ding Zixuan.
The soybeans soaked in advance are refined, boiled, pointed, plated, and pressed into tofu, which takes a day and a night's work, which is undoubtedly a slightly long process for making food. But in just one year, it is very quick to make a needy family in need of help self-sufficient.
On December 15, the countryside of Cangzhou, which had just snowed, was full of cold. And Wang Fukui's family in Houchen Village, Xiaoying Township, Yanshan County, did not feel cold: the eldest son was admitted to university this year as he wished, and the youngest daughter, who is in her second year of junior high school, has excellent grades, and her life is also prosperous, and everything is developing in a good direction.
Needy families open tofu factories
Wang Fukui's family is a poverty alleviation household that was originally established and registered. Wang Fukui and his wife are both physically disabled, Wang Fukui has difficulty moving due to polio, and his wife is blind, the family's financial situation was once very difficult, but this does not affect their optimistic and positive attitude towards life, and sometimes Wang Fukui also volunteered to participate in public welfare activities in the village.
Zhang Qingjiang, the leader of the Cangzhou Bank's team in Houchen Village, has been concerned about the situation of Wang Fukui's family since he learned about it. Knowing that Wang Fukui had the skills to make tofu, he thought about how to let Wang Fukui's family support themselves and completely improve the family's financial difficulties. According to the policy of monitoring to prevent the return to poverty, Zhang Qingjiang finally decided to help Wang Fukui's family build a tofu factory. In March this year, with the help of the Cangzhou Bank's team in the village, Wang Fukui's tofu workshop finally opened.
Wang Fukui is making tofu.
People help us, we have to work hard, we can't rely on the help of Cangzhou Bank every day. Wang Fukui's legs and feet are not good, my eyes are not good, I can only learn to learn the craft of making tofu, it was difficult to live before, how could I think of still doing business, there is no money in my hands, and I can't make money with my skills, and now President Zhang They help to open the tofu workshop, we can also be regarded as able to earn some money by our own labor, although we don't earn much every day, but we are very content. Talking about the tofu factory that was opened, Wang Fukui's wife said seriously.
Compared with Wang Fukui's shyness, Wang Fukui's wife is more talkative, and the optimistic mood between words makes it hard to believe that she can't see the world. In daily life, Wang Fukui's wife does not need much help, and even sometimes she goes to help Wang Fukui. "He can't do it with his legs, and I do some of the work I do. But I'm just good at home, and I can't go out. When he said this, Wang Fukui's wife was preparing to make dinner. Seeing her move quickly, she can accurately find the location of water and rice every time.
From needing help to earning 1,000 yuan a month
Every evening at 6 o'clock, it is Wang Fukui's time to soak beans.
My beans are specially selected, and the soybeans shipped from the Northeast are fuller and fragrant. Talking about making tofu, Wang Fukui finally opened the chatterbox, opened the pocket of soybeans as he spoke, grabbed a handful of soybeans from it, and seriously introduced his experience, "I usually use this kind of round and bright beans to make tofu, which is more fragrant." To make tofu the next day, you need to soak the beans a day in advance, and the beans that float up directly when you put them in water indicate that they are eaten by insects, and this kind of beans can't be wanted, which will affect the taste of tofu. Normally, I sell tofu in the winter and tofu brains in the summer. ”
As long as the weather permits, Wang Fukui drives his electric tricycle to a nearby village every day to sell tofu. Because most of the customers in the village are elderly, and their legs and feet are not good, Wang Fukui deliberately walks very slowly when he goes around the village, and sometimes he will wait for a while at the intersection.
Wang Fukui went to the village to sell tofu.
In fact, the people who buy my tofu are basically relatively fixed people, and I have some points in my heart about who likes to eat tofu in the village over the years. When he walked to a junction, Wang Fukui specially stopped the car, waited for the appearance of regular customers, and occasionally met people passing by, and would greet them warmly and chat.
An old man who made a special trip to buy tofu told reporters that everyone likes to buy Wang Fukui's tofu, in addition to the delicious tofu itself, the most important thing is that he does not force him to buy and sell, and customers can take as much as they want. Everyone knows the situation at home, and other favors can't help, so they can only buy some tofu.
Wang Fukui told reporters that now the tofu can be sold for 90 yuan a day, excluding the cost, there is a profit of nearly 50 yuan a day, counting that sometimes the weather is bad and can not go out to sell, a month can earn more than 1,000 yuan.
Outside of the tofu shop
The life of Wang Fukui's family is getting better and better, and in addition to them, there is also Zhang Qingjiang, the captain of the Cangzhou Bank team in Houchen Village.
Zhang Qingjiang came to Houchen Village in 2016 to help, and in the past 8 years, he has witnessed the transformation of Houchen Village from a dilapidated and poor village to a new village with cement roads extending in all directions, and also watched Wang Fukui's family come out of the quagmire of difficulties.
I remember when I first came, although his family's life was more difficult, but he could barely support it, and then there were some changes, and his life was sad, and since then he has basically lived on the ** subsidy every month, the family has no income, the house is dilapidated, and the two children are studying, so we think about how to make him more or less income. After understanding, we found that Wang Fukui made tofu well, so we came up with the idea of helping him open a tofu workshop. Recalling the scene at that time, Zhang Qingjiang sighed.
Wang Fukui's new home.
Zhang Qingjiang introduced that the opening of the tofu workshop was not all smooth sailing. helped Wang Fukui run the store opening procedures many times, but he never saw him open the store. Later, I learned that because Wang Fukui's old house was dilapidated, unsuitable for further living, and could not be repaired, the couple used the money to open the store as the house reconstruction, and the plan to open a tofu factory was interrupted.
The village-based team visited Wang Fukui's old home.
After understanding the actual situation, Zhang Qingjiang discussed with the members of the task force, and finally decided to save 120,000 yuan of work funds to support Wang Fukui and help him open a tofu workshop.
I still remember the scene at that time, President Zhang and the other two comrades in the village came together. Wang Fukui talked about the situation at that time, and he is still excited.
In addition to helping to open a tofu factory, the village-based team also paid attention to Wang Fukui's family in all aspects. This year, Wang Fukui's eldest son was admitted to university, and Zhang Qingjiang and his team members gave the children some of the funds saved and the school Xi and daily necessities they raised spontaneously, and also applied for a special grant from Cangzhou Bank for college education for children from difficult families.
On December 11 this year, Zhang Qingjiang (second from right), the village team of Cangzhou Bank, and Wang Xingjin (first from right), secretary of Houchen Village, paid a return visit to Wang Fukui's home.
It is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish" has always been the most important thing that Zhang Qingjiang and all the members of the village-based work team attach the most importance to in the process of helping. It is more important to explore the capacity of the recipients and improve their self-reliance than financial support.
At this point, we are halfway through our task, and then ensuring that they do not return to poverty is an important part of our work. Zhang Qingjiang said, "But I don't think his family will be able to, one is their own efforts, and the other is that after the eldest son graduates from college, he can more or less help share some family pressure." ”
At the same time, with the help of the team of Cangzhou Bank in the village, the living environment of other villagers in Houchen Village is also changing rapidly, and a series of infrastructure construction work such as the construction of "two rooms", the repair of small bridges, the construction of side ditches, the hardening of roads, the laying of tap water pipelines, and the installation of smart water meters have made the dirty, chaotic and poor backward villages in the past become comfortable, clean and bright model villages today. (Overview of news reporter Ding Zixuan's text).