Ma Huailong is always in a hurry. When residents see him in the community, he usually carries a warm lunch box in his left hand, a notebook under his left arm, and a large set of keys in his right hand - a total of 46 keys, all of which are the keys to the lonely elderly and families in need that he has helped for a long time.
In 2008, Ma Huailong took off his military uniform and put on a police uniform, and became a community police officer at the Xinglong Road Police Station of the Shibei Branch of the Qingdao Municipal Public Security Bureau. Since then, he has formed an indissoluble bond with the people of the community, and the story of 46 keys begins here.
When you have trouble, look for him.
Ma Huailong is 56 years old, not tall and a little thin. After 15 years as a police officer, he has changed from a "horse police officer" in the mouth of residents to an "old horse".
The old horse's day began at half past six in the morning. He had to rush to work at 9 o'clock to buy breakfast and deliver meals to the orphaned and disabled elderly he had been caring for for a long time, and to check the situation at home by the way.
The breakfast shop at the intersection of Xinglong Road and Xinglong 1st Road is where he often goes to buy breakfast. At half past seven in the morning on December 27, 2023, as soon as the proprietress saw Lao Ma, she quickly took over the two insulated lunch boxes in his hands, filled a bucket of soy milk and sweet foam, and wrapped three servings of fritters. Almost all the shops in the jurisdiction know that Lao Ma buys things for the elderly who take care of them, and they will ask for more or less money.
Every weekday morning, Lao Ma has to deliver meals to five or six elderly families, and at the end of the week, the elderly people he focuses on taking care of can run through it. The first one to go that morning was 84-year-old Wu Ruilan's house. The day before, Wu Ruilan called him **, and a mouse was found in the kitchen, and Lao Ma went to buy a sticky mouse board.
At the door of Wu Ruilan's house, Lao Ma took out a large bunch of keys that he carried with him, pinched the key ring in the middle, and the keys were divided into two parts. He pinpointed one of the keychains on the right and opened the door.
Wu Ruilan's wife died at an early age, she has a son and two daughters, the two daughters live far away after marriage, and the son suffered from mental illness when he was young and has been living with her. A few months ago, my son fell ill again. As soon as he was sick, he went crazy, picked up the hot water bottle on the coffee table and fell on Wu Ruilan. The neighbor heard the movement and called Lao Ma **, but fortunately Lao Ma came in time, opened the door with the key, and sent Wu Ruilan's son to the hospital with the help of everyone.
Under the landline of Wu Ruilan's house, there is a piece of paper pressed, on which is Lao Ma's **. Four years ago, when Wu Ruilan's son's illness increased, worried that Wu Ruilan would not be able to resist alone, her second daughter wrote her Lao Ma's ** number, asking her to "find him when she encounters difficulties".
From the first **, Lao Ma included Wu Ruilan in his help, and visited him every other day, "more diligent than his daughter". Once, when he saw Wu Ruilan standing on a chair to collect clothes from the drying rack, Lao Ma immediately ran to buy a lifting drying rack and installed it.
After a long time, the house tripped and the power went out, the TV was not working, and the toilet was blocked ......For trivial matters, Wu Ruilan was also the first to think of finding Lao Ma. Later, she went to match the key to the house and handed it to Lao Ma. She felt that whether she regarded Lao Ma as a relative, or when she couldn't open the door, she should give Lao Ma the key.
Lao Ma's 46 keys all came from this way.
This home is handed over to you.
The first key he received belonged to the disabled couple Song Yuelan and Du Shengchang's family. In October 2011, when he visited his home, he found that Du Shengchang, who was suffering from diabetes complications, had ulcerated legs, but he was reluctant to spend money on medical treatment. Lao Ma not only sent him to the hospital, but also donated money to him with his colleagues**. During the hospitalization, Song Yuelan took out the key to the house in order to facilitate Lao Ma to help take care of her son, who was in junior high school, "Officer Ma, the child will be handed over to you, and this home will also be handed over to you!."”
In this way, Lao Ma took over the key to Song Yuelan's house and also took over the responsibility of taking care of a family. 12 years have passed, and Lao Ma's help to this family has not stopped.
Early in the morning of December 28, 2023, he went to the supermarket to buy pork for more than 80 yuan, and sent it to Song Yuelan's house together with the cabbage donated by the caring enterprise. He knew that the two of them were reluctant to eat.
As soon as she entered the door, Song Yuelan had just finished ordering noodles. Seeing that there was no meat star in the noodles, Lao Ma was a little anxious, "Didn't I say that?"Don't be reluctant to eat, if you have a bite of meat from me, you will definitely be indispensable. ”
Song Yuelan didn't want to go, and wanted to try not to add a burden to the old horse. Over the years, whether it was the cost of his son's school or her husband's medical expenses, Lao Ma helped raise them. In addition, the old horse was sent to the door with food every once in a while, and she felt that "the old horse's kindness will not be repaid in this life."
The community in charge of Lao Ma belongs to the old city and has an area of 08 square kilometers, more than 7,000 permanent residents, 2There are more than 10,000 people, including orphaned and disabled elderly and empty nesters. Over the past 15 years, Lao Ma has been constantly helping the lonely elderly and disabled families in the jurisdiction, and unconsciously, the keys in his hands have become more and more.
The owner of the 37th key is Wang Deting, a 77-year-old widow. He was unable to walk normally due to necrosis of the femoral head in his thigh, two knees with long-term water accumulation, and lived in a house rented by Lao Ma. Through the window, every time he heard the crisp sound of a large number of keys colliding, he knew that "the old horse is coming".
The acquaintance of the two seems to have a sense of fatality. In December 2018, Lao Ma went to the 15th Avenue community to handle a case. When passing by No. 28 Mingxia Road, I found an old man lying in the snow picking up wood blocks and branches.
He is Wang Deting. When he was young, he divorced his wife and had no children and no daughters. His household registration is not in Qingdao, he has no income, and he relies on his elderly sister to make a living. The bungalow where he was staying was ventilated on all sides, and a broken iron bucket was covered with thick ice.
Lao Ma looked sad and said to Wang Deting, "This place can't live anymore, you can go with me." ”
Wang Deting didn't dare to believe him, "We are not related to each other, we don't know each other, will we be so kind to help me?"”
The old horse "looked at the thatched house three times" before he said that Wang Deting was moved. He rented a house for Wang Deting in the Xinglong Road community, with a monthly rent of 800 yuan, as well as water, electricity, gas, and heating expenses, all paid by Lao Malai. In May 2023, Wang Deting had a sudden stroke, and he spent more than 10,000 yuan on training for two months, which was also paid by Lao Ma. After being discharged from the hospital, Lao Ma paid out of his own pocket and spent 2,600 yuan a month to hire an elderly man to cook and clean up for him.
Without the old horse, there would be no second half of my life. Wang Deting was in tears when he said it. What he handed over to Lao Ma was a key, and what Lao Ma gave him was a home, a support in his old age.
I haven't counted it, and I don't know it.
Behind the 46 keys are 46 orphaned, disabled and needy families. Taking care of them fills most of the time outside of work.
After getting off work on the evening of December 27, 2023, he went to a clothing store near his unit and bought down jackets for the winter for Liu Benyi and other elderly people who were going to visit the next day.
Because of severe asthma, Liu Benyi currently lives in a nursing home with a combination of medical care and elderly care, 5 kilometers away from Lao Ma's unit. When he went to see him after work on the evening of December 28, 2023, Lao Ma made a special detour and went to a pharmacy on Renmin Road to buy a kind of acacia nectar that he loved to drink.
Liu Benyi was a cook when he was young, and he was particular about eating, for example, when eating steamed buns, he only recognized the beef buns of a certain store, and only ate a certain brand of pork head meat. The old horse was all attached to him, and he went around to buy it.
Several volunteers who followed Lao Ma to help complained that Lao Ma "spoiled the old man". Lao Ma smiled, the old man treats me as his own relative, and he will be embarrassed to ask outsiders. Besides, people can live for a few years when they are old, so try to meet any requirements that can be met.
Chen Hongye, 57, is now Lao Ma's right-hand man, often helping Lao Ma deliver things to the elderly. Chen Hongye found that Lao Ma never went empty-handed to the old man's house, "A day or two is OK, I can't buy it every day, what family can carry it?."”
During the two days of interviewing Lao Ma, breakfast, fish, meat, eggs, milk, clothes, fruits, and dumplings ......Every payment of Lao Ma ranges from twenty or thirty yuan to two or three hundred yuan.
In the past 15 years, how much money has he spent on the old people?The "more than 200,000" reported by the outside world was four or five years ago. Lao Ma said that he hadn't counted it, and he didn't know it. However, when others donated, he took a clear note, and each donation was signed or fingerprinted by the parties, witnesses and other people.
Lao Ma told reporters that his wife Duan Youping still doesn't know what his salary is, and they have always implemented the principle of "giving the big head to the family and keeping the small head for themselves". He secretly told reporters that he had won a first-class meritorious service, and the bonus had recently been issued, and he just kept it for the old people to buy New Year's goods, which was a big expense.
Recently, there is another thing that has been circling in the old horse's head. He inquired that surgery might cure Wang Deting's necrosis of the femoral head, so that Wang Deting could walk. But the medical expenses are at least 40,000 yuan, and Lao Ma can't come up with so much money at once.
The house where Lao Ma's family lives was bought when he first arrived in Qingdao 20 years ago, and it still maintains the old decoration style. Only when my daughter got married a few years ago, I spent 600 yuan to paint it white.
Duan Youping is also very frugal, the whipped jeans she wears are given by her eldest sister, and the down vest is worn by her daughter when she goes to school. "It's weird, you can wear it. Duan Youping said Linyi dialect and smiled embarrassedly.
Lao Ma did not hesitate to praise his wife's thrift and virtuousness, "I don't pay attention to the quality of life." She never asked Lao Ma to buy clothes and jewelry for her, and the only coat that made Lao Ma "bleed heavily" was bought in 2019 at the instigation of her daughter and son-in-law, and it cost thousands. However, Duan Youping has not been willing to wear it so far, she wants to keep it for the New Year to wear to relatives, but in the Spring Festival these years, she has been wearing an apron to make dumplings and cook Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and she has no chance to wear it.
Over the years, no new appliances and furniture have been added to the home, but there will often be a shortage of things. Duan Youping said that Lao Ma often thinks that things at home are too much in the way, and she wants to throw this and that, and sometimes she can't stop it, so she is "thrown" by Lao Ma. However, last year, she followed Lao Ma to Wang Shengyi's house to make dumplings for the holiday, and found that the two single solid wood sofas that Lao Ma insisted on "throwing" appeared at Wang Shengyi's house.
Duan Youping said with a smile that after her daughter got married and moved away, Lao Ma wanted to "throw" the items in her daughter's room again. In a fit of anger, the daughter pasted a note saying "not allowed to move" on the furniture in her room.
Duan Youping just asked about the money, "Anyway, the money for the family is enough to spend." There is no place to use money, just the two of us can eat and buy bags of noodles for a long time. She felt sorry for Lao Ma, and it was normal to go home at eight o'clock in the evening, and she often sat on the sofa and took a nap.
She also became Lao Ma's assistant. Some time ago, Lao Ma went to Jinan on a business trip, and Mrs. Wu had something at home, so Mrs. Wu hurriedly sent the 46 keys he carried with him to SF Express and sent them home, and Duan Youping took the keys to Mrs. Wu's house to help.
The hurdle of conscience is passable.
The old horse is too tired, from the old man being sick to the hospital, to the heating not being hot, the sewer is blocked, and the lights are not on, he has to take care of it. Yuan Yongjie, a resident of the community, retired at home two years ago and was pulled out by his wife Li Fengling to help Lao Ma. "My family said that the old horse is almost tired all day, and it is okay for you to be idle at home, so it is good to help him fight. Yuan Yongjie drove his own car, and when the old horse was too busy, he pulled him to run from house to house.
Lao Ma himself does not feel tired, "It's like climbing a building, occasionally climbing once or twice, you will definitely feel tired." If you climb every day, you will get used to it. ”
He also had times when he was tired. He has been questioned by others for his show before, and he will feel very hurt inside, just like others don't understand him, and he doesn't understand why others think like this.
The first time he carried milk to Chen Hongye's house, Chen's mother unceremoniously invited him out with something with him, "Our family doesn't need help." Lao Ma felt embarrassed, but he still went, because Chen Hongye was disabled, and it was not easy to live with Chen's mother, who was in her 80s. learned that Chen Hongye's younger brother was unemployed, and actively helped him find a job. Finally one day, Chen's mother took the old horse's hand and said, "You are a good person!."”
Lao Ma was born in the Yimeng Mountains. His father was a soldier of the old Eighth Route Army, and his mother was a model of support. My mother is still alive and well, at the age of 95. Lao Ma said that his mother was kind and kind-hearted, and she was the person he admired all his life, and she was also the person who had the greatest influence on him. What he relishes the most is that two or three years ago, the old mother could still ride a three-wheeled bicycle, pull the things given to her by her children, relatives and friends, and give them to the lonely and widowed elderly people in the village from door to door.
The old mother often told him that he must persevere, "The party organization has cultivated you and given you generous treatment, if you don't do things for the masses, how can you get by with this hurdle of conscience." ”
A few years ago, every time she went to Qingdao, she would ask Lao Ma to take her to visit the homes of the elderly she helped. Later, he simply didn't let Lao Ma return to his hometown during the Spring Festival. During the Spring Festival these years, Lao Ma's family spent it in the home of the old man he helped.
Lao Ma said that the reason why he has been able to persist for so many years is because he has feelings with the residents, "Feelings and feelings, and I can't let go of them." ”
When some old people learned that he was going, they would peel apples in advance;Some old people have delicious food and will keep him to eat together;Another old man learned that he was suffering from cancer and thought that he would die soon, so he deliberately took advantage of Lao Ma's absence at the police station to go to his leader and tell Lao Ma about taking care of himself, so that the leader could praise Lao Ma. The old man thought that this was the only way he could repay the old horse during his lifetime, and he didn't want to leave regrets.
Lao Ma doesn't care much about the praise and criticism of the outside world. The accolades he had received filled the cupboards, and a thick wad of pennants filled large nylon bags. For him, these commendations and recognitions are not halos, but encouragement, "you have to work harder".
Lao Ma is most happy that love and kindness have flowed. Now, not only his family and colleagues, but also community residents, enterprises and caring people who have been helped and touched by him, many people have joined the team. In 2022, the volunteer service team named after Lao Ma was established and has more than 300 members so far. They found warmth in the old horse, and passed it on to others.
In the old horse's drawer, there are 9 copies of the old man's will. The latest one was made by Liu Benyi on October 23, 2023. It reads: "After I am 100 years old, donate my body to the state free of charge." All my affairs will be handled by Officer Ma Huailong. ”
In 4 years, Lao Ma will reach retirement age. He has already arranged his retirement life - "I still have the 'old horse mediation room', and there are a lot of people and a lot of things waiting for me." ”
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