At the entrance of the Central Primary School in Huangtankou Township, Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province, there is a stall that has been empty. Early in the morning, students, teachers, and nearby residents would unconsciously look at the empty stall as they passed by the school gate.
Some people sighed, some people stopped, some people wanted to have another breakfast from that stall, but everyone knew that it was impossible!The empty stall was called when he was alive.
Breakfast grandma's stall, she has been doing her best for 27 years, making breakfast with all her heart, and only providing it to students, workers, and residents at a price of 5 cents per item.... …
Now, she's gone. On December 18, 2023, there will be no "breakfast grandma" in the world, but people's nostalgia for her is endless.
In 1991, at the age of 58, Mao Shihua decided to set up a stall to sell breakfast. There are two reasons, one is to pass her boring time, and the other is that her wife's income was low at that time, and she wanted to earn some money by setting up a stall to support herself.
After making up his mind, he worked for 27 years. Every day at about one o'clock in the morning, Mao Shihua gets up to grind soybean milk, fry stuffing, steam zongzi, cook porridge... …I was busy until about 5 o'clock in the morning, riding a tricycle to transport the stalls to the school gate in two parts.
When the sky was slightly bright, a large number of students approached her stall, this one to buy a pancake, the other to buy soy milk, and some to eat zongzi with meat filling... …Mao Shihua is very busy and tired.
But seeing that her breakfast was so popular with the students, she couldn't help but be overjoyed, and all the hard work was worth it, and it injected infinite motivation into her hard work the next day!
Mao Shihua, who had just set up a stall, set everything for breakfast at 5 cents according to the local prices at that time, which was normal at that time.
But with the development of later times, prices have skyrocketed, and the cost of breakfast has also increased a lotIt is understandable that the price of breakfast will increase reasonably, but Mao Shihua has her own ideas.
At the Huangtankou Township Central Primary School, next door to Mao's flower stall, most of the students come from mountainous areas, their parents' incomes are meager, and the children's money for breakfast is also very poor.
Mao Shihua likes children very much, she can't bear to see what they want to eat but hesitate;She couldn't bear to not have enough to eat because the child had little money on her.
She can't bear to delay the growth of her child's body.... …In order to make every child have enough to eat, she made a decision in her heart - never increase the price!From 1991 to 2018, the breakfast in her stall was 5 cents, and it has not changed!
Some say she's stupid, but she knows what she's doing;Some people say that she is not worth it, but she says she is willing. It is because of her "stubbornness" that she has to post three or four hundred yuan every month to maintain the normal operation of the breakfast restaurant!
Is she short of money?She also has a pension of more than 1,000 yuan per month;Does her family need money?Her children are very good and have a rich life, and she doesn't need to run around anymore.
So why does she work hard and be consistent every day?It's not because of her love for children!As she said herself, children can grow up healthily and contribute to the country in the future!
It is also because of her love for her children that she said the reason why the price of breakfast has not increased for 27 years: it is difficult for the parents of the children to make money, and I want them to eat more, so the price does not increase!
It's such a simple sentence, it's such an ordinary person, but it has touched countless people!She showed us that ordinary can be great!
Seeing that she was still working so hard in her old age, her wife and her children advised her to stop making breakfast, rest well, and enjoy the blessings. But in the end, no one could persuade her. Until the death of her wife, she had no intention of stopping. She said she would do it until she couldn't do it anymore!
In 2018, she really couldn't do it. This year, she fell and injured her arm and leg, and she was unable to make breakfast again, and it was the first time in 27 years that she disappeared from the children's sight for a long time. Since then, her physical condition has deteriorated, and although she is anxious and wants to make breakfast for the children again, she has always been unable to do so.
Mao Shihua is gone, she is an ordinary person, but her deeds have touched countless people!Netizens said that she was a "bodhisattva in the world", and they were reluctant to leave her, praying together, wishing her happiness in heaven forever!