In 1992, in Qingshan District, Wuhan, Hubei, Yang Shenlin, a vegetable vendor, got up to buy goods and went to the vegetable market to grab a stall before dawn. After a busy day, the sky finally dawned, and I was already tired and sweating, pushing heavy goods, and rushed to the vegetable market.
However, when I was about to enter the vegetable market, I heard a faint but hoarse cry from a row of garbage cans on the side of the road. If you are close to the noisy vegetable market in broad daylight, you may not be able to hear it, but it is heard by Yang Shenlin.
Yang Shenlin suddenly stopped, leaned over to take a look, and it turned out that there was a sheet wrapped in the trash can with a baby who had just completed the month. Yang Shenlin immediately became anxious, who threw this child away?But the miracle came when he picked up the child, but the child suddenly stopped crying, with a child's smile;When I put down the child, I cried and cried.
What to do?Yang Shenlin held the child in his arms, at a loss. On this day, everyone I knew in the vegetable market knew each other, and Lao Yang, who sold vegetables, picked up a child. After waiting for a long time, he didn't see the child's parents come back to him, and someone told him not to wait any longer, it must be a girl, and the parents deliberately threw it away. Yang Shenlin had to carry the child back to the rental house.
Yang Shenlin's ancestral home is Zhoukou, Henan, and his life is hard, his family is poor, he has no mother at the age of 3, his brother passed on to relatives, and he runs to Wuhan alone to live. Because of his hardships and hard work, he began to sell local products in the streets and alleys, and after a long time, he saved some money and began to sell vegetables in the vegetable market. is reluctant to eat, reluctant to dress, and wants to save money to go back to his hometown to build a house and marry a daughter-in-law. But as I got older, my dream still didn't come true.
Now she suddenly picked up a baby girl, and she herself was busy with her hands and feet, and she was messy. Fortunately, the landlady had experience with children and taught him to buy milk powder and bottles, and to dismantle old clothes for diapers. He also slowly learned how to take care of the children, and when he usually went out to sell vegetables, he handed the children over to the landlady to bring, so that he lived peacefully for two years.
In 1994, just 2 years ago, Yang Shenlin picked up the same location and the same trash can of the child, and Yang Shenlin heard the same cry again. When he stepped forward, he found another baby girl, who was seven months old, dirty and thin not like a human figure.
Yang Shenlin, who was going to take the baby with him, hurriedly picked up the baby distressedly, and on the way back, he also bought baby bottles and bread and other items. But he has raised an abandoned baby, relying on his own conditions, there is no woman in the family, and he is always unable to trouble the landlady in everything, so he cannot afford to raise two children at the same time.
The next day, Yang Shenlin took the child he picked up to the street, and the street asked him to raise him first, and wait for the police station to grasp the clues before taking the child out, but there has been no news of the matter afterwards.
Yang Shenlin cried and laughed, he had not yet married, and he suddenly became the father of two girls. He didn't have much literacy, so he named the two children Da Jing and Xiao Jing.
Raising two children, that kind of pressure is mostly that. Yang Shenlin could earn 30 yuan a day at that time, but the milk powder money for his two children cost 10 yuan a day. This made him dare not stop for a moment. In addition to selling vegetables in the vegetable market during the day, he also went to odd jobs from afternoon to evening, and when he came back, he had to take care of his children, sleeping only four or five hours a day.
Time flies so fast, Dajing is almost of school age, but she doesn't have a hukou and can't go to school. With nothing to do, he went to the street to tell all about the situation of these two children. At this moment, the new century is coming, and the staff of the neighborhood office were very moved when they heard this, and immediately reported their situation to everyone.
Later, he coordinated with the civil affairs department to not only solve the problem of the two children's schooling, but also issued a subsistence allowance for Yang Shenlin. However, Yang Shenlin still worked very hard, selling vegetables and going to work on the construction site, wanting to save tuition and living expenses for his two children.
Da Jing and Xiao Jing are also very sensible, studious, and among the best in their grades. Usually they take the initiative to help their father move things, and during the summer vacation, they will pull watermelons dozens of miles away with their father to sell them in the vegetable market.
Yang Shenlin was very happy in his heart, his daughter had grown up, and he knew that his heart hurt. However, he didn't want his daughter to grow up as hard as he did. So he said, "I'm still worried about the tuition, no matter how hard my father is, he will have to provide for the two of you." ”
In fact, Yang Shenlin's biggest concern is that his two children are discriminated against at school, but at a parent-teacher meeting, Dajing also gave a "Dad" speech in class, telling his story in public, and his father's nurturing grace touched everyone at the scene, and Yang Shenlin burst into tears.
In this way, Da Jing and Xiao Jing were successively admitted to the ideal university. When Da Jing entered Wuhan University, she was not going to study because she couldn't get 10,000 yuan for tuition. Later, with the assistance of the school, not only the tuition fee was reduced, but also the monthly subsidy was 500 yuan.
However, Yang Shenlin still did not dare to stop. On this day, when I went to the vegetable market to sell vegetables, a couple suddenly stood on their vegetable stall, and they thought they were customers buying vegetables.
But the two men opened their mouths and told him to be quiet. It turned out that at that time, the two of them did not give up on Xiaojing because she was a girl, but because they were poor and couldn't afford to support her. At that time, the people in the vegetable market knew that Lao Yang was kind-hearted, so he picked up an abandoned baby. So the two deliberately left their daughter in a position that Lao Yang could find, and hid it not far from them, watching Lao Yang holding his daughter, and then set off.
Maybe Xiao Jing's parents have too many last resorts, but Xiao Jing didn't think that she would have the opportunity to meet her biological parents, but she refused to admit it, she said: "I only have Yang Shenlin as a father." "Relatively speaking, Da Jing is older and better at expressing himself;And Xiao Jing's love for her father is actually not a lot at all.
Now Yang Shenlin is getting older and older, Da Jing and Xiao Jing take their salaries to rent a house for Yang Shenlin, and help Yang Shenlin clean his room and do laundry every time he goes home.
And Yang Shenlin still goes to the roadside stall every day to sell fruits, although he doesn't have to work as hard as before, but he has already saved the money his daughter handed over to him, and he is reluctant to spend it, because he is also saving money for his two daughters. He dedicated himself in his life to two adopted daughters who were not related by blood.