Zhang Fuqun Lao Liu has a story.
Note: From "Tan Danfeng"** Thanks hereby.
Lao Liu is not very old, he just turned 60 years old this year, ten years younger than me. Lao Liu is a native of Liujiahe, Danfeng County. Lao Liu and I met more than 20 years ago. At that time, Lao Liu's eldest son, Mingshan, was in his third year of high school in my class and met him at the parent-teacher conference. In my first impression, Lao Liu is a sturdy young man, who speaks high and has a big throat, straight and straight, neat and sunny, and a rural farmer with a sunny attitude.
After the results of the college entrance examination were announced, the students were filling in the college entrance examination volunteers, and I was also in the senior high school mathematics office, busy accepting consultations from students and parents, and exchanging my experience of leading the senior high school graduating class for many years and filling out the college entrance examination volunteer form. Early that morning, Lao Liu and his son Mingshan walked into my office. The score of the Mingshan college entrance examination is 637 points, which is a good score. The father and son had a disagreement on the issue of Mingshan filling in the college entrance examination volunteers.
Lao Liu's opinion that the purpose of going to college is to prepare for finding a job in the future, and the major should be considered first. His idea was to let Mingshan fill in the automation major. Mingshan's idea is to fill in Xi'an Jiaotong University and realize his dream of being a key famous university for many years. The father and son are at loggerheads, they disagree, and neither wants to convince anyone, but neither of them can convince anyone.
I understood the meaning of the father and son in front of me, so I first said to Mingshan, you want to go to a famous school, it means that you have ambition, your father wants you to study in automation, and there is a good job in the future, which also makes some sense. But if you think about it, with your college entrance examination score of 637 points, it is not ahead in the ranking of college entrance examination scores in Shaanxi Province. If you fill in Xi'an Jiaotong University, you will definitely be able to record it, but you will not be able to record a brand major. If you lower yourself first and fill in a slightly lower university, you will definitely be admitted to the automation major, which is beneficial to your future development, and your father will fully support you to go to college.
Lao Liu nodded in affirmation of my opinion, and Mingshan was also listening to me carefully. I went on to say to Lao Liu and Mingshan that if they were admitted to a lower university and studied in their favorite automation brand major, Mingshan would have great learning momentum and better grades than other students, and he would win scholarships, reduce the financial burden of his parents, get more opportunities to communicate with teachers, and become excellent top students. Coupled with the determination to go to Xi'an Jiaotong University for graduate studies in automation after graduation, I believe that Mingshan will be able to realize his wish to be a key famous university.
After I finished speaking, the father and son discussed it one by one, reached a consensus, and happily waved goodbye to me.
One day four years later, I met Lao Liu on the street. Far away, this old man who is taller than me will call me loudly and loudly. I didn't understand why he didn't call me Teacher Zhang for a while, but called me Brother Fuqun instead, thinking that it must be closer. After approaching, Lao Liu held my hand tightly, and said excitedly in a high throat and loud voice, Brother Fuqun, you are right, you are right. After graduating from university this year, Mingshan was really admitted to Xi'an Jiaotong University as a graduate student majoring in automation. Lao Liu's hands are so powerful, and his whole body is full of youthful vitality and strength. Full of hope for his life. Lao Liu happily told me that his second son had also been admitted to a key university and was studying in his sophomore year. At the time of parting, this open-minded rural farmer once again held my hand tightly and said with sincerity: "Brother Fuqun, you are right, be a man and lower yourself in advance, do what you can, and be a low-key person, and the road will be wider and wider in the future, and you will be able to do things in a high-profile manner." ”
Recently, on the morning of the 24th day of the lunar month, it was drizzling and cold, and Yunxia and I were walking at the bridgehead on the south bank of the Danjiang River. Walking to the entrance of Henan Street, I heard "Sister Yunxia, Brother Fuqun." Screams. Looking back, it was Lao Liu calling us. When I got closer, Lao Liu and his family were selling raw beef there. The husband and wife warmly started a family routine with us.
In order to go to college and graduate school for their two sons, Lao Liu and his wife first set up a pig farm and slaughtered more than 50 pigs every year. When the eldest son Mingshan was in graduate school, the second son was also in college, and the economy was very tight. The two built a cattle pen in their own contracted land in Houpoling, raised more than 30 cows, and the husband and wife lived in the cowshed, lived with the cows, raised cattle to earn money, and the two sons went to school.
Lao Liu's wife told Yunxia that they have three sisters and one brother. The sisters are having a good time, and the eldest sister is in Xi'an City. The second sister and the third sister are both dual-income workers. My brother's family is very well-off. But each person's life depends on himself, and no matter how much money is in other people's homes, it is someone else's. People who are poor must be ambitious, do not put a brick under the baby's chin, let his son walk with a straight waist and be an upright person. No matter how tight the family is, no matter how big the difficulties are, the two of us are holding on to it, supporting it, never borrowing money from relatives, and not fighting for others.
mentioned the two sons, Lao Liu and his family were overjoyed. The eldest son and daughter-in-law work at Xi'an Jiaotong University, and the grandson is eight years old. The youngest son and daughter-in-law work in a large foreign company in Xi'an, and the granddaughter is five years old. Lao Liu and his wife paid a down payment for their two sons to buy a house in Xi'an. Lao Liu's wife said to us excitedly: "My two sons have stable jobs, have houses, become families, and have children, so I am relieved." ”
Lao Liu and his wife's beef were spread on their tricycles, and when Yunxia and I arrived at the stall, half of the cow had already been sold. The people who came to buy beef continued one after another. I think Lao Liu is a local, he is very famous for raising cattle, and he sells assured beef. Later, I heard Lao Liu say that beef from other places sells for 40 yuan per catty, and his own beef sells for 38 yuan per catty. Of the more than 30 cows, there are only four left, and they will be sold out in the next year. Vacate the barn and start the year with calves.
After waving goodbye to Lao Liu and his wife, Yunxia and I walked in the direction of Beixin Street. Along the way, I was thinking that Lao Liu and his family made a living by raising pigs and cattle, and earned money through labor, which was hard enough. In today's society, with their own hard work, it is not easy for their two sons to go to college and graduate school. Lao Liu and his wife did it. Making a down payment on a house for their two sons in Xi'an is unthinkable for many. Lao Liu and his wife did it, and married a daughter-in-law for their two sons and became a family. This is something that many people cannot hope for. Lao Liu and his wife did it. What's even more commendable is that Lao Liu and his wife never complain about hardship or tiredness. Optimistic and open-minded, full of spring breeze, smiling, running for the growth and future of his two sons, working hard. The bright future of their son is the hope of their struggle, and the source of their great strength to overcome all difficulties and obstacles. This is the best quality of the ordinary working people of the Chinese nation and an inexhaustible source of strength for the Chinese nation to prosper and develop from generation to generation.