A few days ago, the official media released an obituary, and on December 18, 2023, the old man Mao Shihua passed away. "Breakfast grandma" is gone. There is no glutinous rice cake in the countryside that has not increased in price for 27 years. 
Mao Shihua has won honorary titles such as "Zhejiang Province Moral Model" and "The Most Beautiful Chinese Integrity Star". The reason for this glory is only because of one thing, the stall at the school gate has not increased in price for 27 years, and only 5 cents are charged. This breakfast grandmother is not in the street vendor business to make a living, but for a group of children she doesn't know. 
Mao Shihua is a villager of Huangtankou Village, Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province, born in 1932. In the early nineties of the last century, Mao Shihua began to set up a stall and do breakfast business. The site is near an elementary school in the town. Breakfast categories include soybean milk (pure hand-grinding), glutinous rice cake, meat dumplings, duck egg cakes and so on. The price is, five cents the same. At that time, there were many breakfast shops at the entrance of the school, and Mao Shihua asked around and found that the price was the lowest. Business is good. But for fear that his peers would be jealous and cause trouble, Mao Shihua simply set the rules. Only 30 breakfasts a day are sold. Sell it out and call it a day. 
In the first few years, Mao Shihua still had a surplus to subsidize the family. Later prices**. The meat dumplings in the breakfast shop have risen from one to three, and then to five, and have risen and risen all the way with economic development. At the turn of the millennium, people around me proposed:If it goes on like this, it will be a loss, and it will have to rise a little bit anyway. Mao Shihua thought about it again and again and made a decision that puzzled the people around him. "It's just five cents, if it doesn't rise, it won't rise in the future. ”After the 21st century, Mao Shihua's stall has become a business that does not make money. On the one hand, the price is low. On the one hand, Mao Shihua also made breakfast materials. Soy milk is hand-ground, and pork should be bought with the freshest. The glutinous rice cake in other people's restaurants is not seen in one bite, but she adheres to the principle of "thin skin and thick meat". 
The family was puzzled at first, what did they want to get up early and be greedy for darkness like this? Mao Shihua's answer was moving:"The children in the school are all from the nearby mountainous areas, and they are poor, and I am worried that they will not have enough to eat. ”Mao Shihua arrived at the school gate on time at 5:30 in the morning every day. She likes to call her students "Mei Na (homonym)", and when students are familiar with it, they call her grandma directly. The family conditions of children in mountainous areas are more difficult than outsiders think. Some children couldn't even pay five cents, saying that they wanted to pay on credit. Mao Shihua always returned with a kind smile: It's okay, take it and eat it. 
Screenshot of the Beijing News interview It is easy to do good once, but it is difficult to do good for life. This loss-making business has been doing it for 27 years. During the period was broken.
Forty or fifty coal stoves, trampled on five small tricycles. 
In 2018, the old man Mao Shihua fell ill and bid farewell to his stall career. The students who benefited from the past have grown up. During the holidays, children come to visit her. On December 18, 2023, Mao Shihua left the world forever at the age of 90. At the end of the funeral, Mao Shihua's daughter sighed to reporters:
Money will be scattered, fame and fortune are like floating clouds, character first. This is a quote that I like very much, and it is also my mother's belief in life.
Compared with celebrities in the spotlight, I would rather see those extraordinary people in ordinary life. Empathize with the suffering at the bottom. Deliver the most rustic kindness. In Nanchang, Jiangxi, there are couples who also insist on similar good deeds to the old man Mao Shihua"Shared kitchen".。At the beginning of the millennium, Wan Zuocheng and his wife, Xiong Gengxiang, opened a restaurant near Jiangxi Cancer Hospital. Later, the road was widened and the shop was suspended. Wan Zuocheng had no choice but to rent a stall near the hospital and switch to a vendor business. Selling fritters, selling steamed buns, specializing in breakfast. Wan Zuocheng said, "At that time, business was good, I could earn 400 yuan a day, and I would close the stall at noon." ”
An accident changed the career of this old couple. One day in 2003, Wan Zuocheng went out as usual. Near noon, three people came to the stall. Two people are standing, it is the parents, one is in a wheelchair, the leg is amputated, and there is only one leg left, which is the son. 
When the mother approached, she begged Wan Zuocheng:
I brought my child to the hospital. He can't eat outside food now, so he wants to eat two ** dishes, do you think he can borrow a stove to use it? I'll give you some money.Wan Zuocheng agreed and gave up a stove. The mother got busy. After the matter was over, the family asked Wan Zuocheng for the fee, and he just waved his hand: "No money, just a little fire." The family members hurriedly thanked them. Strangely, since then, family members of patients have often come to Wan Zuocheng for help. "The patient can't eat the food in the cafeteria, so I can borrow your stove for it, can I see it?" ”
Looking at these lonely family members, Wan Zuocheng couldn't bear to refuse. More and more people are asking for help. After a long time, the breakfast business was basically impossible. Even four stoves were not enough to use, and every time the meal arrived, the patient's family would line up and wait for a long time before it was their turn to use it. At this time, Wan Zuocheng was faced with a choice. Do you want to continue your breakfast business, or do you simply switch to a "kitchen business"? A stranger's regret, Wan Zuocheng embarked on the road of public welfare. She told Wan Zuocheng: A few years ago, I took my mother to Shanghai to see a doctor. The doctor has already said that there is no salvation, it is a matter of time. At that time, my mother couldn't eat outside food, so she wanted to taste the food I cooked. It's a pity that there is no kitchen like yours next to the hospital. I couldn't fulfill his wishes, and it became a regret in my life. What you're doing is especially meaningful.
Wan Zuocheng's heart perked. The breakfast business was abandoned, and 4 stoves and a series of kitchen supplies were added to make a "shared kitchen". Regarding the charging pricing, Wan Zuocheng weighed it for a long time. Jiangxi Cancer Hospital is one of the top hospitals in the province. Most of the people who come to seek medical treatment are from other places. Seriously ill, the whole family is dragged down, and the family is struggling, such situations abound. Wan Zuocheng thought, it is difficult for others to be like this, how can he bear to make money from them? He set the rules for "shared kitchens":1 yuan for a box of lunches and 1 yuan for stir-frying. Wan Zuocheng saidIt's impossible to make money, it's okay to break even, and be happy.
Wan Zuocheng put up a sign at the door of the store, "Love Kitchen, Public Welfare Project." "I wrote this signboard not to boast, but to help more patients' families. Patients' families come and go. The kitchen of love never closes the door.
Yes, it never closes, 24 hours a day, 360 days a year, this shared kitchen is always open. During the day, Wan Zuocheng and his wife were busy working together. At night, the two take turns to take care of it. Wan Zuocheng said"If you don't look at it, you can't do it, there is fire, there are safety hazards. ”Regarding the meaning of insisting on the love kitchen, Wan Zuocheng also has a deeper understanding:
Many cancer patients are terminal, and time is running out. At this time, if you can eat the food cooked by your family, you will feel that it is the taste of your parents and the taste of your daughter and son, and you will feel good. When you're in a better mood, you're living longer.
Wan Zuocheng once told a moving detail. There was a patient with terminal cancer. The day before discharge, the attending physician told the patient that his condition had improved, and he would be discharged from the hospital tomorrow and go home to recuperate. The patient seemed to realize something and asked his family to see the owner of the Caring Kitchen. Wan Zuocheng still remembers that scene. The patient was thin and pale, and then, with all his strength, said solemnly, "Thank you." Wan Zuocheng said: At 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, as soon as the patient returned home, the person was gone.
Goodwill is mutual. When the patient was discharged from the hospital, family members came to say goodbye to Wan Zuocheng and his wife. Some people will send gifts, such as disposable chopsticks, etc. More people will write their ** number and name on the wall, and then tell Wan Zuocheng and his wife: "If you have the opportunity, you must come to my house as a guest!" ”
In 2020, the "Love Kitchen" was reported and attracted attention. Caring people in society have money to contribute and make a strong contribution. The scale of the Caring Kitchen has been upgraded to help more people.
Today, Caring Kitchen has gone through 20 years. Regarding the future, the old man Wan Zuocheng said:Look at God, if you can live for ten years, you will hold on for another ten years. Finally, I would like to share another experience of Wan Zuocheng. The family members of individual patients have better economic conditions. When the patient was discharged from the hospital, the family members ran to the love kitchen and stuffed money into Wan Zuocheng's pocket. There were 500 and 2,000, but Wan Zuocheng refused, and instead became a "good messenger". The first thing to do is to find out one of the most difficult family members in the love kitchen. The second thing is to tell the donor family: he needs the money more than I do, and you can donate the money to him. To do good is to thank me best. Donate to the family, all of them. Old man Wan Zuocheng saidPeople don't persuade and don't be good, and the bell doesn't ring or ring.
That's why I'm writing this. Hot searches are changing, times are changing, but kindness never goes out of style. Those who shine with humanity in the earthly world, those things that touch the softest part of our hearts, are worthy of our empathy over and over again. It's for the sake of praise. Also to make their story impact more people-When you and I are in the fog of life, you might as well use them as anchors, be grateful for kindness, become kind, and be a warm person together.