Original title: Changsha 'stingy' old lady has subsidized more than 50 poor students for 23 years
4hw.com.cn and other vendors go to the stall to buy the cheapest food. They never pay for water when they go out, and they always take an old kettle with them. The most expensive one is a cotton coat of 60 yuan, and the other 20 or 30 yuan. In the South Daqiao community of Chiling road street, Tianxin District, Changsha, 78 year old Xiao Ziwen is known as "stingy".
Since 1996, Xiao Ziwen has been quietly subsidizing more than 50 poor students with his meager pension to realize his dream. If he didn't have enough money, he went to pick up waste products. She would also invite students to eat and live at home from time to time. Before leaving, she would always fill the bottles with bacon, pickled cabbage, etc. enough to eat for a week. At the same time, she would also pay some living expenses. If the money is not enough, she will go out to pick up waste and subsidize the students.
On the afternoon of December 22, the outdoor temperature in Changsha was 7 ℃, and Xiao Ziwen, white haired and wrinkled, was reluctant to turn on the air conditioner and the stove. She opened a "love file" recording 23 years of charity activities.
The old man wrote such a sentence in the file: 'as long as I live, I will try my best to help those children who are wandering outside school because of poverty. '
Over the past three years, a total of 6000 yuan has been donated to aid students
In 1987, Xiao Ziwen retired from a company in Changsha. Her old wife, Tong's father, also retired six years later. After retirement, the couple had nothing to do and simply planted vegetables in the surrounding area of nandaqiao community.
Xiao Ziwen, a newspaper reader, noticed that there were many poor students in need of help. She suddenly came up with the idea of inviting students home to eat and live. Jiajia was the first person they funded. Because her parents divorced, she left school at the age of 15 and went out to work. When Xiao Ziwen learned about it, he wrote to Jiajia to talk with her, took care of her when she got home, and paid for her tuition to help her return to school. In 1996, their retirement payment was just over 1000 yuan.
On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2010, the leaders of relevant departments in Changsha City paid a special visit to the old man Xiao Ziwen and gave him 1000 yuan as a reward for his charitable aid, but the money was not covered in the old man's pocket. The next day, she saw in the newspaper a 16-year-old girl who had leukemia and had no money for treatment. She immediately stopped taking the medicine because she had no money. She incarnated as a nameless grandmother and sent the money to the ward. This behavior was just photographed and broadcast by the reporter, so the community recognized the caring grandmother at a glance.
As the number of newspapers publishing information about poor students decreased year by year, and there were fewer and fewer ways to communicate by letter, she found "Changsha youth development foundation" to support "Xiangxi student aid activities" from 2017, and targeted to subsidize two poor students every year, with a total donation of 6000 yuan in the past three years. In recent years, although the pension of the two elderly people has risen to 5000 yuan / month, there is little left except medical expenses. Nevertheless, as long as she sees a sick child in the hospital, she will subsidize one or two hundred yuan.
The most expensive cotton jacket costs 60 yuan
Why does good deeds last for 23 years? Xiao Ziwen has a belief in his heart, that is, "a young man is strong, a country is strong.". Because there are so many brothers and sisters in her family, she has no chance to learn knowledge. When she was young, she suffered from a "cultural deficit", so she would not talk about some general principles. She pinned her hope on the young generation, hoping that through her own meagre efforts, she would try her best to help those children who are wandering outside school because of poverty.
However, on her way to charity, her "stingy" behavior made her two daughters feel sad. During the interview on the 22nd, the old man pointed to a red cotton coat on the sofa and said: 'this one is the most expensive. It cost 60 yuan, while the other clothes cost 20 or 30 yuan. '
Walking on the road, as long as she saw plastic bottles and waste paper, she would pick them up and sell them. She also told reporters about her experience in buying cheap vegetables: "when I go to the vegetable market at 11 a.m., the dishes are the cheapest, such as cabbage at 1 yuan per catty, and white radish at 8 cents per catty & hellip;"
As for Xiao Ziwen's charity aid behavior, some people questioned, "what's the significance of your subsidizing this money?" Xiao Ziwen replied: "a person's ability is big or small, and it's a person who can help one. 'she never counted how much money she funded. She pointed to a pile of donation notes in the 'love file' and said: 'here it is. '
Story extension
'you're short of money. Take it.'
"Are you in good health?" "very well, thank you." & hellip; & hellip; on December 21, Ms. Liu, the subvented, called Xiao Ziwen as usual to care about the old man's health. She also reminded the old man to "keep warm when it's cold.".
In 2002, Ms. Liu was admitted to a university in Changsha. After learning that her family was poor, Xiao Ziwen gave financial support to her. Ms. Liu's impression is that the old man's pension was very low at that time, only 400 yuan a month, and Tong's father's pension was only 1000 yuan. "She would give me two or three hundred yuan a month, ask me to live at home on weekends, and then prepare a week's home cooked food to pack back to school. She saved a lot of food expenses in four years of University.". What moved Ms. Liu most was that the old man gave her the change he earned from selling waste products. Ms. Liu quoted the old man's words at that time: "if you are short of money, use it. '
After graduating from University, although Ms. Liu is busy with her work, she still goes to see the old man Xiao Ziwen on New Year's day and usually makes a greeting call. In a few days, the old man is about to celebrate his birthday. Ms. Liu said on the phone that she would go home to accompany him to celebrate his birthday, but she was declined by the old man.
In an interview with reporters, Xiao Ziwen also said that she did not want to reward these students by subsidizing them. "If they work hard, they will get the best reward.".