"I don't know that spring will go away even if the rain is raining, and the summer will be deeper when the summer is sunny."
In the blink of an eye, I have been leaving my alma mater after graduating from university for fifty years. This year, I am happy to celebrate the 110th anniversary of my alma mater. Teachers and students invited me to participate in the ceremony, which aroused my affectionate memories of my five years of university life: the journey of study is hard and hard-won; I am poor and harder, and I study hard; my alma mater is cultivated, Benefit for life! The teacher’s kindness is as heavy as a mountain, and the classmates’ love is as deep as the sea. The past is vivid and the feelings linger! It will never be forgotten by me!
01
Choice when applying for volunteers
Dawn on the difficult road
Application for Jiaozuo Mining College Mining Major Underground Coal Mining Special Group is my regretless choice for the road of life.
At the end of the summer college entrance examination in 1963, although I felt that the test results were OK, various unfavorable conditions blocked my road to taking the college entrance examination. For example, my physical examination results: 1.42 meters tall, 37 kg, malnutrition, and severe anemia. Due to insufficient height and weight and related issues related to physical examination, I was restricted from reporting to many colleges and related majors such as military, public security, politics and law, armed police, engineering and construction, navigation and aerospace, transportation and bridges, normal sports, etc.
: My life ideal is to be a doctor, teacher, engineer or engage in scientific research. I studied the admission brochure repeatedly, thought about it, and thought about it over and over again, and finally put my volunteer goal on the underground coal mining team of Jiaozuo Mining College.
The reason for this choice is that, first, the various majors of Jiaozuo Mining College do not have height and weight restrictions, so I can apply. Second, my extremely poor family background determines that I must put the first priority of getting into college, finding a job, and changing my family's destiny. Many people think that underground coal mining is hard and tiring, dirty and dangerous, and there will be fewer people applying, so they are relatively sure of admission. Third, I have developed the stubbornness of not being afraid of hardship, not being afraid of difficulties, and not being afraid of hardships in the long and difficult years. I have a small figure and are more adept at drilling alleys and climbing the working surface of coal mining in . This may make it easier for me to have disadvantages to become advantages. . Fourth, the salary for mining coal in the well is high. A coal miner in a neighboring village often said that working in a coal mine is highly favorable, and in addition to salary, there are subsidies for going down the mine and night shifts. This is very attractive to me, a student with special difficulties in the family.
For more certainty, I asked the head teacher Zhu Shenwu for advice. Teacher Zhu was very knowledgeable about the problem and was honest and dared to tell the truth. He listened to my thoughts for a long time without saying a word. While flipping through the information, he said to himself: "It is conducive to admission, it is conducive to admission, it should be like this!" Finally, he said to me: "According to your family and personal situation, I support the application. This major is decided like this! ”
chose it yourself, the teacher supported it, and decided to go to the mining school! Learn to mine coal! Go down the well! Dig coal!
02
The road to study has been twists and turns
On the verge of losing school several times
Why did it take such a lot of trouble to apply for a volunteer? It can't help but bring up sad past events.
My high school journey has been full of twists and turns, and I am on the verge of losing school several times, and I can remember it vividly.
The first test of losing school occurred in the spring of 1960. My father suddenly passed away and the family lost the main labor force and the pillar.
When I was in junior high school, the country was in a difficult period for three years. Henan was a severely affected area, and the farmers' lives were very difficult, and my family made it even worse. The thatched house I live in at home is less than 30 square meters, and it is leaking. The family of four is crowded on a bed, a stove, and a few pieces of ragged clothes on an old hemp rope. There is nothing else, and I often have a meal a day. .
My father is an honest farmer who specializes in doing heavy work to earn more work points. One night in 1959, he worked in mud and water in the rice fields. His feet were pierced. He tore off a piece of his clothes and wrapped it around the wound. Later, he became inflamed and suppurated. He had no money to treat it. The wound did not heal for a long time and could not fill his stomach. He was 51 years old and was on a crutch.
One night in May 1960, I learned about the bad news of my father's sudden death. At that time, I was under 15 years old and rushed home from Xuanwu No. 2 Middle School, 8 miles away.Seeing my father lying on the ground in rags, not only was there no coffin in his burial, but he couldn't find a complete straw mat. He had no choice but to peel off the sorghum stalks on the bed, wrap around his father's body, and untied the one that was put on his clothes. The old hemp rope is tied up, and the top cannot cover the head and the bottom cannot cover the foot. In this situation, my son's heart is broken.
Early the next morning, the neighbors helped to carry my father to the cemetery in the rain. My mother couldn't walk. My brother and I wade through mud and water, crying to the cemetery. Only when it rained did we bury my father's body in mud. Otherwise, even Qianqian’s tomb would not be dug. The two brothers knelt in the mud and cried bitterly, which was considered as holding a funeral for their father.
In order to help my mother support this collapsed home, I proposed not to go to school anymore and work at home to earn work points, but my mother flatly refused. Although her mother was illiterate, she firmly believed that only by letting her son read good books and go out can she change her destiny. With my mother's insistence, I continued to go to school.
I can’t get food when I go home every week, which is the most painful and anxious thing. When the green and yellow leaves grow in spring, willows, elm, locust trees and other leaves grow, pull them down or scrape some bark and take them to school, put them on the kitchen cage, steam them, and dip them in salt water to satisfy your hunger.
One weekend in October 1960, I went home to get food, but there was no way at home. My mother found that there were several dried but the seeds of the wall. She uprooted the roots, washed them, cut them, crushed them, and added them. Steam salt into balls as my food ration for the week. Because the taste was too bitter and I couldn't eat it, I had to put it in the stove in the school cafeteria to burn it and break it up, and swallow it with salt water.
At noon on Tuesday, I suddenly fainted at the school gate. Principal Luo Jingya and several teachers ran over and carried me to the infirmary for rescue. School doctor Han Ziyu gave me an injection while crying. Principal Luo went to the dormitory to find my bun bag, tasted the dumplings in person, and said, "You can't eat it. If you eat it again, you will get food poisoning !" He immediately wrote a note for the food accountant and solved 7 bun tickets for me from the teacher's cafeteria. , he is responsible for the debts owed. It took another week like this. After
, in order to get me some food, my mother took my younger brother to the surrounding villages to beg for food, and asked for thin soup, noodles and other things to drink by myself. She kept steamed buns and sweet potato pieces, and asked my younger brother to send them to school every now and then.
Whenever I see my younger brother who is barefoot and barely delivering food, the pain is hard to express, and I can't help but cry in my eyes. I secretly warn myself: "No matter how difficult it is, I must go forward step by step and finish high school."
What happened? People's wishes are at this time, and they encounter new difficulties. The second test of losing school is here!
In July 1962, the county adjusted the layout of the middle school. The high school department of Xuanwu No. 2 Middle School where I studied was abolished and merged into the No. 1 High School in Luyi County. The school is more than 60 miles away from my home. The county’s first high school requires students to bring food rations once a week or two. I used to go home two or three times a week to seek food and go back to the production team to work on Saturdays and Sundays to earn work points.
The family has been in the middle of the night and has no choice but to endure the pain and lose school.
One afternoon, I was bare-backed, wearing a pants, and pushing a water truck barefoot. A resident cadre named Liu checked the drought resistance, looked at me and asked me why I didn’t go to school?
male and female members introduced my family's predicament. When he learned that I could not take out a week or two rations and could not go to school in the city, he felt very sympathetic. He immediately took out a cigarette box and gave it to the brigade branch secretary on the back of the cigarette box. The captain and the accountant wrote a note and handed it to me: "You go to the warehouse to find an accountant, borrow 10 kilograms of dried red taro, go to school first, and hold on for two weeks."
Mother ground the dried red taro into noodles, steamed half into steamed buns, Half fried into fried noodles. In this way, after one month of school loss, I was able to return to school.
The first semester of senior high school, relying on your neighbors and members, you help me, make do with each week, and count every day, and you can get through the final exam until the end of the exam. In addition to physical education, the final exams are still good.
Study road is always bumpy, and disasters are caused by important nodes, and my sister suddenly dies. The third test of losing school has emerged!
In May 1963, a few days before the graduation exam, after a rain on Saturday at noon, I walked home along the muddy embankment of Wohe River to prepare food.
Entering the village when the sun was about to set. The neighbor's aunt was holding a stick at the entrance of the village. When she saw me, she said, "What happened to your family? Your sister died yesterday." It turned out that my sister was hungry due to illness and hunger, and was worried about the difficult situation of my family. I found a short opinion in the suffering.
The next morning, I went to pay my respects with nothing, kowtowed three times in front of the grave, and cried bitterly, which was to see my sister off, and my sister was also buried with a piece of grass.
Lost two relatives in three years! My always strong mother was in so much pain that she couldn't stand it, and I couldn't bear to leave home again!
The morning before the exam, Teacher Chen from the school teaching department rode his bicycle to my house. It took him a long time to say, "If you don't take the graduation exam tomorrow, you will not be eligible to take the college entrance examination, and there is no possibility of going to college. Director Chen asked me to do so. Mobilize you, and take my bicycle back to school today for the exam. "
Mother said, "Child, you have to listen to the principal and teacher. You don't have to worry about it at home, go with Teacher Chen!"
I was speechless and cleaned up the disabilities on the stove. I packed the food with a piece of rag and said, "Teacher Chen, please take these away for me. I will place them and rush back to school." I filled the water tank at home and comforted my mother with pain.
What to do if you eat in a week? There is no way out. Although the wheat is not yet mature, the wheat seeds are basically full. When the green and yellow food is not available, the production team cut some wheat ears on that day and distributed them to the members to eat green wheat kernels. My family also has a few pounds. Some of the neighbors brought wheat ears, and some sent a bowl of green wheat kernels. I put these into pieces and crushed them, stir-fry them with salt, and left half of them and took them away as food.
I endured the pain, walked more than 60 miles, arrived at school in the early morning, and went to bed with mud. The exam started the next morning. I scored 100 points in Russian, tied for first place in the grade, and had good grades in other subjects. I passed the graduation exam.
is really a disaster! A fire suddenly occurred at home. The fourth test of losing school came suddenly.
Before the college entrance examination, the school will take two days off and let the students go home to prepare food and use. I walked home before dawn and planned to return to school that night.
When I returned to the village head, the old lady was still the same aunt. She wiped her tears from afar and shouted to me, "What happened to your house again, there was a fire!"
This was like a bolt from the blue to me. I hurried into the house and saw it in a mess. The room was in a mess. The top burned out, burned purlins, rafters, grass and ashes were everywhere. My mother was lying on the exposed bed, her hair was mostly feverish, and her younger brother was barefoot and a few people in the village cleaned up the mess. The tragic situation was unbearable.
Lost a relative before graduation exam, and my home was caught in a fire before going to school. In pain, I made up my mind: no longer take the college entrance examination and stayed at this home.
One day apart, the teacher Chen came to my house again on his bicycle. After entering the door and saw the situation, he said in tears: "Principal Shang and Director Chen saw that you haven't returned to school for two days, so I'll come and see. No matter what, you have to Mobilize you to return to school to take the college entrance examination. "
I said, "The family suffered repeated disasters, and I can't go to school anymore!"
My mother, who was ill in bed for two days, sat up immediately and said sternly, "Child, don't talk nonsense, how many difficulties have passed have been After that, no matter how difficult this time is, you will have to pass it. If you don’t go to the exam, I will kneel down for you!”
The villagers present also advised me to return to school for the exam, and they went home to get some food to deliver. It is difficult to cure the feelings of the public, and it is difficult to disobey my mother's orders, so I had to go back to school to take the college entrance examination with Teacher Chen.
The college entrance examination ended. I found Principal Shang Xianfang, Director Chen Chudao, Teacher Zhu Shenwu and Teacher Chen who visited two homes. After expressing my deep gratitude, I hurried home. At this time, I felt relieved and no longer had to worry about whether to register or not. After I was admitted, I went to school. If I didn’t register, I would stay at home and be filial and earn work points.
There is true love in the world, and every penny is the tuition fee.
students are looking forward to the admission notice of university , mostly looking forward to it, but I was not at that time. I got home the morning of the second day after the college entrance examination and went to work in the afternoon. Since then, I have not been short of work every day for three hours.
On the morning of midsummer in August, I was carrying a cartridge on the cotton field and spraying medicine. I saw a middle-aged man wearing a white shirt, blue pants, and elegant and kind coming from the east of the village. He asked the villagers: "You have any in your village." Is it Wang Mingyi? I'm here to send him a college admission letter."
After hearing this, the village suddenly became jubilant, "The top scorer has appeared in Xinwanglou! "Mother and younger brother are even happier. The teacher who sent the notice was Hu Bingliang. To express his gratitude to him, his mother borrowed white noodles and a few eggs from the neighbor's house and made a hand-rolled soup noodles for the teacher. Teacher Hu sent it The college admission notice led me to the path of further study.
sent the teacher away. My brother and I sat next to my mother, holding the admission notice, and the sadness and joy were mixed, and the ups and downs surged and bitterness came to my heart, because the tuition fee of 29.5 yuan was increased again New sorrow.
To make up for the tuition, my brother and I took the burnt purlins and rafters to Qiu Ji's uncle's house in an cart , and asked him to sell it at the market. Two days later, my uncle gave him nearly 5 yuan of the sold price. The 1 yuan I collected was delivered. It was still far away! Neighbors and villagers, elementary school teachers, etc. also helped each other and pieced together more than 2 yuan. The tuition fee is still much different, what should I do?
3333 thought about it Go, the government has to solve the problem. I went to Baimugang early in the morning to find Secretary Chen Baoxian of the commune. After listening to my complaints, he put down his job and wrote a note, and asked me to go to the village sales agency of the supply and marketing cooperative to borrow 10 yuan from the salesperson Guan Zhenjun. Money. I found Lao Guan and he gave me 10 yuan in the counter with the whole and small amount. Chen Baoxian also helped me write a certificate and asked me to apply for relief at Xuanwu Commune and received 10 yuan in relief.
There is true love in the world In the government cares, helps from all sides, and finally, one cent, one dollar has collected enough of this "huge sum", and a stone fell to the ground.
03
Drops of water are to repay the spring
Those days, my heart I have always been unable to calm down. While I am happy to get into college, I think more about "gratitude":
My mother and younger brother worked hard and made blood and tears to support me in my studies;
The principals and teachers of the two middle schools worked tirelessly and educated me to grow;
Home relatives always help me to move forward.
From the secretary, principal, director, teacher, school doctor of Xuanwu No. 2 Middle School and Luyi First High School to the resident cadres, commune secretary, president and civil affairs cadres, I studied at my school At the critical moments on the way, they helped me solve my problems and helped me complete my middle school studies smoothly.
is so concerned about a poor peasant child. This is not only their noble character and affection, but more importantly, they are representing the party and the government to bring love in a timely manner. I am the direct beneficiary for the most difficult people.
vividly in my purpose, making me, a poor farmer's child, deeply cultivate the gratitude and gratitude to my relatives, society, the party and the country in my heart. This kind of kindness As heavy as the mountains and the sea, I must repay you for your whole life.
August 26, 1963, before leaving for college, my mother held my hand tightly and repeatedly reminded: "Don't forget the government! Don’t forget your loved ones! Study hard! Read the book well! "A few short words condensed my mother's high hopes.
I carried a university notice and a beautiful dream. I walked into my alma mater campus with a dress of worn-out clothes, a coarse quilt, and a small bundle of old books, and realized my dream of college. , The road of life is ushering in dawn.
Author profile: Wang Mingyi, male, Han nationality , bachelor's degree, from Luyi, Henan, born in July 1945, engineer title, deputy chief police officer rank, and joined the Communist Party of China in November 1965. Graduated from Jiaozuo Mining College in July 1968. Worked in underground labor training and Zhangcun coal mine; worked in three counties including Fugou County ; since September 1986, he served as the Organization Minister of Zhoukou Prefectural Committee and Deputy Secretary of the Prefectural Committee Also, the Minister of Organization, Secretary of the Prefectural Committee, Secretary of the Prefectural Committee and Specialist of the Administrative Office; , Director, Deputy Governor, Director, and Secretary of the Public Security Department, First Political Commissar and First Secretary of the Party Committee of the Henan Corps of the Armed Police; Henan Province Member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Governor and Deputy Secretary of the Party Group of the Provincial Government; Deputy Director and Deputy Secretary of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress; Member of the Agricultural Committee of the National People's Congress. Retired in 2013.
