Thirteen years ago, a young man from Guizhou slept in a pig's shed to pick up garbage. When he grew up, he carried his crazy mother to college without hesitation. At that time, his story caused a sensation across the country, which moved everyone who saw him to tears. But when he finally finished his studies hard, he refused a super high annual salary of 550,000 and was unwilling to take a job in the city. What is the hidden secret in this? Isn’t all his efforts to make his family live a better life? How is he doing now?
The night is long
1988, in a remote mountain village in Wangmo County, Guizhou, another boy was born in this poor family and was named Liu Xiuxiang. There were only a few barren mountain farmland in the family, and the only labor force was his father. He supported the life of the family of six with his own strength, and the conditions were very hard. Fortunately, the whole family was neatly and tidy.
But the good times didn't last long. When Liu Xiuxiang was four years old, Liu's father became ill after overwork and left his wife and children forever. His death brought a huge blow to the family. Liu's mother suffered from intermittent mental illness and had no ability to take care of herself at all. In a short time, they lost the pillars and the normal-minded person, and only four children were left to care for each other. The elder brothers and sisters could not imagine how their lives would continue in the future. They chose to go out to work and make plans for their future.
The stormy home is much empty again, leaving only the young Liu Xiuxiang and the unconscious mother. The mother and son depend on each other for their own lives. Liu Xiuxiang is the whole support of his mother. His mother is Liu Xiuxiang's belief. He wants to live with his mother. He wants to study. The little Liu Xiuxiang took on the burden of the family and did his best to take care of his mother and his life. He rented out the fields at home, picked up waste, planted vegetables, and dug medicinal materials to treat his mother. The mother and son could still survive.
In Liu Xiuxiang's hard work, the time in elementary school gradually passed, and he ushered in the primary school graduation exam. Even though he was often busy with livelihood, Liu Xiuxiang still achieved the third best score in the county in the exam and wanted to go to the county town to continue to study in junior high school. In order to facilitate care, he decided to take his mother with him. Before leaving, Liu Xiuxiang said goodbye to his father. He promised his father that he would cure his mother's illness, give his mother a happy home, and come back to repay his hometown. After he said that, he left with firm steps.
Liu Xiuxiang took his mother to a private junior high school in the county. As he wished, he exchanged his excellent admission scores for the opportunity to be exempted from tuition. The tuition problem was successfully solved, but the place where he lived had not been found, so he could only think of a solution by himself. Liu Xiuxiang looked at the small hill not far from the school and had an idea in his mind. He found some straw, picked some useful things from the waste thrown away by others, used the waste, built his and his mother's residence for the next three years, and then set up an iron pot to solve the problem of food and accommodation between the mother and son.
My mother is ill, and the mother and son have no source of income, so Liu Xiuxiang can only go to school during the day, pick up waste after school at night to sell money, then go home to cook, read and study until late at night. He spent three years in junior high school peacefully in such a peaceful and busy day.
, who grew up, Liu Xiuxiang had a different idea than when he was a child. He wanted to go to college and wanted to go out, so he could not give up high school because of the current material conditions. He understood the teacher's kindness, but Liu Xiuxiang had his own plans for the future. He chose to go to high school. He could find a way to go to high school and other issues, but once the opportunity was missed, it could not be recovered.
Thanks to his outstanding achievements, Liu Xiuxiang was successfully admitted to Anlong No. 1 Middle School in Linxian . In order to solve the tuition fees soon, he followed his fellow villagers to the hydropower station in Zunyi to work and make money. He worked for 24 hours a day and night. Liu Xiuxiang worked for 18 hours and was so busy that he couldn't sleep. The continuous day and night affected Liu Xiuxiang's condition. He fell from the shelf that was more than 100 meters high because he was too tired. Fortunately, the safety net installed below saved his life.
Before dawn
With Liu Xiuxiang's insistence on not being afraid of hardship or fatigue, he finally got the wages he earned hard before school started, which was not small, but after paying the tuition, there was still not much left, which was far from enough to pay the rent for a house. After a few hard work, Liu Xiuxiang finally found a place where he could afford the rent. It was a pigpen that the farmers had abandoned. It was barely surrounded with the woven bags he picked up, and it became the residence of Liu Xiuxiang and his son. This will be their "home" for the next three years.
The bigger the world you see, the more ashamed Liu Xiuxiang felt. The tight living conditions of the mother and son were unable to bear more expenses and provide better food and clothes for his mother. He often felt that it was his stubbornness that made his mother suffer, but Liu Xiuxiang wanted to give his mother a better life, not just food and clothing. So he had this idea, and worked hard to study hard in the three years of high school, earning money, learning knowledge during the day, and after evening self-study, picking up waste until four or five o'clock in the middle of the night, without any rest, he washed his face and rushed to school to class.
The unprecedented three years of hard life have been overcome day by day, victory is near, and the college entrance examination is coming soon. In the summer of 2007, fate seemed to be deliberately testing Liu Xiuxiang. The malnutrition and serious rest deficiency from childhood to adulthood crushed the teenager's body. Liu Xiuxiang fell ill a week before the college entrance examination. His already weak body became even more haggard and weak, as if a strong wind could blow him to the ground and he was unable to afford the cost of buying medicine and seeing a doctor. Liu Xiuxiang could only rely on his perseverance to hold on to the exam, but how could his body, which had been treated harshly for many years, resist the violent pain? Liu Xiuxiang was in extremely poor condition and was only six minutes short of losing.
He missed the college entrance examination opportunity he had always dreamed of. This situation was far beyond Liu Xiuxiang's expectations. He was shocked and he was completely disappointed and even had the idea of ending his life. But he was thinking about his helpless mother, if he didn't even care about her, what would his mother do? Just pack up and find a place to work and earn money, and support your mother well.
Perhaps it is because God is unwilling to be so hardworking and hard-working talents that have been obscured. When Liu Xiuxiang was packing things, he accidentally saw a sentence he wrote when he was full of fighting spirit. Compared with many orphans and disabled people, he is actually very lucky. Not only can he have a healthy body to work and make money, but his mother has always been by his side. What reason is there to not struggle?
The fighting spirit deep in my heart ignited again, swallowing all the desire to retreat that had just emerged. Liu Xiuxiang successfully found a job, helping customers take a bath and rub their backs in the bath center. One customer costs five yuan. For nearly two months, Liu Xiuxiang mechanically repeated the same movements every day. The young man who gradually came to his senses suddenly realized that the hard work he had worked hard before was not to live such a life that he could see the end. The years of sleeping in the open and dining room with his mother cannot be wasted. Only studying can completely change the status quo, and he can do it!
Liu Xiuxiang once again took his mother and the mother and son came to Xingyi City . He tried to find a school that was willing to accept him, but his inability to pay the tuition once again became the biggest obstacle for Liu Xiuxiang to study. He could not afford the tuition. The schools refused to accept him one after another. Even though he was rejected by the principal many times, in order to study, Liu Xiuxiang came to the other party again and again, sincerely requested. The principal was finally moved by his experience and perseverance and accepted Liu Xiuxiang's resuming.
This time in the college entrance examination, Liu Xiuxiang lived up to expectations and successfully passed the entrance examination in Shandong Linyi Normal University. When he got the admission notice for , Liu Xiuxiang was so excited that he couldn't speak. More than ten years of persistence finally waited for his dream to come true. He hugged his mother and cried silently. The higher tuition and miscellaneous fees followed, which made people feel even more troublesome. However, Liu Xiuxiang, who had experienced such a difficult life as high school, had suddenly realized that his mother was by his side. As long as he could study, it would be fine if the school wanted to arrange it.
Sunshine End
Liu Xiuxiang used the holiday after the college entrance examination to earn the fare to Shandong, so he took his mother on the train.As for tuition fees, you can find a way to find a way at that time. There is no problem in picking up garbage when working part-time.
Liu Xiuxiang's inspirational experience has been reported by more and more media, and the front pages of major newspapers are spread all over the front page. Many caring people from all over the country have successively expressed that they can provide funding, but Liu Xiuxiang declined one by one and spent the money he earned to buy back the newspapers. He did not want his hardships to be known by others, and he was even more reluctant to accept the pity of others. Liu Xiuxiang felt that working hard is to change his destiny, not to win the sympathy of others. The difficulties and setbacks he encountered are tests that must be endured before success, not a reason to be pitiful.
During college, Liu Xiuxiang worked part-time to make money in addition to studying every second, including street stalls, bars and hotel waiters... No matter how long the working hours are, how strong the intensity is, and how late the get off work is, as long as you can make money, Liu Xiuxiang never complained, paid tuition, treated his mother's illness, and sponsored his younger brothers and sisters who had picked up waste with him to go to school. Liu Xiuxiang's strength has amazed countless people.
In 2012, Liu Xiuxiang graduated from university. He faced a severe choice. Should he do it for a few years to work and then go back to his hometown, or go back immediately? Many large companies have extended olive branches to Liu Xiuxiang and even offered annual salary of up to 550,000 yuan, but he still declined, insisting on trying to find a company to apply for a job based on his own abilities.
In the attempt, Liu Xiuxiang applied for a job in an insurance company. Just after he agreed to his future development direction of leadership and his monthly salary of 12,000 yuan, Liu Xiuxiang received a call from his hometown. The little sister he sponsored during college wanted to give up studying and get married. This news dispelled Liu Xiuxiang's last idea of staying outside to work first. He decided to go back immediately and return to his hometown, telling those children who were like him before that dreams are enough to change their destiny, lead them to set sail on the road of knowledge, and do their best to help the children.
He took his mother back to the old place, fearing the difficult environment, not despising the low salary, and became a people's teacher without hesitation. He used his own words to encourage children to study hard, correct their learning attitudes, teach their learning methods, and lead students to see his former "home", so as to motivate their inner desire for knowledge.
From 2012 to now in 2022, Liu Xiuxiang has been persisting for ten years. The visit convinced the children to go to the campus and pay for poor students to study. The eight motorcycles were scrapped during such a day after day. Liu Xiuxiang spent all his income, but he and his mother lived in the old house provided by the school and were still poor.
Liu Xiuxiang strives to change the idea of letting children go out to work and change their destiny. The teenagers Xiang Jinhua and Liao Duan write have thus got rid of the life of having to work for the rest of their lives. Huang Youyan, who has a talent for weaving, realizes the importance of studying because he realizes the importance of studying. Countless children are moving towards a more glorious life because of Liu Xiuxiang's persistence. Even if some people talk about it secretly because of borrowing money, he never regrets it. For the sake of the children's future, it is worth it in Liu Xiuxiang's eyes.
Liu Xiuxiang’s only requirement for every speech outside is to ask the organizer to support his two children in school. He used his experience to tell many children that “believe in the power of struggle.”
Nowadays, as many as 2,000 children have received help from Liu Xiuxiang directly or indirectly, and thousands of poor students have realized their dreams of college with his efforts. Where to come from and where to go, Liu Xiuxiang fulfilled the promise he made in front of his father's grave when he was young. He was doing his best to convey warmth and strength. With the joint help of more and more knowledgeable people, the miracle of knowledge will surely illuminate the future of more children!
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