Then, he took out another 4,000 yuan to build a big house.
This house has a huge courtyard and many spacious rooms, which makes the neighbors envious.
Everyone joked that we have worked hard all our lives, and we have not earned much more than a beggar!
Everyone is thinking that now he has a house and land, so he can hire some servants, and then rely on renting the fields to enjoy life every day.
However, no one expected that the next day the house was repaired, the man was still wearing his worn-out clothes and kneeling down to the poor in the village from door to door.
What's going on?
Behind this is the unknown bitter history of a great educator.
was born in poverty and begged for 7 years old
They have another younger brother, which is already the seventh child in this family.
In fact, in such a family, having children is not worth having a good time, because it is too difficult to support a family.
The parents didn’t even have the energy and joy to name their children, and they called out casually - Wu Qi.
In Wu Qi's childhood, the most common one was the quarrels between brothers and sisters. Every meal they had in clear water, and they could barely take out a few rice. The children were often so hungry that they didn't even have the strength to cry.
When Wu Qi was seven years old, his father also passed away. His mother alone could no longer bear the family. In order to survive, the mother could only take a group of children and beg for a living.
, like this, 7 years passed. At the age of 14, Wu Qi finally grew taller. In order to make money, he worked as a servant for a family.
Although it makes money by strength, it has a stable income, which makes Wu Qi start to look forward to his future life.
Wu Qi will count the wages every month, but he is afraid that he will get rid of the money, so he put it all in the hands of his employer.
In order to save more money, Wu Qi took it home to respect his mother. He was reluctant to buy a piece of clothing all year round.
As the Chinese New Year approaches, Wu Qi excitedly finds the employer's money, but the employer actually stares at him and says he is slandering.
After saying that, he took out a fake account book prepared in advance and showed it to everyone. It clearly stated that he took the money away every month and his signature.
However, when I asked for the signature, the employer clearly stated that this was a certificate of putting the money there.
Then, the employer also gave Wu Qi a lesson. After a blow and kicked, Wu Qi was covered in blood. Because of the fake account book, he still had no way to sue.
Wu Qi felt very aggrieved. The more he thought about it, the more wronged he felt that he had suffered a loss of uneducatedness, which made them think of himself as a monkey.
But after all, I still have to live, so what else can I do?
After thinking about it, Wu Qi finally decided to continue being a beggar!
Beg for a while and save money
Just do it.
From that day on, Wu Qi started begging in ripped clothes every day. Like most beggars, he leaned on a stick. He kowtowed if he gave a little money.
At that time, Wu Qi always liked to beg while singing: "Eat miscellaneous things, you can eat as a meal, save money to study in a Yi Academy."
Other beggars heard his grand wish and laughed at him, saying that you still want to make a fortune by begging.
Wu Qi Xiaoxiao, and didn't argue with them.
is different from ordinary beggars. In addition to begging, Wu Qi can do a lot of things. During the busy farming season, he rolled up his trousers and worked as a temporary worker for others. He is young, works quickly, and is willing to work hard, and many people are willing to use him.
During the slack season, he put on his torn clothes, held a torn bowl, and begged on the street.
Sometimes, when there are too many people, he will take off his clothes and perform programs such as broken stones on his chest with the acrobatic team. Every now and then, he will be injured and appear on the street with a grin.
Everyone sees him covered in wounds, and some kind people will be willing to give more.
Not only that, Wu Qi, a beggar, is definitely a different person in the local area. In order to make money, he shaved off his hair, leaving only a small strand of his forehead.
The reason why he does this is to play clown and make everyone laugh so that he can get some rewards.
He wanders around every day, knowing who wants to build a house and who wants to help with it. So he often works during the day and goes to crowded places to beg for the night.
He works harder than anyone else every day, and naturally earns a lot of money. However, he never changes a piece of clean clothes. He is a piece of torn fringed clothes and pants that are full of tassels throughout the year.
What you eat every day is the food given by others, or you can barely eat it at the employer's house.
No one understands where the money he earns goes?
try to save money
For a while, Wu Qi asked everyone: "Who is the most trustworthy person in the town?"
After a year of investigation, Wu Qi made up his mind.
That morning, Wu Qi knelt at the door of Wu Juren in the county, hoping to see him. However, the gatekeeper disliked him as a stinky beggar, so he rushed to bomb him away.
Wu Qi explained anxiously: "I came to find a Wu Juren to help me save money!"
The gatekeeper heard it was strange, so Wu Qi told him what he had been deceived and explained the reason for saving money.
After listening to it, the guard was shocked and quickly reported it to the Wu Juren. After hearing about his decision, Wu Juren admired him even more, so he agreed to help him keep the property.
Since then, Wu Qi has worked harder when begging. Sometimes, he will take on some rope-rubbing work. In order to do more, he often doesn't sleep all night, rubs his hands out of water, and doesn't stop.
Because there is still a dream hidden in his heart!
For this reason, he even became a matchmaker. Wu Qi could figure out which girl from the home wants to find a partner and which family in the west is a bachelor. Therefore, in the town, there are quite a lot of couples who have made a clever mouth.
As long as you say you succeed, both families will give him some money and express your gratitude. Every time you get the money, the first thing Wu Qi does is to go to the Wu Juren's house to put the money.
In order to make money, Wu Qi really dares to do anything.
Once, several people bet to see who dares to eat insects. The group was very excited, but few people dared to try it in the end. Everyone became addicted to playing, so they started to increase their money, threatening to pay whoever eats the money.
For money, Wu Qi picked up the scorpion on the spot and put it in his mouth!
everyone screamed.
Buy land, build a house,
At that time, everyone knew that there was a Wu Qi who fell into the eyes of money, but everyone thought that he had earned money, either he used it to bet or spent it randomly.
Until early 1888, a major event shocked the people in the town. Wu Qi, a poor beggar, bought 235 acres of land!
You should know that at that time, there was so much land that could be enough to be a master and enjoy it for the rest of his life without worrying about food and clothing.
Everyone is both shocked and envious.
Not long after, Wu Qi began to build a big house outside the east gate of Liulin Town, Tangyi County.
Everyone in the neighbor's family was jealous. Unexpectedly, this beggar had made so much money over the years.
I heard that my younger brother has developed, and my brothers and sisters have also started to ask for help from him. Some families are really in a difficult situation. I hope to give me some of my blood relationship.
However, facing his own brother and sister, Wu Qi did not give in at all. The reply they received was the same, and they would not borrow it!
Seeing my brother so heartbroken, he cursed for a moment, and Wu Qi didn't explain and went to beg as usual every day.
or help the workers build houses together.
After a year, the house of Wu Qi's family was finally repaired. Not only did it have a spacious yard, but the house is also spacious and bright.
Just as everyone thought he was going to start a master-like life, Wu Qi's next actions shocked everyone!
Kneel down to the poor
At the morning of the next morning, Wu Qi started knocking on the door from door to door, and the ones who knocked on the local poor were the local families.
He is asking these people to let their children study! It turned out that the house he had spent decades to build was not for himself, but for him to build a charity school.
Some poor families have a little older children, which is a source of their family's economy, so people generally don't want their children to study, even if the school built by Wu Qi is free.
so few people are willing to send their children to study.
Seeing that the parents had no vision, Wu Qi was anxious. In order to convince these parents, he pounced and knelt directly on the ground: "I beg you, let the children go to school. I don't want anything, and you don't have to pay money!"
Just like that, Wu Qi knelt from house to house to beg for people. Finally, the number of children who agreed to come to school gradually increased to 50.
That day, Wu Qi was very excited, but the students decided, so where did the teacher look for it?
So he still used the old method - kneeling down.
He went to the homes of those learned gentry to kneel down and beg, asking them to go to his charity school to teach the children. Everyone was grateful for his kindness, so they did not refuse and went there happily.
In this way, Wu Qi finally realized the ambition he had set when he was a beggar and built the first charity school through begging, named "Chongxian charity school".
Free school was established. Wu Qi still lived a begging life. When Wu Juren, who helped him save money, saw it, he began to advise him: "You can't think about it widely. Now you are nearly 50 years old and are still alone. Finding a wife and giving birth to a child is a big deal."
Wu Qi smiled after hearing this, and he said: "I don't want to marry or have children in my life. I just want to do one thing well, that is, to enable more children to study."
Wu Qi said this, and did it the same.
Every day, he would stand outside the charity school and listen to the sound of the children reading, and he would be satisfied.
Sometimes, he finds that some children are lazy, and he will walk over tremblingly, then kneel in front of the child with a plop and crying and persuade: "I don't need to study, and I will have no shame to see my father and brother when I go home."
The children are immediately ashamed.
Sometimes, Wu Qi would meet a lazy teacher. Whenever this was the case, he would kneel down and sing, "Sir, sleep, students make trouble."
Now, the teacher was ashamed.
From then on, teaching has become more serious.
Wu Qi quickly became famous in the local area because of his schooling. Everyone admired his great love and selflessness, and came to start a charity school with him.
In order to reward Wu Qi, Emperor Guangxu not only reduced all taxes to Wu Qi and rewarded him with 200 taels, but also rewarded him with a piece of yellow jacket .
Later, Emperor Guangxu looked at his name and thought of the word "Xun", so he gave it to him. From then on, Wu Qi changed his name to Wu Xun .
It was also in that year that Wu Xun, who was 59 years old, died of illness in a charity school due to years of overwork. On the day when Wu Xun was buried, the entire Tangyi County people came to the charity school he established to see him off. Everyone present cried and burst into tears, and there were many people kneeling down.
Wu Xun's life was a legendary life. He built three charity schools through begging, so that children from poor families could have the opportunity to change their destiny by relying on knowledge.
Even if you can't change your destiny, you won't end up being deceived like him.
Wu Xun never went to school for one day in his life, but he had lofty ambitions and worked hard for decades for this goal. It was really shocking and touching. Although he was not a teacher, he passed on the spirit of perseverance and boundless love to future generations. He deserves the title of "educator"!
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