"The shoes are torn, the hat is torn, the cassock on the body is torn. You laugh at me, he laughs at me, a fan is broken..." In the film and television drama, Jigong is a sloppy appearance, but in fact, it is a man of gold and jade.
In real life, there is also such a person, wearing stained clothes, stepping on a pair of white sneakers contaminated with mud, and holding a bamboo pole on his rickety shoulder, which can be vaguely seen in the plastic bag hanging on the bamboo pole The picked bottles and cans, as they walked along, made a "ding-dang-dang-dong" collision sound.
This dirty-looking scavenger, although he lives far less relaxed and comfortable than Jigong in mythology, is also a man of noble character.
He is Wei Sihao, a well-known old man from Hangzhou scavengers.
He is well-known for a photo of washing his hands in the library, and he is awe-inspiring for the relics left after his death.
Many people did not expect that the old man Wei Sihao, who seemed to live a humble life, would have a life like a mountain of admiration.
Wei Sihao's first half of his life was like ordinary intellectuals, reading, doing learning, and having fun.
He graduated from the Chinese Department of Zhejiang Normal University in 1958, and then taught in several schools such as Hangzhou Chaoyang Middle School. He is a general teacher who can take all subjects such as mathematics, Chinese, physics, and chemistry.
He usually loves to read, as long as he picks up a book, he can immediately immerse himself in, as if "the outside world has nothing to do with me".
According to his daughter's recollection, the collection of books at home was piled up on the roof, but it was a pity that every time he moved, he would lose some. Every time at this point, Wei Sihao was heartbroken.
Because of his profound literary literacy, in the 1980s, he was also selected to the writing group of Hangzhou University to participate in the compilation of " Chinese Dictionary ".
Known well, due to his learning ability, in addition to love to read, he is also an out-and-out "student fighter".
When he was about to retire at 58 years old, he also passed the Zhejiang University foreign trade economics diploma. At the age of 60, he also participated in accounting and medical training.
Wei Sihao's life should be very comfortable and peaceful if he lived like this. However, after retiring, he changed to a jaw-dropping way of living.
Someone said: "The second half of life is most afraid of loss." Wei Sihao left everything in his later years and became a scavenger. Such a life lasted more than ten years.
Identity, status, comfortable life, and the world's vision, he doesn't want it at all. The only thing he doesn't lose is his book-loving habit.
In the late autumn of 2014, he came to Hangzhou Library as usual, put the waste bags at the door, went first to wash his hands carefully, rolled up his sleeves, wrapped his cuffs in a clean shirt, and then Started reading quietly.
This series of "cumbersome" actions is a prelude to the old man reading a book. He said: "Don't mess up the book."
The scene of the old man washing his hands carefully was photographed and posted online by reporters. After that, it attracted the attention of countless people.
People are touched by the old man scavengers in his survival, but he still does not forget the pursuit of the spiritual world, and is even more impressed by his behavior of cherishing and loving books.
However, people only know that he is a retired teacher who is struggling to live and loves to read books. As for where he taught before and what experience he has had, he never mentions it to others.
For Hangzhou Library, he is the most special one among the many scavengers who come to the library.
Mentioned Wei Sihao, the people in the library said: "He is definitely not watching the excitement. Otherwise, there are enough newspapers and magazines on the first floor, and there is no need to go to the special literature area."
He never reads simple books and periodicals ,He loves to read some current affairs books. The special literature area on the third floor is his most frequent place.
For more than ten years, he would come to the library a few afternoons a week. After washing his hands, he would sit quietly and read a newspaper.
Because of his poor eyesight, he would hold the book to his eyes and look at it, concentrating, like a sculpture.
Due to his old age and inconvenience in his legs and feet, he fell heavily on the granite on the way to the library. At that time, it was dark and his eyesight was not good. He did not care about the pain in his calf and went to the library as usual.
It wasn't until a kind lady saw that his leg was full of blood and sent him to the hospital. Only then did she find that the wound on her left calf was 10 cm long.
Wei Sihao was afraid of spending money, so he simply handled it and left the hospital. Go back to the bookstore to check books, buy bandages and medicines to treat the wounds.
It took two months before his leg injury was basically healed.
During this period, he is still as usual, walking into the library from time to time to enjoy his happy time.
"Famous", facing a reporter's interview, he just said indifferently: "When people are old, their brains have to shrink, they have to be constantly charged, and they have to get mental support."
Some People have been pursuing material accumulation, and some people value the abundance of the spiritual world more. The old man Wei Sihao is the latter.
He reads the book quietly and peacefully, immersed in the book, as if all the disturbances from the outside world have disappeared.
And when the closing music sounded, he put down his books, picked up his pockets, and became a scavenger again, walking around the streets to pick up rubbish and sell money.
If we say that before, people were only moved by the elderly in poverty, but still did not forget to enrich themselves and enrich the spiritual world. Then, an accident a year later made people refresh their understanding of the elderly.
On a rainy night in mid-November 2015,The 77-year-old Wei Sihao, as usual, used a bamboo pole to pick up the garbage bags and walk on the road. Unexpectedly, when he was crossing the zebra crossing, he was hit by a taxi. More than 20 days after being rescued in the hospital, the old man died unfortunately.
Before, Wei Sihao's daughters didn't know anything about his father picking up trash, let alone one of the scavengers in Hangzhou Library.
They didn't know the truth until the old man passed away, and when he sorted out his father's belongings, they revealed another big secret hidden in him.
Wei Sihao's relics are pitiful. He lived in a rough room in a Hangzhou unit. He had no other furniture except for a wooden bed and a simple bookcase full of books.
Among the limited things, an inconspicuous iron box caught the attention of the family, filled with bills, certificates and letters.
There are Hope Project Pairing Assistance Cards, Poverty Alleviation Charity Grant Certificates... a thick pile of letters, all written by some students to "Grandpa Wei Dingzhao" thank you letters, and some people report to him on academic achievements.
The time span from 1994 to shortly before the death of the old man, the amount ranges from a few hundred yuan to a few thousand yuan. The relief range is from Zhejiang to Heilongjiang, and students everywhere.
It turned out that the old man Wei Sihao has been using the pseudonym "Wei Dingzhao" to support underachievers for nearly 20 years.
Even in the nine years when the salary was not high, he often donated several hundred yuan to the students.
Before retirement, Wei Sihao was a secondary school teacher with a salary of more than 5600, which is enough to lead a comfortable and comfortable life. However, he was frugal and used all the money for public welfare, and used it for poverty alleviation and education.
His second daughter said: "Father is low-key, and he has never mentioned this to us."
Before this, she and the other two sisters had misunderstood their father, thinking that he was weird, stubborn, and unreasonable.
The three sisters are all out of town, and have repeatedly persuaded father to move there and live together.But he still refused.
When the father divided the house, the daughters proposed to decorate the house, but the father said it was too wasteful and firmly disagreed.
What the daughters particularly don't understand is that the father is not willing to spend a penny even though he has enough money.
even thinks that it costs phone bills, he never uses a mobile phone.
Every time the daughters come to see him in Hangzhou from other places, they can't get in touch, so they have to wait outside the community. They complained about this, but there was nothing to do.
However, the iron box left by Wei Sihao made the daughters cry and suddenly understood why his father had to live such a hard life.
What shocked them even more was that in the relics, they also found that their father had filled out the registration form for the donation of the remains more than ten years ago. The column of my wishes read: "Donate the remains afterwards. And all the organs, the ashes are scattered in the river."
used all his property to help students during his lifetime, and donated his organs after death. Wei Sihao seemed to dedicate his entire life to public welfare and leave nothing.
After Wei Sihao’s story spread, he hid a half-life "secret", which shocked the world.
Someone said: "Today, the old man Wei Sihao made me cry."
People were touched that he used all his savings to help students, and with one hand, he tried his best to support countless underachievers.
And I live by picking up rubbish, and the only way to enjoy life is to immerse myself in books for a moment of peace.
It is easy to do a good deed, but difficult is to do it for nearly 20 years. It is easy to have spare energy to help others, but the hard part is to do everything for others.
The teacher at Xia Yan Middle School before he retired said: "He has sought school leaders after he retired.I hope to set up a scholarship in the school to subsidize students in need, but it has not been realized. We thought at the time that he was just talking..."
He didn't just talk about it, even if life is difficult and people are blinded, he does not change his original aspirations.
's determination and persistence are beyond words.
In order to commemorate this old man with great love, many people are crowdfunding the whole network. The Chinese arts and crafts master Zhu Bingren presided over the proposal and built a statue for him and erected it in the Hangzhou Library.
The old man Wei Sihao finally stayed in his favorite place in another way.
The sculpture is the way he reads attentively. It's like quietly telling people to always have a heart for knowledge, and like It is to convey a noble quality and make people reflect on the meaning of life.
There is a saying on the Internet: "Knowledge is not as good as knowledge, knowledge is not as good as doing things, and doing things is not as good as being a person.
Old man Wei Sihao passed away with the image of a scavenger in an old suit and a bamboo pole, but left the cleanliness of the ancients, "S is a shabby room, only my virtue" to everyone.
understood him, I also understand what a noble life is.
References:
People’s Daily
Xinhua News Agency
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Hangzhou News
Author of this article: Qingcao
Responsible editor: Blue Orange
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