"As high school students, we must be clear in goals, focus on efficiency, have perseverance and perseverance. We must believe that our dreams will come true in the end!" This is what Liu Xiuxiang said in an interview.
Recently, Liu Xiuxiang, who had disappeared for a long time, appeared in front of the public again.
This time he changed his identity and transformed himself into the vice principal of his hometown Wangmo County Middle School.
Many people remember him because Liu Xiuxiang once picked up rags, lived in a pigpen, and took his mother to college.
Now, 14 years have passed, how is he doing now?
01. The barefoot child ran out of the mountains desperately
Liu Xiuxiang is the third child in the family. When he was born, his father went out early and returned to farm late, and his mother was frugal in the family, and he could still live a life of food and clothing.
Although his life is relatively difficult, the love between his parents and brothers and sisters makes his life full of warmth.
But all this came to an abrupt end when he was four years old due to his father's accidental death.
The sudden departure of my father made this already poor family lose its only source of income.
The mother became tranced due to severe mental stimulation and suffered from intermittent psychosis.
The hardships of the days suddenly hit several young children, and the older brothers and sisters gradually could not bear such difficulties.
When he was 10 years old, his brother and sister said he would go to work and earn money to help his family, and left home one after another.
However, since then, no news has been heard from now on.
The only one who depends on his mother is Liu Xiuxiang.
This small figure shoulders the burden of a home and resists the difficulties of life.
My mother's illness often occurs, and she will attack others for no reason and will use stones to smash other people's houses. He blocked and protected his mother, and was often thrown by cow dung and stones by the other party.
When most of the peers were still acting coquettish in their parents' arms and worrying about studying, Liu Xiuxiang was already his mother's protective umbrella.
The helpless Liu Xiuxiang was unable to farm alone, so he had to rent his own land out for 500 kilograms of food every year, and only keep in stocks.
But treating your mother requires money and going to school by yourself. What can a 10-year-old do?
He did everything he could think of: after class, he followed the adults to go up the mountain to collect herbs, pick up waste, and do odd jobs during holidays.
Liu Xiuxiang later recalled: "Because most of the time, he didn't even have money to buy salt, and he always ate boiled vegetables. Add a little salt and it tasted delicious."
Under such difficult circumstances, he graduated from elementary school and was admitted to the county's key junior high school with the third grade in the county.
But because I don’t have money to pay the tuition, I see that this only opportunity to change my destiny is going to be missed.
Later, he had a private middle school. Seeing that he had excellent grades and waived all tuition and miscellaneous fees, he was able to continue his studies.
But the problem arose again. He went to school in the county town. What should my mother do?
Although the villagers in the village agreed to help him take care of his mother, how could he rest assured?
So, he made an important decision: to take his mother to school.
02. The difficult road to study
Before leaving the village, he swore in front of his father's grave: "Since you go out, you must make a fuss, otherwise you will not come back."
I don’t have money to rent a house. In junior high school, I built a shack next to the school and dug a stove to solve the problem of eating and living.
I go to pick up waste, do odd jobs, and buy medicine for my mother to treat diseases.
When he graduated from junior high school, the teacher who knew his situation advised him to take the secondary normal school so that he could find employment early and solve the problem of food and clothing.
But he decided to take the college entrance examination so that he could have a better way out.
took my mother to find the nearest school where she was going to attend high school, and spent 200 yuan to rent an abandoned pigpen, and woven bags around it, which became a temporary "home".
At this time, he could already go to the construction site to do some money-making work, such as pulling sand, resisting cement, and moving steel bars.
On the construction site, it is calculated as one shift for 10 hours on day shift, and 8 hours on night shift is calculated as one shift. Other workers feel that it is too tiring to do it, but they think that it is more cost-effective to work for 2 hours on night shift.
During the summer vacation before high school started, he worked 18 hours a day on the construction site, paid 800 yuan for the first phase of the tuition fee, and there were more than 200 left, so he bought medicine for his mother. After the start of school, class took up most of the time. But he also has to take care of his mother, and he has to squeeze out time to pick up waste and exchange money for medicine after class. He only sleeps for 3-4 hours a day.
The courses in high school not only have a lot of content, but also increase in difficulty. Although he worked very hard, he was not as relaxed as he was in junior high school.
In 2007, he took the college entrance examination for the first time. He was overdrawn due to long-term physical strength and a serious illness during the sprint stage, and he was less than 6 points away from going online.
The destruction of hope made this strong boy feel extremely frustrated.
Until he opened his previous diary and saw a sentence he had recorded: "When you complain that you don't have shoes, you look back and find that others don't have feet."
hugged his mother who could no longer give him any comfort at this time. He cried bitterly: only he swallowed the tears of grievance by himself, and his mother no longer has the ability to take care of him, and he cannot leave her alone.
Disheartened, he didn't want to study anymore, so he went to a bathing center to make a living during the summer vacation. After working for a summer vacation, he knew that this was not the life he wanted, so he returned to school to repeat the school.
In 2008, he was admitted to Shandong Linyi Normal University and embarked on the road of study with his mother.
At that time, the media reported that "a filial son in Guizhou carried his mother to college for thousands of miles", but for Liu Xiuxiang, a person with a strong self-esteem, the only reaction was that he felt embarrassed.
Later, Liu Xiuxiang said in an interview with the media: "At that time, hundreds of newspapers were reporting on me, and I spent hundreds of dollars to buy them all. I have a strong sense of self-esteem and I am afraid that others will pity me."
And, more importantly, "A person should not feel that life is like Sympathy is pitiful, but it should make people feel amiable, respectable and admirable."
03. He was soaked in himself with umbrellas for others
During the days of college, he relied on going to milk tea shops, tutoring, and working as a chef to make money to make a living and pay tuition.
In July 2012, as soon as Liu Xiuxiang graduated from university, many companies including Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Shenzhen and other companies provided him with generous jobs. Among them, one in Beijing hired him with an annual salary of 550,000 yuan, but all of them were rejected by Liu Xiuxiang.
Because he thinks he is a fresh graduate and does not have the strength to get such a high annual salary. If (this company) just sympathizes with him, he will be worthy of it.After
, Liu Xiuxiang worked in an insurance company, and his monthly salary of 12,000 yuan was enough to make the mother and her mother gain a foothold in the city.
The painful life has also tasted a hint of sweetness at this moment.
I thought I could live a stable life along the 9-to-5 life trajectory, but unexpectedly, my sister who I met once called Liu Xiuxiang for picking up waste.
A childish voice came from the other end of the phone: "Brother, I don't want to study anymore. My parents want me to get married early."
After hearing this, Liu Xiuxiang felt heartbroken.
I worked hard to help her go to school, but in the end I still couldn't change her destined destiny.
Wangmo County 95% is land, and ancestors have lived by planting crops for generations. In the eyes of the villagers, land is the world they have measured.
Reading will not fill your stomach, and it is even more fantasy for girls to study.
"If the granaries are full, you know etiquette; if you have enough food and clothing, you know honor and disgrace." Who can still think of studying when you are not full?
Wangmo County has been trapped by mountains for generations, and the land under the feet of children is the stage for their lives.
Liu Xiuxiang kept tossing and turning late at night, and a strong thought gradually attracted him: "No, I still have to go back to the mountains!"
Just like that, the young man who walked out of the mountains alone returned to the mountains with the hope of countless students.
"As long as I come back, even if one more child goes to school, it will be enough." Liu Xiuxiang had only such a small wish at first.
After gaining a firm belief, Liu Xiuxiang rushed back to Wangmo County and became a high school teacher.
However, it is too difficult to pull children's feet out of the swamp.
Due to the villagers' long-term indifference to education, the children in the village have become obscene in smoking, drinking and gambling early on.
The full score for the Guizhou high school entrance examination was 700 points, but at that time the students in the class had a maximum score of more than 300 points, and the lowest score was only about 100 points.
Liu Xiuxiang started with the students in school. If the teaching staff was not enough, he served as an all-round teacher. In order to better understand the students' family situation, he also served as the teaching tasks of three class teachers.
From morning reading at 5 a.m. to night when the lights are turned off at 11 p.m. He and his children spend time together day and night.
As the teaching work is slowly getting on track, Liu Xiuxiang always cares about the children who have dropped out of school and are at home.
A person, a car, Liu Xiuxiang sowed the seeds of education on every inch of land in Wangmo County.
The student had no money to go to school, so he paid out of his own pocket, continuing what the teacher said to him: "Just study, just come and study"; the parents of the students did not understand, and let the dog out to drive him away, and he laughed it all.
In order to better mobilize the enthusiasm of students, he held a themed class meeting, "selled" his suffering, invited students to eat at home on weekends, and led students to relive their past dilapidated hut...
He wanted to use his suffering to open the door to knowledge for children.
Ten years of cold and heat, 8 motorcycles were scrapped, and they brought the dream of more than 1,800 students to the college dream. Liu Xiuxiang was happy.
Now Liu Xiuxiang is a vice principal of Wangmo County Experimental High School. In the years since he was rooted in Dashan, the children of Dashan have also given Liu Xiuxiang a satisfactory answer.
04. Gan held the phoenix high flying for Wutong
In the 2020 college entrance examination, the undergraduate admission rate of Wangmo County reached 63.44%, ranking third among the nine counties. Five years ago, Wangmo County's admission rate was the second last.
As of September 2020, Liu Xiuxiang received more than 2.9 million yuan in funding for 101 students.
Watch generations of children walking out of the mountains, Liu Xiuxiang never regretted the choice of refusing the annual salary of 550,000 yuan.
Some people say he is so stupid, but he lives more sober than anyone else.
I am soberly aware that I am in a quagmire and I am soberly aware that I have never read a book and I am soberly a lifetime of life.
It is difficult and urgent to walk into the mountains; it is difficult and firm to walk into the mountains.
Similarly, education is regarded as life. . The principal of the Huaping Girls' High School is Zhang Guimei.
Every time Principal Zhang Guimei appears in the public's sight, her weathered face, trembling steps, and her hands covered with plaster can't hide her fatigue.
This 65-year-old man burned up his life for mountain education.
In 2008, when Huaping Girls' High School was first established, they were shaking and unsteady.
When the conditions were difficult, only 6 teachers in the school struggled to support it. But even in the most difficult times, Principal Zhang did not give up every child who was studying.
Since its establishment, Huaping Girls' High School has held up the dream of more than 2,000 children. President Zhang sent away all the graduates and escorted the children's way to school.
Under Principal Zhang's strict requirements for many years, the first-tier entry rate of Huaping Girls' High School has remained above 40% for many years, and its comprehensive college entrance examination results ranked first in Lijiang City.
Doctors, policemen, lawyers... Principal Zhang is like a fire, making the children of high school girls burn on the plains of all walks of life.
Whether it is Liu Xiuxiang or Zhang Guimei, they have stubbornly expressed their position on education to the world.
Fate puts them on the top of a dangerous cliff, but they repay the fragrance of peach and plum blossoms in April on earth.
"Just read", Liu Xiuxiang quietly passed on the seeds of this knowledge; "I want to change a generation" Zhang Guimei sent the children to school for half her life.
Let the children in the mountains read and go out! This is the common voice of mountain educators like Zhang Guimei and Liu Xiuxiang.
Liu Xiuxiang once said: "The purpose of education is to get rid of the poverty in my hometown, not the poor hometown." The more you are in trouble, the more you must read the books well and feed back the land that once raised you.
Zhang Zai once said: "Build a heart for the heaven and earth, ask for the people, carry forward the unique knowledge for the past sages, and bring peace to the ages."
Although Liu Xiuxiang and others are sparks, they are in a prairie fire.
It is precisely because thousands of educators have firm beliefs that children in the mountains can stand at the lowest point of their destiny and leverage their future.
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