In 1961, a boy who had just graduated from the Beijing Institute of Geology angrily said, "I'm a Chinese, don't call me a foreigner." I was born in China and have a Chinese heart. ”
But the boy's eye sockets are deep, the bridge of his nose is straight, his white hair is slightly curly, and he is clearly an authentic old appearance, and his words are hard to believe.
Why did the boy say that? Is there a secret behind it? Is the boy Chinese?
Li Yizu
Abandoned babies were picked up
Perhaps we are all so fortunate to live in times and countries without war.
But in 1938, in China, the War of Resistance Against Japan was in full swing. In the midst of the war, a poor baby was abandoned by his parents in a hospital in Tianjin. If no one comes to his rescue, death awaits him!
But heaven took pity on them, and a kind Shandong couple picked up the abandoned baby and brought it home. The abandoned baby has a home again, and has a Chinese name - Li Yizu
From the moment the abandoned baby was picked up, his fate changed, destined to be a blockbuster!
Li Duanfu and Zhao Xiuzhen are the adoptive parents of abandoned babies, and the well-meaning couple has children of their own. They brought abandoned babies back to Beijing and raised them with their own children.
His adoptive father named him "Li Yizu", and the abandoned baby under 1 year old had a Chinese name. The young Li Yizu was weak, and his adoptive father Li Duanfu did not treat him differently because he had picked it up, but instead regarded him as his own and tried everything to find the best doctor for Li Yizu to treat.
Young Li Yizu
The flames of war burned all over China, and there were eggs under the nest, and Li Duanfu's whole family was worried. Li Yizu's "foreign doll" face has brought danger to this family. But even so, the great adoptive parents never had the idea of abandoning him.
Li Duanfu and his wife, who are eager to protect their children, sent Li Yizu, who was only 4 years old, back to his hometown in Shandong. In the countryside, with the care of kind grandfathers and grandmothers, the company of honest and simple neighbors, and the happy play of children with him, Li Yizu's childhood was carefree.
The beautiful childhood life planted a seed of gratitude in the depths of Li Yizu's heart.
Childhood Li Yizu
The path to growth
After the war, the adoptive parents took Li Yizu back to Beijing and began the road to study. Curly silver hair, blue eyes, and a high nose seemed to tell others, "He is a little foreigner."
Li Yizu missed his days in the countryside of Shandong very much, and the people around him did not reject him and liked to play with him. After coming to Beijing to study, he had few friends and slowly became introverted and inferior.
The bystanders looked at the monster-like gaze, making the young Li Yizu sullen and unhappy. The adoptive mother, Zhao Xiuzhen, understood the pain in the child's heart, so she thought, "Must I do something for the child?" Although he can't change the views of others on Li Yizu, he can start from the child's heart and let him adapt to the eyes of others.
Geologists
The gentle adoptive mother kept telling Li Yizu: "You are our child, and your parents love you." Since ancient times, Chinese has been a people with backbones, and you are Chinese. "Having such a mother is a blessing that Li Yizu has cultivated for all generations.
Gradually, he became cheerful and no longer feared the eyes of others. Those who come into contact with him for the first time will be impressed by his authentic Beijing dialect: you foreigner, you speak Chinese so smoothly.
Dragons have inverse scales, and people have bottom lines. Li Yizu resented being called "foreigner", and every time he seriously explained: "I am not a foreigner, but an authentic Chinese." "People don't understand why Li Yizu is angry, but they just think he's funny."
After ten years of hard study, Li Yizu, who graduated from the Beijing Institute of Geology, was assigned to work in the capital, and others were very envious: Beijing is good, and he can accompany his parents.
Li Yizu's title
But Li Yizu's thoughts are not the same as everyone else's, and he can never forget that people look at him with strange eyes.
He repeatedly explained "I am Chinese", in exchange for the "questioning" look, he wanted to prove himself with actions.
Li Yizu chose a sky path to xinjiang, the place where the motherland needed him the most, which was rarely visited and the geological survey was almost blank. Li Yizu said: Beijing is full of talents, not one less than me; where I need to go, I will go, this place is Xinjiang.
Xinjiang Grand Canyon
My mother told me from a young age: Chinese is a people with backbones, to be a person with backbone and ambition, and to be an upright man.
Li Yizu's stubborn persistence has won the support of his parents and the trust of the organization. His solid footsteps stepped on the land of Xinjiang.
Xinjiang has been in Xinjiang for twenty years. Together with the workers, he climbed the high mountains and snowy mountains, walked the desert Gobi, and traveled throughout most of Xinjiang, where it was common to eat and sleep.
Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang
Geological scientist
At that time, the geologists, most of the time accompanied by the canyon and mountains, li Yizu had difficulties in personal marriage, and there was no time and opportunity to deal with the object.
So the classmate wrote to him to introduce the object, the woman is a geological worker in Datong, Shanxi. After this matchmaking, the happy two entered the palace of marriage.
Because of the needs of work, Li Yizu and his wife lived the life of a "cowherd weaver girl": one in Xinjiang and one in Shanxi.
The days of separation between the two places lasted for seven or eight years, and then it was his wife who took the initiative to apply for transfer to Xinjiang, and the two ended the life of "cowherd weaver girl".
Time urges people to grow old, and the beautiful land of Xinjiang is sprinkled with Li Yizu's hard work. He was called the "living map" of the Xinjiang Geological Survey and grew from a university student to a top scientist.
As he grew older, Li Yizu's body was not allowed to re-enter deep mountains and valleys. With regrets, he turned to education and became the principal of the school until he retired.
Everyone may say: Li Yizu's highlight moment is finally over, right?
From the time he insisted on choosing Xinjiang to taking root in Xinjiang for twenty years, do you think he is a quiet person?
After retiring, the old geological scientist Li Yizu threw himself into another career. In his words, he wants to pass on his decades of experience to future generations.
He cared about the next generation, traveled to more than 50 counties and cities in Xinjiang, gave 800 voluntary lectures, more than 370,000 students, and compiled more than 800,000 words of lecture notes.
Li Yizu's wonderful life seems to want to tell the world: "I am Chinese, don't call me a foreigner." I was born in China and have a Chinese heart. ”
epilogue
The filial piety is greater than respecting relatives, and the ambition of respecting relatives is greater than raising the world.
The best gift that children can give to their parents is their achievements, and there is no greater achievement in this world than to benefit future generations and serve the motherland.
The grace of nurturing is greater than the heavens, and bow down to repay it. Li Yizu gave a perfect answer with a lifetime of action.
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