In 1974, in Linqu County, Weifang, Shandong, a 13-year-old rural child took the initiative to drop out of school with his parents and let his two younger brothers continue to study, and he rolled up his pants legs to go to the field with his parents to farm.
His parents are farmers for generations, and the family has to provide for 3 children to study at the same time, which is indeed not enough to make ends meet, as the eldest brother, he feels that he should take this responsibility for granted.
As the eldest brother, he did not complain at all, and wholeheartedly wanted to solve the family's predicament through labor, so that the two younger brothers could change the fate of poverty for a lifetime through study, so he worked particularly hard, and was a famous "desperate big man" in the village.
However, there was an unexpected storm in the sky, one evening, it rained heavily, and he did not stop when he was busy in the field, and when he returned home after finishing the work in his hand, his body was already soaked and shivering.
At nightfall, he suddenly developed a high fever. But unfortunately, he thought that he would pass by with a shoulder, and the next morning, he felt paralyzed and unable to get up. His parents told him to sleep more, so he went out early to work. When his parents returned from work in the afternoon, they found that he was unconscious. Realizing that it was not right, after being sent to the hospital, he found that it was too late, the fever was too long, and his brain had irreversible damage.
Honest parents did not understand what irreversible injury was, but their son became a fool after being discharged from the hospital. It is the kind of "village keeper" that we commonly see in the village, who is always happy to see people, and does not have any malice. But my parents almost cried and went blind.
How will this child live in the future? At the age of marriage, no one wants to marry a fool. His parents told his two younger brothers that they would be able to do so in the future.
In the 1980s, his parents also passed away. In order to make a living, his two younger brothers also dropped out of school and joined the migrant work wave. But one of the problems is that he left his hometown, what should he do with his crazy and stupid brother?
Originally, the brothers planned to take their brothers with them to work, but after several times, dragging an "oil bottle", the work of the two people was difficult to stabilize, and they were not familiar with life in other places, and the brother's situation could not let them work with peace of mind. In the end, the brother was left in the village, and the brother became a "village keeper" completely.
The brother was alone in the village, originally two earthen houses, a family of five people crowded panicked, and now he was left alone. In the 1990s, one younger brother was in a car accident outside; by 2000, another brother had died of illness.
But the older brother stayed at the mouth of the village for decades, looking forward to his brother's return. But as time passed, he also got old and moved into a nursing home.
Until one day, he finally figured it out, and his brother did not come back because the family house was too small to marry his daughter-in-law. He remembered that when his brother was a child, he often told himself: "In the future, the family will build several floors, and our family will live on the first floor." ”
In 2013, when people saw his brother suddenly start pushing a small cart around collecting stones and planks, they asked him curiously: "What are you doing looking for so many stones and wood?" He replied happily, "I have to build a building, so that when my two younger brothers come home and marry their daughters-in-law, they will have a place to live." ”
Everyone is waiting to see him laugh, what house does a village fool build? But he piled up on the basis of his original house, whether it was cold or hot, wind and rain, he was always busy in the village.
A year has passed, two years have passed, and the villagers can't stand it, and they have advised him: "Your brother is gone, why are you still building a house?" At this moment, he has always ignored it, and only cares about burying his head in his own "great cause of building a house".
In July 2016, a seven-story earthen building was finally erected. The people in the village were dumbfounded. This crooked building made of stone, planks and dirt, like a skinny version of the pyramid, although it is actually only three stories high, it deeply shocked every villager.
For such an out-of-place illegal construction in the village, which spread to the Internet, many people thought that it was obstructive and called for demolition. However, Linqu responded domineeringly: "Do not dismantle!" And with this "dangerous house" as the center, a protected area has been established. Because this fully reflects the "power of family affection, can break through the obstacles of disease." "This is the feelings and sustenance of the villagers for the family that once was there."
At the end of 2016, in order to take care of him, with the free assistance of a decoration company, the local government specially re-approved a spacious and bright house for him. He also moved out of the nursing home and moved into a new house. Life depends on five bail, and the villagers often come to see him spontaneously and take care of her.
