When the reporter asked Zhu Junlong, who had dark skin in front of him, whether he had thought of using the power of the media to find his biological parents who abandoned him, Zhu Junlong refused without thinking.
Speaking mandarin, he replied fluently, "No, I am now Grandma's grandson, and I am Chinese." Since they chose to abandon me, why should I look for them now? Now I just want to work well, take good care of grandma, and repay her for so many years of nurturing grace, if there is no grandma, there will be no me today. ”
The old man Zhu Shuibao on the side was full of smiles after listening, and every fold on his face contained kindness and generosity. It turns out that the "little black baby" she picked up on the side of the road has now become the most important person in her life. Over the years, the meticulous care of him has not been in vain.
The reporter noticed that Zhu Junlong and his grandparents lived together in a room of only 7 or 8 square meters, and the three people were crowded inside. But the room was filled with a warm and harmonious atmosphere, watching Zhu Junlong skillfully handle housework, pinching the shoulders and beating the back of Zhu Shuibao and his wife, and chatting with the elderly, which could not help but make people move.
Now Zhu Junlong has been perfectly integrated into China, and he has been influenced by Chinese culture since he was a child, and he has the temperament of Chinese unique generosity and elegance in his bones. In addition to the skin color and hair that are different from Chinese, Zhu Junlong is the same as us in every other way, and now he has been admitted to Cambridge College in Shanghai with his own efforts and has graduated to social work. This black guy in China can have today, I have to start from a day more than 20 years ago.
It was also that day that a small life and the old man Zhu Shuibao formed a lifelong fate.
Bond
On the morning of August 8, 2000, the elderly Zhu Shuibao, who lives in the Pudong District of Shanghai, went out to buy vegetables as usual. There was a park on the way to the wet market, and as she passed the park, the old lady suddenly heard a cry of a baby. She looked around, no one was holding the child at all, where did the child cry?
At first the old lady thought that she was having auditory hallucinations when she was old, and when she was about to pull her leg out, the faint cry of the baby sounded again. The old lady really listened to it, this must be the cry of the child! Could it be that the child of the family accidentally lost it? The kind-hearted old lady thought, so she followed the direction where the cry came from.
Following the cries along the way, the old lady came to a low bush, from which the baby's cries came. Her heart clattered, as if realizing something, and slowly dipped her gaze into the grass. A naked baby was lying in the bushes, his lips were cracked (cūn), his crying was mostly hoarse, his body was covered with prickly heat, and he did not know how long he had been lying here.
The old lady looked around again, and the park was empty, and it was clear that someone had abandoned the poor child. On such a hot day, the park is as hot as a steamer, and if you sit idly by, once the child is dehydrated, I am afraid that he will not survive this afternoon.
Thinking of this, the old lady no longer hesitated, and when she went forward to pick up the baby, she found that there was a note where the baby was lying, which said: The child's date of birth is August 1, 2000. At this point, the old lady was completely certain that the child had been abandoned by her biological parents.
In any case, this is a living life, and the old lady can't even take care of buying vegetables, and she rushes home with her little baby. Back at home, the first thing the old lady did was to bathe the baby, and when he picked the baby up, he was lying on the dirt, covered in black dirt, and he couldn't see the original skin color.
But no matter how much shower gel Mrs. Zhu wore, no matter how delicate it was, the color of the soil on the child's body could never be washed off. At this point, Mrs. Zhu made a mistake, how could a child who had just been born seven days old not be able to get so tanned, could it be that he had some skin disease?
The thought of the child's overgrown prickly heat made the old lady's thoughts even more firm. After feeding the child some milk powder, she pulled on a piece of cloth and wrapped it around the child, and she took the child to the hospital in a hurry, hoping that the doctor would treat the poor child's skin disease.
But the doctor did a skin examination on the child and concluded that the baby's skin was in a very healthy state, except that because of the hot weather, some prickly heat had grown, and it would heal in a few days after applying some prickly heat powder. After hearing the doctor's conclusion, Mrs. Zhu was dumbfounded, and she couldn't help but ask the doctor: "What happened to this child, I have never seen a child with such dark skin." ”
The doctor was surprised: "Don't you know what happened to this child?" After Mrs. Zhu told the doctor what had happened in the morning, the doctor understood, and he told Mrs. Zhu: "This child is born with such dark skin, and he is a mixed-race child, that is to say, the father or mother of this child is a black man." ”
After learning that the color of the child's skin was not because of the disease, the old lady was relieved to take the baby home. After returning home, the old lady decided to put the child in foster care at home first, while searching for the whereabouts of the child's parents. But the news was released for a few months, the children have been raised by the old lady to be "black and strong", and there is still no news about the children's parents.
The old lady considered: If the child is sent to the orphanage, he will definitely be rejected because of the color of his skin, and if he does not receive a good education, his future life will definitely be affected. After a few months of getting along day and night, looking at the cute and sensible appearance of the child, the kind old lady in the heart has taken the child as her grandson, and she has the idea of adopting him in her heart.
The old lady's family conditions were very ordinary, and the family vigorously opposed the old lady's ideas. Moreover, due to the social environment at that time, the masses did not accept such things very well, and soon all kinds of rumors spread in the media. After the Zhu family listened, they were even more determined to send this unknown black boy to the orphanage.
But no matter how they persuaded, Mrs. Zhu never let up and insisted on keeping the child by her side and raising her. After many persuasions, seeing that the old lady still stubbornly refused to change her mind, the Zhu family had no choice but to give up. "He is also a person, a life, what should I do after he is sent to an orphanage?" Since I picked him up, it proves that he is related to me! Mrs. Zhu said.
The old lady gave the child a name - Zhu Junlong, nicknamed Baby. It just so happens that Mrs. Zhu's young son does not have children, and under her mediation, Zhu Junlong recognized the old lady's young son as a dry father, but he still raised the old lady and his wife every day.
Since childhood, the old lady has attached great importance to the education of Zhu Junlong, often personally teaching Xiao Zhu to read and recognize, it can be said that although Zhu Junlong did not have biological parents, he never ate and wore less, and did not suffer any unfair treatment in the Zhu family. There is no blood relationship, even different races, different appearances, Mrs. Zhu always regards Zhu Junlong as her own.
The old lady usually lived on retirement wages and the support of her children, adding a mouth to eat out of thin air and adding a lot of expenses. Zhu Junlong is still young, to eat milk powder to supplement nutrition, Mrs. Zhu had to save her own share, for Zhu Junlong to buy milk powder. Later, when she couldn't afford to drink milk powder, the old lady boiled millet into a paste and blew a mouthful of cold to feed zhu Junlong.
Unconsciously, a few years have passed, and Zhu Junlong has also reached the age when he should go to school. Looking at the straw shoe-sized child at that time, blinking to the age of going to school and receiving education, the old lady's heart was full of joy. Helped Zhu Junlong prepare a brand new small school bag and school supplies, and held hands to go to the kindergarten to register.
Zhu Junlong became a Chinese citizen
But did everything really go so smoothly? When I arrived at the kindergarten, the hospital told Mrs. Zhu: Your child has not registered for the hukou, how can you register for school? Without a hukou, it is equivalent to no identity certificate, which is not recognized by the state, which is equivalent to a "black household". If you want to go to the hukou, you have to bring the relevant birth certificate to the police station to register, but Zhu Junlong was picked up by the old lady from the side of the road, who can provide him with a birth certificate?
In the case of Zhu Junlong, unless the Zhu family went through the adoption procedures for Zhu Junlong, they could win a dignified identity for him through legal means. However, the conditions of Mrs. Zhu's family are not very good, and they do not meet the conditions for adopting a family. In order to let Zhu Junlong study, the old lady had to drag her elderly body around the community and the police station to prove it, just so that Zhu Junlong could get the opportunity to be educated.
When public elementary schools could not be attended, the old lady found private primary schools. After many mediations, he finally won the opportunity to study for Zhu Junlong. As we all know, the cost of private primary schools is not cheap, and the pension of the old lady alone cannot afford it, so the old lady who has retired always goes out to do some odd jobs regardless of her advanced age, and even picks up some cardboard and water bottles to sell money to subsidize the family.
After attending elementary school, Zhu Junlong's adoptive father, the younger son of Mrs. Zhu, ushered in his own biological blood. After the birth of the little life, the rest of the Zhu family began to care less about Zhu Junlong, but Old Lady Zhu took good care of Zhu Junlong. In the family portrait, Mrs. Zhu smiled and looked very kind, holding Zhu Junlong tightly in her arms, and the two grandchildren snuggled together.
"The baby is Grandma's own grandson and the baby on Grandma's heart and liver."
But no matter how much the old lady loved Zhu Junlong, the problems she should face should always be faced. When Zhu Junlong was in junior high school, because of the household registration problem, no matter how the old lady whispered to ask for people and ran around with certificates, she could never solve the problem of her grandchildren going to school. Because the state's policy at that time was that school-age adolescents should allocate schools nearby according to the location of their household registration.
And Zhu Junlong didn't even have a hukou now, so how could he be assigned to enroll? In order to let Xiaolong continue his studies, the old lady had no choice but to turn to the government. This problem attracted the attention of the local media, and under the media reports, taking into account Zhu Junlong's special situation, the "special affairs office" of the Shanghai civil affairs department first handled the formalities for the Zhu family to adopt Zhu Junlong, and then hung Zhu Junlong on the Zhu family's household registration book.
At this point, Zhu Junlong, who has lived in the Zhu family for more than ten years, finally got rid of the identity of "black household" and officially became a citizen of the People's Republic of China, and also became the zhu family's family from the legal level.
Zhu Junlong, who has been sensible since childhood, knows that learning opportunities are not easy to come by, and he has performed well in school and has good grades. After many enthusiastic people in the society learned through the media about The story of Zhu Lao's love and selfless raising of black boys, they all solemnly respected the kind and ordinary Shanghai old women, and they came to Zhu Junlong to bring some school supplies and food to talk about their own meager intentions.
After attending middle school, the school learned about Zhu Junlong's situation, not only for him to reduce books and tuition and miscellaneous fees, the government department also arranged a house of more than 50 square meters for Zhu Junlong near the school, so that he could study with peace of mind.
It can be said that Zhu Junlong has been raised and educated by a Chinese family since he was a child, felt the goodwill of Chinese, and was influenced by mainland culture. He often said: I am a dignified Chinese, except that my skin and hair are different from yours, we have the same blood flowing in our blood, and we carry the same belief in our minds. I am extremely proud that I was born and raised in China.
At the age of 18, Zhu Junlong had grown into a strong boy with a height of 185. In school, he was "both literate and martial", not only had excellent grades, but also won frequent rankings in school sports meetings. Whenever the old lady looked at her tall and strong grandson, she always unconsciously remembered that summer in 2000, when she first saw Zhu Junlong, who was abandoned by her parents in the bushes of the park, he was so young and fragile; now in the blink of an eye, he has become so strong and excellent.
Zhu Junlong also passed through his efforts at Cambridge College in Shanghai and chose to major in computer science. No matter how heavy the university studies, every holiday, he would return to his grandmother's house rain or shine, help his grandmother cook a meal together, and the family would sit at a table and eat a warm dinner happily.
It is not as good as nurturing grace. Zhu Junlong also understands this truth, without his grandmother's love and care for him for more than ten years, there would be no Zhu Junlong today. Now that he has grown up, his grandmother and grandfather have grown older, and he is determined to accompany the old man well and give the two old men a happy old age.
I once remembered the figure of Grandma busy in the kitchen, the warm and rough hands that held herself home after school, the pace of labor in the street under the blazing sun and autumn wind; now time has carved traces on her body, Grandma's steps have become staggered, and her hair has been snow-white.
No matter how smoothly he lived in the future and reached any height, he would not forget his grandmother's selfless dedication to him. He said emotionally: When he grows up, he will buy a very large house, take his grandparents to the family to take care of, and live together as a family.
Springs of retribution
In 2018, the old lady's house faced demolition. The government subsidized the old lady's 6 houses at one time according to the type of apartment, but these six houses became the deepest pain of the old man in his later years.
It is said that children are the flesh that fell from their parents, not to mention the old lady who is already kind? After the demolition of the old house, Mrs. Zhu, who had six houses in her hands, thought of her children first. The old lady had two sons and a daughter, a total of three children, of which the daughter was already married, and the husband's family already had a residence in Shanghai; the old lady divided two suites for each of her two sons and kept one for herself.
Of course, she did not forget her little grandson, considering that Zhu Junlong would have to work and live in society after graduation, it was very necessary to have a house as a foothold, and the old lady left the smallest single room to Zhu Junlong.
At this time, the old lady was old, and her legs and feet were no longer flexible, and she needed the care of her children. Because her house was far away from her children, the old lady considered selling the house where she lived for a house closer to her children. In this matter, the old lady was relieved to leave it to her son to handle it.
After the sale of the house for a total of 2.5 million yuan, when the old woman wanted to buy another property closer to her son's residence, she found that she only had 500,000 yuan left in her account, and 2 million yuan was missing. The old woman repeatedly asked her son about the whereabouts of the remaining 2 million, but the son told her that he owed a lot of foreign debt in his business, so without consulting the old woman, he embezzled 2 million yuan to repay the foreign debt.
After learning about this, the old lady thought that the remaining 500,000 yuan would be enough for her own pension, she could not buy a house, and it did not matter if she and her wife lived in her son's house. Unexpectedly, the son refused his mother's request, and the embezzled 2 million yuan was not returned.
Perhaps in the eyes of this white-eyed wolf, everything his parents gave for him was natural. But he did not think that your parents raised you with hard work, and when they are old and helpless, their children should also do filial piety and support their parents cautiously and qualifiedly.
At that time, the old lady only felt that the sky was spinning, and her heart was like a knife. At an age when he should have spent his old age in peace, raised his life and enjoyed the joys of heaven, the pension money was swept away by his own son, and he also fell into a sad situation of homelessness and no one to rely on. What a blow to an old man who has been kind all his life!
When the old man was secretly hurt, the "baby" stepped forward and stood up. He took the initiative to take the two old men to his small house, which was so cramped that at first the old lady could only sleep on the bay window of the window. Zhu Junlong saw the situation and bought a two-story folding bed on the same day to sleep for his grandparents, while he slept by the window with his tall body.
The old lady watched her grandson sleep sorely the next day, and felt very overwhelmed in her heart. At first, he only left Zhu Junlong a smallest house, but he did not expect that in the end it was his grandson who was completely unrelated to accept him. Hearing the old lady's words, Zhu Junlong said solemnly:
"After the baby raises you, the baby's life is given by grandma, and this house is originally grandma's." The baby's things are the grandmother's things, and the baby will work harder in the future and strive to bring the grandparents to live in the big house. ”
Since then, Zhu Junlong has continued to study hard in school, while taking advantage of his spare time to do some part-time work outside the school, hoping to make his grandparents' later life comfortable and happy. He knew that his grandparents' teeth were not good now, and considering that they could not eat hard objects, every time they came home from work, Zhu Junlong would bring home some soft food that the old man could eat. He also often took the initiative to help the two elderly people massage and beat their backs to unclog the muscles and bones.
The grace of dripping water should be repaid by the spring. You raise me small, I raise you old. The little baby in the swaddling can now open its wings to shield its grandparents from the wind and rain. The crow feeds back, the lamb kneels, and even the animals in nature know the difficulties of parenting, and there is still an act of gratitude.
On the other hand, the son of the old lady, raised by his mother since childhood, not only swallowed his mother's pension money after becoming a family, but even a corner of the eaves that shielded his parents from the wind and rain was unwilling to give up, which was really lamentable and resentful!
After graduating from university, Zhu Junlong used his knowledge in college to find a computer-related job in Shanghai. Although the family of three temporarily lived in a small room, it did not affect the joy in the heart of the old man Zhu Shuibao.
The acts of kindness that were done many years ago are now bearing fruit. Watching her grandson now become sensible, grateful, a talent useful to society, and able to rely on her own efforts to rely on her own efforts, the old lady felt that this was the most valuable thing she had done in her life.
epilogue:
From Zhu Junlong's behavior, it is not difficult to see his loyal and generous personality. Similarly, the love and kindness of the old man Zhu Shuibao, who does not ask for anything in return, is also a precious wealth that affects Zhu Junlong's life. According to his own words, he was deeply influenced by his grandmother since he was a child, and he was abandoned by his parents at birth, which made him more aware of the preciousness of his family and know gratitude.
Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has attached great importance to filial piety, and there is a saying in the folk that "filial piety comes first". Among the five constants of the sages, benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and faith, filial piety is in the first place.
The story of lying on the ice and begging for carp and feeding the blood of mosquitoes has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of every Chinese. Although Zhu Junlong's appearance is very different from ours, we also receive the inheritance and education of the Chinese nation, and we also have the same kind of blood and the same filial piety in our bodies.
When asked about his future plans, Zhu Junlong smiled and said: He is a "Buddhist youth", and his greatest hope is that he will be able to take good care of his grandparents in the future, and the family has been living together plainly.
This sincere family affection also made me feel very deeply, and I couldn't help but have tears in my eyes.