It's a story of "redemption."
A young woman leaned forward and knocked on the door of Bai Jian's house.
Bai Jian invited the woman and the little boy next to her into the house and listened to their stories——
The woman gave birth to a child out of wedlock, and the other half left her and the child and ran away.
In order to make ends meet, she ran to Guangzhou alone with her children to work.
One day, she refused the courtship of a strange man, who came to the door at night with a knife and stabbed the woman more than 20 times.
This cruel picture happened in front of his son Xiaoxuan.
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Later, the man was arrested, but because he was too poor to pay compensation.
Seriously injured, she was unable to raise her son.
After hearing about Bai Jian, she took Xiao Xuan with her, drove a tricycle, and drove from Guangzhou for more than 20 days before arriving in the northeast and asking Bai Jian to take Xiao Xuan in.
Whenever this matter was mentioned, there was always a hatred in Xiao Xuan's eyes:
"I want to avenge my mother, and let the man taste the taste of being cut."
Their black childhood
In the Bai Jian family, a child like Xiao Xuan was not the first.
Xiaosheng, 19, suffered from brutal domestic violence and was often beaten by his parents in turn.
At school, the teacher often scolded him in front of the whole class, making him lose his dignity.
Being insulted more often, XiaoSheng found that he did not laugh angrily.
Because he sprinkled the hatred and anger in his heart on his classmates, he beat them to the bone several times.
Xiaowei, a 10-year-old, has not seen her mother much since birth.
She was regarded as a "burden" by her family and threw it to Bai Jian.
"She gave birth to me and left me alone, so she simply didn't give birth to me in the first place."
Gai Yuanyuan's childhood was spent in the process of being trafficked by his biological parents again and again, and then escaping home.
The well-wishers found her in the wilderness, and her weak voice trembled and said:
"Uncle, can you take me out?" Go anywhere. ”
Xiao Hao's parents died, and he was extremely disgusted with the word "orphan".
Whenever someone said they were going to send him to an orphanage, he always said viciously:
"As soon as I go, I will burn down the orphanage and leave no house behind."
"I didn't feel like an orphan from the beginning."
Xiaoyi's family is extremely poor, and she can only eat rice once a year.
On weekdays, she didn't dare to say that she didn't have enough to eat.
"Because if this meal is full, the next meal my parents will have to go out and borrow grain."
Because she was too poor, her classmates called her a "countryman".
......
Such children, there are more than 100 here in Bai Jian.
Their circumstances are different, but at the same time they have similarities -
From a young age, I lived in a black childhood, where I could not see the light and the future.
Poverty, hatred, wandering, and depravity are the imprints of cruel reality engraved on children.
However, even their biological parents disliked them, but in the eyes of Bai Jian, they were "priceless treasures".
"You are not waste."
Bai Jian named this special family "Dream House".
Here, the children will cut off all the passage from the past, and under the leadership of Bai Jian, they will "run" a way out for themselves.
That's right, running.
Because their previous education was extremely unstable and their cultural performance was poor.
Bai Jian hopes that they can study a good university in the way of "sports students".
Sport is fair, a drop of sweat, a point of gain.
The cost of running is also extremely low, just need to buy a good pair of running shoes.
At 4:30 a.m., a dilapidated white van slowly moved through the streets of the northeast.
Followed by a group of tall and short children.
The youngest is 6 years old and the oldest is 17 years old.
For the children of the poor, it's a "tough shortcut" —
As long as you are willing to endure hardships, there will be a reward.
After all, children without umbrellas must learn to run hard.
In the "Dream House", Bai Jian has a set of "house rules":
Each person must write out their own 20 virtues.
Some children are extremely inferior and can't write it, so Bai Jian let everyone help find it together.
In the days to come, slowly guide them to work in this direction.
Every morning, Bai Jian led the children to shout loudly:
"Today was the best day of my life... How fortunate I am that I am still alive and have a healthy body, and I have the opportunity to choose and to learn to love and be loved."
These children are all people who "lose at the starting line" in people's mouths.
But in Bai Jian's heart, they were never "waste".
He was convinced of one sentence:
Suffering will eventually become the driving force and source of a person's growth.
Every child will have a bright future.
The family environment of the past has had a great impact on the personality of these children.
Now, washed by sweat, they begin to slowly throw away their past encounters and look forward to their tomorrow.
Those teenagers who were once "desperate" finally had a chance to dream.
They want to go to college, they want to get a good job, they want to be soldiers...
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In the day-to-day running, the children gradually escaped loneliness, resentment, and anger.
They run from night to dawn and when the sun rises, that's their end.
When the first rays of the morning sun shine on them, the little dreams in everyone's hearts are even more vivid.
"Life is like a marathon, I don't reach the end, how do you know that I can't make the final sprint."
This is what Bai Jian often says to children.
A pair of dishes and chopsticks
Bai Jian's path of support was an accident.
In 1995, at the age of 22, Bai Jiangang graduated from university and was assigned to work as a physical education teacher at a middle school in Anshan.
It was also that year that a child named Pang Hao walked into Bai Jian's life.
Pang Hao is the famous "big brother" in that piece -
Smoking, drinking, fighting, playing in the game hall, except for physical education classes, no other classes.
During that time, Pang Hao's home was suddenly changed, and he couldn't even eat food.
Bai Jian lived alone in the single dormitory, so he often called him to come to the dormitory to eat, and slowly, he stayed.
"Isn't it just a matter of having more dishes and chopsticks?" Bai Jian thought to himself.
At that time, Bai Jian's internship salary was only 193 yuan, and in order to support himself and Pang Hao, he had to go to the night market every day after work to set up a stall to make some money.
Until one day, Bai Jian found that the 1,000 yuan he had painstakingly saved had been stolen by Pang Hao.
It was money he was going to go home for the New Year, but Pang Hao spent it all on the slot machine.
What made Bai Jian even more distressed was that Pang Hao did not recognize the matter.
That night, Bai Jian cried.
He didn't understand that he was really true to this child, why he was doing this to himself.
The two had been in a cold war for several days, and Bai Jian, who had no money, only ate steamed buns and pickles every day.
One day Bai Jian suffered from a severe cough and coughed up blood, and Pang Hao was anxious:
"Teacher, what's wrong with you?" I was wrong, I stole the money, I'm sorry for you! ”
Looking at the sincerely repenting child in front of him, Bai Jian's heart softened, and he finally forgave him.
"Teacher, my parents are not good to me, they don't care about me, I will call you 'Dad' in the future!"
Since then, Pang Hao has quit his Internet addiction and devoted himself to practicing sports with Bai Jian.
In the end, Pang Hao was admitted to the Shenyang Institute of Physical Education, and returned to Anshan City after graduation to become a civil servant.
Pang Hao said that he was originally a person without direction, "I will be ruined if I don't meet my father." ”
Shortly after raising Pang Hao, Bai Jian also assisted Xiao Yong and Xiao Xuan...
"It's just a matter of having one more pair of chopsticks."
Bai Jian thought so every time.
Again and again, Bai Jian took the children that others did not want one by one to his dormitory.
Bai Jian treated them not only as teachers, but more like fathers.
The children called him "Daddy."
"At first, I sponsored one, and not long after, several more came, and soon it became a dozen..."
Bai Jian's path of support has since gone.
The most "tiger" man in the whole northeast
In the eyes of outsiders, Bai Jian is a "fool".
After all, how easy is it to raise children?
Seeing that Bai Jian's children are getting more and more every year, the most realistic problem is money.
Children who practice sports have a large amount of food, a bag of rice a day is not a problem, the dish is also rushed to eat forty or fifty pounds, and the monthly food cost is seven or eight thousand yuan.
There were more and more children, and Bai Jian's dormitory soon could not live anymore.
Fortunately, a colleague lent his idle 68-square-meter house to Bai Jian.
In that house, the children slept on bunk beds, and Bai Jian built a bed of his own to sleep in the middle of the dividing line.
In order to maintain the operation of the "Dream Home", Bai Jian has owed hundreds of thousands of foreign debts.
Weekday expenses can only be turned around by credit card.
At the most difficult time, Bai Jian changed more than ten jobs.
Sweeping the streets, selling stationery, selling box lunches, selling flowers, selling lottery tickets, participating in various competitions with prize money...
He tried any way he could make money.
Even Chinese New Year's Eve night, I have to go out to pick up firework shells and sell them as scrap.
There is not enough money, and manpower is also a problem.
Bai Jian lied and "tricked" his mother into coming to the city.
Unexpectedly, in the process of getting along with this group of sensible children, the mother also established a deep relationship.
Instead of complaining about Bai Jian, his mother was very supportive of him:
"Mom has no other skills, help you wash and wash shabu, wash and cook."
Later, Bai Jian's father, sister and brother-in-law all came to the "Dream House" to help.
Bai Jian, mother (second from left), father (fourth from left), second sister (fifth from left)
Many people say that Bai Jian is the most "tiger" man in the whole northeast.
Other people go out to work to make money, but he loses money.
In order to support these children who are not related to him, he also took the life of a family.
But Bai Jian felt it was worth it.
"It's fate, and I have to pull them along."
He believed that as long as there was a dream, life would gradually get better.
Bright future
The efforts of Bai Jian, the children all looked in the eyes.
In the years when they grew up in the "Dream House", they also never failed their fathers.
The walls of the "Dream House" are covered with medals and certificates that children have earned in major competitions.
Zhu Hongwei, a little girl who lived with Bai Jian at the age of 11, through these years of unremitting efforts, she won the 800-meter championship of the National Middle School Games and the University Games in one fell swoop.
In the year of the college entrance examination, she received admission letters from tsinghua, peking university and xi'an jiaotong university.
In order not to burden her father, she chose Xi'an Jiaotong University, where tuition fees can be waived for one year.
The next year, Zhu Hongwei began to take special scholarships, all the way to Baoyan, and did not let his father spend a penny.
From 1995 to the present, in the past 27 years, Mr. Bai Jian has sponsored 126 children.
"Dream Home" has come out of 6 national first-class athletes, more than 70 national second-level athletes, 48 children have been admitted to universities, and 4 are studying for graduate school.
Some children, who became the second "Bai Jian", returned to the "Dream House" to teach and educate people after graduation.
The dreams that children once dared not make finally one day, all shone into reality.
Along the way, no one noticed that Bai Jian was 48 years old.
The texture of time crept up the corners of his eyebrows, and the firmness did not diminish that year:
"As long as there are children who need me, I will continue to go with them."
In 2019, this man who is nearly half a hundred years old finally has his own marriage.
The wife's name is Luo Wentong, and when all the women desperately reject the man with bai jian's condition, she chooses to love him without hesitation.
At that wedding, the stage was full of people, and it was the mighty "Bai Family Army".
In 2020, Bai Jian welcomed his son.
After raising more than a hundred children, Bai Jian finally had a biological child with his own blood on his body.
The children of dream homes always say that Dad is like a "superman".
But there is no natural superman, he just spelled it all.
Others say that Bai Jian is the "male version of Zhang Guimei".
He used the most precious decades of his life to change the fate of hundreds of children.
But Bai Jian himself didn't think so, he never felt that he had done such a great thing:
"We grew up together and my value is with my children."