12 years! What happened to the filial son of the "crazy girl who went to college with a thousand miles on her back"?

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A person living, there are too many involuntary;

A person lives and constantly grows in frustration;

Living alone, sometimes not just for yourself.

The story to be told today comes from a character who was once insignificant, but he eventually lived as a beam of light.

His name is Liu Xiuxiang, born in 1988 in a small mountain village in Guizhou Province.

Unfortunately, he did not have the carefree childhood of ordinary children.

When he was 4 years old, his father died of illness, and the family's financial resources collapsed.

The mother failed to withstand this blow, suffered from intermittent psychosis, not only lost the ability to take care of herself, but also often fell ill.

Almost overnight, the family did not become a family.

Fortunately, there are also older brothers and sisters, who work together to farm and take care of their mothers, maintaining the most basic family life.

But such a life did not last long.

Because they could not stand the stretching of life, Liu Xiuxiang's brothers and sisters ran away from home one after another, and there has been no news since.

Only the young Liu Xiuxiang and her mother were left in the family.

In this case, whoever it is will crash.

But Liu Xiuxiang had no choice.

Still in the third grade, he suddenly became the head of the family.

I'm only 11 years old!

Other children of this age are still growing up happily under the protection of their parents, but he is forced to become an early adult.

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Often before dawn, he would get up to farm and chop firewood to prepare for the day's life.

The small and tender shoulders have also become stronger and stronger in the tempering.

But even if life is difficult, he never wants to give up reading.

Because that was the only hope he could see.

Although it is not clear what reading can bring to him, although that hope is far away, reading is still the whole strength that supports him.

At that time, the school was far from his home, so far that it would take 4 hours to go back and forth, and when he returned home, there was still farm work and his mother who needed to take care of him.

However, he still gritted his teeth and insisted, in the primary examination of Xiaosheng, he was admitted to the county key middle school with excellent results.

But the high tuition fees discouraged him.

And the mother, what should she do if she has no ability to take care of herself?

After much deliberation, Liu Xiuxiang made a decision that shocked everyone:

Choose a private middle school that does not have tuition fees, and take your mother to the county town to go to school!

Although his starting point is good, how should two people without financial resources survive in a place where they are not familiar with life?

The first thing they have to face is accommodation.

Liu Xiuxiang thought of a way to build a simple shed on the hillside near the school, which has been the home of mother and son in the storm.

Every day after school, Liu Xiuxiang will start working, moving bricks, carrying cement, picking up waste products...

Liu Xiuxiang did all the dirty work, only for the mother and son to make ends meet.

When there was no vegetable to eat, he ran to the market to pick up some vegetable leaves that others did not want and cooked them to eat.

Yes, a lot of times there is no oil.

A young man with a long body, in order to dream and his mother, can only overdraft his body repeatedly, so that he only has 80 pounds.

This is incredible for many people, but it is the real life that Liu Xiuxiang experienced.

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After going to high school, due to the heavy workload, he could only go to the evening self-study to pick up the waste, from late at night to 4 or 5 am, and then come back to wash his face and go to class.

Prolonged malnutrition and lack of rest overwhelmed Liu Xiuxiang's body.

In the end, he could only take the college entrance examination with illness, and the result was unfortunately lost to Sun Shan.

This is a huge blow to Liu Xiuxiang, he can withstand all bad luck, he can endure any disease in life, but he cannot accept the reality of his dream falling short.

He spent his life reading, but fate ruthlessly abandoned him.

This is the spiritual pillar he has always had!

In the tearing between ideal and reality, he inadvertently saw a sentence that had been written:

When you complain about not having shoes to wear, you look back and see that someone else has no feet.

This sentence was like a slap in the face that woke him up.

Yes, he at least had a mother than the orphans who had no relatives, and although she could not take care of herself, as long as she was there, he still had a home.

And after carrying so many tribulations, now that he has seen the dawn, what reason does he have to give up?

In pain, he decided to repeat it.

But re-reading means that he needs money, where does he get the money?

In desperation, he had to go to the principal of a private school, and after repeated refusals, he knelt down on his knees for the fifth time.

This kneeling, kneeling out of his future with his mother!

In 2008, when he finally got his dream college acceptance letter, he was overwhelmed with excitement.

But after a short period of happiness, he found that the tuition fee was several thousand yuan, which was undoubtedly astronomical for him.

What's next?

He decided to use his vacation to earn enough money to go to college, and when he arrived at school, he was willing to do whatever the school offered, but he would never give up going to college!

In this way, he took his mother to Shandong.

It was then that his deeds attracted media attention, and dozens of media outlets followed suit, and many caring people reached out to him.

But this sudden love did not make him lose his original intention.

He thanked the people for their kindness, refused most of the funding, and accepted only the accommodation arranged by the school for him and his mother.

Of course, he knew that accepting donations would make his life easier, but he might lose the ability to support himself.

After that, his life was the same as before, except for studying, he spent all his time taking care of his mother and working.

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In the year of graduation, many units extended an olive branch to him, and in the face of a wonderful life at his fingertips, he once again made a shocking decision:

Go back home and become a teacher!

He wants to use his experience to inspire those children, he can do it in the face of difficulties, they can do it even more.

The world outside was even better than he had imagined, and he hoped they could all see it.

In this way, he returned to his hometown with his mother and became an ordinary and unusual teacher.

In the face of the indifference of some people in his hometown to education, he visited his home over and over again, ran through the entire township, rode 8 motorcycles, and changed the fate of one child after another.

He is still renting a house, but he dedicates more than half of his salary to his students.

He often called students to come to the house to eat, so that children who lacked the company of their parents could feel the warmth of the family.

Under his careful care, many children have redefined the meaning of learning.

Liu Xiuxiang illuminated their lives like a beam of light.

The source of the video is Shandong Satellite TV

Now, he is the vice principal of Wangmo County Experimental High School, and he still spares no effort to fight in the front line of education, using his own blood to feed the land that gave birth to him.

His mother still lives with him, healthy and safe.

How can a person live?

Some people choose to die drunk, some people choose to act recklessly, and some people choose to dedicate silently!

Of course, this is all a personal choice, and we can't argue with it.

But Liu Xiuxiang has touched countless people with his own practical actions.

If another person had experienced his life, he might have surrendered to fate long ago and lived the second half of his life with self-pity.

But Liu Xiuxiang gave a different note to life.

What makes people cry is that he not only changed himself, but also tenderly treated the whole world with kindness!

In 2018, Liu Xiuxiang was selected as "China's Good Teacher", but he modestly said that he was only lucky.

Without a cold bone, how can you get plum blossoms?

Without decades of perseverance, how could we have the glory we have today?

All of this is the glory you deserve.

He used his own experience to tell us that as long as there is a dream, as long as we persist, as long as we face it bravely, we will definitely wait for the light.

Finally, I also want to extend my thumbs up to Liu Xiuxiang:

You are bland, but radiant.

Source:

1. Half Moon Talk 2020 No. 6: "Xiang Brother of the Volunteer: Reading to Cross Yourself, Teaching to Cross People"

2. "Agriculture and Rural Areas": Shan Liwa who took her sick mother to school