Chao News client reporter Shi Xiongfeng
Chen Xiaolin, a 76-year-old retired teacher, and Chen Yufan, a 16-year-old patient with congenital cerebral palsy, met in the fall of 2017 because of a tentative phone call from Li Bingyu, vice principal of Dashun Primary School in Xitang Township, Jiashan County, Zhejiang Province.
"Do you want to read?" "I want to, I want to do it very much. Between questions and answers, Chen Xiaolin, who has taught Chinese all his life, decided to come to Yufan every day to make up lessons until he took off the hat of "illiterate".
Chen Xiaolin kept this promise for 6 years. The country road to Yu Fan's house is only seven or eight hundred meters away, and it has become the road that Chen Xiaolin has walked the most since he retired.
Due to the relocation of the village, Chen Xiaolin is about to move to the town to live, and he cannot continue to "send teachers to the door".
Before the last class, the teachers and students planned to hold a "thank you party" on January 6 to thank the caring people who have cared for and helped them over the years.
Of course, like all warm stories, Chen Xiaolin and Yu Fan also have a happy ending: Yu Fan has Xi 5,000 Chinese characters, learned 200 ancient poems, wrote more than 100 essays and 70 small poems, can use 3,000 idioms, and learned to write more than 700 diaries in 2 years, completely bidding farewell to his "illiterate" self. (The details of the previous report stamped: one teacher has a "classroom" for his life, and a promise has been kept by retired teachers in Zhejiang for 6 years: I can't bear to say goodbye).
The thank-you meeting was taken by Chao News reporter Shi Xiongfeng
The matchmaker of this teacher-student relationship
I also came to the scene of the thank-you meeting
Early in the morning of January 6, Yu Fan asked his grandfather to hang this red pennant in front of the door, which was a gift he wanted to give to Teacher Chen.
The thank-you meeting is scheduled to start at 10 o'clock in the morning, and at 9 o'clock, guests will arrive one after another, and the reporter found Li Bingyu who came early in the crowd.
Chen Yufan and Li Bingyu Photo by Chao News reporter Shi Xiongfeng
Li Bingyu, the former vice principal of Dashun Primary School in Xitang Township, Jiashan County, Zhejiang Province, made a phone call to Chen Xiaolin in the fall of 2017.
"Teacher Chen, there is a special child in your village, can you please visit it at a convenient time?" Li Bingyu's question on the phone was answered affirmatively by Chen Xiaolin, and it was this phone call that connected the two teachers and students at the appreciation meeting.
Why did you ask Chen Xiaolin to help you with this at that time?
In fact, before Chen Xiaolin appeared, the school had already found many teachers of different subjects to "send teachers to Yufan", but the model of leaving after one person finished a lesson made Yufan, who was already physically and mentally unsound, puzzled and made little progress in learning Xi.
Li Bingyu's children are the same year as Yu Fan, and whenever she thinks that Yu Fan's Xi school progress has fallen behind too many of her own children, she is anxious. Years of work experience told Li Bingyu that Yu Fan's physical condition is very much in need of a fixed teacher to teach.
Li Bingyu couldn't help but think of Chen Xiaolin, an old-timer with excellent teaching skills, "He is kind and upright, has a good reputation among his colleagues, and lives in the same village as Yufan, but it is not easy to teach a child with cerebral palsy after all, and I only asked tentatively when I made that phone call."
But what Li Bingyu didn't expect was that the "occasional visit" in her mouth became Chen Xiaolin's "frequent meeting", and this insistence was 6 years. "Mr. Chen is a hero in my heart, he has accompanied Yufan from a child to a young man, and his 'energy' has always been there when he did not retire. Li Bingyu said.
The grandfather on the stage wiped his tears vigorously
They have long been like a family
Time flies, at 10 o'clock, the thank-you meeting officially began, there are more than 30 caring people present, Yufan's grandfather Chen Tulin took the stage to speak.
On weekdays, Yu Fan's parents are busy with work and can't accompany him for a long time, and his grandparents have become the people who have been with Yu Fan the longest.
As soon as he came on stage, Chen Tulin wiped away his tears, he took the microphone and said, thank you Mr. Chen, if there is no Mr. Chen, Yufan has no way to integrate into this society, "He knows a lot of words, and now he has learned to surf the Internet, sometimes Mr. Chen's mobile phone can't be opened, and Yufan helped fix it."
Chen Tulin spoke on the stage and was photographed by Chao News reporter Shi Xiongfeng
Halfway through speaking, Chen Tulin choked up again, and he repeated "thank you" because he was not good at words, and Grandma Yufan in the audience urged him to come down quickly.
Offstage, Chen Tubin told reporters that after years of getting along, they and Teacher Chen have long become like a family.
"Our village is full of old houses, and when there is a problem with water and electricity, Mr. Chen will ask me for help. Chen Tubin said, "Yufan has a little difficulty in life, and the first thing I think of is Mr. Chen." ”
Chen Xiaolin and Chen Yufan's "classroom" Photo by Chao News reporter Shi Xiongfeng
The intimate relationship allowed Yu Fan to go further and further.
Chen Xiaolin teaches at home every day, his grandparents are responsible for doing a good job of "logistics", and Li Bingyu often communicates teaching plans with Chen Xiaolin by phone.
Chen Tulin said that once Mr. Chen accidentally broke his leg, he still insisted on driving a battery car to class.
Li Bingyu said that every time she came to see Yu Fan, she could almost meet Teacher Chen in class, and Yu Fan was writing and drawing at the table.
Chen Xiaolin said, don't mention the past, it's nothing, and now I'm most worried about what Yufan can do in the future.
There are many people around Yu Fan
His future is still warm
Participating in the appreciation meeting were also caring people who had helped Yufan, who said that they would continue to send daily necessities to Yufan's family in the future and help Yufan inquire about employment information.
As the person who knows Yufan best, Chen Xiaolin started his plan as early as 5 months ago - to exercise Yufan's self-Xi ability.
Photo by Chen Yufan, Chen Xiaolin and Chen Tulin Chao News reporter Shi Xiongfeng
"When I knew I was going to move, it was still this spring, and I thought it would probably be a long time before I took this class. Chen Xiaolin said, "So I didn't even give Yu Fan a summer vacation, and hurried to let him learn idioms that he was not very familiar with." ”
This "learning" is the "learning" of "self-learning". Chen Xiaolin was already busy with the move, and he asked Yufan to learn 20 idioms by himself every week during those five months, and he would be assessed at the end of the month.
The way of assessment is also very interesting, "For example, 'elated', I will dance to Yufan and ask him to write down this word, instead of simply dictating."
Chen Xiaolin hopes that in this way, Yufan can draw inferences from others and adapt to the development of society in the future. "There are still a lot of books sent by caring people at home, and I hope he can read them all. Chen Xiaolin said, "I will often come back to see, call if I have any questions, and help him answer them at any time." ”
So what about Yu Fan, what are his expectations for the future?
"I also want to be a volunteer, and I want to open a supermarket. ”
"I sell everything in my supermarket, so it's convenient for everyone. ”
"But I still can't bear to thank Mr. Chen. ”
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When he said these words, Yu Fan was like the idiom "elated" to describe it, and his hands quickly gestured to something. A fellow media reporter asked, "If you want to charge money for opening a supermarket, do you know how to count?" Yu Fan said, "Cut", this little thing is not difficult for me, and besides, I still use a tablet, and the calculator on it can help me.
At the end of the thank-you meeting, everyone cut the cake and gave it to Chen Xiaolin and Yufan, as well as to themselves present, and the sweet taste was just like this parting without saying goodbye.
Cutting the cake together at the thank-you meeting Photo by Chao News reporter Shi Xiongfeng
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