One day, Fa Xiaoyu Dafan from my hometown came to the county seat to find me, saying that my son was getting married and asked me to speak at the wedding. The whitish tunic with a simple and happy look is refreshing and enviable. The story of a farmer brought out in the laughter is even more touching and thought-provoking.
In the early 80s of the last century, I went to primary school with him in the same village, his brother was two years older than him, and his brother was one year younger than him.
When Dafan was 11 years old, in the spring, we dug up the white artemisia in the south sandy field of the village and sold it to subsidize the family, one Sunday, Datong asked his cousin to pull the dried white artemisia to the town purchase station to sell, after the scale, the buyer paid him 9 catties of white artemisia at the price of 9 kilograms. He subconsciously felt that there was more money, so he reminded the acquirer, "Is there a mistake?" "That's right, that's right, you go" The acquirer was a little impatient as another colleague interrupted. Dafan stood where he was, and wanted to say something, but at the urging of his cousin, he had to leave silently. "What's wrong?" he kept wondering when he left the counter, as soon as he got out of the acquisition station, he settled the accounts, "Hurry up, if it's wrong, it's wrong, it's wrong, people are public families, and there is no shortage of money, you look forward to buying thread clothes all day long, there is no mistake, what do you take to buy thread clothes?" The angry cousin pulled him with a reproachful tone, "No, no, let's figure things out, otherwise, the other buyer will lose money, and we won't lose anyone!" The cousin couldn't resist him, so he left angrily. Half an hour later, Dafan, whose ragged and shrunken image appeared at the acquisition station again, explained the reason for the miscalculation, and returned the overpayment to the buyer.
In 2008, the national primary and secondary school poor student financial aid policy in this county to implement, after learning the news, I first thought of Dafan, half a month ago, he came to the county to send his son to school to find me to borrow a raincoat, to the school to return the raincoat I gave him a description of the poor student subsidy, hoping to help him, who knows that he is not only not grateful but gave me a lesson: "The national policy is aimed at those students who are really poor and can't afford to go to school, I am not poor, I can still grow crops, the cost of the baby to go to school is usually thrifty enough" after a cup of tea, Dafan rode his bicycle with a sack and disappeared into the rain and fog, leaving me with infinite respect and reverie.
In 2013, Dafan's son was admitted to Xi'an Jiaotong University, and he planned his son's college life with "five basic points": playground - classroom - canteen - library - dormitory, and his simple wisdom made his friends around him admire. When his son told him the idea of doing a work-study program to earn living expenses, he immediately became irritable: "How many fractions of the four years of college can be in the process of earning money in life? If you really want to make money, you must first increase your worth, people are not worth much, and you can't create wealth anywhere" Eight years later, his son not only found a good job, but also became the first batch of special scientific and technological talents in the country. (Only 36 people nationwide)
In 2020, Dafan's classmates opened an Internet café in the town and invited him to be a network administrator, the reason is that the salary is high, and the second is that most of the working hours are at night, which does not affect the farm work. One sentence broke off decades of friendship. Today, Dafan still works as a sanitation worker in the county seat, and every morning, he cleans the streets run over by countless cars. "The graceful escape from death, the ruthless retribution is clear, the separation and aggregation are all predetermined, and the fate is short-lived and the previous life is asked" In the year of knowing the destiny of heaven, he always wore a sanitation suit, hummed a small song, waved a broom, and appeared in the morning glow and sunset as scheduled, so calm, so calm.
Mr. Tao Xingzhi advocated that education should cultivate a good quality of the common people, and the great cloth clothes of the world. Where are the big people and the big cloth clothes here? The big ones are in the kindness and the big in the character. The big cloth clothes tell me the true meaning of life with a rare simplicity: Usually we are unhappy because our desires are greater than our own abilities, and our ambitions are too great to end well.
I have been away from my hometown for many years, and I often recall such a scene: when the sunset rises, a group of children stride through the village, fields, cemeteries and schools, watching a flock of birds fly through the treetops, clapping their hands and singing in unison, "Far up the cold mountain and the stone path is slanted, the geese in the sky are quacking, the blue sky is high, the trees are low and the morning does not fly and tired you" over and over again, until the birds turn into small black dots and melt into the purple sunset, this nursery rhyme is engraved in the memory with the sunset of the hometown, the trees, the crows hurrying away with the sunset, and the children singing with their big mouths and bellies open. Similar life experiences must be shared by everyone. The big cloth clothes are still nostalgic!
About author:Fang Huaishan, a native of Dali, Shaanxi. Dali County educator, family education counselor, member of the National School Alliance.