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On December 18, 2023, a piece of news on the Internet "exploded" and woke everyone up, and it was sad to send messages over and over again to confirm that it was correct.
"Breakfast grandma passed away......"
Unexpectedly, no one has ever thought about such an ironclad fact, just ask, who can get used to it without her in Huangtankou Village, Quzhou, Zhejiang?
No one answered, and even though she was 90 years old, everyone still wanted to eat her breakfast every day.
All categories cost 5 cents, and it has always been the case for 27 years, even if she later posted money inside, she didn't change her mind.
What is the reason for this? The local villagers couldn't see it and persuaded each other, but the degree of her "stubbornness" was amazing.
A message shook the whole network
On December 18, 2023, as soon as the news of the death of "Grandma Breakfast" spread, countless eulogies suddenly became popular on the entire screen, shocking others for no reason.
Who is this person? Netizens who are not far behind search for popular science on their own, and what catches their eyes is a cheek full of wrinkles and a staggering back.
It doesn't take too many words to take a photograph to suffice, and the traces of time will be eye-catching, because there must be an extraordinary story behind it.
Mao Shihua is her real name, but the locals in Huangtankou Township, Quzhou, Zhejiang Province still like to call her "breakfast grandma", which has gradually become a habit for many years.
All the reasons are in her breakfast stall, don't look at this stall with the branch, a little "copycat", but the customers are absolutely loyal.
Can you believe that the consumers of the breakfast stall still have inheritance? Mao Shihua's behavior itself is legendary.
He has been running a breakfast stall since 1996 and gets up between 2:30 and 3 a.m. every morning to prepare breakfast for sale.
Soybean milk should be freshly beaten and ground, zongzi should be freshly wrapped and cooked, and pies should be seasoned in advance...... Because it is a business to support her family, Mao Shihua strives to be a child.
Breakfast should be rich and varied to attract enough customers, and the price, regardless of the type, is 5 cents.
Now it sounds incredible, what can you buy for 5 cents? But in fact, in the context of the original era, Mao Shihua also made money.
After all, there are still children to support at home, and it is difficult to maintain it by her husband alone.
From the purchase of breakfast to the production of breakfast, she completes the preparation every day, loads the car and travels, and goes to the sales place while the day is getting bright.
Of course, she is not the only vendor, and the sales point is a necessary place for adults to go to work and children to go to school, so it can be said that doing business is a "war" without gunpowder.
With the conscientious production of real materials, Mao Shihua's booth has always been full of people, and every penny is worth the price, but who doesn't want to spend more valuable?
As the saying goes, there is no harm if there is no comparison, but it does not mean that the business of other stall owners will be bad, after all, the flow of people is here, and more or less is earned.
After going out of the stall at five o'clock and going home at eight o'clock, Mao Shihua was responsible for the family's food supply, and she couldn't be idle for a moment.
But anyone who has patronized Mao Shihua's breakfast stall can't bear to think that that amiable face has become a thing of the past.
Those who have heard and those who have not heard of it can't help but burst into tears at the moment they see this news, and their thoughts are led away for no reason.
Not to mention those who have eaten Mao Shihua's breakfast, only close contact can you feel her sincerity and kindness, and a heart of gold is nothing more than that.
As long as the thought of never being able to buy her breakfast again, I can't help but feel that this loss is suddenly irreplaceable, and I can't help but think of the last time I visited.
A breakfast is heart-wrenching
Mao Shihua's breakfast stall is rain or shine, and the children who go to school locally can be said to have eaten her breakfast, and she doesn't want to be absent.
Whose life is easy? Mao Shihua still gets up early in the morning, and in the slow flow of time, the children who frequent the frequents go to study farther away.
Just like her own children, people will always grow up, leaving their parents to find their own world, leaving only their backs drifting away.
Mao Shihua and her husband were left in the house, and later her husband died and she was the only one left, and she moved out of the bright big house and lived in the old streets.
In her own words, it is a waste for her to live alone in a big house, and it is better to rent it to someone who needs it more, and this answer is speechless.
Although the residence has changed and there are fewer people around, Mao Shihua's breakfast stall has never disappeared from the sales location, which can't help but make people feel at ease.
The locals have long been accustomed to Mao Shihua's figure, and I don't know if you have noticed that her back is bending down in a few degrees that is not very obvious?
The green silk on the head gradually turned into white hair, this is a trace of time, you can say that it has changed too many people, which is of course true, but it definitely does not include Mao Shihua.
To be precise, the breakfast she sells is still all 5 cents of all kinds! You must know that the times have long been different, and the soaring prices have made her an "outlier".
The problem is always comparative, and the surrounding stalls are also following the trend more or less rising, Mao Shihua is not, she is not disturbed by the outside world.
In the eyes of some other people, isn't this a "stupid", and if you don't cut corners for decades, isn't it a loss?
Speaking of this, the old man Mao Shihua also admitted frankly that she didn't make money, and even had to put four or five hundred yuan into it every month, all of which were deducted from her own savings.
The children are all older, and they no longer need her to earn living expenses for them when they start a family, and she still receives the country's pension money, which is really not at ease.
Mao Shihua said that he was old and didn't need to save money, but young people needed it, and it was not easy for the children who came to school in the mountains.
If the price rises along the trend, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be students who will not be able to eat because they can't afford it, which is what Mao Shihua does not want to see.
As long as the children eat and drink well, it is the happiest thing for her, and this kind of explicit giving, implicit spirit is not education itself? Can you say that you turn a blind eye?
The answer is obvious, Master Mao's insistence on spending 27 years without raising prices is a lasting and vivid educational lesson for children.
No one is really stupid, others can also see clearly, moving is inevitable, buying an ordinary breakfast, but not just breakfast.
A wisp of sorrow is sent far away
As she gets older, Mao Shihua's actions are no longer as neat as before, and she can only try to shorten her rest time.
I woke up around 1 a.m. and grinded soy milk, boiled eggs, and porridge...... The process hasn't changed, it's just more time-consuming for her.
Someone asked her why she didn't prepare it a day in advance, and then reheat it on the same day, and the sentence "not fresh" showed Mao Shihua's trustworthiness.
Breakfast is made for customers to eat, but also for herself, she can't let her "breakfast grandma" signboard smash.
A momentary small profit can certainly make people happy for a while, but in the end, it is not as good as a long-term shame on the heart, and Mao Shihua can see through this point.
It has been twenty-seven years since the signboard was erected, and it was her stubbornness not to raise the price, and four tricycles were broken, and all kinds of wordless people were scrambling to speak.
Later, Mao Shihua couldn't even ride a tricycle, and an accidental injury made her no longer able to move freely, but she was only raised for a few days, and she always remembered her breakfast stall.
Unable to rush to the sales point, she opened it at her own house, and it was still the same time, and the children would like to take more detours to patronize.
Because sometimes, it doesn't matter if the children who come have no money, forget to take the money, or don't have enough money, Mao Shihua will still hand over the breakfast to them normally.
If you don't have money, you won't accept it, and you don't blame her for walking on the road, as long as there are children who come to buy breakfast, they will affectionately call her "breakfast grandma".
In fact, not only children, but also some local elderly people are willing to travel an extra kilometer to come to eat, and they can eat for only one dollar.
Cheap is one thing, the most important thing to eat is to eat at ease, all the food is made by Mao Shihua himself, and the egg cakes are fried and sold, and everyone has seen it with their own eyes.
But everything came to an end on December 18, 2023, and since then, Mao Shihua has never been seen again.
5 cents of egg cakes, tea eggs, zongzi have become a thing of the past, never again, the first wave of children who have eaten her breakfast have long since grown up, hearing the news as if the memory is broken.
The star of integrity, the nomination of the national moral model was discussed again, and Mao Shihua's deeds were praised by the locals as much as they could, and she deserved the best.
I wonder if she is still thinking about the children's breakfast in the future, and what will happen to the children who have no money to buy it? Sadly, all this has nothing to do with her.
The "go all the way" floating on the screen makes everyone have to recognize the reality, and some things may become muddy over time, although the essence is still blamed after all.
But Mao Shihua didn't even bother to install it, the price did not change, the materials did not decrease, and he would go home after selling out and not cause trouble to other vendors.
It's not that she doesn't understand the changes of the times, but there are always some things that should be eternal, such as her breakfast stall, such as how many people miss her.
Some people are dead, but she is still alive, growing vividly in the enduring memory, a wisp of sorrow sent to the distance, should be thousands of years long.