In Yizhang, a well-known city of good people, there is a person named Xie Mugen, 60 years old this year, who is as deeply rooted in Yizhang, the fertile soil of good people, as his name, interprets the true meaning of good people with love, and influences the people around him with good deeds. He is one of the first members to join the Yizhang Good People Association, and is currently the vice president of the Good People Branch of Tiantang Town and the head of the Good People Workstation of Cai Zichong Village. With his selfless dedication, he silently paid in filial piety and love for relatives, enthusiasm for public welfare, volunteer service, etc., and wrote a vivid chapter of "good man" with practical actions.
Filial piety and love for good sons-in-law
As the saying goes, "there is a treasure in the family". Xie Mugen has "four treasures" at home, he supports four old people, and his parents and parents-in-law are both old and frail. Over the years, he has taken care of the four old people, worked hard and did his best. Although the 97-year-old father smiled last year, the 90-year-old mother is still alive. His father-in-law suffers from Alzheimer's disease and is fed, and his mother-in-law also suffers from Parkinson's disease and mental illness. Xie Mugen took his father-in-law and mother-in-law into his home and took care of him with his lover. The two old people have to stay in the hospital several times a year, and Xie Mugen carefully accompanies them every time, feeds them with food and medicine, pours and urine, and doesn't say a word. As the old saying goes, "there is no filial son in front of the bed of a long illness", not to mention that Xie Mugen is a son-in-law. No wonder the people in the ward said that this son-in-law was better than his own son. On July 16, 2022, Xie Mugen was discussing a business in Zhongshan, Guangdong, when his father-in-law fell out of a wheelchair, and his lover had to take care of the family and had no time to take care of it. After Xie Mugen found out, he immediately called 120 to send his father-in-law to the county people's hospital, and he rushed back from Zhongshan overnight, and went directly to the hospital that night to take care of the elderly. For this reason, a friend said to Xie Mugen that your father-in-law's hospitalization caused you to lose tens of thousands of yuan in wealth. Xie Mugen said that the old man is the greatest wealth, and the business can be made again if there is no business, and the old man has a troubled conscience all his life. Xie Mugen is as good as he is for his relatives and for the elders in the village. He made in-depth visits to the elderly over 90 years old in the village every year, and visited the elderly over 80 years old one by one during the New Year's holidays. Xie Jinxin, a five-guarantee household, began to be sick in bed in 2017, and Xie Mugen often visited his home to take care of him, rain or shine, until the old man died three years ago. Xie Mugen is like this to the elderly, and he also cares for the children. Liu Qi of Yong'an Village, Yao Township, Mangshan, his father was sentenced for violating the law, his mother remarried, and he became a quasi-orphan at the age of three, after Xie Mugen learned about it in 2005, he took him home for adoption, regarded him as his own, and sent him to kindergarten to high school, and in 2023, Liu Qi and Xie Mugen's son Xie Jiajing were both admitted to undergraduate colleges. Xie Mugen has created a harmonious and warm family atmosphere with filial piety and love. His actions silently conveyed the traditional virtues of respecting the old and loving the young, and also won the heartfelt praise of the people around him.
A good webmaster who is enthusiastic about public welfare
Xie Mugen is a warm-hearted person, he is helpful and enthusiastic about public welfare, and regards helping others as a belief and a mentality, and enthusiasm for public welfare as a habit and a way of health preservation. Over the years, he has donated more than 100,000 yuan to help the poor and public welfare. He did a big basket of good deeds. On April 3 this year, Xie Mugen was on the way to carry out forest fire prevention propaganda and persuasion work during the Qingming Festival, and saw that the drainage ditch next to Huangmang Highway was blocked by leaves and silt, he immediately thought that it was the rainy season, and if he did not clean it up immediately, the road would be flooded, so he immediately went home to get tools to clean up, and it took more than two hours to clean up the silt and garbage. I saw Xie Mugen smile and say, "It's okay, this is my favorite." Yes, Xie Mugen just regards doing good deeds as his favorite. Xie Mugen co-operated a machinery leasing company, a car rental company, and a human resources company. He often uses all kinds of machinery to repair roads in the village for free, helps villagers dig septic tanks, bulldozers, and volunteers to participate in the rescue work of mudslides and landslides. He took advantage of human resources to often help the masses solve employment problems, introduced them to work on highways and in the coastal areas of Guangdong, and exempted the people in difficulty from labor intermediary fees. In order to help the poor people get rid of poverty and become rich, he receives tens of thousands of yuan less every year, but he is very happy. He said that if a poor household exports labor to one person, the family can be lifted out of poverty. Some migrant workers from poor households will come back from the Spring Festival with gifts to thank him, he said: "I am satisfied that you can come, and the gifts should be taken back to honor your parents." Xie Mugen is well aware that there is a long way to go to consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation, and he must build a bridge to happiness for poor households. With his help, many families have been able to get out of their predicament and rekindle hope for life.
Good big brother for volunteering
Since Xie Mugen joined the Good People Association, he has had one more fun in his life, which is to participate in volunteer service. The Cai Zichong Village Good People Workstation organized by him has increased from the initial 2 members to 6 7 members in less than a year. In the past 8 years, he has participated in and led these members to participate in the county-wide volunteer service activities such as creating a civilized city, fire safety, emergency rescue, Mangshan disability tourism, tourism development conference, forest concert, etc., organized by the Yizhang Good People Association and the Tiantang Good People Branch, and Cai Zichong Good People Workstation has carried out more than 160 volunteer service activities in the village, such as forest fire prevention, drowning prevention, clean villages, and traffic civilization persuasion. The members of the workstation are proud to participate in volunteer service, and will ask Xie Mugen at any time: "Good big brother, do you have any volunteer service activities in the near future?" As long as Xie Mugen is called, the members will respond positively. Cai Zichong Village is located in the Mangshan Reservoir, and the Leshui River runs through the village, so drowning prevention has become an important task of volunteer service. Every summer, Xie Mugen organizes members to take turns to volunteer for drowning prevention, carries out propaganda and persuasion work for students, tourists, and anglers, and places first-aid equipment in fixed places. In the past eight years, as long as Xie Mugen is in the village, he has gone to the reservoir and river every day, and has persuaded hundreds of students to go into the water to swim and fish. In the propaganda and persuasion work of patrolling the mountains and preventing forest fires, he organized members to go into the village to carry out propaganda and go up the mountain to carry out the patrol work, and Xie Mugen alone eliminated the forest fire danger more than 30 times. Xie Mugen and his teammates always guard the safety of the masses, and write a chapter of protecting life with vigilant eyes and solid steps. During the period of epidemic prevention and control, Xie Mugen stepped forward and devoted himself to the anti-epidemic volunteer service without hesitation. Wearing protective clothing, he fought day and night on the front line of the anti-epidemic, guarding the intersection, checking body temperature, distributing leaflets, driving his own pickup truck to transport personnel and materials to various service stations, buying water and rice, and building a solid line of defense for the local area. His figure has become the warmest memory of that special period. In addition to volunteering in the local area, Xie Mugen has also participated in volunteer services in other places. On July 25, 2017, Xie Mugen and Chairman Tan Jianjun took turns to drive and travel thousands of miles overnight to help the hard-hit area in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, to carry out volunteer services for flood relief.
Xie Mugen, a simple name, carries extraordinary spiritual power. Xie Mugen's good deeds are like seeds, taking root and sprouting in the fertile soil of the heart, blooming into gorgeous flowers. His story allows us to see the best side of human nature, and it also inspires each of us to pass on love and sow the seeds of goodness. (Yizhang County Rong Media Center reporter Tan Ge)