"Maybe I'm used to it, but my nose is not so sensitive, and now my nose can't smell anything anymore......"
With a "bang", the manhole cover weighing more than ten catties was hooked aside by Li Meng, and a pungent smell immediately burst out. However, this smell that made Li Meng couldn't help retching at first, now that she is used to it, she can't smell it anymore.
After growing up in the hutongs of Beijing, Li Meng, who was only 22 years old at the time, came to the Dongcheng District Environmental Sanitation Center in Beijing after retiring from the army in 2011. She has been doing the work of "pumping manure" for thirteen years.
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As soon as I heard about the dry sanitation, the whole family "exploded".
Before half past six in the morning, Li Meng boarded the car on time to work, and breakfast could only be "solved" in the manure pumping truck.
After arriving at the operation point and getting off the car, pull the manhole cover, hold the manure pipe, control the "bleaching" (by shaking the pipe and adjusting the position, pump out the floating filth in the manure well), and collect the pipe and return to its position...... The whole process was done in one go, and not even a drop of manure fell to the ground. This is the operation technique that Li Meng has mastered for thirteen years.
As the leader of the 38 women's fecal pumping squad of Shi Chuanxiang Institute of Dongcheng District Sanitation Center, Li Meng and 7 employees in the class are responsible for the manure pumping work of more than 100 manure wells in the south of Dongcheng District.
When she first came to the sanitation interview in 2011, Li Meng, like many people, thought that doing sanitation was "sweeping the streets". It wasn't until she was admitted that she learned that sanitation was divided into four types of work: road cleaning, public toilet cleaning, cleaning small advertisements, and manure pumping.
Li Meng was assigned to the 38 women's fecal pumping class of Shi Chuanxiang. The class leader at that time was very happy, saying that the 38th class had not been a girl in her 20s for more than ten years. ”
But as soon as he returned home, his family members were "blown up!" Except for his father's support, everyone else felt "disgraced" when they heard it. "My mom said you won't be long and you'll regret it. ”
Li Meng has a "stubbornness" in her temperament, the more others are not optimistic, the more she has to succeed. At the age of 18, Li Meng became a soldier, and when she was in the army, she ran 3 kilometers and stood in a military posture for 6 hours.
△ Li Meng when he was in the army
After retiring from the army and working in sanitation, Li Meng wants to prove that he can not only do it, but also do it well. "I started with pipes. "When the pipe is not pressurized, it weighs twenty or thirty pounds, and it can have hundreds of pounds after being pressurized into the well.
Although the master was led by the master at first, "the master led the door, and the cultivation depended on the individual." At first, Li Meng didn't know how to use dexterity, her body was often bruised and purple, and feces were always rubbed on her clothes.
With a "stubbornness" and groping energy, two months later, Li Meng's work is getting better and better, and her clothes are clean. Master said, this is considered a master.
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The "girl" and "cute" in everyone's mouth
Unexpectedly, after competing with the pipe, I have to compete with gossip. Li Meng noticed that when he was working, there would always be onlookers. A mother passed by with her child and said to her child: "If you don't study hard, you will have to smoke feces in the future!"
Sometimes when she encounters some unkind words, she will also argue with reason. "I don't think there's anything we don't feel confident about, we should be confident, and let everyone raise their heads and wear this sanitation suit. ”
However, Li Meng still gained a lot of warmth. When it's hot, someone will hand her a bottle of water. On a rainy day, Li Meng was drenched in the rain and pumped dung, and a passing aunt took the initiative to come over to make an umbrella for her, which moved her.
When nearby residents need help, Li Meng will also help repair pipelines and move things in addition to work...... She has gradually become what everyone calls a "girl" and "cute".
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"Ordinary work is brilliant, this is called decent"
At the door of Shi Chuanxiang, there is a striking saying: "I would rather be dirty than ten thousand clean." This is also the "spirit of Shi Chuanxiang" that has been inherited by the 38 women's fecal pumping class.
When I first came to the 38 women's fecal pumping class, the old squad leader took Li Meng to visit the Shi Chuanxiang Memorial Hall. There, Li Meng was very touched, and she felt that it was an honor to be able to work in the unit where Shi Chuanxiang was before his death.
"Everyone wants to be 'decent', who can do the ordinary work! can do the ordinary work brilliantly, and make one's career more confident and energetic, this is called 'decent'. ”
In work practice, Li Meng also pays attention to summing up experience and strives to do a brilliant job. The manure in the well sinks in winter and rises in summer, so it is necessary to pump it more frequently in summer; in the morning, go to the main road to finish the work, and after 9 o'clock, the dung truck will enter the narrow alley, so as not to affect the residents to go to school and work; if someone wants to dry the quilt the next day, they try to avoid that time period to pump the manure......
If the work is done beautifully, people must also live with spirit and self-confidence. Every day before leaving the car, Li Meng will tie her hair in the mirror and put on lipstick. She said that sanitation workers in the new era should be confident and energetic, and should devote themselves to work with the fullest mental state.
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"I'm working hard and I'm happy"
The sense of accomplishment of serving everyone and the warm daily interaction made Li Meng find a lot of fun, and she also fell in love with this profession. "When people have love, they will be willing to do a little more. ”
Li Meng has also won many honors: in 2018, he won the National May Day Labor Medal, and in 2022, he became a representative of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China...... In this year's Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dragon, Li Meng appeared as a representative of the "most beautiful retired soldier". Sitting in the first row of the audience in a sanitation suit, she felt extremely proud.
In recent years, Li Meng has also really felt the new changes. The renewal of supporting facilities for sanitation has greatly liberated manpower, and more young sanitation workers have joined, bringing new ways of thinking and working. The public toilets in the alleys have been renovated, and some of them are equipped with toilets and Wi-Fi. Public awareness of environmental protection is also increasing, and urban sanitation is getting better and better.
When she took off her work clothes and returned home, Li Meng often took her daughter to pick up garbage in the community and taught her to learn to care for the environment. Now, my 8-year-old daughter proudly says that she is a "little angel of sanitation", and whenever she sees someone in a sanitation suit, she will say, "This is my mother's colleague".
△ Li Mo family.
Looking back on the past thirteen years of career, Li Meng's biggest feeling is that he didn't work in vain. "I'm working hard, living hard, and I feel happy. ”
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