At the age of 60, some people have gone all their lives and want to stop and enjoy their old age, but it is a new beginning for some people in the second half of their lives.
After a diplomat retired, he was supposed to live a long time and tease his grandson, but he and his wife mysteriously disappeared and have not been heard from since.
Ten years later, the diplomat was injured and taken to the hospital by his wife, and the truth behind it was touching.
Zhu Mincai was born in Huangping County, Guizhou Province in 1942.
Through unremitting efforts, Zhu Mincai was successfully admitted to Guizhou University and entered the English Department to study, achieving a major turning point in his life.
After that, Zhu Mincai entered the former Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (now the Ministry of Commerce) with his excellent English professional ability.
During his tenure, Zhu Mincai has traveled to more than a dozen countries in Africa and Southeast Asia, and has been responsible for foreign economic and trade affairs, demonstrating outstanding diplomatic ability and professionalism.
Zhu Mincai has rich diplomatic experience and international vision, and his diplomatic skills and work experience have been widely recognized.
In the nearly 40 years he has worked in the Ministry of Commerce, he has been conscientious and diligent, and has made important contributions to the country's foreign trade and economic cooperation.
In 2004, when Zhu Min was only 62 years old, he honorably retired from his post as economic and commercial counselor at the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Nepal.
The husband and wife, who retired one after another, originally planned to retire in Beijing, but a decision by his wife changed the trajectory of their lives in the second half of their lives.
One day, his wife, Sun Lina, happened to see a scene on TV in Bijie District, Guizhou Province, where a rural teacher in his twenties carried his students to school, and was immediately moved by this picture.
Sun Lina, a senior retired teacher at a primary school in Beijing, felt that there was a shortage of teachers in Guizhou and felt sorry for the children who had no books to read, so she immediately decided to invite her husband to Guizhou to teach.
In fact, in the heart of Zhu Mincai, an old man, there has always been a very regrettable thing.
When Zhu Mincai graduated from university and filled in the work volunteers, his goal was to go to his hometown - Guizhou Province to become an English teacher, but because of the needs of the country, he could only bury this regret deep in his heart, and this delay was more than 40 years.
When he knew that his wife had decided to go to Guizhou to teach, Zhu Mincai was not only very supportive, but also chose to go to Guizhou Rural Primary School with his wife to teach.
Knowing the importance of education to change the lives of children in mountainous areas, they decided to use their knowledge and experience to help those in need.
Before leaving, Zhu Mincai and Sun Lina were still very energetic and calm, and their hair was still black.
This year, Zhu Min was only 62 years old and Zhang Lina was 50 years old.
Since 2005, in the past ten years, the couple has gone to five of the poorest rural schools in Guizhou to teach, covering most of Guizhou Province.
Before leaving, the couple formulated a teaching principle: they must go to the poorest places, and the goal is to go to the places where there is the greatest shortage of teachers. Zhu Mincai said: "Where is the most difficult, we will go!" ”
Therefore, every place they teach is in the deep mountains with rare people and harsh environment.
Some schools only have two or three dilapidated rooms with leaky air everywhere, and some don't even have classrooms, so Zhu Mincai and Sun Lina can only take everyone to class on the playground.
The process of volunteering was not all smooth sailing, and Zhu Mincai and Sun Lina also faced many difficulties.
They live in a poor school building, separated only by a wall from the toilet, and Sun Lina said that at night the smell of the toilet wafts into the house, and the smell of it is impossible to sleep at all, and sometimes it is necessary to wear two masks.
The conditions for bathing and eating are also very simple, and sometimes, a bowl of boiled noodles is a meal for two people.
A faucet, a water pipe, and a small stool are all the bathing tools for the two of them, and they will not take a bath for many months in winter.
Although the conditions were difficult, Zhu Mincai and Sun Lina never thought of giving up, and always stuck to their teaching posts in poor villages.
During the teaching period, Zhu Mincai and Sun Lina taught the children basic courses such as English and mathematics, and also added courses such as physical education, music, and art.
Zhu Mincai and Sun Lina not only want to impart knowledge to the children, but also enrich their spiritual world, so that they know that beyond this impoverished village, there is a broader and more colorful world.
They are trying to open the door to the outside world for their children and push them out of this mire of poverty.
During the volunteer teaching, many unforgettable things also happened for the couple.
Jianshan Miaozhai Primary School is an important stop in their teaching career, which is almost isolated from the world, but the couple has put a lot of effort into it.
After many years, the two of them always remember the danger of going up the mountain for the first time.
On the way into the mountain is a steep mountain wall on one side and a cliff on the other, Sun Lina said: "Really use your hands and feet together, climb up!" ”
When they first arrived at Jianshan Miaozhai Primary School, they found that the children here were very timid, and they didn't dare to look directly at people, so they timidly twisted their heads to the side, and even avoided the two of them.
But the two did not give up and actively supported teaching, and their efforts were not in vain, and their kindness finally opened the hearts of the children.
Jianshan is all stones, and the staple food is potatoes and corn, and it is difficult for the two to eat vegetables.
Sun Lina would always talk with tears in her eyes, a little girl, her family was extremely poor, and her family couldn't even eat food.
But she was worried that Zhu Mincai and Sun Lina couldn't eat food, as long as there were vegetables at home, she would tie three or four pieces of cabbage with grass blades, run to school, lie on the couple's window, and hand them the vegetables with her little hand.
When recalling the scene when the two left Jiantou Primary School, all the children followed the two, crying and singing behind the two, and the parting song echoed in the mountains for a long time, Sun Lina choked up: "I will never forget this scene for the rest of my life!" ”
During this decade, Zhu Mincai and Sun Lina actively improved the school's teaching conditions and raised funds for the school.
When the teaching environment of a school improves, it is when Zhu Mincai and Sun Lina leave.
Their goal was to teach in every of the poorest schools, so that children in every of the poorest areas could go to school, but their plan came to an abrupt end in 2015.
In 2015, Zhu Mincai, who was overworked, suddenly suffered from cerebral blood and was rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment, and the couple had to temporarily leave their teaching posts and return to Beijing for treatment.
It turned out that Zhu Mincai had high blood pressure and other diseases as early as nineties, and the cold and damp teaching environment and heavy teaching tasks eventually dragged down Zhu Mincai's body.
rescued Zhu Mincai, who woke up, couldn't let go of the students he was worried about, and wrote on the paper with trembling hands: "I want to go to class."
A former diplomat, a senior primary school teacher, with his retirement, lit the light of education.
Among the mountains, they are the most beautiful scenery, using the seeds of knowledge to sow hope and nourish the barren hearts. The wind and frost stained the ends of their hair white, but they could not dye the enthusiasm and firmness in their hearts.
Zhu Mincai and Sun Lina are the messengers of love, with selfless dedication, writing a chapter of great love in the world, in the hearts of the children, the couple is their warm beacon, illuminating the road ahead, leading them to a broader world.
Information sources:
CCTV Network - [2014 Touching Chinese Characters] Zhu Mincai, Sun Lina: Watching the elderly who educate in the mountainous areas of Guizhou
CCTV Network - [Tell] Looking for the Most Beautiful Rural Teacher Documentary Exhibition-Zhu Mincai, Sun Lina