"You look at me skinny,
But look at my legs,
The calf muscles are very strong,
Pedaling a tricycle can run fast. ”
At about 5:40 p.m. on August 17, the reporter finally saw the figure of Grandma Wang at the intersection of Yingda Road in Baoji City, Shaanxi Province, although her hair was gray and looked very thin, but she was very sharp and relaxed when riding a tricycle and placing a stall, and it was also very sharp to roll up pancakes.
Mention this grandmother
Familiar to everyone nearby
Speaking of Grandma Wang, the citizens who often "surf" the Internet recently should have heard about it - an 85-year-old woman who pedals a rickshaw every afternoon and sells pancakes until late at night in the middle of Baoji Yingda Road, and the young people who often pass by here and the surrounding shops and merchants are familiar with her.
It is understood that the pancake seller Wang Grandma lived near Park Road, was born in Luohe, Henan in 1936, came to Baoji in 1956, was only 20 years old at the time, worked in an inn near the old railway station in Baoji before the age of 45, and after retirement, began to sell pancakes at a stall in 2007.
There is no deliberate arrangement
The days are regular and fulfilling
Grandma Wang's life does not seem to have to deliberately arrange what to do today, just like there is a fixed "rhythm" in her heart, to what point, she is doing, although flat, but for her is very fulfilling. Not only did she get rid of boredom, but it also made her feel her own presence.
Grandma Wang introduced that at more than 7 o'clock in the morning, she rode a tricycle to the market to buy vegetables, sometimes buying 40-50 pounds of potatoes can be pulled home by herself; after arriving home at about 8 o'clock, she began to prepare the side dishes of pancakes, and began to sell stalls after 5:30 to 6 o'clock in the afternoon, and the pancakes sold for 4 yuan.
Hygienic good taste fragrant
Loved by customers
During the small talk, Grandma Wang took out a photo of a young man taking for her in the winter, in which the grandmother had snow-white hair, wrapped in a sweater and a thick coat, wearing a bib and a thread hat, although her fingers were frozen blue, but she was content and happy to mix the side dishes in the small basin. Although Grandma Wang said on her lips, "I don't even take pictures, ugly death, the boy is really, what is the shooting?" But she has always taken this "heart" of the young man with her and placed it properly.
During the interview, most of the young people who came to buy pancakes said with a happy face: "I am old, and the Alipay and WeChat QR codes used by young children cannot understand, this is what the girlfriend got for me." ”
The Huashang Daily reporter observed that the dishes on Grandma Wang's pancake stand were polished, and even the rags were very clean.
A young customer told reporters that he came here almost every day to buy pancakes, and he has been a regular customer for so many years, and his grandmother's pancakes taste particularly good. Another middle-aged customer said that he had been eating his grandmother's pancakes when he was in school, and now that he had established a family, he would often patronize after work, and Grandma Wang's pancakes tasted like memories.
"Mom's been doing it all her life.
Can't stay idle."
As early as an interview in 2015, Grandma Wang's eldest daughter once told a reporter from China Business Daily: "My mother has a retirement salary, she does not pay attention to food and clothing, and she is not short of money. The three of us sisters have always been reluctant to let my mother come out to set up a stall, after all, she is older, but my mother's personality can't be stopped, she has worked all her life, and she can't idle. Now I can't say that I support her, I just want to open, and often run errands for her, to see what she lacks to buy it. I am proud to have such an 'invincible' mother. ”
In a video taken by a customer, Grandma Wang in the night was smiling and looking very energetic, and the customer asked: "Auntie, you are now an Internet celebrity, there are many fans, many young people say that you are our role model, we should learn from you." Grandma Wang smiled and said, "I just said that it has been selling quite well these past few days." What to learn, who wants to do that, do you know how much work I do all day? I go home now, first I can't sleep, put aside ten pounds of potatoes, peel the skin and soak it in water, start sleeping, get up again at 7 o'clock, get up and start cooking, start cleaning, just this busy and busy until 1 p.m., and then (and) a big basin of batter, (rhythm) can be nervous, so many years. I don't know anything, but my brain is easy to use, not selfish, you see I have a few children, tell me, Grandma is enough, give me less rolls to order, I said more rolls, is my own fried dishes are not rare, I like this, children love me. ”
Netizens are talking hotly
Hopefully, "traffic" doesn't bother Grandma too much
■ Whenever I feel tired and irritable, I will watch this grandmother's video. Full of positive energy, very touching and warm.
■ My former landlord, a grandfather, was raining heavily, selling vegetables at a stall, wearing a raincoat, and if I hadn't known he had 3 houses for rent, I almost thought he was the kind of person who ate and didn't eat.
■ Great grandmother, every day can not go out of the stall to see themselves, go or not to go to that, but has been insisting, this perseverance, what can not be done.
■ I really admire such people and do something old. "Three or four hours of sleep at this age is enough." It is rare that you choose to contribute to society and enjoy yourself.
■ If you eat a late-night snack on Yingda Road, you can buy a pancake grandma's pancake roll dish, delicious and not expensive, let the old man go home early. Also, hopefully the "traffic" doesn't bother Grandma too much.
■ Grandma is in good health, more than ten years ago, I often ate her pancakes, delicious, and porridge, at that time in the Taibai Road bridge, every night in the stalls, I also often eat.
dialogue
"As long as you can take care of yourself, you can be good"
Why choose to set up a street stall at an age when you should enjoy the blessings of Qingfu?
After my wife died, I couldn't think straight after staying at home, and finally I thought, No, I'm going to go out and set up a stall. I started setting up a stall in 2007, and now I have been holding it for nearly 15 years, going around three times for various reasons, and finally putting it in the place where I am now, and no one who often passes by this place does not know me.
You see, I don't have a dizzy head, I don't have a flower, I don't like to wait at home for old age. When I came out of the stall, I asked Grandma for a cake, and the one said Grandma that your cake is so delicious and happy. Many people of my age in our hospital have brains that are not good, some legs and feet are inconvenient, and they all say that I look at the spirit, don't people live to be happy? My basin of batter is stirring, and I am moving all over my body, isn't this also a kind of movement?
Do you insist on setting up stalls until late at night when it's cold in winter? 、
Winter is not cold is that, do business which can be by themselves, cold you go home, warm you out, that is impossible, I also like to watch people coming and going, and everyone gossip, I feel lively, the heart is comfortable and cheerful.
Do you feel hard about life in the wind and rain?
(Grandma Wang said happily with a face turning over the hot pancakes——)
You can sell almost 80 pancakes a day, and before that, whether you sell them in winter or summer, you can go home at about 1-2 a.m. Recently sold relatively fast, almost eleven or twelve o'clock at night on the end, after going home not sleepy first do not sleep, peel the potatoes, cut the soaking water and then wash and sleep, a day almost sleep 3-4 hours, the elderly sleep less, but the age is indeed older, especially this year, the waist is not good at all, but still can insist!
If people want to do something happy, they can't think about the mess, and the more they think about it, the more they can't sleep.
Why don't you live with your children at such an old age?
Granddaughter's children are 8 years old, working in Wenzhou, occasionally video, I do not often look at the grandson, children and I are in Baoji, young people are working outside, each person has their own business, each has its own way of life, can not always stay in front.
I have my own house, each living in their own, the children have grown up, has been fifty or sixty, although not living very close, but in Baoji City, not too far, when idle to see me, said to come, the old man lives alone in freedom, as long as they can take care of themselves, it is good.
I now prepare ingredients every day during the day, seven side dishes a day, every day I am thinking about which dish is missing, I come out at night to set up a stall, I feel happy, if I hadn't done this for so many years, I wouldn't be so good at brains now, the brains of the elderly should still be used more, and it is easy to "rust" without us, like my personality, is like tossing, if you don't do anything at home, it is definitely not OK.
What do you think the living conditions of the elderly should be?
In fact, when people are old, it is easy to get by themselves and themselves, people are always the norm, it is a natural law, this is no way to do things, the best thing is to be able to go out and see, do something they like, want to open, so that they are happy, the children are also assured, like I do this, earning money is not the most important, the most important thing is to let me toss, so many years of confusion, I am now quite comfortable, just like Henan Yu opera "I love my father" sang the same: "I am also a person, I also have needs," young and old are the same.
Reporter Wang Peimin Intern reporter Yang Yuting
Source: China Business Daily