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It was a special Father's Day party.
Both the guest and the invitee secretly squeezed the wallet in their pockets, waiting for the opportunity to rush out to pay the bill. The most difficult thing is the waiter, both sides have confessed that they are not allowed to collect each other's money.
The two parties are donors and recipients respectively.
Donor Lao Jiang is 55 years old this year, only the first Chinese, he and his wife are ordinary workers, in ten years he donated more than 360,000 yuan to 202 poor students. The children called him "Papa Ginger".
Among the sponsored children, 8 students in School in Ha decided to "crowdfund" Father's Day, and this time they must not let Jiang Dad pay for it again.
"None of them made any money, they were all my children. I took the heart, or I came to buy it. On the way to the hotel, Jiang Dad secretly told reporters his heartfelt words.
Holidays and rewards
"All these years he's been like a big pot of chicken soup boiling over a small fire, and the pyrotechnics in the air make us feel that someone still cares."
Carnations, fruits... The Cultural Room of the Provincial Youth Development Foundation is surrounded by a strong festive atmosphere.
Many years ago, their encounter was also here, but at that time, the children were "small photos" with family resumes and college entrance examination results, while Jiang Dad was a funder who wore flower glasses to "select people".
"Jiang Dad, I was escorted to a graduate student at Lanzhou University!" "And me, I have a second patent!" "Jiang Dad, Brother Dabin just said in our group that he signed a fortune 500 company with an annual salary of 100,000 yuan"... Ginger, who took the flowers, was excited by the good news one after another, and took out a washed towel and kept wiping sweat... Then came the sentence "Take out your phone, I will send a red envelope in the group to express my mood at this moment!" Instantly won a round of applause.
From the private room to the lobby, the hotel is full, and all the children give their father a holiday. The treatment of old Ginger is that 8 "children" who are studying in Ha invite him to the seat and pour wine into the wine glass, "I wish Jiang Dad a happy Father's Day!" The children's blessings are very loud, the old Ginger is so happy that his face is red, and he is talking with his wife next to him, "People say that happiness is the whole of children, you say that we have so many children, how many squares of happiness do we have?" ”
Xiao Peng, who was escorted to graduate school, stood up and toasted the first glass of wine, "Jiang Dad, for us poor children, without your push, we didn't enter the university so smoothly." You are like a big pot of chicken soup boiling over a small fire, and the smoke and fire in the air makes us feel that someone still cares! ”
What warms Ginger even more is that the children "remember". He and his wife went to Beijing to see the grid that had already worked, and the girl "tricked" him into saying that he had a "free coupon" to stay in a hotel chain, but when he finally checked out, he knew that the room fee of 428 yuan was the child's own, and also reported them a two-day trip to Chengde.
This year's Spring Festival, several children who have already participated in the work have sent him red envelopes, the smallest 200 yuan, the largest 888 yuan. "I can't give it back to my child, that's a piece of people's hearts." Jiang Dad grinned happily, "I told my wife to save the money for them and wrap a big red envelope on their wedding day!" ”
Ten years ago the first donation
At that time, a poor student who "scored more than 600 points in the exam, but could not afford to go to college" reported that the old ginger who had just Chinese donated the first money, and since then a donation has not been received.
One night in the summer ten years ago, Ginger, who was watching TV, casually changed channels, and saw a student standing in front of a broken house that was about to collapse, the child was wearing a very inappropriate old man's shirt, and Old Ginger only remembered the last sentence: "After more than 600 points, the family is too poor to remember." Old Jiang looked at his wife next to him at that time, and he made a look, "Let's donate a child too!" ”
Only the old ginger, who has just Chinese, has a kind of worship of knowledge that is similar to "totem". He said that he graduated from junior high school, but in fact, he knew that after three years of study, he also skipped a year and a half of classes. Because of his lack of culture, he suffered a lot in the days to come. As an accountant, he was not only questioned many times by his colleagues, "You are good at junior high school, why don't you understand it?" And many times the CPA exam is folded in the "financial management" course. Old Ginger, who memorized all the formulas by rote, but still couldn't get the results in the examination room, finally realized that "I still have to read, I have to learn!" ”
Old Ginger also recognizes a reason: helping a family in difficulty, no matter how much money is funded, it is only the relationship between one meal and a hundred meals. Only by giving the family the ability to support itself can we solve the problem from the root, and helping the children of such a family to go to school is the best way.
The children of poor families do have long been in charge, but most of them are sensitive and inferior. Old Ginger realized that it was not only the economy that he wanted to help, but also the psychology. He used the stupidest way to do it—to move around a lot, to be in touch a lot, to treat himself like his own child.
If you want to travel with your wife, you must choose a city that "has your own children". The small hotels are booked near the child's university, and when they arrive, ask the child if they have time to meet...
Be yourself
For those who do not want to contact, Jiang Dad explained that there is so much fate, help will help, as for the children to say what to do, that is the business of others, do a good job of themselves.
Ten years, long is not long, short is not short. But there are not many things that can be done in one thing. Old Ginger insisted on donating money to study.
The donation form of Lao Jiang printed by the Provincial Youth Foundation is 8 pages long, which records that of the 202 children he sponsored, 35 primary school students, 34 junior high school students, 18 high school students, and 115 college students, a total of 361,080 yuan was donated. The year with the largest number of grants was 2015, with a total of 48 children sponsored. He set up a "WeChat group" for the children, and there were more than 70 people in it, and there were forty or fifty people who dived all year round without saying a word. It's not bad, there's still a connection to each other, and some children don't even "receive" a donation after receiving it. Whenever he said this, Jiang Dad would always experience emotional fluctuations from "difficult to reconcile" to "self-enlightenment" to "great enlightenment".
"If you want to say that you don't have a chill, it's impossible, and no one's money is blown by the wind." When Jiang Dad said this, his tone was lowered a lot, and his voice was also a little hoarse, "I am afraid that if the sponsored children encounter difficulties after going to school, they will remind the staff of the Provincial Youth Foundation to attach my mobile phone number to the notice sheet to the children." But there are really a few children who don't even send a text message. The earliest encounter with such a situation, worried that the money did not arrive Jiang Dad sent a text message to the sponsored students, asking whether the money was received, after reporting the name, the other party replied "Who?" I don't know, I don't know the name. ”
After that, Jiang Dad only donated money and did not take the initiative to send text messages. If the children write letters, he will reply as soon as possible; when they come to text, he will call back if he is slow to type. He also advised himself that "help is help, as for the children, what they say, that is the business of others, just do yourself." ”
By now, he has "attained enlightenment" and has a set of Zen theories: "Maybe the fate between each other is just a little." Over the years, many people around who have known and heard about it have said that ginger is neurotic and eats more. But when it was found that Old Ginger was very serious about being a "neurotic", everyone said such things slowly and less. When the children came to see the ginger, relatives and friends rushed to invite these children to their homes and eat at the restaurant.
"Package" donations
As long as the children's difficulties let him know, it is basically to manage to the end. Those who go to graduate school in other places will steal the road fee, and those who want to participate in recruitment will buy new clothes...
Jiang Dad's babies have a breath, "two doctors, 7 masters" This is the passage that his relatives and friends around him have heard enough, every time he thinks about it, others will extend the "9" gesture, indicating that they know, it is 9.
He has always believed that "if a child wants to study and be self-motivated, he is out of the ordinary." So he never thought that help was a one-time thing, especially in learning. Xinxin read from undergraduate to doctoral, undergraduate tuition is 4800 yuan per year, graduate students are 10,000 yuan per year, all of which are paid by Jiang Dad.
4 years ago, I went to check on the girls at the school of the grid, and my wife came down from the women's dormitory and said, "There are 4 people in the house, only our family has no computer." The old couple went straight to the mall to buy a computer of more than 7,000 yuan and moved it back to the dormitory.
Mu Mu graduated to participate in various job fairs, he was not at ease, pulled his wife to visit the high-end shopping mall, spent 1800 yuan to buy a set of formal clothes, 600 yuan to buy a pair of leather shoes, it is said that when going downstairs, he remembered that he had to buy a watch to give the child a "strong façade", and then turned back to the roller ladder ...
At the end of the festival dinner, the children went to checkout, only to find that the "old and spicy" Jiang Dad still had a perfect cooperation with his wife, and "broke through the siege" to buy a single. "When you go to work to earn a salary in the future, then I will eat whatever you want when you ask me to eat, and I will not pay with you!" Jiang Dad and his wife insisted on sending the children to the station, and when they came to the train, they quickly stuffed the one yuan that had been collected long ago into the hands of the children, "I am ready for you, don't pay for it, get on the bus!" ”
The car closed the door and slowly drove out of the platform, Jiang Dad was still looking...
The sponsored students sent red envelopes to Jiang Dad during the Spring Festival.
On Father's Day, the children sent blessings to Jiang Dad in the group.
At the insistence of Jiang Dad, all the sponsored students in this article are pseudonyms.