Wen 丨 Liu Shengsong
Life is like a reverse journey, and I am also a pedestrian. What is the color of life, no one can say clearly, the way is not clear.
In my hometown of Xiangyin, there is a neighbor named Yali, and his attitude to life makes me remember deeply.
He and I are in a village, and in the 1990s, the rural areas were generally poor, and the family could not even pay the tuition. At that time, the nine-year compulsory education had not yet been popularized, and he could only be like many small partners, and before graduating from junior high school, he followed the uncles of the previous generation to apprentice and work in the wood factory in Guangdong to supplement the family. Because he was sincere and down-to-earth, he also mailed a lot of money back in the first few years to fund the family to build a house and his brother to study. One afternoon in 2007, I accidentally broke my right hand by a chainsaw while working. After recuperating for a year, I found that my right hand was still unable to withstand the strength, and that year, I was only 27 years old. Thinking that he would be disabled for the rest of his life, his tears were running dry, and he tried various methods to try to recover, but found that he could not change anything at all, and could only accept the cruel reality.
People who lack one hand will naturally have a much weaker ability to work, and no one will want to go out to work. However, there are old people on the top and small ones on the bottom, and Yali must earn money to support his family, fortunately, his wife Meizi has never abandoned, and finally gave him some comfort.
Idle for more than a year, can not do heavy work, but also for the sake of life to run around, what dirty work is willing to do, run through the motorcycle, sell fruits, sell vegetables, but always do not last long. Later, he simply changed his career and rented a small façade on the side of the county's unobtrusive street to open a rice noodle shop. Due to the real materials and the real price, the business is not bad. The profits were already thin, and Yali still sent some food to some homeless people and disabled people nearby from time to time, and the money was not much, but he felt very satisfied.
Once, Yang Genga, a cotton seed farm in Baini Lake, prepared two baskets of vegetables at five o'clock in the morning and took someone else's hitchhiker to sell on the street. It was almost ten o'clock in the morning, ready to eat bowl noodles at Yali's powder shop, touching my pocket, and only counting the more than 100 yuan several times was missing... Standing in the shop, wanting to eat noodles and embarrassed to open the credit account, when he hesitated, Yali brought him a bowl of noodles and said that he would give it to him to eat, and also took 10 yuan to make him travel expenses. At that time, the old man in his 60s was moved to cry like a child. The next day, Yang Gendai specially asked his son to ride a motorcycle to take him over to pay back 10 yuan, and he must also recognize Yali's wife as a dry daughter. Later, even if he didn't often go to the street to sell vegetables, Yang Genda still specially entrusted people to send a few eggs and one or two fish from time to time.
Because Yali had accumulated a good reputation in the years when he opened the store, in 2015, after being recommended by the village, he was selected by Yuanjiapu Town as a full-time member of the Disabled Persons' Federation. Today, he is busier, often carrying copies to the village, mainly responsible for serving more than 1,200 disabled people in the town, helping to apply for nursing subsidies, hardship subsidies, and sending them wheelchairs, hearing aids, prosthetics and other indispensable medical devices and drugs in life.
Every time I went back to meet Yali, he would smile at me and go to his work. During this year's Spring Festival, he specifically approached me to talk about my experience in recent years. His efforts for the veterans of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea in Chengnan Village, and the painstaking efforts he has made for the blind poor households in Huashi Village, sometimes make people like me feel ashamed of myself...
Life is short, Shaohua is easy to pass away, we see through but still love, it gives us equal time and opportunity, but we give it different feelings and processes. I think that you must be optimistic and positive about your work and life, what your attitude is like, and what color life is. As long as there is love in the heart, there will always be colorful sunshine in life.
[Editor-in-charge: Liu Hanlu]
[Source: New Hunan Client]