Labor makes man: Du's story
If during Pamir's exploration, the only child raised the question of her own potential, then in daily life, Du, the only child, gave full play to her own potential. Du's story was so touching that it was even made into a movie, which aroused the sighs of countless one-child families. Recalling the scene written by Du, it is still unforgettable.
In Qingdao, the author's beautiful hometown, when people sigh for the shortcomings of the only child, people often say, "Du is also an only child. You see how strong she is, even adults admire her ability! " Some mothers came to visit Du with their "treasures", hoping that their children could learn from this self-improvement little girl. ?
Du, an ordinary only child, how did she win the respect of thousands of people in Qian Qian? Perhaps, the story should start from that tragic day. ?
The most terrible day for Du was1September 23rd, 990.
This is a Sunday. In the morning, Yao Yao followed her father to the hospital to visit her mother, who had suffered from severe rheumatic heart disease and had been hospitalized for several months. In order to comfort his wife and meet his daughter's requirements, dad asked her to spend more time with her mother and take her to the movies in the afternoon. ?
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Yao Yao came home from the hospital and wanted to go to the movies with his father. Dad seems to be asleep, lying on his back with his hands crossed. Yao Yao called his father many times, but he didn't answer. His hands and feet were cold and his body was stiff. Eight-year-old Yao Yao seems to understand something. She was so scared that she burst into tears and shouted, "Dad, what's wrong with you? Dad, open your eyes and look at me. I am Yao Yao ... "
Dad, who used to be the pillar of the family and brought infinite joy to Yao Yao, suddenly left. A happy and warm family is facing a serious crisis.
Yao Yao, an 8-year-old only daughter, almost collapsed under this sudden huge blow. Although my mother struggled to get home, many relatives and people from my father's company came, but her dearest father could never come back! She couldn't believe how strong her father was as a naval soldier and how he became a small urn! ?
In the days of taking care of her husband, her mother's heart ached more and her condition deteriorated rapidly. She didn't eat or drink for days, staring blankly at the portrait on her husband's urn and crying.
Yao Yao was afraid. She shook her mother with her little hand: "Mom, why did you cry about your father and leave me alone?" Mom, I'm hungry, I'm hungry ... "Listening to my daughter's sad pleading and seeing her messy hair and tears all over her face, my mother's heart is broken." She walked into the kitchen with trepidation, put the rice in the pot to heat it up, brought a basin of water and began to wash her face and comb her hair silently for her daughter. ...
Like other only children, Yao Yao is the apple of mom and dad's eye. By the time she was 23, her mother had taught her more than 200 words. When she was four and a half years old, her father sent her to the Children's Palace to learn reading, singing and dancing. As for the future, parents want their daughter to be an announcer or a program host. Yao Yao loved beauty since childhood. After listening to her mother say that eating fruit is good for her skin, she soon got into the habit of eating fruit. She dreams of entering TV or radio one day and becoming a popular and excellent announcer.
"Mom, what's the matter with you?" Immersed in happy memories, Yao Yao suddenly noticed her mother's trembling hands and shortness of breath, and quickly helped her to lie down on the bed. After a while, my mother wanted to comb Yao Yao's hair again. Yao Yao couldn't bear it, and said, "Mom, lie down and I'll comb it myself." "You won't!" Listening to her mother's sigh, Yao Yao immediately made a comb and replied, "I can comb, I can learn!" " " ?
A few days later, the sick mother was hospitalized again. Although some relatives are in Qingdao, who has time to take care of a child who goes to school every day? Who can take time off to take care of a hospitalized patient for a long time? Therefore, the two burdens of arranging one's own life and taking care of his mother are on the shoulders of Du, a third-grade pupil. ?
Once a person makes up his mind, he will inspire great potential that he can't even believe. Du made a vow of "never giving in to bad luck", and she suddenly became strong and capable. ?
Du learned to cook. ?
The first time I stood in front of the gas stove, the first time I held a frying spoon, the first time I washed rice and cooked, the first time ... I can't tell you how many first times. An only daughter of eight or nine years old, with so many firsts, how can she not make mistakes? She cuts vegetables and fingers. She burned her hand with hot pot. She poured hot water into a thermos and burned her feet. She spilled cooking oil on her face and left three small scars. She cooked rice porridge for the first time. Because she was busy watching her homework, she forgot that the rice porridge on the gas stove was still boiling.
My mother drank rice porridge instead of scolding Yao Yao, just reminding her to concentrate on her future work. However, Yao Yao blamed himself again and again in his heart, determined to practice superb skills and let his mother eat delicious meals. ?
Now, Yao Yao has mastered the techniques of steaming rice, cooking rice porridge, frying meat with various vegetables, frying fish and making clam soup. In order to prevent peanut oil from deteriorating, she also learned to fry pepper oil. The Young Pioneers Brigade of the school launched a "shining" labor skill competition, and the team members elected her as a representative performance. As a result, she laid her eggs on the table and won the first place in one fell swoop.
Mother's illness is getting worse and worse, and she can't walk in the fields. So all the clothes to be washed at home should be washed in Yao Yao; Everything you want to buy at home must be bought by Yao Yao. Although these jobs are hard, tiring and troublesome, they have not intimidated the strong Du Yao Yao. However, the lack of money made her secretly puzzled.
Yao Yao's mother has been ill for a long time and can't go to work. After deducting the rent and other expenses, the factory gives her 100 every month, with salary and subsidies. After dad died, the unit only gave Yao Yao 40 yuan a monthly pension. Anyone with a little common sense will understand that in Qingdao, a tourist city with high consumption, the monthly income is only 140 yuan, which is already at the lowest living standard. Besides, Yao Yao's mother is receiving expensive treatment.
In order to save as much as possible, Du Xian gave up his snacks. When the hot summer comes, which child's stomach is not a "small ice bank"? However, when other students in the class are eating sorbet, only Yao Yao is drinking cold boiled water. ?
When she usually goes shopping, she always goes to several stores and buys them cheaply. When she finds that vegetables in the market are cheap at night, she often uses the afternoon after school to go shopping. ?
Whenever her mother is in hospital, Yao Yao is always with her. While taking care of her mother, she will finish her homework that day. She not only takes care of her mother, but also often helps other patients turn on the water. She also sang and danced to comfort them, which moved the patients very much. One patient is a veteran cadre of the Education Bureau. He contacted a calligraphy class and invited Yao Yao to study. In order to do this, he also wrote a letter to the headmaster of Taitung Fifth Road Primary School, which said, "It's a pity that such a good boy didn't succeed!" Who knows, when the headmaster asked Yao Yao about her study of calligraphy, she realized that she didn't go at all. The headmaster criticized, "Didn't you say you were going?" Why do you say go or not? Yao Yao's eyes were red and he replied falteringly, "I don't like calligraphy." . "When my mother knew this, she couldn't help crying silently, because she knew best that her daughter gave up learning calligraphy, not because she didn't like it, but because she had no money! My daughter didn't dare to reveal her true feelings. Teachers and classmates all came to donate money to send things, so she had to tell a lie. Faced with the misunderstanding of a school principal, it can't be explained. How much pressure Yao Yao is under in his heart!
To this day, the headmaster still doesn't know the truth of this matter, and Yao Yao has never explained a word.
Yao Yao has lived with her mother for six years since the terrible day when her father left. They spent most of the six years in the hospital.
As the saying goes, there is no dutiful son before a long bed. However, Yao Yao grew up day by day and showed more respect for her mother.
In the past six years, whenever she was at home, Yao Yao always got up at four or five o'clock, made a stove to make breakfast, helped her mother wash and eat, then washed dishes and chopsticks, gave her medicine and did her homework quickly. Go home after school in the afternoon to buy food, pour mom's urine and then cook dinner. In the evening, I clean the room, wash clothes and preview new lessons ... It is no exaggeration to say that Yao Yao is racing against time every day.
What mother in the world doesn't love her children? Seeing that her daughter is so tired at a young age, her mother's heart has long been broken. She often thinks that her illness can't be cured even for a long time. Why do you always drag her daughter down like this? She decided to give her daughter one last love by suicide, and set her and her daughter free. One day, when Yao Yao went to school, she tried her best to climb to the window and tried to jump off the fourth floor. As a result, her abnormal behavior was discovered by kind neighbors and carried back to the hospital bed. ?
Yao Yao came back from school and heard that her mother wanted to commit suicide. She hugged her mother and said with tears, "Mom, I have lost my father. I can't lose my mother again!" Good mother, for the sake of your dearest daughter, you should also be strong and live! When I grow up, I will repay you with double love ... "In order to make my mother happy, she kept telling her good news:" I was rated as a coolie by the school! "" "I was rated as a municipal' three good students'!" "I learned a new dance. Can I show it to you? " Although the room was not spacious, Yao Yao sang and danced for her mother.
F sings:
A small wild flower blooms at midnight.
Not afraid of the wind or the rain.
As white as a star?
Red as a torch?
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Looking at her daughter's expression and stretching movements, can mother not be pleased to think that her daughter has not collapsed but has become stronger after suffering? Yes, my daughter is like a little wild flower, not afraid of wind and rain, like a star, like a torch, and even illuminates the road of my mother's struggle. How can she back down? ?
Since then, the affection between mother and daughter has deepened.
In order to save money to buy nutrition for her mother, Yao Yao not only didn't eat snacks, but also seldom ate fruit for six years. However, she can't stop her mother from eating fruit. Once, her mother handed her an apple and she put it in her hand for a while. Mother asked strangely, "What happened to Yao Yao? Don't you like apples best? " The daughter shook her head and replied, "Maybe I used to eat too much, but now I don't like it." ?
Because of long-term bed rest, heart failure and mother's lower limbs paralysis, she often goes to the hospital. Yao Yao is very worried about her mother. Mom's legs are cold, she thought. It must be because it is not warm enough. If you keep warm and massage regularly to make the blood flow smoother, you may get better. So, she proposed to sleep at the two ends of the bed with her mother and warm her cold legs with her body. After understanding her daughter's intention, the mother refused because she was afraid of freezing her daughter. Yao Yao still insists on sleeping at the other end of the bed every night, warming her legs with her warm body and massaging her legs and feet.
In order to let her daughter sleep soundly, when her mother wants to cough, she always tries to endure it and often blushes and has a thick neck. When Yao Yao found out, she immediately reminded her mother: "Don't hold back when coughing. The doctor said that phlegm stuck in her throat would be life-threatening! " In order to ensure his mother's safety, Yao Yao gradually began to exercise and slept very lightly. As soon as she heard her mother's shortness of breath or cough, she got up and gave her mother back rubs, medicine and oxygen. ?
When I came home late one night, my mother became ill again. She was short of breath, turned pale and her lips were blue. Yao Yao quickly got up and took the oxygen bag, only to find that it was empty. She rushed to the door without hesitation and said, "I'm going to the hospital!" " Mother looked at her watch and found that it was past midnight. She stopped weakly: "It's so dark, don't go. I can hold on. I'll fill it at dawn. " Yao Yao couldn't bear to make her mother suffer, so she picked up the oxygen bag and hurried downstairs. ?
In fact, which little girl is not afraid to walk at night? Yao Yao, the only daughter, walked into the dark night and was equally afraid. In the dead of night, I can only hear my "rustling" footsteps on the road. In order to be brave, she trotted and sang a March. When she rushed into the emergency room of the hospital, the doctor who knew her was taken aback: "Yao Yao, aren't you afraid to walk at night?" "I'm not afraid of anything for my mother!" Hearing Yao Yao's answer, the doctor was very moved. He immediately asked the nurse to inflate the oxygen bag and then sent her home. Seeing her mother inhaling oxygen, her breathing gradually calmed down, and Yao Yao was relieved. ?
That night, Yao Yao only slept for over two hours. When she came in the morning, she was still busy cooking, taking care of her mother's laundry and eating, and came to school on time, as if nothing had happened last night. ? Today, Du's story of self-improvement and filial piety to his mother touched thousands of people. She was named "Top Ten Young Pioneers" in China. She was named "China Good Boy" by China Youth Daily and won the "Filial Piety Award". Xinhua News Agency, People's Daily, CCTV and other media have introduced this unique only child. Even American Panda TV stars Du Yao Yao.
However, who would have thought that the discovery of Du Fu's deeds was actually caused by an embarrassing incident.
1September 1992, Mr. Lang was the head teacher of Class 5 (2). A few days after the start of school, other students' miscellaneous fees have been paid, but Du has been late. At a class meeting, Mr. Lang mentioned this matter: "Some students in our class haven't paid the miscellaneous fees yet, so please pay them quickly." Although the teacher didn't call the roll, the students all turned their attention to Du: Who else can't afford the miscellaneous fees? Du's face turned red. She silently lowered her head and tears fell down. ?
The next day, Du brought the miscellaneous expenses. Teacher Lang was startled when he saw it:1How can all the miscellaneous expenses in 2 yuan be distributed to Mao Mao's change? She affectionately grabbed Du Yao Yao and asked why. Du had to tell the truth at home and said, "This miscellaneous fee was collected by my mother and the patients in the same ward with small change." ? Teacher Lang was deeply moved. She reported what she knew to the school leaders. When the students learned about Du's difficult situation in detail, the only children suddenly became magnanimous. They saved money on eating sorbet, drinking cola and playing video games, and donated 1745.76 yuan to Du together with their teachers. At the same time, the school also provides free lunch for their mother and daughter every day, and exempts Du from miscellaneous expenses. ?
When Du's deeds spread, all walks of life extended a helping hand. On the afternoon of Du's interview, the author saw a touching scene with his own eyes: three representatives of Shandong Instrument Import and Export Company sent a donation of more than 1000 yuan, saying that it was a gift from more than 30 employees of the company. It is reported that they are strangers to the Du family, but they are moved by Du's deeds and can't sit still. Ms. Ding, one of the representatives, said with emotion: "My daughter is one year younger than Du and an only child. But she can't do housework, but she spends money on snacks every day. How can she compare with Du? I really should let my daughter visit here! "
Facing the enthusiastic concern of teachers, students and all walks of life, Du felt the warmth of the big family of the motherland, and he was more confident to overcome bad luck and determined to become a success. ?
No matter how busy and tired he is, Du never forgets to let the students concentrate on their studies. Because of many housework, she especially cherishes every minute at school. She listens attentively in class, does her homework against time after class, and doesn't stop when she meets difficulties. On one occasion, Du stayed up all night to cooperate with the doctor to save his dying mother. In the morning, when Du saw that her mother was out of danger, she hurried back to school to continue her class. Who can believe that Du won the first place in the grade final exam with excellent results in math 100, English 99 and Chinese 97.5!
Today, she is already a middle school student with excellent academic performance. No matter how busy and tired he is, Du never forgets that students should develop in an all-round way. She couldn't afford to enroll in those expensive art classes, so she chose some inexpensive projects. Participated in Qingdao Little Journalist School and Qingdao TV Station Xiaobaifan Art Troupe. Of course, she will not give up reading, singing and dancing that she has long loved. Therefore, in school, everyone admits that Du is versatile and can improvise. ?
No matter how busy and tired he is, Du never forgets that he is a member of the entertainment committee in the squadron and wants to bring joy to every member. On the day when she hosted the squadron entertainment party, the team members were happy. Because the program was rich and interesting, everyone scrambled to perform on stage. Besides singing the Beijing opera "Grandma, Listen to Me", Du can also be a fashion model! Look at her relaxed and cheerful expression, who can see that she has suffered so much? ?
According to general speculation, Du has lost her father for six years, and her mother has been bedridden. Her family is a mess. However, anyone who has been to Dujia will be surprised to find that this is a clean and tidy home, an orderly home and a hospitable home! People have been looking to Du, who is short and strong, for a long time. I can't believe that this only daughter has created such a miracle! ?
So, can we say that Du's only daughter, who is 14 years old, is a "superman"?
Du once wrote a diary:?
Many people think I am strong, but in fact, I often have very fragile moments, and I even want to cry. But who am I crying to? Crying to mom?
She's had enough. How can she be sad again? Crying to teachers and classmates? They have taken good care of me. How can I give them any more trouble? Then cry to yourself. Cry quietly alone and comfort yourself. ?
However, people must relax. What's the use of crying when suffering comes? Everyone cares about me and expects me. I can't let those good people down. I want to give them happiness. I want to live with a smile
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Du Cai 14 years old. The road before her is not only long, but also difficult and bumpy. Therefore, the story about her has only come to an end, not an end. What deserves people's consideration is, what inspiration did Du give us? ? In the composition competition for primary school students in Qingdao, Du's composition "Growing through Labor" won the first prize. Perhaps, her confession is giving us this inspiration. ?
Du Yaoyao wrote:?
My family environment has tempered my hard-working character. I seem to have grown up after I lost my father. I learned to be a man, and I learned a lot of things that I couldn't do before. I feel a kind of sweetness in my works, a kind of joy that the modern "little emperor" and "little princess" have never had. I'm growing and maturing. I hope that salt will be the "pillar" of the family in the future and become a useful material for the motherland!
Ah, it is the hard environmental test and long-term labor exercise that makes this only daughter a strong one!
Labor once created people, but can a creative person leave labor? Du's enlightenment is profound.
When we complain that the only child of a generation is a "little emperor", it actually creates a great injustice, because it is the parents of a generation and even the society that has created a "little emperor", which is not the real wish of children. Children long for freedom, equality and being a strong person. Of course, because the "little emperor" has been created and continues to be created, children's problems are naturally numerous, such as unsociable, withdrawn and selfish. Therefore, the survival education of the only child is very detailed and needs to create a series of effective models.