Let her take education as her lifelong mission.
Taoyuan is a natural village in Xiejiaping Village, Hengshui Town, Linzhou City. The village is very small, with a population of more than 300, but half of them have the same first teachers. She is Wang Shengying who has just been nominated by CCTV as the candidate for "Touching China" in 2006.
On June 5438+February 2 1 day, 2006, the reporter came to this place that looked like a paradise. From the choice made 32 years ago, she stepped into the life of this rural female teacher.
Wang Shengying was born in 1956, the first child of an ordinary farmer in Xiejiaping village. At that time, most farmers' families were in distress, and the Wangs were no exception. The difference is that a sudden high fever in childhood made Wang Shengying suffer from polio and disabled his right leg for life. Since then, for Wang Shengying, Taihang Mountain has become steeper and the mountain roads have become more and more rugged.
The family is poor and can't afford to send their children to school. There are many people in the village who don't go to school. Besides, Yingying is a girl, and her legs and feet are inconvenient. Looking at her parents' hesitant eyes, Sheng Ying cried and made a fuss, and she must go to school. At a young age, she seems to have a premonition that without culture, the road to life in the future will be more difficult.
There are no parents in the world who don't love their children. Besides, such a disabled child finally agreed to Xiaoying's request and sent her to school. Father said, "If your parents don't stop you, you should take care of yourself. Learning is your blessing; If you are blind, don't blame anyone! "
Both parents are in poor health, but in order to provide for British students to go to school, they work hard besides scrimping and saving. My father ventured into the mountains to pick up stones, and my mother stayed up all night to send home textiles and cotton. "You can spin one or two flowers a night and earn thirty cents." Teacher Wang gave the reporter a picture of two cotton threads with his fist, and his eyes were full of tears.
Elementary school. Junior high school and senior high school. Seeing his parents' difficulties and realizing the difficulties of learning, Shengying gritted his teeth and studied all the way, and his grades were always among the best in the school, becoming a rare high school student in the village. Because of her disability, she has a deeper understanding of the disease. She is determined to become a doctor, so that more villagers will no longer suffer from illness.
However, a news in the summer vacation of 1974 changed Wang Shengying's life direction: Dongping Village School wanted to recruit a private teacher.
Wang Shengying's heart was touched. For many years, she saw that many peers either didn't go to school or dropped out of school soon, so they had to go up the mountain to collect sheep dung and firewood, and grow food in the corner of the mountain. The days were still short. "Health alone is not enough. Without culture, there is still no way out. " Wang Sheng should say to his father, "I'm not going to be a doctor. I want to be a teacher so that all the children in our village can go to school! "
Dongping Village School wants to recruit junior high school math teachers. There is only one, and more than 50 people can sign up. Wang Shengying was under great pressure, but she didn't flinch. She is determined to go all out for her choice. In the days before the exam, she didn't eat much, slept little and studied very attentively. The sacred podium seems to be calling her, expecting her not far ahead. ...
It was a summer afternoon, she was washing clothes in the yard, and the village party secretary came in excitedly: "Shengying, Shengying, first place!" " "
Huh? ! She put her clothes in the basin, stood up, looked up and smiled. More than 30 years later, Wang Sheng was still so excited when he told reporters about that scene: "At that time, I felt that the sky was particularly blue and the sunshine was particularly good. The road in front of me is spacious and smooth at once, and it's not like the mountain road before ... "
/kloc-in the autumn of 0/974, Wang Shengying boarded the platform and never came down. This difficult and firm step decided that she would devote herself to mountain education as her life's mission.
Xiejiaping is an administrative village, including six natural villages separated by mountains or rivers. Between Wang Shengying's home in Xiping and Dongping Village where she teaches, there is a big river crossing. It takes half an hour to walk from home to school. Mr. Wang dragged a broken leg and hurried to the mountain road. Wrestling is common.
When the rainy season came, the river surged, and the small wooden bridge on the river failed to resist the violent and lasting impact of the flood. Standing by the river without a bridge, looking at the rushing river, Wang Sheng should be a little anxious, and the students are still waiting for her to go to the school across the river. She took off her shoes and rolled up her trouser legs without hesitation. It's still raining and the water is still urgent. Slowly moving on the river is a limping figure of a thin woman, as if she were in danger of being washed away by the river at any time. However, she didn't look back.
At that time, Wang Shengying was a private teacher with a pitiful salary. At first, he only had money from 5 yuan, and later he had 10 yuan and 30 yuan. Not to mention subsidizing his family and maintaining his own life is very difficult. Wang Shengying's sewing skills are well-known in the whole village. Some relatives suggested that she open a tailor shop, and her income was many times higher than that of being a teacher. She was not tempted.
Linzhou's construction team is world-famous, and most Linzhou people get rich benefits when they go out to work, so they have the reputation of "100,000 troops go out in Taihang" 1985, Wang Shengying's husband Wang Hesheng contracted a construction project in the northeast and excitedly discussed with her: "Let's go to the northeast together. I am in charge of the construction site, and you are the accountant. Don't get involved, make more money. A hundred times stronger than teaching at home! "
Teacher Wang knows her husband's feelings best, but he loves himself and is also good for this family. "But I'm gone. What about this student? I became a teacher not because my former teacher quit. How can I leave my students behind? "
Unable to convince her, her husband went to the northeast alone, but he was unwilling. He sent three letters to Sheng Ying in succession, asking her to reconsider. "What is there to consider? I won't go, I can't let students have no teachers. " Mr. Wang read the letter, burned it and cried, but he didn't waver in his ideal choice. "We mountain people not only lack money, but also lack knowledge and culture!"