Back in 2065438+early May 2007, a new village cadre was elected, and she successfully ran for the village committee. When she saw me that day, she held my hand tightly and said to me with tears in her eyes: I chose, I chose, and this time I really chose! I was also moved by her spirit of never giving up!
She is Zhang, a 66-year-old from Zhoulou Village.
Speaking of Zhang running for the village Committee, her hardships and failures can be imagined. It is no exaggeration to describe the difficulty of running for the United States Senate with American President Lincoln.
Zhang/kloc-joined the party at the age of 0/8 and applied to work in the village, responsible for sideline accounting and village workshops. Later, he married a young man in his village and had three children in four years.
1992, she successfully ran for village cadres and was appointed as a "family planning specialist". 1994 to 200 1 deputy director of the village. In the following nine years, he was appointed as the deputy village head.
In 20 12, she was 58 years old and ushered in another election. She wants to win re-election. She believes that she has been working in the village, invested a lot of energy and enthusiasm, and her performance is still excellent. I believe the villagers will continue to choose her. But unfortunately, she lost the election. Three years later, at the age of 6 1, she failed to run for the village committee again. It's not that she doesn't work hard. Every time, she took an extremely enthusiastic attitude and went down to every village to impress the villagers with her physical strength, brain power and enthusiasm, begging them to vote for her. Try again and again, but fail again and again.
Many people laughed at her behind her back, saying that she "dreamed of marrying a wife, thinking of good things, and didn't know how many bowls of rice she could eat." ? If it is someone else, it is likely to give up. But for Zhang, life is just a stupid thing, chasing another stupid thing and doing one more stupid thing. I can still be impulsive, which shows that I still have passion for life.
Laughing at people, chic. For Zhang, failure is not terrible. Standing up and persisting after failure is the most valuable thing.
Failure is the accumulation of shortcomings, she was not discouraged, and immediately begged the village Committee to say: I can't hold an important position, but I can do chores, hard work and dirty work for the village. The village Committee decided to appoint her as a "tobacco technology professional". Give her all the jobs that offend people and jobs that others don't want to do. Always enthusiastic, actively involved, and running errands quickly. In her words, in my limited life, if I can give play to some residual heat for the village, life will be meaningful.
In 20 17, she was 63 years old, and she was successful in this election. All this comes from Zhang's indomitable spirit and good attitude.
She is not afraid of suffering. In addition to dealing with things in the village, she also contracted many acres of land and often stayed up late to work overtime. She also planted a vegetable garden to sell vegetables, which she picked the night before and went to the market before dawn the next day. She can often be seen selling them in the street.
Once, we talked about the bitter days in the past. She said with emotion: the past cannot be mentioned. Ten years before I got married, all my three children were under 10 years old, and the suffering in those years was unimaginable to ordinary people.
My son got osteomyelitis when he was two years old. The living Lei Feng Zhang Haidi was paraplegic at the age of five because of osteomyelitis. As soon as I heard that the child had the disease, I was anxious. I was afraid of delaying the best treatment period for my children. At that time, there were three children left unattended, so I gave my eldest daughter to her grandmother for care. I carry my son on my back and hold my little daughter who is still breastfeeding for less than one year. Seek medical treatment for children everywhere, Zhengzhou, Xuchang, Luohe, Wuhan. My husband and I went to the hospital as soon as we heard where we could cure this disease. Borrow money everywhere if you have no money.
Once I took a train with my little daughter in my arms. Because I didn't buy a ticket, I was one stop away from the place where the child saw a doctor, so I was kicked by the conductor. I walked along the railway with my daughter in my arms ... on foot ... on foot ...
There is no money to rent a house during hospitalization. Every night, my husband, children and I huddle by the stairs and deal with this problem night after night. Because of poor food, poor sleep and overwork, I got sick and almost died.
Later, my son was not cured in Zhengzhou Hospital. I heard that someone cured the disease in a private clinic in Zhuang Ji, Xuchang. I came to Zhuang Ji, Xuchang with my son on my back and my daughter in my arms. We were penniless at that time, and my husband and I begged for food while seeing a doctor. After living for more than a month, the child's condition has improved. It will be the Spring Festival when you come back. There is no food, no noodles and no clothes at home, and the husband continues to go out and beg. On the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month, there is a bowl of rice at home, but no noodles. The first husband went out begging again.
After my son's osteomyelitis improved, his leg joints were dislocated and necrotic, and he had a straight hip operation at Dafu Hospital in Minggang. Because of the timely medical treatment, my son has not left many sequelae now.
She also explained that those years were not human days. I didn't slow down here, but my eldest daughter got encephalitis when she was six years old. We got married with our children and left our hometown, seeking medical treatment everywhere, and owed a lot of debts to treat our children. In those years, almost all of us lived by begging.
Later, when I got home, I was as poor as a church mouse. I borrowed 300 yuan from my relatives and neighbors, bought a donkey, bought some family buckets in grinding bean curd, and often carried tofu and sold it door to door along the village. Plus contracted some fields, planted vegetable gardens, and later killed pigs and sold meat. After a few years, life gradually improved. In this story, Zhang shed tears several times. This also makes me deeply moved!
Being a village cadre has a great responsibility and a heavy burden. There are many chores in the village, civil disputes, discord between husband and wife, discord between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and some want to be poor households and eat subsistence allowances. If not handled properly, the relationship between cadres and the masses will be tense. Village cadres suffer losses and offend people, but their monthly salary is not much. Being a village cadre is a thankless thing. To this end, Zhang's family opposed her staying in the village.
Especially her husband, because she focused on the village during the day and didn't care much about the fields at home, her husband punched her several times and kicked her out. But no matter how much injustice Zhang suffered, he never cried foul.
Her three college students and children are all excellent, and they all have a hard-working career in the city. They don't want her to suffer at home, but want her to go to the city to enjoy her old age. But Zhang said: I like to mingle with people. I love my hometown, I love my job, I love every grass and tree in Zhoulou Village, and I love every villager in Zhoulou Village. I'm not going anywhere.
On September 22nd, just after the third "China Farmers Harvest Festival", Wu, secretary of Zhoulou Village, invited her to participate in the dance program of the Harvest Festival. Under the leadership of Zhang, Zhang and Zhang, more than 10 middle-aged women in Zhoulou Village carefully selected a national dance "Jujube Tree" which accords with the atmosphere of Harvest Festival. Since then, 66-year-old Zhang has led everyone to rehearse day and night. Every gesture of bending over and spinning makes them sweat. In order to keep up with the pace, they have paid a lot of hardships and sweat. Finally, I practiced very easily.
Unexpectedly, when rehearsing for the audition, the program started shooting the day before the Harvest Festival. The reason is that there is no smile on their faces. She begged the township government program group to let us go and show you the most beautiful dance tomorrow. But it's no use asking. Late at night, Zhang still held a glimmer of hope and called every leader in the village. It is said that the procedure has been decided and there is no way.
Later, he called me and said that our carefully rehearsed program was filmed, and I was unwilling! Other villages are square dances. Our dance is beautiful, which can best show the national temperament. We are no worse than other villages. I don't understand why we lost the election.
Then he went on to say, we will continue to rehearse tonight, we will continue to rehearse at 4 am tomorrow, we will go to the Harvest Festival, and I will try my best to perform. I won't give up until the last moment!
The next day, they resolutely brought costume props, and they never put on makeup, carefully made up and made full preparations. But unfortunately, there is still no chance to play.
Zhang was in tears again and said to me, Alas, this is the last few months I have worked in the village, and the only chance to go to Taiwan Province in my life is gone. What a pity!
I advised her: there will be opportunities in the future, don't lose heart. She burst into tears and smiled at once.
Life is hard, but hard life can temper a person's strong will.
Zhang's life has gone through many vicissitudes, and she has developed her tenacious, forbearing, open and unyielding character. What she pursues all her life is to be a village cadre and solve problems for the villagers in Zhoulou Village. This is her dream.
She said: The situation is too good to last. I would rather run around and be knocked down countless times than take the right path all my life. The dream of not being laughed at is not worth pursuing. Even if I fall, I will face life with a brave smile.
Ordinary steps can also complete a great journey. I wish Commissioner Zhang further and further in his beloved job!