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A mountain village teacher mined coal for three years to help poor students eat pickles every day

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After getting out of the well, Teacher Liu smoked it beautifully A pack of "Old Mountain City" worth 1.5 yuan

No regrets when digging coal

Teaching without complaint

In the past three years, during the holidays, Kaixian Guo Liu Nianyou, a primary school teacher in Beidou Village in his hometown town, would go to the town's coal mine to dig coal. It wasn't until July this year that the principal of Beidou Village Central School accidentally learned that the money he earned from coal mining not only supported his children's education in college, but also paid tuition for poor students in his class, bought school supplies, and bought new clothes. , but he himself eats rice soaked in boiled water and pickles every day.

Before this, Liu Nianyou had been teaching for 28 years since 1977, and he had been supporting poor students in his class every year.

No one in his class had ever dropped out of school because of money. student.

Liu Nianyou himself cannot count how many poor students he has supported. Anyway, there are more than 40 of them who can be named: Li Xiaoyan, Xie Guangxiang, Li Linxue, Xie Buxiang, Liu Chijun... These children are all in Liu Nianyou With the support, I successfully completed primary school without spending a penny on tuition.

It takes 9 hours to go down the mine at a time

At 7 o'clock in the morning on Saturday, December 10, the main shaft of Qilong Coal Mine in Guojia Town, Kaixian County.

Before dawn, 48-year-old Liu Nianyou and his co-workers were marching down the narrow main shaft, carrying batteries and miner's lamps. The water drops constantly dripping from the top of the head quickly soaked the clothes, the air became worse and worse, and the huge roar of the blower echoed down the mine.

More than 20 minutes later, the reporter followed them to the mouth of the well dug in Dongdaxiang, 1,500 meters away from the cave entrance. The space at the entrance of the well is short, and you have to stretch your body to move around. The ground is covered with raw coal that was dug out previously, and it is soaked in water. The humid and hot air is filled with a strong smell of raw coal and sweat.

Under the dim light of the miner's lamp, Liu Nianyou lay deftly on the ground and skillfully used a chisel to dig into the coal seam above his head. The coal became loose and fell onto his sweaty face. He wiped it with his hands before chipping away. After about 20 minutes, he rested on the spot for two minutes and continued.

Before 8 o'clock, the reporter felt dizzy, as if he was suffocating, and hurriedly exited. Liu Nianyou did not come out of the well with his coworkers until 4 p.m. At this time, he had turned into a piece of "coal" from head to toe, and even his nostrils were filled with soot. Only his eyes and teeth were white.

It was windy in the mountains, and Liu Nianyou's wet body kept shivering. After quickly taking a hot shower, he started his lunch in the canteen of the mine: two bowls of dry rice and a portion of fried potatoes.

One mat in the dormitory has 38 holes

At noon on the 9th, the reporter came to the office of Xiao Liu Nianyou in Beidou Village. This is actually an idle classroom. Teacher Liu, who is regarded by some students as quite wealthy, has his office, dormitory, and kitchen all in this room. Liu Nianyou, who is wearing a labor protection cotton coat, is boiling water with a small rice cooker. His appearance is obviously older than his actual age.

The dormitory is as simple as a migrant worker's house. A wooden board serves as the bed, and a mat riddled with holes is thrown on the straw and palm mats. After careful counting, there are 38 holes, two of which are as big as a palm. Seeing reporters taking pictures, Liu Nianyou quickly blushed and covered the hole with his hands: "That's ridiculous! My wife lives in the Central School, I don't need to be particular about it."

The kitchen only has one bag of rice and one handful. Noodles, a pack of salt, a barrel of bulk liquor, not even oil.

The reporter also found a page like this in Liu Nianyou’s phone book - "Wu Chenggen 2,600 yuan, Zhou Xiankun 4,600 yuan..." There were 9 people in one group, totaling 15,000 yuan. "This is my debt book. The longest one is more than five years ago. I will pay it back."

In the eyes of ordinary people, Liu Nianyou's funding is not much, only 10 yuan and 20 yuan each time. Yuan, but for Liu Nianyou, 10 Yuan is enough for him to spend two weeks, and 20 Yuan is enough for his family to eat meat for a month.

Liu Nianyou’s home is at Beidou Central Campus. It is actually just an 8-square-meter stairwell with no furniture except for two beds. A cardboard box is a wardrobe.

A small bowl of fat meat was placed on a desk. Li Yunju said that this bowl of meat would be taken care of for half a month.

"We haven't bought new clothes for seven or eight years. Last semester, someone said that his clothes were detrimental to the teacher's image, so he spent 25 yuan to buy a pair of leather shoes." Facing her husband, Li Yunju's eyes No complaints, only appreciation.

He dug coal and hid it from us for three years

"He is as simple as a piece of coal." Chen Yinshan, the principal of Beidou Central School, told reporters that since Liu Nianyou started working in 1977, he has given up many times. He was transferred to countless village schools for the opportunity of the central school. Wherever there was no one to go, he applied and went further and further.

Principal Chen said that teachers at the Central School all know that since 1977, Liu Nianyou has been teaching for 28 years and has been supporting poor students in his class every year. Students who dropped out of school because of money. But no one knew that he was so poor that he had to dig coal in a well for three years.

"We only found out in July this year." Principal Chen recalled that there was an emergency at the school and Liu Nianyou was asked to go to the central school, but it took more than three hours of phone calls before he came in a hurry , with a tired look on his face. When asked what he was doing, he hesitated and said that he was visiting relatives.

"I suddenly discovered that the back of his ears was dark. After asking again and again, he embarrassedly said that he was digging coal. I was stunned for a long time and couldn't say a word."

You cannot watch your students drop out of school

Beidou Village is the most remote and poorest mountainous area in the Beidou area of ??Guojia Town, Kaixian County. It takes more than two hours to walk from Beidou Central School. There is a saying among local teachers: "Don't go to Beidou when you have memorized it." Last year, Liu Nianyou took the initiative to apply for this "place where birds don't poop." He is the only staff member in the entire school, and he has to teach all subjects to a third-grade class of 17 mountain children.

On the first day of school, Liu Nianyou was deeply shocked by these children. "I thought that on the first day of school, no matter how poor the children were, they would be dressed neatly, but every one of them looked like beggars. Almost all the children were wearing extremely ill-fitting clothes, and some of them were made of other fabrics. Some of them clearly belonged to adults. Most of them didn't have pencil cases or stationery, and some only brought 20 yuan to pay for school fees." Liu Nianyou immediately took out the only money he had from his pocket. With more than 200 yuan, I helped several students pay off their tuition fees. After school that day, he hurried home and spent 150 yuan from the only 300 yuan left at home to buy stationery and clothes for several poor students. "You can't just watch your students drop out of school because they have no money!"

The money was all his hard-earned money from digging coal in the wells this summer.

"To tell you the truth, I also worked as a motorcycle driver." Liu Nianyou said that starting from 1998, a pair of children entered high school, which was very expensive. In addition, that year he was responsible for seven students at the same time. The tuition fees and financial pressure are too great. In order to increase his income, he borrowed money to buy a motorcycle and started a motorcycle operation in his spare time.

In June 2002, a minor accident cost Liu Nianyou more than 300 yuan, and he gave up the motorcycle operation.

"At that time, my two children had just entered college, and there were pairs of longing eyes looking at me in the classroom. I couldn't do anything without looking for extra money." Liu Nianyou changed his profession and worked as a miner. From then on, every winter and summer vacation, he would quietly come to the nearby Qilong Coal Mine to dig coal.

During the interview, Liu Nianyou said many times that he was sorry for his wife and children. But he thought more: "My children are about to work, but there are still many children who cannot afford to study. I have to keep digging for this coal."

Misunderstanding 1

< p> Workers thought he was providing for their children to go to college

"It has been three years, and he has come every holiday, earning more than a thousand yuan a month." Qilong Coal Mine Director Huang Liexing and his workers all thought that, Teacher Liu dug coal in the well because his family had a son and a daughter studying in college, which was very expensive. I didn't expect that he would sponsor so many children from the mountains.

Liu Yunju, Liu’s wife, told reporters: “He digs coal not just for me and our two children. We have been married to him for more than 20 years, and no matter how difficult it is, he always takes some money from his salary every month to support The poor students in his class buy stationery, clothes, or save for their next tuition fees." Liu's wife said that in Baiyangping Village Primary School in 1978, Liu Nianyou took over 8 There are extremely poor students who cannot afford the tuition fee of 5 yuan per term.

Liu Nianyou's salary at that time was only 6.5 yuan per month, but he actually contracted all the tuition fees for each period of these eight students. Some of the children were far away from home and could not return home at noon, so he asked his newlywed wife to cook for them at home without charging a penny.

His kind-hearted wife gave him the greatest support: "Actually, they are just plain food, potatoes and cabbage."

Misunderstanding 2

Student Teacher Liu receives his salary from him Rich

Among the 17 students in Liu Nianyou's current class, 13 have received financial support from him. When the reporter asked them if they knew where the money funded by Teacher Liu came from, several poor students said in unison: "He is rich, he is paid!"

Huang Haiyan's biological mother in Beidou Village After her death, her stepmother became disabled, and her father relied on odd jobs to support the family. He could not afford the tuition fee of 140 yuan per period, so he repeatedly asked Huang Haiyan to drop out of school. "Teacher Liu came to my house several times and said he was willing to help me pay tuition and buy stationery, so my father let me study. He is the best teacher in the world."

"Actually, Teacher Liu is better than We all eat poorly." Tian Yuxue, a classmate who lives near the school, said that he had seen Teacher Liu hiding in the dormitory several times, eating rice soaked in boiled water and at most some pickles. "A few other times, after school, I saw him sitting alone on the ping-pong table in the playground, smoking, and sitting there until dark. I thought he must be hard to play alone."

Tian Yuxue's His father, Tian Jun, said that no teachers were willing to come to Beidou Village for primary school. “Without teachers, these children had to go to nearby schools to study. But the nearest school here has to climb two mountains and cross a river. Parents are worried. Thanks to "Teacher Liu." What touched him the most was that Teacher Liu often visited home. "Not only did the students' grades improve quickly, but Teacher Liu also treated them like children in the city."