Time flies. In the hard days, the kind-hearted "thank the fool" adopted 8 abandoned babies and a mentally retarded woman in the wild (3 of them abandoned babies died of illness). "Kittens and puppies are also life. How to throw the child? I want to raise them! " With this stubbornness, he has raised two "eldest daughters" and married them off, two "youngest daughters" went to school, and 1 son with cerebral palsy has supported them for 20 years.
In order to earn more money to support his family, Xie Haishun taught himself some basic greetings such as English, Japanese and Korean while begging. Never asking for more money has also become his unique way of begging.
In recent years, Xie Haishun paid attention to major events at home and abroad through broadcasting, and donated more than 4,000 yuan to people in Wenchuan earthquake, Haiti earthquake, Chile earthquake, Yushu earthquake, Zhouqu mudslide and other disaster areas. After learning about Xie Haishun's loving behavior through video, netizens affectionately called him "Gai Yi". He has been called Xie fool for decades, so that his real name Xie Haishun has gradually become strange. There is no contempt or disrespect for calling him a fool. Just a common name. On August 23rd, enthusiastic people led reporters to Lao Xie's home in Shunnan Village, Kongdian Township, datong district City, Huainan City.
There are various versions about his life story in Huainan. Some people say that he was born stupid, others say that he was stimulated to become stupid the day after tomorrow.
The most popular version says that he used to be a high flyers with a beautiful girlfriend. For the sake of the college entrance examination, he wrote the other person's name on the test paper as agreed. As a result, his woman won the college entrance examination, but he failed himself. However, the woman did not appreciate his kindness and finally abandoned him. Coupled with the sudden death of his mother, he went crazy under the double blow.
But this romantic version was rejected by Lao Xie. During the conversation, he told reporters that because his family was poor, he didn't go to school for a day and all his knowledge was taught by himself, so he couldn't talk about the rumored college entrance examination. Turning your back on his beautiful girlfriend is even more fake. In that shabby bungalow, an old lady accompanied her-a scrawny, wooden woman.
In the impression of acquaintances around him, fool Xie is a burly man. Or pushing a 28-year-old bicycle to beg in the food market, or riding a 28-year-old bicycle in the city. Some people say that a fool can pick up coal. When the train passed, he picked up some coal with a shovel. When the train passed by, he picked it up, loaded it with several bags of loose coal camels and sold it back to earn some money to support himself and his old mother. He once put a sign that said "Mother's Adult XXX" on the branch he picked up.
Some netizens recalled what they saw and heard at school in Tianya Forum. "Fat body, dark color, button-down shirt in summer, chubby belly exposed, and cute smile." At that time, I rode my bike, left the handlebar with my hands, raised my arms and shouted: I am the world champion ... I slipped away from me. "
Others exposed his unpretentious "stunt" and said, "Standing on the flat ground, you can rush to the branches of the French phoenix tree next to the road with a bubble of urine ..." In that era when there was almost no cultural and entertainment life, Xie Fool became a hot figure in more than ten miles or even the whole Huainan city, and it has been remembered so far.
Today, Xie Haishun, who is 70 years old, is still used to being naked and still burly and talkative. But my eyes have lost the elegance of my youth, my hair is gray and I am stumbling.
As for whether he is really stupid or fake stupid, how stupid he is, it is becoming more and more incomprehensible. In that not-rich village, near the corner of an abandoned railway, Xie Jia looks even more shabby. Several buildings under construction in the village set off the three bungalows in Xie Jia lower and lower.
Because of suffering, there is this home.
1984 On the sixth day of the first month, on the day when Lao Xie blurted out, his mother who had been with him passed away. Although nearly 30 years have passed, speaking of the past, he is still excited at the age of 70. Feeling lonely, he began to yearn for company. When begging everywhere, he began to pick up abandoned children on the roadside.
One snowy day not long ago, when he went to pick up a "dress" under the bridge, he found the baby in the dress, "eyes closed tightly, but still alive." It is not easy for a person who has never raised a child and lives by begging to raise a child. However, in Lao Xie's story, these are all understated, and a sentence "I am not afraid of suffering" is taken. In the next 30 years, Lao Xie brought home eight abandoned children, five of whom survived. What he regrets most is a girl with congenital heart disease who didn't die until she was a teenager. When I mentioned them, my bitter and anxious tone accelerated, but all I could hear was remorse and regret.
The members of this special family include a homeless woman who was picked up by Lao Xie earlier and later became his "daughter-in-law". Physically disabled, she can only use a stool as a leg to move slowly.
Now, the eldest daughter who has grown up is married to the second daughter. On holidays, they will also bring all kinds of things to visit Lao Xie. There are only three bungalows, one with Lao Xie's third and fourth daughters. There is nothing in the room except two spring beds and old cabinets. In another room, there lived Mr. and Mrs. Lao Xie and their little son with cerebral palsy. The rest of the room is divided into kitchen and toilet. Two dogs with mottled fur and a crept cat added a lot of vitality to the yard. Even if the weather is fine, the light in Lao Xie's room is still dim, and only some light is projected on the door and the narrow window. The bedding is messy, some clothes and shoes are stuffed under the bed, and the youngest son Yuanyuan is curled up on an old sofa all day. On an old table, there are a bunch of eggplants, potatoes and a telephone.
Near noon, the third daughter fried some Chinese cabbage and made half a pot of tomato and egg soup. After eating a bowl of rice, Lao Xie and his wife feed their son together. Yuan Yuan, who can't wait, is talking nonsense, saying things that others can't understand, and swallowing rice mixed with vegetable soup.
Dongfang, who graduated from junior high school, takes care of her at home on weekdays. After cleaning up the housework, she went back to a mountain of flames in summer and a good hut in winter, and turned on the old TV. 19 years old, she can't wait to grow up. She told reporters that she didn't go to see the results of the senior high school entrance examination. "I'm sure I can't get it." When there was an advertisement on TV, she added, "Three years after I graduated from high school, I was 22 years old. I can't wait. " Asked what she couldn't wait, she smiled and stopped answering. On the streets of Huainan, Lao Xie rolled out a rag with no background color, which was filled with English, Japanese and Korean he had taught himself. The bamboo board was opened and he began to beg with the song he had learned to sing. Lao Xie told reporters that these words were written by himself. He pointed to his head, gave a thumbs-up and proudly introduced his knowledge.
The anecdote of Lao Xie's "knowledge grabbing" is widely circulated in Huainan.
Because I wanted to go to school but I couldn't set foot in it, when I was young, Lao Xie stopped pedestrians on the road and forced them to read, so that they stopped pestering. "I can teach one or both, but the words I know don't count." Recalling the situation at that time, Lao Xie was still full of joy.
What is even more surprising is that this man, who is called a fool, actually learned to carve chapters while watching. He asked his mother for a dime and bought a meat cleaver. In addition to begging, he also carved a private seal to make money. The steel knife was carved on the bone, and he got it instantly, holding the blank in one hand and the knife in the other. It is amazing that such a person has learned such a complicated and exquisite craft. It is said that a family named Xie asked him to engrave the seal, and he didn't accept any money at all. "All the people surnamed Xie in the world are family members." So far, he still insists on this view.
After having a radio, Lao Xie learned a foreign language on a whim, and later bought tapes such as Crazy English 900 sentences to practice oral English. On a blackboard in Laoxie Hospital, all the English he taught himself was written. Although it is scrawled, it is very smooth. Sitting opposite the reporter, he spoke a foreign language and said various English words. He was excited by the reporter's occasional reply. When it comes to Korean that the reporter can't understand, he is even more proud.
At noon on the 23rd, after answering the phone, he greeted each other in English. Someone put ten dollars in front of him and walked away. He raised his hand and said, "Thank you, goodbye." According to the old Huainan people, Lao Xie's begging is necessary, which means "begging under orders". "I want it every day, but no one is afraid and unwilling to give it to him. If it's too much, I won't take it. If I give less, I can't. " In Huainan people's memory, "Xie fool" begged, and every time he asked for a certificate, "He knocked in front of you with a small gong in his hand, and people often got the money ready before he knocked. If the host doesn't buy it, he will always knock at the door in front of your booth. He goes to four markets every day to beg for food. "
But now, I am too old to go to various markets. More often, he will choose to sit down and wait at the gate of the vegetable market and thank everyone who helps him in English.
In front of the booth where he begged, there was a photo of five people. In this color photo taken in the Spring Festival of 2007, Lao Xie's third daughter and fourth daughter stood on both sides of the back row and were amused by the photographer. A bitter and his wife didn't laugh, and the youngest son, Yuan Yuan, sat in a bitter arms and cried. A documentary called "Thanks for Fools" has been widely forwarded on the Internet recently. The seven-minute video made many people leave messages saying "dry your tears and watch". His act of begging for the adoption of many abandoned children is widely circulated in Huainan area, and some people call him "Gai Yi".
The creator of the documentary, Wang Qiyuan, a junior in the School of Art and Design of China Communication University, was not only moved during the filming process, but also moved to tears many times during the later editing process. "I was really moved by the kindness and persistence of this old man."
In 2009, a businessman rebuilt part of Xie's house and bought him a new TV.
In September last year, Xie Haishun was nominated by Huainan as the candidate of "Top Ten Deeds" that touched Huainan, but he was ultimately unsuccessful. In the introduction of the candidate, in addition to his deeds of begging for adoption of abandoned children, there is also a description: since 2008, the name of "Xie Fool" has become louder and louder with his repeated donations to disaster areas at home and abroad. Since the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, he has donated family life-saving money 15 times to disaster areas at home and abroad.
In Huainan local forums, almost every once in a while, people send groups to visit Lao Xie, and others launch a charity sale, hoping to make him stop begging. Some netizens said he was a beggar, but he brought love and kindness to the world.
On August 24th, Zhang Yidong, a local commonweal person in Anhui, and his netizens rushed to Huainan from Hefei to visit Xie Haishun. He has 6,543,800+8,000 fans in Weibo, and also launched a micro-charity activity to help "thank fools" in Weibo.
Although it has been included in the scope of subsistence allowances, the meager relief funds obviously cannot support this family of five. Every morning, when Lao Xie gets up, a regular motorcycle will come to the door and pick him up at the bus stop in the town. Go home at noon, after lunch, ride a motorcycle, transfer to a bus and beg in the city. When the light was on, he returned to his home dozens of miles away from the city with a sack on his back. "A motorcycle costs 5 yuan, 20 yuan a day." He stretched out two thick, black fingers, very distressed. Instead, he smiled and said, nothing, at least there is some money.
The 70-year-old Lao Xie still regards himself as the pillar of the family. "When I fell, they were even more sad." Say that finish, known as the "fool", he pointed to the room and then pointed to the sky. "Without lights, how can there be lighting in the room? Without the sun, where does this light come from? "
He said to take good care of his family, no matter who it is, it is a life. "Life is the most important thing. Without life, nothing exists. " When asked about getting old day by day and how to deal with it in the future, Lao Xie stayed in wait for a while for a while and said, Let's live one day at a time.
On the afternoon of 24th, after the reporter left, Lao Xie dragged his disabled left leg and went to Huainan to beg. According to himself, one day in order to save two young people who fell into the water, he had a car accident and his left leg was knocked into a disabled person. Netizen rescue
On August 17, Zhang Yidong, a Bozhou guy who lives in Hefei, saw the media reports and launched the initiative of "Helping Fools Love Huainan on August 24th" on his Sina Weibo. The proposal reads: "If you are moved by your great kindness, please lend a helping hand. You can donate your unused clothes, furniture and school supplies to them and go together on August 24. "
After the initiative was issued, it quickly received many responses. Zhang Yidong received 300 yuan money donated by Weibo named "Stubborn Jump" to Xie Haishun. After seeing the initiative, Li Yan decided to take part in the aid operation with her daughter and go to Xie Haishun's house together.
Huainan students and caring organizations also responded positively. The Youth League Committee of Anhui University of Science and Technology and the Love Society contacted and interacted with Zhang Yidong through Weibo, and the ordinary love motorcade also actively joined.
On the morning of August 24th, five caring people from Hefei drove to Huainan, and set off at the gate of the North Campus of Anhui University of Science and Technology together with five college students' representatives and four volunteers of the caring team.
Because the distance is too far, after more than an hour's trek by go on road trip Car and Love Taxi/KLOC-0, everyone finally arrived at Xie Haishun's home in Beishan Formation, Shunnan Village, Kongdian Township, datong district. On the way, because a car suddenly broke down and could not drive, I asked the Jiulonggang police station for help. The police station of the police station quickly sent the caring people to Xie Haishun's home.
Medical assistance
Due to his advanced age and long-term hardship, Xie Haishun suffers from various diseases and his health is getting worse. A few years ago, he had a cerebral infarction and never recovered because he had no money to be hospitalized. In addition, he suffers from liver disease. "I am most worried about my eyes." Xie Haishun said that since the first half of this year, my eyes have become more and more blurred, and then I went to the hospital for examination to know that I had cataract.
Xie Haishun's eye disease has also attracted the attention of many good people, and Hefei Puri Eye Hospital said it would treat him for free. It is understood that this morning, this hospital will send someone to Huainan to pick up Xie Haishun, and the hospital will do a general examination for him, and then look at the opportunity to do surgery to cure his eyes.