Wen: I'm Su Yan.

Everyone is a heavy book. I had a brief interview with the painter Zhao Yonggang before, but I only talked a few words, not in depth. Until one day, I have a wish: I want to interview 100 people who have made certain achievements in various fields in my hometown; Want to interview 100 elderly people over 80 years old; I want to interview 100 ancestors who have passed away and are still worthy of admiration by future generations. Teacher Zhao, who came out of a difficult environment, was one of the 100 people who made achievements in the preparation for the interview.

Teacher Zhao, who came out of the countryside, has a special preference for painting since he was a child. According to the picture book, when he was a child, he could draw a life-size Guan Gong on the wall of an old deserted house. When you see something on the road, you can always draw a close-up picture according to the cat. The talent for painting seems to be in your bones and will be born with it.

Teacher Zhao's childhood was not very happy. When he was eleven years old, his mother was away for many years because of illness, and his father worked in the mill in the village and could not stay at home for a day. He is the boss in the family, and there are 9-year-old, 7-year-old and 5-year-old brothers and sisters to take care of. The burden of family suddenly fell on his tender shoulders, and he learned to cook and tidy up his home. Every day when the school is on holiday, he will go home to see if the fire is out. He took on the needlework at home, the work in the fields, the affairs of his brothers and sisters, and all the things big and small, and became an adult completely.

Teacher Zhao is a grateful person. In the most difficult time of his family, relatives and friends all expressed deep sympathy for their little doll. This family gave them a pair of shoes and that family gave them a pair of trousers. In times of material poverty, they did their best to help them. Speaking of this, Mr. Zhao's eyes sparkled with tears.

Boys born in the village are very naughty. After entering junior high school, a group of wild children get together, either digging eggs or playing pigeons, or playing truant to go crazy. The study time in the first two years of junior high school is almost wasted. When he reached junior high school, he suddenly realized the importance of learning. Unfortunately, his foundation is weak, his homework has fallen behind, and the knowledge behind him can't be learned at all. After graduating from junior high school, the teacher gave them a hammer to set the tone: you don't have to take the senior high school entrance examination, you can't get it. In this way he entered the society.

At that time, Mr. Zhao entered the society with bright hopes and felt that life was very beautiful. It is not easy for him to eat and earn money to support himself. Imagination is beautiful, but reality is very skinny. Teacher Zhao and his classmates go to the construction site to work. Two coolies provide cement and bricks for four laborers. They are as busy as a top, and they can't be idle for a moment. When they got home, they were as tired as dead pigs, fell asleep and never woke up again.

This job is too hard. Change it. Picking pebbles on the beach to pave the road, from five o'clock in the morning until the moon rises at night, I am too tired to straighten up, and I only earn three or five dollars a day. These jobs are too hard and tiring to earn much money. He tried to sell vegetables. Fortunately, in the end, sometimes he only earned a few leftovers, and sometimes he had to throw them away when they were all sold out. Not only lost, but also lost.

He worked as an apprentice, a migrant worker loader, a bricklayer, a stonemason, a road builder and a mill. He has driven a minibus and tricycle, done small business and worked as a militia. He changed jobs after jobs and didn't make much money. People are exhausted to death. Physical fatigue is secondary, and mental fatigue is more important. If you earn less than five yuan a day, you can't buy two Jin of pork. He once asked himself, what is the way to go in the future and what is the life in the future? Don't you live your whole life for these two pounds of pork that you can't buy every day? At this point, the boss who hired him was still dissatisfied and made things difficult for him everywhere.

The double torture of body and spirit makes teenagers start to rethink their lives: Do I want to live like this in my life? I am not reconciled. I am not reconciled.

Seeing the happy scene that the girl next door was admitted to the university and her family saw her off, Mr. Zhao was deeply moved, and he also longed to enter an institution of higher learning like these students who were admitted to the university one day. If the touch of the girl next door who goes to college is the introduction, what happens later is the switch.

The deeper touch came from the construction site where he went to work. When drilling, the sound of the hammer hitting the ground was deafening, which made his ears buzzing. When sleeping at night, the sound of the hammer falling still reverberates in his ears, making him have nightmares again and again. Then something earth-shattering happened. When the gun was fired, the stone was blown away, and the ignited gun was still silent. All the workmates he worked with went out to check it out. The cannon suddenly exploded and all the workers were blown away. Lively workers lost their lives in an instant, bloodied and inhuman. This incident touched him greatly and completely changed his fate.

The pain of work, the scene of disrespect, the poverty of family life, the thirst for knowledge and skills, the longing for a better life and the heavy pressure finally made Mr. Zhao, who is 19 years old, make up his mind to change his destiny through reading. He believes that everything is self-abased, and only by studying high, he firmly believes that only knowledge can change fate.

As the old saying goes, if you think, you will achieve something. The more determined you are, the greater your chances of success. Teacher Zhao ushered in the first light of life. He heard from a classmate in a vocational high school that there is an art class in the vocational school. So he made up his mind to go back to school as a student to continue his studies. My father works in a mill. Although he doesn't have much money, he is an open-minded man. When he heard that his son, who had already taken part in labor, wanted to give up making money to go to school, he not only didn't object, but also found someone to enroll his son in a vocational high school. This move made the villagers look down on themselves. My son was stupid and my father was confused. Since he is no longer a small man, he still has to go to school. But the old man was unmoved and supported his son to go to school. Take out 400 yuan earned by Mr. Zhao's part-time job and help him pay his tuition.

Teacher Zhao remembers it very clearly. When I was at school, tian teacher, an art teacher, saw him at first sight and was surprised: How old are you, and still go to school?

19-year-old boy, after two years of social experience, looks good with the middle-aged men in the village. No wonder the teacher asked this question.

Going to school is not as easy as I thought. I didn't study hard in junior high school for three years, but I worked in the society for two years. I went back to school, my eyes were dark and I didn't know anything. When I officially entered the school, it was already the end of the first semester, and the learning difficulty was evident. I know a little about Chinese, politics, geography and history, but I know nothing about math and English. I always come last in my class. Some students asked with a little ridicule: Are you fooling around at school?

In a word, Mr. Zhao has a thousand waves in his heart, and he is also interrogating himself: Do I want to muddle along at school? Am I fooling around? At the same time, a firm answer appeared in his mind: I want to change my destiny through learning. Others can mix, but I can't.

People are afraid of having goals and directions. Teacher Zhao has repeatedly mentioned a wise saying that belongs to him: attitude changes everything!

People with firm goals will never feel bitter no matter how hard and tired they are. Others sleep, he studies, others play, he studies, others go to physical education class, he is still studying, and he studies at night. Afraid of being sleepy, he learned to fall asleep, learning from the ancients' "hanging his head and stabbing his legs" and forcing himself to sleep at two or three in the evening. Slowly, he can get the first place in his class with his knowledge of history and geography by rote. If you can't speak English, then you must recite five words every day. If you can't do your homework, other students will find someone else to copy it. He must find out for himself. He believes that "he who laughs last always laughs". One of his favorite songs is My Future Is Not a Dream. At the New Year's Day party, walking on the usual road, this song is the one he hummed the most.

After his sophomore year, he went to Shanxi University for training and study, and his family only gave him 100 yuan. You have to pay tuition in 50 yuan, and the rest of 50 yuan will last for three months. Life is extremely difficult. He shared a room with seven classmates and had only one meal at noon. Other students have money subsidized by their families, so they can go to the canteen to make up for it. He is penniless. In the evening, he was so hungry that he put his chest on his back, drank a glass of water to pad his stomach, endured hunger and kept practicing painting until midnight. In this way, I kept on studying for three months. When I went to the provincial capital, my face was round. After three months, it became a quick-talking monkey face. When I came back, my family hardly recognized him.

After working hard to earn money for two years, the suffering at school is not bitter at all for Miss Zhao. Learning is a blessing that Mr. Zhao enjoys. It is a blessing to study until midnight without going to work, and it is also a blessing to have food at school. It is a great blessing to have the opportunity to study hard.

The schools he entered for the college entrance examination are all high schools. He once asked someone to check the application results of Shanxi University, with color 95, sketch 92 and sketch 89. This achievement is also in the forefront in the province. When he was admitted to Jinzhong Normal University, in order to save two yuan, he and his classmates rode bicycles to Yuci, and finally reached the standard. Finally, he chose "Shanxi Normal University" from many high schools.

Speaking of the scene of receiving the admission notice, Mr. Zhao seems to have returned to the moment of his excitement. He carefully put the notice in the middle of the book and got on the bike, just like getting on a plane. It usually takes 40 to 50 minutes to ride, and it only takes 15 minutes to get into the house. Before people came in, the voice floated in first: I came in, I came in. The family was equally surprised when they came out.

Poor families have no spare money for him to go to school, and the school loan is just enough for tuition. How can they survive in school without living expenses?

The child who came out of the cold door didn't bother him. I am a tutor on Saturday, a teacher in a training institution, and a part-time job in an advertising company. Coupled with a little living allowance, study scholarships and tuition fees from various sources, Mr. Zhao successfully completed his college studies.

After graduation, Mr Zhao was assigned to Dongguan High School as an art teacher, and two years later he was transferred to his alma mater, where he became a colleague with tian teacher, who was very kind to him.

What makes Mr. Zhao most proud is that he has just been transferred to a vocational high school, and 40 of the 45 students who took over the first session have been admitted to the undergraduate course. When we interviewed Mr. Zhao, the beautiful teaching assistant we met was a student who was admitted to the undergraduate course that year. She also showed us some photos of that year. In the photo, 30-year-old Mr. Zhao is heroic and handsome.

Teacher Zhao's family is also very happy. He went to kindergarten, primary school, middle school and university with girls from childhood, taught art in the same school, and had two handsome sons.

It can be seen that Mr. Zhao, who has lived in poverty, is a grateful person. He remembered the kindness of the villagers, tian teacher's help in study and life in high school, and the fact that her mother-in-law could marry a woman to him.

God will never fail those who strive for progress. Teacher Zhao Yonggang told us from personal experience that studying hard can really change our destiny.