Zhang Ying and Lu Tongli, the "messenger of dreams", handed over the fare and meal money owed to the school to the school bus driver.
Zhang Ying's father is recounting the family's unfortunate experience.
When she was thirsty, Zhang Ying directly picked up the water scoop and drank the water from the bucket. Zhang Ying's family was so destitute that he didn't even have a decent warm pot.
Zhang Ying, a 12-year-old girl in Lingang Economic Development Zone in Linyi City, because her family is poor, owes the school a semester of car fare and meal money, and 750 yuan has become the heaviest burden in this girl's heart. Although she has nothing, her biggest wish is not to dress well and eat delicious food, but to pay back the money owed to the school as soon as possible. This girl with a handsome appearance stubbornly grew up in poverty and strived to be a person with integrity and did not owe money.
The fare and meal money were one hundred and fifteen in January, and she had been in arrears for a semester
Zhang Ying's family lives in Zhangjiagou Village, Zhuanggang Town, Lingang Economic Development Zone, walking into the village, the main street is lined with tile houses, turning into an alley, walking to the end is Zhang Ying's home. The scene in front of us is in stark contrast to the rows of large tile houses in the eyes of the reporter just now, and people are suddenly plunged into a huge gap.
To say that it is a home is actually two small low houses, and there is not even a yard. "If there is money to build a yard, it will be lived in this way, anyway, there is nothing to lose, as far as my family's situation is concerned, no one in the village knows, even thieves do not have to guard against it." Zhang Ying's father, Zhang Junli, said.
Zhang Ying's school is seven or eight miles away from home, and she has to take the school bus back and forth, and at the same time eat lunch at the school, which costs 150 yuan a month. It has accumulated month by month, and now it has been a semester without submission.
"There are 32 children on the school bus, and only Zhang Ying has not paid the fare." We all know the situation in her family, and the school has never urged it. When you have money, you can pay it whenever you want. School bus driver Cao Zhenhai said.
I have not eaten fruit in two months, and I can only go to my relatives' house to "improve my life"
Parents are there, why is this family so poor? This also starts from Zhang Ying's special family. Zhang Ying's mother suffered from severe mental illness and often scolded and even beat people. "The child did not dare to go home after school, and sometimes she would be chased and beaten by her mother, so I worked in the field, and I estimated that the child was about to finish school, so I rushed home to watch." Zhang Junli said.
Zhang Junli is 61 years old this year, in fact, in the face of poverty, he also wants to go out to work to make some money, but because his wife is sick, even the rice is not cooked, and often causes trouble, where can he still go out, can only guard the 3 acres of land to live.
The family's rations had to be paid out of these 3 acres of land, and there was very little grain left that could be used to sell money. "Some time ago, the village committee came to collect pension insurance premiums, two people a total of 600 yuan, the family can not even take out 100 yuan." Fortunately, the village cadre first borrowed 600 yuan for me, which was the end of the payment. Zhang Junli said.
The family has never bought vegetables, let alone fruit, for Zhang Ying, eating fruit is simply a luxury. Zhang Ying's father said that sometimes Zhang Ying's eldest wife gave her apples to eat, and sometimes her concubine called her over to eat dumplings, which was also a relief, counting that Zhang Ying had not eaten fruit for two months.
Don't wear good looks, don't eat good, just want to pay back the money owed to the school
As a 12-year-old little girl, it is the time to love beauty, from childhood to adulthood, Zhang Ying has never had a new dress that is completely her own, and all the clothes are replaced by a sister of her cousin's family. What a snack was, she could never describe the taste. Even the meat that can be eaten once in a while is also sent by the father who helps the villagers in the white things.
However, in the face of this opportunity to realize her dream, she neatly wrote the line "Pay the fare and meal money owed to the school" on the dream collection form. "You can't always owe someone else because my family is poor." This semester, the school bus I sat in white, lunch I ate for free, as long as there is a little hope, I will pay this money back, even if it is the New Year in my heart, I am down-to-earth and happy. Zhang Ying's words made the people present almost cry.
On the afternoon of the 19th, reporters, "dream messenger" Lu Tongli and the love team Master Han Xixiang came to Zhang Ying's school and handed 750 yuan to her, and the girl said that she had never taken so much money. After finding the school bus driver, she handed the money to him, as if she had completed an important mission, and the happiness in her heart had already overflowed on her face.
After saying goodbye, the reporter watched the girl enter the campus, and across from her happened to be Zhang Ying's good classmate, she jumped over and hugged her classmates, and they laughed together and walked into the teaching building. Yeah, at this age, they should be so happy and comfortable.
Reporter Cui Hongying Liao Jie