Time back to early May 2017, the new village cadres election, she ran for the village councilor successfully. That day when she saw me, she was so excited that she grabbed my hand tightly, with tears in her eyes, and said to me: I got elected, I got elected, I really got elected this time! I was also moved by her spirit of never giving up!
She is our Xingji Town Zhoulou village 66-year-old Zhang Huaqin Zhang members.
Speaking of Zhang Huaqin's campaign to become a village councilor, the hard work she has put in and the failures she has experienced are beyond our imagination. It would not be an exaggeration to describe her as being on par with President Abraham Lincoln's campaign for the U.S. Senate.
Zhang Huaqin joined the party at the age of 18, when he was hired to do things in the village, responsible for grabbing the vice accountant and the village processing room. Later, she married a young man from her village and gave birth to three children in four years.
In 1992, she ran for the village cadres successfully, was appointed "birth control specialists". 1994 to 2001, appointed as the village deputy director. From 1994 to 2001, she was appointed deputy village chief, and for the next nine years, deputy village chief.
In 2012, at the age of 58, she was up for re-election. She believed that she had been working in the village, putting in a lot of energy and enthusiasm, and that her performance was still outstanding, and she believed that the villagers would continue to elect her. But the result was unfortunate, she lost the election. Three years later, at the age of 61, she once again failed in her bid to become a village councillor. It was not that she did not try hard, but each time she put forth twelve percent of her enthusiasm and went down to each village, relying on her physical strength, brain power and enthusiasm to impress the villagers and beg them to vote for her. The first time I tried, but again and again suffered a failure.
A lot of people laughed at her behind her back, saying that she "dreamed of marrying a daughter-in-law, thought of good things, and did not know how many bowls of rice she could eat." ? If anyone else, it is likely to give up. But for Zhang Huaqin, life is a stupid thing chasing another stupid thing, nothing more than one more stupid thing. I can still be impulsive, that means I still have a passion for life.
Laughing and cursing by the people, and do people in style. For Zhang Huaqin, failure is not scary, after the failure can still stand up and insist, is the most valuable.
Failure is the accumulation of shortcomings, she was not discouraged, and then begged the village council said: I can not serve as an important position, but I can for the village to do miscellaneous work, tired work, dirty work. The village committee decided to appoint her as a "tobacco technology specialist". The work that offends people and the work that other people are not willing to do is assigned to her, and every time she is enthusiastically and actively involved in running errands quickly. In her words, in my limited life, I can play a little for the village, life is meaningful.
In 2017, she was 63 years old, and she succeeded in running for commissioner this time. This all comes from Zhang Huaqin's unconquerable spirit and good mentality.
She is not afraid of suffering and tiredness, in addition to dealing with the village, she also contracted a number of acres of fields, and often stayed up late to work overtime to do the work in the field. She also planted a vegetable garden to sell vegetables, the first night to pick the vegetables, the next day before dawn to pick the vegetables to the market, often see her picking vegetables in the street to sell the figure.
One time, we talked about the hard times in the past. She said with emotion: "We can't talk about the past. I was just married for ten years, and my three children were less than ten years old, and the trials and tribulations I suffered in those years were unimaginable.
My son got osteomyelitis when he was two years old, and Zhang Haidi, the living lightning rod of the era, was paralyzed by osteomyelitis at the age of five. I heard that the child had this disease, I was anxious. For fear of delaying the child's optimal treatment period, at that time the three children had no one to take care of, I left my eldest daughter in the care of her maternal grandmother. I was carrying my son on my back and my little girl in my arms who was still breastfeeding at less than a year old, and I went around looking for a doctor for my child, Zhengzhou, Xuchang, Luohe, Wuhan and other places. As soon as we heard of a cure for this disease, my husband and I went there immediately. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world.
One time I held my little daughter on the train, because I didn't buy a ticket, and the child's place is still one stop short of the train conductor to get out of the car. I held my daughter along the railroad walk ah ... walk ah ... walk ah ......
Hospitalized during the money to rent a house, every night my husband and I children, curled up next to the stairway, a night and a night to deal with. As a result of bad food, bad sleep, and because of overworked, I had a serious illness, nearly killed.
Later, my son was not cured at the hospital in Zhengzhou, and I heard that a private clinic in Jizhuang, Xuchang, had cured this disease. I carried my son on my back and embraced my daughter, came to Xuchang Jizhuang, has long been penniless, we, and my husband while fleeing for food, while the child to see a doctor. Stayed for more than a month, the child's condition has improved. After returning, it was New Year's Eve, and the family had no rice, no flour, no food, no clothes, so my husband continued to go out to beg for food. On the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, the family had a bowl of rice, not a little bit of noodles, and on the first day of the year, the husband went out to beg for food again.
After his son's osteomyelitis improved, his leg joints were dislocated and necrotic, and he underwent a straight crotch surgery at Minggang Daifuku Hospital. Because of the timely medical treatment, now the son did not leave many sequelae.
She also elaborated: those years were not a human life. The first time I saw this, I had to go to the hospital, and then I had to go to the hospital, and then I had to go to the hospital, and then I had to go to the hospital.
This is the first time I've ever seen a woman with a baby in her arms, and I've never seen her with a baby in her arms.
Later, back home, penniless, I borrowed 300 yuan from relatives and neighbors, bought a donkey, buy some beans at home to grind tofu, often carrying tofu, walking along the village all the way along the village yelling and selling. In addition, I contracted some fields, planted a vegetable garden, and later killed pigs to sell meat. A few years later, the days are gradually getting better. In the narrative, Zhang Huaqin several times shed tears. It also made me feel a lot of emotions!
When the village cadres have a big responsibility, the burden is heavy, the village civil disputes, husband and wife, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, some want to compete as a difficult household, want to eat low income and so many chores. If not handled properly, it will engage in tense relations between cadres, village cadres suffered, offended people scolded, not to mention that they do not have much of a month's salary, when the village cadres is a thankless task. The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of a long journey, and I was able to get to know the people who were there.
Especially her husband, because of her daytime energy on the village, the family's fields can not care much, her husband a few times to her fists and feet, to drive her out of the door. But no matter how much Zhang Huaqin has suffered, she has never complained.
Her three college children are very good, each in the city have to fight for a career, do not want her to suffer at home, want to let her go to the city to enjoy the happiness. But Zhang Huaqin said: I like to mingle with the people, I love my hometown, love my job, love Zhoulou village, love Zhoulou village grass, love every villager, I do not go anywhere.
On September 22, just past the third "Chinese Peasants Harvest Festival", Zhoulou village secretary Wu let her responsible for participating in the harvest festival dance program, led by Zhang Huaqin, Jiang Fang Zhoulou village more than a dozen middle-aged women, carefully selected a national temperament, catering to the atmosphere of the harvest festival called the "red jujube tree" of the folk dance. From then on, 66-year-old Zhang Huaqin led the rehearsals day and night. Every stooping and rotating gesture movements, let them pinch the sweat, in order to maintain synchronization, paid a lot of hard work and sweat. Later, finally practiced to the driver's seat.
Unexpectedly rehearsal auditions, the day before the harvest festival, the program was killed. The reason is that they do not have a smile on their face. She begged the township government program team, let us on it, tomorrow we will show you the most beautiful a dance. But no matter how much she begged, it was no use. Late at night, Zhang Huaqin still held on to a ray of hope and called every leader in the village. They all said that the program has been set, there is no way.
Then called me, said, we carefully rehearsed the program to shoot down, I was upset ah! Other villages are dancing square dance, our dance, beautiful dance, the most can show the national temperament, we dance is not worse than other villages, I do not understand why it will be selected?
And then went on to say, tonight we still continue to rehearse, tomorrow morning at 4 o'clock we still continue to rehearse, we also have to go to the harvest festival site, I will still strive to go on, not until the last moment, I will not give up!
The next day, the girls decided to bring their costumes and props, and they had never worn makeup before. They made up their makeup carefully and were well prepared.
The next day, they decided to bring their costumes and props, which they had never worn before, and put on elaborate make-up and were well prepared.
Zhang Huaqin, once again with tears in his eyes, said to me: "This is the last few months of my work in the village, and the only time in my life that I've ever been on stage is gone!
I advised her: there will be opportunities in the future, do not be discouraged.
I'm not sure if you're going to be able to get a good look at this, but I'm sure you can.
Life is hard, but hard life is more able to sharpen a person's strong will.
Zhang Huaqin's life through the vicissitudes of time, practiced her tough, stoic, open-minded, unconvincing character. Her lifelong pursuit is to be able to be a village cadre, and to be able to solve the problems for the villagers of Zhoulou Village.
She said: the light is too good to last. I'd rather run and be tossed down countless times than walk around in a regular fashion for the rest of my life. A dream that is not ridiculed is not worth pursuing. Even if I fall, I have to laugh at life with bravado.
Ordinary footsteps can also walk through the great journey. May Mr. Zhang Huaqin go farther and farther in the post he loves!