source: mass network reporter Yu Wensi
"in Ji'nan Shun plough Road, the old man rickets, push the bicycle full of waste, go to the waste purchase station. The old man was 77 years old. He lived by picking up scraps, and asked for his name. The old man said, "old mother yo, there is no name." In July 9th, the post was disseminated in the mass forum and Sina micro-blog. Later, the reporter went to a storage room in the Southern District of Shun Yu campus and found the old man. The old man has grey hair and lives in the five or six square storage room. His living space is full of waste products.
the shadow of the old man: the familiarity of the Shun plough road in July 9th, the public forum has a post of netizen, "in Ji'nan Shun plough Road, the old man rickets, push the bicycle full of waste, go to the waste purchase station. The old man was 77 years old. He lived by picking up scraps, and asked for his name. The old man said, "old mother yo, there is no name." This time, many netizens expressed concern about the life of the old man.
July 12th, the reporter went to shun Geng road to find the old man mentioned in the post.
in the search process, the reporter found that from the exhibition center to the East eight Liwa, from school students to street vendors, a lot of people have been very familiar with the old man.
"the old lady, bending her back and pushing a bicycle, often finds garbage in the trash bin of University of Jinan." In an exhibition center, an environmental sanitation worker briefed reporters.
according to the multithread clues provided by the public, the reporter went to the Southern District of Shun Yu District and finally met the old man.
old man's home: the storeroom filled with trash is cloudy and rainy.
red iron gate, heaped a meter of high waste, water can no longer pass the foot, a pungent smell of excrement, in the door, five or six square meters of space, the light is very weak, no windows, from the bottom to the bottom, water bottles, cotton quilts, old shoes, cartons and all kinds of waste, pile full and squeeze, people crowded, crowded, people pile, crowded and crowded. There was nowhere to stand. A small bed was stacked in the middle of the waste, and the flies were buzzing.
this is the home of the old man.
10 a.m., when the reporter arrived at the old man's house, the old man sat up from a pile of waste products and gathered up his gray hair. Rickets, wrinkled faces, deep sockets, a thin shirt covered. The old man said that the clothes on his body were all thrown by others. Not only that, but also the quilts, umbrellas, clothes hangers and other kinds of daily necessities, most of which were picked up by the old man himself from the garbage bin.
by talking to the old man, the reporter learned that the old man was 77 years old, his hometown was in a mountain village near Heze, Shandong province. His wife had died, his son was more than 30 years old, and the three grandchildren of his family were 10 years old, and the youngest was only 4 years old. In order to reduce the financial burden of his son, 2 years ago, the old man himself came to Ji'nan to pick up waste and rented the small storage room as his home.
two years, my son came to see her two times and asked her son why she couldn't see her often. The old man said, "he doesn't have money, how much is it for food, and now the car is expensive." "Then don't you want your child?" The reporter asked.
"no, no fun, no use." "Don't you want to go back to see them?" "I don't think I'm very good." When asked about the name of the old man, the old man said, "surname Liu, called Liu Ying (homophone), I don't know which word is, I didn't go to school." The old man's life: "morning, dark and sleep" the old man's back bend badly, viewed from the side, has become almost a right angle. "Tired!" The old man said simply. Except for the hunchback, the old man's legs are not good. "Can't be affected by the wind. It hurts when the wind hurts. Sometimes I cry at night." The old man added calmly.
even though the body is suffering from illness, the old man is still self reliant. If there was a sun, the old man took the waste to the purchase station with a bicycle and sold it for money. If the weather was not good, she would walk around and pick up the things that could be picked up. One day, sometimes I eat two meals, sometimes I eat three meals. I buy them on the roadside, and I use water to use electricity, but I have to go to the landlord's home to borrow.
the monthly rent between the stores is 150 yuan, and the old man spends more than 10 yuan a day on average, and according to the old man, she sells all the waste in the house, only three or four hundred dollars, and the waste of the house does not know how long she will save.
"now, a bowl of noodles will cost you 6 yuan, where there is enough to spend, big cities, no money." In the face of high consumption, the elderly have some helplessness.
the light in the storage room is very weak. When the iron gate closes, it is impossible to tell the day and night. "I don't know what day it is, and I don't know how many points it starts. The weather was bad recently. The old man said she wanted to take a rest. When the weather cleared up, she would sell the waste in the house. Otherwise, she would soon have no money to eat.
the old man's story: it's still going on... The 77 year old man, alone in Ji'nan, really has nothing to rely on? According to many shopkeepers in the vicinity of Shun Yu District, the old man has a son in Ji'nan, and now Shun Yu road repairs electrical appliances. "Her son repairs electrical appliances over there, and often helps the old lady to do things." A shopkeeper, who didn't want to be named, said. At the same time, the staff of the neighborhood committee of Shun Yu District also said that the person who repaired electrical appliances was the eldest son of the old man.
the reporter soon found the man of the repair appliance on Shun Yu Road. His name was Zhang Lei, a Henan Kaifeng man who lived in the opposite side of the old man's house. He denied that, "I just help her in normal times and have no relations with her." Immediately, the reporter found the old man to confirm the matter. The old man said, "he is not familiar with him."
for the relationship between the two, the reporter will continue to follow up the investigation.
no matter what the result is, the reporter hopes that people can extend their help to help the old man, so that he can have old support and old dependence.