Roast sweet potato for 22 years and write oil on the hearth
22 years ago, when 22 year old Shi Zhenhua alone pushed the roast sweet potato furnace from Zouping's home in Binzhou, from then on. In the past 22 years, he has been to Tianjin and has been to Dongying. In recent years, he has been staying in Ji'nan. Alone in a strange land, he met customers who didn't give money to eat sweet potatoes, and met with his urban management. Although he has been in Ji'nan for many years, he runs home whenever he has time. He says he can't get used to it in the city. Shi Zhenhua junior high school education, but like to experience condensed into "poetry" posted on the oven, he called it his own personal experience. Wen / map reporter Lin Yanyin
read more poems than buying roasted sweet potatoes
"old man forty-eight this year, roasted sweet potatoes on the streets of Ji'nan. To live away from home is to live without culture. " This poem without title is one of Shi Zhenhua's eleven poems on the plank on the oven. There are no flowery phrases in "verse", but they are very pleasant to read.
some passers-by people are often attracted by the "Poems" on the oven, and they stand to watch them. Shi Zhenhua says he sees a lot more than the people who buy the roast potato every day. "Look at the poems you write, the knowledge is not low." This is often the most frequently asked question after a poem is read by a pedestrian. And he said to himself that he didn't even graduate from junior high school.
Shi Zhenhua said that these eleven poems were written in seven or eight years' time. "I usually do not write poetry, but I write occasionally."
wanted to write a few sentences. He wrote the verse on the board and surrounded the board on the oven. This not only gives you some fun, but also gives customers some different feelings to buy sweet potatoes. "Don't look at my poetry, boy. I'm afraid you'll feel sorry for me and buy my sweet potato after watching it." When a guy looked at the poem on the oven carefully, Shi Zhenhua said to him with a smile.
Shi Zhenhua is full of confidence in his own poetry. "Even a university professor can't write it out, because this is my personal experience." According to him, he often talks about these "Poems" with customers when he sells baked sweet potatoes.
poems have touched city management
Shi Zhenhua is 44 years old. He has been selling roasted sweet potatoes everywhere since he was 22 years old. In the past more than 20 years, he has been to Zouping County town, and also to Dongying, Tianjin and other places. He has remained in Ji'nan for the past seven or eight years. "Apart from being close to home, people in Ji'nan are relatively honest. They are more comfortable doing business here."
now, he has formed his own rule of life. At 5:30 every morning, he got up on time, lit the stove, and hurried to eat some breakfast, then he pulled the oven out on the motorcycle tricycle. "Where to go in the morning, where to go at noon, where to go in the evening, I have planned, in short, where people go to more." Of course, Shi Zhenhua is the most worried about the city tube. Therefore, even when the city management does not happen frequently, he still looks at the surrounding area from time to time and prepares for cycling.
despite his vigilance, he will be caught by city management and sometimes fined. But there were exceptions, he said, seven or eight years ago, when he was still selling roasted sweet potatoes in Tianjin, and once he was caught by the city tube, but he didn't have the heart to punish him when he looked at his poem. "He asked me, 'you're so bitter', I told him about my situation and he didn't penalize me, and finally let me shovel a small ad on the pole."
but he is not always so lucky to be away from home. "Sometimes I go to some places to sell baked sweet potatoes, and the local people take the sweet potatoes away, and I dare not ask them for money." Shi Zhenhua said that once he had offended a local man, his tricycle was always tied up, and he finally managed to deal with it with the help of his fellow townsman. These things upset him even more than the cold and hot weather. "Sometimes it's boring. Thanks to getting away from home, if I don't sell baked sweet potatoes, I'll ride home." Shi Zhenhua said that although he had been in Ji'nan for seven or eight years, he still couldn't get used to it. Even if he is idle, he seldom goes to the supermarket, the square and so on, and he climbs up the mountain at most.
a village of more than 1000 people roasting sweet potatoes
Shi Zhenhua's home in Zouping, Binzhou, a relatively remote mountain area, but closer to Ji'nan. "Almost every household in our village roasts the sweet potato." According to him, the population of their village is more than 3000, but there are more than 1000 people who bake sweet potatoes everywhere. In Ji'nan, there are several people who bake sweet potatoes in their villages. "Our village has been roasting sweet potatoes since the 80s of last century, and has continued to this day." Shi Zhenhua said that only two people in their village started to buy a stove to roast sweet potatoes in the field. Later, everyone saw that the bank earned money and began to work. Shi Zhenhua was only 22 when he started selling baked sweet potatoes. "For a long time, what kind of sweet potatoes, and how many kilos of a sweet potato, I will know about it at a glance." Shi Zhenhua said that he baked the sweet potatoes from his old family car to Ji'nan, which not only saves money, but also tastes good on the mountain. Because he often touches sweet potatoes, his body is covered with sweet potato oil.
because all day outside, children are born late. Now he has only one daughter to go to grade two, and the daughter is very obedient and sensible. "Children earn tuition and buy things at school. I earn them by selling baked sweet potatoes. There is no place to earn money at home." Shi Zhenhua suffered a lot of ups and downs. His parents died at the age of more than 50, which was a great blow to him. "I sell baked sweet potatoes for more than 20 years. I want to do something else, but I don't make money. Finally, I'll roast sweet potatoes again." Shi Zhenhua waved the big hands full of charcoal ash. He was also excited to say that he wrote a doggerel: "full moon and round, year after year." Black hair becomes white hair and still has no change.