Huaxi Metropolis Daily reporter Li Zhi Intern Li Qin photography Zhang Lei
upper pool on the street flea market, a stall woman and a foreign teacher "do not keep up with each other": the old foreigner insisted on compensation for the dirty clothes, the old man resolutely not allowed.
the same goodwill
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the old man forgot to pay for his meal. The boss of Chengdu said, "don't pay for the meal, and call the police to help the old man go home."
abandoned abandoned babies were abandoned for two times. The old man in Chengdu said, "this is life. We need to raise our children."
set up the stall to sell clothes, by the foreigners inadvertently dirty, Chengdu woman refused to compensate: Chinese people are not so small!
they have a common name: Chengdu good people
in Chengdu city street, there is a small flea market, a lot of people here stalls, 66 year old Li Popo is also stall. On the afternoon of 27 June,
9, a foreign teacher, Ma, passed by on her bicycle, and a bottle of red wine was in her pocket. He stopped at Li Popo booth and wanted to take care of her business. But the red wine in the bag dropped carelessly, and the spilled wine stained the old clothes on the stalls.
"I'm sorry that I stained your clothes." Miss Ma apologized and drew out a few hundred dollar bills to compensate her. Li Popo refused, "a few old trousers are not worth, really do not use, Chinese people are not so bad!" the two sides humility after a long time, Li's mother-in-law, at a price of 20 yuan, sold to Ma teacher a pair of trousers.
when the Huaxi Metropolis Daily reporter contacted Mr. Ma and Li Popo, they all said, "this is only a trivial matter".
modesty: an apology is willing to compensate for a continuous decline of
28 morning, and Mr. Zhang enthusiastically calls West Huaxi city newspaper hotline 96111, saying he witnessed a thing full of positive energy and had several videos. In the video of
, a tall foreign man took out a stack of hundred dollar bills from his trouser pocket. On the other side, a short Chengdu woman was taking care of some wet trousers and hung her trousers on the side railings.
the foreign man has been trying to plug hundreds of dollars into his mother-in-law, but his mother-in-law has waved her hands away, and the two men have been holding hands.
Mr. Zhang told reporters that a foreign man is actually an American foreign teacher and a Chinese surnamed ma. My mother's surname is Li, who sells stalls at the flea market in the upper pool street, selling old clothes and other small objects.
9 27 afternoon, on the afternoon of 27, Ma, on a bike ride across the upper pool street, stopped in front of the Li Popo stall, ready to buy some old clothes and take care of her business. When Mr. Ma was picking on the stall, a bottle of red wine, originally placed in a bicycle bike pocket, suddenly dropped on the ground, splashed out of the wine, and stained a few pieces of clothes on her mother's mother's stall.
see this scene, teacher horse teacher while apologizing, side out a few hundred dollar bill, want to compensate for Li Popo, but the mother-in-law will not accept, this only has the video in the same scene.
Goodwill: foreign teachers put forward to buy all the dirty laundry
28 morning, the reporter also came to Chengdu city on the street. Unfortunately, Li Popo did not come to the stall, but another master and her familiar, provided Li Popo's phone.
dial the phone, her mother in law said, "this is only a trivial matter".
Li Popo, 66 years old, lives near Yongfeng road in Chengdu. It has been sold for two years in the Shang Chi Street, mainly selling some old clothes. "I took it in the district before, and now I don't accept old goods, so it's good to sell out."
every afternoon, she took the old clothes in a big pocket, used an old baby on the car, took the 93 bus, and went to the upper pool on the street, until 6 o'clock in the evening.
she recalls that Mr. Ma had taken care of her three business before, and bought again yesterday, picked up a water cup, two dollars, a small bowl, a dollar. But at this time, a bottle of red wine in the bicycle pocket suddenly fell off. The spilled wine stained the two sweaters and three men's trousers on the stalls.
"these five clothes are all more expensive. I get 20 yuan for woolen sweater, and 15 yuan for pants." Li Popo said that she only added 5 yuan for each piece, 25 yuan for sweaters and 20 yuan for trousers. After cleaning the clothes, Miss Ma took out a stack of banknotes from her trouser pocket. First she pulled out one hundred yuan and handed it to her, saying that she wanted to pay for the dirty clothes and was refused by her.
after a while, Mr. Ma, who had already left, must buy all 5 dirty clothes before returning to the booth.
warm heart: "Chinese people are not so small"
teacher to pay compensation, to buy dirty clothes, Li Popo all refused, "in fact, there is nothing, a few old clothes are small things, Chinese people are not so small."
Li Popo's family condition is not rich. She was an employee of a department store. She retired early in the 90s of last century, and only 1900 yuan for a month. She has a daughter, the body is not very good, every time her daughter wants to put her pocket money, she is also swinging, "I have a retirement salary, do not want to increase the burden of the doll."
she has cataracts, not very good eyes, in order to stay at home for a long time to watch TV, and do not want to do nothing, so she put up the stall. A dress of 20 yuan may not be much for ordinary people, but for her, it is part of the economic source.
even so, she refused Ma's compensation. But Mr. Ma was very obstinate, and the Li - in law finally agreed to let him buy a dirty pair of trousers at a price of 20 yuan. "The rest of the compensation," he said, "don't say it."
Mrs. Ma is tall, and Li Po Po chose a large size trousers to make sure that he could wear it before he accepted 20 yuan.
- the person said
teacher: "she confiscated my money, I felt a little uncomfortable in my heart."
28 day afternoon, Huaxi metropolis newspaper reporter also contacted teacher ma. He is an American, has settled in Chengdu, and is currently a foreign teacher in a key middle school in Chengdu.
although he is an American, he can speak Chinese, though not quite fluent, and normal communication is no problem. Referring to careless dirty clothes, Mr. Ma smiled and threw out some stiff words. "This is just a small thing in life."
he said he had done the same thing before, helping some people with difficulties and being interviewed by the media. "It's a little thing, don't want to say more, please understand."
in a video shot by witnesses, Ma said that the clothes she sold were a bit old and not sold. She was so hard to stand up every day. She really admired her and wanted to help her. "She confiscated my money, and I felt a little uncomfortable in my heart." In an interview with reporters in
, Mr. Ma and Li Po Po repeatedly mentioned one sentence, "this is just a trivial matter". But such a trivial matter reflects the warmth and brightness of the society.