23 early morning, 5, the early spring morning there is a slight cold, pedestrians on the road are thin Less. In a lane on the west side of Hong Lou North Road, under the orange street lamp, an old man with a bent back was sweeping the ground, with a broom in his right hand and a homemade dustpan in his left hand, even a cigarette will not pass.
the old man has been doing this for 21 years, but few people know that the alley is clean and tidy, and few people know he is 81 years old, and few people know that he was a cadre in the hall before he retired.
the old man is Wang Qijie, the former dean of Shandong Light Industries College.
low profile: 21 years
headwear in silence, a gray neck wrapped in the chest, a long - looking blue suit with a double yellow rubber shoe on his feet, and this is the work suit of Wang Qijie's old man sweeping the street. Most passers-by would have thought he was really an environmental sanitation worker.
the older Wang Qijie retired in 1990, he took the initiative to clean up the road between the three dormitory buildings in the Hong Lou, Shandong Light Industries College. The more sweeping scope, the two five hundred or six hundred meters of the road in the back of the last building became his sweeping range. It was not until 2002 that after the sanitation department had worked, the scope of his cleaning was reduced to a few hundred meters of alley. "One time I was sweeping the ground, a young man finished the banana and threw the skin at my feet. I asked him how he could throw rubbish, and he answered what he wanted you to do if he didn't throw the garbage," Wang Qijie was stubborn. "It is the duty of everyone to take care of the environment. If we don't know how to throw rubbish into the trash can, it is not enough to add twice the sanitation workers, which is to increase the burden for the society."
the old man is very low-key and does not want reporters to report to him. Yu Mingzi, the Secretary of the Department of publicity of Shandong Light Industries College, learned from the data that Wang Qijie was the director of teaching and research, the director of teaching and research, the Deputy Dean and the dean of the school during the period from 1983 to 1990, and Wang Qijie was promoted to a professor in 1993.
rain or shine: the street sweepers slowly grow old
6 o'clock earlier, the sun rising just now, Wang Qijie old man swept the street to prepare to go home. He pointed to a dustbin and said that every day after the truck had taken the garbage away, he went out to sweep the floor. "They were in a hurry, and it was hard to drop some of them in the street. I'd clean them up first."
Liu Zhichun is an old neighbor of Wang Qijie. In his first impression, he first saw Wang Qijie sweeping street in the summer of 1991, and he had just moved here. "Because there were no sanitation workers at that time, he was very curious about him."
time flies, Wang Qijie in Liu Zhichun's eyes is getting older every day, his pace is slower and slower, his back is more and more camel, and the wrinkles on his face are more and more. But the lane hasn't changed much, and it will be clean every day. "Sometimes when it snows, I put up a trash can with him to sweep the snow, and two retired veteran cadres often come out to clean up the streets of the community." Liu Zhichun said, this 5 residential building is a health corner, usually no sanitation workers to clean, all rely on Wang Qijie old man.
when Wang Qijie learned from reporters that he had been a cadre of the hall class, Liu Zhichun was surprised, even though he did not know.
fall back to the roots: take care of seriously ill parents for many years
after getting up every day, Wang Qijie old people first have to see if their partner wants to drink water or to go to the toilet. His 77 year old wife suffers from severe osteoporosis, and fractures of the lumbar spine and thoracic vertebrae have been fractured. Now he can only rely on wheelchair activities. "After you get up and wash up, help your partner to stretch your arms and legs and rub your stomach." Wang Qijie said, "no matter where I go at four p.m., I have to rush home to replace the nanny class, and my wife can not take care of anyone for a moment. Sometimes I play ball games with the big guys, and I have to rush home as soon as I get to four p.m., because there is still a family member waiting to take care of it. Wang Qijie has two daughters, one in Beijing and the other in Ji'nan. The daughter in Ji'nan goes home to visit the old man every week. She has advised the old people many times that she is too old to sweep the floor. "Once I had a fever and reached 39 degrees, I had to be hospitalized. My daughter loved me so much that I would never sweep the floor again." Wang Qijie said. "Two brooms and a dustpan in a year, I can't remember how many brooms and dustpans I've spent in the past 20 years or so." Wang Qijie, the old man, envied the special dustpan used by the sanitation workers. He once went to the market to look for it. He also hoped that someone would help him to make a special one, but it failed. He had to add a nylon bag behind his dustpan, claiming to be able to use it together. "I am an amateur force, like millet and rifles."
Wang Qijie was born in 1930, in Tai'an, in the middle school in Ji'nan in 1946. In 1949, new China trained technicians to restore the northeast heavy industrial base. He was selected to study in the preparatory course of Harbin Institute of Technology. After 2 years of Russian and 5 years of professional knowledge, he stayed in the school for 27 years and was transferred to Shandong Light Industries College in 1983.
returning to the roots is his interpretation of his return to Shandong.
old and happy: to sweep up to
the old man Wang Qijie said that he wanted to sweep until he could not move, he thought it was very important for him to be happy. "The old man is slow in doing things, and he can do things that are not offensive to others."
an old colleague said he was fed up. He needed to digest himself after he had laughed at himself. In order not to let others gossip, he deliberately got up at 5, so that when others had not got up, he had swept the street home.
Yu Mingzi said, now there are a lot of stories about President Wang Qijie in the school. "The old Dean's persistence and rigor is so famous that after 20 years of retirement, there are some people."
seeing the sun rising gradually, Wang Qijie took home things to go home to see his wife. When he came to the entrance of the building, he lowered his head and swept up a cigarette end.