source: Jingchu network
recently, the netizen "love the idle cat" shot a video triggered attention. In the video, a more than 80 year old man almost bent to 90 degrees in his waist. He crutched along the dustpan and walked across the street to dump the garbage. 1 and a half minutes of video, touched a number of netizens. According to reports, the elderly sell newspapers and earn daily garbage. "The farthest distance in the world is not life and death, but the distance from the old man back and forth," he said. "His spirit is really moving."
[b] bow to move, 30 meters road more than 2 minutes [/b]
yesterday morning, the reporter in the riverbank friend Yi Street, front 133, saw the sale of Li Songshao. The old man is 84 years old. His hair is all white. His bow is almost parallel to the ground, and his knees are tightly wrapped. The neighbour introduced that the old man's knees had severe rheumatism, even in the midsummer, wrapped in thick strips of cloth. Behind the chair behind the old man was a broom and dustpan. The dustpan was a cigarette butt and scraps from the old man.
Miss Chen, opposite the fruit shop, says that every day the old man can pick up rubbish in the street.
the distance from Li Songshao's newsstand to the trash can is only 15 meters away. The old man takes a dustpan in one hand and crutches one hand. He has to drag his legs for more than 40 steps in the stream of people. The average person can walk back and forth in 30 seconds, but the old man has spent more than 2 minutes. The old man said that since 1984, he started collecting newsstands, and he collected garbage seven or eight times a day like this.
Mr. Wang said that everyone around knew Li Songshao, and businesses and neighbourhoods did not throw rubbish, and sometimes they took the initiative to help the elderly to dump rubbish.
Why do you have to pick up trash every day? The old man replied, "it's okay to sell newspapers every day. If you see someone picking them up and throwing them on the ground, they will clean up when they are dirty."
[b]28 years of self-reliance to win respect [/b]
Li Songshao said, his hometown in Shangqiu, Henan, in 1955 to join the construction of Wuhan Iron and steel and one of the Han Dynasty, long back to the earth, so that the waist and legs down the root of the disease. Later, because identity data was destroyed, it was impossible to implement policies and run accounts. Old home life is more difficult, in order not to drag on his wife and a pair of children, 28 years ago, he returned to Wuhan to sell newspapers for a living. 10 years ago, his wife died, his lumbago and rheumatism were more serious, but he still did not want to go home. "I don't want to be a burden to my children, but I'm not fit but I'm good enough to support myself." The old man said.
" Li Diedie is very stubborn. The street is considering the difficulties of his life. Many years ago, he prepared the special office to give him a low insurance. He refused many times and insisted on his own food. " Cheng Yongsheng, the chief of the station street and the urban management department, said, "in 2001, the street still gave him a minimum guarantee, and now he can get more than 400 yuan per month. After removing 100 yuan rent and basic living expenses, there should be a balance, but he still sells newspapers every day.
the old neighborhood, familiar with the old man, said that he was so inconvenient that he had to sell newspapers and garbage, and they all felt pain, but the old man's stubborn strength made them admire them.