He is simple, honest, unpretentious and inarticulate. He is a giant in action and a dwarf in mouth.
For more than two years, he has sent 400,000 bowls of love porridge, rain or shine, and the accumulated funds may be 400,000!
He, putting himself in the shoes, started from small things and achieved the ultimate compassion for the world.
His name is Wang Qiang, and he is the owner of a small restaurant near a hospital in Taiyuan.
Speaking of the original intention of distributing love porridge for free, he didn't have a long confession, no rhetoric, or even prepared lines in advance.
This 36-year-old middle-aged man is still honest and shy when facing the camera.
He said that a few years ago, his father suffered from leukemia and was admitted to the hospital. During that time, his clothes didn't disintegrate, and he was always a companion. The food in the hospital was not to his father's taste, so he rented a cheap hotel near the hospital and cooked porridge for his father with an induction cooker every day. During this period, he deeply realized that it is not easy to be a patient's family.
The hospital is a bottomless pit, and my father's illness is a serious illness. Medical expenses alone cost hundreds of thousands. In order to treat his father, he sold his house and there was no fixed address at home. In order to save money, he only chews two steamed buns every day.
Speaking of those miserable years, there is not much sadness on his face, perhaps it is simple strength in his character. With his efforts, his father received a bone marrow transplant and his condition gradually improved. Because he often goes to a small restaurant near the hospital to buy sick rice, Wang Qiang is very familiar with the restaurant owner. In a conversation one day, the boss said that this restaurant always cooks sick meals and makes less money, so he wanted to transfer the restaurant. Thinking that I had to go to the hospital every day anyway, I had been with him for so long, and I knew the patient's preferences, so I simply borrowed money to open a restaurant.
This is 78 years. Business in the hotel has been booming since he took over. Life is becoming more and more formal.
Because of his contact with many family members of hospital patients and his personal experience, his kindness in character reminds him that he urgently wants to do something for them.
What shall we do? My friend accidentally mentioned the story of ancient cloth porridge in China. A friend might easily mention it, but unexpectedly, Wang Qiang took it seriously.
It took him a week to weld a trolley with porridge.
And quickly adjusted the hotel itinerary. The hotel was supposed to rest after 4 pm. Because of this idea, the hotel has another job: every afternoon after the hotel closes, he begins to cook love porridge for more than an hour. At 5: 30, the cart will be launched and distributed to passers-by in need for free. Every day, rain or shine.
The world is complicated, even if you want to do a good thing out of kindness.
Wang Qiang's love porridge got off to a bad start, often because there were more audiences and fewer people who wanted it. There are even people who suspect that his porridge is made from leftovers that can't be eaten in restaurants. Some people also say that this is hype, in the name of charity, to promote their own small restaurants. Others say there is no such thing as a free lunch. Who knows what is behind this love porridge?
What should Wang Qiang, who is dull by nature, do?
No excuses, no anger, no giving up. This is his job. The mouth is on others, and you can say whatever you want. I wanted to do it myself, but the idea was simple. I just want to do something for the patient's family and the lonely old man. I have tasted the pain myself and know what it is. Besides, I am a restaurant myself, so it is not realistic to do anything else. Cooking porridge is also easy. Just do it. I didn't expect it to be so complicated.
What a calm and cultured simple man this is!
Think of many similar examples around us: the old man fell, and there were many people watching, but no one dared to help him. Why? Afraid of blackmail! It's not that we don't have love, but that we are scared by the crisis of trust and can only support ourselves. Therefore, the more indifferent this society is, the more disappointing it is. Such a scene seems to be found only in Xanadu.
Wang Qiang is powerful enough for us to see the light of this society. Most of the diners who benefited also gave him a thumbs up. After all, there are only a few people who criticize. He believes in the beauty of this society, as simple, transparent and carefree as he is.
He didn't respond strongly to the questioning voice, just smiled and said: My restaurant business is very good, and I have to queue up to buy food in the morning and evening without publicity.
This sentence, be calm. Most people applauded him and the audience was infected.
A little girl took out her lucky money and bought a bag of rice for Wang Qiang.
A retired old man asked the supermarket staff to send 20 bags of 30 kg rice.
An elder sister surnamed Li also sent 500 Jin of rice.
More and more people are involved in this loving action. Peaches and plums say nothing, but they go their own way. Wang Qiang has always been taciturn, but he explained a simple love and simple feelings with his actions.
Wang Qiang said that he has a principle that he will never accept donations from good people. Rice can be collected, which is good for those in need, but it is not delicious when it is collected.
Such simple words come from a simple person, hitting the floor.
When Wang Qiang first introduced porridge, he smiled. He said, at that time, I thought I shouldn't fool people to ensure nutrition, so I made a rule: put chopsticks in porridge. However, people who drank porridge later reported that the porridge was too thick and immediately improved. At the same time, considering the nutrition problem, he will also add buckwheat, oats, bean powder and other grains to the decoction for hospital patients and nearby residents to eat. On special days, restaurants will change their patterns and cook Laba porridge and mung bean porridge.
This kind of love porridge made him well received by people around him and even the whole region. When everyone spread it, Wang Qiang became famous. The business of his small restaurant has also become more prosperous because of this love.
He said that as long as his small restaurant is still there, he will continue to make porridge. Think of a scene in a movie where people are there and positions are there. Even if it is scarred, the red flag is still flying in the wind, which is a spiritual strength and a transmission of faith.
Wang Qiang never defined his behavior as charity. Perhaps, this simple and honest man had a simple idea before doing it, but now that he is a celebrity and is on TV, we have put such a big hat on him. Whether he is willing to wear this hat or not is hard to say whether he is under pressure.
Behind a bowl of love porridge, many aspects of our society are reflected, including positive and intangible incentives, as well as negative and dirty reality. But in any case, we are still willing to believe that the human heart is a very subtle magnetic field. As long as you really do something for everyone, spring will come, no matter whether it comes late or not.
The key question is, can all of us do something for the coming of this spring? Cold eyes, cold words, can you be less, less, this society depends on the warmth of people's hearts.
A bowl of warm porridge, crystal white, overflowing with fragrance, warmed whose stomach? Who moved? Whose heart is it? Touch your heart and ask if it is still healthy.
What kind of quantitative and qualitative changes a bowl of porridge can produce is really a sociological and even philosophical question.
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