Tuition story 1: A farmer couple in Xiguo Village raised three college students, and the eldest daughter is now a postdoctoral student in the United States. In the early 1980s, my second son, a graduate student, wrote to his parents asking for 65,438+00 yuan. The old couple have no money at all. After discussing it in the middle of the night, they decided to pick up the remaining cotton petals in the cotton field. The season is approaching winter, and they have been picking for three days in a row, and their hands are almost cracked. It is difficult to capture 10 kg of residual cotton from cotton petals. When I arrived at the county cotton and linen company, the old man at the door said that the residual cotton was yellow and black and worthless! But the couple said that they would sell it even if it was worthless. After weighing, 10 kg cotton residue sold 5 yuan money! Five dollars is still far away, and the couple can only think about it in the cotton field. So, they went to the cotton field to pull out a lot of cotton stalks and cut them into small pieces overnight. The next morning, they pulled a rickshaw to the fiberboard factory 40 miles away and sold it to 4 yuan for 90 cents. No way, the old couple finally borrowed 30 cents from the alley. Ten cents bought envelopes and stamps to make up 10 yuan, and put the money in an envelope and sent it to my son ... Tuition story 2: In 2003, the youngest son of a family was admitted to the university. Prior to this, the eldest daughter and the second daughter of this family were in the third and second years of college respectively. This time, the tuition for the three children should be at least 20,000 yuan. The male owner of this family makes a living by digging apple trees for others, and every tree he digs can earn 1 yuan. The hostess is making bricks in the brick kiln. Parents have worked hard to save 4000 yuan a year! Seeing that the school day was coming, my father fell ill with anxiety. One day, three babies knelt in front of their parents, and the eldest daughter said, "I will graduate soon anyway, so I won't go!" " "The second daughter said," I won't go, let my brother and sister go! ""My brother said, "I just came in, so I won't go. Let my two sisters finish their studies! ""The three babies cried humbly. The parents cried, the children cried, and the neighbors who came to persuade them also cried when they saw this scene! Fortunately, the grandfathers who worked in brick kilns in Shanxi brought 1000 yuan at this time to solve this problem! In order to save money, the man asked Murakami to stop his home appliances. In the first half of 2003, the family only bought a daily allowance of two yuan for oil, salt, sauce and vinegar ... There are still many such cases in the farmhouse investigated by Dang Xianzong. The pain of numbers A series of numbers are heartbreaking and even more shocking. Number 1: Yang Daguai, who makes baked cakes in the county, won the title of "Xie Yuan" for his son (the third in science in the county), and the people in the county are envious to death! Party Xianzong calculated an account for her: the cost of a son who goes to college is 12 thousand yuan a year. Selling a sesame seed cake can earn a dime. After deducting all kinds of expenses, it costs 240 thousand to cover the annual expenses. After four years of college, my mother will sell 960 thousand sesame cakes! Fire, coal, dough, burritos, scones, cigarettes, and cakes, even if the baked biscuits are rain or shine 365 days a year. How many times does it take to sell 960 thousand cookies, as well as business expenses and health expenses? How much blood, sweat and tears does your mother have to pay? ! Number 2: Among the 1 10 families surveyed by Dang Xianzong, there are 1 1 people who are exhausted, commit suicide or die of illness due to the rising tuition fees in colleges and universities in recent years; It is common for farmers with college students to owe huge debts. Two or three college students' farmhouses often owe 40,000 to 50,000 yuan, and some even reach hundreds of thousands. Wang Quansheng, a 79-year-old man from Changwa Village, he jia zhuang, was seriously injured when he fell from a car pulling wheat straw in the 1970s, and he could not take care of himself for a long time. The eldest son is mentally retarded and can only be led by others to do some coolies. The whole family is supported by their wives. The youngest son was admitted to the university, and Wang Quansheng invited the village self-help class to sing at home. Just three days after I was happy, my mother with terminal diabetes was exhausted by the car delivering briquettes because she could not bear to spend money to see a doctor. Wang Zhimin, a local writer in the village, wrote an elegy for her. The first part: I have earned enough tuition; In a word: mother is exhausted; Horizontal criticism: death is worth it. After his wife died, Wang Laohan continued to send briquettes with his eldest son to earn tuition for his younger son. In the summer vacation of the first year of college, Wang Laohan's retarded eldest son told his father to stop and insisted that his younger brother accompany him to deliver coal for a month. One day, he muttered that he was going to visit his mother's grave. As a result, he committed suicide by drinking pesticides in front of his mother's grave! The tragedy of the Wangs didn't stop there. Wang's eldest daughter-in-law was mentally ill because she couldn't go to college in her early years, and she couldn't take care of herself. After the death of her eldest son 1 years ago, she also died. Before she died, my sister-in-law held her brother's hand with one hand and pointed at her little niece standing in front of the kang with the other. Her lips opened slightly, but she couldn't speak, and tears rolled down her face ... In this way, for a college student, in more than two years, Wang Jiaxin added three graves. No.3: Dang Xianzong told reporters that Heyang County is a famous "college student county" in Weinan City, Shaanxi Province, and its economic aggregate ranks first in the city, but its education indicators reach the standard every year. The county has a population of * * * 440,000, and there are four high schools, and two other vocational education centers also have high school classes. Since the resumption of the college entrance examination system, Heyang has sent more than 3,000 college students to colleges and universities every year. Heyang county's fiscal revenue is 20 million a year. If you add up the cost of attending high school, the people in Heyang County will pay 300 million yuan for their children a year! In order to make up for the cost of sending their children to school, farmers' parents can save to the extreme: by 2007, there were still many farmers' families in Heyang County whose daily expenses were insufficient for one month 10 yuan. For the sacrifice of peasant parents for their children regardless of cost and reward, Party Xianzong quoted a famous saying of Lu Xun to sum it up: "Lift the dark door and let the children go to the bright place!"