北京阿姨的故事（双语）

感谢收听，期待你对本期节目的评论留言哦~ 转载 For the first few years of my life I had never eaten meat and I didn’t know what an egg was. We had no money for food my diet consisted mostly of weeds. At a very young age I started a very simple but very important job as a wood collector to build fires during the winter as it was bitterly cold and at 7 years old I started working in the fields using a hoe to move the soil to help grow rice. We were all so poor but everyone loved to help each other. No one was selfish unlike in today’s society, there are too many selfish people. Growing up I had no shoes and my clothes were full of holes and during the long cold winters we’d stuff cotton in the holes in our trousers to try our legs warm. We just didn’t have the money to buy shoes let alone new clothes. We lived in a mud house and we made beds with branches from trees covered in dead grass. If it was raining outside then it was raining inside. I started school at 7 but then my mum gave birth to my little bother and then to my little sister so I stopped school to help take care of them whilst my parents would work. At 10 years old I started school again. At the age of 17 my mother died so from then on I acted as a mother figure for my siblings. If we had money my mother could have seen a doctor or bought some medicine but we had no money. Maybe she would have survived. In them days if you were sick there were two choices; survive or die. No one cared if we were sick or we couldn’t see a doctor. No one cared if we died. So 1988 was the hardest year for us we had nothing and at this point I had two children. We had nothing to eat or drink and nothing to wear but after things gradually got better. My life today is the best it’s been I still have two children along with grandchildren and children are quiet successful. Once piece of advice I’d like to give to the next generation is to appreciate the freedom you have and take care of yourself, your family and friends. Beijing 我出生于 1963年,那时候生活很艰难。 我刚出生的那几年, 从来没吃过肉, 也不知道鸡蛋是什么。我们没钱买吃的, 主要的粮食就是小麦。 在很小的时候, 我就开始干活了，活儿很简单，却相当重要，就是在冬天的时候捡木头生火，因为冬天特别的冷。7岁时，我开始下地干活，用锄头翻地，翻完种水稻。 土地都是政府的，所以我们种的庄稼也都归政府。收割完水稻后，当地的公职人员就会来收走好的稻子，留下不太好的给我们自己。如果交得不够，他们就会拿走别的东西，比如牲畜、一些钱，或者自行车、家具。我们什么也不能说，没办法，只能给他们。 那时候每个人都一样，日子很苦，尽管我们都很穷，但是每个人都互帮互助。没有自私的人，不像现在这个社会，人都很自私。 长大后，我没鞋穿，衣服都是破洞。漫长的冬天，我们把棉花塞到裤子破洞的地方来保暖。我们没钱买鞋，更别说衣服。但是现在，衣服上满是破洞变成了一种时尚。 那时候我们住在泥巴房子里， 我们的床是用树枝做的，上面再铺些枯草。如果下雨，屋外在下，屋里也在下。 我7岁开始上学，但后来我妈妈生了我弟弟，接着又生了我妹妹。所以我辍学了，在家帮忙照顾他们，这样我父母可以出去工作。10岁的时候，我才又去上了学 17岁的时候，我母亲去世了。从那时起，为了我的兄弟姐妹，我便扮演起了母亲的角色。 如果当时我们有钱，我妈就可以去看医生，或者买点药吃，那样或许她还能多活两天，但是我们没钱。那时候，如果你病了，就两个结果，要么活，要么死。 没人管你是不是病了，没人管你能不能去看医生，没人管你的死活。 1988年，对我们来说是最艰难的一年，我们什么也没有。就在那时候我有两个孩子，我们没吃没喝没穿。但日子还是慢慢好了起来。现在是我一生中最好的日子，我的两个孩子都有了自己的孩子，我的孩子们很成功，我们还在北京买了房。三年前，我开始在这个学校里做保洁，我很爱我的工作，我喜欢孩子们和我的同事。 我想给下一代的建议就是要感恩你所拥有的自由，并且照顾好你自己、你的家人和朋友。