The bucket that can't be thrown away

There was a station master named Chang Hong,

During the Spring Festival travel rush, that's when he was the busiest.

This year, the Spring Festival came around again, and on this day, Chang Hong was on the platform as usual to receive the train. As a train bound for Guangdong arrived, the flood of people almost knocked him off his feet. Among the crowd, one family stood out: a couple with two children. The man, looking foolish, was holding an empty bucket and pushing forward, oblivious to his wife and children. The woman, holding one child and carrying another on her back, was swaying and staggering from the pressure of the crowd, but the man paid no attention to them, clutching the bucket as if it were a precious treasure. Chang Hong took a closer look and realized it was a common paint bucket from construction sites, which could be used to hold water and as a stool when the paint was used up. There were plenty of such empty buckets on construction sites. Chang Hong was puzzled: Why was he treating this worthless thing like a treasure, ignoring his wife and children? Isn't he a man? Chang Hong couldn't stand it anymore, stepped forward, and shouted at the man, "It's already a good thing to get on the train. Throw away that bucket and take your wife and children on board!"

The man was taken aback by Chang Hong's shout, but then he hugged the bucket even tighter, "No, no, I have to take this bucket with me."

At this time, the child on the woman's back started crying, and the older child, squeezed by the crowd, let go and cried out in fear. Chang Hong quickly helped the woman pull the older child, pushing and protecting them until they reached the train door. Soon, the woman and the children squeezed onto the train, and the man with the empty bucket also desperately squeezed on. But just as he squeezed through the train door, the bucket he was holding suddenly rolled out of his arms, "rumbling" over the heads of the crowd, and then rolled under the train. The man let out a cry of "Ah" and was swept into the carriage with his wife and children by the crowd...

The train door was slammed shut, and the whistle for departure sounded. The migrant workers who didn't make it on the train gave up and helplessly waited for the next one.

The train was about to leave when Chang Hong saw someone jump out of the window. The person jumped down and quickly took two children from the window. The train was slowly starting to move, and at that moment, a woman also jumped down. The man reached out to catch her, and they both fell onto the platform!

It was the same family. Chang Hong was furious: This family was really uncivilized, doing such dangerous things. But he also found it strange: they had just struggled to get on the train, and now they were jumping off. Why? Chang Hong went up and pointed at the man's nose, angrily scolding, "Is this how a man behaves? Don't you care about your own life, or your wife and children's?"

The man glanced at Chang Hong and said nothing, but looked around. Suddenly, he saw the bucket rolling under the platform, jumped down, picked it up, and hugged it like a treasure again.

Chang Hong was furious: jumping onto the platform was very dangerous! At this time, the woman came over and said, "Comrade, it's our fault, and I apologize... We jumped off the train for this bucket. Don't underestimate this bucket; it's my man's sweat for a year!"

A few words left Chang Hong confused: How could a big, living man earn only a bucket in a year?

At this time, the man flipped the bucket in his arms, and Chang Hong saw the bottom of the bucket with the words: "Owing Wang Dashuang labor money 8000 yuan, Zhang Erniu, December 5, 2006." The man looked at Chang Hong and said in a low voice, "At the end of last year when we settled the wages, the foreman said there was no money and we had to wait until after the New Year. We asked him to write an IOU, and he picked up this bucket from the ground and wrote on the bottom, using it as an IOU. We were taking the bucket to collect last year's wages."

When Chang Hong heard this, his eyes became moist, and his heart felt sour. He made up his mind: he must help this family挤 onto the next train...

After listening to the story, Mrs. Wang was silent for a long time. Clearly, the story had given her a sense of its implications, but she seemed to want to test Mr. Xi, so she asked, "What do you want my husband to understand by telling him this story?"

Mr. Xi said, "I think the chairman will understand more than I intended to tell him after hearing this story." Yes, compared to this migrant worker's family, Chairman Wang already has a lot, and if his health gradually recovers, he will have even more...