6年和12间乡村阅览室

张姝

杭州爱心人士郑蓉把对阅读、对孩子的爱留在富阳

“如果有天堂，那一定是图书馆的模样。”阿根廷作家博尔赫斯的这句话在爱心人士郑蓉的行动中得以诠释。

今年8月的最后一天，郑蓉捐建的最后一所“凌霜傲雪”阅览室在杭州富阳区大源镇育才学校落成。

至此，在郑蓉47岁至53岁的这六年间，她一共为富阳区十二所乡村小学无偿捐资建设了十二个各具风格的阅览室，11592名农村孩子受益，更推动“阅读”成为富阳教育的一张金字名片。

近日，笔者打开富阳地图标注出了十二个阅览室的位置，逐一走访了解，探寻背后的故事。

一人信守十二人的初心

8月31日，“凌霜傲雪”阅览室在富阳区大源镇育才學校落成。

在活动上，笔者第一次见到了郑蓉。她给孩子们读了一封信：“希望你们在书的浪花里，伸手去触摸那散发着淡淡墨香的文字，从字里行间去感受春暖秋凉、喜悦悲伤……

除了育才学校的校长，笔者意外发现，现场还来了富阳的上官中小、湖源中小、高桥小学、受降小学、松溪小学、永昌镇小、富春三桥小学、富春四小、洞桥镇小、万市镇小、场口镇小的校长，数了数，共有12人。

“我们这12所小学，都有一个郑蓉捐建的阅览室，今天是她捐建的最后一个阅览室落成，我们大家都觉得很有意义，就一起来了。”其中一位校长说。

上官中小、湖源中小的校长补充，“准确地说，最早两个阅览室是郑蓉带领团队一起捐建的，后面十个是她凭一己之力完成的。”

原来，这12个阅览室，最初是由郑蓉等十二位女士发起的。上官中小的“纯质素心”和湖源中小的“绿野仙踪”这两个阅览室建成之后，不料出现了新情况，十一人都退出了。

简单估算，每个阅览室建设费用大概需要20万元左右，接下来的10个如果全部由一个人承担的话，还要200万元以上，更不说还需要投入的大量时间和精力了。当时很多人觉得，只剩下郑蓉一个人是完成不了后面10个的，没想到她一个人信守了十二人的初心。

郑蓉说，她选择做的阅览室的乡村小学中，有很多民工子弟的生活比较困难，所以就想给他们建造阅览室作为理想园，让阅读的光芒与孩子们的内心交相辉映，“这就是我捐建阅览室的初心。”

而这样的初心跟郑蓉小时候的经历也有很深的联系——

1971年，在杭州建国一小的操场上，每天下午1点半到傍晚5点，是体育生郑蓉风雨无阻、雷打不动的训练时间。这一跑，就从6岁跑到了12岁。

拉韧带、练倒立、扎马步……泪水和汗水流得一样多，然而时隔40多年后，现年53岁的郑蓉回忆起小运动员日子，却清晰地记得有“甜”的一幕：“跑步时可以听到教室里传来的读书声，只要听着，就能支撑我忘记时间去跑步。”

读书的美好，竟是以这样戏剧性的方式，扎根在了童年郑蓉的内心，影响了成年后的她，促使她有强烈的愿望要帮助渴望阅读的孩子们。

12间阅读室12个主题

郑蓉是地道的杭州人，和富阳并没有任何渊源。她家住在钱塘江一桥，笔者用导航搜索了她家到12个阅览室的距离，最近的是受降小学22公里，最远的洞桥镇小87公里，其他的大部分小学也超过了50公里。

国庆前夕，笔者约郑蓉一起走访几家阅览室。出发前，她指了指汽车四周大大小小的擦伤划痕，笑着说：“很多小事故都是去富阳赶路时刮擦的，也没特别去修，粗粗估算，这六年来回富阳，将近40趟肯定是有的。”

2017年还出了次事故。当时万市镇小“空谷幽兰”阅览室完工，通往万市的公路正在大面积整修，道路崎岖不平，郑蓉一路颠簸着开了近3个小时才赶到学校。在回杭州的路上，郑蓉的汽车抛锚了，此时太阳落山，周围是一片漆黑的村庄，因为下雨，天气阴冷阴冷的，她受困于全然陌生的乡野，想起还要赶回医院照顾在重症监护室的妈妈，心情彻底崩溃，嚎啕大哭。

很多小学的保安们都认识郑蓉，在他们眼里，郑蓉是一位干活能手。他们对郑蓉印象很深，一位保安说：“我们以为捐阅览室的是‘大款，来看看就好。没想到，她来是拎着水桶拖把来的，装修扫尾也全是她自己搞卫生。我说叫些老师一起扫吧，她说阅览室是她给老师孩子们的礼物，想完整地呈现给他们。”

郑蓉说：“我在家其实很少做家务。阅览室的活也不是我一个人在干，有很多人帮我。”

设计师李燕琴跟着郑蓉做了十二个阅览室，她说：“每一个阅览室都像是郑蓉生的孩子，她为每间阅览室提前取好了名字，名字具象的可设计操作，也有寓意和色彩并成为系列：空谷幽兰、叠翠流年、紫霞青影、凌霜傲雪、且听风吟、竹曳幽径、朝花夕拾等。比如‘竹曳幽径阅览室里，我们去选了一根根真竹子作为墙面贴饰。地板、座椅等材料都是环保材料，郑蓉说，质量至少要保证能使用十年。”

郑蓉在阅览室的建造细节上很“较真”，受降小学孙晓东校长举了一个例子，“郑蓉选择了一种最为花心血的阅览室捐建方式，全部由自己设计、自己购买材料、自己雇工建设、自己装修布置。喏，你看这蓝色窗帘，原本设计师错用成米黄色的，临开放，郑蓉硬是换掉了。”

捐建阅览室的初心不变

“装修很繁琐，我和大部分人一样，也怕烦。真要说我有什么特别的地方，我也只是让自己坚持得更久而已。”

郑蓉的这一句“坚持得更久”，高桥小学的祝国平校长深知其中的不易。

祝校长说：“高桥小学是郑蓉独立捐建的第一间阅览室，我忘不了有一次郑蓉到我办公室商量工期，说到困难处，她的眼泪簌簌滚下来。”

郑蓉在这六年间也想过要放弃，“资金紧张”是首当其冲的困难。郑蓉丈夫的企业当时刚购买厂房，需要建造并购买设备，花去了大量资金，家用非常紧张。

六年修建期间，郑蓉经历了母亲的重病和去世，自己也经历了手术。而他人的不理解更是压在她心头的泰山。但她总是想到小时候外婆说的“人无信则不立”，“这句话鼓励我，唯有理想坚定，才能逆境中淬炼成钢。”郑蓉说。

“我做公益这六年，虽然没有获得任何荣誉，但我也是很开心的。”郑蓉说的这份开心，在她和孩子们的聊天中，真实地反映在了脸上——

9岁的涵涵说：“自己进入阅览室就好像身处一个梦幻的世界。”

10岁的乐乐说：“家里特别小，只能在床上看书，阅览室里很大，书很多。”

在走访高桥小学后回杭的路上，笔者问郑蓉，捐建阅览室的六年里经历了各种困难，你得到了什么？

郑蓉回答：“自己更‘柔软了，越来越容易被生活中一点一滴的美好感动。这是捐建阅览室这件事上，最大的获得吧。”

“六年里，我的内心经历了丰富的变化，这种变化經过时间的发酵，给我的人生带来特殊的意义。我懂得了倾心付出才有收获。夏天，我和工匠们在炎热中挥汗如雨；冬天，我和设计师在寒冷中搓手取暖。我觉得自己的才华在这12个阅览室里得到了展现，生活也变得灵动起来。我更从中学会了怎样无私地给予，只要看到孩子们的微笑，我内心对公益的向往就越来越强烈。”郑蓉说。

Big-Hearted Woman Donates 12 Reading Rooms in Six Years

By Zhang Shu

Zheng Rong， a 53-year-old woman living in Hangzhou， has donated to a program of 12 reading rooms for rural schools in Fuyang in the last six years.

The project started in 2013 when she was 47. Back then there were 12 of them working together in the name of a charity society. The organization disbanded itself after first two reading rooms came into being and the other eleven fellow donors withdrew from the project.

It was estimated that a reading room cost about 200，000 yuan. The 10 reading rooms would amount to 2 million. Local education authorities thought that the withdrawal of the 11 donors would put a period to the project.

Zheng Rong decided to carry it on single-handedly. She raised funds by selling off some jade pieces from her jewelry collection.

All the 12 schools are in rural areas of Fuyang， which was a rural county for at least a millennium and now is a district of Hangzhou since 2015. The reading rooms in 12 rural schools benefit a total of 11，592 students.

What Zheng Rong does is more than a donation of 2 million in cash.

She lives near the Qiantang River Bridge built in 1937. The nearest school that received a donated reading room from her is about 18 kilometers from her home. The most faraway one is located 63 kilometers away. The rest are all located 50 kilometers away. In the six years， she traveled to these schools for more than 40 times.

The most difficult drive in her memory happened in 2017. The highway was undergoing a maintenance project and it took her nearly 3 hours to get to the school for the opening ceremony. On her way back to Hangzhou at night， the car broke down. She got stranded. The village beyond the highway looked dark. She was to get to the ICU to look after her mom that night. While waiting in the car for emergency rescuers， she broke down and cried.

The last reading room was completed on August 31， 2018. It is at Yucai School in Dayuan Town. A ceremony was held in celebration of the completion of the project. Altogether， schoolmasters of the 12 schools in Fuyang all came to attend the ceremony and honored Zheng for the successful completion of the project.

All the 12 reading rooms were designed by Li Yanqin. She knows how much Zheng Rong went out of her way to complete the project. “Zheng treated each reading room like a child of her own. She gave each a poetic name as if they were all best scenic attractions of the West Lake. All the decoration materials are friendly to the environment，” commented the designer.

“The interior decoration for these reading rooms was full of boring and trivial details. Just like everyone else， I hated all these trivia. If I am different from others， I didnt quit，” recalled Zheng. In the six years， she went through a lot. Her mother was seriously ill at first and then passed away. Zheng herself had a surgical operation. She thought about quitting， but she remembered what her maternal grandmother taught her while she was just a young girl： honesty is based on kept promises. So she kept her promise.

The schools she picked all have children of migrant workers. She meant to turn these reading rooms into a space where youngsters can find ideal and future through reading and seeing a different world. “I want children in mountains to feel beauty and poetry. Probably they will want to take a journey into the world from there.”

Security guards at these schools know Zheng. At first they thought a donor must be a millionaire who came just to take a look and would do nothing manual， but they know better now.

After an interior decoration project was over and before a reading room was officially handed over to a school， she would come with a broom， a mop and a bucket， and rags. She insisted on cleaning the room up personally. She did it personally ten times. “It is my gift to children and teachers and I must do it myself，” she explained. “As a matter of fact， other people helped me.”