李哥已被工厂开除，全家靠李夫人当工人的微薄收入过活。
李家和另一户人家共用一间破陋的小厨房。没有卫生间，只能去附近破旧的公厕。
李家一出门就有几家很便宜的小吃店，但他们从不光顾，平时只吃最便宜的面条、米饭、和咸菜。
李哥十二岁的女儿每天自己走路去学校。当她察觉到我想送她点小礼物时，马上很懂事的对我说：“我真的什么都不需要，请别给我买东西。”
李夫人骑一辆旧自行车上下班，每天得花三小时在路上。她把师父的诗写在一张纸上，上下班路上边骑车边默背。
她经常上夜班，下班后独自在刺骨寒风中骑车回家，到家时已是夜里一点，但她仍坚持每天早上四点三十分起床炼功。我们四个人挤在小屋里一起炼（平时我和李哥的女儿睡床，李哥夫妇在床边铺一张垫子睡）。
李哥也骑一辆旧自行车到处走：去参加同修们的交流、做传单、发传单、帮助从海外及全国各地到北京请愿的大法弟子们……
虽然物质上很贫困，但李哥一家人非常和睦幸福，总是乐呵呵的，说话都很风趣，和他们在一起我感觉非常快乐。（待续）
(英文对照)
Li had been fired by his factory. The entire household relied on Mrs Li’s meager income as a factory worker.The Li household shared a shabby tiny kitchen with another household, and without a bathroom of their own, they shared a shabby public toilet with many people living in the neighborhood.
Though there were several cheap restaurants right near Li’s home, the Li household never patronized them; their usual meals were the cheapest noodles, rice, and preserved vegetable.
Li’s twelve-year-old daughter walked to school every day. When she sensed that I was thinking of buying her a little gift, she immediately said to me adorably, “Please don’t buy me anything. I really don’t need anything.”
Mrs Li rode an old bicycle to and from her factory, spending three hours on the road every day. She wrote down Master Li’s poems on a piece of paper and memorized them while riding to and from the factory.
She often worked night shift and rode home alone in the glacial wind after work; when she got home it was already one o’clock at night. Nonetheless she got up at four thirty every morning to practice the exercises. The four of us practiced together in the tiny room (Usually I slept on the bed with Li’s daughter, and the Lis slept on a thick cushion beside the bed).
Li went around on an old bicycle too: Attending fellow practitioners’ gatherings, making and spreading booklets, helping fellow practitioners who had come to Beijing from overseas and other places of China…
Though very poor materially, the Li household was very harmonious, happy, ever high-spirited, and witty. Being with them, I felt extremely happy.
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