李哥已被工廠開除，全家靠李夫人當工人的微薄收入過活。
李家和另一戶人家共用一間破陋的小廚房。沒有衛生間，只能去附近破舊的公廁。
李家一出門就有幾家很便宜的小吃店，但他們從不光顧，平時只吃最便宜的麵條、米飯、和鹹菜。
李哥十二歲的女兒每天自己走路去學校。當她察覺到我想送她點小禮物時，馬上很懂事的對我說：「我真的什麼都不需要，請別給我買東西。」
李夫人騎一輛舊自行車上下班，每天得花三小時在路上。她把師父的詩寫在一張紙上，上下班路上邊騎車邊默背。
她經常上夜班，下班後獨自在刺骨寒風中騎車回家，到家時已是夜裡一點，但她仍堅持每天早上四點三十分起床煉功。我們四個人擠在小屋裡一起煉（平時我和李哥的女兒睡床，李哥夫婦在床邊鋪一張墊子睡）。
李哥也騎一輛舊自行車到處走：去參加同修們的交流、做傳單、發傳單、幫助從海外及全國各地到北京請願的大法弟子們……
雖然物質上很貧困，但李哥一家人非常和睦幸福，總是樂呵呵的，說話都很風趣，和他們在一起我感覺非常快樂。（待續）
(英文對照)
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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