In March 2013, the media across Henan rushed to report on a real event that touched countless people:
When a 13-year-old girl broke out in a fire at home, in order to wake up her mother who was still sleeping, she resolutely rushed into the fire regardless of her own safety, and unfortunately was injured by the fire, with a burn area of 95%. Because the little girl was seriously injured and her family was extremely poor, they called on people to do their best to save this "fire to save the mother girl".
This "mother-saving girl" is Yan Qianyu, an ordinary but not ordinary peasant girl in Berlin Village, Pengqiao Town, Dengzhou City, Henan Province.
What happened during the process of saving the mother that made the little girl's injury so serious? After the little girl was injured, how did the society react when she learned of this? Finally, what was the end of this little girl?
In this article, Aogu will take everyone into this touching and tearful true story about "saving the mother girl".
In 2000, Yan Qianyu was born in an ordinary family in Berlin Village, Pengqiao Town, Dengzhou City, Henan Province, her father Shang Defang and mother Liu Yujiu were honest farmers, living an ordinary life of sunrise and daily income, living an ordinary life but eating and wearing.
We all know that china's rural areas are more or less patriarchal, why do they prefer sons to daughters? Mainly because in the hearts of Chinese, only sons can pass on the inheritance and continue the incense for their own families.
Since ancient times, the matter of passing on the generations has always had a very important position in the hearts of Chinese, and it is regarded as the top priority after marriage, which cannot be ignored. Yan Qianyu's parents also had this patriarchal mentality.
When Yan Qianyu was born, she already had 2 sisters above her, because Shang Defang wanted a son, which led to yan Qianyu's birth.
When Liu Yujiu was just pregnant, Shang Defang was full of expectations, and every day he longed for a son to be born in his home. Pregnant in October, Liu Yujiu gave birth smoothly, but the baby born was not a male baby, but a female baby, which made Shang Defang somewhat disappointed.
Although the life of the Shang De Fang family is passable, it cannot stand up to many people, plus Shang De Fang still wants a son, so Shang De conveniently wants to send this newborn baby girl, that is, the later Yan Qianyu.
After many inquiries, Shang Defang learned that a neighboring village called Yan Jinge, because the couple has not been able to have children, so they have always wanted to adopt a child, regardless of gender, so the two families after consultation, Just on the third day of birth, Yan Qianyu was adopted by the Yan Jinge family.
Because Yan Jinge and his wife have not had children, Yan Qianyu's arrival makes the couple very happy, and they regard it as a treasure.
The word "Qianyu" pins on the infinite expectations and love of Yan Jinge and his wife for this adopted daughter, hoping that she can live a beautiful life in the future without suffering a little.
Yan Jinge and his wife really love Yan Qianyu from the bottom of their hearts, holding it in their hands for fear of falling, and being afraid of melting in their mouths, when they were young, because Yan Jinge's wife did not have a breast milk relationship, Yan Jinge went to the family of the family who had just given birth to a child in the village to beg for breast milk to drink for their daughter, and without breast milk to drink, Yan Jinge would rather spend more money to buy milk powder for Yan Jinge to drink, rather than give her rice paste at home.
Under the meticulous care of Yan Jinge and his wife, Yan Qianyu spent a very happy and happy childhood, and did not become unhappy because she left her biological parents.
When Yan Qianyu was 5 years old, in order to let her daughter live a better life, Yan Jinge and his wife resolutely decided to leave the countryside where they had lived for half a lifetime and go to Shenzhen to work, hoping to use their hard work to fight for a better future for Yan Qianyu.
However, things in the world are sometimes so cruel and so helpless.
Just as the family was making great strides towards a better life, a sudden accident broke the warm and quiet life of Yan Qianyu's family and brought endless pain to their family.
Yan Jinge's wife had just arrived in Shenzhen to work less than a month ago, and she left them forever due to a car accident, separated by yin and yang.
At that time, Yan Jinge did not go to Shenzhen with his wife because he was still handling some private affairs at home.
At the moment when he received the call from his wife who had been in a car accident, Yan Jinge did not believe it at all, nor did he dare to believe it, he just stood with the phone and did not relax for a long time.
Before his wife went to Shenzhen, he told him to take good care of himself and his daughter, and the look had not yet faded from his mind, and Yan Jinge couldn't believe that his wife had only been in Shenzhen for less than a month before such bad news came.
However, whether you believe it or not, all you can do is accept reality.
In an instant, tears came out of Yan Jinge's eyes, and the boy had tears that did not flick, but did not reach the sad place.
Yan Jinge loves his wife very much, the night before his wife left for Shenzhen, they are still thinking about the beautiful future of a family of three together, and they are still thinking about waiting for themselves to stabilize in Shenzhen, so they will take Yan Qianyu to Shenzhen to study, give her a better living environment, and then work hard to make money and cultivate her into a talent.
Now all this no longer exists with the unexpected death of his wife.
After receiving the news of his wife's unexpected death, Yan Jinge hurriedly packed up his things and prepared to rush to Shenzhen with Yan Qianyu.
At this time, Yan Jinge was still playing with his friends at the door of the house, only to see Yan Jinge suddenly panic and run back, and said to Yan Qianyu in a sad tone: "Qianyu, hurry up and go with your father!" In this way, the father and daughter hurriedly stepped on the train to Shenzhen.
On the train, Yan Jinge was full of thoughts about his wife, and then looked at his daughter, who was still very young, thinking that he would never see his wife again, Yan Qianyu would never see his mother again, and in the future, only he and his daughter would rely on each other for their lives, and they could not help themselves for a while.
Tears came out of her eyes again, and she choked up at her daughter Yan Qianyu:
"Qianyu, my mother went to a very far, far away place, and when you grow up, you will come back..."
His daughter was still young, and Yan Jinge did not want her daughter to suffer the grief of losing her mother at such a young age, so he chose to hide it.
Watching her father cry, Yan Qianyu, who was still young, did not know what her father's crying meant, nor did she know what her father meant when she said that her mother had gone to a far place, she just naively thought that her father wanted to take herself to send her mother to a far away place to work, and when she grew up, her mother would come back.
So, she stared at Yan Jinge and innocently replied, "Daddy I know, I will grow up quickly, wait for Mom to come back!" ”
After coming to Shenzhen, Yan Jinge met his wife at the funeral home who would never wake up again.
Looking at his wife with her eyes closed, Yan Jinge could no longer suppress the grief in her heart and cried loudly.
At this time, Yan Qianyu noticed the strangeness around her, saw her mother lying there, her father suddenly cried, and the people around her also showed grief, and she timidly hid behind her adoptive father.
Seeing his daughter's timid appearance, Yan Jinge was very heartbroken, and he wanted his daughter to leave this place, but thinking that this was the last time his daughter and her mother would meet, Yan Jinge could no longer say anything.
At the last moment, when Yan Jinge's wife was about to embark on the last journey of her life, Yan Jinge tearfully said to her daughter Yan Qianyu: "Qianyu, take a flower and say goodbye to your mother." ”
Yan Qianyu walked to her mother's side according to her father's words, and then placed a flower next to her mother. After putting down the flowers, Yan Qianyu simply asked her father: "Why is my mother still sleeping?" I called my mother several times, and my mother didn't wake up. ”
Xiao Qianyu didn't know that her mother would never wake up again, and she would never see her again.
Looking at her daughter's simple appearance, Yan Jinge couldn't cry even more, and could only endure grief and tell her that her mother was very tired now, let her mother sleep more, and then let her daughter kiss her wife for the last time.
After returning to Zhengzhou, Yan Qianyu often clamored to see her mother, often crying in order to find her mother, but Yan Jinge had no way to do anything about it, just comforted her daughter that when she grew up, her mother would come back.
Once, Yan Jinge took her daughter Yan Qianyu to her aunt's house for dinner, and Yan Qianyu's aunt burned the sauerkraut fish that she loved to eat.
After the sauerkraut fish was cooked, before she could eat, Yan Qianyu crept to a small bowl and picked out the sauerkraut in the sauerkraut fish.
The aunt asked her curiously, "Qianyu, what are you doing?" ”
She simply replied, "Mom loves sauerkraut, I keep it for her!" As soon as the words fell, my aunt couldn't cry.
With the passage of time, Yan Qianyu, who has grown up slowly, gradually understands the reality that her mother has left her forever.
Looking at the friends around her who have her mother to tie her braids, all have her mother to make her food, and all have her mother to make beautiful clothes for her, Yan Qianyu, who was once lively and lovely, began to become less silent, and she could no longer see the simple smile on her face.
Seeing his daughter like this, Yan Jinge looked anxious in his eyes, before he worked as a brick paster at the construction site outside, in order to accompany his daughter, he never went out to work. However, Yan Jinge is a man after all, and he is inconvenient to say, nor is it convenient for his daughter to ask, and it is even more inconvenient to do it, watching his daughter become increasingly haggard because she misses her mother, he is very helpless.
Just when Yan Jinge was helpless, an incident in 2007 not only changed this situation, but also changed Yan Qianyu's life.
One day in June 2007, Yan Jinge was cooking at home as usual when he suddenly heard a knock on the door outside.
When he opened the door, he saw a very familiar old woman standing outside the door, this old woman was no one else, it was Yan Qianyu's grandmother Zhao Xiugui! It was she who personally carried Xiao Qianyu to him and raised him.
Seeing Zhao Xiugui's arrival, Yan Jinge's heart suddenly tightened, and when he adopted Xiao Qianyu, the two families had already discussed that they would never contact each other again in this life, and they should not know the existence of each other.
Seeing Zhao Xiugui break her previous promise and suddenly visit, Yan Jinge was very nervous, and he was afraid that she was coming to return to Xiao Qianyu.
After Zhao Xiugui came to the door, before she could say anything, Yan Jinge found an excuse to let Yan Qianyu go out to play for a while.
After Yan Qianyu left, Yan Jinge asked Zhao Xiugui directly what the purpose of this trip was, and Zhao Xiugui was sluggish for a while, and then said in a somewhat ashamed tone:
"My son Shang Defang has had a stroke for four years, and time is running out, so you can see if you can let Xiao Qianyu go to see the last side of her biological father."
At this time, Yan Jinge did not answer directly, but just asked Zhao Xiugui to go back first, think about it himself, and inform her when he had the result.
After Zhao Xiugui left, Yan Jinge thought a lot, his heart was very entangled and very painful, for Yan Jinge, Xiao Qianyu was all he had, that is, the meaning of his life, how could he be willing to let Xiao Qianyu leave!
However, in the end, Yan Jinge decided to let Xiao Qianyu visit her biological father and tell her the truth.
Why would Yan Jinge do this? Yan Jinge was a kind-hearted person, if he was not a kind person, how could he love an adopted daughter who was not related to himself so much?
The reason why Yan Jinge decided to tell Xiao Qianyu the truth and let her see his biological parents was that he wanted Xiao Qianyu to regain the lost maternal love, he did not want his daughter to continue to be depressed like this, she wanted her daughter to grow up healthy.
After thinking about everything, this night, Yan Jinge called Xiao Qianyu and said to her, "Qianyu, if you still have a mother, are you happy?" Xiao Qianyu was stunned and shook her head desperately: "I only have one mother." I don't want another mom. ”
Hearing his daughter say this, Yan Jinge's tears flowed unconsciously, although he did not want his daughter to know that he was not her biological father, but in order to let his daughter have the lost maternal love again, he still choked up and told his daughter:
"You have your own parents, and they are poor, so they sent you to our house." Now my biological father wants you to come home..."
Qianyu retracted in fear and cried, "I don't, I don't want to leave Daddy." ”
Seeing his daughter resist like this, Yan Jinge could not bear to force her daughter to accept this fact, and could only say: "Well, we will not go, Daddy will not leave you." ”
The next day, Yan Jinge told Zhao Xiugui about his daughter's reaction, and the two discussed and decided not to let her go back for the time being, and to talk about it later.
Not long after, the school was on summer vacation, and the three daughters of this fashion German side (after Xiao Qianyu was sent to be adopted, Shang De Fang gave birth to another daughter) were all at home, Yan Jinge felt that this was the best opportunity to take Xiao Qianyu to recognize his relatives, so he took his daughter to the Shang family one day in July. Her birth mother Liu Yujiu was very excited the moment she saw her, holding her and refusing to let go.
After that, Liu Yujiu took Xiao Qianyu to the room of her biological father, Shang Defang.
Shang Defang became delirious because of the relationship between the stroke for many years, but when he saw the arrival of his daughter Xiao Qianyu, Shang Defang still looked excited. Yan Jinge put his daughter's small hand into his big hand: "Big brother, Qianyu has come to see you!" ”
Xiao Qianyu was a little frightened, and timidly looked back at Yan Jinge.
Seeing that her daughter was a little timid, Yan Jinge encouraged her daughter: "When I was a child, this uncle liked you the most, so you should kiss your uncle!" ”
After hearing this, Xiao Qianyu obediently leaned over and kissed Shang Defang's face.
Shang Defang trembled and held his daughter's hand, and large tears slid down from the corners of his eyes...
After this meeting, it was not long before Xiao Qianyu returned to the Shang family to live.
At first, Xiao Qianyu did not want to return to her biological parents' home to live, although her age was small, she was very sensible, she understood that her father Yan Jinge had lost her mother and could not lose herself anymore, so she wanted to accompany her father and take care of him.
However, Yan Jinge did not let Xiao Qianyu accompany him, it was not that he did not want Xiao Qianyu, but he did not want Xiao Qianyu to lose her mother's love, he wanted his daughter to grow up in a complete family, so he could only bear the pain of sending Xiao Qianyu to live with his biological parents.
Xiao Qianyu has always listened to her father Yan Jinge's words, and under the persuasion of Yan Jinge, she returned to live with her biological parents.
After Yan Qianyu left, there was only Yan Jinge left in the family, very lonely. At this time, the sensible little Qianyu ran to Yan Jinge's house at both ends of the three days, chatted with Yan Jinge, and told him about the interesting things that happened around him.
The Shang family is also reasonable, often asking her daughter to bring some pickled fish and cured meat to Yan Jinge, and inviting him to come to the house for dinner every New Year's Festival.
Yan Jinge's kindness and the understanding of the Shang family have made the relationship between the two families very close, usually like relatives, and the love of the two families has also made Xiao Qianyu gradually come out of the grief of the death of her adoptive mother.
As she grew older, Yan Qianyu also slowly accepted her biological parents' family. However, the good times did not last long, and just when Yan Qianyu had accepted her biological parents, in 2009, her biological father Shang Defang suddenly died of illness.
After her biological father passed away, Yan Qianyu did not eat a mouthful of food for two whole days, and when she was sleepy, she slept on the side of her biological father's body, and when she woke up, she continued to cry, and no one could persuade her to leave, not even her adoptive father Yan Jinge.
The departure of her biological father, Shang Defang, made Yan Qianyu more dependent on her adoptive father Yan Jinge, and she did not want to leave Yan Jinge for half a second. Later, because Liu Yujiu needed a dependency, Yan Jinge also needed a home, Liu Yujiu's three daughters needed a father, Liu Yujiu and Yan Jinge also had a good feeling for each other, and the two were easy to marry in July 2010 and meet for a lifetime.
After the marriage, Yan Jinge treated Liu Yujiu's three daughters equally, regarded them as his own biological daughters, and took great care of them. However, just when everyone thought that their family's life was getting better and better, the accident happened so suddenly.
On March 17, 2013, Yan Qianyu's mother, Liu Yujiu, felt a headache and returned to bed after breakfast to rest, because this day was a Sunday, Yan Qianyu did not go out to play, and stayed at home to take care of her mother.
Because her mother was sleeping, Yan Qianyu took this time to wash her own clothes and then go to the roof of her house to dry her clothes.
At this moment, an accident occurred, and Yan Qianyu, who was drying clothes on the roof of the building, suddenly saw that the room where her mother was on the second floor was billowing smoke. At this time, Yan Qianyu panicked, at that time, Liu Yujiu's legs and feet were very inconvenient because of the illness, and once the fire was up, she knew that her mother would definitely not be able to run.
Yan Qianyu hurried to her mother's room on the second floor, shouting loudly as she ran: "It's on fire, it's on fire, save my mother!" ”
However, just as Yan Qianyu rushed into the house, an accident occurred, and the flames lit in the room ignited the gasoline stored in the house, and the flames that jumped up in an instant turned Yan Qianyu into a burning person.
But even so, 13-year-old Yan Qianyu still did not forget her mother, she endured the severe pain of being burned by the fire, grabbed her mother's feet hard, and desperately dragged out.
Liu Yujiu saw that her daughter was on fire, and insisted on saving herself out, she cried bitterly and wanted to extinguish the flames on her daughter's body with her hands, while saying loudly: "You go out, leave your mother alone!" ”
Yan Qianyu never let go of her hand, let the flames burn on her body, and endured the severe pain that ordinary people could not bear at all, she finally rescued her mother from the fire, but the moment she was rescued, she also completely fell into a coma.
When neighbors came to put out the fire, Yan Qianyu's whole body was already "scorched" by the fire.
Looking at Yan Qianyu's appearance, everyone present couldn't help but cry, they couldn't imagine how much pain Yan Qianyu was suffering at that time, and how tenacious she was to save her mother.
The most touching thing is that when Yan Qianyu was carried to the ambulance, her first words when she woke up were not to cry out in pain, but to keep shouting: "Save my mother!" ”
After the disaster, Yan Qianyu was urgently sent to Nanyang Nanshi Hospital for treatment.
When she arrived at the hospital, Yan Qianyu had fallen into a severe coma, and when the medical staff learned that she had been burned in order to save her mother and rushed into the fire, without exception, they could not cry, and Yan Qianyu's actions made them both touched and admired. According to the doctor's diagnosis, Yan Qianyu had a large area of burns all over her body, with a depth of 3 grades, a burn area of 95%, and there was no intact skin, which was unbearable to see.
"The burns were so bad, she acted sensible and strong." Xu Minjun, head nurse of Nanshi Hospital, said so. The burns were so serious that everyone else was scared when they saw it, but Yan Qianyu was calmer than anyone else, changing the medicine and turning over, she never cried out in pain.
When she was able to eat, the nurse fed her food, and the first thing she said was not related to herself, but said: "Nurse sister, can you help my parents to serve some food?" Just leave me a little. ”
Until this time, Yan Qianyu was still thinking about her parents.
Yan Qianyu is very sensible, and her understanding is heart-wrenching, touching, and even more admirable.
In order to save Yan Qianyu, Yan Jinge and Liu Yujiu raised more than 40,000 treatment fees with all they could, but these were a drop in the bucket, because the treatment fees needed at least 1.5 million. Fortunately, Yan Qianyu's act of saving her mother was learned by the media, and under the media reports, donations from caring people from all walks of life poured in, and nearly 2.6 million yuan of donations were received in less than a month.
What is sad is that although Yan Qianyu's medical expenses are guaranteed, the disease does not choose to let go of such a kind and filial little girl.
On April 27, 2013, after 41 days of active treatment in the hospital, the doctor still failed to pull Yan Qianyu back from the ghost gate, and finally died of excessive injuries, sepsis, and multi-organ failure at the age of 13.
According to the hospital doctor's recollection, Yan Qianyu was still comforting her weeping mother with weak words before her death.
Yan Qianyu left the best side of human nature to this impetuous society, so that adults who have long seen the world still believe that there is still a beautiful existence in the world.
Although her life was short, the touching filial piety left to the world was enough to affect generations. Yan Qianyu's filial piety and brave noble character burst out at a critical moment will forever shock and affect everyone in the world.
She left, in the "charity fairy tale" woven by nearly 2.6 million donations, in the tearful prayers of many caring people, Yan Qianyu completed this short 13 years of life.
13 years seems to be a short time, but for us, Yan Qianyu's 13 years have been greater than anyone, more brilliant.