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"Metamorphometer" is a character swap life program of Hunan Satellite TV, which has been controversial since the day it was broadcast, some people say that it is just a "game of the rich", and some people say that this program is to pave the way for the city protagonist to create "net red" people!
No matter how the outside world evaluates "Metamorphometer", it is undeniable that this program has indeed made some rural children feel warm and changed their fate at the same time.
As for the city protagonists who have become "Internet celebrities", it is also true that they are now making a lot of money one by one.
City Kids Influencer
However, it is true that a very small number of rural children have changed their fate through the exposure of the program group and the help of well-wishers.
Among them, there is Li Leyou, a rural girl who is called the luckiest, and she is now adopted by a city mother and has a very happy life.
Lee Leyou and Mom
And the rural protagonist that the author introduces to you today,
The four walls of the family are high and happy
Many people saw Gao Zhanxi's first glance and were attracted by his shy and infectious smile, and when they learned about his family situation, many people began to feel sorry for this child whose cheeks were full of plateau red.
Gao Zhanxi
Gao Zhanxi comes from a small, impoverished mountain village in Minhe County, Qinghai Province, but their family is a special group of poor relative to other families.
When Gao Zhanxi was two years old, his father was blinded by an accident, and his mother was not in good health before marrying his father, and after marriage and children, he suffered from many diseases, resulting in the inability to go to the ground to do heavy work.
Qinghai's landforms are dominated by mountains and grasslands, and the high-altitude climate and environment have led to slow economic development. Originally an extremely poor family, Gao Zhanxi's father could not go out to work, and could only plan food in the field. Originally a carefree age, Gao Zhanxi could only bear the pressure that he should not have endured at his age!
Faced with the plight of the family's four walls, Gao Zhanxi's father told him from an early age:
However, his family was so poor that he could not even pay for electricity, and when other children could watch cartoons, he could only review his homework through the light of candles, and how many times did this child even think about giving up school in order to reduce the burden on the family.
Fortunately, he also has a sensible brother, in the face of the family year-round can not even afford to buy a new dress, the brother knows that only by going out can the family change.
After graduating from junior high school, my brother went out to work with people from the same village, sharing some of the pressure for the poor family of four.
After the brother went out to work, he could send back 500 yuan to the family every month, which became the only source of income for the family, even with the brother's feedback, the poverty of the Gao Zhanxi family still could not change much.
Long-term malnutrition has led to Gao Zhanxi's 14-year-old appearance, but he only looks 10 years old, and his body is terrible.
Nevertheless, he is still the only labor force in the family, and every day after school, he runs home, because there are too many things waiting for him, cutting the grass, cooking, doing farm work, and he can't delay time until late at night, when he can light candles and review his homework.
Father said: The book has its own golden house, Gao Zhanxi is convinced of this, in the face of the difficulties of life, he said: I believe that reading will definitely change my life, reading can make my future life better, I am now an ugly duckling, but in the future I must become a beautiful white swan ...
The cowherd in this big mountain was admirable for his composure and self-confidence, and he longed to get out of the barren land and go to the big city to see.
It just so happened that an opportunity to get him out of the mountain ahead of schedule came quietly at the age of 14...
In 2006, the "Metamorphometer" program premiered, and by chance, the director of the program team came to the small mountain village where Gao Zhanxi was located to select the rural protagonist.
The director team came to Gao Zhanxi's primary school to select children, and at a glance, they took a fancy to Gao Zhanxi, who laughed infectiously.
After proposing to Gao Zhanxi that he could "exchange" his life in a big city for seven days, he was excited at first, and finally he could go to see the "big city" in the book!
However, he immediately hesitated again, it turned out that he was worried that after he left, the children from the family's living city would not do it, and after the director of the program team told them that they could properly arrange everything in the family, Gao Zhanxi agreed with trepidation...
What is embarrassing is that although Gao Zhanxi's father also wants him to go to the big city to see, he hopes that through this "journey" he can change his son's fate
The blind father, who could not bear his son's disappointment, borrowed all the neighbors and finally scraped together a thick pile of money, which was 100 yuan.
For the first time, I felt the real gap between rich and poor
For 14-year-old Gao Zhanxi, the 100 yuan "huge amount" given by his father he knows what it means for this family, but he is also full of a series of visions for a better city.
On the day of the exchange, because he could not find a decent dress, he could only wear a thin school uniform and a pair of cloth shoes to embark on the road of exchange.
Gao Zhanxi, who has never been out, is full of curiosity about everything, and when he arrives in the city, he is greeted by the "father and mother" of the city who are enthusiastically waiting for him.
Unlike other rural children who are exchanged for cities in rural areas,
Seeing the cloth shoes worn by Gao Zhanxi, the "city parents" first showed great pain, and the first thing they did was to take their "new son" to the shoe store and spend 149 yuan to buy a pair of tourist shoes for Gao Zhanxi.
Spending so much money to buy a pair of shoes is unimaginable to Gao Zhanxi, who tries to dissuade "city parents", but his understanding makes "new parents" feel extremely sad about this child.
In the evening, the city parents warmly entertained the "new son" who came from afar in the restaurant, Gao Zhanxi saw the food that was only available in books, it may be that everything changed too quickly, he did not have time to adapt, when eating, he did not dare to take the initiative to pick vegetables, a meal down, chopsticks fell on the ground five or six times.
Perhaps from the moment he walked out of the house, he had envisioned the days after many exchanges, but at this moment, he may have remembered his parents, remembered the distant home. A childhood without care made him wary of everything he had never seen before.
City Dad
And what made Gao Zhanxi's heart most intensely "shocked" was not the food he had never seen before, nor the high-rise buildings in the city, but another "huge amount of money" given to him by "city parents" after dinner!
The thickness of the 1,000 yuan "huge amount" is only half the amount of tickets given to him by his father, and at this moment he deeply realized what is the real gap between rich and poor!
Although he knows that his family is a "wealth-breaking household" in the village, other people's homes have televisions, but his own family does not, he believes that this is the gap between the rich and the poor. But when the "city parents" gave him this money as a seven-day exchange of pocket money, he was silent...
On the way "home" from the restaurant, he looked out the window and wept, no one knew how complicated his inner activities were at the moment, and perhaps, from that moment, he buried "poor and rich" deeply in his heart.
In the next few days, he was subtly adapting to the life of the city, and he seemed a little unaccustomed to the care of "urban parents".
This 14-year-old boy is too "sober" than any of the rural children in "Metamorphosis", he clearly knows that everything in front of him is nothing, and only through his own efforts can he truly come to the city.
In the face of the city's colorful world of flowers and flowers, he has not been "lost" for a moment!
Parting time
Seven days passed quickly, Gao Zhanxi was also going to end the life of "clouds", for him, to be able to "enjoy" such a long time of city life is like a dream, now, his dream should wake up...
After seven days of getting along, the "city parents" deeply liked this sensible Qinghai baby, and they desperately wanted to keep Gao Zhanxi for a while longer, willing to bear the cost of his study and life in the city!
On the last day of the exchange, he invited "city parents" to a noodle restaurant on the street to eat a bowl of noodles. He said: Eating noodles means a long time... I hope that one day I can "say goodbye" to my parents in the city!
Gao Zhanxi, who returned home after the end of the transformation, first changed the tourist shoes under his feet into his own cloth shoes, and he knew that only by wearing his own cloth shoes could he return to reality.
What Gao Zhanxi did not know was that his connection with "city parents" did not stop because the show ended.
Go home and change your shoes
Gao Zhanxi's "counterattack"
After the program was recorded, "City Parents" contacted Gao Zhanxi again, saying that they could always sponsor him until he graduated from college, hoping that Gao Zhanxi could study hard and change his destiny!
Gao Zhanxi gladly accepted the other party's funding, without the worries of academic and economic pressure, Gao Zhanxi worked harder than before, he understood that if it were not for the support of "kind parents", he might have to go on his brother's "old road" after graduating from junior high school!
He not only has to change his own destiny, the fate of his family, but also repays the support of his "kind parents",
In September 2016, Gao Zhanxi was admitted to Hunan Normal University with a score of more than 600 points. In Minhe County, where Gao Zhanxi is located, because of the backwardness of educational resources, it is particularly difficult to produce a student who can be admitted to a college.
Become a defense student
In the face of a comfortable college life, he did not fall in love and played games in the dormitory. Only the lecture halls, libraries, and tutors' offices can see Gao Zhanxi's figure.
Perhaps the "exchange" life of many years ago is still deeply buried in his heart, and he vows to open the door to a new world through learning.
With unremitting efforts, he quickly became a top student at Hunan Normal University, so he was admitted as a national defense student in advance!
Cowherds became armed police cadres
When gao Zhanxi was seen again, he had become a deputy company commander of the armed police who guarded the common people. It is hard to imagine that he was a small cowherd with a highland red on his face.
Many years ago, he said in an interview: one day he will become a white swan by his own efforts, and now, he has really achieved it! The ugly duckling did indeed turn into a white swan!
The reason why his "city parents" decided to fund him was precisely because they saw this passage from the interview after the broadcast of that issue of "Metamorphometer" and later contacted him and decided to fund him!
All the difficulties are to become a better self, and Gao Zhanxi, who grew up in adversity, perfectly interprets the "story of the ugly duckling counterattack"!