In March 2005, Jin Youshu, an ordinary farmer in Kai County, Chongqing, died, and many villagers from eight villages in Ten Mile braved the rain to send them to each other.
The reason why so many people came to see off is because Jin Youshu is a hero who has seen righteousness and courage.
On October 23, 2004, a minibus fell into a pond on the road near Jin Youshu's home, and Jin Youshu jumped off the icy river to rescue 19 passengers.
After the passengers were safe, they asked Jin Youshu to help them salvage their luggage, and Jin Youshu was frozen and shivered, but he jumped into the water to rescue the luggage.
After the 19 passengers and their luggage were all rescued, Jin Youshu himself fell ill and fell ill.
Less than half a year later, Jin Youshu died because he had no money to seek medical treatment.
On the day of the funeral, only one of the 19 passengers he saved came to see him off.
How did Jin Youshu save 19 people in the icy water? Is his illness related to saving people? As a rescue hero, has anyone tried to rescue him?
Read on, stay tuned to learn more!
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On October 23, 2004, the frost fell and the sky was drizzling, adding a touch of coolness to the late autumn air.
Jin Youshu is a cook at a kindergarten in Kaixian County, because it is a Saturday, and Jin Youshu rests at home.
After breakfast, Jin Youshu and his wife Liu Xiangui planted lettuce in the field next to the house, and there was a road leading to the county not far away.
At this time, it was still breakfast time, the neighbors were squatting in front of the house to eat, some were working in the field and just ready to go home for dinner, and Jin Youshu was working while participating in the chat of the group.
Suddenly, there was a muffled sound on the road, a truck full of firecrackers because of the bad road conditions, violent bumps caused the firecrackers to explode, the entire carriage was instantly wrapped in flames, the sputtering firecrackers ignited the hay on the side of the road, and the whole truck emitted thick black smoke.
Villagers pointed out to reporters the location of the incident
The distance of the truck was about three hundred meters away from Jin Youshu, and after hearing the sound, everyone put down the farm tools of their mobile phones and rushed to the truck.
At this time, a minibus bound for the county came on the opposite side of the road, and when the minibus intersected with the exploded truck, it was flooded with smoke, and the driver could not see the direction clearly, so he slowly lowered the speed of the car and slowly advanced.
Due to the wet and slippery dirt road after the rain, the minibus slowed down and lost control, sliding slowly along the inertia to the pond on the side of the road, and then plunged into the pond more than 4 meters deep, and it was too late for the driver to see the situation.
A farmer named Jin Youxian washes his hoe on a step not far away, and the scene of the minibus rushing into the water is just seen by her.
Before the minibus fell into the water, she clearly saw that two people who reacted quickly jumped out of the window, the one who jumped early fell on the road, and the other who jumped late jumped into the water.
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It took about half a minute from the time the truck caught fire to the time the minibus fell into the water, and Jin Youxian was so frightened that he forgot to call for help, and Jin Youshu was still on the way to come.
There were also many people behind Jin Youshu, and the neighbor Zhang Dingzhen was washing his hair, and at this time he was running with a bucket to wash his hair and prepare to put out the fire with a bucket.
Because of the depth of the water, the first half of the minibus was completely submerged in the water, and Jin Youshu was the first to run to the pond, and everyone was shouting: "Who will fu water?" Save people! ”
The few people present who only had jin youshu had good water quality, and he didn't even think about it, and he didn't even have time to take off his sweaters and sweaters before he picked up a stone from the side of the road and jumped off the pond.
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Sitting behind the driver was a mother holding a child, after the car fell into the water, the cold river water momentarily passed through her chest, she struggled to hold the child for help; another old man sitting in front of her fell under the car seat and choked on a few sips of water, and when she squeezed the seat to the back of the car, the eggs she was carrying in her hand were all broken, and the shoes fell off.
When Jin Youshu was in the water, the driver had already climbed to the roof of the car through the window, and she shouted at the mother holding the child: "Quick, hand the child to me." After picking up the child, he quickly sat on the roof of the car to check the child's condition.
The first person Jin Youshu saved was this three-month-old child, and after the child was sent to the shore, Jin Youxian quickly took it off and took off his clothes and wrapped the child, while Jin Youshu turned around and continued to save people.
The car was five meters away from the shore, and Jin Youshu swam back and forth many times, and when the last few passengers arrived, someone began to rescue people with Jin Youshu.
Where the car falls into the water, it can be seen that the road next to it is a dirt road
After all 19 passengers were rescued, Jin Youshu rushed ashore.
The rain was getting heavier, and everyone was holding up their umbrellas on the shore, and someone shouted:
"Help me with my luggage again, I've brought three thousand yuan to buy a farm car."
More and more people asked for luggage, and Jin Youshu had to jump into the pond again.
At this time, Jin Youshu's wife Liu Xiangui also came to the pond, saw Jin Youshu throw away his wet sweater pants for the convenience of movement, his lips were frozen, and she shouted to Jin Youshu: "Hurry up and change clothes!" ”
But Jin Youshu ignored him and continued to help the passengers salvage their luggage, and it took more than twenty minutes to salvage the luggage, and after determining that all the passengers' luggage was rescued, Jin Youshu went ashore to change his clothes.
The luggage included several drowned chickens, bagged rice and ten eggs protected by rice bran.
When Jin Youshu came ashore, the passengers he had saved had already changed into dry clothes brought by his compatriots and were roasting under the banana trees by the pond.
After a while, the traffic police and the staff of the minibus company arrived, and when the bus company people took the camera to shoot the scene, they let Jin Youshu say two words to the camera, and Jin Youshu said a sentence with his teeth trembling:
"I saved people."
Bus driver at the time
The terrified passengers were being transported by ambulance to the hospital, and the scene was full of people, and those who were rescued did not hear Jin Youshu's words. Only the minibus driver asked Jin Youshu for contact information, but he was not out of gratitude - he was afraid that the company would pursue his accident, and then he could contact Jin Youshu to "testify".
Jin Youshu's wife, Liu Xiangui, said that on the fourth night of the accident, Jin Youshu received a call from the driver of the minibus, and after putting down the phone, he picked up two flashlights and ran outside.
It turned out that the driver's bus had broken down near the village again, and the driver thought of asking Jin Youshu for help.
A few days after this help, the driver came to the door to find Jin Youshu and sent him 150 yuan as a reward for Jin Youshu twice to help him.
Only the father of the three-month-old child specifically went to Jin Youshu to thank him, and after confirming who the benefactor was, he thanked Jin Youshu one by one:
"I must thank you."
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What everyone doesn't know is that Jin Youshu had a very serious lung disease before saving people.
As early as April 2003, Jin Youshu began to cough up blood.
But first, because the number of times is not much; second, as a kindergarten chef unit will often organize physical examinations, the physical examination report shows that he is very healthy, Jin Youshu did not pay attention to the matter of coughing up blood.
On the night of the water to save people, Jin Youshu began to have a fever and cough, and the phenomenon of coughing up blood appeared again.
His family persuaded him to go to the hospital for a check-up, and he retorted: "There is no place where he is uncomfortable, there is no need to go." ”
The third day was Monday, and he rode to the county town as usual to cook for the kindergarten children.
In order not to delay the breakfast of more than 800 children, he had to go out at three o'clock in the morning and return home at two or three o'clock in the afternoon. His salary is 520 yuan per month, usually all of which is given to his wife. Your own expenses are smoking a pack of cigarettes for two days, a dollar a pack.
He cherishes the job, so even when he starts to feel unwell, he still goes to work on time every day, which he says "works five days and two days off, which is really good." ”
At first, his health was normal, and his cousin's family built a house and helped smash stones.
In three months, Jin Youshu's weight gradually dropped by more than twenty pounds, and then he began to feel out of breath and gasping for breath when he rode, and then it was difficult to get out of bed.
At this time, Jin Youshu decided to go to the hospital for examination.
On January 19, 2005, the second day of the winter vacation of the kindergarten where Jin Youshu worked, his wife Liu Xiangui took her to the county hospital for examination, and the diagnosis was tuberculosis and hemopsyothorax.
On the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, Jin Youshu had to be admitted to the county people's hospital.
Although Jin Youshu has been coughing up blood since April 2003, he is healthy after the kindergarten has undergone two physical examinations since the discovery of coughing up blood, so Jin Youshu's wife and relatives agree that it was soaked in cold water for too long during that rescue, which led to aggravation of the disease.
Jin Youshu's condition worsened after more than 10 days of hospitalization, and he had to be transferred to the county people's hospital to continue hospitalization, but it still had little effect, and Jin Youshu's condition became increasingly serious.
On February 13, Liu Xiangui borrowed 45,000 yuan from relatives and neighbors to transfer Jin Youshu to Chongqing Southwest Hospital for continued treatment.
Because they did not have money for treatment, the family said that they wanted to ask the government for help, after all, they were heroes who saw righteousness and courage, but they were rejected by Jin Youshu.
He believes that when he saved people, he did not make a big publicity, but now he suddenly asked the government for help, which is unreasonable and faceless.
Moreover, Jin Youshu did not think that there was an inevitable connection between his illness and saving people.
Jin Youshu's wife hoped that the hospital would issue a medical certificate that Jin Youshu had induced his condition due to saving people from choking on water, but the doctor refused. Jin Youshu's attending physician said: "When he arrived at Southwest Hospital, he was already in the advanced stage of lung cancer, and according to the pathological law of cancer, he should have suffered from lung cancer half a year ago." ”
The hospital decided to perform lung resection surgery for Jin Youshu, which required more than 40,000 surgery fees.
But in order to treat Jin Youshu, Liu Xiangui's borrowed tens of thousands of yuan have all been spent, and the family's savings are less than two thousand yuan, and it is impossible to come up with expensive surgery costs.
Jin Youshu's younger brother Jin Youyin still decided to turn to the government, after all, Jin Youshu had saved so many people, and he suggested asking for help in the form of a letter of help.
Jin Youyin tried to persuade everyone: "It's all here, just try it." ”
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The family hoped that Jin Youshu would agree to ask the government for help, but Jin Youshu still refused to ask for help, and his brother-in-law Liu Xiaochu recalled:
"We mentioned it to Jin Youshu and Liu Xiangui twice, but both were opposed by them. Some trees said it was too humiliating to reach out to the government for money. ”
When everyone saw that jin youshu was not moving, they consulted with Liu Xiangui, and under the repeated persuasion of his brother Jin Youyin, Liu Xiangui agreed to write a letter of help, but she asked to carry Jin Youshu on her back.
The letter of help was written by Liu Xiaochu, Jin Youshu's brother-in-law, and the first sentence was: "I saved the lives of 19 people, and now who will save my life." ”
On February 18, Liu Xiaochu did not send the letter in time after writing it, but did not send it to the documentation department of the county government until February 21.
The time came to February 23rd, this day is the fifteenth Lantern Festival of the first month, Jin Youshu underwent lung resection surgery in the hospital. But after the operation, the doctor told Liu Xiangui that their chances of surviving were still slim.
Letter of help (the letter of help reads "tree" as "skill")
After being sentenced to "death sentence" by the doctor, his wife Liu Xiangui stood outside the ward and secretly cried, crying for a long time before washing her face and returning to the ward.
After a sleepless night, early the next morning, Liu Xiangui called his son Jin Jun to discuss taking Jin Youshu home.
According to local customs, Jin Youshu's situation no longer needs to be treated, not to mention that they still owe more than 40,000 yuan in foreign debt.
After consulting with his son and relatives, Liu Xiangui said to her husband:
"Go home, we run out of money."
In fact, Jin Youshu did not want to leave the hospital.
Liu Xiangui remembered that before the operation, the family members needed to sign, and when the family had not yet signed, Jin Youshu climbed up to the operating table himself and asked for the operation to be carried out quickly.
But for his wife's "go home", Jin Youshu did not refuse again.
Jin Youshu's body was getting weaker and weaker, and he could only swallow a small sip of rice and drink a small cup of milk powder every time he ate.
Because after the operation, because of the knife in his back, he could not turn over on the bed, and this tough guy who could smash stones and pick grain a few months ago now has to gasp even if he moves.
On March 1, Jin Youshu gave up treatment and returned to his hometown from a hospital in Chongqing.
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After receiving the letter of help sent by Liu Xiaochu, the county attached great importance to this matter and immediately asked the relevant departments of the Letter and Petition Office to investigate and verify the matter.
On the third day of Jin Youshu's return to his hometown, the staff came to Jin Youshu's home to offer condolences, and after verifying the situation, they quickly went back to report.
On March 8, the staff of the county health bureau drove the 120 ambulance directly to the door of Jin Youshu's house and told Liu Xiangui:
"Hurry up and be hospitalized, and give Jin Youshu a reduction in hospitalization fees and medical expenses."
The rescue really came, but Liu Xiangui refused. She said that Jin Youshu was already in the advanced stage of lung cancer and there was no medicine at home, so she voluntarily gave up treatment.
The people from the Health Bureau had just left, and the staff of the transportation department came again, and they brought Jin Youshu a few thousand yuan of donations that the employees spontaneously raised.
The kindergarten teacher also came to visit him at home that day, and after seeing the teacher, Jin Youshu's first words were:
"If my illness is cured, will the dean still ask me to go to work?"
The teacher told him very affirmatively, "Of course it will." ”
In kindergarten, his dishes are delicious and popular.
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On the same day, the county issued instructions on Jin Youshu's affairs: asked the relevant departments to treat Jin Youshu at all costs to help his family tide over the difficulties. The next day, there was also a special meeting for Jin Youshu to discuss the rescue plan.
But everything was indeed too late, Jin Youshu's medical examination was too late, and his family's help was too late - his brother-in-law Liu Xiaochu only threw out the letter of help at the end of February, and Jin Youshu died in early March.
At 12:00 p.m. on March 9, Jin Youshu, who was lying on the bed, suddenly woke up and said to his wife: "I'm afraid I can't do it." ”
At 4 a.m. on March 10, Jin Youshu woke up again and said to his wife and children:
"When I die, I must pay off the money I borrowed from others."
After saying this sentence and saying a few words, Jin Youshu's thinking fell into chaos again.
The government's rescue came less than two days later— at seven o'clock in the morning, Jin Youshu died of illness.
After Jin Youshu left, his wife and children shouldered his last wish to "pay off debts". The wife is not in good health, long-term medicine, can only farm at home, she plans to let her 19-year-old son go out to learn a technology, work to earn money to slowly pay off the debt.
Jin Jun, who is less than 20 years old, has become the pillar of the family, telling reporters: "When my father died, he said, 'I must pay back the arrears', and I must fulfill his wish." ”
"I borrowed a few thousand yuan from each of my neighbors, and borrowed more than 50,000 yuan in total. Immediately there was a 5,000 arrears to be repaid, which was the money that the neighbor's family used for marriage. --Liu Xiangui.
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Condolences to the heroes
The day before Jin Youshu was buried, the local town government sent condolences to the Jin family: fertilizer for spring ploughing, 100 kilograms of rice, 10 kilograms of vegetable oil and 500 yuan in cash, while exempting the hero Jin Youshu from the cremation fee.
Village cadres also said that they would help Liu Xiangui to do a good job in spring farming.
On March 14, the county distributed 62,900 yuan of poverty medical relief to the Jin family.
Although the rescue did not catch up with the speed of the disease, the relief money was enough to fulfill Jin Youshu's deathbed wish, and his 19-year-old son did not have to bear a large debt just after entering the society, which was the last consolation for Jin Youshu's heroic deeds.
On the day Jin Youshu was buried, many people in the surrounding village braved the heavy rain to see him for the last time.
The "rescue hero asked for help" made many local media flock to the Jin family, and in the face of the reporter's camera, an old man in the village cried and said: "He is a good man, a good man." ”
Of the passengers who were rescued by Jin Youshu, only the father of the three-month-old child paid tribute to Jin Youshu, and the night before Jin Youshu was buried, he came to Jin's house to send a wreath of money to mourn the benefactor.
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