It is difficult for people to imagine how to survive without hands and feet, and when the "chopstick brother" Yuan Lidong appeared, everyone understood.
Yuan Lidong was born with no hands and no feet, he was born like a meat ball, and he lived a few chopsticks, his family was very poor, there was only a small earthen house, in such a depressed and bad condition, he married a beautiful wife and gave birth to a lovely son.
Some netizens commented: "So you can have a wife?" Why should those able-bodied singles be embarrassed? ”
What makes people wonder is that Yuan Lidong often grins and giggles, and lives every day very happily, as if he has never been overwhelmed by life.
When Yuan Lidong came from the wheelchair to the bed, he would gently jump, bounce onto the bed like a leather ball, and support the entire body with the strength of the round muscles of the shoulders.
He often shakes his shoulders with great pleasure and flaps his hollow sleeves, looking indeed an optimist.
The happy childhood of "Little Meatball"
In 1986, Yuan Lidong was born in a small village in Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province, he was born without small feet and hands, he was born with a congenital disability, and his parents saw this round and slippery "small meat ball" like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and they were scared to throw him outside the village.
Yuan Lidong's vitality was extremely tenacious, and he cried with tears in his heart.
The parents were very distressed to hear their son's crying, after all, it was their own child, and after some ideological struggle, they hugged him back.
Yuan Lidong's condition is medically called the seal body, which is rare in the world, and the neighbors nearby have never seen such a strange disease, and they all talk about it, and some even call him a "freak".
Many people have advised Yuan Lidong's parents to give up this child, because it is not easy to raise this child, he has no hands and feet, he has to be fed to eat and go to the toilet, and his parents can only hold him and move.
A grandfather of the neighbor's family grew up watching him grow up and liked him very much.
When his parents were not at home, Yuan Lidong wanted to go to the toilet, he shouted loudly: "Uncle! ”
Hearing Yuan Lidong's shout, the neighbor's uncle ran over happily: "Hey, I'm coming!" ”
Yuan Lidong sometimes has inconvenient bathing, and the neighbor uncle will also come to help.
The neighbor uncle was very kind to him, and when the family burned something delicious, he would shout: "Dongzi, go to my house for dinner!" "He was often fed.
And the parents also made up their minds to raise Yuan Lidong to adulthood, they said to Yuan Lidong: "As long as we have a bite to eat, we will definitely not be hungry for you." ”
After Yuan Lidong grew up a little, his mother put a thick layer of cushion under his body, and Yuan Lidong could slowly use the strength of his abdomen to jump away.
The little friends often play with Yuan Lidong, and once the elm money on the elm money tree was ripe, attracting the children to pick it together, and Yuan Lidong also came to the elm money tree to watch curiously.
At this time, the ant nest on the tree was alarmed, buzzing down, and the friends were frightened and scattered, only he moved a step slower, and his eyes were swollen by the wasp sting.
Another time, Yuan Lidong went to the river to play and wanted to learn to swim, but he did not expect to fall into the water and almost drown.
When he was a child, Yuan Lidong was very naughty and sometimes "broke into trouble", but overall he was very happy, his parents treated him as a normal child, and he did not feel any difference from other children.
When he reached school age, his father pushed him to school on his bicycle, and every day his father carried him around.
At the age of 14, the school merged into a distant town, very far from home, and Yuan Lidong, who had limited mobility, could not go to school anymore, so he had to drop out.
That year, Yuan Lidong's father also became a laid-off worker, and the family suddenly had no financial resources, and the father and son decided to sell art along the street.
Meet true love on the way to sell art
The father and son bought discarded stereos at the scrap collection station and began a journey of begging and selling.
When I was selling music in a square in Datong City, Shanxi Province, my income was still good, so I stayed in a small hotel nearby.
At this time, Yuan Lidong met Chai Panxia, who worked in the hotel, the little girl was only 20 years old, from the jiaozuo countryside in Henan, and when she saw the father and son selling songs, she would go to the square to watch and give Yuan Lidong a reward.
Seeing that Yuan Lidong's body was inconvenient, Chai Panxia helped clean up the equipment, and when the weather was hot, he also brought a high-power fan for the father and son.
Once, after Yuan Lidong finished singing, he saw a game console on the ground and picked it up to play, and it didn't take long to train and use chopsticks to operate.
Chai Panxia would often play with him, and when Yuan Lidong was playing the game, as soon as he looked up, he saw the little girl looking at him, and Yuan Lidong said, "When did you come?" If not, you can play for a while? ”
In fact, Yuan Lidong also has his own "premeditation" and plan, when the little girl comes to play games for her, so that the next time will come.
In addition to playing games, Yuan Lidong also spent 50 yuan to buy a puppy, seeing that the puppy is so cute, Chai Panxia likes it very much, and often curiously teases the puppy to play.
50 yuan is equivalent to Yuan Lidong's income for one day, and after spending it, his expenses for the next day are gone.
In addition to these two tricks, Yuan Lidong was also very protective of Chai Panxia.
Once, when Chai Panxia went to the toilet, there was a small asshole next to her saying something under-smoked to her, and Yuan Lidong wanted to teach the little asshole a lesson.
"Big brother, come here, I'll whisper to you." After Yuan Lidong called the little bastard over, he smoked him with a crutch between his shoulders.
This hero's act of saving the United States made Chai Panxia very moved.
The two spent some time together, yuan Lidong felt that Chai Panxia was a kind and lovely good girl, and decided to confess to her.
"Pan Xia, I like you a lot, don't look at me without hands and feet, but I can give you happiness, maybe others have a bicycle that can drive you to run, although I can't, you can rest assured that I will only be good to you, even if you scold me and beat me, I will not return the mouth, and I can't pay back, you are the boss in my home, are you willing to follow me?"
Yuan Lidong plucked up enough courage to say such a long and touching sentence, but the ending was very unexpected.
Chai Panxia said, "I don't like you," and then turned around and left with a blushing face.
After the two were separated for a while, Chai Panxia found that she had fallen in love with Yuan Lidong, a sincere and funny person who left a deep mark on her heart.
When Chai Panxia returned to find Yuan Lidong, Yuan Lidong was very excited, and the two embraced each other and lived a sweet cohabitation life.
In 2009, Yuan Lidong and Chai Panxia waited with anxiety for the upcoming child, although the child had also had a pregnancy test when the child was in the stomach, but the two were still a little uneasy.
When Chai Panxia gave birth, Yuan Lidong sat anxiously on a table and waited, and when he learned that Chai Panxia had given birth to a healthy son, he rolled off the stage excitedly.
When he saw his son, the first thing Yuan Lidong did was to check the child's little feet and small hands, fortunately, the little guy was very healthy and cute.
When the two were together, Chai Panxia was hiding from her parents, and the family did not know it, and later when she had a child, she told her family.
When the child returned to his hometown after the age of two, the parents were stunned to see the son-in-law, they really could not accept their daughter marrying a disabled person, and said to the daughter: "You find another one!" ”
Chai Panxia said, "I have all my children. ”
Even though the two "cooked rice into cooked rice", Chai Panxia's parents were still very opposed to the two being together, and even secretly cried when their daughter was not there.
Due to her parents' strong opposition, Chai Panxia has been unable to apply for a marriage license with Yuan Lidong.
It wasn't until 2018 that the two received their marriage licenses, and they had known each other for 10 years.
After so many years of helpless persistence, parents can only accept their daughter's choice.
In this love, there are also many people who think that Chai Panxia is married to money, but in fact, Yuan Lidong's family is not rich, and when he got married, he still lived in an earthen house.
After Yuan Lidong and Chai Panxia got married, they took on the responsibility of men making money to support their families.
He often said to Chai Panxia: "Making money to support the family is a man's business, don't worry about it." ”
Once, Yuan Lidong saw that his friend was still making a lot of money doing game live broadcasting, so he planned to enter the game live broadcasting industry.
You can marry and have children, and you can also earn money to support your family
Every time when the game was broadcast live, his wife Chai Panxia would help him do some preparatory work: first wash her husband's face with cool water, push his round and fat body to the side of the bed, and push his waist hard, Yuan Lidong rolled and rolled onto the bed.
After getting married, his wife took good care of Yuan Lidong, originally he could use his shoulders to support his entire body, and it was not so convenient to move after he was fat.
The wife put the chopsticks next to the mouse, adjusted the camera, opened the web page and could broadcast live.
Yuan Lidong always leaned his left face on the pillow, pressed the mouse with his cheeks, held the chopsticks with the strength of his lips, and flexibly kept clicking the buttons.
In the virtual world of the game, Yuan Lidong has become a hero, and many players have called him "Big Brother".
On a live broadcast platform, Yuan Lidong used "Brother Chopsticks" as his screen name, and every day from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m., more than 100,000 netizens watched online.
Many netizens will tip and give gifts, which allows him to use the income from online live broadcasting to support his family.
And Yuan Lidong's live broadcast road is not smooth, once some netizens slandered him, saying that he was a fake beggar, and also put together the original photos of Yuan Lidong's singing and the beggar's scam, which brought him a lot of trouble.
As a result, the popularity of Yuan Lidong's live broadcast room has dropped sharply, and the number of fans in the live broadcast room is less than 10,000, and he is very frustrated, so he has to hang his childhood photos and disability certificates on the Internet.
And Chai Panxia always gave him some encouragement to let him persist slowly, and she comforted him: "Time can prove everything." ”
Yuan Lidong has been a game anchor for a total of three years, his left face has been grinded with a thick layer of calluses, his teeth are also a little loose because he often bites chopsticks, the gums are red and swollen and bleeding, and his neck is sore.
When he went to the hospital for examination, the doctor found that his organs were all moved to the left, and his physical condition was not optimistic, and he suggested that he should no longer be a game anchor.
So Yuan Lidong turned to an entertainment anchor, performing singing, dancing and other programs for everyone during the live broadcast, and at the beginning, only two or three people watched, and Yuan Lidong still insisted.
A netizen big brother said to him: "Don't you know how to drive a tricycle?" You should go out and inspire more people. ”
So Yuan Lidong went outdoors to broadcast live, at first getting on the tricycle needed help from others, and then slowly he could get on and off the bus by himself.
Yuan Lidong tied the mobile phone bracket to the handle of the wheelchair, and also customized a crutch weighing about 15 pounds for himself, which is equivalent to his arm and can run freely in an electric car.
His optimistic and sunny life has infected many netizens, and the popularity of the live broadcast room has gradually improved, and there is an income of about 300 yuan at this time.
Slowly the live broadcast competition is very fierce, Yuan Lidong's live broadcast tip is also less, every day dropped to twenty or thirty yuan, just find a way to do other business, he opened an online store, selling some local souvenirs in his hometown.
In addition to being an e-commerce and entertainment anchor, Yuan Lidong also has some pet dogs, relying on these side jobs to make a living and earning his children's tuition.
Life is hard but optimistic
Yuan Lidong seems to be a beautiful Internet celebrity, but his life is much more difficult than the average person.
Although he had no hands and feet, he grew very fat, and later grew to 170 pounds, and his father became more and more difficult to carry him out of the house.
Once his father carried him up the steps, and the two of them fell on the steps together, and his father couldn't help but cry, and Yuan Lidong also cried loudly.
In 2016, Yuan Lidong's mother was diagnosed with a malignant tumor, and she cried and said to her family: "Don't let me suffer." ”
The family has no money, even if the craniotomy surgery can not live for half a year, the mother does not want to drag down the son and daughter-in-law.
At this time, due to his exhausted heart, his body was also very poor, his left hand and right leg were numb and weak, he could not do heavy work, and it was difficult to take care of Yuan Lidong.
His wife Chai Panxia rides an electric car to pick up her son every day, comes back to take care of her mother-in-law and father-in-law, helps her mother-in-law wipe her body with her and urine every day, and also takes care of Yuan Lidong's life.
The mother-in-law cried and said to her: "This family will be handed over to you, and with such a good daughter-in-law as you, I am at ease when I leave." ”
Along the way, his wife Chai Panxia has paid a lot for the family, and with his wife's support, Yuan Lidong's heart to make money and support his family is more firm.
By 2022, "Chopsticks Brother" Yuan Lidong already has 440,000 fans on his live broadcast platform.
He often posts short videos to share his life situation, and his home is still relatively shabby, but he is still optimistic.
In addition to live broadcasting, Yuan Lidong also opened his own ranch, raised a lot of sheep, he called himself a "shepherd", most of the day on the screen to watch the sheep, the pasture is equipped with monitoring, so he can see the situation of the pasture on the computer screen at any time.
The pasture is separated by barbed wire into a single room, many old sheep are leisurely walking, and lambs are bouncing happily in it.
When a lamb is born, Yuan Lidong often comes to the scene in person, watching the mother of the sheep keep licking the 2 newborn lambs, he is very happy: "One male and one mother, I tell you, dragon and phoenix fetus." ”
When the weather is cold, Yuan Lidong is also particularly careful, using the small sun to warm the lambs, there are many sheep in the pasture, and the couple alone cannot manage it, and the staff was also invited on the spot.
In addition to the situation of the ranch, Li Lidong will also post some videos of eating.
He would directly pick up two chopsticks, use the strength of his lips to pick up a dumpling, and then shake his head and put the dumpling in the mixed dipping sauce to turn it over, eat directly in the dipping pot, and now when he eats, he doesn't need anyone else to feed it.
When drinking soup, Yuan Lidong uses his mouth to grasp a small stainless steel spoon, which can be skillfully mixed in the soup and drunk directly along the edge of the bowl.
Life is much better than before, Yuan Lidong's body is getting fatter and fatter, some netizens said: "Lose weight, chopsticks brother, so fat is easy to high blood pressure." ”
Some netizens asked curiously: "There is no meaning of discrimination, if it is the eldest brother with high blood pressure, how to measure it?" ”
Yuan Lidong replied, "I really can't measure it." ”
Yuan Lidong often jokes and chats with his wife, the two have been married for so many years, and flirt like lovers, and the family's life is warm and sweet.
There is a song by Wang Yiyan on the Internet called "Rewriting Life", and the situation expressed in the lyrics is exactly the same as Yuan Lidong's life: "Even if I am destined, I will rewrite the ending." ”
Yuan Lidong once said: "I am always working hard to live." ”
It is not easy for Yuan Lidong to survive, it is more difficult to live than ordinary people, but his life is always accompanied by hearty laughter, and his life is sunny and inspiring.
Resources:
Lady: "The King of The Strong Mouth" A chopstick holds up a home Issue 10, 2017
People's Life: A guy without limbs can also hold up a home in Issue 11, 2020
Zhiyin: Hero Hidden Jinzhou: "Seal Man" A chopstick to support a home 2017 Issue 5